Outing trip bus crash kills nineteen in New Mexico
A cattle truck jackknifes on a narrow bridge near Fort Sumner New Mexico and slams into a chartered bus carrying Woodlawn Baptist Church youths from Austin Texas. Nineteen dead sixteen injured. The group planned ski trips religious seminars and retreats near Santa Fe.
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Bob Locke
Fort Sumner
N.M
Here
Woodlawn Baptist Church
Austin
Tex
Harvey Siiham
Ron Killough
John Roberts
Santa Fe
Ron Hicks
Weather outlook: flurries possible at Hancock Field
The National Weather Service forecasts occasional snow flurries today tonight and tomorrow at Hancock Field. Tonight’s low near 30 degrees. tomorrow’s high around 38. Chance of flurries 30 percent today and 60 percent tonight and tomorrow.
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National Weather Service
Hancock Field
U S bombers strike 1400 times in week
U S bombers pounded Hanoi and Haiphong in a seven day period from Dec 18 to Dec 24 with over 1400 strikes. The target list included railyards shipyards command centers and power plants while B52s made more than 400 strikes. A 36 hour Christmas cease fire interrupted the attacks.
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U.S
Saigon
Hanoi
Haiphong
North Vietnam
U.S. Command
Hanoi-Haiphong
Air Force
Navy
Marine
Brydges appoints son to State Investigation Commission
Earl W. Brydges names his son Earl Jr to a 30 021 a year term on the State Investigation Commission four days before leaving office. The 35 year old Lewiston lawyer succeeds Judge John W. Ryan Jr. and will serve until April 30 next year.
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Albany
N.Y
Senate
Earl W. Brydges
Earl Jr
State Investigation Commission
Brydges
Lewiston
John W. Ryan Jr
Buffalo
Rockefeller
Mother seeks cereal to calm three energetic boys
A mother enters a supermarket with three lively sons and asks for a cereal that will sap their energy. The quip notes the playful demand and everyday family humor.
Israeli raids strike targets in Syria near cease-fire line
Israeli war planes launched reprisal raids on Syria hitting an Arab guerrilla base, two Syrian army positions, and a gun site near the cease-fire line. The strikes followed guerrilla activity blamed on Syrian territory in the latest flareup since November’s wider fighting.
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Chicago
Tel Aviv
Syria
Golan Heights
Christmas truce in Ireland shattered by gunfire wounds ten
In Belfast a three day Christmas peace lull ended as violence wounded at least ten people including a 14 year old. Authorities blame Protestant and Catholic terror squads rather than the IRA. The source notes the sectarian flare as the likely cause of the bloodshed.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Truman Laid to Rest Plans and National Day of Mourning
President Truman’s funeral arrangements unfold with simple dignity. Nixon and Johnson travel to Independence to bid farewell at the presidential library. A national day of mourning is ordered with government offices closed and flags at half staff for 30 days.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Independence
Harry S. Truman
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
Truman
Washington
National
Congress
U.S
Nixon
New York
Special sorrow in Independence for Truman’s death
In Independence Missouri residents mourn the loss of Harry S Truman the 33rd president. People recall Truman Road house windows and a nightly lamp in the study as a symbol of security and a link to a fading past. Nearby neighbors reflect on the president’s presence and the shared national moment of grief.
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Secret Service
Harry S. Truman
Independence
U.S.A
Missouri
Harry 5
Trujan
White House
Mary Dowell
Truman Road
Advisers hail 1972 economy as success and look to 1973
The Council of Economic Advisers called 1972 an economic success with big employment gains and lower inflation. They projected 1973 would continue rapid expansion and reduced inflation, with GNP rising by about 100 billion dollars and real output up 2 to 6 percent, despite a worsening November trade balance.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Council of Economic Advisers
U.S
Commerce Department
Hotel Fire Kills Two in Port Chester Capital Hotel
A general alarm fire in the Capitol Hotel four story building in Port Chester, Westchester County, killed two people and left four others missing. The blaze broke out early today and responders battled the flames through the morning hours.
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Port Chester
UPI
Capitol
Westchester County
Olin to Rescue Saltville Town After Shutdown
Olin Corp will turn over most of its Saltville properties and $600,000 in cash to Saltville to revive the town's economy after shutting its salt-mining plant in February 1971. The closure left about 900 workers unemployed due to pollution-control demands from the State Water Control Board.
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Saltville, Va
Olin Corp
Saltville
Olin
State Water Control Board
Holston River
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Abington
New Mexico
Church Youth Group
Sylvia Porter
Eredey Seeenee
Asieree
Earl Wilson
Ween
AL Women’s News
Ireland
LBJ
Associated Press Wivekioin
Margaret Truman Paniel
Trumans
Associated Press
Lloyd R. Hilburn
Kathryn
Jackson
Hillburn
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