Truman Defends Texas Cooking in New York Visit
Former President Truman criticized Viet Cong truces as dirty tricks during a New York stop where he praised Texas cooking as superior to French and Missouri styles. He spoke with newsmen about Christmas, family, and plans to return to Missouri. He noted his three grandsons enjoy the holidays and that they can be spirited but well behaved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
Harry In the Christ
Texas
The &1
Margaret
Truman
Traffic Mishaps Kill 10 in W.Va. and Out of State
The Christmas period toll in West Virginia and elsewhere rose to 472 deaths, with 10 more than last year. Names include Hardy County youths Robert S. Anderson and Thomas S. Vance, 10 and 7, struck on W V 55 near Wardensville. Others died in crashes in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, California, and Cincinnati.
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West Virginia
Mountain State
Hardy County
Robert S. Anderson
Thomas S. Vance
W. Va
Wardensville
Vincent Furgiuele
Pittsburgh
U. S. 119
Grafton
James L. Augspurg
Bloomington
Ind
U. S. 50
Carl V. Taylor
James
Sec
Bull Run
Masontown
Preston County
Beckley
Ronald Richmond
Lisa
Indianapolis
Summers County
Charles Parmatte
Barbara N. Parmatee
Ireland
Lewis County
Glenora Vandall
Richwood
Urbana
Ohio
Carrieveer
William Wells
Hunitington
Cincinnati
James T. Woodroe
Charleston
Yuba River
California
McGovern predicts eased farm controls for overseas food aid
Sen George McGovern, Democrat of South Dakota, forecast that next year Congress will ease food production controls to allow farmers to grow more for shipment overseas to hungry nations under his bill. He said administration officials have signaled support and that the plan would fund a program to develop ports and facilities for U.S. produce abroad.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Agriculated Committee
George S. McGovern
McGovern
Congress
U.S
Autos Banished From Downtown Rome Amid Traffic Standstill
Rome imposes a temporary ban on cars in the central district creating massive jams at cut off points and the Piazza di Spagna. Pedestrians stroll freely while a bus and taxi ban remains the only allowed vehicles on the pedestrian island during set hours. If successful, officials may make the plan permanent.
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Rome
API
Piazza San Silvestro
Cacoees
Helen Islands
Piazza di Spagna
Bid Setting Postponed in Bluefield Highway Contract
CHARLESTON UPI The State Road Commission postponed until Jan 25 the letting of a contract to build nearly a mile of highway inside Bluefield city limits. Bids were to be opened Thursday for grading drainage and paving 0.776 mile of U S 19 460 between Spruce and Bland Streets. Traffic must be maintained during construction. Extension provides bidders more study time. construction set for spring.
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Charleston
UPI
State Road Commission
Bluefield
U.S. 19
Spruce
Bland
Sihanouk Denies Cong Sheltered Forces In Cambodia
Prince Norodom Sihanouk angrily denied charges that North Vietnam and Viet Cong were sheltered in Cambodia and rejected reports that U S forces had permission to chase Communists into Cambodian territory. He said Washington authorized Saigon to attack Cambodia at will.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
UPI
Norodom Sihanouk
North Viet Nam
United States
Saigon
Cpatnet
Japan
Oo Saigon
U. S
Sihanouk
Four Montagnards Ordered Executed
In Pleiku, a military tribunal ordered four Montagnard rebel leaders executed by firing squad in a public square. The group of 20 soldiers faced trial for uprisings across four central Viet Nam provinces, with others receiving life imprisonment, hard labor, exile, or acquittal. the condemned may seek clemency but no appeal is allowed.
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Pleiku
South Viet Nam
UPI
Central Highlands
Viet Nam
Clement
U.S
Highlands
Adena People of the Ohio Valley Era Beginnings
The Adena inhabited the Ohio valley about 3000 years ago. They were named after an Ohio farm where the first mound material defining their culture was found. They lived between 800 B.C. and A.D. 800.
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Ohio Valley
Ohio
Early dolls from graves show broad ancient reach
Dols dating from 3000 to 2000 B C carved from wood have been found in Eopotian graves and similarly buried in A dren children’s graves across Egypt Greece and Rome with finds in early Christian catacombs. The earliest known American dolls come from Aztec graves. Around 1820 the first China dolls were imported from Europe into America. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Adren
Egypt
Greece
Rome
Europe
America
Iran Fortifies Iraqi Border Amid Tensions and Alerts
Tehran reports fortified borders with Iraq and alert air and ground forces after Iraqi artillery and air attacks. Iran rushes troop reinforcements and stations US-supplied jets to deter incursions while protests exchange between Tehran and Baghdad over seven years of aggression. Casualties are reported heavy on both sides amid border fighting and Kurdish rebel activity in the northwest.
