Night battle near Saigon leaves heavy U S casualties
An Ameri can Army-Navy task force clashed with Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta near Saigon.169 Viet Cong killed, 28 American infantrymen killed, 126 wounded, four helicopters shot down. Marines and air crews reported further engagements as air strikes continued on North Vietnam.
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George McArthur
Saigon
Mekong
U.S
Rach Hui River
U.S. 9Th Infantry Division
1St Corps
Binh Dinh
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Scurry County Proposes Historic Trail For State Network
Scurry County submits a plan to Austin for a tourism trail linking Camp Springs Lake J B Thomas and Snyder markers. Gene Merrifield and Hugh Boren Jr present the outline as Gov Connally urges counties to attract tourists off highways. The trail would feature signs and a white buffalo replica tied to pioneer J Wright Mooar.
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Scurry County
Austin
Gene Merrifield
Chamber of Commerce
Hugh Boren Jr
John Connally
Texas
Camp Springs
Lake J. B. Thomas
Snyder
Boren
County Historical Survey Committee
California
J. Wright Mooar
Milne Service Set at Fluvanna Church of Christ
Funeral services for George Milne are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Fluvanna Church of Christ. Steve Bracken will officiate with burial in Fluvanna Cemetery under Bell Seale Funeral Home direction.
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Fluvanna Church
Cliff Ryan Service Set
Funeral service for Cliff Ryan 71 of Scurry County is set for 5 30 p m Wednesday at Bell Seale Chapel with Rev Jim Fields and Rev Cone Merritt officiating. Burial will be Helmleigh Cemetery under Bell Seale direction. He is survived by three daughters a sister four brothers and several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Cliff Ryan
Scurry County
Gallup
N. M
Bell - Seale Chapel
Jim Fields
Cone Merritt
Helmleigh Cemetery
Bell-Seale
Modena Johnson
Levelland
Lucille Reed
Clovis
N.M
United States Urges Peace at UN as Kosygin Attacks Policy
In a special UN General Assembly session prompt by Israel's swift victory, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg urged unity for peace and defusing Middle East hostility. He tied the Johnson administration’s policy to the Soviet critique and called for a durable settlement between Israel and the Arabs.
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Sberg
Middle East
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
General Assembly
Israel
Alexei N. Kosygin
Goldberg
Johnson
United States
Assembly
Soviet Union
Kosygin
Washington
U.N
Camp David
Mad
White Sulphur Springs
Hot Springs
United Natins
Rusk and Gromyko Hold Unannounced U N Meeting on Middle East
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met privately in New York during the General Assembly session on the Middle East. Reports say discussions touched on a possible Johnson Kosygin summit, but no commitments were made.
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Lewis Gulick
United Nations, N.Y
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
U.N. General Assembly
Middle East
Johnson
Alexei N. Kosygin
Rusk Nor
Gromyko
General Assembly Hall
Johnson-Kosy
State Board Hikes Auto Insurance Rates In Texas
Rate experts recommended a 2.1 percent average rise in private passenger car liability premiums and a 3.8 percent drop in physical damage costs. Overall, a 0.1 percent statewide reduction is projected for total auto insurance, with a one percent overall cut across all classes. Rates take effect August 1, with territory, age, and car use shaping individual changes.
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Austin
State Board of Insurance
Three Man Insurance Board
Summer School At Snyder High To Begin Second Half
Students planning to attend the second half of Snyder High School summer session will start classes on Wednesday. Principal Ben Brock announced the schedule with classes beginning at 7 am and algebra 22 and algebra 32 possible if demand is sufficient. Students must arrive by 7 am to enroll.
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Snyder High School
Ben Brock
J L Fields Dies Today In Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Julius L. Fields 81 longtime area resident died shortly before noon at Cogdell Memorial Hospital He came to Scurry County in 1905 lived elsewhere about 15 years then returned and resided at 126 Twentieth Place He was a Methodist, Mason and funeral services were pending at Bell Seale Funeral Home Surviving are his wife three sons Rex Dan and J C Fields a daughter Mrs Tom Hargrove two sisters and a brother in California and Texas respectively.
