Holiday Traffic Toll Tops 700 in Christmas Weekend
The Associated Press reports a record Christmas three day period with 707 deaths on highways, surpassing 1956's 706 for a four day weekend. Earlier toll estimates ranged 560 to 660. final tallies note multiple fatal crashes across Iowa Indiana Michigan and Illinois. A Cedar Rapids family perished in a three car crash on Highway 13 near Central City while two other fatal collisions occurred Friday and Sunday.
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Missing Ex-Junction Man Lukenbach Believed Lost In Action
Ex-Junction resident Lt. Cmdr Max Lukenbach is missing in action over North Vietnam after one of seven Navy planes was shot down. Parachutes were seen, no survivors confirmed. Lukenbach, who studied in Columbus Junction, has a wife and two children, and his father lives in Tucson. Relatives report a registered letter notifying him missing. He previously was based at Sanford, Florida. State tolls amid severe winter travel conditions marked the nationwide crash and death counts.
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Humphrey Heads East On Major Overseas Trip
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey leaves Washington for a week long Asia tour to the Philippines Japan South Korea and Nationalist China. He plans private talks on Viet Nam with leaders of the four nations and hopes the trip boosts his domestic image.
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Births, Battles, and Twenty Year Honor in Vietnam War News
Mrs. Robyn Mantaya welcomed Siamese twins born Christmas Day. A three hour operation separated the conjoined twins, with Los Angeles hospital spokespeople giving a 50 50 survival outlook. Meanwhile Marine units near Quang Ha No 2 faced a Viet Cong attack two hours after an earlier air strike as Washington orders curb North Viet Nam aerial blows.
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Iowa Cold Snap and War Update Merge in Brief
Freezing Iowa temperatures dominated the day with frigid highs in the teens and lows near zero, while Des Moines announced liquor store profits of 17.26 million dollars for the year ending June 30, aided by an armuaud audit of the Liquor Control Commission. U S forces reported heavy casualties among Viet Cong in South Vietnam as aerial pause rumors spread amid ongoing operations near Hanoi Haiphong and Sa Dec with mines and missile strikes affecting several units.
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Gale Warnings as Northwest Storm Hits
A powerful storm lashed the Northwest with high winds rain and snow and gale warnings were issued along the Pacific Coast northern Rockies faced heavy snow. Winds drove snow in Burns Oregon western states cooled to below freezing with subzero readings across Montana North Dakota and Minnesota. Cold air spread across the nation with temperatures plunging into the 30s on the Gulf Coast and a Midwest cold wave lingered into the weekend. In Osaka four Cuban officers left a freighter and sought U S asylum criticizing shipments to North Vietnam concluding they would not risk their lives aiding military equipment. The cold wave warnings persisted from Canada to Missouri and Kansas as Philadelphia fell from 61 to 30.
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Senate fiscal expert Everard H. Smith retires after 53 years
Washington AP Everard H. Smith 75 retires Thursday as chief clerk of the Senate Appropriations Committee after 53 years handling federal spending. He joined April 1, 1913, witnessing growth from 1.1 billion to 119.3 billion in the 198 session and totaling 2.191 trillion across his career. Even with slowing eyesight and hip issues he remains in his office daily awaiting retirement.
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Three Students Booked In Staten Island Homicide
NEW YORK three New Jersey residents two of them college students were booked on homicide charges for the beating death of William Grasdoch a 19 year old from Manasquan NJ a sophomore at Missouri Valley College. The suspects John Bridle William Frezza Jr and Richard Hight Jr were arraigned in Criminal Court on Staten Island held without bail for a preliminary hearing December 29.
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