Sixteen Miners Dead After Trapping Incident
AP report details intense clashes near the DMZ with U S Marines and South Vietnamese forces engaging 500 Communist troops for seven hours near Dong Ha. Air strikes reached a month high as casualties mounted, with 15 Marines killed and 124 wounded and 138 enemy soldiers killed. A new northern command was formed led by Lt Gen Cushman, with Lt Gen Rostron in charge of Hue northward operations.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
North Vietnam
Dong Ha
Dmz
Cua Viet River
Hue
William Westmoreland
Robert E. Cushman
Westmoreland
Army
William B. Roston
Des Moines
Iowe
Tragic Salt Mine Disaster Claims 16 Miners
Rescue squads recovered 16 of 21 salt miners dead in a marshland mine fire two days after the shaft ignition. Five miners remained missing as teams searched 1,200 feet into 80-foot high salt tunnels while families waited at a boat landing across a swamp.
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Calumet, la
Ll Uaive
Cargill Inc
Dilford Holmes
Madisonville
Clayton Tannamaker
Gulf of Mexico
Tonnamaker
Tannamaker
Senate rejects Ervin bid to kill open housing provision
The Senate voted 64 to 24 against Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. East South moves to strike the open housing clause and related anti riot measures from the civil rights package. Ervin argued for broad federal protection while opponents warned of nullifying progress. Earlier, the Senate also rejected 67 to 18 a proposal to empower federal agents to quell picket line violence.
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Washington
UPT
Senate
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Ervin
George Washington
Congress
Philip A. Hart
Dmich
Pitts pleads guilty in Vernon Dahmer rights slaying case
Billy Roy Pitts, 24, admitted murder and arson in state court in Hattiesburg. Judge Stanton Hall delayed sentencing, rescheduling for March 15. Pitts faced life for murder and up to 20 years for first degree arson, part of a Forrest County indictment against 13 defendants in the 1966 Dahmer hate-crime.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Billy Roy Pitts
Vernon Dahmer
Pitts
Stanton Hall
Hall
Forrest County
Grand
Mississippi
Cecil Sessums
Dahmer
Nightriders
Neville High to stage annual speech club play Friday
Mrs. Rita Blanchard reminded readers that the Neville High School Speech Club will present its yearly play next Friday March 15. Rehearsals are ongoing with the final dress rehearsal planned for next week.
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Neville High School
Rita Blanchard
Youth whose leg sewn back on breaks it in fall
BOSTON AP Jan Dangora a 1 year old machinist whose left leg was severed and reattached after a motorcycle crash broke the tibia four inches below the knee in a fall on ice. He had returned to work at a Natick machine shop with crutches and a wheelchair after healing.
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Boston
Jan Dangora
Boston City Hospital
Dangora
Louisiana Man Killed In Vietnam
Defense Department listings report Robert G Burns of Lake Charles Louisiana as a serviceman killed in action in Vietnam. He was the husband of Jennifer B Burns. The department identified him among the service members who died in the conflict.
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Washington
Defense Department
Louisiana
Vietnam
Spee
Robert G Burns
Lake Charles
Jennifer B. Burns
Coming Back Ouachita Parish School Supt Milton Hall
Ouachita Parish School Superintendent Milton C Hall, after surgery in New Orleans, is returning to full days at work starting Monday. He has been coming into the office in the mornings this week as he resumes duties.
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Ouachita Parish
Milton C. Hall
New Orleans
Romania Defies Soviet At Warsaw Pact Summit
At Sofia and within the Warsaw Pact gathering Romania again rejected signing a Russia backed nonproliferation treaty. Romanian delegates walked out of related meetings in Budapest last week amid criticism of U S Vietnam actions. The summit issued a general communique while Romania pressed for tighter controls on nuclear powers.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Romania
United States
Vietnam
World Communist Party Consultative
Budapest
Syria
Russia
Soviet Union
Geneva
Former Bastrop Resident Killed in Auto-Mule Crash
FERRIDAY Foy W. Traylor 33 of Natchez Mississippi and former Bastrop resident was killed when his small foreign automobile struck a mule on the Lake St. John Highway north of here. Concordia Parish Coroner Dr. William T. Polk declared him dead at the scene. Blackwell and Son Funeral Home of Bastrop will handle arrangements.
