Third House Of Congress Shapes Budget Showdown
Washington reports on the conference committee process as lawmakers work the GI bill and tax bills through a two chamber system. The piece explains how conferees are chosen, how they vote as blocs, and how this hidden stage often determines final passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Becker
House
Washington
Capitol
Larea
Danjing
Senate
Congress
England
Olin Teague
D-Tex
House Veterans Committee
Teague
Carl D. Perkins
D-Ky
Education and Labor Committee
Perkins
My Lai Area Battles Continue Amid Massacre Allegations
UPI reports ongoing clashes near My Lai Hamlet One with remnants of a Communist force. US spokesmen say 53 communists were killed Saturday, including two women, while other engagements in U Minh and the Mekong Delta claimed additional enemy casualties. Pacification figures show government control at 2.5 percent, up from 2.0 percent.
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Saigon
UPI
My Lai
U.S
Ralph’ Lafaver
Fountain Valley
Calif
U Minh Forest
Mekongi
May Lai
U.S. Americal
Reunion Return For Capt Atwood From Vietnam Service
The piece notes Capt. Atwood receives a 30 day leave and reunites with his wife Carolyn in Fort Worth. He served with Advisory Team 65 of the Military Assistance Command in Vietnam advising Vietnamese people and seeking a better life. He reflects on progress and uncertainty about wider success.
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Atwood
Capt
Fort Worth
Carolyn
Anissa Carol
Fort Polk
Military Assistance Command
Vietnam
Man Saved From Fire By Wife At Bates Street Home
A Lubbock man was rescued from a house fire at 3907 E Bates St by his wife who led him from the kitchen before firefighters arrived. Capt Bob Wilson said the blaze began before 10 40 p m and Peterson recalled nothing about how the fire started. Fire gutted the bedroom hall and a clothes closet and Peterson refused hospital care saying he was all right.
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A. Lubbock
Bob Wilson
E. Bates St
Howard Peterson
Peterson
Wilson
Mrs. Gutierrez Dies In Slaton
Mrs. Eufemia Gutierrez 80 of Slaton died at Mercy Hospital of Slaton after a sudden illness. Services are pending at Englands Funeral Home of Slaton. Survivors include her daughter Mrs. Carolina Diaz of Slaton and five great grandchildren.
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Slaton
Eufemia Gutierrez
Mercy Hospital of
Englands Funeral
Carolina Diaz
Heavy surf batters West Coast leaving deaths and damage
Four people die and more than a million dollars in damage result from a third day of heavy surf along southern California. A freeway crash, airport closures, grounded boats, and damaged beachfront buildings accompany the powerful waves.
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California
Los Angeles
Rincon
Oxnard
Calif
UPS
Harbor
Los Angeles International
Robert Juelich
Whittier
Huntington Beach
Sandy
Los Alamitos
Venice
Navy
Charles Geeley
31St Seabee Regiment
Port Hueneme
Sepulveda
Mandalay Beach
Sextuplets Born in London Nine Weeks Early
A London couple welcomed five surviving sextuplets delivered by Caesarean section after fertility drug treatment at University College Hospital. One baby was stillborn. all five girls and the surviving boy weighed under three pounds. The event marks Britain s second sextuplet birth on record and follows reports of twenty such sets worldwide since 1900.
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London
Devea
Rosemary Letts
London's
University College Hospital
Britain
Sheila Thorns
Birmingham
Thorns
Washington
D.C
Mrs. Letts
Red aviators freed by Viet Cong mark NLF anniversary
Two US Army aviators released from Viet Cong captivity were freed to honor the National Liberation Front anniversary and support antiwar protests in the United States. Peterson and Shepard, both 21, were held 38 days after their helicopter downing near Duc Lap.
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Saigon
National Liberation Front
United States
NLF
Viet Cong
W.O
Michael T. Peterson
Redmond
Wash
Vernon C. Shepard
Akron
Ohio
Peterson
Shepard
Lubbock
Puc Lap
Central High
Texasiands
Tech
Twolvietnam
Wss
Wytearnege
Highway 14
Crane Hall
Duc Lap
U.S
Sunaport
1970 Outlook Bleak Inflation Set to Persist
The National Planning Association forecast inflation will remain high in 1970 with a possible winter recession. Unemployment is seen rising to about 5 percent early next year, then easing to mid 4s by year end, while real output grows around 2 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lewis
Associaion
Goodfellows Appeal Seeks Gifts for Children in Need
A letter from a distressed parent asks for help for Christmas gifts and food. The appeal notes sickness and unemployment over eight months, with a goal of raising more than $7,000 to cover 7,000 to 7,300 children and mentions packing fruit nuts candy and toys starting next Monday. Donations can be mailed to Box 561.
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Chief Goodfellow
Goodfellow
Bailey Man Hurt In Truck Mishap
Rutherford Jones aged 64 from Star was admitted to Methodist Hospital after a truck accident near Littlefield with a possible neck injury and satisfactory condition. Four other Sunday auto crashes at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock area involved Sadie Kelisky 65 and the Taylors Amy five and Angie three, all treated and discharged.
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Rutherford Jones
Star
Enochs
Methodist Hospital
Littlefield
Jones
Methodist Hospital Land
Sadie Kelisky
32Nd St
Charles John [Mitchell
Amy Taylor
Angie
Alan Taylor
Och St
Dormitory Trash Fires Quelled Across University Campus
Fire crews extinguished a basement trash fire in Chitwood Hall, a girls dorm, at about 7:55 p.m. A second blaze outside Wells Hall, a boys dorm, at 8:15 p.m. caused minor damage. A Methodist church visit and unrelated notices followed, with several births reported and local names mentioned.
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Chitwood, Hall
al -Rezpree
Wells Hall
James
Himi
Norwick and
Timothy Dennis Rites Tuesday
Services for Timothy Lynns Dennis two year old son of Mr and Mrs Joe Dennis of 1915 15th Street will be at 10 am Tuesday in Henderson Funeral Chapel with burial in the City of Lubbock Cemetery The child died Saturday in Methodist Hospital where he had been a patient two days Survivors include his grandparents Mr and Mrs C H Lovewell and Mr and Mrs J W Dennis
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Timothy Lynns Dennis
Joe Dennis
15Th St
Henderson
City of Lubbock
Methodist Hospital
Panama Canal
H. Lovewell
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Jamie
Associated Press
Jim Palmer
Evanston, Ill
MY Lai Area
Beagle
Cherry
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Papen
Sap
Pourids and Sone
Anand
West Coast
Tucson
Ariz
John
Arizona
JoiWorks
Bill White
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Radcliffe
Letts
David Dents
Egerton
San Francisco
New York City
Riverside
Goodfellows
Gap
Bailey
Otis Cabe
Brownfielt San
Alevratt
Najonal Ate
Joona Morea
Bundy Ip
Walter
Bee Mae ‘University
East
Aon
Tataee
Texas Tech Universis
West
Tama Howital Theater
Yeader
Loe
Saselee
Timothy Dennis
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