Dong Xoai Fight Tests Vietnamese Rangers and US Advisers
Vietnamese 52nd Ranger Battalion and two American advisers battled around Dong Xoai 60 miles north of Saigon as 1,500 Viet Cong attacked. Wounded soldiers received rifles or grenades to die fighting. helicopters landed under fire. casualties and final tolls were not fully known.
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52Nd Vietnamese
Saigon
Little Rangers
J.g
Frank Peterlin
Oglesby
Dong Xuai
Dong Xoai
Steel Arrives For Power Line Project In Area
Initial shipment of structural steel for Louisiana Power and Light Co. arrives at Waverly near Delhi to build 100 towers along a 25 mile stretch between Boeuf and Tensas Rivers. The 100 mile segment is part of a 1550 mile grid spanning 13 states from Texas to Virginia, costing about 218 million dollars. Towers will be 190 feet high with first erect in August. project aims for completion in December 1966 and interconnection with TVA for winter peak power.
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Louisiana Power and Light Co
Louisiana
Waverly
Delhi
J. W. Gaines
Lp&l
Northern Division
Boeuf River
Tensas River
Texas
Virginia
South Central Electric Companies
Tennessee Valley Authority
SCEC
TVA
Tennessee
Arkansas
Gaines
Mississippi Power & Light Company
Vicksburg
Arkansas Power & Light Company
Married Tech couple win Alabama graduate fellowships
Two Louisiana Tech graduates, Donald G. Spencer and Dorothy Tannehill Spencer of Clay and Tulles, receive Alabama graduate fellowships starting fall. Spencer, a physics instructor, earns a $3,000 renewable Capstone fellowship in nuclear physics funded by a $50,000 Lockheed gift honoring Robert E. Gross. he holds magna cum laude and an M.S. degree. Dorothy Spencer, summa cum laude 1964 graduate, receives a $1,500 Alabama scholarship with non resident tuition remission to pursue an M.S. in bacteriology.
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Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Robert E. Gross
Lockheed Board
Spencer
Tech
Dorothy Tannehill
Tulles
University of Alabama
Castro Sister Testimony Alleges Plot to Topple Cuba
Juanita Castro, sister of Cuba's prime minister, told a House subcommittee that high Cuban government officials plot to overthrow the regime. She described repression, church closures, press suppression, and persecution of Negroes, while praising U.S. actions in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic.
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Washington
Juanita Castro
House
Fidel
Miss Castro
Hemisphere
House Committee On UN
Cuba
Mexico
United States
Leg Reattachment Surgery Reestablishes 18 Year Old
Surgeons reported the grafted leg of 18 year old Oneita Jenkins from Eunice Louisiana is in very satisfactory condition after a highway crash last Tuesday. The horse she rode was killed. A five hour operation rejoined the leg using a metal pin to join bones and repair arteries and veins.
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Eunice
Oneita Jenkins
24 Hour Voting National Holiday Urged By CBS Head
CBS president Dr. Frank Stanton urged 24 hours of voting on election day and made it a national holiday during a commencement address at the California Institute of Technology. He attacked current registration and ballot procedures as needlessly difficult for citizens.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Frank Stanton
Stanton
California Institute of Technology
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Ricky
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