Tornado Ravages Gulfport Area Leaving Deaths and Injuries
AP report describes a violent tornado in the Gulfport area with multiple fatalities and numerous injuries. Fire and wind drove residents from homes as flames threatened about 1,000 structures in Lemon Heights near Los Angeles. Officials confirm 15 homes destroyed and ongoing major disaster response.
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OS Angeles
California Division of Forestry
Lemon Heights
Los Angeles
Bel Air
Forestry
California
San Francisco
Santa Ana
Orange County
Orange
Riverside County
San Jacinto Mountains
San Jacinto Valley
Gilman Hot Springs
Nobel Prize Winners in Physics and Chemistry Announced
The Swedish Academy awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in physics to Hans A. Bethe of Cornell for nuclear reactions and stellar energy. Chemistry honors went to George Porter, Ronald Norrish, and Manfred Eigen for fast chemical reactions using short energy pulses.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Swedish Academy of Science
Hans A. Bethe
Cornell University
George Porter
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
Manfred Eigen
Bethe
Academy
Porter
Royal Institution
London
Cambridge
Eigen
Max Planck Institute of Goettingen
Alsace
Germany
Hitler
England
Cornell
Ithaca
N.Y
Miguel Angel Asturias
Haldan Keffer Hartline
New York
George Wald
Cambridge, Mass
Ragnar Granit
Vicious Wind Gusts Strike Biloxi Area
Severe winds battered Biloxi causing a toppled water tower on a downtown bank, a demolished warehouse, a damaged roof, and widespread debris. Police radio down, downed wires stalled post office, three minor injuries at Biloxi Hospital and five at Keesler Air Force Base. City paralyzed with floods along the beach and highway 90.
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Mississippi Highway Patrol
Mississippi City
Handsboro
State Port
Gulfport
Biloxi
Miss
Keesler Air Force Base
City Hall
Levi Tarver Franklin Parish official dies at 81
Levi William Tarver 81 longtime Ward 8 police juror and re election candidate died at 12 10 am in Kings Hospital Winnsboro after a three month illness He was native of Franklin Parish retired farmer and Boeuf River Baptist Church member Services set for 2 pm Tuesday at Mullhern Funeral Home Pallbearers include Bill Jennings Charles Simons Leo Searcy and others Honorary pallbearers are Franklin Parish Police Jury survivors include widow Lydia Tarver two daughters three sons and other relatives
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Winnsboro
Levi William Tarver
King’s Hospital
Tarver
Franklin Parish
Boeuf River
Harold Davis
M. W. Stroud
Lydia Tarver
Liddieville
Willie Maude Cochran
Vidalia
O’dell T. Slatten
New Orleans
Percy Lee Tarver
Grady Tarver
William N. Tarver
Ethel
Alma Shipley
Ada Carroll
Jessie Houston Tarver
Bill Jennings
Charles Simons
Leo Searcy
Drewey Hendry
Albert Garcia
Price Turnage
Twin Cities CHIT CHAT
Mr and Mrs John O Hennen Sr return from a vacation to visit son Rev John O Hennen Jr and five children in Summerfield Ohio They helped celebrate Mr Hennen Sr birthday The trip included revival services by Rev Elbert Dodd and a visit to the Martius Museum in Marietta Ohio Sgt Edward Knott brother of Mrs Gordon Keene is flown to Lackland AFB for wounds suffered near Pleiku Vietnam He was injured Aug 26 previously a Bastrop resident.
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John O. Hennen Sr
John O. Hennen Jr
Summerfield
Ohio
Mr. Hennen Sr
Hennen
Elbert Dodd
Bible Missionary Church
Martius
Marietta
Edward Knott
Gordon Keene
3Rd St
Monroe
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Pleiku
Vietnam
Knott
Bastrop
U S Troops Hit Viet Cong Severe Blow
U S infantry surprised a Viet Cong company near the Cambodian border and wiped out most of its force with artillery napalm and air strikes. About 80 enemy soldiers were reported killed. Three Americans were killed and three wounded. The fight followed a 14 hour clash as U S and South Vietnamese forces repelled an attack on a rubber plantation 70 miles north of Saigon.
