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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1968
Page
4
A historic mid November snowstorm snarled traffic across south central Iowa causing numerous accidents and four fatalities. Des Moines recorded 11.5 inches while parts of the region saw two to nine inches as drivers stranded in ditches.
The Eighth Circuit in St Louis orders Judge Edward J McManus to proceed no further in the Everett W Gross case and assigns another judge to preside over trials for Gross his wife and three others on a 27 count mail fraud indictment. Gross 55 formerly of Decorah now in Helena Mont is set for trial Dec 2. Defendants are free on bond.
A Cedar Rapids Veterans Day program at Veterans Memorial Coliseum drew under 100 attendees. Cmdr. Clarence Hudson Jr. of the naval reserve training center Major Jack J. Jeangerard of Coe College ROTC and John Oberthien Cedar Rapids Safety commissioner delivered tributes. Music by VFW Post 788 and a Northview Elementary School recording from Muncie Indiana accompanied the ceremony.
A witty quip notes that granting an inch invites demands for more until one becomes a ruler, delivering a succinct tip about overreach and power. The proverb-like line contrasts generosity with greed and echoes common workplace and political caution.
Nixon and President Johnson met at the White House in a potential plan for the President-elect to take an active role in pursuing Vietnam peace. Nixon floated sending representatives to Paris or Saigon if Johnson and Rusk support the move. Possible envoys include Henry Cabot Lodge and William Scranton, with Lodge given special administration assignments.
In Memphis James Earl Ray dropped Arthur Hanes as his attorney and hired famed defense lawyer Percy Foreman of Texas two days before his murder trial for the April 4 assassination of Martin Luther King. Foreman plans to seek a continuance, possibly delaying start to next year, to prepare.
U S negotiators met South Vietnam's special envoy Pham Dang Lam in Paris as he returned from Saigon with President Nguyen Van Thieu's peace plan. Habib, a U S delegate member, described the session as off the record and no details were released.
Nixon has 43.3 percent of the presidential popular vote totaling 30,957,072. Humphrey follows with 42.8 percent and 30,602,098 votes. Wallace stands at 13.6 percent and 9,747,764 votes. Humphrey’s total excludes 51,342 Alabama slates of electors.
Eighteen hurt when a Rock Island Line passenger train slammed into a stalled tow truck and derailed near Wilton Junction Iowa. Most injuries were cuts or bruises. five remained hospitalized as crews inspected the wreck. A nun aboard recalled the chaos as belongings flew about.
A 43 year old Arab immigrant Ahmed Rageh Namer and his two sons Hussein and Abdo were charged in Brooklyn with conspiracy to murder possession of deadly weapons and criminal solicitation in an alleged plot to assassinate President elect Richard Nixon. Police found two rifles two switch blade knives and ammunition in their apartment and an anonymous tip led to arrests. The three were held on $100000 bail each and arraigned before Judge T Vincent Quinn.
North Vietnamese artillery and rockets struck U S Marine positions inside the DMZ for the first time since President Johnson halted bombing. Four Marines were killed and 41 wounded in five attacks on three Marine posts near Con Thien as U S planes and artillery retaliated. Eleven locations in South Vietnam, plus Saigon corridor fighting, were reported with four civilians killed and 18 wounded. B 52 bombers pounded Saigon vicinity as U S command noted renewed combat 75 miles north of the city.
A World War I anniversary recalls the 1918 armistice ending the Great War. More than 8.5 million soldiers died, including 125,000 Americans, with total casualties and costs running into tens of millions. The armistice ended fighting at 5 a.m. November 11 and reshaped global power dynamics.
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