Armada ends largest North Vietnam air raid in years
The armada conducted over 1,000 strikes in five days targeting MIG bases, SAM sites, AA batteries, radars, and depots from the DMZ toward the 20th parallel. Losses included three U.S. planes and pilots missing, with North Vietnam claiming more aircraft downed. Weather hampered damage assessment as the operation wrapped at 3:36 PM.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
U.S
Tonkin Gulf
Demilitarized Zone
20Th Parallel
Hanoi
Laos
United States
North
Mu Gia
Ban Karai
Ban Raving
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Dmz
Highway 7
Draft prospects shift as low-numbered men face deferments
About 70,000 men with lottery numbers 125 or lower may avoid draft calls if no new calls are issued in January through March, provided deferments were dropped by year end. Laird indicated the possibility of no calls, but not a guarantee, with risk tied to March 31 reclassification and possible exposure in 1971.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Selective Service
White House plan weighs value added tax and export boosts
The Nixon administration outlines a multi faceted push to lift U S trade and tech leadership. Proposals include a value added tax, export incentives, private R D tax breaks, and Japanese style trading corporations. Peterson notes the plan is under development with Congress to follow.
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Washington
U.S
White House
Peter G. Peterson
Nixon
Congress
Peterson
Tent No Longer Home For Family Of Eight
Eugene Nichols his wife and six children lived in a 103 by 14 foot tent for four months after moving from Lake Hopatcong New Jersey. They paid 90 dollars monthly for a campsite with utilities until a 10 room two story rent free house became available. Readers offered food clothing and job leads including a California Class One driving test to qualify for similar work.
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San Diego
Calif
Eugene Nichols
Lake Hopatcong
N.J
Nichols
California
New Jersey
Thomas Gibson
Wheeler Appeals $99,000 Payment
Charles Gerald Wheeler, severely burned by electricity at MFA Mill in 1967, appeals Audrain Circuit Court over a workmen's compensation settlement. The Missouri Industrial Commission found Wheeler netted $99,314.96 of a $172,000 settlement after medical and other costs, with attorney fees awarded at $57,333.33 and the referee’s fee ruling overturned. The employer Cemo Rental and Equipment Co. of Fulton and insurer Western Casualty and Surety Co. faced recovery expenses and medical costs of $13,667.90.
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Charles Gerald Wheeler
MFA
Audrain Circuit
Industrial Commission of Missouri
Arch Hays
Commission
Cemo Rental and Equipment Co
Fulton
Western Casualty and Surety Co
Edwards, Seigfield, and Runge
Mexico
Richard M. Stout
St. Louis County
Wheeler
Stout
Bond calls Highway Dept financials incomplete and unreliable
State Auditor Christopher Bond declared the Highway Department’s financial statements incomplete and unreliable after discovering major deviations from accounting principles. He noted equipment was sometimes valued above cost or below zero, while praising the internal review section and urging expansion of the department’s accounting reforms.
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Jefferson City, Mo
Christopher “‘Kit
Bond
State Highway Department
Muskie Prepares White House Bid in TV Announcement
Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine confirms a presidential candidacy with a preannouncement fundraising appeal and an 8:20 p.m. CBS television slot on January 4, 1972. The piece contrasts formal unveilings in the Caucus Room with early and varied announcements by rivals, noting campaign costs and theater around such declarations.
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Washington
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
White House
Muskie
Henry M. Jackson
Fred R. Harris
Oklahoma
George McGovern
Sioux Falls
S.D
Capitol
McGovern
Cbs-Tv
Mrs. Myrtie Money Dies at 87 in Auxvasse Rites Sunday
Mrs. Myrtie Money, 87, of 815 North Washington Street died at 8:30 a.m. at Biggers Nursing Home Auxvasse. Born June 4, 1884 in Gazette Missouri, she was a licensed practical nurse who worked for local doctors and Fredendall and Wilkins. She was twice married, survived by daughter Addie Wallace and two grandsons Edwin Wallace Jr and LaVerne Wallace, plus two great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Arnold Funeral Home with viewing Saturday 7 to 8:30 p.m.
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Myrtie Money
Washington St
Biggers
Auxvasse
Gazette
M.J
Margaret Keith Woodson
Fredendall and Wilkins
Luther C. Culwell
James FE. Money
Mt. Vernon
Addie Wallace
N. Washington St
Edwin W. Wallace Jr
Mexico
LaVerne C. Wallace
Little Rock
Ark
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Route 1
Smokey Woods
Richard Vance
USS Command
Vietnam
Chester Hanson
U.S. Command
Phnom Penh
Prey Veng
Behlmanns
Dennis Behlmann
Route 3
Audrain Medical Center
Behlmann
Richard Behlmann
O’fallon
iToday
Nix
Highway Dept
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
Senate
McCarthy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert F
Kennedy
John Ashbrook
Ohio
Sheraton-Carleton
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
Los Angeles
San Francisco
New York
John V. Lindsay
Miami
Ning
Florida
Sam Yorty
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Manchester
N.H
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Birch Bayh
New Hampshire
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