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Tehran
Iran
UPI
Iraq
United States
Abbas Aram
Aram
10th U S Plane Downed By Missile In Viet Nam Strike
In Saigon a U S Air Force spokesman announced a F 4C Phantom was downed by a surface to air missile during a strike on the Bac Au bridge 75 miles north of Hanoi. The incident raises U S losses to ten planes since the bombing began last February.
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Saigon
UPS
U. S. Air Force
North Viet Nam
U.S
U. S
Bac Au Bridge
Hanoi
Separated Twins Given 50-50 Chance To Live
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Two baby girls born on Christmas Day were separated by emergency surgery one hour after birth. Sheila Norine and Lisa Marie Mantonya were joined at the bladder and doctors stated a 50 percent survival chance. The mother, Robantonya, celebrated her 20th birthday as the twins were moved for surgery and a 17-member team performed the operation. An incomplete intestinal tract required further remedial surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
UPI
Sheila Norine
Lisa Marie Mantonya
Robantonya
Deaths and Funerals Mary George 8 of 115 Las St
Mrs Mary George 8 died at 450 p m after a hospital stay. Funeral services set for 2 Tuesday at St Nicholas Orthodox Church with Fr N Constantine Masood and Fr George Corey officiating. Burial at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery. She was a partner in Georges Fash es and member of St Nicholas Orthodox Church and Ladies Guild. Body at Keyser Bryant Funeral Home with pallbearers listed as Louis Corey Shakabe Corey Matthew we Tomare oses Phillip Bshara re Thabet and Victor How.
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Mary George
Las St
St. N Las Orthodox
N. Constantine Masood
George Corey
Sunset Memorial Park
Louis Corey
Shakabe Corey
Matthew We
Tomare Oses
Phillip Bsharare Thabet
Victor How
Scarbro Funeral Services Set for James Hildrith Scarbro
Funeral services for James Hildrith Scarbro 55 of San Francisco will be held Tuesday at 2 p m in Williams Funeral Home Chapel MacArthur with Cameron Lilly officiating Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery Scarbro formerly of Raleigh County died Wednesday after a short illness He was born October 1910 in Dothan a son of the late George S and Hettie Scarbro Survivors include three brothers Nelson A Crab Orchard Frank Denver Colo and one in Hahnville Pallbearers are Mose Pitzer Wilson Greer Jess Moore Lester Vaught Pete Syro and S S Reed.
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James) Hildrith Scarbro
San Francisco
Williams Funeral Home
MacArthur
Cameron Lilly
Sunset Memorial Park
Scarbro
Raleigh County
Dothan
George S
Hettie Scarbro
Nelson A
Crab Orchard
Frank
Denver
Colo
Hahnville
Mose Pitzer
Wilson Greer
Jess Moore
Lester Vaught
Pete Syro
S. S. Reed
Services for Archie E Johnson in Kincaid
Archie Emerson Johnson died Friday in an Oak Hill hospital at age 62. Funeral services are set for 1 p.m. Tuesday at Tyree Funeral Home Chapel in Hill with Rev. Kenneth Gravely and Rev. Paul Gravely presiding. Burial will follow in Kincaid Cemetery. The body will remain at the funeral home for visiting after 5 p.m. today.
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Archie Emerson Johnson
Kincaid
Oak Hill
Kenneth
Paul Gravely
Tyree Funeral Home
Hill
Kincaid Cemetery
Mrs Virgie McKinney dies at 67 in Basin church service planned
Funeral services for Mrs. Virgie Lou McKinney 67 Basin will be held at 2 PM in Old Spruce Grove Church Basin with Rev Milburn Bailey and Rev Lonnie Blankenship officiating Burial will be Spruce Grove Cemetery She died Sunday morning after a long illness Born April 4 1898 at Basin she was daughter of Ellis and Amanda Kizer McKinney Survived by husband Kelly four sons Giles Bud Russell Amigo Elmer New Richmond Wilbur Corinne five daughters Garnet Mills Bud Haley Cox Bluefield Doris Shrewsbury Bluefield Edward Mills Basin Joyce Thomas Jr Boonton NJ a brother Joseph C McKinney Princeton three sisters Delphia Hood Detroit Mich Letha Flinchem Chicago Ill Nina Via Chicago Ill 26 grandchildren and four great grandchildren Body moved from Sam Foglesong Nease and Neely Funeral to residence at 2 PM today
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Virgie Lou McKinney
Basin
Pr.aoe
Spruce Grove
Milburn Bailey
Lonnie Blankenship
McKinney
Mullens Hospital
Ellis
Amanda Kizer McKinney
Kelly
Giles
Bud
Russell
Amigo
Elmer
New Richmond
Wilbur
Corinne
Albert
Garnet) Mills
William
Haley) Cox
Doris Shrewsbury
Bluefield
Edward
Hester) Mills
Lloyd
Joyce) Thomas Jr
Boonton
N. J
Joseph C. McKinney
Princeton
Delphia Hood
Detoit
Mich
Letha Flinchem
Nina Via
Chicago
Iil
Sam Foglesong
Nease
Neely
Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Glenora Vandall Van Richmond
Mrs Glenora Vandall Van Richmond of Foard area dies from injuries suffered in an automobile crash near noon Sunday. She passed away at Mercy Hospital Urbana Ohio at 5 p m. Funeral arrangements are pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenora van Richmond
of Foard
Mercy Hospita Urbana
Ohio
Joint funeral for Ron ald Lee Richmond and daughter Lisa Dawn
Richmond aged 23 and his two year old daughter Lisa Dawn were honored in a 1 p.m. funeral service at Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors Hinton. Rev Woodrow Jones Scarbro led the rites with burial in the family cemetery near Ramp following a fatal automobile wreck on the West Turnpike mile post 48 on Friday.
