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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1969
Page
5
U S troops engaged as many as 20 North Vietnamese near the Cambodian border about 83 miles north of Saigon. Jet bombers, armed helicopters, tanks, and APCs backed 72 enemy dead and 40 bunkers demolished. Light American casualties reported. fighting continued.
An infant at Tucson Medical Center showed classic heroin withdrawal within a day of birth. Doctors described restlessness, runny nose, and cramping as signs of addiction. The mother and father, Yaqui Indians in their twenties, reportedly became addicts after a prior child. After 15 days of treatment the baby improved and is expected to live a normal life. The child left the hospital for home with his grandmother before Christmas.
Freezing rain and rain expected tonight with snow possible and up to about 3 inches of accumulation. Blowing and drifting snow likely as temperatures fall. Sunday brings more snow and continued cold with lows around 30 and highs 25 to 35. Travelers and interests warned to plan for wintery conditions.
A Viet Nam bound cargo ship loaded with 2000 tons of TNT and rockets burned in the mid Pacific. Fourteen of 39 crewmen aboard the SS Badger State were picked up within hours by the Greek freighter Khian Star. Captain Charles Wilson reported the cargo had broken loose and the ship was breaking up in 2 foot swells about 580 miles northeast of Midway Island. An explosion tore a hole in the hull as a rescue plane hunted for survivors amid fears the munitions could blow up. The Badger State had loaded 8800 rockets and tonnage of bombs at Bangor near Seattle and was headed to Da Nang.
The government announced a 32.5 percent increase in elderly Medicare supplementary insurance premiums to 5.30 dollars monthly next year plus a 52 dollar deductible for standard hospital stays. Health secretary Finch blamed rising medical costs while President Nixon signaled support for a tax reform bill with a Social Security rise. The changes expand the program’s funding, and critics say premiums favor physicians and inflate costs.
A 33 year old Pomona woman, Wilda Dean Cox, was killed when her car rolled several times on K 68 three miles west of Ottawa. Johnny C Leach, Valerie Taylor, and two Cox children were injured. Cynthia Welsh was treated and released. Cox, born October 22 1932 in Huntsville Arkansas, left a husband Billy O Cox and father Walter Cain. Funeral arrangements are with D W Newcomer's Chapel Kansas City.
A Boeing 727 with 28 passengers and crew was hijacked to Havana then returned to Miami after the gunman released the group. Passengers sang happy birthday for Linda Brennan on her 21st birthday aboard the flight from New York LaGuardia to Chicago.
Investigators from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Rice County Sheriff's office continue probing Kathy Adams disappearance on Christmas Day. Harold Nye says no firm conclusion yet, as officers piece together leads. The six year old vanished while riding her bike Thursday, later found at a farm home northwest of town. she reported being picked up by a man in a red car. Her clothing was found in a nearby creek bed.
Royal Oak Michigan AP report notes five million bottle caps gathered by fifth and sixth grade classes in the basement of an Oakland elementary school. Project led by math teacher Peter Fine aims to dramatize the idea of a million while attracting national attention through caps and letters from California and Nevada. Principal Julie Sajo explains that the cache of caps must be moved to the basement to protect the floors from collapse.
Maryanne DeFusco received greeting cards from brothers Joseph of Waterbury Connecticut and Edmund of Los Angeles California. Both said their choices were independent, yet mailed identical cards to their astonished sister.
RCA Distribution Corp promotes a holiday bonus for buyers of a new RCA Color TV at Crites Appliance between Christmas and New Year. The incentive ranges from ten to thirty dollars, varying by model and purchase terms.
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