South Vietnamese Score Largest War Victory in Mekong Delta
In the Mekong Delta battle, South Vietnamese forces killed hundreds of Viet Cong in swamp combat, with officials tallying 365 Communist deaths and U.S. reports noting 67 Vietnamese dead and 102 wounded, including five American advisers. American units near Hoi An also fought, with 21 Viet Cong killed initially and total fatalities later reaching 94. In Can Tho area, three U.S. advisers and three Vietnamese defenders were killed in an ambush.
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Saigon
UPI
Mekong
Hoi An
1St Air Cavalry Divison
U.S
Junction City
Tay Ninh
Rice Bowl Delta
Robert Kaylor
Kaylor
Chuong Thien
Delta
Can Tho
Heart transplant patient enters crucial recovery period
In Cape Town 55 year old Louis Washkansky, first recipient of a human heart transplant from Denise Darvall, entered the most delicate phase of recuperation. Doctors reported no clear signs of rejection, though antibodies typical of rejection may develop in about a week.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Washkansky
Marius Barnard
Ann
One Hurt In Crash on E County Trunk Early Today
An Omro man, John Klepp, 53, was injured when his 1960 auto left County Trunk E east of Bradley Road, crashed through a mailbox and bridge railing, end ending on its top in a creek. He suffered non serious injuries.
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OMRO
John Klepp
Rt. 1
Bradley Road
Winnebgao County
Klepp
Oshkosh City Meat Inspection Puts Safety Ahead
Oshkosh meat inspectors say local standards since 1950 keep city rules ahead of federal and Wisconsin changes. New federal law requires licensed veterinarians for ante mortem and postmortem checks and stages three years for compliance. Oshkosh will inspect all meat including custom slaughtered product to prevent surplus meat entering public channels. The Common Council will review an agreement with the state. no extra cost is involved as compensation comes from the state. Poultry inspection becomes mandatory statewide January 1, 1969.
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Oshkosh
R. H. Elbing
Wisconsin
Elbing
Victor Rossing
Milwaukee
Ashkosh
Rossing
Congress
Dr. Elbing
Department
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture
Oshkosh Health Department
Mediation Sought in Oshkosh Teacher Pay Impasse
The Oshkosh area board of education agrees with the Oshkosh Education Association to submit the teachers salary dispute to a mediator appointed by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. Negotiations since July 1967 reached an impasse on Nov 28 and the parties may move to mediation as the WERC assigns a mediator.
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Oshkosh Area Board of Education
Oshkosh Education Association
Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission
Robert Dalton
OEA
Harold G. Stewart
Oshkosh School Board
Northwestern
Dalton
WERC
Commission
DEA
First Negro Astronaut Dies in Crash at Edwards AFB
Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr., America's first Black astronaut, was killed when an F104 Starfighter crashed on landing at Edwards Air Force Base California. He was 31 and preparing a Defense Department project to orbit two men in a space lab in 1970.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Robert H. Lawrence Jr
America
Air Force
Lawrence
Defense Department
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Harvey J. Royer
Royer
Aerospace Research Pilot School
Navy
Peru plane crash kills 67 with four Americans aboard
Huanuco Peru AP responders recovered burned bodies from the Andes rim after Faucett Airlines four engine DC6 crashed near Cerro Carpish on the Immaculate Conception weekend. Sixty seven aboard included 45 passengers and 22 others. four Americans were among the foreigners listed.
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Huanuco
Peru
Andes Mountains
Faucett Airlines
Cerro Carpish
Tingo Maria
Lima
Carlos Farje Allende
Faucett
Tinga Maria
Garnishment Law Upheld by State Supreme Court
Madison Wisconsin’s wage garnishment statute was affirmed by the State Supreme Court in Milwaukee. The majority rejected equal protection challenges and held debtors from individuals to corporations could be subject to garnishment before judgment. Chief Justice Currie authored the decision with Justices Heffernan and Wilkie dissenting.
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Madison
UPL
Wisconsin
State Supreme Court
Milwaukee
George Currie
Nathan Heffernan
Horace Wilkie
Ripon College Student Killed In Highway Crash
An 18 year old Ripon College student Walter L. Nielsen of Oak Park Illinois died late Friday when his small foreign car left East Oshkosh Street and struck a large tree after crossing a ditch. The collision occurred about 11 57 p.m. near city limits. Nielsen was pronounced dead at Ripon Municipal Hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending. The crash raised Wisconsin 1967 highway death toll to 1053.
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Ripon
Ripon College
Oshkosh Street
Walter L. Nielsen
Oak Park
Ripon Municipal Hospital
Fond du Lac
Allan Jaber
Speier Funeral Home
Nielsen
Richard Miller
Maribel
Manitowoc County
Wisconsin
Miller
Denmark
Table Shows SS Benefits and Tax Levels
Washington AP reports tables comparing present law and the compromise Social Security bill showing maximum retirement payments and taxes by period. It lists 1968 to 1987 and afterward figures, plus an increase in the maximum earnings subject to tax from 6600 to 7800 next year.
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Washington
Social Security Bill Near-Certain Passage By Next Week
Key senators say the House won the money battles and the final bill will reach the president for signature by mid next week. The compromise provides a 13 percent boost for 24 million beneficiaries with a $55 minimum, far from the administration’s proposed 15 to 59 percent hikes. Democratic dissent rose on the Senate floor, but Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long remained confident the measure would pass.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Senate
Senate House
Russell B. Long
D-Law
Finance Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means Committee
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