Icy Weather Extends Into South Areas
Bitter cold spreads across the nation as Arctic air brings snow sleet and icy rain. Travel warnings issued from the Northwest to the Northeast while the South faces hazardous driving with rain and freezing temperatures across many areas.
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Associated Press
Mercury
Tennesseay St
Chicago
Boston
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Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Dacia
St International Falls
Minn
Key West
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Nation
Rostan
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World Hopes For Peace As 1968 Begins
Nations call for peace as 1968 starts. Johnson quietly spends New Year’s Eve at the White House and joins a peace prayer. Revelers mark the year in New York and around the globe amid new year festivities, sports bowls, and political notes.
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Texas White House
Johnson City
Teton Climbers Plan New Try
A 17 member party of climbers plans another assault on Grand Teton after strong winds halted their New Year’s Eve summit bid. Twelve spent the night in a hut at 11,500 feet while five waited in Garnet Canyon snow caves. They have provisions for about five days and may delay up to a day or so before abandoning the attempt.
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New York City
Times Square
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Dallas
New Orleans
Miami
Tehran
Iran
Japan
Vietnam
Viet Nam
U.S
South Vietnam
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Caribou
Maine
Rome
Paul VI
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Moose
Wyo
Grand Teton Park
National Park Service District
Douglas McLaren
Paul Petzold
Lander
Wye
Garnet Canyon
Gunfire Flashes In Jordan River Area In New Year Tense
Israeli and Jordanian forces traded fire across the Jordan River for about two hours marking the first Middle East fighting of 1968. No casualties reported. Israel said Jordanian fire began from the east bank targeting west bank positions. Premier Eshkol to visit Washington. Eban signaled peace proposals. Brezhnev postpones Cairo visit.
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UPI
Jordan River
Middle East
Israel
West Bank
Daniah Bridge
Kfar-Ruppin
Deisan
Levi Eshkol
Washington
Johnson
Abba Eban
Cairo
al Ahram
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Moscow
Viet Cong Attacks During New Year Truce Period
The first 24 hours of the allied New Year truce saw 66 incidents with 98 Communists killed and 21 South Vietnamese soldiers killed or wounded despite no U S casualties. Viet Cong losses included 60 men in a Mekong Delta camp attack, while Marines repulsed multiple assaults near Saigon.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong Delta
Twin Cities Chit Chat Rough Riding
Seventeen River side Riders club members rode New Year’s Eve with the Will Henry Thompsons of Lamkin after a weather postponement. They began at George Snellings on Country Club road and traveled via Camp Blue Heaven to Cuba and Lamkin, dining at the Thompsons before returning to Monroe.
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Riverside Riders Club
Will Henry Thompsons
Lamkin
George Snellings
Country Club Road
Woods
Camp Blue Heaven
Bill Smith
Cuba
Chile
Thompson’s
Monroe
Prince Sihanouk Warns on Cambodia Pursuit Risks
In a Europe No. 1 radio interview Prince Norodom Sihanouk says Cambodia will protest if American or Viet Cong forces penetrate inhabited Cambodian areas in pursuit across the frontier. He warns deep U.S. incursions could trigger general conflict and asks allied aid, possibly UN involvement, and Chinese, North Korean, and Cuban volunteers if pressure worsens. He notes small Viet Minh penetrations but denies large Communist units in Cambodia.
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Paris
Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
U.S
Europe No. 1
U.N. General Assembly
Sihanouk
China
Soviet Union
France
Traffic Deaths For New Year Weekend Fall Short Of Estimates
Traffic deaths during the New Year holiday weekend totaled 265 from Friday 6 p.m. to today midnight, far below the National Safety Council forecast of 460 to 540. Weather kept some at home, while a California I-10 icy patch near McNary, Texas, caused a fatal crash and injuries.
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The
Safety Council
Chicago
Associated Press
California
Interstate 10
McNary
Tex
Rain and Cold Stretch Through Tuesday
Rain expected to increase tonight and Tuesday with a 60 percent chance. Highs near 40s and lows in the 30s prevail as a stationary frontal zone lingers over the Northern Gulf region. Monroe recorded 31 degrees overnight with Sunday peak near 42 as freezing rain occurred earlier.
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Monroe
FAA
Selman Field
Gulf
New York Bus and Subway Strike Averted After Talks
Negotiators reach a new contract after 39 hours of bargaining among the Transit Authority, the Transport Workers Union, and a mayoral mediation panel led by Theodore W. Kheel. City officials say service will continue for 7.5 million daily riders as union members vote on ratification.
