Lyndon Johnson laid to rest beside Pedernales River
A 10,000 strong crowd gathered beside the Pedernales in Stonewall Texas for LBJ's 50 minute burial service with Billy Graham and John Connally delivering eulogies. Mourners heard of Johnson's service in Congress and the White House as he was laid to rest after a nationwide tribute including Washington and Austin events.
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Stonewall
Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
LBJ
Pedernales
Billy Graham
Texas
John B
Johnson
Lynda
Luci
National City Christian Church
Washington
U.S. House
U.S. Senate
Austin
Bergstrom Air Force Base
White House
John F. Kennedy
Park Road
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
George McGovern
D-S.c
Edmunds, Muskie
D-Maine
Strom
Laird says POWs from Hanoi to begin next week
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announces the start of Project Homecoming to evacuate U.S. prisoners from Hanoi. More than 100 will be home within two weeks, with flights routing via Vientiane to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. The plan follows the Paris peace agreement terms for POW releases over 60 days in installments.
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Washington (Ap
Melvin R. Laird
U.S
Hano
Ana Sh
TVET
Eeeit Lk
Mairu Salu Wie
Hanoi
Clark Air Force Base
Philippines
Vieniane
Laos
Vientiane
Henry A. Kis Singer
Laird
NBC Today Show
United States
Paris
Indochina
Pentagon
Southeast Asia
Rogers To Sign Pact On Vietnam Peace Agreement
Secretary of State William P. Rogers traveled to Paris to sign a historic Vietnam peace pact. He said the accord would usher in an era of peace and that a cease-fire would take effect at 7 p.m. EST Saturday, with Laos and Cambodia potentially joining soon after. Rogers will sign 72 times in the ceremony alongside North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong provisional revolutionary government.
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Washington
William P. Rogers
Paris
Vietnam
Rogers
Andrews
Maryland
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Vietcong
Provisional Revolutionary
Laos
Cambodia
Butz predicts lower food prices amid chemical ban warnings
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz forecast lower food prices by year end despite a 4.5 percent rise expected into next summer. He warned further bans on farm chemicals could reduce efficiency and raise consumer costs, while defending higher farm incomes as a national goal.
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Butz
San Francisco
Earl L. Butz
Buzz
National Canners Association
Agriculture Department
New York
Milk Prices Rise Area Wide Driven by Poor Harvest Weather
Milk prices in the area will climb 5 to 6 cents a gallon as Class I milk rises to $7.38 per hundredweight starting Feb. 1 amid poor harvest weather. Dairy hay, soybean meal, and corn costs have spiked due to damp conditions, boosting dairy feed expenses and delaying silage harvest.
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Cincinnati Milk Sales Association, Inc
Miami
Eldie K. Vickrey
Miami Valley Milk Producers
Weather outlook with clouds and chilly weekend
Forecast calls for increasing clouds and low near freezing tonight. Saturday will be cloudy with highs in the 50s. Yesterday in Middletown the high reached 57 and the low 28. National and state forecasts appear on page 6.
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Middletown
110 Year Old Woman Dies in Washington
Anna Seeber Green aged 110 died Wednesday in Walla Walla Washington. Her long life included greetings from three presidents and a 75th wedding anniversary with her late husband.
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Walla Walla, Wash
Anna Seeber Green
War escalates as attack waves hit South Vietnam
In South Vietnam a series of raids left nearly 400 dead on both sides while U S air power delivers its heaviest strikes in eight months. At Bien Hoa Air Base a fatal rocket attack killed a Marine security guard and a helicopter was shot down near Phan Thiet. Eleven others were wounded at Bien Hoa and Da Nang air bases. The South Vietnamese command logged 112 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attacks in the 24 hours ending 6 a m Saigon time, matching the prior day’s toll as fighting persisted.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Bien Hoa
Phan Thiet
U. S
da Nang
United States
North Vietnam
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