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Julius L. Fields
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Mr. Fields
Scurry County
Gaines County
Twentieth Place
Methodist Church
Bell Seale Funeral Home
Rex Fields
Snyder
Dan Fields
Denver City
J. C. Fields
San Luis Obispo
Calif
Tom Hargrove
Rotan
Ella Anderson
Long Beach
Lottie Johnson
Houston
Louis Fields
Los Angeles
Lone Wolf Electric Cooperative Wins 350000 Loan
Rep. George Mahon announced a 350000 loan approval for Lone Wolf Electric Cooperative to build 265 miles of line serving 212 new customers and improve 11 miles of existing lines. The cooperative serves Mitchell Fisher Howard Nolan Borden and Scurry counties with Martin Murphy of Dunn as president.
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George Mahon
Lone Wolf Electric Cooperative
Mitchell
Fisher
Howard
Nolan
Borden
Scurry County
Martin Murphy
Dunn
Third Straight Night of Race Violence in Atlanta
In Dixie Hills area police used shotguns and pistols to disperse crowds after a church meeting where Stokely Carmichael urged calm. Two were injured and several arrested as rocks and bottles shattered windows. seven Negroes charged with failure to move on.
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Atlanta, Ga
Dixie Hills
Stokely Carmichael
John Casserly
American Broadcasting Co
Carmichael
Atlanta
W M Adams Dies Rites Planned In Snyder
W M Adams 92 living in Scurry County since 1897 died at Cogdell Memorial Hospital at 2 15 am. funeral at Bell Seale Chapel at 4 pm Wednesday with Rev Cone Merritt officiating burial at Snyder Bell Seale. Survived by two daughters a son five grandchildren and several relatives.
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W. M. Adams
Scurry County
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Bell- Seale Chapel
Cone Merrit
Snyder Cemetery
Bell-Seale
Mr. Adams
Della Jackson
Wheat Community
Helmleigh
Adams
The
Baptist Church
J. W. Henley
Snyder
Jim Adams
Lubbock
Loyce Adams
E. H. Adams
Brownsville
Homer Adams
Bishop
M. A. Adams Jr
Shreveport
Hubert Henley
Lubb
Indians Confine Chinese Envoys After Embassy Siege
Indian police ringed the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi confining Chinese staff to the embassy grounds in response to the siege on the Indian Embassy in Beijing. Defense Minister Swaran Singh said staff and families were virtual prisoners. Nine Chinese were beaten when a mob stormed the Beijing embassy.
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New Delhi
India
Peking
Swaran Singh
Parliamnt
Singh
China
Jagat Mehta
Foreign Ministry
Mehta
Repairs Paid For Never Made Rotting Equipment In Vietnam
Senate subcommittee findings report construction gear paid for by the Agency for International Development but left unusable in Vietnam and Asia. Lippman cites hundreds of broken vehicles and cranes in Saigon depots and countryside sites, with repairs incomplete or only painted, despite contractor and AID certificates.
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Walter R. Mears
Chon
Korea
Okinawa
Amster Washington
Europe
Dam
Netherlands
Senate
Lippman
Rota
Spain
Ernest Gruening
Vietnam
Alaska
Asia
United States
Interna
Joseph Lippman
Stors
Yokohama
Japan
Saigon
Lipmann
Thailand
AID Con
Frankfurt
Germany
ALU
Pye
Weather Snapshot for Texas Regions
Readings show Snyder 95 high and single digit low 7 at 7 am. South Central Texas partly cloudy warm with scattered showers near coast tonight and Wednesday. nights 68 to 78, highs 83 to 100. Southwest Texas clear to partly cloudy with late isolated thundershowers west. lows 64 to 74, highs 90 to 100. Coast east to southeast winds 2 to 18 knots tonight and Wednesday. North Central Texas hot and clear to partly cloudy. lows 72 to 77, highs 101 to 102. Northeast Texas warm with lows 70 to 76, highs 92 to 97. Northwest Texas partly cloudy north, cloudy to clear south with scattered late storms north and extreme west. cooler this afternoon, warmer Wednesday. lows 62 northwest to 75 southeast, Wednesday highs 92 to 102.
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Snyder
Texas
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Tom Clark
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Rusk Center
Hike
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J. L. Fields
Lone Wolf Electric Loan
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