Forces Strike to Cut Off Viet Cong Escape Routes
U S Marines, supported by air power, press Harvest Moon sweep 350 miles northeast of Saigon to sever Viet Cong escape routes. Air strikes and river lifts near Viet Nam battlefront target Da Nang area as casualties rise on both sides with hundreds of enemy dead reported and 27 Marine deaths listed by Pentagon.
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South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
U.S
Enterprise
Saigon
da Nang
Rice Valley
Theommander
Marine Taskoree
Jonas Platt
Viet N
Washington
Pentagon
Twin Cities Weather Outlook With Showers
Weather report for the Twin Cities notes mostly cloudy skies with light showers through Wednesday. Highs near 84 dropping to 70, warmer tonight around 50s. Drought rain recorded at Seiman Field totals about 0.12 inches since Monday night. Monday high 61, low 51, variable winds 5 to 15 mph.
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Twin Cities
FAA
Seiman Field
Demo Expects GI Benefits Bill Passage
Washington AP reports Rep. Olin E Teague predicts early approval of a Viet Nam GI bill extending education and home buying benefits to veterans with more than 180 days active service since 1955 Senate already approved. Administration opposition centers on cost with estimates in the hundreds of millions in year one.
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Washington
Olin E. Teague
Viet Nam
Teague
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Waxahachie
Tex
Congress
Senate
Revenue Bond Election Set February 8th
Monroe City Council moved to vote February 8 on a 15.7 million revenue bond issue to expand water and electrical systems. The plan includes a 66,000 KW generator to raise capacity to 165,500 KW, street lighting funds, a new customer collection office, and a 30 year bond to be retired from utility revenue with no new taxes.
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Monroe
W. L. Howard
Monroe Utilities Commission
Utilities Commission
David Kaplan
Howard
St. John and Grammont
Utilities Collecton
Commission
Government Center
Northside
Riley Buick
Plum Street
Tom Keller
Schools Prepare For Yale Holiday
Monroe and Ouachita Parish along with parochial schools plan Christmas break with noon dismissals next Tuesday for the parish and Wednesday for the city and parochial schools. Nearly 30,000 students affected including 17,826 parish, 10,701 city, 1,127 parochial, plus 26 at Cerebral Palsy School. Supt Milton C Hall announced dates and safety reminders urging motorists to exercise extreme caution during the holidays. Northeast Louisiana State College classes end at noon Saturday with a return January 3 for all students.
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Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Milton C. Hall
Quachita Parish
Hall
van Dodom and
Odom
Northeast Louisiana State College
You Can't Reduce By Talking About One Chuckle
A playful line notes that progress or change comes from restraint and silence rather than overtalk. It hints at a humorous reflection on communication and discretion without naming individuals or events.
Missing Director of Space Medicine Sought in Mountain Flight
About 30 New Mexico aircraft joined the search for Dr W Randolph Lovelace II his wife Mary and pilot Milton Brown after a Sunday Aspen to Albuquerque flight vanished over the Rockies Weather grounded planes in Colorado and CAP state and Air Force units coordinated with Colorado Springs search headquarters as crews checked weather from Aspen to Albuquerque and prepared more aircraft.
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Albuquerque
N.M
New Mexico
Colorado
U.S
Aspen
Colo
W. Randolph Lovelace II
Mary
Milton Brown
Cutter Flying Service
Cutter
New Mexico Civil Air Patrol
CAP
Colorado Springs
Aspen- Albuquerque
New Goodfellows Deadline Is Set
Campaign officials set a December 20 deadline for letters seeking aid due to high request volume. Jack Hesketh, Monroe city recreation director and head of the Goodfellows Drive, said the date allows workers to review requests before Christmas Eve basket distributions as requests keep pouring in from across the Twin Cities.
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Goodfellows
Jack Hesketh
Monroe City
Goodfellows Drive
Twin Cities
Christmas Aid Rolls In From Goodfellows Drive
Donations totaling 5149.93 are acknowledged from individuals and businesses in Monroe and surrounding areas to support the Christmas Goodfellows fund. The drive aims to reach a 6500 goal with Monroe and West Monroe Junior Chambers and Jaycees processing requests for baskets of food clothing and toys for the needy. Residents request help for an elderly widow a mother of two boys a West Monroe family with three children and a Monroe family with four children. Contributions should be sent to News Star World Monroe.
