Hanoi depot attacked as Viet troops report prison massacre
U.S. Air Force F105s struck the Ha Gia fuel depot near Hanoi amid heavy MiG defenses. In Saigon area reports, Vietnamese Rangers recovered 44 bodies from a Viet Cong prison camp massacre, with 6 escapees among 50 prisoners. Other air raids hit SAM sites near Hanoi and key rail lines.
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Saigon
UPI
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Vietnam
Theovernment
Ha Gia
U. S
Phuc Yen
Red River Valley
Haiphong
U.S
Viet Tri
Trai Ca
Red China vows restraint on Vietnam war conditions
Paris Match editor Rene Cabernat cites a Chinese diplomat report that Beijing would stay out of the Vietnam conflict unless three conditions were met: no US invasion of China, no invasion of North Vietnam, and no bombing of the Red River dikes. He says Johnson Rusk McNamara Harriman signaled acceptance before Red Guards upheaval.
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UPI
Red China
United States
State Department
Rene Cabernat
Paris Match
Cabernat
U.S. News & World Report
Paris
Peking
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China
North Vietnam
Red River
France
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Dean
Rusk
Defense
Robert S
McNamara
W. Averell
Harriman
Red Guards
Manila
Pacific
Asia
Lodge Delivers U S Vietnam Position to Pope Paul VI
U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge told Pope Paul VI the specific reasons for U S involvement in Vietnam after a private audience. Lodge said no message from President Johnson accompanied him and he would meet Soviet leader Podgorny on January 24 during an Italian state visit.
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Vatican City
UPI
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Paul VI
United States
Vietnam
Johnson
Nikolai Podgorny
Podgorny
Lodge
Washington
Amintore Fanfani
Pope
Harold Wilson
Vatican
Westminster Cagers Rally Past Waynesburg 91 83
Westminster guards lead a 91 83 home win over Waynesburg in a high scoring basketball matchup. Key performances propel the team to maintain league prestige in front of local crowds.
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Westminster
Waynesburg
Weather Outlook for Western Pennsylvania
Mostly sunny in the south and partly cloudy with flurries in the north today. Highs near 30. Tonight turns colder then light snow mainly north with lows in the 20s. Tuesday remains cloudy with occasional light snow or flurries and little temperature change.
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Pennsylvania
Army backs Mao as Red China faces power struggle
A Hong Kong briefing reports Red China's three-million strong army fully behind Mao Tse-tung amid a cultural revolution clash. Xianggang experts warn loyalty could shift if troops confront large protests. News notes anti Mao jailing and waves of clashes across Fukien and Nanking with fatalities and injuries cited by Pravda.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Red China
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
China
Mao
Red Flag
Radio Peking
Chen Po-ta
People’s Liberation Army
Israel warns Syria attacks must end border clash risk
Israel says weekend terrorist attacks victimized the country and warns that its border dispute with Syria has reached an unsustainable point. Foreign Minister Abba Eban issues the warning as U N Secretary General Thant says clashes could flare into full scale war.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Israel
Syria
Abba Eban
U.N
Thant
Congress weighs budget cuts amid tax hike debate
The 90th Congress vows to trim domestic spending and even defense not tied to Vietnam as it weighs President Johnson’s 6 percent surtax proposal. Senate and House leaders urge restraint and target non essential programs including highway and poverty efforts. A separate fire in Neshannock Township gutted a home, leaving five homeless and destroying pets.
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United Press International Washington
UPI
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House
Gerald R. Ford
Mich
Senate
Russell B. Long
Long
George H. Mahon
House Appropriations Committee
Texas
Everett M. Dirksen
Ill
Dirksen
McCormick Place Fire Levels Hall In Chicago
A fast moving blaze at McCormick Place in Chicago destroyed at least half of the vast exhibition hall, with an estimated damage of 10 to 20 million dollars. About 150 workers escaped as the 486 000 square foot venue housed 2300 booths for a major National Housewares Manufacturers Association show. The fire started near 2 a.m. from an electrical spark and halted by frigid temperatures, with 475 firefighters deployed and equipment including snorkels and fireboats.
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Chicago
McCormick Place
UPI
National Housewares Manufacturers Association
Lakeshore
Robert Quinn
Edmund Valique
Valiquez
International Amphitheatre
Lake Michigan
Theft spree hits Clen Moore Blvd with bank robbery
Police investigated an armed hold up at a Gulf Oil station on Highland Ave where a robber masked with a stocking took a $300 deposit. A separate spate of break ins on Clen Moore Blvd saw about $2,000 in jewelry and cash stolen from Morris Kantz’s home, while other entries yielded small cash losses and a found purse belonging to Janet Tropea. A suspect fled coatless in the chilly night.
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Clen Moore Blvd
Gulf Oil Co
Highland Ave
David Kelly
Boyles Ave
Jewlery
Morris Kantz
E. Clen Moore Blvd
Michael Rozzi
S. Cedar St
Rozzi
North St
Janet R. Tropea
Newell Ave
New Castle Mayor Jordan Favored For Pennsylvania GOP Chair
In Harrisburg the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee selects a successor to chairman Craig Truax who becomes Commonwealth secretary. Mayor John C. Jordan of New Castle, backed by Gov. Elect Raymond Shafer, is the frontrunner for the $20 000 a year post. The Shafer administration agenda includes a $100 a plate fundraiser and a week of inauguration events for Shafer, Scranton, and the new cabinet.
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Harrisburg
Jordan
Shafer
Truax
George S. Bloom
William W. Scranton
Grove City College
Ing
Charles H. Percy
R-Ill
Scranton
Herbert E. Harrison
Middletown
Pennsylvania
Shafers
Penn-Harris
Farm Show Building
Fumes Kill Three Residents In Carbon Monoxide Tragedy
Lawrence County coroner identified three middle aged men William Shaffer Howard McIntyre and Edward Stefanko as found dead at 12 E Division St from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. Bay Rum hair tonic used as alcohol substitute appeared among bottles at the scene. Officials say gas fumes from a self installed space heater caused the deaths and the coroner and police continue the investigation.
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E. Division St
Lawrence County
John A. Meehan Jr
William Shaffer
Howard McIntyre
Edward Stefanko
Meehan
Division St
Columbia Gas Co
Clen-Moore UP Church approves 260000 expansion plan
The Clen-Moore UP Church voted at a special meeting to add 260000 to the existing building. The west parking addition will house 13 classrooms an all purpose room a choir room and offices. The church now has 1912 communicants and will allocate about 60000 to the 50 Million Fund.
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Clen-Moore UP Church
Ber
Arthur McGill School
United Presbyterian
Death Notices for Joseph G. McCullough and Harry Sherman
Joseph G. McCullough aged 47 of Ellwood City and Harry S. Sherman aged 79 of 23 Edgewood Ave are listed in the death records dated Monday January 16, 1967.
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Joseph G. McCullough
Ellwood City
Harry S. Sherman
Edgewood Ave
Rockefellers and Eaton plan major Iron Curtain trade drive
The Rockefeller brothers and Cyrus S. Eaton Jr. announce a multi million dollar merger to back U S capital investment in the communist East. Tower International financed a 6 million hotel in Budapest and more hotels are planned in Belgrade Warsaw Prague Bucharest and Sofia as East West trade ties are promoted amid synchronized Soviet and Czechoslovak ads urging broader market access.
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UPI
Rockefeller
Cleveland
Cyrus S. Eaton Jr
U. S
U.S
Eaton’s Tower International, Inc
International Basic Economy Corp
BEC
Rockefeller Brothers
Tower Company
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Hungary
Belgrade
Warsaw
Poland
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Buch
Russia
Eaton
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