Harriman criticizes U S policy on Vietnam amid war talks
Harriman denounces U S handling of Vietnam, accusing Washington of failing to make progress in Paris talks and inflaming public opinion. He cites North Vietnamese intransigence, increases in civilian deaths, and terrorist violence in South Vietnam, urging clearer strategy. The Odessa American reports his remarks and notes wartime casualty figures.
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Agit
Vietnam
Publs Opinon
Co Ss
Iion
Harriman
Ram Yano
le Ue Tha
Tha
Hanoy
South Vietnam
Grose
Paper Delivery Contact Information
Notice lists Odessa American circulation hours and phone number FE 7 4661. It provides operations times for weekdays evenings and weekend mornings and instructs readers to call for missed issues or to correct delivery.
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PAISS
Odessa
New Teachers To Be Feted At Kermit Event
New teachers in the Kermit school system will be honored Saturday at the Winkler County Club. The Kermit Chamber of Commerce Auction Committee hosts the affair starting at 2:30 pm with Calvin Dunlop as emcee. Don Tracy chairs the sponsoring committee, Harald Diller directs it, and after lunch guests can choose golf on the country club course or swimming at the club pool.
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Kermtt
Buffer Hinchean
Winkler County
Kermit Chamber of Commerce
Cffair
Calvin Dunlop
Chamber
Don Tracy
Harald Diller
North Vietnam air war hindered by weather and storms
Reports say North Vietnam air missions were halted for a second day by bad weather as Tropical Storm Rose lashed the Tonkin Gulf. Navy attempts were thwarted while Air Force and Marine bombers carried out limited raids from bases in South Vietnam and Thailand toward the area from the DMZ to Dong Hoi. In Saigon, a Buddhist monk and a printing house manager face military tribunals for dissent harming the people's struggle.
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Ninh
Tay Ninh
Saigon
North Vietnam
Amhany
Tonkin Gulf
Sirike
South Vietnam
Vane
Dong Hoi
Vietnam
Vietnam Press
Neuyen Dang ‘Prout
Elie Hom
Son
Iabs
Eibunals Ca
Boy Injured in Football Game Fractured Finger
Ronald Lloyd Anderson, 1. son of Robert Anderson of Des Moines, was treated at Medical Center Hospital Tuesday for a fractured finger. Attendants said the boy, who was later released, suffered the injury in a football game.
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Ronald Lloyd Anderson
Robert Anderson
Bes Moines
Medical Center Hospital
Tuessday
Odessan Held Willis Johns Fined After Plea in Court
Willis Johns 49 of 3717 North Texas remained in Odessa city custody Wednesday after pleading guilty to one charge. He was fined 50 dollars by Corporation Court Judge Cecil Hardwick for taking two boxes of visors from Raiis Food Store at 3605 East County Road.
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Willis A. Johns
North Texas
Willy Taperty
Corporation Court
Cecil Hardwick
Pho Snan
Raiis Food
Beast Counly Road
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Slain Women Linked To Gang In Potawatomi Lake
Kansas Bureau of Investigation linked two young women found bound and floating in Potawatomi County Lake to a gang. Sally L. Giles, formerly of El Paso, and Patricia A. Ortega of Topeka were identified. Ortega was six months pregnant. Bodies were tied together at the legs and found Sunday by fishermen.
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Wamego
Kan
Pot‘tawatomie
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Kansas
Sally L. Giles
el Paso
Tex
Patricia A. Ortega
Topeka
Compensation Case Settled in 70th District Court
Milous Mitchell of Odessa sought 10026 for injuries from a January 16 1987 incident while working for the City of Odessa. The Home Indemnity Co. faced the suit with attorney Jerry Childs for Mitchell and Lucius Bunton for the insurer. The case settled before testimony began Tuesday with no settlement amount disclosed.
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70Th District Court
Milous Mitchell
Odessa
The
Home Indemnity Co
Jerry Childs
Mitchell
Lucius Bunton
Salvage Group Seeks Location of USS Monitor
NORFOLK AP Salvage efforts off Hatteras aim to locate the original USS Monitor. North Carolina and Tidewater Services hold an exclusive permit to explore a nine square mile area with a differential proton magnetometer. Estimates of value and ownership remain uncertain as researchers pursue the famed Civil War ironclad’s fate.
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Tever
Robert F. Marx
Union Ironclad
Hatteras
North Carolina
Samuel P. Townsend
State Department of Archives and History
Hatteras Point
Robert L. Simmons
Simmons
Marx
Syrian Pilots Detained as War Prisoners in Israeli Captivity
Syrian air force pilots Lt Walid Adham and Lt Ridfan Rifan landed MIG17s in northern Israel during a training flight and claimed to be over Latakia. Israeli officials deem them war prisoners. Syrian authorities verify detention as questions arise about family ties and extremist views within intelligence circles.
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Tal Amin
Tsraehi
Israel
Sincerit Shin
Walid Adham
Army
Kamdad
Ridfan Rifan
Syria
Latakia
Labor Day Queen Contest Nears In Odessa Event
The 1st Miss Labor Day Queen contest will be held on Labor Day at Toya Gwin Bork with Queen contestants and daughters aged up to 12 years, prizes for winners, and a family friendly program featuring refreshments. Applications should be sent to W. W. Anderson, 817 West 20th, Odessa. Arva political candidates are invited to attend.
