Apollo 8 Heads for Splashdown Ahead of Saigon Action
U S forces resumed offensive operations after a 24 hour Christmas cease fire, reporting 53 enemy killed in two groups northwest of Saigon with 2 118 enemy dead overall and 202 South Vietnamese casualties. No American deaths were recorded.
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Saigon
U.S
U.S. 1St Air Cavalry Division
Cambodia
USS
da Nang
US S
Mekong Delta
Demilitarized Zone
National Liberation Front
NLF
Paris
Gifts Await Astronauts After Moon Mission
Families of Apollo 8 crew from Houston to League City Texas send Christmas wishes as Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders voyage around the moon. They relay prayers and notes while gifts await at home one man’s wife finds a special gold pin with an 8 and moonstone crest.
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Borman
Lovell
Marilyn
Valerie Anders
Ellington Air Force Base
Edgar Anders
Branch
Tex
Anders
Valerie
Cold New York hit by freezing weather and fuel shortages
Bitter cold and a fuel oil shortage left thousands without heat as flu cases rose. Dr Edward O Rourke urged expedited deliveries while about 2,400 New Yorkers were forecast to die this week from flu related complications.
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New York
New
Abraham Abrahamson
Abrahamson
Health Department
Post Office Thanks Public for Holiday Cooperation
Acting Postmaster Robert Granger and Morris Post Office staff express gratitude for customer cooperation during the holiday rush. No backlogs were noted in area post offices. Granger credits increased Zip Code use for faster mail flow and mentions a 25 cent rate aid.
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Robert Granger
Morris
Granger
District Officer To Visit Morris Lions on Jan. 2
Morris Lions Club will host M. R. Randy Kerfoot governor of Lions Dist 1-B at a 6:45 p.m. January 2 meeting at FW Hall. Kerfoot, a Bloomington Lions member, works for State Farm Insurance as coordinator for agency sales promotion. He was elected district governor in April and named chairman of the Council of Governors by Illinois Lions peers at the Dallas convention.
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Morris Lions
Morris Lions Club
M. R
Randy) Kerfoot
Lions Dist
FW Hall
Kerfoot
Bloomington Lions Club
State Farm
Virginia
Illinois
Dallas
Gover
Morris Students Named Good Citizenship Winners
Winners of the Good Citizenship Awards sponsored by the DAR and SAR were named at Morris Community High School. Susan Spencer and John Warriner were selected from six nominees for traits including honesty leadership scholarship loyalty and respect. Spencer is a drum major oboe player and NIU pre major student. Warriner aspires to veterinary work and is an NHS member and FFA participant. Alicia C Bliss DAR will host a February dinner honoring the winners and their mothers.
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DAR
SAR
Morris Community High School
Susan Spencer
Roy W. Spencer
W. Jefferson Sr
John Warriner
Frank Warriner
Rte. 2
Morris
Spencer
Morris High School
Northern Illinois University
Sec
Alicia C. Bliss
Winter Weather Outlook From Tonight Through Friday
Occasional light snow mixed with freezing drizzle and varying temps is forecast tonight. Friday brings mixed snow and freezing rain changing to rain in the morning with windy, warmer conditions and a high in the upper 30s. Saturday looks to be snow or flurries and colder. Temperatures at Collins Weather Station show a recent pattern around the mid teens with a current 25 to 27 degree reading downtown.
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Collins
de Morris, Tees
Joliet Pilot Missing in Snowstorm
A Wyoming Civil Air Patrol search in Rock Springs focused on a missing pilot named John Yonely of Joliet Illinois. He disappeared Wednesday afternoon during an instrument approach in heavy snow at Rock Springs Airport after departing Rawlins.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
Wyoming Civil Air Patrol
Federal Aviation Administration
John Yonely
Joliet
Ill
Reno
Nev
FAA
Yonely
Rawlins
Civil Air Patrol
Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office
Rock Springs Air
Traffic Toll Below Guess During Christmas Holiday
Traffic accidents across the nation claimed 212 lives during the Christmas period, compared with 107 in a similar nonholiday span. The National Safety Council had forecast 280 to 360 deaths, while 1963 saw 226 deaths for a one day Christmas.Howard Pyle noted typical 30 hour December week mortality around 120.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Howard Pyle
Safety Council
Four Candidates File for Mayor in Morris
Four petitions for Morris mayor have been filed at the city clerk's office with a fifth circulating. The candidates listed in filing order are Charles Rose land, Floyd K. Siron, Phillip G. Marshall, and Charles Leadingham, with John Hendrickson also involved and a fifth Republican still circulating. The deadline for the first filing period for the February 25 primary is February 28.
