Flareups Persist as Suez Battle Rages On
In the Suez area a nine hour clash ended with Israel claiming Egyptian forces started the fighting and both sides reporting casualties. Rockets hit Beisan Valley and Jordanian villages. U N observers noted Egyptian rockets first in multiple exchanges. Moshe Dayan visited east bank troops as fires burned at Port Suez refineries. The Jordanian border and occupied west bank saw curfews and protests amid tension across the region.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Suez Canal
U.N
Beisan
Allenby
Jordan River
West Bank
East Bank
Canal
Egypt
Odd Bull
Port Suez
Jordan
Jerco
D'Abed
Jerusalem
David Elazar
Golan Heights
Syria
UGF Campaign Stands at 71.2 Percent of Goal
United Givers Fund for Ouachita Parish reports 71.2 percent of its $312 375 goal gained at noon. Bail ey Grant, campaign chairman, urged renewed effort at Rama da Inn as West Monroe Monroe Sterlington and other areas report varied progress.
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UGF
United Givers Fund
Ouachita Parish
Bailey Grant
Ramada Inn
Grant
West Monroe
Monroe
River Stage Readings Show Varied Flood Levels
River stage data lists Camden at 1.1 feet and Monroe at 14.1 feet with changes noted. Present stage, location, and recent rise or fall indicated in the report.
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Camden
Monroe
Unmanned Soyuz 2 Lands as Beregovoy Remains in Orbit
Tass announced the unmanned Soyuz 2 landed in the Soviet Union after three days in space while cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy continued aboard Soyuz 3 in a tandem orbit around the earth. He completed 33 orbits and noted earth cloud maps and star observations. The missions tested docking concepts for future space platforms and Moon missions.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Georgy Beregovoy
Beresovov
Earth
Beregovoy
Soyuz 3
Soyuz 2
Russia
Moon
Anti Soviet March in Prague marks 50th republic year
Thousands of Czechoslovaks marched in Prague in patriotic demonstrations with anti-Soviet overtones for the republics 50th anniversary. Students led chants like Better dead than shame as about 3000 youths carried the Czechoslovak flag from Wenceslas Square toward Old Town square.
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Prague
Cnls Thalcieu Tv III
Balccd
Wenceslas Square
Old Town
Czechoslovak Communist Party
Czechoslovakia
Twin Cities Chit Chat: Local Soldier and Hawaiian Luau
Army Private First Class John B. Parker, 19, son of Mrs. Leola Claunch of Monroe, serves as rifleman in the 4th Infantry near Pleiku, Vietnam since Sept 30. His wife Gladys lives in West Monroe. A weekend flotilla of about 20 gaily decorated houseboats hosted local businessmen and visitors from Baton Rouge New Orleans and Shreveport for a South Sea Island Hawaiian Luau. The pig roast on Long John Beach drew 250 to 300 attendees Saturday.
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John B. Parker
Leola Claunch
Winnsboro Road
Monroe
4Th
Pleiku
Vietnam
Parker
Gladys
Wheelis St
South Sea Island
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Shreveport
Long John Beach
Supreme Court to rule on harsher sentences after retrial
The court will decide if a defendant may be given a longer term after a first conviction is overturned. Clifton A. Pearce, tied to a 12 year old rape case in Durham County, faced a harsher sentence after a second trial. The ruling could harmonize circuits on post reversal sentencing.
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Washington
Supreme Court
North Carolina
Clifton A. Pearce
Durham County
Pearce
US Circuit Court
Richmond
Maryland
New Zealand backs Thieu on coalition in Vietnam
Prime Minister Keith Holyoake and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu reject a coalition government for Vietnam as proposed by the Communists. They say the National Liberation Front cannot enter peace talks as an independent entity, and allied nations with troops should influence the final settlement. Holyoake and Thieu held meetings in Saigon with U.S. Ambassador Bunker as Johnson administration peace proposals loom.
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Holyoake
Saigon
Thieu
Independence Palace
U.S
Ellsworth Bunker
Johnson
North Vietnam
Hanoi
New Zealand
Demilitarized Zone
Nguyen van Thieu Thieu
Man Trapped in Cotton Picker Survives in Fair Condition
Ralph Smith, 49, was trapped for four hours Saturday in a four row mechanical cotton picker on a farm near here. He is listed in fair condition with a left leg amputated and the right leg badly mangled. He was pulled from the machine at 12:20 p.m. and remains at E. A. Conway Hospital in Monroe.
