Camille Leaves Mississippi Coast Devastation in Wake
Camille devastates Mississippi coast causing millions in damage and up to 200 deaths. Civil Defense set a war council as authorities brace for more aid. States report 23 bodies at Pass Christian complex. National Guard and volunteers aid rescue while curfews and martial law spread through affected parishes. National leaders and agencies coordinate emergency response and airlift supplies to Biloxi and Keesler.
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Civil Defense
War Council
Wade Guice
Spiro T. Agnew
Gulfport
Agnew
Washington
Weather Bureau
New Orleans
National Guard
Cassidry
Atlanta
Dobbins Air Force Base
Keesler Air Force Base
Biloxi
Bay St. Louis
Nixon
Camille
Louisiana
Mississippi
Port Cry
Mississippi Gulf Coast
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Rhodes Signs Largest Education Bill in Ohio History
Gov. James A. Rhodes signed the $2.27 billion education measure as cigarette taxes rise by three cents a pack and liquor by 25 cents a fifth. Liquor stores closed to finish related clerical work. Rhodes also approved a $30.5 million pay raise and $414.7 million in capital improvements for the next two years.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
108Th General Assembly
Weather outlook and education funding note
The forecast shows locally heavy rains ending tonight with gradually clearing skies and a high near 80 on Thursday. In local education news, Rhodes wins approval for a vocational education program split from colleges, with Ohio Department of Education oversight and funding tied to tax measures raising cigarettes and liquor, plus small tax boosts and $34.5 million for vocational education.
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Middletown
Ohio Department of Education
Valley News Puzzle and Notices Span September
Ann Landers and Heloise appear in the page alongside a bridge comics crossword and a section on deaths and funerals. Editorials and Want Ads fill the page with women’s news and television listings.
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Ann Landers
Heloise Sports
Valley News
Want
Women's News
Mansfield Arrives In Burma For Southeast Asia Visit
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield landed in Rangoon for a three day visit and a meeting with Gen Ne Win after flying from Jakarta where he met President Suharto. He discussed Indonesia still needing foreign aid to support its five year economic plan.
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Rangoon
Burma
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Ne Win
Montana Democrat
Southeast Asia
Jakarta
Suharto
Indonesia
Troops Rush to Relieve Battered U.S. Companies Near Da Nang
In Vietnam, hundreds of U.S. infantrymen from the 196th Light Infantry Brigade moved to assist two battered companies totaling 177 men near Da Nang. They faced a much larger North Vietnamese force, with 148 claimed killed by U.S. forces as the battle unfolded amid heavy fire and challenging helicopter evacuations.
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Saigon
U.S
da Nang
Associated Press
Richard Pyle
196Th Light Infantry Brigade
South Vietnam
Pyle
Cecil M. Henry
Rome
Talion
Hiep Duc
Henry
John Wahittecar
Latvia
Kan
William Gayler
Mineral Wells
Tex
Anothr
Gaylor
Whittecar
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
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Bogalusa
Curt Siegelin
Plaquemines Parish
Venice
Boothville
Triumph
Howard Wilcox
Alabama
Dauphin Island
Gulf Shores
Orange Beach
Mansfield
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