Bombing Jungle Base To Chase Reds From Saigon
U S B52 bombers pounded a Viet Cong jungle base 25 miles northwest of Saigon to clear enemy forces around the capital. The raids followed the Tan Son Nhut air base attack as U S casualty figures showed a weekly lull amid ongoing ground skirmishes.
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Henry M. Jackson
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Navy
Two Sisters Die in Route 31 429 Collision
In Sanborn near Niagara Falls, a car and a tractor-trailer collided at Routes 31 and 429. Victims were sisters Mrs. Josephine Belling 75 and Mrs. Emma Knoell 80 of Wheatfield. Josephine's husband George Belling 75 was critically injured along with three others. The truck driver Roger Lundquist 27 of Buffalo had minor injuries.
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Niagara Falls
Josephine Belling
Emma Knoell
Wheatfield
George Belling
Josephine
Mount St. Mary’s Hospital
Lewiston Heights
Roger Lundquist
Buffalo
Rochester Toddler Dies After Candy Bar Choke
Fourteen month old Steven G Morrison died at Genesee Hospital after choking on a candy bar at home in Rochester. Police say the child took a bite before his grandmother could intervene. he was the son of Mr and Mrs Richard Morrison.
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Genesee Hospital
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Africans Press Oil Embargo for Rhodesia Moves
African members of the Commonwealth press for a staged oil embargo on Rhodesia as Britain considers a tough sanctions resolution. George Brown notes possible council action but seeks an enforceable and practical approach amid 5 pm est meeting plans. Eisenhower checks into Walter Reed for gallbladder removal and related tests. He declares health is good and follows doctors advice.
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Washington
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Gettysburg
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Bernstein Named To State Welfare Board In New York
Albany AP reports David Bernstein president and editor of the Binghamton Sun Bulletin was appointed to the State Board of Social Welfare replacing C Vernon Stratton of Oxford. Gov Rockefeller announced the move and Bernstein will serve until July 1 1971. Bernstein 51 was born in Hollis and educated at the International School in Geneva. He started at Ithaca Journal News, led Middletown Daily Record in 1956, and became Binghamton editor in 1960.
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Train Hits Abandoned Car In Macedon Crash
A New York Central passenger train with 75 aboard struck an automobile left on a garade crossing in Macedon east of Rochester. No injuries reported. The stolen car, found at Canandaigua, was demolished as the locomotive and nine cars stayed on the tracks.
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Canandaigua
LBJ to Return To Washington For Few Days
President Johnson plans to fly back to Washington within days for meetings with key officials after 19 days at his Texas hill country ranch recovering from twin operations. He has kept a busy Austin schedule with officials, aiming to return this week or early next, then host a National Council on the Arts dinner before a longer Texas visit for Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
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Tex
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Washington
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Federal Building
White House
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National Council On the Arts
Texas
Sheppard Talks of Suicide If Convicted at Trial
Samuel H. Sheppard, acquitted in the 1954 bludgeon slaying of Marilyn Sheppard, told NBC Tonight that if convicted he would have shot himself in the courtroom or on the street rather than return to prison. He said he carried a pistol into the courtroom and would have pulled it from his insides in a courtroom on the street.
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Samuel H. Sheppard
Marilyn
Sheppard
National Broadcasting Company
Johnny Carson
Carson
Cleveland
Ohio
Waters Recede From California Central Valley Floods
Swollen rivers fall back from flooded homes in Tulare and Kern Counties as authorities monitor the Salinas River crest. National Guardsmen aid 200 evacuees from Porterville while Johnsson dale residents await aid by airlift. One dead and one missing. property damage in the millions. bridges washed out.
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Wedness
Meadville
Pittsburgh
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Fire at Turkish barracks leaves 65 dead in Erzurum
In Erzurum, Turkey, a nighttime blaze in a soldier barracks killed 65 and injured 27 when a gasoline tin exploded near a stove. Some victims trampled while fleeing, as Gen. Fikret Esen confirmed the toll. Erzurum lies about 650 miles east of Istanbul.
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Turkey
Fikret Esen
Istanbul
Unseasonably Warm Weather Continues Through Saturday
Albany reports New York State weather remains unseasonably warm through Saturday with temperatures in the 50s and 60s in many areas. Intermittent showers are also in the forecast, the Weather Bureau said.
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N. Y
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Weather Bureau
Powell to be seated if he returns to New York
Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin says he will drop opposition to seating Rep. Adam Clayton Powell if the Harlem Democrat can return to New York without jail. Powell faces four contempt counts and plans weekly payments toward a $164,000 libel judgment, with his aide signaling a broader financial statement after year’s start.
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Adam Clayton Powell
New Congress
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C. Sumner Stone
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New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph A. Brust
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Saigon Mayor Taken To Hospital After Arrest Incident
Saigon mayor Van Van Cua who is a doctor and paratrooper colonel entered a hospital for a checkup and rest less than 12 hours after U S military police arrested and handcuffed him at the Saigon riverfront. Officials said Dua was disarmed after brandishing a Thompson submachine gun.
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South Viet Nam
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Birch Society Claims Help in Reagan Win
John Birch Society founder Robert Welch says its members helped elect Ronal d Reagan California governor. A Reagan spokesman declines to credit the group and says millions of Californians voted for Reagan. A Brown spokesman notes the defeat supports prior claims.
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John Birch Society
Ronald Reagan
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Humphrey Signals U.S. Readiness To Talk Peace
Vice President Hubert Humphrey said the United States is ready to negotiate to end the Vietnam War. He spoke at a Miami Beach breakfast tied to the National Council of Churches gathering urging candor from the government. He defended hard choices, criticized peace demonstrators, and urged churches to push for ending the arms race.
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Fla
Hubert H. Humphrey
United States
Viet Nam
General Assembly
National Council of Churches
Post Office predicts 8.5 billion holiday letters this year
The Post Office Department forecast 42 pieces of holiday mail per person this year, totaling 8.5 billion pieces nationwide. The figure would surpass last year’s record by about 300 million.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Panade
Nuclear Weapons Ban From Outer Space Agreed On
President Johnson announced a treaty among the United States the Soviet Union and others to bar nuclear weapons from outer space. The draft pact by the UN Outer Space Committee would also ensure free access to the moon and celestial bodies and allow installations by any nation. Johnson said he would seek Senate ratification early next year calling it the most important arms control step since the 1963Limited Test Ban Treaty. France and Red China had not ratified that earlier pact.
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Tex
Johnson
United States
Soviet Union
White House
Outer Space Committee
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France
Red China
Moon
Radcliffe Girls Win New Harvard Inroad
Radcliffe undergraduates and graduate students will be allowed to use the Lamont Library at Harvard starting spring term. Library director Merle Fainsorh said Harvard’s move toward coeducation will be complete except for social clubs, which remain male only.
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Radcliffe
Harvard University
Lamont
Harvard
Merle Fainsoh
Burglars Steal Food From Phoenix Charity Dining Hall
Burglars took 400 pounds of meat and 25 dozen eggs from St. Vincent de Paul Society’s dining room in Phoenix on a Wednesday. The stolen provisions were destined for hundreds of hungry poor and destitute people at Christmas.
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Phoenix
Ariz
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Syria seizes Iraq Petroleum Co property in Damascus
Syria's socialist government announced executive seizure of all Western owned Iraq Petroleum Co assets in Damascus and new high royalties on oil moving to Europe. The measure targets transit royalties for the first nine months and puts the back tax at over 9.3 million dollars.
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Damascus
Iraq Petroleum Co
Damascus Radio
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