Two More Americans Missing In Viet Nam Controversy Delays Funds
Complaints about the quality of Louisianas anti poverty program leaders have delayed federal funds. Office of Economic Opportunity says investigations are underway. Governor McKeithens appointees include Shelby Jackson a segregationist at 12000 dollars and Champ Baker a real estate dealer at 15000 dollars. McKeithen defends the picks noting poverty program must be administered without discrimination. He says federal money and jobs may hinge on government stance.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Office of Economic Opportunity
Washington
John McKeithen
Shelby Jackson
Jackson
McKeithen
Champ Baker
Alexandria
Baker
Spotter Plane Downed Near Laos Border
Two Americans aboard a spotter plane are missing after a reconnaissance flight from Da Nang. An air search is under way in central Viet Nam near the Laotian border. A Marine battalion recovered an Army crewman’s body from a helicopter shot down near Saigon as fighting around Binh Gia continues. Casualties include 11 Americans wounded and 2 presumed captured, with Vietnamese dead estimates rising. French officials in Paris suggest neutrality for South Viet Nam as a path to end fighting, while de Gaulle advocates Southeast Asia neutralization.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
U.S
da Nang
Binh Gia
Paris
Red China
West
Indochina Peninsula
Dien Bien Phu
United States
Charlies de Gaulle
Southeast Asia
Welcome 1965 With Revelry And High Hope
The world welcomed 1965 with religious services revelry and family reunions and hope for peace. In Times Square a huge crowd cheered as midnight rang in the new year. Police unsure but estimates ranged 250000 to 300000.
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New York
Times Square
No Holiday Seen For Victims In Western Floods
In five western states flood victims and rescuers labored under threatening skies. Civil Defense officials in Yreka Calif mourned missing New Year celebrations as helicopters delivered food medicine and blankets to 300 to 500 stranded residents. Army and Marine crews resumed airlifts to isolated towns after days of heavy snow and flooding.
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San Francisco
California
Klamath National Forest
Yreka
Red Cross
Jones
Santa Claus
Milt Mayer
United Air Lines
Army
Marine
Felony Trials Set Next Week In Fourth District Court
Sixteen defendants scheduled for jury trials in the first session of the new year face charges including forgery narcotics possession simple burglary theft and related offenses. Trials span Monday through Friday with individual defendants named and charges listed.
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Fourth District Court
Allen Ross
Short 7Th St
Monroe
Hazel Sterling
O Brien
Lake Charles
James William Garner
Adams St
William Frederick Smith
Marx St
Henry Low Duncan
Willie Earl Hampton
Pine St
Herbert ‘Little Son’ Honeycutt
Herman St
West Monroe
Joan Lawrence Bullock
S. 26Th St
Melvin Cooper
DeSiard
Herbert Wadley
Apt
Foster Homes
Billy Mack McCoy
Lilac St
Joe DeRoche
S. 5Th St
Larry Randel Brasher
Splane Dr
James Oliver Davis
Harold Griffin
Rt. 1
Wilmer
Ala
Jack Jackson
Pink St
Unity Elusive For GOP and Dems in 1965
Washington AP reports that party unity remains elusive for both Republicans and Democrats in 1965. GOP conservatives and progressives threaten a Jan 22 23 showdown over Dean Burch's fate, while Johnson seeks a broad consensus to push his Great Society agenda despite internal pressures from ADA budget demands labor taft hartley and reform factions.
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Washington
National Committee
Dean Burch
Johnson
Great Society
Americans For Democratic Action
Congress
Senate
House Rules Committee
Labor
Boy hunter wins first deer with father in Union Parish
Bill Phillips, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Phillips of 105 Browning Street West Monroe, ended 1964 by killing his first deer a four pointer. He brought down the buck with one shot while hunting with his father in Union Parish.
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Bill Phillips
F. A. Phillips
Browning St
West Monroe
Bill
Union Parish
Sheriff Bailey Grant Birthday Celebration Today
Sheriff Bailey Grant marks New Year Day and his birthday in 1965, celebrating with good humor as he rounds 39 plus. The lighthearted notice wishes him a happy birthday while noting the date and cheer.
Carnival Spirit: 65th Mummers Parade in Philadelphia
About 15 000 costumed marchers greet the New Year in the 65th Mummers Parade along Broad Street with four miles of entries. Prizes total 66 500 dollars across string bands fan cy clubs and comic clubs. Blackface is banned federally for the second year, with 1 500 police on duty. The broadcast runs noon to 1 30 p m Eastern.
