25 Jul 1966
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1966
Page
1
Dorothy and Ella are tropical storms in the Atlantic with no immediate risk to land. The AP dispatch notes their current location and movement, but no land areas are under warning or threat at this time.
Dorothy, the season's fourth tropical storm, churns at 75 mph with its center about 1,200 miles east of Bermuda and no land threat expected. Ella, a disorganized tropical storm, lies 800 miles east southeast of San Juan with 50 mph winds and likely to slow as it moves northwest.
U.S. Marines evacuate 71 wounded from a hilltop ambush south of the DMZ in Vietnam. Helicopters hovered through heavy fire to lift the most critically injured aboard steel litter baskets, while jets and armed helicopters strafed enemy positions. A bayoneted survivor crawled to safety after his unit was overrun.
Irene King, 26, of Paris Texas, recently had three heart valves replaced after a battle with rheumatic heart disease. She left St. Paul Hospital Dallas with the valve sounds marking the July 6 operation and hopes to resume caring for her husband Thomas and children Tommy Bobby and Jimmy. A 1961 Portuguese promise related to Angolan Africans is noted in the report.
Descendants of the Hester Henry and Horton families held their third annual reunion at Northeast Louisiana Shrine Club on Cheniere Lake, with officers named for 1966 67 and many members from towns including Tallulah Bernice Arcadia Shreveport Monroe and others attending from Louisiana and Texas.
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