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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1968
Page
9
U S adviser Captain Walter Gunn of Columbus Georgia watches a Vietnamese ranger inspect a slain communist soldier inside the Strongpoint at Khe Sanh in South Vietnam as rangers repel a Friday assault by 500 Hanoi infantrymen with B 52 bombers providing first time direct support to ground forces.
UPI photographer Jocelyn Etherington 20 flies from London with a five man team to begin a two month descent of the Blue Nile from Lake Tana to Khartoum. Four prior attempts failed. The mission seeks to complete a 1000 mile river journey through Ethiopia and Sudan.
Amalia Pezina, 82, faces eviction as a finance company forecloses on her home in San Antonio. Her son, a Vietnam War soldier, had been paying the mortgage from his army pay but did not receive pay last month due to the Hue battle.
Rodney Baby Torrie, a Basset hound in a graduation cap, attends graduation exercises of the Maine ly Obedience club in Westbrooke Maine. He finishes fourth in the beginners class.
President Johnson calls an all parties emergency conference at the White House Monday to pursue around the clock bargaining. He urges cooperation from copper producers and striking unions to end the 230 day dispute in the national interest.
Joseph Hurst, ex Iowa State basketball player, is sentenced to death by electric chair for the May 24 killing of Chicago Patrolman Herman Stallworth. He also receives years for wounding Stallworth's partner and for shooting at another officer from a barricaded south side building.
Secretary of Agriculture Freeman announced a special trade protection mission of about 60 persons, including lawmakers and spouses, to Japan and Taiwan in April. He defended the trip as merited to boost farm commodity sales, aiming for about 1 billion dollars in Japan and emphasizing dollar earning purchases. Senator Williams urged canceling to cut foreign spending as Johnson seeks balance of trade gains.
Buchanan county sheriff questioned several magazine salesmen for possibly using irregular sales tactics in the Stanley and Hazleton areas. The group led by William Shelburne, with credentials, allegedly cashed two checks from an elderly Rowley resident and included misrepresentation by Gale Prince as a Vietnam veteran. Sheriff Beier urged residents to avoid buying from salesmen lacking a sheriff letter of recommendation and discouraged late evening visits.
A rural Council Bluffs resident Denver Pete Cox, 57, died Friday in a single vehicle wreck on highway 64 north of the city. Police report he apparently lost control while rounding a curve in his pickup truck.
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