Johnson faces choices on escalating Vietnam war
President Johnson walks a lonely road as debates over stepping up U S involvement in Vietnam grow louder. McNamara warns of a long road ahead as troop levels rise toward possibly 300000, while critics urge bombing North Vietnam risking broader conflict with China. The UN calls for a 1967 world disarmament conference with China invited, and De Gaulle labels the war stupid while signaling France will act on its own terms.
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Hanoi
Red China
United Nations General Assembly
United States
Soviet Union
Six Children Die As Home Burns in Pennsylvania
A fire tore through a wooden house three miles west of Quakertown Pennsylvania killing six children. A seventh child was hospitalized with burns from the blaze at the home of Chester Allen Sr. in sub freezing cold. Chester Allen Jr. identified the deceased as his brothers Eric 1 and David 21.
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Quakertown
Pennsylvania
Chester Allen Sr
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David
Diplomas Awarded To Carpenters In Paragon Club Event
Six area men received graduate diplomas from the carpenter apprentice school at a Paragon Club ceremony. The new journeymen carpenters are Walter W. Moore Start Joe A. Murray Larry D. Moss David Brown Marvin D. Money and Richard Sims. The dinner meeting was sponsored by the Joint Apprenticeship Committee with representatives from the Northeast Louisiana Contractors Association A G C Inc and the Northeast Louisiana District Council of Carpenters. Curtis Luttrell Louisiana commissioner of labor was principal speaker.
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Walter W. Moore
Start
Joe A. Murray
8Th St
Monroe
Larry D. Moss
Butler Ave
West Monroe
David ©. Brown
Farmerville
Marvin D. Money
Rayville
Richard
Fire destroys one story home with family inside
A family of eight including Jack Jones 2, Robin Jones 8, Penny Jones 6, Ronnie Jones Chester Jr 19, wife Elaine, sister Elizabeth 17, and mother returned to a house to find flames racing up a wall and consuming the single story structure.
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Robin Jones
Penny Jones
Ronnie Jones Chester Jr
Elaine
Elizabeth
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