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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1968
Page
3
Mexican army tanks and bazookas crushed a teen uprising in central Mexico City as police and students clashed near the presidential palace and U S embassy. Dozens wounded, hundreds arrested, one student reported killed amid chaos before Olympic Games.
Czechoslovak general opposed to the reforms spoke with Soviet army officers as Soviet and Czechoslovak Communist party leaders resumed talks near the Soviet border.
AP reports substantial Soviet combat and supply light equipment moving at multiple points across Poland on Tuesday, according to informed sources.
Pittsburgh AP The United Steelworkers delayed action after a reported 78 cent wage offer with negotiators drafting language. A rank and file test looms as 600 local presidents may ratify or strike when the current pact ends at midnight Wednesday. Local president Anthony Tomko cites leadership sales as the hurdle.
Ten police and a radio newsman were wounded by shotgun pellets amid rock and brick throwing in a Negro neighborhood of Peoria. Three officers were in fair condition, six were treated and released, and a deputy and the newsman were minor injuries. Thirteen people were taken into custody as peace was restored after about three hours.
Mrs. Tom Carey traveling from Lake Eshquaguma with five children met her husband on the road near the lake home in Virginia Minnesota. Cars collided but no injuries were reported and Carey said there would be no legal action.
National police leaders propose a two day walkout to protest lack of support amid racial violence. The plan discussed at a Louisiana convention cites Cleveland officers killed by snipers and aims to stage a September seminar to set dates and locations. Cities including New York Detroit Philadelphia and Birmingham are involved through various police associations.
Government officials said the fiscal year ending June 30 logged a deficit of 25.4 billion dollars, 5.6 billion over January estimates and 3.1 billion above March revisions. They cited tax surcharge delay and Vietnam costs as key factors.
A group of 87 Roman Catholic theologians from across the nation contends that Pope Paul VI 1968 encyclical banning artificial birth control is insufficient and insensitive to couples. They argue it disobeys the rights of Catholic couples and ignores the dignity of many created beings.
Moscow reports a Tuesday launch of another unmanned Cosmos satellite, marking the 234th orbiting object in the Soviet space program.
A wind driven blaze at Hupp Electric Motors Inc. 353 Second Avenue SW Cedar Rapids heavily damaged the building and contents. Fire Chief Jesse Hunter called it the worst city fire in years and the blaze was controlled by 2 05 p.m. Fire started in a rear paint bin and quickly spread through both floors and a coglift. Nine engines and 25 firefighters responded, with off duty men filling stations. One firefighter Lloyd Bean suffered a badly cut hand. Barricades were set up to divert noon traffic as flames shot from second floor windows and a roof section collapsed.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk said the United States would continue bombing North Vietnam until a credible source pledges a major reduction in Hanoi’s military effort. He dismissed the lull in South Vietnam and cited defectors and captured documents as evidence of renewed North Vietnamese and Viet Cong offensives.
U S forces report heavy losses in two engagements south of Da Nang and northwest of Hue with 24 Americans killed and 140 wounded. Lt Cmdr Guy Cane of New York City downed a Mig 17 near Vinh in a five minute air duel, the first Mig downed by American pilots in three weeks.
A playful note compares Daylight Saving time to the old Indian blanket story about cutting one end and sewing it to the other to make it longer. The remark uses a humorous analogy to explain the concept.
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