24th War Year Brings Attacks
Viet Cong marks Indochina war anniversary with two attacks on U.S. troops and the first Saigon rocket strikes in six weeks. No American deaths reported from rockets though six Vietnamese civilians, many children, were killed or eight wounded. One American was killed and four wounded in a convoy ambush near Da Nang. another 12 round mortar barrage hit the 2nd Brigade HQ near Saigon. Casualties raise totals among U.S. forces to 44,144 killed and 292,917 wounded. civilian toll in five years exceeds one million with at least 300,000 dead. National Resistance Day is observed by Hanoi and Saigon. more celebrations and shelling planned in coming days.
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Saigon
U.S
25Th Infantry
Hai van Pass
da Nang
Indochina
Vo Nguyen Giap
Hanoi
Viet Cong
National Front For the Liberation of
South Vietnam
Hearnes Faces End of Tax Plan as Blackwell Wins
Jefferson City AP report notes Gov. Warren Hearnes may lose his income tax measure after Sen. Earl Blackwell’s near 20 hour filibuster. Blackwell’s victory comes as lawmakers plan a fourth special session to fund Medicaid and the State School for the Deaf, with revenue bills likely to include beer and liquor tax changes and a possible corporate franchise levy. The 75th General Assembly resumes January 6.
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Jefferson City
Missouri House
Warren E. Hearnes
Earl R. Blackwell
Hillsboro
Blackwell
Senate
Jefferson
Hearnes
75Th General Assembly
Ernor
State School For the Deaf
Fulton
New Madrid
Howell
Buchanan
Greene
Smith Warns Of Cuts Endangering University
Pleas Smith of Mexico, president of the MU Board of Curators, warned at a Rotary meeting that another 80 million budget cut would threaten key MU programs and staff. He criticized a Governor’s Task Force report proposing student grants, questioned funding sources, and noted private colleges’ roles. He described MU finances, aircraft, and gate receipts supporting athletics, and praised Col. C R Stribling Jr. for hospital board service.
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University of Missouri
Missouri
Pleasant R. Smith
Mexico
MU Board of Curators
Rotary Club
Smith
Ilinois
Col
Charles R. Stribling Tit
MMA
Robert M. White II
Ledger
Columbia
Kennett
Rotary
Glen Torreyson
Eb, C. Lawrence Jr
Torreyson
Col. C. R. Stribling Jr
Audrain Hospital
Col. Stribling
Schwada to Lead Arizona State University
Dr John W Schwada resigns as chancellor of the University of Missouri Columbia and becomes president of Arizona State University Tempe effective July 1 1971 He has led Missouri since 1964 Arizona State enrolls 26400 students compared with 21700 at Columbia Schwada will replace H K Newburn who resigns next July
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Columbia, Mo
John W. Schwada
University of Missouri At Columbia
Arizona State University
Tempe
Schwada
Columbia
Arizona
Arizona State
H. K. Newburn
Twenty Kids Join Mexico Christmas Shopping Tour
Twenty children, guided by twenty Jaycees, shopped for 9:00 to 11:15 a.m. downtown Mexico as part of the annual Children's Shopping Tour. They will buy for about 124 siblings not on the trip, then enjoy Pizza Hut pizzas and sodas, with entertainment at the Presbyterian Church featuring Santa Claus. The Jaycees have run the event for over a decade.
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Mexico
Jaycees
Gary Evans
Pizza Hut
Presbyterian Church
Santa Claus
Riots Spread in Northern Polish Cities Amid Curfew
In Poland troops and police impose a curfew as rioting extends to a fifth city amid shipyard clashes. Gdansk Gdynia and Sopot faced mob violence with reports of gunfire. Szczecin Slupsk saw tear gas use and food deliveries resuming as calm returned to Slupsk.
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Warsaw
Poland
Radio Gdansk
Gdynia
Gdansk
Sopot
Bay of Danzig
Szczecin
Slupsk
Radio
Stolen Car Chase Ends In Dense Wood
A 15 year old from Mexico took his mother’s 1965 Mustang and led a high speed chase, clocked up to 80 mph, through Mexico and surrounding areas. The boy fled into dense woods northeast of Moline where deputies found him after a flight from officers. He’s held in Audrain County jail awaiting juvenile authorities. Authorities say he’s on probation for a similar incident and faces charges of negligent driving, running stop signs, fleeing police, and related offenses.
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Mexico
Audrain County
State Training School For
Boonville
Harold Sulgrove
Mexico Police Department
Macon
Monroe County
Dean Mason
Jim Hunt
Moline
Whitley and
Clark
Orval Head
Jack Park
Clark, Vine, Orange
Jefferson Sts
Plum St
Molino Road
Sulgrove
Burglaries Hit Mexico Area Schools Last Night
Mexico High School and Mexico Area Vocational Technical School were burglarized. The vocational campus suffered the most, with several offices ransacked and about 10 to 15 dollars in petty cash taken. The tech school break in was found at 7:49 a.m. by police, involving broken windows, pried locks, and rummaged desks.
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Mexico Area
Davis Hart
Tech School
Bolli
Three Killed In Fiery Airplane Crash Near St Louis
Three Missourians were killed and one injured after a light aircraft crashed in a heavily wooded area about 50 miles south of St Louis. Victims are Ralph Hudson 42 Sullivan Ralph Oldham 27 Bourbon and Elmo Hancock 48 Fisk. Gerald Jones 37 Malden Missouri was hospitalized in St Louis. Witnesses said the plane circled then plunged toward the ground en route from Peoria Illinois to Poplar Bluff Missouri.
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Peoria
Til
Poplar Bluff
Free DI In Beating Soldiers Acquittal Reported
SAN ANTONIO Texas AP A military court acquitted T Sgt Jack Wilson a Viet Nam veteran on charges of mistreating 10 trainees at Lackland Air Force Base Witnesses testified during a week long court martial that Wilson a training instructor who had more than 1 years in service banged the heads of two recruits choked one kicked two and struck seven more The panel of seven officers delayed verdict saying the sergeant taught big men only the authority of training instructors to physically manhandle them
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San Antonio
Tex
Jack Wilson
Lackland Air Force Base
Burkard
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Eugene Field School
Iola E. Bradley
Gerald Rosenthal
Kimberly Gordon
Russell Lewellen
Michele Davis
Tamara Walden
Joseph Polston
Richard Vance
Pleas Smith
Arizona U
MHS and Tech School
William E. Lowry
Mexico High School
Lowry
Audrain
Molino
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