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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1968
Page
7
The Poor People's Campaign trimmed 99 demands to 23 priority items led by food and jobs programs. Leader Rev Ralph Abernathy warned that meeting these could mean folding Resurrection City while promising continued pressure through meetings and letters.
Traffic on the autobahn to West Berlin resumed after a night of normal flow but officials warned of more tieups today as East Germany imposes new travel rules. Chancellor Kiesinger urges a serious Western response while Pravda backs East German action.
In London two more Commons special elections show Labour fortunes waning as Conservatives win Oldham, a textile and union stronghold, while Labour holds Brightside in Sheffield but trails by 12 474 votes from 1966. The budget and wage freeze are blamed for voter anger. A separate note mentions Auschwitz survivors Bonitz and Windek arriving as early inmates.
In Frankfurt Germany two former Auschwitz inmates Bernhard Bonitz aged 61 and Josef Windeck aged 64 were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of fellow prisoners in the Nazi camps. The verdict marks the third trial of accused killers from the death factory.
Hong Kong authorities report four confirmed dead as rescue teams recover two more bodies from hillside shacks. Nine more persons are feared buried under the mud after Thursday's landslides.
A day old baby girl in Brooklyn is in critical condition not from a bullet in her body but from a respiratory ailment common to premature infants. Doctors theorize the bullet lodged in the mother's womb was swallowed by the fetus during gestation.
Chicago AP reports the Federal Highway Administration approves outdoor advertising control laws in ten states plus DC and Puerto Rico. Interim pacts with five other states align billboard limits on position size spacing and lighting along interstate and primary routes under the 1965 Highway Beautification Act.
The FCC says it will aid President Johnsons violence commission in studying possible connections between American violence and mass media content. The agency notes it agrees with examining clear links between media output and violent aberrations as highlighted by the President.
The forecast calls for temperatures 4 to 6 degrees below normal from Saturday through Wednesday with colder conditions Saturday and a warmer start to next week. Normal highs range 69 to 78 north and 75 to 80 south, with lows 47 to 54 north and 51 to 59 south. Precipitation averages less than one tenth inch in the west to one fourth inch in the east, mainly showers and thundershowers early next week.
Army Cpl. James F. Koneeny, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Koneeny of Minneapolis, has been listed by the Defense Department as killed in action in Vietnam. The Pentagon announced he was moved from missing to killed by hostile action.
RGME reports unions in Italy went on a 48 hour walkout forcing shutdowns of newspapers after contract talks broke down. The dispute centers on job security as automation looms for workers.
Marblehead Massachusetts registrar of horses reports only a small portion of the 150 resident horses comply with a new town mandate requiring registration at Town Hall.
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