Christmas Eve blast hits Saigon bar in wartime
Fire units battled a blast that torn through a Saigon bar on Christmas Eve as officers planned dinner. Lt. Col. Louis A. Breault of Auburn Massachusetts, a bar resident, said the building could have been packed with workers returning home. The explosion occurred while Saigon newsmen met Vietnamese officials near a U.S. Information Service facility, shattering conference-room windows.
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Namese
Louis A. Breault
Auburn
Mass
Saigon
U.S
Beauty Queen Donna Weds University Beau
Beauty queen Donna Axum, Miss America 1964, eloped with university sweetheart Michael Allen Buckley. The couple, both seniors at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, wed in Pine Bluff Arkansas. They honeymoon in Bloomington Illinois with plans to attend the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Year’s Day.
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Bloomington
Ill
Michael Allen Buckley
Donna Axum
Buckley
Donna
Pine Bluff
Ark
University of Arkansas At
Dallas
Tex
Floods force mass evacuations along California coast
Floods inundated towns from Guerneville to Eureka as 14 counties face disaster. Refugees shelter in gymnasiums and Red Cross shelters while helicopters, Coast Guard help, and a carrier revival effort assist emergencies. One death reported. hundreds stranded, families separated, and Christmas plans ruined.
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Red Cross
California
San Francisco
Humboldt County
Bennington
Eureka
Coast Guard
Odessa American subscription rates notice
The Odessa American lists subscription rates by carrier and mail. Carrier prices are $1.60 per month in Odessa and Ketor County, 35 cents per week in Retail Trading Zone, and higher in All Other Zone. Mail prices are $18 per year, $11 six months, $5 three months, or $1.75 per month.
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Odessa American
East Fourth Street
Odessa
Texas
Odessa, Texas
Ketor County
Rites Slated For Odessan Citizen Vivian DeBerry
Funeral services for Mrs Vivian Mae DeBerry 56 of Odessa are set for 3 p.m. Sunday at West Park Baptist Church with Rev C B Harper officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens under Paul A. Rix Funeral Home direction. She died Wednesday at Medical Center Hospital born October 17 1908 in Rule Texas married July 15 1929 in Frederick Oklahoma. They lived in Odessa 15 years, moving from San Angelo in 1949. Survivors include her husband a daughter Mrs Mickey J Mullen a sister Mrs Leta Mae Ryan and four grandchildren.
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Byron
West Park Baptist Church
C. B. Harper
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Paul A. Rix
Odessa
San Angelo
Mickey J. Mullen
Melody Lane
Leta Mae Ryan
Winters
Carroll R. Dale
Wink High School
Daryl Roberts
Kermit
Goldie Stewart
Jal
N.M
First Methodist Church
Kermit Cemetery
Cooper Funeral Chapel
Stewart
Winkler County Memorial Hospital
Moriarty
James B. Stewart
Lovington
N. M
The
Eastern Star
Mickey Taylor
Oklahoma City
Okla
Marion T. Honea
Hargill, Tex
Altos Hornos Tops One Million Tons of Steel In 1964
Mexico City UPI reports Altos Hornos has surpassed one million tons of steel ingots produced this year marking a first for any mill in Mexico. The firm’s output milestone highlights a surge in national steel production and signals robust industrial activity.
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Mexico City
UPI
Altos Hornos
Viet ET comments on Coe term as events unfold
In Washington, sources report President Johnson's aides hope the Khanh generals' purge in South Vietnam is temporary. Civilian Premier Tran Van Huong faces three options: condemn the purge and threaten resignation, reestablish the High National Council quietly, or muddle through with the military to make peace.
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Washington
Johnson
Khanh
South Viet Nam
United States
Tran van Huong
Legislative Council
Huong
High National Council
Ike and Mamie Eisenhower Plan Quiet Christmas Dinner
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife Mamie planned a quiet Christmas at their El Dorado Country Club home in Palm Desert California. Spokesmen said their son John Eisenhower and his wife were to join the elder couple with grandchildren David 16 Barbara Anne 15 Susan and Mary Jane 13. An uncle of the former First Family was also mentioned in the outline of Christmas plans.
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Palm Desert
Calif
UPI
Joel Carlso
Boone
Ida
Dwight Eisenhower
Granacnuarea
John Eisenhower
David
Barbara Anne
Susan
Mary Jane
Foreign tourism spending rises in 1964
Washington reports foreign visitors to the United States by year end will total nearly one million, spending about $375 million. The Commerce Department notes both the number of travelers and their expenditures set new records for the country.
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Washington
UPI
United States
The
Commerce Department
Mexico approves bonds to fund development program
Mexico City officials report Congress has authorized the Finance Ministry to issue 100 million dollars in economic development bonds and 3.4 million dollars in national savings bonds.
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Mexico City
UPI
Congress
Finance Ministry
Amorous Christmas Custom Brings Small Tax on Kiss
Atlanta AP report details 10 year old Bobby McEver selling mistletoe and kiss licensing at his home. He hung signs reading Missin Your Kissin and Kissin Licens Sold Here and enlisted friends to ring doorbells. Total sales surpassed 40 dollars in early reports.
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Atlanta, Ga
Botby McEver
Bobby
McEver
Choir Sings Christmas Carols for Ailing Pastor in Hospital
In Seattle, the Very Rev. John Leffler, dean of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, cannot attend Christmas services due to injuries from a traffic accident. On Wednesday night, part of the service visited him in the hospital as the cathedral choir sang carols.
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Seattle
Wash
John Leffler
St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral
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