Plane crash kills Roberto Clemente and four others
A four engine DC7 cargo plane carrying Pirates star Roberto Clemente and four others crashed into the Atlantic after takeoff from San Juan en route to Managua. Coast Guard searches found wreckage with no survivors. Clemente, 38, headed Puerto Rico relief efforts for Nicaragua quake survivors and had been due to depart Sunday.
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San Juan
P.R
Pittsburgh Pirates
Roberto Clemente
Nicaragua
Atlantic
U.S. Coast Guard
San Juan I International
Managua
Caribbean
Clemente
Puerto Rico
Jerry Geisel
Arthur Rivera
Rafael Macias
Lozano
Rafael
Macias
Coast Guard
Vera Cristina
Melchor
Star
Amadee Chardon
San Juan International
The
Pirates
Baltimore Orioles
Social Security law increases benefits and taxes
A new Social Security measure signed by President Nixon raises wage subject to Social Security tax from 9000 to 10808 and tax rate from 5.2 to 5.85 percent. It expands benefits for widows, allows earning without benefit loss, equalizes spousal retirement, and tightens Medicare Part B deductibles. It also requires Social Security numbers on school entry and lowers disability waiting from six to five months.
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Washington
Nixon
Monroe Charter Reform and City Projects Highlight 1973
The Monroe Charter Commission seeks a single-member district council and the Downtown Monroe Project Action Committee aims to create a pedestrian mall. A Monroe Municipal Airport Authority is discussed to spur aviation industry, and garbage disposal reforms are proposed. Judge William Norris UHI, newly sworn for a six-year term, appears in several notable biographical publications.
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Monroe Charter Commission
Monroe Project Action Committee
Monroe Municipal Airport Authority
West Monroe
William Norris Uhi
John McCormick
America
South
Dictionary of International Biography
Former Bastrop Attorney Hawthorne Dies at Arkansas Camp
Harry Singleton Hawthorne 64, Bastrop city attorney for 36 years, died Sunday night at his camp near Wilmot Arkansas after an apparent heart attack. He helped bring Bastrop an airport and shaped many ordinances. He was LSU Law School graduate and served in bar associations and Kiwanis. Funeral arrangements by Golden Funeral Home. Survivors include his widow Priscilla, son Harry Hawthorne Jr. and daughter Vicki Irby.
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Bastrop
Louisiana State University Law School
Mme. Hawthorne
Southern Methodist University
Louisiana State and American Bar Associations
Bastrop Kiwanis Club
Morehouse Parish
Golden Funeral Home
Priscilla Uawthorne
Harry Hawthorne Jr
Vicki H. Irby
Justice F. W. Hawthorne
Monroe
Col
Frank Hawthorne
Tawton
Okla
Bombing Halt Expanded Over North Vietnam As Cease-fire Starts
Saigon reports U S halt to bombing now covers Hanoi and Haiphong plus all North Vietnam from the 20th parallel to the DMZ. The 24 hour South Vietnamese cease-fire ends at dusk Monday and Paris peace talks resume January 8. Prisoner reports from Peking quote pilots urging end to war. Casualties include five government soldiers killed five missing 36 wounded with six North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed.
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Saigon
United States
Hanoi-Haiphon
North Vietnam
U.S
Carl Herbert Jefcoat
Vietnam
William Walter Conlee
Hungary
MTI
Jefcoat
Mississippi
Conlee
Illinois
Paul Louis Granger
John Harry Yuill
Blood Donations Keeping Boy Alive
Nine year old Mark Willien of Knoxville Tennessee remains alive thanks to weekly plasma donations from Houston insurance salesman Peter Reinthaler. Doctors found a matching donor mother and then others to provide the infection fighting elements Mark lacks. Plasma is frozen and returned with blood cells replaced, enabling weekly transfusions to combat germs that could kill him.
