Ground Fighting Flares Marine Battalion in Bitter Battle
U S Marines landed in a Viet Cong stronghold near Da Nang triggering a daylong fight. Paratroopers followed with a similar assault near Tuy Hoa. Casualties rose as Communists suffered heavy losses while U S and South Vietnamese forces pressed the coastal offensives.
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Saigon
CPS
da Nang
U.S
An Hoa
UPI
Tom Carpora
178Rd Airborne Brigade
Tuy Hoa
U.S. Marine
Crime Menace to Be Top Congress Topic
President Johnson told Congress crime in the streets is the top urgent issue for its January return. He signed a Washington crime bill and urged attention to crime in all cities, with DC riot controls and police questioning provisions under review. Johnson, at his LBJ Ranch, pushed budget alignment for the 1969 fiscal year and noted upcoming signatures on major measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Johnson
District of Columbia
Lbj Ranch
Congress
Texas Ranch
Texas White House
Vatican City
Paul VI
North Vietnam
Rome
Jahnson
Charles L. Schultze
Washington
Greek Regime Split on Policy Faces Internal Clash
In Athens the Revolutionary Council ruling Greece is divided between moderates led by Premier George Papadopoulos and hardline extremists. Moderates favor a softer stance toward opponents of the April coup, while extremists push continued repression and kept jailed hard-core leftists. Papadopoulos reversed a Christmas amnesty pledge, promising freedom for about 2,600 political prisoners, then Col. Ladas disputed it, saying only about 300 would be released. Other leaders include Stylnigos Patakos and Nicholas Makarezos, with questions on King Constantine’s return and Queen Mother Frederika’s influence amid fears of disunity.
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Athens
Greece
George Papadopoulos
Papadopoulos
Aegean
Leros
Yioura
Col
John Ladas
Ladas
Revolutionary Council
Constantine Karydas
Antonios Skarmakorakis
Civil Aviation Authority
Stylignos Patakos
Nicholas Makarezos
Constantine
Frederika
Pave Way For Relocating KC Air Operations
Outagamie County approves improvements at Greenville airport costing about 200000 to support Kimberly-Clark Corp moving its corporate aircraft from Oshkosh. Planned items include instrument landing system 80000 runway lights 50000 and 40000 plus lengthening southwest runway from 6500 to 7000 feet 30000. Kimberly-Clark aims to relocate by Jan 1969 and will notify Oshkosh county of lease cancellation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appleton
Outagamie
Greenville
Kimberly-Clark Corp
Winnebago County
Oshkosh
Outagamie County
Harry Guest
Kimberly-Clark
Winne
Diamond Match Building Razed for WSUC Expansion
Bids to raze the Diamond Match Company building will be opened at 2 p.m. Thursday Jan. 4 at the bureau of engineering in Madison as Wisconsin State University Oshkosh plans for a larger campus. The site will hold eight tennis courts, intramural fields and a dorm recreation area. If bids are favorable, demolition could start mid January, with work beginning within 10 days of the contract. Demolition follows the building’s 85 years of operation, ending in 1955.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diamond Match Company
Oshkosh
Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh
Bureau of Engineering
Madison
Food Service
Blackhawk Commons
Northwestern
Wisconsin State University - Oshkosh
WSUC
Sai
WSUO
Diamond Match
High and Pearl Avenues
Osceola and
Blackhawk Streets
Star Match Company
Diamond
Louis Radin & Associates
Milwaukee
Edward L
Kaiser
Kaiser Buildings Management Company
State Board of College Regents
Winnebago
Kaiser Buildings
Winnebago County Condemnation Commission
Family seeks home after Christmas house fire in Oshkosh
The Oesterreich family of seven lost their two story frame home to a Christmas night blaze caused by an overheated furnace. They fled during supper and now stay with Mrs Wright, sister to Mrs Oesterreich, while they search for a three bedroom residence. Salvation Army and Red Cross aid have begun, with new clothing, bedding, groceries, and shoes provided. A social worker will assess damage and plan further assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Oesterreich
Oshkosh
Lenard Wright
Pearl Ave
Wright
Salvation Army
Jeanette Jorgenson
Oesterreichs
Red Cross
Oesterreich
Kenneth Navine
Winnebago County
War Deaths Decline Sixth Week in Vietnam
Saigon United Press International reports 166 Americans killed last week, the sixth straight weekly decline. Wounded rise to 1,397, with 635 hospitalized. enemy losses about 242,000 since 1961. South Vietnamese and allied forces inflicted 1,513 Communist deaths. U.S. Army’s 01st Airborne Division adds two brigades to bring total to 478,000 troops deployed.
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South Vietnam
Phu Cat
Saigon
U.S
UPI
U.S. Army
01St Airborne
Vietnam
America
Arsenic Death Probe Widens in Georgia Case
Arsenic death probe widens as authorities exhume the bodies of three Gibbs family members in Cordele Georgia. Janie Gibbs 35 and jailed on murder charges after arsenic found in son Roger Gibbs. Four other family deaths over two years prompting a state investigation and exhumations at Sunnyside Cemetery.
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Cordele, Ga
Janie H. Gibbs
Georgia
Sunnyside Cemetery
Marvin Gibbs
Columbus
Charles Clayton Gibbs
Crisp County Hospital
Melvin Gibbs
Americus
Frederick H. Thompson
Gibbs
Arabi
Cordele
Crisp County
J.D. Ramey
Crisp Superior Court
Sol
D.E. Turk
Experimental city plan outlined by Dr Spilhaus in 1967 NYT
Dr Athelstan Spilhaus described an underground, car free city for 250000 in Minnesota farmland with rooftop open land, vented fumes scrubbing plants, underground sewage processing and modular, disposable buildings. Federal funds plus industry grants totaling about 3000000 supported early planning as total cost estimated at 4 billion.
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Walter Sullivan
New York Times News Service
New York
Athelstan Spilhaus
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Commerce
Stilhaus
Reston
Washington
Spilhaus
Oconomowoc Club Destroyed by Fire
A fire at Lakeshore Supper Club in Oconomowoc Wisconsin caused extensive damage with an estimate of 908 dollars. A maintenance man living above the store escaped injury after the blaze broke out overnight.
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Oconomowoc Club
Oconomowoc
Wis
UPI
Lakeshore
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Marine Battalion
Robert S. McNamara
World Bank
United Nations
Arthur 8
Goldberg
Patakos
Makerezos
KC Air Operations
Society
Winnebagoland
Agaps
Diamond Match Building
Forrest R. Polk
Halsey Science Center
Dempsey Hall
Minnesota
Habitat
Montreal
Njpurens von Halhae
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