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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1968
Page
1
President Johnson signed legislation authorizing a 21 billion national highway program over six years, adding 1 500 miles to the interstate system and extending the highway beautification program while boosting relocation payments for those displaced by road projects.
Reports from radio stations claim Ludvik Svoboda reached an honorable agreement with the Soviets while Dubcek and Cernik rejoin the delegation for a second round of talks. Soviet media describe opening exchanges as frank and disputes as part of a hopeful but unclear progress. Police note theft and a stray Siamese cat incident alongside traffic halt near the Kremlin.
Joan Fisher a 29 year old Salt Lake City part time schoolteacher and mother of three won the Mrs. America title at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds after a 10 day event sequence. She placed first in the safe driving contest and was a finalist in several other events with her husband Byron an attorney present.
Free radio reports say Soviet chiefs released Alexander Dubcek and Oldrich Cernik to join Moscow talks on Czechoslovakia's future. Svoboda leads the eight member delegation as curfews and shootings mark Prague and Moscow officials describe the sessions as frank but combative.
An AP poll finds Hubert H. Humphrey leading on the first ballot with 849 votes versus 1,312 needed. Favorite sons hold 4194 votes, uncommitted 8283, and scattered 13. McCarthy trails by about 375 with 475, McGovern has 35, Maddox has none pending delegation seating.
Five visitors from Paraguay will tour Chanute as part of an Agency for International Development Kansas study. The day includes an area development conference with Jack Lacy of the Kansas Department of Economic Development and a talk on Mid-America Inc. by executive vice president James Gar.
A group of six couples plans a roughly 500 mile weekend motorcycle tour to Missouri and Arkansas. Mrs Lausch will drive, others ride with husbands in back seat positions. They will visit Silver Dollar City in Eureka Springs and other sites, with no strict itinerary, staying in motels and eating at restaurants.
Gov. Robert Docking to fly to Chicago on a chartered plane for the national Democratic convention. Kansas delegation to depart Sunday by commercial flights from Kansas City and Wichita. some members already in Chicago.
Democrat National Convention delegates will relocate into a demilitarized zone in Chicago this weekend. The action signals heightened security as events unfold in the city.
Approximately 25 attendees heard Dr J C Sanders president of the Neosho County Community Junior College outline the school scope and funding sources at the Central Park Pavilion. He cited four state defined functions for community colleges and presented a revenue and expenditure fact sheet. Neosho County Clerk Virgil Lowe showed reassessment data indicating real estate will bear 66 percent of the tax load, up 7 percent.
American bombers entered from multiple regions as allied forces fought to break the Duc Lap siege 130 miles northeast of Saigon. Illumination revealed enemy casualties along the camp wire as U S and allied troops pressed to dislodge about 1 000 North Vietnamese soldiers surrounding 15 American Special Forces and roughly 300 South Vietnamese.
A cold front cools Kansas with drier air and ideal weekend weather. Scattered showers linger east of a Concordia to Medicine Lodge line while temperatures fall from the highs of the 80s to the 60s. Rain totals include Garnett 2.34 inches and La Cygne 1.90 inches.
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