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Morris City
Donald Caisley
Charles Roseland
Fremont Ave
Floyd K. Siron
Black St
Phillip G. Marshall
Cedar St
Charles Leadingham
Division
Arabs Attack Israeli Plane at Athens Airport
Two Arab terrorists attacked an El Al Boeing 707 as it prepared to take off from Athens. An Israeli passenger was killed. a stewardess was injured escaping the burning jet. Greek police subdued one attacker and captured the other. The claim of responsibility came from the Liberation of Palestine group.
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Athens
el al
Paris
New York
Palestine
Rome
Algiers
The
Liberation of Palestine
Illinois Christmas holiday highway toll rises with eleven dead
Eleven people died in Illinois highway crashes over the Christmas period from Tuesday 6 pm CST to Christmas Day midnight. Victims include Louis Vavra 42 Melrose Park. Jeffry L Frankel 26 Lisle. Roger Scott 19 Brandy Shaw 17 Eldred. Donald Davidson 16 Whitehall. Joseph Jarosz 79 Chicago. Elmer Radosavlyev 55 Peoria. Mary Kuehne 19 Chester. Raymond Weav er Danville. William H Jones 42 Brighton. Violet L Phillips 59.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Louis Vavra
Melrose Park
Jeffry L. Frankel
Lisle
Eisenhower Expressway
Roger Scott
Brandy Shaw
Eldred
Donald Davidson
Whitehall
Joseph Jarosz
Chicago
Elmer Radosavlyev
Peoria
Mary Kuehne
Chester
Raymond Eugene Weaver
Danville
William H. Jones
Brighton
Violet L. Phillips
Military Mail Plane Crashes at Elmendorf AFB Alaska
A Pan American 707 carrying military mail to the Far East crashed on takeoff from Elmendorf AFB Alaska in 6 15 a m cold ice fog. All three crewmen were believed killed. The jet originated in San Francisco and was diverted from Anchorage International Airport for refueling. The crash site burned fiercely an hour after impact.
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Alaska
Pan American World Airways
Far East
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Japan
Vietnam
San Francisco
Pan American
California
Anchorage International
E. Howell
Howell
Elmendorf
Johnsons welcome Christmas Day baby in Bloomington
Mrs Wayne Johnson of Bloomington gave birth to her second child on Christmas Day a seven pound eight ounce boy The Johnsons first child Gladys was born New Year s Day 1967
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Bloomington, Minn
Wayne Johnson
Bloomington
Johnson
Gladys
Apollo 8 astronauts near Earth after historic moon orbit
Apollo 8 returns from a record five day mission to the moon and heads toward the Pacific. Commander Frank Borman Lovell and Anders report good rest and readiness for re entry while ground control monitors a precise trajectory and possible midcourse adjustments.
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Space Center
Houston
Moon
Earth
Pacific Ocean
Frank Borman
Venus
Gerald Carr
Youth Gives Up Charged In Abduction
Anthony Erthell Williams turned himself in to Davenport police after accusing himself of abducting Pamela Powers, a 10 year old missing since a Des Moines YMCA wrestling event. Police described him as calm and well dressed while officers searched snowbound countryside near Grinnell for the girl.
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Davenport
Iowa
Anthony Erthell Williams
Pamela Powers
Ernest Lester
John Ackerman
Williams
Pamela
Merlin Powers
Des Moines
Grinnell
Liams
Rock
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Science Club
Future Nurses of America
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