Flu May Ease Congestion Holiday Travel Crowds Grow
The Associated Press reports crowds rise on roads rails and skies as Christmas nears while Hong Kong flu may ease congestion. Airlines and bus lines expect record holiday travel with some spreading due to early closings. Officials warn of a peak return period after New Year and note added staff to handle peak traffic at major hubs.
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Associated Press
Virgin McKibben
Greyhound Bus Co
Washington
McKibben
Eastern Airlines
Philadelphia
Florida
Puerto Rico
United Airlines
Air Transport Association
Chicago
Windy City
Dan Vucurevich
O’hare International Airport
New York — Airlines
Port of New York Authority
Greyhound
Trailways Bus Cos
Stolen Fire Alarm Box Returns With Christmas Note
A Buffalo fire alarm box 936 stolen Oct 4 was found Wednesday with a note asking not to open before Christmas unless in danger. Police reported the box bore the message and some firemen joked the thief lacked Christmas spirit.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Pike Plans Third Marriage Facing Possible Ouster
Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, 55, who is planning a third marriage to Diane Kennedy, 31, says he doubts excommunication but notes a difference with being refused communion. He resigned as California bishop to join a Santa Barbara study center. His successor, Bishop C Kilmer Myers, has not publicly approved the wedding scheduled Friday. Kennedy helped write Pike’s book The Other Side about psychic phenomena.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Episcopal
James A. Pike
California
Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions
C. Kilmer Myers
Diane Kennedy
Miss Kennedy
Bishop Pike
Norman Thomas Dies at 84 Socialist Leader
Norman Thomas, six time Socialist party presidential candidate and noted conscience advocate, died at 84 in Huntington New York. He had been moved to Hilaire Farm Nursing Home after a stroke and previously hospitalized at Huntington Hospital. His long career shaped many ideas he championed.
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Huntington
N.Y
Norman Thomas
Hilaire Farm
Margaret Gottsegen
Huntington Hospital
Thomas
Crazed Father Kills Wife and 3 Others Then Dies
In Carlinville Illinois Sherman Kline 38 opened fire at a welfare agency Christmas party killing his wife Lorraine 33 and two social workers Frank Wildgrube 24 Bonnie Albracht 23 and a receptionist Ann Keppler 25. Four children were wounded and he later died from a self inflicted head wound after driving to Missouri. Officials said he was upset agency had come between him and his family.
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Carlinville, Ill
Welfare Agency
Sherman Kline
Illinois Department of Child and Family Services
Lorraine
Frank Wildgrube
Bonnie Albracht
Carlinville
Ann Keppler
Beald
Ill
Michael
Diane
Springfield
Gene
Judy
Kline
Allied and enemy war casualties rise in Vietnam week
In Vietnam, U S and South Vietnamese forces see higher losses. The U S reports 222 KIA and 1,199 WIA. government troops 190 KIA and 815 WIA. allied forces claim 2,059 enemy killed, up from 1,715, with figures likely to rise next week.
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Saigon
U.S
Julie Nixon David Eisenhower Wedding Private Ceremony
Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower plan a private wedding at Marble Collegiate Church with no public coverage. A closed circuit broadcast will reach former President Eisenhower in hospital, with Barbara Anne Eisenhower as bridesmaid and Fernando Echavarria-Uribe as usher.
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Julie Nixon
David Eisenhower
New York
Julie
Lrosses
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Plaza
Gerry van der Heuvel
van der Heuvel
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
David
Barbara Anne
Fernando Echavarria-Uribe
Bogota
Colombia
van de Heuvel
Cosmopolitan Club
Susan Harvin
Houston
Tex
Ransom Plot Breakup Clouds Mackle Heiress Kidnapping
Police broke up a ransom attempt for Barbara Jane Mackle after spotting two men leaving Biscayne Bay with a suitcase of about 500000 dollars. The cash was placed in the bay by her father, developer Robert Mackle, under the kidnapers’ orders. The men fled, one armed with a carbine, as officers exchanged gunfire. Barbara, an Emory College student, had been abducted earlier from a Atlanta motel.
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Miami
Fla
Barbara Jane Mackle
Biscayne Bay
Robert Mackle
Dade County
Mackle
Calsway
Key Biscayne
Barbara
Charles Price
Mackie
Florida
Atlanta
Fred Frohbose
Miami FBI
Frohbose
Barbara Jane
Fred Fox
FBI
Emory College
Paul S. Self
William Sweeney
Brickell Avenue
Self
Sweeney
Massachusetts
Cambodia to Free 12 American Troops. Viet Cong Offers 3
Cambodia announced it will release 12 American soldiers captured over the past year. The Viet Cong proposed freeing three U.S. troops it holds, with possible further releases. Prince Norodom Sihanouk said 11 Americans and a South Vietnamese captured last July would be freed. Names given for the Viet Cong list were Thomas Nelson Jones, Donald L. Smith, and James W. Brigham. The Australian Embassy expected the 12 Americans to fly to Bangkok on commercial airliners Friday.