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Ronald Lee Richmond
Lisa Dawn
Indianapolis
Ind
Ronald Meadows
Hinton
Woodrow Jones
Scarbro
Ramp
Mile Post 48
West Turnpike
Obituaries: Anna Williams 96 and Ritz brother Al dies
Anna D Williams 96 of Ravencliff formerly of Glen Rogers died at home after a heart attack. She was a Carnegie church member and survived by daughter Elizabeth Williams. Also reported Catherine Ray Finn 101 of Chickasaw County and Albert P Cornelia 63, a Catholic church servant and Vatican attendee. Al Ritz of the Ritz brothers died at 64, with pallbearers named Jimmy Durante Tony Martin and George Burns.
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Anna Delilah Williams
Ravencliff
Glen Rogers
Carnegie
Thomas and Williams
Williams
First Christian Church of
Elizabeth Laverne Wilphin
UPI
Mississippi
Catherine Augusta Ray Finn
Chickasaw County
Finn
Hollywood
al Ritz
Ritz Brothers
Jimmy Durante
Tony Martin
Ge Burns
Quirks Foiled Again in Thanksgiving and Christmas
The Richard Kay family faced cooking mishaps over Thanksgiving and Christmas with a turkey burn and a dog stealing baked ham, while the New Year dinner may bring better luck for the Kay household. In California, Walter and Mrs. Gleldher named their Christmas baby Merry Noel in Compton. Corona inspectors crack down on home-built treehouses and dollhouses, arguing any structure costing 20 dollars or more requires a permit under the building code.
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Warren
UPI
Richard Kay
Kays
Calif
Walter Gleldher
Compton
Merry Noel
Gnat
Corona
William Whitaker
Cnes
Whitaker
C N W Merger Draws Outright Ire
Charleston dispatch reports Harold Cutright of Ivanhoe Upshur County denounces the Chesapeake and Ohio Norfolk Western merger. He claims it is a vast grab of economic and political power and seeks ICC permission to testify at hearings to defend affected railroad workers. Cutright is a former Democratic governor candidate and a tentative GOP congressional candidate.
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Charleston
UPI
Harold Cutright
Ivanhoe
Upshur
Chesapeake & Ohio
Norfolk Western Railways
Southern Illinois University
Jazz Night Breaks Tradition At Midnight Concert
Jazz at a church event drew a sold out midnight crowd. Traditional spirituals mixed with Duke Ellington pieces like New World A Comin and Black Brown and Beige. Peters sang In the Beginning God as Dr. Bryant recalled earlier generations embracing new music despite church norms.
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New World a’Com
God
Peters
Bryant
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Charity Donations Reach 10.6 Billion in 1965
Fortune Magazine reports US philanthropists gave about 10.6 billion dollars in 1965. Individuals contributed 8.5 billion, foundations 819 million, corporations 610 million, and bequests 671 million. Religious causes received 49 percent, education 17 percent, welfare 14 percent, health 12 percent, civic and cultural 4 percent, and foundations 4 percent.
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New York
UPI
United States
Fortune Magazine
Fortune
American Association
Foundations
GOP Moves to Oppose LBJ Policies Across Fronts
Former Vice President Richard Nixon warned that Johnson era conduct fuels GOP discontent as House Leader Gerald Ford predicts heavy manpower and spending in Vietnam. Nixon urged a united Republican stance amid growing national unease with administration policy. Robert Taft Jr. accused the Johnson administration of slow action on voting rights and urged tightening federal and state election laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard M. Nixon
House
Gerald R. Ford
R-Mich
Viet Nam
America
Nixon
Johnson relaxes at ranch amid Viet Nam peace wish scene
President Johnson kept to family at his Texas ranch during the Christmas weekend. He expressed a hope for peace in Viet Nam and greeted about 85 peace demonstrators bused from Houston. A distant firecracker and a suspicious rifle incident near the Johnson home drew Secret Service attention to an 18 year old San Antonio man who denied firing a weapon.