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Saigon
1St Infantry Division
U.S
North Vietnam
Haiphong
Chi Lai
Batttle
Hanoi- Haiphong
Hanoi
Demilitarized Zone
Vietnam
da Nang
South Vietnam
Soviet unmanned satellites perform automatic docking in orbit
Cosmos 186 and Cosmos 188 joined for 32 hours in a test of space platform linkups. The unmanned craft connected as computers guided the maneuver and television pictures were transmitted to Earth before separating on command.
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Moscow
United States
Earth
Vladimir M. Komarov
Humphrey Tours South Vietnam Sees Reform Efforts
Vice President Hubert Humphrey visited the Mekong Delta and Vung Tau, praising Maj. Nguyen Be of the Revolutionary Development Training Center for speaking frankly about corruption hindering the program. He stressed American support for the Saigon government and noted progress in the development effort.
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Saigon
Hubert H. Humphrey
South Viet‘nam
Humphrey
Nguyen Be
Revolutionary Development Training Center
Vung Tau
U.S
Mekong
Vietnam
Johnson
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Maj. Be
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
North Vietnam
Syria reports jet shot down in border air clash
Damascus announces Israeli jet shot down in first aerial clash since the June war. Four Israeli planes entered Syrian air space. a Syrian fighter shot down one, which was seen falling near the Jabel el Sheikh base at the Syrian Lebanese border.
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Damascus
Syria
Israel
Middle East
Jabel el Sheikh
Listen Up Keeps Couples Talking
A lighthearted line notes that once a man learns to listen, he and his wife can stay on speaking terms indefinitely.
Ex-Suitor Shoots Bride and Kills Self in Cleveland
In University Heights a man 23 held 19 year old bride Lida Caldwell at gunpoint over the weekend and wounded her husband. He later killed himself after exchanges with police and his mother who flew in from Johnstown Pennsylvania.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Lida Caldwell
University Heights
Chris Schoupt
Batch
Martha Smith
Johnstown
Schoupt
Cleveland
Patrick L. Garrity
Garrity
Butch
Mrs. Caldwell
Caldwells
Rainy weather breaks dry spell in northeast Louisiana
Rain fell from Sunday into Monday across northeast Louisiana. Monroe reported 0.51 inch by mid morning with showers continuing mixed with clearing, cooler Tuesday. Alexandria saw about 2.5 inches, Lafayette nearly 3 inches as forecasts call for lingering rain then clearing skies.
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Louisiana
FAA
Selman Field
Monroe
Alexandria
Lafayette
Israel To Hold Arab Territory Frontiers Firmly
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol announced in Jerusalem that Israel will hold most of the Arab territory seized in the 1967 war. He told the Knesset that areas formerly under Jordanian and Egyptian control were gained by force and aggression and will be retained.
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Jerusalem
Levi Eshkol
Israel
Eshkol
Knesset
Gaza
UGF Campaign Reaches 80 Percent Of Drive Goal
The United Givers Fund reports 80 percent of its goal reached at the Paragon Club luncheon. Total pledges and contributions amount to 233 700 with Monroe area at 147 949 and West Monroe at 60 535. Sterlington and Twin Cities totals stand at 4 327 and 20 889 respectively.
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United Givers Fund
G. L. Morgan
Morgan
Paragon Club
Monroe
West Monroe
Sterlington
Twin Cities
Murder at Halloween Party Ends in Guest Death
In Van Nuys a Halloween party turned deadly when a man burst in with a gun and killed Kenneth A. Lindstrand, a 32 year old salesman. Guests misread the shooting as a stunt and watched as he died after the attack while police questioned attendees.
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van Nuys
Calif
Kenneth A. Lindstrand
Lindstrand
Los Angeles
Cane
Gale
Tornado Strikes Pointe a la Hache Louisiana Parish
A Weather Bureau report confirms a tornado hit Pointe a la Hache on both sides of the Mississippi River causing extensive damage. More than a dozen injured including one seriously. six houses and a trailer damaged on the west bank while St Thomas Catholic Church and rectory were damaged on the east bank.
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Pointe A LA Hache
Weather Bureau
Mississippi River
St. Thomas Catholic
Boothville
River Stage Readings Show Change At Monroe Camden
River stages across locations show rise at Monroe to 14.1 feet with a 1 foot increase and fall at Camden to 5.4 feet with a 4 foot drop as floods shift.
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Monroe
Camden
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Gulfport East High School
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