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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1968
Page
2
East German border guard Lutz Kirsche fled across the Helmstedt checkpoint, racing 80 to 90 yards in 12 to 18 seconds. The Berlin Wall’s seven years of tightening controls cut refugee flow from 2,824,000 since 1949 to 415 in the first half of this year, with past years showing higher escape numbers.
At the Chicago convention several state delegations may be challenged by Humphrey and McCarthy camps. Mississippi faces a likely challenge from the Mississippi Loyalists, with others including Texas Georgia Michigan Alabama Connecticut Washington and Pennsylvania also mentioned. Delegations in Minnesota Indiana Oklahoma North Carolina and possibly more faced potential contests as credential fights loom. Telecommunication strikes stall hotel installations while Illinois Bell negotiators seek an end to the dispute.
United Press International reports Hubert H. Humphrey secured the lion's share of Ohio's 115 delegation votes to the Democratic National Convention. The split stood 81 for Humphrey, 3 for Eugene McCarthy, 1 for Stephen Young, with 27 uncommitted and 25 absent.
Navy diver Bob Croft of Ledyard Conn has set a new world breath-holding dive record at 240 feet over 2 minutes 26 seconds. Observer rival Jacques Mayol of France witnessed the dive, with Mayol holding the former record of 231 feet.
In Ipswich England Fred Sharpe, 47, earned a motorcycle operator's license this week after 31 attempts over 15 years. He said he would keep testing until 70 if needed. In U.S. campaign news McCarthy, Humphrey, Mondale and Harris weigh delegates and votes as caucuses and campaigns move toward the Chicago convention. McGovern urges peace, Nixon and Agnew push fall campaign plan as race sharpens.
In Los Angeles a collision at an intersection prompts Albert G. Webb to step from his truck and ask Vivian Craig, 62, his mother in law who was driving the other car, for a ride. The incident unfolds as a local UpI report.
Hurricane Dolly moves slowly in the Atlantic with peak winds of 75 mph and gusts 175 miles from its center. As of 6 am EDT it lay about 375 miles north northeast of Bermuda, moving east to east northeast at 25 mph, with no land threat for the next 48 hours.
Nixon campaign planners in San Diego reveal a plan to recruit five million volunteers to seek support from independents and Democrats. A $5 million budget backs the effort as 1,000,000 volunteers already joined. Sen. John Tower arrives to join GOP leaders shaping the campaign's trajectory at the resort base near Nixon headquarters.
In Little Rock Arkansas firebombs were hurled at six businesses as police enforce a 10 PM to 5 AM curfew amid ongoing racial violence. Gunfire near police HQ damaged patrol cars barely, with no injuries reported. Security tightened for the Democratic runoff while Gov Rockefeller cancels Santa Fe engagement.
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