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Termin Basin
Iuhar Gist
Labor Day
Toya Gwin Bork
Bo le Willis
Midland
Lavas Laan
Union Heewoon
Tukett Nets
Prises
W. W. Anderson
West 20Th
Odessa
Cuesn
Labor
Suit Filed Against Wire Rope Corp In Odessa District Court
A suit was filed Wednesday in the 70th District Court seeking a judgment of 5237 dollars on sworn account. Defendants named are Tom Brandenberg of Odessa and Midland Well Service Inc., a local firm.
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Wire Rope Corp. of America ,Inc
Ion
70Th District Court
Tom Brandenberg Fof Odessa
Midland Well Service Inc
Charge Filed Names John Lucas in Ector County Court
An Andrews resident named John Lucas faces a hot check charge filed Wednesday in Ector County Court. Lucas allegedly cashed a bogus $25 check on March 16 at Berryhill's clothing store at 3151 East 27th, and was not in custody on Wednesday.
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Andrews
John Lucas
Ector
Lucas
Berryhill’s
East 27Th
Death notices for Butler Ellis Fox and Womack in Midland
Funeral services are set in Midland for Robert Roe Butler 62 a Pan American foreman who died at Medical Center Hospital. Ruel R Ellis 1887 1966 dies after heart attack in Coleman and burial in DeLeon. James Alton Fox 59 Midland resident since 1947 to be buried at Talpa Cemetery after Parkview Hospital death. William Eugene Womack six year old dies after heart surgery in Houston with arrangements by Enis Funeral Home. Survivors named include spouses, children, and siblings.
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Robert Roe Butler
San Jacinto
Medical Center Hospital
Butler
Pan American Petroleum Corp
First Assembly of God Church
Hubbard Kelly
Funeral Home
Ruel R. Ellis
Lindsey
Okla
Stevens Memorial Chapel
Coleman
Ellis
Odessa
Horace J. Carter
Bonham
Con
County
Bertha
G. F. Miller
Euless
W. RB
Roy Butler
Fort Worth
W. C. Butler
Abilene
Raymond Butler
Amarillo
A. C. Tanksley
Seal Beach Calif
H. S. Collings
Joe Midland
W. £. Butler
DeLeon
James Alton Fox
Midland
Newnie W. Ellis
Ber
Talpa
Fox
Parkview Hospital
Matt Fox
Faye Sackett
Yuma
Aziz
Laura Wilson
Red Bank
N. J
William Eugene Womack
Wiliam Eugene Womack
Wendell W. Womack
Severe storms and heavy rain lash Dallas area and Panhandle
A violent weather pattern dumped 2.87 inches in Irving and up to 6.5 inches unofficially in North Dallas. Tornado warnings issued for Carson, Roberts, Gray, Hemphill and Hutchinson counties after funnel clouds spotted from Borger to Skellytown and near Whitewright, with damaging wind and hail reported across North Texas. Peak temperatures reached the 100s in multiple cities while Panhandle funnel activity prompted warnings.
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Kernaan
Couch
Bic Lake
Alpine
Rankin
U. S
Oflhunderstorm
Odessa
Irving
Dallas
Fort Worth
Weather Bureau
Nort Dallas
Richardson
Panhandle
Borger
Pampa
Skellytown
Canadian
Miami
Carson
Roberts
Gray
Hemphill
Hutchinson
Whitewright
Texas
Fannin
Grayson
North Central
Hlall
Cotulla
Laredo
Presidio
del Rio
Lubbock
Amarillo
Odessa student earns place on Harvard Dean's Honor List
J. Nickens Jr of Odessa is among 600 Harvard freshmen named to the Deans' Honor List for high grades in 1967-68. Son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Mikeworth, he graduated in 1967 from Permian High School and studies political science at Harvard University in Cambridge.
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J. €. Nickens Jr
Odessa
Harvard University
Nickens
Kenneth Mikeworth
Doran
Permian High School
Cambridge, Mass
Judgment Sought In Oil Field Firm Suit
Ray Briggs operator of Rays Pipe Service in Odessa is named defendant in an account suit filed Wednesday in Ector County Court. Homer McClung Oil Field Salvage Inc. seeks the 18209 judgment against Briggs and company in the local court.
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Ray Briggs
Ray
Odessa
Ector County
Homer McClung Oil Field Salvage Inc
Long Island Commuters Still Without Service
Long Island Rail Road canceled 28 morning trains leaving 90,000 riders to crowd jammed cars or switch to subways buses and cars. Rep. Lester Wolff asked federal agencies to inspect operations while the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen denies a slowdown blaming aging equipment and undermanned repair facilities. Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson called for resigning MTA chair William Rowan citing lack of responsibility and noting his $70,000 salary as the nation’s highest aside from the U.S. president.
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New York
Long Island Rail Road
Lester Wolff
Long Island
Interstate Commerce Commission
U.S. Department of Transportation
Vnion
Lodge 886
The
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
Nassau County
Eugene H. Nickerson
William J. Rowan
State Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Nickerson
Rowan
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Seal Habor
Maine
Ronan
United States
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