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Smith
Slack Farm
Cool Temperatures Persist In Northeast Louisiana Area
The region expects fair skies and cool conditions through Tuesday. Lows tonight 34 to 40 with light frost, highs around 66 to 70. Monroe reports 79 Sunday high and 39 this morning with no rain. Northerly winds 8 to 16 mph, light to variable tonight and Tuesday. Drying conditions improve today then worsen tonight and Tuesday morning per the Louisiana Delta Agricultural Advisory.
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Louisiana
Twin Cities
FAA
Monroe
Louisiana Weekend Traffic Crashes Kill Seventeen
Louisiana weekend traffic crashes killed seventeen people and left several injured. Victims include Charles F. Smith 27 of Slidell Isaac Stockton New Orleans and Thomas M Wakefield 44 of Hammond among others in crashes near Bayou Manchac Laplace Montpelier and Shreveport. A serviceman's death in Leesville and a Benton boy entangled in a garage clothes line are noted with other fatalities.
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Charles F. Smith
Slidell
Jack Hayes
Isaac Stockton
New Orleans
Bayou Manchac
Ascension Parish
Laplace
Thomas M. Wakefield
Hammond
Jeanne
Glen
Sharon
David W. Fisher
Metairie
Montpelier
Jesse Dunn
Bobbey Marshall
Pine Grove
West Marshall
Larry W. Russom
Henry B. Doss
Shreveport
Edward Charles Trahan
Jeanerette
New Iberia
Jerry Chism
Morgan City
Leesville
Raymond Davis
Don Stafford
Baton Rouge
Kenneth W. Simpson
Kentwood
Glen James
Benton
Glendon James
Erma Wilson
Hollis “Roomie’’ Wilson
Southeastern Louisiana College
South Viet regiments clash near Saigon in renewed fighting
South Vietnamese infantry say they destroyed a Dong Nai Regiment force 24 miles north of Saigon, reporting 32 North Vietnamese dead and 13 captured. Six South Vietnamese dead and 20 wounded as allied forces also seize weapons. The Dong Nai unit’s return signals possible renewal of the third Saigon offensive amid broader DMZ clashes and U.S. bombing activity.
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North Vietnam
Dong Nai Regiment
Saigon
Dong Nai
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
5Th Mechanized Division
Two Korea Reds Killed In Clash
Seoul reports two North Korean intruders killed in a brief front line clash with a South Korean patrol. No South Korean casualties. Near the bodies the army found two submachine guns 20 hand grenades and binoculars. North Korea intensifies infiltrations along the DMZ as coastal defenses foil sea espionage attempts.
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Seoul
North Korea
Dmz
Chuckle Teenagers Still Grow Up and Marry in New Order
A light-hearted note on teenagers maturing, leaving home, and marrying, with a cheeky twist that suggests the sequence now varies from past expectations.
U S Exports Gain During September
The Commerce Department reports a September foreign trade surplus of 282.2 million dollars the best since November 1967. September imports and exports hit records and first time exports topped 3 billion, with hedge buying linked to anticipated East and Gulf Coast port strikes.
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Washington
Commerce Department
William H. Chartener
Chartener
Gulf Coast
Adcock Pushes Vote to Bar Newsmen at Tax Meeting
Governor's tax study committee votes to exclude reporters from initial session after newsmen refuse to leave. Adcock, committee chair, declares they will be barred only briefly as three members dissent and publisher John Thistlethwaite opposes.
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Adcock
Baton Rouge, la
Governor's Tax Study Committee
Jamar Adcock
John Thistlethwaite
Opelou- Sas
Louisiana tax study panel dodges specific recommendations
Baton Rouge governors tax study committee halted public access early then sped through its agenda. It approved subcommittee reports projecting operating budget needs at 60.3 million annually and offering tax options for Governor McKeithen to consider for more revenue at a November session.
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Baton Rouge
Governor's Tax Study Committee
MceKeithen
Tax plan clash signals new revenue proposals
The Louisiana legislative budget talks reopen as Sen Claude Duval unveils a competing revenue plan to slice spending. Rep Nat Kiefer and Rep Richard Guidry aim to boost funds for charity hospitals and highways while Sen Michael O Keefe warns a full sales tax vote is unlikely.
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Claude Duval
Houma
B. B. Rayburn
Bogalusa
Nat Kiefer
Richard Guidry
Revenue Subcommittee
Adcock
New Orleans
House of Representatives
Michael O'Keefe
Guidry
Kiefer
McKeithen
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Sterlington
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Calif
Velma L. Mengelkoch
U.S. Circuit Court
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Ho Chi Minh
Vincent Amato
New Jersey
Brick Township
Amato
New Haven
Conn
Rose Ann Guarino
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