Heavy Fighting in Vietnam Produces High Casualty Toll
Reports from Saigon claim North Vietnamese losses reached 802 in heavy fighting since last Tuesday, with 425 more expected dead. U.S. command in Saigon reported 406 enemy casualties earlier. U.S. planes flew 77 missions in raids on North Vietnam, targeting bridges, buildings, anti aircraft sites, cargo junks, storage areas, and fuel facilities, while a MIG17 was downed near the Hanoi area.
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North Vietnam
Asb
U.S
Saigon
Hanoi
Red China
Peking
North Viet Nam
Pittman Won't Seek Reelection To Board
Meigs County Commissioner F. C. Pittman announces he will not seek a third term and will retire January 1, 1967. He says he has served with faithful impartial and conscientious service and will support worthwhile county projects in the future.
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Pittman
F. C. Pittman
Meigs
Area Deaths Features Long-Lived Grady County Resident
Whigham honors Dr M W Dykes 101 with funeral at Whighram Methodist Church conducted by Rev J E Lackey. Burial at Parkhill Cemetery Columbus. Also reported Caleb Thatcher Guenthe 69 of Pavo with Salem Baptist Church service. Joe Rawls 71 of Cairo funeral at First Baptist Cairo. Survivors listed for each, including spouses children and grandchildren.
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Whigram Methodist Church
J. E. Lackey
Clark Funeral Home of
Cairo
Parkhill Cemetery
Columbus
Pavo
Caleb Thatcher Guenthe
Archbold Memorial Hospital
Thomasville
Salem Baptist Church
Ben Rountree
Rutledge Courtney
Salem Cemetery
Dekle
Marion County
Fla
Carl
Lottie Thatcher Guenthe
Lake Co
Guenthe
Elizabeth Veiner
Charles Rawkins
Jo Ann Bates
Altoona
Paul
Cyrus
Willie Guenthe
Thomas Guenthe
Panama City
Joe Rawls
First Baptist Church
Earl Childs
George Cummings
Clark Funeral Home
Mr. Rawls
Irvan H
Julia Maxwell Rawls
Thomas County
Mattie Maxwell
Joseph H. Rawls
Harry Rawls
John and
Albert Rawls
Howard Rawls
Live Oak
Traffic Crash Injures Youth in 1954 VW Crash
A 20 year old Omega youth Gene Lamar Smith drove a 1954 Volkswagen off the road shoulder into a bridge abutment. He was admitted to Archbold Memorial Hospital with chest bruises contusions mouth lacerations and a left elbow injury. His condition was reported.
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Omega
Volkswagen
Burch Weber
Weber
Gene Lamar Smith
Archbold Memorial Hospital
Coolidge
Coolidge-Zone
Big Creek
Smith
City Commission Agenda Items Summary
City Commission met at 2 p m to hear public hearing on second reading to close part of Graydon and West over Avenue in Industrial Park. Items include airport bids, water department truck bid, runway resurfacing, East Jackson St widening, hospital signal light, annexation petition, Thomasville Moultrie Airport building acceptance, and paving Dunedin Drive between East Clay and East Washington Streets.
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Graydon
Westover Ave
East Jackson St
Dunedin Dr
East Clay
East Washington Sts
Eckberg Attacks Federal Planning District Bill Before House
Lloyd Eckberg Chamber executive criticizes the Community Development District Act in testimony to the U S House Agriculture Committee. He calls it duplicative and costly, citing 10 000 volunteer groups and opposition from local extension services. He spoke after Secretary Freeman defended the bill and before a national radio audience.
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Lloyd Eckberg
Chamber of Commerce
U. S. House Agriculture Committee
Freeman
Eckberg
Office of Economic Opportunity
Local Notes on Schedules Purchases and Music Classes
Southernen officials and federal agencies rush to meet month end deadline for flight schedule changes for the coming year. A Tulsa based petroleum company buys all stock of Van Vancouver Plywood Co Vancouver Plywood and Skelly Oil Co. The mobile home trade is served by several industrial supply centers including one in Thomasville. A planning meeting for music beginners is set for 7 30 tonight at the Thomasville High School bandroom. W J Harrington will conduct daily morning classes from 10 11 for fifth to eighth graders with no previous instrument training. Classes begin this week.
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Vancouver
Thomasville High School
W. J. Harrington
Births at Archbold Memorial Hospital reported
The births announced include a daughter born June 11 to Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson of Meigs. a son born June 11 to Mr. and Mrs. Willie James Davis of Thomasville. and a daughter born June 12 to Mr. and Mrs. William E. Long Jr. of Pavo.
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Archbold Memorial Hospital
James Jackson
EB. Crawford
Civil rights marches commemorate Meredith and Evers deaths
Civil rights groups nationwide staged meetings and symbolic marches on Sunday to honor the Meredith march and the third anniversary of Medgar Evers death. Evers, a state official with the NAACP, was shot by a sniper outside his Jackson home.
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Meredith
Medgar W. Evers
Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Jackson
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Tidwell
S. Broad
Dr. Dykes
Grady County
Atlanta Medical College
Whigham
Barrettsville, Ga
C. T. Guenthe
ARROW
DuPont
City Commission
City Hall
Thangers
Water and Light Department
East Jackson and Lee Sts
Thomasville- Moultrie Airport
U. S
Legislative Action Committee
John B. Guy
Maston O'Neal
Bainbridge
Orville Freeman
Area Development Commission of
Camilla
Southeren
VanCouver Plywood Co
Vancouver, Wash
Skelly Oil
Hiwa
Legion of Decency
Shirley Jones
Stella Stevens
Blackman Games
Lionel Retiries
Nash
Stuart Whitman
Sarah Miles
James Fox
Alberto Lordi
Robert Worley
Gert Frobe
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Irina Demick
Eric Sykes
Terry-Thomas
Red Skelton
Benny V
Nro Ishihara
Flora Robson
Karl Michael Wogler
Sam Wanamaker
Tony Hancock
Agin Ce Ury
FOX
Ford
Ford Division
Europe
America
Fairlane
Ford Dealers
Thomasville Sales Company
E. Jackson Street
ThomasviLle, Ga
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