World Slows For Christmas
Christmas mood grips the globe as cease-fire in the Arab-Israeli region eases tensions in Bethlehem while shoppers in the United States and Britain report cautious spending. President Nixon hosts a White House Christmas, Thieu sends messages to POWs, and Viet Cong cease-fire narrows to a 24-hour truce. In Poland Gierek pledges price freezes and subsidies as Berlin tensions persist and East Germans stay behind the Wall. Turkeys sell cheap in Britain as holiday demand remains strong.
Ceasefire in Vietnam Brings Lowest War Toll in Years
AP reports a Christmas cease-fire across South Vietnam with 24 hours of halted offensive actions starting 6 p.m. Saigon time. U.S. bombers hit targets in Cambodia and Laos as truce holds elsewhere. Weekly U.S. deaths 23, with 46 noncombatant deaths. 1,431 missing or captured. South Vietnamese losses 266 killed, 886 wounded. Vietnam leader Thieu notes fewer American troops and pledges effort for POW freedom. American pilots continue raids to disrupt North Vietnamese supply routes.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Indochina
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
United States
Vietnam
Thailand
Tonkin Gulf
Your Tax Form Is On The Way
The Postal Service announced that over 75 million packages containing IRS instructions and forms will reach sectional postal centers by Christmas. Within 10 days after the holidays, taxpayers will have the forms in hand, a figure that is five million more than last year.
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Washington
Postal Service
Internal Revenue Service
Danforth and Bond push 18 vote for state and local
Missouri leaders Atty Gen John C Danforth and Auditor elect Christopher Kit Bond urge extending voting rights to 18 19 and 20 year olds in all state and local elections. They warn of confusion if federal state and local ballots differ and call for a constitutional amendment to broaden suffrage.
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Jefferson City
John C. Danforth
Christopher
Kit) Bond
Supreme Court
Danforth
Bond
Missouri
Library To Be Open Saturday
The Mexico Audrain County Library will be open Saturday December 26 for students to begin holiday studying. Librarian Eldon Burgess notes the extra day provides a chance to catch up on reading and research.
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Mexico-Audrain County
Eldon Burgess
November CPI Showed Slower Inflation On Costs
Washington reports living costs rose 0.3 percent in November, the slowest rise in 18 months and half October’s pace. CPI at 137.8 of the 1957-59 base, $13.78 per $10 of typical expenses. Average weekly earnings fell 66 cents to $121.07. purchasing power down 1.8 percent. Prices eased on food and gasoline, but clothing, housing, cars, and services up. Annual cost of living 5.6 percent higher than a year earlier. Some 46,000 workers to get small cost of living raises. 27,000 others have no increase remaining.
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Washington
Department
Port Said
Pay Raise for Federal Workers Delayed in Congress
Washington AP report says a $1.1 billion New Year pay hike for federal employees is stalled behind a defense bill but expected to pass by Jan 3. The plan requires a wage study, union talks, mediation, and presidential approval, with possible bypass of an advisory panel to speed up first pay raises. Congress recessed for Christmas and would resume Dec 28.
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Washington
Congress
House Senate
Nixon
Civil Service Commission
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Civil Service
Youths Travel Nation For Prisoner Letters
Three young men with brothers in North Vietnam prisons travel cross country to collect letters urging better treatment by Hanoi. They plan to reach Times Square on New Year’s Eve and deliver to North Vietnamese officials in Paris next month. The trip aims to raise POW awareness and support their forthcoming Paris delivery. they expect at least ten million letters and will add a second truck.
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San Diego
Calif
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Times Square
Peter Nasmyth
New York
Nasmyth
San Gabriel
Air Force
John Nasmyth
Joe McCain
Adm
Johns
McCain Jr
U.S
Pacific
Don Rehmann
Garden Grove
Navy
David Rehmann
McCain
Concern For Prisoners, Inc
John S. McCain
Paris
Los Angeles
Tucson
el Paso
Tex
Abilene
Kan
Dallas
Atlanta
Charlotte
N.C
Washington
Three Stars Viewed Best Before Dawn
R. C. Olson notes a Christmas sky spectacle just before dawn featuring Venus near the crescent moon as the brightest of three wandering planets. Jupiter and Mars appear dimmer in a close planetary grouping that remains largely unchanged day to day and may echo the wise men’s sign on Christmas Day.
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R. C. Olson
Venus
Jupiter
Mars
Tough Sledding In Missouri Weather Outlook
AP reports Missouri will have no white Christmas as skies remain sunny to partly cloudy. Light rain possible in the south and light snow in the north by Sunday with highs near freezing in the northeast and in the low 40s in the south on Christmas Day.
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Kansas. City
Missouri
No Sign of Drink On Victims
The FAA said the pilot became disoriented by fog, crashing his light plane about 20 seconds after takeoff from a Mexico airport. Autopsy results are pending. coroner Connie Pickering found no evidence the victims drank. Victims are Dr. E. Sturgis Stickel, Walter Eugene Duckett, and Lloyd Stanley Douglas.
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Federal Aviation Authority
Mexico
Connie Pickering
E. Sturgis Stickel
St. Charles Rock Road
Walter Eugene Duckett
Villa Ridge
Itel Corp
Lloyd Stanley Douglas
Overland
Bauman Funeral Home
Stickel
Douglas
Duckett
Oltman Funeral Home
Union
Maurice Utterback
Utterback Farm
Route JJ
American Vessels Collide Killing 24 Near Jakarta
In the Java Sea 30 miles east of Jakarta two vessels operated by an American oil service firm collided. Twenty four people died, including three Americans, as the Northern Dancer sank. Eighteen survivors were rescued by the Aquaduct. The dead and injured were from the Northern Dancer and its oil workers on Christmas leave. The cause of the collision is under investigation.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Java Sea
Pertimina
Oil Corporation
Northern Dancer
Thorton
Java
Santa Fe Pomeroy Co
New Mexico
Indonesian American Petroleum Co
Perumina
Aquaduct
Singapore
Reeding and Bates
Tandjupgpriok
Jakarta General Hospital
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Christ
Judean Hills
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Jordan
White House
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Eisenhower
Poland
Communist Party
Edward Gierek
West Berlin
Berlin Wall
West
Britain
Michael Tangora
Jennifer Tangora
Ellen Waggett
al Tangora
Reavis Rd
John S. Waggett
Ann Arbor
Mich
Santa Claus
Richard Vance
Uncle Sam
Mildred Marie Schwartz
Martinsburg
Robert Raines Wiggins
Columbia
Audrain Medical Center
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