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Quachita Parish
Monroe and
West Monroe
South Side
Monroe
The
Goodfellows
News-Star—World
N. 4Th St
Gemini 6 cleared for third launch attempt by Air Force board
An Air Force flight safety panel conditionally cleared Gemini 6 for a third launch attempt by Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford to achieve a space rendezvous with Gemini 7. Engineers fixed a plastic stopper and an electrical plug issue, and weather conditions were go.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Air Force Flight Safety Review Board
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Frank Borman
James Lovell
Ben J. Funk
Air Force Space Systems Division
CST
Titan
Borman
Lovell
Gordon Cooper
Johnson Hosts Ayub Khan in Washington Talks
President Johnson welcomed Pakistan President Ayub Khan for two days of consultations to deepen a friendship strained by differences. In Texas Tommy Nobis signed with the Atlanta Falcons for about 225000. Chicago Eddie Stankey named manager of the White Sox on a three year deal around 40000 yearly. Belgrade US announces 57 million in new credit grants to Yugoslavia.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Pakistan
Presistan
Ayub Khan
Austin
Tex
Tommy Nobis
Texas
Atlanta Falcons
National Football League
St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago White Sox
Stankey
al Lopez
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
United States
North winds push teens into subzero western plains
The Associated Press reports north winds drive temperatures into the 9s below zero across the western plains. Heavy snow and ice affected parts of Kansas and Nebraska, snarling travel and raising weather concerns.
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Associated Press
Plains
Kansas
Nebraska
Former State Solon Facing Trial In 1966
A mistrial was declared in the wire tapping case of former East Baton Rouge Sen. Wendell Harris and private investigator Lawrence Hall. Judge Herbert Christenberry cited improper conduct by Harris attorney Jack N. Rogers, halting the two day old trial. Harris and Hall face five counts of tapping conversations between pro integration leaders and clergy in 1961. retrial will occur after the new year.
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Rogers
Christenberry
E. Gordon West
Baton Rouge
Wade Mackie
American Friends Service Committee
Louisiana
Mackie
Harris
Hall
Betwen Mackie
Marvin Reznikoff
Irvin Chaney
Broadmoore Baptist Church
Thomas Glaze
Benton requests audit findings on Shelby Jackson
BATON ROUGE AP A Louisiana Department of Education official asked the Legislative Auditor for findings in a legislative audit of the final year of former state Superintendent Shelby M. Jackson’s administration. Assistant superintendent B Byron Benton Jr said the department had requested the audit when Supt. Dodd took office on April 22. He noted no formal written notice had been received to date. Benton sought information on expenditures funded by Act 73 of 1961 for Americanism seminars for public high school students.
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Benton
Legislative
J. B. Lancaster
Jackson
Rusk Seeks Allied Backing for Vietnam War Effort
Paris AP Secretary of State Dean Rusk urged allied nations to bolster support for the American Vietnam war effort. He warned that a Communist victory in Vietnam could threaten the North Atlantic alliance and invite new Communist actions elsewhere.
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Paris
U.S
Dean Rusk
Viet Nam
Rusk
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Nguyen van Thieu
Bic
Ifce
Louisiana Extension Service
University of Ilinois
Yale
Space Medicine
Air Force
Orlando Air Force Base
Fla
Peterson Field
Estes Park
Boulder
Denver
Durango
Montrose
Fort Morgan
Grand Junction
Dr. and Mrs. Randolph Lovelace
New Goodfellows
Friends of Goodfellows
Acknow
Roy C. Cash
Thomas
Gail
Dorothy
Walter Veach
Lance Drever
Turpin Builders Supply of
Monroe, Inc
H. D. Hunt
F. G. Hudson Jr
Walter C. Smith
Phillip E. Wheeler
Cora Edwards
J. D. Higdon
David Blaine
F. M Goldsmith
J. Blaine Brown
Effie Davis
KRG
the Literary Guild
RB L Wood
J. H
Savage
Delta Airlines. Inc
W. B. Corry
W. C. Bridges
Joe A. Moses
H. Mickel
Pat Mickel
D. C Silverstein
C. E. Barton
Roy Q. Cole
Jesse Cobb
C. T. Baird
Shellie Rodgers
Ellen Annie Nellie Nobes
Herbert H
Grandpa” Nobes
Gemini 6
LBJ
Ayub
Atlanta
Chicago
Eddie Stankey
New Credit
Solon
Shelby Jackson
Santa
Cushman Scooter
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