Humphrey Backs 30 Hour Christmas Viet Nam Ceasefire
Vice President Humphrey and congressional leaders praised a 30 hour Viet Nam Christmas ceasefire and urged extending it to the Vietnamese New Year. Mansfield proposed widening the halt to January 21 with continued US official support and new counteroffers, while Pope Paul VI’s pleas were noted as helpful.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Viet Nam
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
U. S
Saigon
Earelier
Mansfield
Humphrey
Waverly
Minn
Hanoi
Paul VI
Johnson
Southeast Asia
Johnson Keeps Mum On Truce Proposals
President Johnson stayed silent on the 30 hour Christmas Viet Nam truce announced from Saigon. White House aides declined comment while Johnson read reports and discussed world affairs by phone with Bundy. Republican leaders praised the move as a test for negotiations amid broader Viet Nam concerns.
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Johnson
Austin
Tex
Saigon
Viet Nam
Joseph Laitin
White House
Laitin
Pope Paul VI
Henry Cabot Lodge
McGeorge Bundy
City To Continue Study Of GE Power Plant Bid
City commissioners voted to continue negotiations with General Electric on a STAG unit generating 11,500 kilowatts for about 1.765 million dollars to meet the 1967 summer peak. The plan follows a 1964 Burns and McDonnell study and may require a new 8-inch gas line with a 15 thousand dollar deposit for 20 years. Public meeting set for Dec 29 to approve or disapprove.
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Don Black
City Commission
General Electric
Burns and McDonnell
General Electric Company
Charles Williamson
Lyman Corlis
Laurence Wightman
The
Gas Service Co
Don Capper
Food shortages linger into 1966 across beef milk and more
By the Associated Press shortages of beef pork lamb butter milk and eggs plague shoppers as 1965 fades. Meat production runs about 10 percent below last year and milk output falls in the Midwest as farmers shift to beef and hogs. Butter production trails 1964 with higher prices while egg supplies fall due to holiday demand. Prices are expected to ease early in 1966 as demand recedes.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Weather forecast turns colder with mix of rain and snow
County forecast predicts a colder trend with occasional rain tonight changing to snow by Friday morning and lasting into Friday. Tonight’s low in the 30s, Friday’s high near 40, with Wednesday’s high 61 and today’s low 54. Precipitation trace in the last 24 hours. barometer at 29.87.
Rome to test 10 day car ban through wedge district
Rome will start a 10 day experiment Monday banning private automobiles from a 10 block long wedge through the heart of the city's shopping and restaurant district. The ban is the latest effort to solve the city's traffic problem.
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Rome
City engineering faces delay on new tree truck
City engineer Steve James told the city commission a recently ordered special tree truck has not arrived. Ordered July 28, it failed to fit 1965 or 1966 models and was delayed after changes by Moore Chevrolet Co. The truck, sent to a cone tractor in Oklahoma, was promised for 30 to 49 days, risking missing mid November tree removal.
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Pereson
Ottawa
Ottawa High School
Vern Wadkins
Wadkins
Main Street
West Fifth Street
Maple Street
Harry Gilliland
City Commission
Steve James
Moore Chevrolet Co
Oklahoma
James
District 290 and city plan traffic around new Ottawa High
The Ottawa city commission and Unified School District 290 discussed traffic near the new Ottawa High School. They favored improving Ash Street and Eleventh Street to create a circular route with a 36 foot concrete roadway. Bid timing, sidewalks, and potential rail crossing controls were debated with a public hearing planned for Eleventh and Ash Streets.
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City Commission
Unified School District 290
Ottawa High School
Commission
Steve James
James
Ash Street
Tenth Street
Fifteenth Street
Eleventh Street
Willow Street
Olive Street
Main Street
Ninth
Tenth Streets
Fifteenth
Laurence Wightman
Ash
Wightman
Eleventh and
Ash Streets
Provisional Government Crises in Dominican Republic
In Santo Domingo the Dominican provisional government faces its deepest crisis since a six hour June battle in Santiago that killed fourteen. Rebels visited the city prompting clashes with the army as Inter-American Peace Force help arrived. Rebel leaders demand dismissal of military chiefs amid accusations of provocation and bombing.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
Santiago
The
IAPF
Juan Bosch
Dominican Revolutionary Party
Armed Forces
Francisco Rivera Caminero
Hector GarciaeGodoy
Rivera Caminero
GarciaeGodoy
Franciscco Caamano Deno
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Michigan
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Massachusetts
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Saltone Stall
Armed Services Committee
Walter Dengel
Franklin County Red Cross
Otetawa University
Dengel
Franklin County
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Gilliland
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Naomi Caleb
Hickory Inn
Allen Reed
Rand R Recreation
Reid Harder
Blue Room
Don Farrell
Andy’s
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Spot Tavern
Guy Nolan
David M. Clark
Citgo
N. Main
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Seventh Street
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Santa Fe
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