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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jan 06, 1968

Page

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Arctic Cold Grips Nation Driving Hazards Rise

A fresh Arctic outbreak froze the central United States with subzero readings from North Dakota to New York and beyond. Minnesota's International Falls hit 35 below, while Minneapolis St Paul registered 17 below before dawn. Hazardous driving warnings stretched across Kansas Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas Tennessee and parts of Illinois Kentucky and beyond as icy conditions lingered and more severe weather loomed. Fires claimed 11 lives in California Pennsylvania and North Dakota amid the cold and stormy weather. A Montana blizzard dumped a foot of snow on Livingston and eight inches on Butte. A newborn died after an ambulance trip through zero visibility in Lewistown.

North Dakota Minnesota International Falls Minn Minneapolis-St. Paul Great Lakes New York New England Mercury Massena N.Y Canadian Midwest Weather Bureau Oklahoma Arkansas Tennessee Kansas Missouri Illinois Kentucky Little Rock Pine Bluff Texas Georgia Eldorado Ark Shreveport Simi Calif Los Angeles Coatesville Fargo N.D Montana Livingston Butte

Snow Forecast With Cold Temperatures Across Virginia

More snow is forecast with continuing cold conditions and subfreezing lows. Temperatures near 18 to 30s are expected, with 0.25 to 0.5 inch precipitation possible early next week. County superintendents say schools will reopen Monday if weather permits.

Virginia Frederick County Robert E. Ayler Clarke County Robert Wood Clarke Shenandoah Warren

Students Hang LBJ in Effigy At Ethiopian Campus

About 300 university students in Addis Ababa hanged President Johnson in effigy and shouted anti American slogans while awaiting Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Signs denounced the U S role in Vietnam as Humphrey delayed by a two hour meeting with Emperor Haile Selassie and canceled his address.

Addis Ababa Ethiopia Johnson Hubert H. Humphrey U.S Vietnam Humphrey Haile Selassie

New Postage Rates Take Effect Tomorrow

Postmaster Joseph C. Haines reminded citizens that first class letters rise to six cents and air mail letters to ten cents per ounce with five cents for postal cards and eight cents for air mail postal cards. Adequate supplies of six cent and one cent stamps are on hand.

Joseph C. Haines Air Mail

Thieu says no bombing halt without reciprocal action

Thieu insists North Vietnamese bombing must stop only if Hanoi reciprocates. He welcomes talks to seek peace but says talks with Hanoi must be main Saigon goal and that U.S. talks with Hanoi hinge on acceptable conditions.

Hanoi North Vietnam Thieu U.S United States United Tes Saigon South Vietnam North Johnson Chester Bowles Cambodia Norodom Sihan

Dubcek Wins Czech Power Struggle

In Prague Antonin Novotny loses his post as Communist party chief after 15 years. Alexander Dubcek, 46, from Slovakia, wins a four day secret caucus and signals potential liberal reforms while remaining allied with the Soviet Union.

Prague Czechoslovakia Antonin Novotny Communist Party Alexander Dubcek Dubcek Slovakia Soviet Union Yugoslavia Romania Europe Moscow Party Academy Leonid Brezhnev Brezhnev Novotny Plenum

Transplant pioneer eyes African patient after Blaiberg case

Cape Town reports Dr. Philip Blaiberg in good condition five days after his heart transplant and the surgeon says he hopes to perform a transplant on an African. Barnard notes even a brief life proves a gift, while Mrs. Blaiberg plans to share proceeds from interviews with Mrs. Haupt.

Cape Town South Africa Philip Blaiberg Christiaan N. Barnard Blaiberg Clive Haupt Haupt

Indicted Vietnam War Protest Leaders Face Trial

Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr and Dr Benjamin Spock along with three others were indicted in Boston on charges of conspiring to counsel draft avoidance. The group faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted. The FBI plans arraignment in federal court.

Boston Benjamin Spock Yale University William Sloane Coffin Jr U. S Vietnam Spock New York City New Haven, Conn Marcus Raskin Washington, D.C Institute For Policy Studies Mitchell Goodman Temple Maine Michael Ferber Harvard University Raskin White House McGeorge Bundy FBI Lewis B. Hershey Selective Service System

Village Falls to Reds Near Bien Hoa Amid Bombing Runs

Communist troops overran Tan Uyen village, six miles from Bien Hoa air base, held it five hours, burned 11 homes, killed six civilians and eight soldiers, wounded 11 civilians and 35 soldiers, while counterattacks killed 19 Reds. U.S. jets lost four aircraft, totals top 1,003 combat planes.

Saigon U.S Bien Hoa North Vietnam Tan Uyen Red China

Surveyor 7 Set for Sunday Lunar Soft Landing

CAPE KENNEDY FLA AP Surveyor 7 America s last unmanned lunar probe is to launch early Sunday on an Atlas Centaur booster between 12 55 a.m. and 3 12 a.m. EST toward the highlands north of Tycho crater for a scientific mission after confirming safe manned sites along the lunar equator.

Cape Kennedy Fila America Tycho U.S Space Administration

Soviet says U S hypocritical over ship damage protest

The Soviet Union accused the United States of hypocrisy over damage to Soviet ships in North Vietnam and said the Pentagon is avoiding an answer to a Soviet protest note. Tass charged a State Department statement on the protest gives no clear reply to the Soviet demands.

U.S Hanoi Haiphong U.S. State Department Moscow Soviet Union Robert J. McCloskey North Vietnam Haiphong Harbor Red China South Viettnam Saigon U.S. 25Th Infantry Division United States Today Pentagon Tass State Department

U.S. Officers See Hanoi Aims Beyond Talks

Senior U.S. military officers believe North Vietnam’s first objective is to halt bombing to rebuild forces in the South. They doubt any ceasefire without significant North Vietnamese concessions, noting past refusals to reciprocity and hints that fighting would continue during negotiations.

Washington U.S North Vietnam South Vietnam United States

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