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Saigon
Cambodia
Viet Cong
U.S
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Phnom Penh
Paris
Thomas Nelson Jones
Donald L. Smith
James W. Brigham
Bangkok
Prince
Washington
Johnson
National Liberation Front
United States
South Vietnam
NLF
North Vietnam
Kennedy names daughter Rory Elizabeth Catherine
Ethel Kennedy announced at a Georgetown University Hospital news conference that she has named her 11th child Rory Elizabeth Catherine. The event took place in Washington and adds another member to the Kennedy family.
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Washington (Ap
Ethel Kennedy
Georgetown University
Hos
Pital
Rory Elizabeth Catherine
Detroit Local 299 votes to keep Hoffa as head
Detroit Local 299 members vote about four to one to retain James R Hoffa as their union leader while Hoffa serves his prison term. The vote confirms continued leadership of the international Teamsters President in the home local.
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Detroit
International
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Union
Seek to Free Pueblo
U S and North Korean representatives met at Panmunjom in their longest session since the Pueblo was captured. The four hour and fifty minute talks yielded no details but the State Department confirmed the talks and signaled work on a statement to speed release of the 82 surviving crewmen.
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Washington
USS
Panmunjom
U.S
Pueblo
State Department
Shriver Accepts Post as U.S. Representative to UN
The New York Times reports Sargent Shriver has accepted President-elect Nixon's invitation to serve as the chief U.S. representative to the United Nations.
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New York
Sargent Shriver
Nixon
U.S
United Nations
New York Times
Mohawk Indians 45 Freed After TwoHour Bridge Blockade
In Massena New York AP report describes 48 Mohawk Indians arrested after a two hour uprising that blocked the international bridge linking the United States and Canada. All but three were released on bond early today.
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Ing
United States
Canada
Five Die in Fire at A and A Hotel in Cleveland
A four story A and A Hotel in downtown Cleveland burned today killing at least five people. Firefighters feared more bodies might be found as they searched other rooms of the aged brick structure.
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Cleveland, Ohio
A&a
U S Steel to Up Prices
U S Steel Corp says it will raise prices on semifinished carbon steel by five dollars a ton and semifinished alloy steel by seven dollars a ton early next month. The move marks the largest price increase in a series of industry adjustments.
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Pittsburgh
US Steel Corp
Nixon backs official gold price steadies world markets
President elect Nixon’s support for the official U S gold price of 35 dollars an ounce steadied European bullion and currencies after gold eased from a six month high. In Florida CAPE KENNEDY Intelsat 3, the powerful satellite, sped toward a stationary outpost over the Atlantic.
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London
Nixon
U.S
Europe
U S Warns North Vietnam Over Sai Gon Attack
Paris dispatch says the United States warned North Vietnam that a Viet Cong assault on Sai Gon could derail peace talks and trigger renewed bombing of the North. Cyrus Vance and Ha Van Lau led the talks, exchanging charges as they failed to break the deadlock on expanded conference procedures.
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Paris
United States
North Vietnam
Saigon
U.S
America
Cyrus R. Vance
Hanoi
Ha van Lau
President Johnson in Bethesda for flu treatment
President Johnson, 60, is in Bethesda Naval Hospital with a low fever and chest cold. White House says he has an upper respiratory infection with bronchial irritation and is in satisfactory condition as Vice President Humphrey also recovers from the flu in Phoenix.
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Washington
Johnson
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Phoenix
Ariz
Hubert H. Humphrey
Los Angeles
George G. Barkley
Cortland College Names Richard C. Jones New President
Dr. Richard C. Jones is named president of the State University College at Cortland. The 53 year old, previously acting president, succeeds Kenneth E. Young who resigned to join the American College Testing Program in Washington D C. Jones has been associate dean of four year colleges and earned degrees from Dartmouth Washington State and the University of New Hampshire.
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Cortland
N.Y
Richard C. Jones
State University College At
Jones
State University
New York City
Kenneth E. Young
American College
Washington, D. C
Bgs
Dartmouth
Washington State
University of New Hampshire
Managers Bid Snubbed by Fuel Oil Deliverymen
A new management offer was rejected by striking fuel oil deliverymen halting deliveries in New York. The walkout leaves hundreds of thousands in cold apartments and risks a city health crisis. Union and management pledge emergency deliveries to hospitals and institutions. 36 hospitals and nursing homes did not receive promised deliveries. City official Marvin Gersten says both sides failed to meet Tuesday's agreement.
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NEW York
Marvin Gersten
Purchase
Eight Paterson cops indicted for civil rights violations
A federal grand jury charged eight Paterson police officers with conspiring to violate civil rights during July riots. The indictment cites assaults on a Black resident and vandalism of Black-owned businesses under the 1872 Civil Rights Act. Arraignment is set for January 3. officers to receive notices, not arrest.
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U.S
David Satz Jr
New Jersey
Sats
Paterson
Civil Rights Coalition
Puerto Rico
Apollo 8 Crew Activates Fuel Cells for Moon Trip
The Apollo 8 team began activating three fuel cells to power the spacecraft on its planned 20 hour lunar orbit. Hydrogen and oxygen are pumped at extreme cold to generate electricity and water. Astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders capped training as countdown neared launch at 6 51 a m EST Saturday. The Delta rocket previously launched a satellite successfully and Lovell Anders wives joined flight crew in Houston area.
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Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
William A. Anders
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