Doylestown Dark No Lights Or Water New Year Eve
A power blackout and water shortage hit Doylestown Ohio population 2300 on Friday night disrupting New Year festivities. An auto crash in Summit County knocked down six power poles causing the outage until shortly before midnight. Mayor Ed Watkins noted a main water line break cut off supply to wells and the tower, leaving residents reliant on lanterns and candles until power returned.
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Curious Lull In Viet Nam Brings Sparse Fighting Across South
Viet Cong battalions withdrew into hiding on New Year’s Day as ground fighting quieted across South Viet Nam. A major action centered on Hau Nghia Province yielded 125 killed and 63 captured with weapons seized. Air activity dropped, pilots logged 267 sorties, while 290 Marine patrols reported little contact and ships shelled suspected sites under a 30 hour cease fire.
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South Viet Nam
Hau Nghia
1St Corps
Viet Nam
Air Force
Aarold Brown
Southeast Asia
BS2
Guam
Salt River floods Phoenix halts Interstate 10 and splits city
A record Salt River flood hammered central Arizona after New Year releases, flooding riverbed homes and washing out a 100 foot section of Interstate 10. About 8,000 people sought shelter. 1,700 remained displaced. Gas lines ruptured. Phoenix area power cut across miles. Gila River also flooded in eastern Arizona with no evacuations.
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Ariz
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Salt River Valley
Carl Pastorino
Scottsdale
Salt River Project
Arizona
Gila
Safford-Clifton
New Mexico
Goldberg Sent To See Wilson
Arthur J. Goldberg, Johnsons special envoy, flies in from Paris to meet Prime Minister Harold Wilson on Viet Nam. W. Averell Harriman meets President Tito in Yugoslavia as part of peace-seeking Viet Nam missions.
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Arthur J. Goldberg
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Paris
Harold Wilson
Viet Nam
W. Averell Harriman
Tito
Yugoslavia
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Balkan
White House
Goldberg
Charles de Gaulle
France
Pope Paul VI
Vatican
Paul
Pope Paul
Presi
Pope appeals to Moscow Peking to end Viet Nam war
Vatican sources say Pope Paul VI sent New Year messages to Moscow Peking Hanoi and Saigon urging leaders of the Soviet Union China and the two Vietnams to negotiate an end to the Viet Nam conflict. The pope also conveyed a message to President Johnson via Ambassador Goldberg and urged a Christmas cease fire and sincere negotiations.
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Saigon
Pope Paul
Red China
Nikolai Podgorny
Mao Tze-tung
Chirf
Ho Chi Minh
Nuuyen van Thieu
Paul
Weather Outlook for Miami Valley Through Sunday
The Weather Bureau predicts continued unseasonably warm, cloudy conditions with occasional rain through Sunday. Nighttime lows around 0 and daytime highs near 50 degrees are forecast, with little change in temperature.
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Miami Valley
Weather Bureau
Explosion of Some Kind Hits Natchez Mayor’s Store
Natchez Mississippi firemen guard the smouldering supermarket owned by Mayor John Nosser after a Friday night explosion and blaze. Police say explosion origin. no fire bomb evidence. State fire marshals to investigate with losses estimated between 500000 and 1 million. insurance partial. Nosser’s home was bombed in 1964 amid Ku Klux Klan blame. no arrests.
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Natchez, Miss
John Nosser
J.T. Robinson
Albert Cameron
Nosser
Coup topples Dacko in Bangui as Central Africa shifts power
In Bangui Col Bokaesa led a swift coup d etat forcing President David Dacko to house arrest. Paratroops seized the Bangui radio station cutting communications as shots rang out. The palace fell after gendarmerie guards yielded. Casualties reported with French presence noted.
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Banqui
Central African Republic
David Dacko
Bokaesa
Dacko
Bangui
Ex-French President Auriol Dies at 81 in Paris
Vincent Auriol, 81, who led France from 1947 to 1954, died after a hip wound from a fall at his Riviera home. He had opposed German capitulation in World War II, fled captivity, joined de Gaulle in London, and became the first president of the Fourth Republic in 1947.
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Paris
Vincent Auriol
France
Auriol
Riviera
Charles de Gaulle
London
Chuckle prandnch wr pencede a song watch out the
The fragment reads as a playful note about a song sketch or prank. Distinct names or dates are not present to establish a concrete event or people involved. The text remains partly unreadable and lacks clear actions or outcomes.
Bethlehem Steel raises prices amid government dispute
Bethlehem Steel announced higher charges for structural steel shapes and piling, about five dollars a ton, affecting 7 percent of the U S steel market. President Johnson urged a meeting with Bethlehem officials while economist Gardner Ackley called the move inflationary. Bethlehem claimed costs justify the rise and said jumbo sections would drop in price, with Armco and others studying the impact.
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Bethlehem Steel Corp
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Council of Economic Advisers
Bethlehem
Gardner Ackley
Ackley
Texas Ranch
Edward D. Bickford
Armco Steel Corp
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