Atlas Centaur launch postponed by bad weather
Weather delayed the Atlas Centaur orbital test for a second day. The launch was moved from 9 a.m. EST to 9 a.m. EST Friday due to low clouds wind and rain in Cape Kennedy. A separate Manila crash report noted a U S Navy P3A with 13 aboard went down off Luzon with two bodies recovered. Communist guerrillas seized two hamlets near Saigon as Maxwell Taylor arrived in Hong Kong en route to Saigon for talks on the war.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Space Agency
Manila
UPD
Luzon
U.S. Naval Air Station
Cubi Point
Saigon
UPS
South Vietnamese
Defense Ministry
Binh Dinh
Hong Kong
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S
South Viet Nam
Washington
Taylor
Johnson
Defense
Robert McNamara
Shopping Hours Set for Christmas Rush in Norwalk
Local stores in downtown Norwalk and Santa Claus set extended hours for December. Tonight many shops stay open until 9. From December 14 to 23 daily hours run 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. with a 5:30 p.m. close on December 24. Santa Claus hosts evenings at his castle 7 to 9 p.m. starting December 14 through December 23, except Sundays.
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Norwalk
Santa Claus
South Hester
West Main Streets
Donlon to receive Medal of Honor for Viet Nam bravery
President Johnson will award Army Special Forces Capt. Roger H. C. Donlon the Medal of Honor for continued guerrilla warfare against Communists in South Vietnam after being wounded four times. The ceremony at the White House will include his widowed mother and family. Meanwhile in Rome, President Segni is expected to resign within 24 hours as parliament moves to elect a successor, with the vote potentially stabilizing or toppling the government. In New York, Walter Winchell faces a $5 million slander suit filed by Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard against ABC and ABC Paramount Theatres.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
South Viet Nam
Army Special Forces
Roger H. C. Donlon
White House
Rome
Antonio Segni
New York
Walter Winchell
Samuel H. Sheppard
Cleveland
Sheppard
American Broadcasting Co
American Broadcasting Paramount Theatres, Inc
Powell May Face Arrest Over Sunday Church Practice
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of New York risks arrest if he returns to conduct Abyssinian Baptist Church services on Sunday. A writ of prohibition to block a criminal warrant was denied, after months of Powell dodging the civil warrant by appearing only on Sundays in New York.
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New York
UPI
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
Powell
Harlem
Weather Outlook and Local Births and Deaths Report
Hazardous driving warnings due to light freezing drizzle Friday night and Saturday. Highs 20s to 30s, snow flurries near Lake Erie Saturday night, cold with lows 16 to 27. Sunday mainly fair with little temperature change. Births: Statzer boy, Amato boy, Puskin boy, Edwards girl. Deaths: Conkle, Perkins, Robbins.
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Lake Erie
Joseph Statzer
Harkness
Charles Amato
Unity Lane
James Puskin
Francis Edwards
New London
Redistricting Fight Returns to Ohio House
Ohio House to consider the Senate redistricting bill after Friday's 20 to 12 Senate passage. The plan keeps the 13th District but redraws almost all districts with 404,332 residents per congressman. Senate action also expands ADCU aid to about 30,000 on poor relief and advances a college loan constitutional amendment.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio House
Senate
Mississippi nears murder charge decision in civil rights killings
In Meridian Mississippi the state weighs murder and conspiracy charges against 21 men tied to the slayings of three civil rights workers. Twenty-one suspects including a sheriff and several Klansmen were arraigned and released on $5,000 bonds. A federal conspiracy case carries up to 10 years and $5,000 fine. a separate withholding information charge carries up to three years. A Dec. 10 preliminary federal hearing is set. State officials had considered murder charges but delayed amid reports of Hoover King involvement.
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Meridian
Miss
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Martin Luther King Jr
W. H. Johnson
U.S
Ester Carter
U.S. Naval Air Station
Spectacular Bishopsgate fire wipes out London rail station
A massive blaze at Bishopsgate freight station in East London destroyed the five story complex and burned for hours. Two customs men died, with bodies found under debris. Fire sent a ten mile glow and five mile smoke plume over the city as hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses were logged, including whisky and Christmas goods.
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London
UPI
Bishopsgate
City Financial District
East End
British Isles
Thant Illness Delays UN Talks on Financial Crisis
Secretary General Thant's illness delays talks over the United Nations financial deadlock as the Soviet Union faces possible loss of its General Assembly vote over a 52.6 million dollar debt. Gromyko and Rusk planned for talks later, with Gromyko open to a compromise plan while Thant seeks a health checkup.
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United Nations
N.Y
UPI
Thant
Soviet Union
General Assembly
le Roy Hospital
New York
U.N
Andrei Gromyko
U.S
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Gromyko
Bloodmobile aims for 125 pints with 190 potential donors
The Red Cross bloodmobile visita in Norwalk seeks 125 pints as 190 people are scheduled to donate. Only two of seven county visits met the quota, totaling 829 pints of 875. Local employers like Boxboard Packaging and Columbia Gas sponsor donors amid holiday travel and weather raising needs.
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Red Cross
Christine Needham
Huron County
Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital
Boxboard Packaging Co
Ohio Body Co
Columbia Gas Co
Boxboard Packaging
Norwalk Eagles
Huron County Red Cross
Eagles
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House
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Medina
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Mississippi
Neshoba County
Lawrence Rainey
Cecil Price
Samuel Mendel
Elyria
Orlando
Fla
Huntington
W. Va
Boston
Mass
Mansfield
Lawrence Smith
Peru Center Road
Greger Road
Ohio
Smith
Ohio Division of Wildlife
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