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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1968
Page
3
Farmington families faced a hard holiday as 321 children and 16 wives waited for news from the Mannington mine outage. Workers were declared dead after a 10 day shift, while wives kept watch in cold homes. The story notes Christmas gifts and a $1000 widow’s check per family amid sorrow.
Raw 1968 reflections mix wartime turmoil with Tet festivities and political shocks. The piece threads Vietnam turmoil, Saigon strikes, and U.S. domestic upheavals as the year pivots from war to politics, including Rockefeller and Lindsay clashes, student unrest, and the Winter Olympics backdrop.
NEW ORLEANS UPI sheriff Louis A Heyd said inmates from Orleans Parish prison escaped and were harbored by their families and friends as they fled the streets. He said several inmates battered their way to freedom and were dangerous felons including murder convicts.
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