Apollo 8 Set for Fiery Earth Plunge from Pacific Recovery
Apollo 8 is scheduled to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere over Siberia and Communist China at a 118 degree angle. Recovery ships and planes cover a 900 mile Pacific footprint with the Yorktown carrier about 1000 miles southwest of Hawaii and 400 miles north of the equator. Weather calls for scattered clouds at 2000 feet and 12000 feet broken, 10 mile visibility, four foot swells, and a low chance of rain.
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China
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Yorktown
Borman
Ellington
Ruling Pending in Brown Murder Trial El Paso District Court
Judge William Ward will decide Monday on Dulphus Jack Brown's request for a new trial in the 1967 double murder case near Shallowater. Ward said no January hearing is set and sentencing will follow the morning proceeding.
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Sitch District Court
el Paso
Dulphus
Jack Brown
Avalanche Journal
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Ward
Wis
Breaen
J.buzzi Brown
Shallowater
Des Moines Man Surrenders After Abduction Case
Williams arrived at Davenport police station in a taxi with four cents in his pocket. He stated he surrendered on advice of attorney Henry T. McKnight of Des Moines after a call from Illinois. McKnight said Williams warned he would reveal details if represented. Pamela Powers, 11, had been at the Des Moines YMCA with her parents to watch her brother’s wrestling match. Williams, once an assistant pastor at Maple Street Baptist Church, was held at Fulton Missouri mental hospital in 1965 on related charges.
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Mississippi River
Henry T. McKnight
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Des Moines
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State Mental Hospital
Fulton
Weather shifts bring snow risk to parts of Texas and New Mexico
The U S Weather Bureau warns of intermittent snow in eastern New Mexico and scattered precipitation across Texas. Reports show accumulating snow in Oregon and Arizona with arctic cold elsewhere. forecasters predict light rain and snow near the Cotton Bowl as New Year weekend approaches.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Portales-Clovis- Tucumcari - Clayton
Avalanche-Journal
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Slaton
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Brownfield
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Seminole
Post
Abernathy
Floydada
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Matador
Snyder
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Ralls
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Muleshoe
Hobbs
Portales
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Laredo
Darhart
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Ariz
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Conn
Massena
N. Y
Rocky Mountains
Texas
Dallas
Tyler
Piney Woods
Red River
Ardmore
Okla
McAlester
Panhandle Plains
Amarillo
Lubbock
Tucumcuri
Num
Dalhart
Fort Worth
Connions
Hong Kong flu deaths soar in U S in December reports
CDC officials in Atlanta say deaths from pneumonia influenza more than doubled in the third week of December across 122 cities. About 1,000 total deaths were likely, with at least half due to the Hong Kong flu, as officials warned the epidemic may peak in January.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
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Hawaii
Posey liquor store holdup ends with escape, gunman still at large
Griffith recounts a quick robbery at Harvey's Liquor Store on US 84 Posey as the masked bandit forced him into a vault and fled with cash cigarettes. Police and sheriff units searched nearby roads while the time of the crime remained during a slack period with the robber described as a nervous 45 to 50 year old man with graying hair.
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Department of ‘Public Safety
Lubbock County Sheriff's Department
Slaton Police Department
Harvey's Liquor Store
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Lubbock
tLe
Ballad of Buford Pusser and Fatal Police Night
The article recalls Sheriff Buford Pusser and Pauline Pusser and the 1967 ambush on a rural road. Charles R. Hamilton, a county highway worker, fired on Pusser and his wife, killing Pauline and wounding him. The gunmen were never captured. Hamilton had a violent past including killings in multiple states.
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Don Pipkins
Pusser
Charles R. Hamilton
Hamilton
Pauline
New Hope
McNairy County
John York
Alabama
Keddie Bond
Memphis
Nashville
Buford Pusser
Sampans Sunk as Truce Ends in Vietnam Battles
UPI reports American forces resumed offensives after a 24 hour Christmas truce near Saigon. They sank 16 sampans and killed at least 50 Communist soldiers near the Cambodian border while other clashes and air strikes continued across South Vietnam and Laos. Casualties remained high with U.S. deaths approaching 40 daily this year.
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UPI
U.S
Vietnam
Due Duc
Qang Nam
South Vietnam
Mekong
Laos
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Katum
Local Birth Announcements Include Dozens of Newborns across Lubbock
A flurry of birth notices reports newborn sons and daughters from families including Ponciano Sauceda Faulks McAlister Dodson Hagler Howell Milschke Weiser Facemire Faunce Duke Mangum Dawson Murt and others. Babies range from 1 lb 2 oz to 9 lb plus with times and hospitals listed.
Exchanges After Christmas Grow With Clothing And Appliances
Store managers report early post holiday returns center on expensive items like appliances and fur coats. Color size exchanges trickle in over days after Christmas, sometimes through February. Several executives expect a surge after New Year as families travel home, hoping the season remains pleasant for customers and staff.
Legs out schooling fashion trends foreseen in London
London designer Leslie Poole predicts legs will fade as the leg symbol and breasts return as the dominant sex symbol. His World of Fashion film previews show nude inspired outfits with jewel decorations and Egyptian motifs, forecasting nude body decorations and weathered warmthless dress by 1980.
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London
Leslie Poole
20Th Century Fox
World of Fashion
Poole
Genevieve Gilles
Poowle
Miss Gilles
President-Elect Nixon Flies to Bahamas for Island Retreat
President-elect Richard M Nixon and family flew by Coast Guard helicopter to Grand Cay island in the Bahamas from Key Biscayne to enjoy a secluded vacation. Pat Nixon Julie Eisenhower and David Eisenhower joined him while Tricia Nixon stayed behind at their Florida home. The party planned to stay for an undetermined time possibly overnight.
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Coast Guard
Grand Cay Lat
Alan Woods
Madalyn O Haire Pushes Space Prayer Ban Across Flights
Apollo critic Madalyn Murray O Hair calls for banning prayer in outer space after astronauts described Genesis creation on the moon. She plans NASA complaints and a mail campaign from Houston seeking to bar prayers on future space missions.
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Wouston
Madalyn Murray O’hair
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Manned Spacecraft Center
KTR
O'Yair
Government to store surplus rice underwater in lakes
The Tokyo government plans to seal up to a million tons of surplus rice in rubber bags and dump them in lakes to preserve it for about six months. If successful, this underwater storage could be in place by this time next year, officials say.
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