Inflight music and health praise aboard Gemini 7 mission
Ground control played 90 minutes of music including La Traviata and Water Music as astronauts Lovell and Borman rested. Flight director Eugene Kranz and flight surgeon Dr. Charles Berry praised the crew’s health and sleep, noting heart rates and respiration were within expected ranges.
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la ” Schumann
Rachmaninoff
Handel
Charles A. Berry
Gemini
Borman and Lovell
Berry
Saigon reports Viet Cong truce offer amid heavy air actions
The Enterprise flew 131 sorties against suspected Viet Cong targets in the Mekong Delta south of Saigon while B52s from Guam hit Tay Ninh Province near the Cambodian frontier for a second day. A grenade exploded at Tan Son Nhut Airport injuring eight as an American jet apparently dropped it. Viet Cong radio broadcast a Christmas truce proposal, viewed in Saigon as propaganda. The Viet Cong also cited a Christmas cease fire to aid church services, mentioning Australian and New Zealand contingents.
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Air Force Reserve
Air National Guard i
Army
Antillies Command
Fort Buchanan
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Army Reserve
Richard B. Russell
Dga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Air Defense Command
Air Reserve
Air National Guard
Enterprise
Mekong Delta
Saigon
Guam
Tay Ninh
Tan Son Nhut
Liberation Radio
U.S
Central Committee of the
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
South Viet Nam
New Zealand
South
Viet Nam
Sheriff’s Posse Names Officers in Ector Co
John H. Buddy Rogers, Odessa attorney, elected president of the Ector County Sheriff’s Posse. Voted officers include C. W. Schenkel as vice president Herman Wells as secretary Robert L. Fluitt Jr. as treasurer B. J. Bowden as mounted parade marshal Johnny Woods as jeep parade marshal J. R. Jennings as corral boss Guy Goodyear as building manager and Jim Daniels as arena manager. Mrs Dean Denham Hall named sweetheart of the club.
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John H
Buddy) Rogers
Odessa
Ector County
Nuclear Science Symposium Set at Sul Ross
Several hundred students from 22 Trans-Pecos high schools are invited to a day long Texas Nuclear Science Symposium at Sul Ross State College in Alpine. West Texas Utilities Co. and Sul Ross sponsor. Noted educators in atomic research physics science engineering and mathematics speak.
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Alpine
Trans-Pe¢os
West Texas Utilities Co
Sul Ross State College
Death notices for James Frank Rogers and Ester De La O
Death notices report services for James Frank Rogers 75 Odessa chiro practitioner with cremation and graveside rites at Toyah Cemetery. Rogers, WWI veteran, died at his Odessa home after a weeklong illness. Also listed are Ester De La O 62 Alpine long-time resident with funeral at Emmanuel Baptist Church and burial at Alpine Cemetery. De La O died Monday in Brewster County Memorial Hospital, survived by Felix and Ted.
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James Frank Rogers
Odessa
Hubbard
Klamath Falls
Ore
Pecos Land
Toyah
Norine
Alpine
Ester de la
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Geeslin
James McCartron
Metcalf
Amarillo
Martin County
Big Spring
Cameron
Pampa
Plainview
First Christian Church
Alabama
Eva Robertson
Mesquite
J. B. Metcalf
Monahans
C. W. Metcalf
Seminold
Melvin Metcalf
Lubbock
C. P. Metcalf
Dalhart
J. J. Cook
Stanton
Raymon Hallard
West 10Th
Charles Hall
Midland
IRS Will Not Appeal Tax Case Against Freedom Newspapers
In Washington IRS officials said they will not appeal a U S tax court decision that denied more than 715 000 in back taxes for 1959 and 1960 against Freedom Newspapers Inc The decision lets stand the court ruling that the Santa Ana California group did not improperly accumulate earnings to avoid taxes The Hoiles family owns the chain and the ruling allows expansion plans amid pending antitrust concerns and potential purchases including Lima Citizen and papers near Odessa Texas.
