Three GIs Killed As Bus Flips
A charter bus carrying 40 servicemen from Ft. Bliss Texas overturned in a heavy snowstorm near the Texas New Mexico border killing three men and injuring 24. The dead were Pvt Raymond E West Pvt Robert Anthony Washing and Pvt Billy B Teeter. Injured were rushed to nearby hospitals as icy roads hampered emergency crews. The bus was en route to Dallas with others from Ft Bliss taking holiday leave. Ambulances from several towns aided the scene.
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EL Paso, Tex
UPI
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Texas-New Mexico
U.S. 180
el Paso
Guadalupe Mountain Range
Raymond E. West
Robert Anthony Washingboth
Kansas City
Billy B. Teeter
Weatherby, Mo
el Paso Natural Gas Co
Guadalupe
William Beaumont General Hospital
Sam
Campbell
Dallas
Wag Horn
Pecos
Alpine
Midland
Carlsbad
N.M
U.S. Army
River Bridge Collapse Traps 57 in Ohio River
Divers battled swift currents as the 39 year old suspension bridge collapsed sending some 100 vehicles into the icy water. Eight dead and many missing, with crews using derrick boats to search amid criticism over the bridge’s condition.
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Point Pleasant
W.va
UPI
Ohio
Zabinski
D. B. Morgan
West Virginia
T. A. Welty
William Edmondson
King
N.C
Hennis Freight Co
Winston- Salem
Detroit
West Texas Storm Wanes After Heavy Snow and Ice
A late autumn storm weakened in West Texas as warm air began thawing the Permian Basin. The Odessa Midland area saw up to an inch more snow, widespread icy roads triggered traffic crashes, and one fatality occurred on I-20 near Crane Avenue. Temperatures ranged from 20 to 42 degrees with power outages in Alpine and lingering travel hazards statewide.
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West Texas
Permian Basin
U.S. Weather Bureau
Terminal
Midland-Odessa
Alpine
Marfa
Odessa-Midland
Sheriff’s Office
Odessa
Interstate 20
Crane Avenue
Odessa- Midland
Wink
Weather Bureau
Seminole
Stanton
Fort Davis
Pecos
Fort Stockton
Dalhart
Texas
del Rio
Junction
Abilene
Wichita Falls
Panhandle
Lubbock
Lufkin
Texarkana
Injun Woody Debuts in The Odessa American
The Odessa American introduces a new humor column titled With Some Reservations by Injun Woody, a weekly five day feature by Woodrow W. Palmer. Palmer, son of Miami Indian leader Harley Palmer, writes from the Gazette Telegraph background and recalls Will Rogers as a childhood influence. The column appears in 30 papers nationwide and starts Monday in The American.
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Odessa American
Woody
Woodrow W. Palmer
Colorado Springs
Ada E. Palmer
Peoria
Insurt Woody
Miami
Okla
Quapaw Indian Agency
Will Rogers
Palmer
Gazette Telegraph
Thinking of a Gift for Mother-in-Law Sparks Cheer
A light musing on selecting an appropriate gift for a wife’s mother offers a pleasant, wishful reflection for several men.
Australian Prime Minister Holt Reported Missing in Skin-Diving
Police launched a land sea and air search after an unconfirmed report that Prime Minister Harold Holt was missing while skin diving near his Portsea home 60 miles south of Melbourne. Zara Holt and Deputy PM John McEwen were alerted as arrangements were made for her to travel to Melbourne.
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Melbourne
Australia
Harold E. Holt
Holt
Portsea
Zara
Canberra
John McEwen
Pickup Driver Dies After I-20 Wreck in Ice Storm
A 44 year old Odessan Edward Dewey Thetford died when his 1968 pickup skidded on icy Interstate 20 just east of Crane Avenue, crashing into an abutment. The storm caused 38 minor accidents and left roadways slick with snow and ice. Thetford, employed by Midwest Equipment Co., was married with three children and was a World War II veteran.
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Thetford
Crane Avenue
Auto
West Texas
Edward Dewey Thetford
East 38Th
Doug Thompson
Thompson
Justice of the Peace
J. A. Purifoy
O. A. Brookshire
Brookshire
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Midwest Equipment Co
Marysville
Big Spring
Imogene
Eddie Gene Thetford
James Thetford
Ronnie Steen
M. S. Thetford
A.M. Thetford
Collinsville
C. D. Thetford
Gainsville
Albert Fleitman
Munster
Kenneth Clark
Gainesville
C. L. Newton
British Head Faces Revolt By Cabinet
London backed cabinet revolt over arms to South Africa. Harold Wilson faces a possible challenge as ministers including George Brown James Callaghan Denis Healey and Ray Gunter press to ease the arms embargo in the new year.
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London
South Africa
Harold Wilson
Wilson
House of Commons
Foree
George Brown
Home
James Callaghan
Denis Healey
Ray Gunter
Roy Jenkins
John Dickinson
London Evening News
Willson
Raids on Hanoi Area Continue Amid Air Defenses
U.S. pilots raid Hanoi Haiphong for the third straight day as monsoon weather eases. In Bong Son Plain, American cavalry and South Vietnamese forces report 104 Communists killed after two days of fighting and 22 U.S. deaths with 52 wounded. U.S. 1st Air Cavalry captured a village and found 47 enemy bodies with 57 more scattered.
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Saigon
Bong Son
U.S. 1St Cavalry Division
My Ar
U.S
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