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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1968
Page
1
Russell Kansas endures wind driven tumbleweeds reaching rooftops and blocking streets. City crews bale the mass using a hay baler, each bale about 20 pounds, as officials joke about selling silvered tumbleweeds to tourists. The scene comes amid a dry plains spell.
May Britt testified that she asked him to stay home but he never did as she obtained an uncontested divorce from Sammy Davis Jr in Santa Monica. The Swedish actress 31 and Davis 43 had been married eight years in an interracial Jewish ceremony. Frank Sinatra was best man and Peter Lawford usher. They share a daughter Tracey 7 and two adopted sons Mark 8 Jeff 4. Britt receives 3000 dollars monthly alimony and child support under the settlement.
Announcement of a 35000 bequest from the estate of Mrs Kenneth C Snyder designates the First Presbyterian Church at Main and Steuben as the recipient. Funds will fund interior exterior renovations a Walcker pipe organ new glass doors air conditioning and floor and carpeting updates. A dedication ceremony for the organ is planned for April with a commemorative plaque for Kenneth C Snyder.
An intercepted letter details the distribution of Mrs. Snyder’s estate funds to many groups. The 413 school district received large grants for electronic language equipment and library updates. A $65,000 all-faiths chapel was built at Neosho County Community Junior College. Shriners Hospital in St. Louis got $25,000. A meditation patio at Corpus Christi’s Mt. Carmel Home used Snyder funds.
President elect Nixon announced career diplomat Charles W. Yost as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and said Sargent Shriver will remain ambassador to France. Both are Democrats and Nixon cited bipartisanship and professional diplomacy for the UN post. He noted Yost, 61, has extensive UN experience and had been retired since 1966.
U S intelligence reports indicate the Communist command is moving troops and materiel toward Saigon for a winter spring campaign to assault the city after New Year’s. The Viet Cong marked its eighth anniversary with grenade and gun attacks in Saigon, killing seven civilians and wounding 11.
Eleven U.S. GIs arrived in Bangkok after five months in Cambodian custody. The 12th, Earl Gurnsey, stayed behind in Phnom Penh due to injuries. Prince Sihanouk called the release a Christmas gesture. The soldiers were flown to Bangkok and then to Clark Air Base for home. They thanked Cambodian hosts and noted good treatment during captivity.
An Eastern Air Lines jet with 151 aboard diverted to Cuba after a hijacker claimed nitro glycerin and threatened harm. The suspect, calling himself C. Washington, apologized on arrival in Havana as six soldiers escorted him off. This marked the fifth straight week of hijackings to Cuba. Captain Orris F. Firth led the Philadelphia to Miami flight.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover announced warrants for Gary Steven Krist and Ruth Eisemann Schier in the kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle heiress and Emory College coed. The suspects linked to the University of Miami Institute of Marine Sciences and a 13 foot speedboat used in the ransom plot.
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