US Cavalry Halts Trapped Viet Cong Battalion
US cavalrymen closed in on a trapped Viet Cong battalion near Bong Son as fierce fighting raged. In 24 hours U.S. spokesmen said about 141 Viet Cong were killed, 30 captured and 307 suspects rounded up, with Operation Davy Crockett continuing amid heavy air and ground exchanges.
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Robert Tugeatan
Saigon
South
Viet - Nam
Viet, Nam
U.S
1St Air Cavalry
Bang Son
China Sea
Navy Planes Thursday In Addition To An Air Faovee
Gulf of Tonkin
Hanoi
Cdme
Bong Son
Local GM Plant Lays Off 400 Workers Amid Auto Sector Slowdown
The Syracuse plant, a major producer of plastic automotive components for General Motors, announces a two day shutdown May 26 and 27 and a broader layoff of about 406 workers. Production schedules are cut as the Ternstedt division reduces output to align with end of month and Memorial Day holiday downtime. The plant also makes steel and aluminum hard hardware including hub caps and dashboards.
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Syracuse
Igeneral Motors
Sy-1
Ternstedt
Heuser
Heusel
Tong
Robert
J. Heuser
Ternsted
Sy- Tvacuse
Ternstedt-Sy- Tucuse
No break in sight cool weather through next Wednesday
Weather forecast for the area calls for continued cool conditions through Wednesday with partly cloudy skies and cooler nights. Lows around the low forties tonight, highs near 59 tomorrow, temperatures about five degrees below the normal 65 during the period, and a quarter inch of rain expected early next week.
New York Newspaper Guild and World Journal Tribune Hour Talks
Representatives of the New York Newspaper Guild and the World Journal Tribune met for several hours but reported no progress in breaking the 13 day strike against the papers that have yet to publish.
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NEW York
UPI
New York Newspaper Guild
World Journal Tribune
Jobless Rate Dips to 3.7 Percent in April
Washington April unemployment fell one tenth of a percent to 3.7 percent matching a February low and signaling continuing strength in the economy, the Labor Department reported. The rate, lowest since November, comes amid steady job growth and overall steady economic activity.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
California U campus labeled hotbed of Communists and sex
A California Senate committee accuses the University of California at Berkeley and President Kerr of Communist influence and sexual deviation. It cites Kerr for rehiring a teacher with past Communist ties and claims the campus is central to the antiwar movement and Free Speech uprisings. The report criticizes use of facilities by students and nonstudents for off campus political causes.
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Walls
California Senate
University of California
Clark Kerr
Berkeley
Haven
Kerr
United States
Sttiwar
AMS
Stocks cut losses as GM lagged and Dow dips widen
Trading remained heavy on Thursday with the Dow Jones industrial average down 15.49 to 899.77, its sharpest drop since 1963. GM fell more than a dollar from Thursday’s close as market activity lagged and tickers ran minutes late, while economists urged a broad tax hike to curb inflation.
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New York
Wiliam McChesney
Marti
Federal Miserve Board
Jnfraign
Martin
Wall Street
United Press Internation
New York Stock Exchange
Dow-Jones
Kennedy
Bikpin
Treasury
Henry H. ‘Fowler
Fowler
Reserve Board
Rockefeller Praises Women As Nation's Greatest Talent
New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller defends women saying the greatest talent in the United States is in four women and that they are not being fully utilized. He contrasts American merit with Soviet Russia, asserting only that country fully uses women.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
United States
Soviet Russia
School board uses tax money to urge vote on bond
West Genesee Central School District plans a $2.3 million bond issue for May 4. A brochure urging voters to vote yes was mailed at taxpayer expense, with printing and mailing costs borne by the district. State officials say the district can use funds to promote the bond.
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James“. Allen
West Genesee Central School District
Ibrochura
Saigon
Fulbright
Preent Johnson
Wuneul
Goldwater
Land Warners Schoals
Valations Committee
Coldwater
Fibright
Leciing
Beebe
John John
State Edura|ion Department
Albany
I T Allen
Allen
Jehu
Education
T Allen
Fulbright condemns Saigon as American brothel
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Fulbright, speaking in Johns Hopkins lectures, denounced Saigon as an American brothel. He cited American influx driving up rents and bar girls, with Vietnamese families forced from homes, while noting corruption and social upheaval amid U.S. involvement.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Saigon
Arkansas
South
Viet Nam
Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies
Three die in North Country crashes two minutes apart
In Massena and Canton area crashes killed three St. Lawrence County men including a soldier home on leave. Lawrence Snyder 47 of Raute I St. Regis Falls and Gerald Shatraw 38 of Nichalville died at Potsdam Hospital after a tractor-trailer collision on Route 1 near Holmes Hills. Todd 19 of Star Route Canton died when his 1965 motorcycle struck a tractor-trailer near Canton. Durchesneau 52 driver of the Canada tractor-trailer remained uninjured.
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Daht Fa ‘Todd
Star Route
Canton
C. E. Tricking Co
Saugerties
Robert Sanderson
Avvarding
St. Lawrence County
Todd
EK. J. Noble
Francis Todd
Wanton
Syracuse Post-Standard
Cantonare
Snyder
Shatraw
North Lassrence
Smith Transport of Canada
Wyron Durchesneau
New York
Tes Auxnois
Dwight D. Masen
Sealure Holmes Hill
Sylvanus Thay- Duchesneall
Military ‘Academy
West
Canlon Point
Dewey Criticism and Fulbright Brief Mention
Dewey and Fulbright figures appear in a brief column noting criticism and references to past campaigns. The item hints at Dewey as a presidential standard bearer in 1944 and 1948 with a fragmentary remark about Tubright, concluding on Page 6.
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Dewey
Fulbright
Jomas K. Dewey
Tubright
Draft call increased and troop strength figure reported
Washington reports the draft call rising to 26,500 from 5,000 in June as part of a larger force buildup. Pentagon figures show total armed forces at 2,936,644 as of April 1, with a declared goal of 3,083,000.
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Washington
UPI
Yg Doteasy
Pentagon
Nurday
Syracuse can do what Nay ton did not do
In Onondaga County the community college plan is challenged by a lack of access and funding. The editorial notes the need for a model where all students can gain access to higher education, contrasting with Montgomery County and urging broader collaboration.
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Syracuse
Onondaga County
Montgomery County
Cave-in Claims Two Children In Hutchinson Kansas
In Hutchinson Kansas a cave-in buried siblings Robert Leon Hase 11 and Jo Anna May Hase 7 under their house Thursday evening. Neighbors and firemen freed the bodies after Mrs. Hase found the collapse and alerted help.
Moters music covers matlade of dine
A terse note from Today’s Chuckle hints at a playful music cover featuring Moters, presented as a lighthearted dine themed segment. The item reads as a humorous blurb with unclear details, typical of a clipped newspaper filler.
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Moters Music
Matlade
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