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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1965
Page
3
Saigon story portrays U S soldiers in Viet Nam as evolving beings marked by fatigue fear humor and grief. The piece follows 1st Infantry Division and 11th Airborne Brigade men after nine days in jungle and rubber plantations 40 miles northwest of Saigon.
Northeast Louisiana forecast clear to partly cloudy today tonight and Tuesday. A little colder tonight. High today 44 to 52, lows 25 to 30. Tuesday highs 48 to 56, lows 25 to 30. Louisiana Delta forecast fair today tonight, then clear to partly cloudy Tuesday. No important temperature changes. Outlook: Wednesday fair and rather cool. Mid-South summary: fair cold weather continues, highs upper 40s, temperatures 20s to 30s tonight, hard freezing likely, Tuesday fair and cold.
Civil rights advocates plan to resume picketing of white merchants in Natchez and Fayette after a quiet Christmas weekend. Negro leader Charles Evers said the pickets would stay at their posts until resistance to desegregation demands is broken.
Republican leaders ahead of the November elections criticize President Johnsons Viet Nam policy and domestic programs. Former Vice President Nixon says administration conduct fuels voter discontent and could boost GOP wins. Ford foresees manpower and spending matches to Korea. Romney blasts federal policy as inflationary and fears a move to a controlled economy. Nixon says he toured the nation and is convinced 1966 can be a Republican year.
A chaotic roundup notes TV boss salaries in 1971 amid NBC severance, Lindsay campaign insider chatter, and a flood of Hollywood social minutiae. It references Bob Kintner, Joe Culligan, Mike Quill, Bill Paley, Jungle Jim Aubrey, Elaine Lorillard, Ray Eberle, Helen Forrest, and others in a brisk, salon-style critique of public figures, parties, and media trends during year end.
Twin Cities readers react to a feature on recluse spiders by Don Rhodes. Mrs C H Whitaker seeks local help identifying a recluse brown with violin markings found behind a sofa at 1505 Fairview, Monroe. Eddie L Johnson, son of Cora M Johnson, has risen to technical sergeant in the U S Air Force stationed at Bentwaters RAF England. Johnson, a Ouachita Parish High School graduate, earned a BS from the University of Tampa. his wife Sara is daughter of A Fitzgerald of Lakeland Florida.
The Peking Peoples Daily accused the United States and the Soviet Union of coordinating to block China from UN membership. It claimed Washington and Moscow bargained behind the scenes on Viet Nam, the Dominican Republic, Rhodesia, and other issues, while Gro yko met with Rusk in secret talks.
In Greenville Mississippi a group of University of Pennsylvania students begin carpentry to erect a community center costing 10900 dollars for striking Negro farm workers living in a tent city near the city.
Kanarraville residents raised over 10000 to connect a road to the I 15 barrier but the U S Bureau of Public Roads refused access. A soldier named Dale Cornelieus on leave from Fi Ord California slipped on the top barbed wire in freezing weather and fell into the snow near the fence. He walked home through eight inches of snow, unharmed, as Mayor James Cornelieus urged action to prevent future danger and save residents from isolation.
In 1865 Governor Henry W. Allen urged end to resistance as the Confederacy fell. Now Dixie reconsiders the Confederate flag amid widespread desecration in clothing and imagery. South Carolina Senator Earle Morris Jr plans a bill to grant the Stars and Bars the same protection as the national flag. Other Dixie states may follow.
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