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New York
UPI
New York City
Transport Workers Union
Transit Authority
Lindsay
Kidnap Suspect Held In Idaho
Dennis Guy Clark a 22 year old prison escapee with 16 prior escapes is held in maximum security at the Idaho State Penitentiary and charged with second degree kidnapping after forcing Mr. and Mrs. Charles Michael of Hammett to drive him toward Pocatello. He escaped Saturday by scaling a prison fence and was captured by Minidoka County Sheriff Theo Johnson who notes Clark previously escaped twice from that jail. Clark is serving a life sentence for habitual violation of the law imposed December 11 by Judge Sherman Bellwood.
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Boise, Idaho
Idaho State Penitentiary
Idaho
Dennis Guy Clark
Minidoka County
Theo Johnson
Clark
Johnson
Charles Michael
Hammett
Pocatello
4Th
Sherman Bellwood
Guns Silent as New Year Observed in Hong Kong
The UPI report says Communist guns were quiet on New Year’s Day while Red artillery on the Quemoy Islands is said to shell on odd numbered days and resume January 3, per the New China News Agency.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Quemoy Islands
New China News Agency
Eleven Children Perish In Two City Fire Tragedy
Fire officials report eleven children under eight killed in separate blazes within 24 hours in Wheeling West Virginia and Baltimore Maryland. Four children in Baltimore died in a duplex where a 16 year old babysitter escaped. Mothers Rosemary Smith and grandmother Rena Casey treated for shock. In Wheeling four Gonzales children and three Gosztula children perished. one infant Kenneth Gonzales survived. Firefighters fought flames as stairwell acted as a flue and interior of the building was lost.
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Associated Press
Wheeling
W. Va
Baltimore
Avere
Rosemary Smith
Rena Casey
Mo Maeester
Cynthia Gonzales
Linda Marie Gonzales
Debbie Gonzales
Johnny Gonzales
Sandra Gonzales
Mary Anne Gosztyla
Rebecca Gosztyla
Daniel Johnston
Harriet Gosztyla
Mueller
Kenneth Gonzales
New Year Stork Delivers First Babies in Monroe Area
In a close 1968 start, the first babies born at E A Conway Memorial Hospital Monroe weighed seven pounds eight ounces a son of Mack and Joyce Lynn Massey 1800 Jackson St Monroe. A seven pound five ounce daughter of Charles and Martha Edwards 601 Mississippi St Monroe followed at Conway. Glenwood Hospital West Monroe welcomed an eight pound nine and a half ounce boy to Mr and Mrs Robert Aswell 1307 N 6th St West Monroe, the largest newborn so far. St Francis Hospital reported hopeful arrivals by 9 30 a m with no baby yet.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Mack
Joyce Lynn Massey
Jackson St
E. A. Conway Memorial Hospital
Conway
Charles
Martha Edwards
Mississippi St
Glenwood Hospital
Robert Aswell
N. 6Th St
St. Francis Hospital
Pity the Poor Mothers Who Vaccinated Daughters Twenty Years Ago
A retrospective note reflects on mothers who vaccinated their daughters two decades ago in places considered unlikely to reveal the shots. The piece weighs social judgment and personal risk against public health aims.
Cape Town Doctor Seeks Donor for Second Heart Transplant
Cape Town surgeon Dr. Christian Barnard seeks a donor heart for the second human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital as 58 year old Dr. Philip Blaiberg is described gravely ill from coronary thrombosis. Barnard notes growing confidence after Washkansky’s operation and Blaiberg remains optimistic about a future transplant.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Christian Barnard
Louis Washkansky
Groote Schuur Hospital
Johannesburg
Britain
United States
Philip Blaiberg
Groote Schuur
Barnard
London
Blaiberg
Washkansky’s
Washkansky
Leon Galatis
The
Sunday Express
Adrian Kantrowitz
Brooklyn
N.Y
Sunday Times
Former Monroe Furniture Store Manager Dies
W. T. Casselman formerly of Monroe died suddenly in Shreveport late Sunday night. He had been manager of Hemenway Furniture Co in Monroe and headed the appliance department in Shreveport. Mulhearn Funeral Home Monroe to direct. Burial in Riverview Cemetery. Survivors include his widow Vera Casselman of Shreveport a daughter Carol Monk of Monroe and four grandchildren.
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W.T. Casselman
Monroe
Shreveport
Hemenway = Furniture Co
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Riverview Cemetery
Vera Casselman
Carol Monk
Premier Resigns in Cambodia Amid Cabinet Shakeup
Premier Son Sann and his cabinet resigned as Cambodia Radio reported. Observers saw possible links to Prince Sihanouk’s move toward closer ties with the United States. Diplomats noted signs of a cabinet reshuffle with no major policy shift expected.
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UPI
Son Sann
Cambodia
United States
Sihanouk
Phnom Penh
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