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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1968
Page
1
The Army will close 23 Nike Hercules missile sites across 12 states as part of Pentagon cost saving for fiscal 1969. The move also includes seven headquarters installations, projected to save $18.8 million this year and $54 million in following years.
The Federal Reserve Board votes a small cut in the discount rate from 5% to 4.5% as a technical move aligning with money market conditions. President Johnson hails the move, expecting easier funds for homebuilding and continued inflation control amid easing financing and tax-driven restraint. The action signals the dollar crisis has subsided and aims to temper the economy in the second half of 1968.
U S and South Vietnamese forces with tanks artillery and planes reported killing 234 North Vietnamese during the hardest fighting in nearly a month along the northern frontier. Three South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 15 were wounded in clashes Thursday.
Two 13 year old Chanute boys were questioned after a theft at Olds Grocery 502 N Grant. Police said $50 was taken, $40 recovered, $7.54 spent on cigars lighters and items downtown, $2.46 unaccounted. Store operator Mrs Verna Old reported the incident and the youths were referred to juvenile authorities.
Reports from Paris and Washington describe a clash over Vietnam bombing. U S officials push for withholding attacks without de escalation while Hanoi talks stall on de escalation signals. Clark Clifford notes North Vietnamese forces moving into the South.
The Navy announced the Poseidon missile achieved a successful maiden flight from Cape Kennedy at 6 30 am EDT carrying a dummy warhead. It aimed to reach 1000 miles into the Atlantic as part of preparations for submarine deployment in the early 1970s.
Tarbet Construction Co has begun widening Main Street in front of Royster Junior High School and East Main between Central and Ashby as part of a city street improvements contract awarded July 8. The project, totaling 170677.20 dollars, prioritizes Royster area work and southwest paving, with additional blocks added at unit bid prices.
A public hearing on the Katy railroad application to abandon the track between Chanute and Piqua will take place at 9 30 a.m. Monday in the district courtroom at the Memorial building. Interstate Commerce Commission examiner Bernard Feuer is assigned to the case.
A fragment notes a task force on cigarette use claiming fag smoking was communist inspired to push its agenda. The line suggests political framing of tobacco policy debates.
A national task force urged stepped up federal and private efforts to curb cigarette use and stem early deaths from smoking. Recommendations include tighter advertising restrictions, better school instruction, greater physician involvement, group prevention methods, nonsmoker insurance discounts, and safer cigarette development. The Tobacco Institute criticized the report as defamatory.
A task force urged stronger anti smoking measures after the 1964 surgeon general report. It called for tar and nicotine content listing on packages, higher advertising warning standards, and limits on youth exposure. It urged education, professional role models, and group efforts by wives and pregnant women to stop smoking. The Tobacco Institute defended industry research from 1954.
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