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Hong
Viet Nam
White House
Johnson
Houston
Secret Service
Clarence Knetsch
Johnson Homestead
Nicky Ammons
San Antonio
Tex
Sears
West Virginia Safety Covad West Virginia State Pollen
A compact note references West Virginia safety measures and pollen counts across the state, highlighting health considerations and regional advisories affecting residents and local authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Teen Ager Lands Plane Safely on GW Bridge
A 19 year old pilot P Ippolito and his 23 year old passenger Joseph Brennan landed a small Aeronca on the unused center lanes of the George Washington Bridge after engine trouble. Winds were up to 30 mph and a trailer hit the plane after touchdown.
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GW Bridge
Hudson
New York
New Jersey
P Ippolito
New York City
Joseph Brennan
Hacksenack
N. J
Aeronca
Wollto
Maan
Hemi
North Viet Nam accuses U S of Christmas ceasefire pretense
North Viet Nam accused the United States of feigning a Christmas ceasefire and said U S and Saigon forces used the truce as a counter measure to Viet Cong plans. The broadcast claimed Viet Cong ordered a 12 hour halt to allow Catholics in U S and mercenary ranks to celebrate. It cited a Western agency report that the 1st Air Cavalry fired nearly four hours after 6 p.m. ceasefire.
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Tokyo
UPI
Saigon
Viet Con
U. S
Pncceiers
U.S
1St Air Cavalry Division
Humphrey Presses for Peace Amid War Fights
During a weekend radio interview, Humphrey outlined objectives for the war and reaffirmed U S willingness to seek an honorable peace. He warned Hanoi and Peking against overconfidence and said Communist propaganda seeks to undermine peace talks and their designs.
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U.S
Humphrey
United States
Hanoi
Peking
Remark on Viet Nam policy and calls for negotiations
A speaker told world leaders to pause and consider the path toward all-out war, urging sincere negotiations to restore order. He stressed that the Roman Catholic Church seeks peace and will aid efforts to end the conflict.
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Viet Nam
Fire kills mom and four children in Meadowbrook bungalow
Uniontown Pennsylvania UP I reports a mother Martha Garrison 22 and her five children Herky 7 Thomas 4 Karen 2 Stephen 1 perished in a house fire that destroyed their small frame bungalow in Meadowbrook near Uniontown. Homer Garrison 26 the father and a truck mechanic escaped to seek help and suffered severe burns attempting to return indoors. He was hospitalized at Uniontown Hospital.
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Uniontown
UPI
Cornswell
Meadowbrook
Martha Garrison
Herky
Thomas
Karen
Stephen
Homer
Uniontown Hospital
Marine to be buried in Wheeling for Viet Nam death
Wheeling area Marine Sgt. Robert D. Hickman 36, killed in Viet Nam, will be returned for burial on Tuesday. A 1949 Wheeling High School graduate and one year Marine Corps veteran, Hickman’s death was reported by UPI.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
UPI
Viet Nam
Robert D. Hickman
Hickman
Wheeling High School
Marine Corps
Midwest Shivers In Coldest Spell
The nation’s midsection endured the coldest spell of the season with temperatures dropping to 2 below in Montana and subzero readings across seven states. A severe storm brought heavy rain to regions from the Nebraska border to Missouri and Kansas, while Yakima Washington recorded two inches of new snow. Winds reached 52 mph at Cape Mendocino California as roads and mountain passes faced closures. About 5,000 acres of Arizona cotton land between Phoenix and Tucson flooded, with damage estimated at $4 million in Tucson and Pima County. At least 20 roads remained restricted or detoured as Gov. Goddard prepared to meet officials and Army engineers to assess damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Puget Sound
Oregon
Cape Mendocino
Calif
California
Phoenix
Tucson
Arizona
Pima
Goddard
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Scientists Eye Aloi Volcano Eruption Visibility
In Hawaii, scientists braved rain and sulfur fumes to reach Aloi volcano after it erupted Friday night, with lava flowing for five hours. A 900-foot crater and surrounding fissures produced seismic readings as road crews cleared access to the crater area near Volcano National Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilo
Hawaii
UPI
Aloi
Big
William Kinoshita
Craters
Volcano National Park
Russia Not Ashamed To Ape U S In Space
Moscow hinted it might imitate American space successes in a future rendezvous. Commentator Alexei Yermilov noted the U S six man walks and US progress, saying Russia would not be ashamed to imitate what Americans have done in space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
U.S
Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Alexei Yermilov
United States
Alexei Leonov
Yermilov
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Buster
Accient
Vandall
Jean Ellery
Juanita Jones
Ewart Ave
Archie E. Johnson
Mrs
Virgie McKinney
Richmond
Anna D. Williams
Albert P. Cornella
Cornelia
GOP
Ippolito
Midwest
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