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Philadelphia
Weather Bureau
Broad Street
ABC
New South Philadelphia
City Hall
South Philadelphia
Traffic Deaths Through Nation Below Normal
Traffic deaths in the extended New Year weekend ran below the normal rate for a nonholiday period. Officials reported 29 highway fatalities by Thursday 6 local time, far under the 52 for the Christmas period, with the National Safety Council estimating 300 to 360 more deaths may occur by midnight Sunday. The Christmas weekend toll last year reached 578, a record for a three-day holiday, while 1961's New Year three-day count was 337 and a AP survey showed 396 fatalities in a three-day December weekend.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Blazier Child First For 1965
Mr and Mrs Johnny E Blazier of West Monroe welcomed one of the first 1965 babies in the Twin Cities a girl born at Glenwood Hospital shortly before 5 am Another baby boy born to Mr and Mrs J Norman Coon of Monroe at St Francis Hospital just after 7 am A girl born to Mr and Mrs Theo Burkett May of West Monroe arrived just before 8 am A girl born to Mr and Mrs George Jett of Monroe at E A Conway Memorial Hospital shortly before 8 am
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Johnny E. Blazier
West Monroe
Twin Cities
Glenwood Hospital
J. Norman Coon
Monroe
St. Francis Hospital
Glenwood
Theo Burkett May
George Jett
E. A. Conway Memorial Hospital
Rice combine costs 14000 with diesel engine and cab
Baytown rice farmer R D Burnside Jr adds a new $14,000 rice combine to his equipment. The machine features a diesel engine glass enclosed cab a car radio and air conditioning.
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Baytown, Tex
UPI
R. D. Burnside Jr
Baytown
Lord Wilson Dies English War Hero at 83
Lord Wilson a World War II field marshal famed for the Army of the Nile duties in Egypt died Thursday at age 83. Born in Suffolk England he rose from Eton to military service and earned multiple decorations in the Boer War and World War I.
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Lord Wilson
London
Egypt
Henry Maitland Wilson
Britain
Allied Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Suffolk County
England
Wilson
Eton
South Africa
Sir Archibald P. Wavell
Suez Canal
Italian thrust into Egypt and WWII campaigns
Wilson led outnumbered troops in Egypt, drove the invaders 450 miles in 57 days. He earned praise from Sir Winston Churchill as one of our finest tacticians. He fought in the Syrian campaign against Vichy France in 1941 and later commanded the British 9th Army in Palestine and Syria. He became supreme commander of the Mediterranean in January 1944 during Eisenhower's recall to Britain.
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Egypt
Wilson
Sir Winston Churchill
Palestine
Syria
Mediterranean
Dwight D. Eisenhower
England
Europe
Spring Weather Expected In Area This Week
The first days of 1965 are forecast to feel like spring with partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures through Saturday. Early morning fog will occur for the next couple of days. Highs today and Saturday should reach 75 to 80 in Monroe and surrounding areas, with tonight’s lows 60 to 64 and southerly winds at 8 to 18 mph.
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Monroe
Locust Grove opens as public site in Louisville
Louisville is now home to Locust Grove, the public opening of the James Clark homestead linked to famed explorer George Rogers Clark. The site offers a window into early American history and the Clark family legacy in Kentucky.
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Louisville
George Rogers Clark
Monroe officials back re study of U. S. 165 by pass junction
Monroe officials and State Highway Department leaders agreed to a re study of traffic at the proposed U S 165 by pass and U S 80 intersection. James W Moore urged Baton Rouge to widen U S 80 and push for rapid completion of the by pass to Sterlington Road.
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Sterlington Road
Moore
A. A. Braddock
W. L. “Jack” Howard
W. D. H. Rodriguez
George Whitlow
Monroe
James C. Kelly Jr
Louisville-DeSiard
Highway Department
U.S. 80
Baton Rouge
Howard
Two Boys Discuss Dancing at Louisville Country Club
In Louisville two 10 year old boys talk about dance classes at the Louisville Country Club. One says he likes dancing while the other dislikes the politeness surrounding it.
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Louisville
Louisville Country Club
Youth amputations per Ronald Baker's brave recovery
In Los Angeles sixteen year old Ronald Baker undergoes surgery to amputate his left legs after doctors diagnose cancer beneath the knee. He had previously fled to avoid amputation but returned home on Christmas Eve. The operation at Orthopaedic Hospital on New Year’s Eve lasted under two hours with a stable prognosis and a cheerful recovery noted by observers. His mother Lois Eisenbeiss remained at his side as he recovered from anesthesia.
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Los Angeles
Ronald Baker
Ronald
Flagstaff
Ariz
Orthopaedic Hospital
Hiis
Lois Eisenbeiss
Sibelius Year Commemoration Marked by Johnson
President Johnson announced the start of Sibelius Year to honor Finnish composer Jean Sibelius on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. He praised Sibelius as a contributor to global culture and the enrichment of the human spirit.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Sibelius
Jan Sibelius
Burglars imitate police broadcasts in San Francisco area
In South San Francisco two young burglars seized a stolen police transmitter and disrupted broadcasts by alternating between imitating official police messages and calling out "Car 54 where are you?" before they were captured.
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San Francisco
Calif
UPI
Regar
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