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Washington
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
U. S
Freedom Newspapers, Inc
Tax Agency
Department of Justice
Justice Department
Santa Ana
Calif
Hoiles
R. C. Hoiles
Lima
Ohio
Lima Citizen
Odessa
Tex
William M. Fay
Freedom News- Papers
Register
Anaheim
Marysville - Yuba City
Appeal - Democrat
Orange
Daily News
Colorado Springs
Colo
Gazette - Telegraph
Clovis
N-M
News Journal
Bucyrus
Telegraph - Forum
News
Brownsville
Herald
Harlingen
Valley Morning Star
McAllen
Valley Evening Monitor
American
Pampa
la Habra
Star
la Brea
Progress
Gazette
Graveside services for infant Ricky Stockton in Odessa Cemetery
Graveside services were held for Ricky Stockton infant son of Mr and Mrs Bobby Stockton at 3 30 in Odessa Cemetery with Rev R F Simmons officiating. The infant died shortly after premature birth at Medical Center Hospital. Survivors include parents a sister Tammy and grandparents T L Sotchton and Ed Wales. MIDLAND Staff Terry Salazar seven month old daughter of Mrs Josie Salazar died on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital autopsy ordered but suspected natural death. Funeral arrangements were pending with Thomas Funeral Home.
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Fort Stockton
Sallie Virginia Taylor
First Christian Church
Bob Schemp
East Greenwood Cemetery
Weatherford
Owen Funeral Home
Taylor
Pecos County Memorial Hospital
Louisiana
The
Christian Church
Harry Swafford
Odessa
Raymond Swafford
Lubbock
Don Swafford
Guatemala
Joseph Swafford
Seattle
Washington
Walton Harral
Lena Self
Erick
Okla
Ricky Stockton
Bobby Stockton
Bell Trailer Park
R. F. Simmons
Paul A. Rix
Medical Center Hospital
Tammy
T. L. Sotchton
Ed Wales
Olney
Midland
Terry Salazar
Josie Salazar
Midland Memorial Hospital
Justice of the Peace
John Biggs
Thomas Funeral Home
Crash Victim Still Critical Near Andrews
A 21 year old Seminole man, Jerry N. Martin, remained in critical condition at Permian General Hospital after a one car crash on FM 181 about two miles northwest of Andrews that killed 18 year old Al ton Brown.
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Andrews
Valentine
Jerry N. Martin
Permian General Hospital
Alton Brown
Andrews Hospital
Frankel City
Seminole
Brown
Valentine High School
Valentine Cemetery
Monahans CC Elects Officers and Names Manager Search
Monahans Chamber of Commerce directors elected officers Tuesday night with Charlie Baker as president Floyd Copeland as vice president and Mac Hudgins as treasurer A committee including Baker H J Asher and Hudgins was formed to find a replacement for resigned chamber manager R T Wilson.
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Monahans
Monahans Chamber of Commerce
Charlie Baker
Floyd Copeland
Mac Hudgins
R. T. Wilson
Baker
H. J. Asher
Hudgins
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Russell
Atlanta, Ga
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Sheriff's Posse
Daniel Grom
Bangkok
Wolverine
Vlarivalg
Pelletier
B. Fisher
S. Fisher
North Grant FE
Bill Neil Dykstra
Torey Martin
Burleson
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Odessa Drug
Gibson's
Strike It Rich
Clark's
John H. Martin
Winfield
Bill
William C. Dykstra
North Golder
Sul Ross
Clyde S. iCarman
Abilene
S. B. Phillips
Norman L. McNeil
Paul J. Cowan
Hardin-Simmons University
Harold P. Hanson
University of Texas
B. H. Amnstead
College of Engineering
University of Texas, Science and Engineering
William T. Guy
Balmorhea
Barstow
Dell City
Fort Davis
Fort Hancock
Grandfalls
Imperial
Iraan
Marathon
Marfa
McCamey
Pecos
Presidio
Rankin
Sanderson
Sierra Blanca
van Horn
Odessan
Sallie
Virginia Taylor
Carman
Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation
West Texas
Frontier Sheriffs
East 8Th St
Monahans CC
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