Shoplifting Rising Nationwide Driven by Teens and Housewives
A 1960s style overview notes rising shoplifting losses, spanning $186 million to $2 billion estimates nationwide. Teens and housewives are highlighted as primary culprits, with motives from status symbols to price pressures. Retailers respond with laws, security guards, room policing, and community watch efforts.
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Progressive Grover Magazine
Saul T. Astor
Management Safeguards Inc
New York
Pacific Beach
Calif
London thieves steal 250000 in bullion from silver smith
London robbers cut through a steel safe with a thermic lance and escaped with 250000 dollars worth of bullion, gold, silver sheets, ingots, and Christmas whisky. The heist was carried out overnight and involved a spree of high value loot from a London silver smith.
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London
Cuba says capture of Miami based exile band
The government announced it captured five Cuban exiles who landed near Havana as part of a larger armed group. Details on their nationalities and affiliations were not fully disclosed. The incident underscores ongoing tensions involving exile groups opposed to the Cuban regime.
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Cuba
Cabi
Gmina
Iron Miami
Fla
Pinar del Rio
Mie Cla
Astronauts Cleared In Checkup For Apollo 8 Flight
Apollo 8 crew, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders, passed a three hour medical exam and prepared for simulator training as countdown began for the Saturn V mission. Dr Charles Berry praised their health and readiness for the Christmas Eve orbit.
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Air Force
Frank Hormat
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
William A. Anders
Delivered Secrets to Russ Fined in Aldershot Case
ALDERSHOT England a young Lechiician was convicted today of passing secret documents to the Russians. He received a fine of 140. Magistrate John Drew noted the maximum penalty was the fine or three months in jail. Clive Edwin Bisnd a 20 year old at the Farnborough Royal Air Force establishment had already spent seven weeks in jail awaiting trial. Prosecutor Peter Baynes said Brand handed 11 documents detailing test results for spare parts of a guided missile to the Soviet Embassy. Defense attorney Edmund Pockwell said Brand lived in a dream world and is not a spy but a Walter Milly character who dreams himself into something he is not.
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Aldershot
England
John Drew
Clive Edwin Bisnd
Pholyumyraver
Farnborough Royal Air Force
Brew
Peter Baynes
Brand
Edmund Pockwell
Walter Milly
Guard Goes Off Prisoner Deserted at Cummins Prison Farm
Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas reports a guard left his post with an inmate and drove a milled rusa to a nearby town. Later the inmate called in to say he had been deserted and the guard did not return.
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Cummins Prison Farm
Ark
Cummins Prison
An Byale
Bombings Continue Across Mexico In 36 Hour Span
Bombings in Guadalajara and Ixtacalco injure nine and halt early Sunday at the government party glass house and the Mexican Workers Confederation building. Police doubled patrols as authorities label the attacks a continuing campaign with five blasts in 36 hours.
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Mexico City
Guadalajara
Mexico
Ixtacalco
Metropolitan Police
Raul Mendiolea Cere
Cera
Government Party
Mexican Workers Confederation
Navy Band Leader Relinquishes Baton
Washington DC Cmdr Anthony Mitch ell, longtime leader of the US Navy Band, will relinquish the podium December 30 to Donald Stauffer. Stauffer, a 26 year Navy veteran and assistant leader for two years, becomes the fourth conductor since the Navy Band’s 1925 beginnings. He earned a PhD in music education from Catholic University and joined the band in 1942.
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Anthony Mitchell
Navy
Donald Staufler
Staufler
Ines Congress
Stauffer
Catholic University
Joadir
Standard & Poor Index closes with mixed results
Standard and Poor’s closing stock indexes show varied figures for 500 stocks, with detailed price levels across industries and rails. The report notes high and low marks for 1968 era values, including notable figures for rail and industrial sectors and month‑to‑month and year‑to‑year changes.
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New York
UPI
Standard & Poor
Indus
UELAR
Grain Market Figures Mixed on Chicago Trades and Global Signals
Chicago Board of Trade activity shows soybeans and meal posting early gains while corn and wheat mixed amid government price moves. Reports from Chicago and Los Angeles detail futures shifts, with soybeans rising around 25 to 26 cents per bushel and meal firming, while wheat futures hold near highs amid trading pressures and profit taking.
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Rte
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