Australians repulse Viet Cong assault in Mekong Delta battle
In monsoon rain near Vung Tau Australian troops from the 16th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment repelled a Viet Cong ambush on a rubber plantation. Reinforcements via armored vehicular support and US airpower broke the siege, leaving VC with heavy losses. US pilots claimed MIG engagements near Hanoi with multiple shoot downs as air campaigns continued.
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Saigon
UPI
Mekong
U.S
North Viet Nam
Ste
Tam Ky
New Zealand
Royal 1 Australian Regiment
Thunderchief
Richard A. Fleitz
Newark
Ohio
Nicholas E. Pool 28
Pocatello
Idaho
Pool
Hano
Haiphong
Panhandle
Severa
Viet
Viet Nam
Johnson cites progress in the Great Lakes pollution battle in upstate tour
President Johnson marked day 1,000 as chief executive with a five state three day campaign starting in Niagara Square Buffalo. He touted the lakes cleanup, announced a major step under the 1965 Water Quality Act a Rand Development Corp contract for a new filter system and coal filtration. He planned multiple stops including Syracuse Ellenville Kingston Manchester and Campobello Island meeting Canadian PM Pearson before returning to Maine.
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Buffalo
N.Y
UPI
Johnson
New York
Niagara Square
Cleveland
Toledo
Sandusky
Lake Erie
Great Lakes
Wate
Rand Development Corp
Coast Guard
Ojibwa
Syracuse
Ellenville
Catskill
Rhode Island University
Kingston
Manchester
N.H
Burlington
Lewiston
Maine
U.S.S
Northampton
Lester Pearson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Iowans find way back from forest
Dr Frank Littell 49 president of Iowa Wesleyan College and his 15 year old son Steven emerged from the Mission Mountain wilderness near PLSON Montana after being missing since Tuesday while fishing near Cedar Lake on the east slope of the Mission Range. They had separated from a party of five fishermen and walked out at 8 30 a m as ground search teams prepared to enter the area.
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Plson
Mont
UPI
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mission Mountain
Here
Frank Littell
Mount, Pleasant
Iowa
Steven
Cedar Lake
Mission Range
Little
University of Chicago
Littells
Cedar Creek
Survives Delicate Heart Operation Woman Walks After Pump Removal
Mrs Yperanza del Valle Vasquez of Mexico City, 11, underwent a delicate heart operation and removing a supplementary pump. She walked with assistance to a chair for about 20 minutes, visiting nurses and doctors at Methodist Hospital. She remained cheerful, alert, and slept well after the procedure.
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Yperanza del Valle Vasquez
Methodist Hospital
Mexico City
Seek man and girl held as hostage in Massachusetts
In Winchendon Massachusetts police with bloodhounds and a helicopter hunted for Steven H Caouette 19 and his 13 year old former girlfriend Marie Couture after he allegedly abducted her from the Couture home. The wooded area near Benjamin Hill was searched as authorities warned the suspect is armed and dangerous.
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Winchendon
Mass
UPI
Exmental
Steven H. Caouette
Albert Couture
Marie
Benjamin Hill
Caouette
Waterville
George Higgins
Youth Escapes After Car Overturns On Wayland Road
A 20 year old Mt. Pleasant youth, Paul Stafford, escaped serious injury when his car left the road and overturned in a ditch on Wayland road about 4.42 miles from Washington. Stafford was thrown from the convertible, then helped back to the highway and taken to Washington County Hospital with non serious injuries. Charges of possession of beer as a minor and failure to have a vehicle under control are pending.
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Mt. Pleasant
Wayland Road
Washington
Paul Stafford
Washington County
Charles Snyder
The
Journal
Stafford
Chaotic ending to HUAC Viet Nam hearings at Capitol
The House Committee on Un-American Activities wrapped up a stormy session marked by arrests and outbursts as witnesses and spectators clashed over antiwar groups. Jerry Rubin of Berkeley led a dramatic exit in a rented Revolutionary War uniform amid calls of murder and defiance against the inquiry.
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Washington
UPI
House Committee On American Activities Today
Viet Nam
Committee
Jerry Rubin
Berkeley
Calif
Joe R. Pool
D-Tex
Rubin
United States
House Committee On Un-American Activities
James D. Hittle
Veterans’ of Foreign Wars
Navy radar man earns commendation for saving boy
Radarman First Class Simerman, former Washington resident, received the Navy Commendation Medal for lifesaving actions after a four-year-old boy was hit by a truck in Norfolk Virginia on November 24 1965. He stopped, found the unconscious child and performed mouth to mouth resuscitation for about ten minutes until respiration and pulse returned.
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E. Simerman
United States Navy
Washington
Norfolk
Secretary of the Navy
J. L
J. L. Arrington
Simerman
United States Naval Service
Navy Commendation Medal
Naval Service
Wayne Simerman
Norfolk, Va
Suicide in Ottumwa jail ends young inmate life
In Ottumwa Iowa 16 year old Patricia Ann Malone was found dead in her Wapello County Jail cell. Sheriff Russell Waters said she hanged herself with a strip torn from a blanket at about 825 p m after a welfare worker reported her despair since her mother’s December death.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
UPI
Wapello County
Russell Waters
Waters
Patricia Ann Malone
Cliff Boyer
Eldon
Blaine Boxx
Miss Malone
Weather outlook for Iowa with scattered showers
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered showers or thunderstorms north west this afternoon, northeast tonight and over northwest portion again Saturday afternoon or evening. Warmer northwest and extreme north tonight. Low tonight 55 to 60. High Saturday 70s northeast to lower 80s southwest. Outlook for Sunday continued mild with a chance of scattered showers or thunderstorms.
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United Press International
Iowa
Thousands Flock to Grounds for Childrens Day at Iowa State Fair
Thousands visit the Iowa State Fair as Childrens Day opens the 1968 extravaganza under blue skies. Exhibits, livestock judging, and contests abound while a state fair queen is named. Prize money tops 224432 with events from sheep shearing to fiddlers contest. Admission is 1 dollar for adults over 11 plus 50 cents per vehicle.
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Colfax Community High
Lawrence Welk
Connie Shafer
Gravity
Iowa
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Gerald Getty
Herbert Paschen
Getty
Sneck
Navy
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Iowa State Fair
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