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Houston
UPI
Mark Willien
Knoxville
Tenn
Mark
Peter Reinthaler
Reinthaler
Williens
Reinthalers
Texas Children’s Hospital
Copilot May Know Details Of Jet Crash
An extra copilot may be the last living link to the Eastern Air Lines crash near Miami that killed at least 97 of 178 aboard. First Officer Warren Tey, 38, listed as an observer, was in hospital unable to talk, with investigators unsure of his exact location in the cockpit at the moment of impact.
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Miami
Eastern Air Lines
Everglades
Warren Tey
Terry
Eastern
Palmetto Hospital
Ed Slattery
National Transportation Safety Board
Slattery
NTSB
New York
Joh. H. Reed
Orleans sniper gunfire kills cadet and wounds two officers
In New Orleans late Sunday a sniper killed 19 year old police cadet Alfred Harrell as he spoke with Lt. Horace Perez. Perez was wounded in the ankle and released after treatment. Patrolman Edwin Hosh was then seriously wounded in a separate warehouse incident while Officers Harold Blappert assisted the investigation. No link between the two shootings was indicated.
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New Orleans
Alfred Harrell
Horace Perez
Central
Harrell
Perez
Edwin Hosh
Harold Blappert
Wet year forecast for Twin Cities area in 1973
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy and cold weather through Tuesday with a chance of rain. Highs in the 50s, lows in the 40s, wind northeast to east at 8 to 18 mph, with 30 to 50 percent rain chances. Rain expected Wednesday after a dry Sunday, then clearing Thursday and fair Friday.
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Twin - Cities
Funday
FAA
Monroe Municipal
Britain Joins Europe Market Today
London reports Britain joining Europe’s Common Market, ending a millennium of economic independence. A public opinion poll shows divisions with 35 percent in favor 7 percent opposed and 23 percent undecided.
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London
Britain
Europe
George Dowles
Brussels
Robert Wheatley
Ireland
Denmark
I*rance
West Germany
Italy
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
United States
Copenhagen
New Year Welcomes 1973 Amid Big City Celebrations
Across the nation crowds greeted the New Year in Times Square New York Chicago and Los Angeles. Police noted noisy gatherings despite curbs and safety officials warned of traffic dangers with an expected 430 to 4530 fatalities nationwide. The Times Square ball marked the final minute of 1972 one second late due to atomic time adjustments.
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New York
Times Square
Forest Lawn
Los Angeles
National Safety Council
Allied Chemical
Husband reports wife is really her in joke
A humorous note claims a husband says his wife is really herself when he uses the checkbook. The punchline has the wife prompting him with Write on as he writes checks.
Rose Parade Cast Led by Nixon and John Wayne
Mrs. Richard M. Nixon and actor John Wayne head the 4th annual Rose Parade cast in Pasadena. One million spectators and a 300 million TV audience are expected. High winds delayed floats. first float positioned at 10 15 p.m. Violence broke out overnight with one death and multiple arrests as officers were attacked. Wayne chosen grand marshal for the movieland themed Tournament of Roses.
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Pasadiena
Calif
Richard M. Nixon
John Wayne
James K. Marshall
Lflower
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Southern California
Ohio State
Wayne
Movieland
Nixon Faces Challenges On Major Issues
Washington AP report on a new Congress ready to clash with President Nixon over war funding and federal spending. Key fights center on Vietnam policy, revenue sharing, taxes, health care, price controls, and government reorganization. Senate and House maneuver for power, reform, and reduced spending.
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Washington
Harry S Truman
Senate
House
Nixon
Sen
Robert ©. Byrd
Paris
Byrd
Congress
Committee Oon
Mike Mansfield
Dmont
Drgvest Fiehts Beteween
Ninon
Twin Cities Welcome First New Year Infant
Robert Floyd McCain Jr born at St. Francis Hospital Monroe Arkansas at 4 36 AM to Robert Floyd McCain and wife The nine pound two ounce baby carries the first New Year baby title for the twin cities The family traveled from Womett Arkansas to claim the honor and press time lists him as the only newborn so far this year in the area
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Twin Cities
Robert Floyd McCain Jr
St. Francis Hospital
Robert Floyd McCain
Monroe
Irom Womet
Ark
Gene
Aft
Rahen
Pwin
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