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Ferriday
Foy W. Traylor
Natchez, Miss
Bastrop
Lake St. John
Here
Traylor
Concordia Parish
William T. Polk
Blackwell and Son Funeral Home
U.S. Vietnam Toll Could Top Korea by Election Day
U S battle deaths in Vietnam rise to 19,251 through March 2, risking a toll surpassing the Korea War total of 33,629 if current weekly rates persist through the November 5 election. The piece notes accelerating deaths, shifted U S ground fighting, and compares wartime eras.
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Washington
U.S
Vietnam
United States
Hattle
Khe Sanh
Gold Trading Weakens U.S. Dollar and Pound in London
In London and wider Europe feverish gold trading pressured the pound and dollar as dealers bet Johnson may not defend the 35 dollar per ounce gold price. The pound slid to 14 pounds 7 shillings 2 pence, while the dollar held at 35.19. Gold shares rose on the London market as analysts noted weak EU response to U.S. balance of payments needs and looming Basel and Paris meetings may shape new gold policy.
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London
U.S
Johnson
London Ballier
Paris
Zurich
Frankfurt
France
West Germany
Organization For Economic Cooperation
Basel
Switzerland
Spring Weather Forecast For Northeast Louisiana
Springlike weather is predicted over Northeast Louisiana with mild temperatures 68 to 74 today and Saturday and nights ranging from 42 to 58. A few showers are expected in the west and north with widely scattered showers Saturday. Delta forecast calls for drying conditions today and fair to poor conditions tonight and Saturday. Dewpoints mid 30s to mid 40s and sunshine 40 percent or less. Southerly winds 8 to 18 mph. Selman Field recorded a high of 66 yesterday and a low of 99 this morning with no rainfall.
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Louisiana
FAA
Selman Field
LBJ Seeks 1.2 Billion for Pollution Fight and Parks
President Johnson asked Congress for a 1.2 billion conservation program to protect water and air, curb oil spills, curb strip mining, expand national parks and wilderness areas, and promote outdoor recreation. The plan targets oil pollution control, river protection, and broader environmental standards. The release highlighted the Potomac River as a national river and listed key wilderness areas in California, Colorado, Arizona, and the Spanish Peaks.
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Johnson
Stewart L. Udall
Udall
Congress
Potomac River
Washington
Maryland
Virginia
California—Desolation
el Dorado National Forest
Ventana
Los Padres National Forest
San Rafael
San Gabriel
Colorado
Arizona
Mt. Baldy
Pine Mountain
Sycamore Canyon
Infant Liver Transplant Survivor Dies in Colorado
Nineteen month old Candy Barbee daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Barbaree of Orlando Florida died early today at the University of Colorado Medical Center. She had survived more than three months after receiving a new liver November 25 1967. Doctors said infection with possible organ rejection caused the death. The other three known survivors Julie Rodriguez Kerri Lynn Brown and a two year old Texas boy remain in fair condition. Donor livers came from children who died of unrelated causes.
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Denver
Colo
Candy Barbee
University of Colorado Medical Center
Albert Barbaree
Orlando
Fla
Julie Cherie Rodriguez
John Rodriguez
Pueblo
Cole
Julie
Kerri Lynn Brown
Dale L. Brown
Lone Beach
Calif
Texas
Price ceilings felt now not just proposed by LBJ
The text argues price ceilings are already in effect in practice, contrasting public calls for Congress to establish ceilings with immediate impact felt by consumers. It implies widespread cost constraints influencing daily life and consumer perception.
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LBJ
Congress
Nightmare Memory of Cajun Miner After Shaft Fire
Calumet Louisiana reports Hoist operator Clamere LeBoeuf recalls the deadly fire that erupted 1200 feet down in the Cargill salt mine. He describes guiding the north skip up while the south skip burned, cables glowed red hot and failed. all cages were empty and no one was harmed.
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Robert Fahs
Cargill
Fahs
Calumet
Clamere LeBoeuf
LeBoeuf
Cargill, Inc
Roy Byrom
Florida Teachers Asked To Return
In Tallahassee the Florida Education Association urged all teachers who resigned to return to their schools on Monday to end Florida’s school crisis. A nine point resolution by the State Board of Education was adopted earlier and endorsed by the association president Dexter Hagman.
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Tallahassee
Fla
The
Florida Education Association Today
Florida
Association
Dexter Hagman
State Board of Education
Weather Bulletin Shows Local Flood Risk Shifts
A terse report notes location based flood present change stage with values for Monroe Camden and Stationary statuses. Data lists Monroe 40 15.3 1.4 fall, Camden 26 6.2, stage indicators vary by site.
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Monroe
Camden
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