U S Steps Up Vietnam Troop Withdrawals After Cease Fire
The United States accelerated troop withdrawals to about 800 men in the first two days of the Vietnam cease fire, with a full pullout deadline set at 60 days. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces held hamlets, flags clashed with Saigon forces, and POWs were reported to be gathered for possible release as air strikes continued.
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Nolde
U.S
Binh Long Province
South Korea
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Col
William
Saigon
B. Nolde
Mount Pleasant
An Loc
Midh
Demilitarized Zone
Inter-capital
National Control Commission
United States
Paris
Republic of Vietnam
Ameri
Can Tho
Mekong Delta
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Joint Military Commission
Central Highlands
Hoang Duc Ninh
Cambodia
Ninh
Marble Mountain
da Nang
Hien
Tan Son Nhut
Thailand
Nakhon |Phanom
Midland Officer Among POWs To Be Set Free
A Midland officer, Col Louis F Makowski, is among released POWs as the Vietnam cease fire nears. The report notes air force crews led by Col James D Morgan of Yoakum, and includes a death of Air Force Sst. John Rucker of Linden. Families cope with missing loved ones and the final casualty tally before signing.
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Midland
Air Force
John Rucker
Linden
da Nang
Rucker
Vietnam
Texas
Jack
Dul Biediger
San Antonio
U.S
William B. Nolde
Mount Pleasant
Mich
Saigon
Ruckers
Ana Sman Wan Ike
Kay Makowski
Louis F. Makowski
Isvall
Ronnie Bonner
Makowski
POW Lists Grow, Families Hail Release Plans
The National League of Families reports 555 living prisoners and 55 dead with 1 315 still missing. Hanoi plans to release 76 Army 135 Navy 318 Air Force and 26 Marines within 60 days under the ceasefire. 22 civilians on Hanoi list. 23 prisoners confirmed dead, including three new cases. Notification of relatives completed within 24 hours after Paris list.
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Friedheim
Paris
Hanoi
Navy
Air Force
Army
Pentagon
Aga Peated
United States
Tani
National League of Families of American
Southeast Asia
Aclon
U.S
Sone
Obituary of Lawrence A Wardlaw Sr in Levelland
Lawrence A Wardlaw Sr of Levelland died at home about 9 05 p m Sunday after months of illness. Services are pending with George Price Funeral Home. He was a First Presbyterian Church member, married Ladie Herron in 1909 in Memphis Texas, and farmed most of his life. He lived in Lubbock county 1928 1944, then California with Pacific Telephone for five years before moving to Levelland in 1949. Survivors include his wife a son a daughter and two daughters in law, a sister and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Levelland
Lawrence A. Wardlaw
George Price
Wardlaw
Ladie Herron
Memphis
Tex
Lubbock County
California
Pacific Telephone Co
Macon
Lawrence A. Wardlaw Jr
Fort Wayne Ind
Lloyd Luna
Ruby Wood
Fort Wayne
Ind
Raymond Calif
Sistor
Liberty
Lubbock LLW Theme Drives National Campaign
A wide Lubbock promotion spreads the LLW theme on billboards and branding mats in local restaurants and banks. Continental and Braniff plan to feature LLW mats on Monday flights but wind delays altered schedule. The Avalanche Journal runs a color page series on Lubbock’s economy and industry to support outreach to chambers and national distribution.
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Southwest
Lubbock
Continental
Braniffairlines
Police and FBI Seek Slayer Of Child In Fort Worth
Authorities, including the FBI, hunt a killer after the body of Paige Applegate, three, was found near West Freeway. The child disappeared Friday afternoon while playing near her home and was discovered Saturday beneath a street overpass.
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Fort Worth
FBI
Services for Gary Dwayne Wilson in Portales
Services for Gary Dwayne Wilson 24 of Portales will be held at Wheeler Starlight Chapel with Ernest Wheeler Jr officiating. He died at Roosevelt General Hospital from a long illness connected to Viet Nam injuries, shortly after the ceasefire was announced in 1970. Burial is in Portales Cemetery. He attended Carlsbad schools, served early in the military, and returned to Roosevelt County in 1971. Survivors include his parents in Portales and two sisters, one in Las Vegas Portales.
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Portales
Gary Dwayne Wilson
Wheeler
Ernest Wheeler, Jr
Wilson
Roosevelt
General Hospital
Viet Nam
Carlsbad
Roosevelt County
Portales Baptist Church
C. L. Wilson
Effie Burkhalter
Las Vegas
iPortales
Congress Awaiting Nixon Budget Focus On Cutting Old Programs
President Nixon urged Congress to cut aging federal programs and limit spending in a radio address. He targeted HillBurton hospitals urban renewal and school aid tied to federal facilities, arguing misaligned spending and bureaucratic waste. He set fiscal year goals of 269 billion for 1975 estimates at 288 billion.
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Nixon
Congress
Florida
Congressional
Guinea fowl lore and local memories from West Texas
A West Texas rancher recalls the noisy guinea fowl once common on local farms. The piece traces the bird’s size, eggs, and flightless nature, notes its domestic history from ancient Greeks to medieval Europeans, and contrasts it with other game birds in dry, windward West Texas.
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Met
New World Prairies
Thejland
Africa
West
Texas
Nasirica
West Texas
Guinea
Nea
Last Victim Dedicated To Rebuilding An Loe
The article recalls a fallen neighbor, Nolde, who inspired others in Michigan to endure the Vietnam era. Friends Frank Dempski and Frank Powell share memories, noting Nolde’s belief in peace and his hope to reunite with family, despite a long war.
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An Loe
Michigan
Nolde
Frank Powell
Powell
Frank Dempski
NCC Session in El Paso Charts Cotton Export Outlook
About 1,200 people from 19 states attend the cotton meeting with committees in session since Friday. W. D. Lawson II and M. C. Stovall are re elected as president and vice president of CCI guiding promotion, market research and public information for U.S. cotton exports.
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Denton
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Ald
Kenneth E. Frick
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Far East
Europe
U.S
Frick
CCI
W. D. Lawson
Collision Injures Three Slightly
A two car collision at Loop 289 and North Quaker Avenue at 6 p.m. Sunday caused minor injuries to three people. Marilyn Wolf 19 of 2410 10th St drove south on Quaker and hit Galen W. Pruitt from the Lubbock Christian College campus who was east on Frontage Road. E Carl Harrison 19 and Cathy Cargil 18, both on the LCC campus, were treated and released at Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital while Marilyn Wolf was treated and released at Methodist Hospital.
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Loop 289
Quaker Avenue
Marilyn Wolf
10Th St
Quaker
Galen W. Pruitt
Lubbock
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
Methodist Hospital
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Marine
Bien
James D. Morgan
Yoakum
Gwendolyn Stine
Hope
Joseph Stine
Lineden
der Rucker
J.C. Hagler
Young Ruckes
Col. Nolde
Diane Souder
Jason
Tina Hegerman
Cmdr
James B. Souder
Souder
Fla
Reds
Te. Ise
Laos
Phytli Galanti
Southeast
Asi
L. A. Wardlaw
Avalanche Journal
Lubboak
Inter
Ssi
Police
Gary D. Wilson
Jimmy Yates
2Nd St
Yates
Avalanche-Journal
Leland Boyd
Jack Boyd
Leland
NCC
el Paso
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