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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1968
Page
2
A Trans World Airlines Boeing 727 with 102 aboard diverted from LaGuardia to Kennedy due to fog. The plane touched down with gears down then reared up, wheels sheared off, and the jet skidded 5 000 feet before stopping. Fourteen people were slightly injured.
Chaplain Maj. B. W. Libby and 19 year old Jerry Knoepfel survived a Viet Cong siege near their base camp of the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne. Libby, known for not carrying a weapon, joked about holes in his fatigues as the两 men aided a frightened bunkered shelter and offered prayers amid the attack.
Actress Valeria Solanis confessed to shooting Andy Warhol in Warhol's Union Square office. Warhol, 41, remained in critical condition with a 50-50 survival chance. writer Mario Amaya was grazed. Solanis, 28, surrendered after police, charged with felonious assault and weapon possession, saying she lives nowhere and had complex motives.
Two Minnesota youths died in separate crashes raising the 1968 highway toll. Steven Klinger, 20, of Waseca, died after losing control of his motorcycle when the helmet flew off. Reuben Rock Jr., 23, of Ponsford, died in a Beacher County crash near Detroit Lakes that also claimed Leonard Ellis, 29. Debra L. Brown, 2, of Richfield, died when a garbage truck struck her tricycle at a local trailer court.
A customer question about a half empty vitamins bottle leads to warnings about door to door vitamin sellers. The piece urges relying on the community health team and doctor to determine what vitamins to take and promotes Peoples Prescription Drug Store at 121 NW 2nd Ave with phone 433-1817.
Washington AP The Johnson administration told Congress that U S troop strength will stay at 550000 in Vietnam while decreasing in Western Europe. Defense Secretary Clifford pledged Vietnam battles will be taken over by South Vietnamese forces as NATO forces may shrink, with no timetable for Europe cuts. Public opposition to Vietnam has eased since Paris peace talks began.
St Louis report says 256 metal water cans from 1963 Civil Defense shelters were discarded after leaking. The 172 gallon metal cans will be replaced with plastic containers as part of shelter modernization.
U S clergymen attempt to grant sanctuary from federal law to Vietnam war dissenters falters. A Justice Department spokesman says no legal basis for sanctuary claims. In Boston, Robert Talmanson and William Chase sought refuge at Arlington Street Church before Talmanson was removed by marshals and Chase surrendered later.
After seven years Griffith Borgeson reclaimed his 1927 Miller racer loaned to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. The court ordered the return after the museum kept the $15,000 auto as a gift. Federal agents later moved two draft resisters from a Providence church amid sanctuary protests by Unitarian Universalists.
In County Mayo at Knock, bishops of Connacht inaugurate a marriage introduction bureau. Archbishop Joseph Walsh of Tuam explains the aim to counter depopulation by pairing elderly bachelors and unmarried women who hesitate to pursue marriage.
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