In Transit Strike Nears Quiet Breakthrough Hints
AP reports mediator Feinsinger senses narrowing mood toward agreement as city strike among subway and bus workers lingers. Wirtz sees no clear path yet while labor leaders seek federal help amid jailings in contempt case. Unemployment dips to 4.1 percent with 72.1 million employed, signaling tighter labor market and potential shortages.
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New York
Wirtz
Nathan Feinsing
Labor
Willard Wirtz
Presi
Dent Johnson
Feinsinger
Nelson A
Rockefeller
Michael J. Quill
Washington
Arthur M. Ross
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ross
Armed Services
Girl Saves Family After Gas Leak Incident
Debra Crouse seven alerts neighbors when John son family of five near Sobrante California fails to answer door. Neighbors locate gas fumes and firefighters rush to pull the unconscious family to safety. The town votes 200 to fund maps to uncover manholes along sewer project and prevent future danger.
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Calif
Ithursday
Debra Crouse
Mary Johnson
Johnson
Wallkill
Orange County
Mary
Andy
Wonanin Novi
Butrie
Ciluter
Kay
Gineer Arthur Eustance
Brookside Hospital
Viet Cong Bomb Plot Smashed ADOPT CHILDREN Couple Win Two-Year Struggle
Fairfield California AP two Vietnamese children Thi Yen and Hi Sen adopted by T Sgt Marl Leese and his wife Sue after a two year legal battle amid red tape and a bomb blast destroying papers in Saigon the couple narrates their long quest for a brighter future for the orphans with the embassy bombing incident noted as a setback.
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Fairfield
Calif
California
Thi Yen
Hi Sen
San Francisco
T.sgt. Marl Leese
Sue
Leese
Viet Nam
Kidnappers Free Girl In Hobbs Purchase
State Police launch statewide search for 11 year old Arkansas girl Debbie Sullivan after she is released unharmed in Hobbs and placed on a bus to Odessa. Charges filed against Alfred T Parnell and wife for kidnapping and grand theft amid allegations they took the Sullivan vehicle and headed toward Farmington.
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N.M
UPD
New Mexico
Arkansas
Debbie Sullivan
C. E. Sullivan
Doddridge, Ark
Alfred T.’ Parnell
Sullivan
Duddridge
Parnell
Parnell's
Farmington
See
Terror plot foil in Saigon as Viet Cong bomb plan halted
Police seized six terrorists north of Saigon while bringing a 265 pound plastic bomb into the city. The operation came amid warnings of a new terror onslaught before Tet. American forces reported clashes near Da Nang and in the Plain of Reeds as the 173rd Airborne Brigade continued operations to disrupt Communist supply lines.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U. S
U.S. Mariner
da’ Nang
U.S
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Mekong
Violence erupts as cab drivers attacked in Las Vegas
About 60 men armed with tire irons and bats attacked four Yellow Cabs in front of a strip hotel in Las Vegas. Two drivers were hospitalized with head injuries and one cab was set on fire. The Riviera Hotel show was nearing its end when the assault occurred amid ongoing post strike tensions with nonunion drivers.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPD
Riviera Hotel
Yellow Cab Co
Teamsters
McCarran
Arctic Cold Grips Midwest With 34 Below Zero Readings
Arctic air chills the northern Plains and upper Mississippi Valley with temps dropping to 34 degrees below zero at Devils Lake North Dakota and 33 below at Thief River Falls Minnesota. Snow blankets a wide area as a high pressure center forms north of the Dakotas and storms ease along the Pacific Northwest coast.
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Armascee Sonal News
Plains
Mississippi Valley
Towa
Michigan
Oregon
California
Mt. Shasta
Sierra Club Outdoor Group
San Francisco Bay Area
Devils Lake
North Dakota
Thief River Falls
Minnesota
Dakotas
Muskegon
Mich
Illinois
New England
Pacific Northwest
Weather Update Forecast Gentle and Mild Conditions
The bee page notes fair and mild weather across the region with light winds. Readers are directed to the complete map report on page 12 for detailed temperatures and conditions.
Ammonia leak kills man near Plano farm store
A 6000 gallon anhydrous ammonia tank ruptured at Wells Brothers Grain Co. north of Plano causing a gas cloud and multiple exposures. One man died, another injured, and two more treated as authorities evacuated nearby homes and diverted traffic for about 75 minutes.
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Plano
Tes
UPI
McKinney, Tex
Wells Brothers Grain Co
Dallas
McKinney Hospital
Anita Powell
Wysong Hospital
G. D. Tallent
Bee Gas Cloud
Chandler Man Honored For Noon Siren Duty Since 1940
Chandler Arizona resident Alouis Novak has tended the town clock and noon siren for 25 years, walking to the fire department each day to pull and release the siren lever six seconds before and after noon. At 77 he received a mayoral honor for his faithful service.
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Chandler, Ariz
Alouis Novak
Novak
Chandler
Novaka
Buckskin Bill Kept Hidden In Idaho Wilderness
Sylvan A Hart known as Buckskin Bill has lived alone in the Salmon River region since 1921. The 66 year old engineer-turned-mountain man raises a self sufficient frontier life amid Little Five Mile Creek and the River of No Return while facing pressure from wilderness preservation efforts.
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Mccall, Idaho
Sylvan A. Hart
University of Idaho
Idaho Mountains
Hart
West
Little Five Mile Creek
River of No Return
Soviets pledge full support as Shelepin meets Ho Chi Minh
Soviet trouble-shooter Alexander Shelepin arrives in Hanoi with missile and armament experts to pledge firm Soviet aid to North Vietnam. Leonid Brezhnev leads another high powered mission to Mongolia while Kosygin meets Indian and Pakistani leaders in Tashkent, reflecting broader Soviet outreach in Asia.
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UPI
Kremlin
Alexander Shelepin
Hanoi
Soviet Union
North
Viet Nam
United States
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Republic of Mongolia
So T
Asia
Alexei Kosygin
Tashkent
Soviet Asia
Russia
Peking
Jepin
Ho Chi Minh
Tass
Ovetcome
Democratic Republic of
Johnson to deliver State of the Union next Wednesday
President Johnson will speak to a joint session of Congress next Wednesday at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. The timing was announced after a White House breakfast with Senate Majority Leader Mansfield and House Speaker McCormack. Press secretary Moyers confirmed the plan as Congress opens its new session.
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Johnson
Congress
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
House
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
White House
Bill D. Moylers
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