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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1968
Page
1
Washington reports February sees a 0.3 percent overall rise in consumer costs, marking a fifth straight monthly gain with annual inflation near 4 percent. Wholesale prices jump 0.7 percent led by a 1.5 percent food uptick. wages climb to 104.33 with 55 cents weekly gains for 45 million workers.
U S attorney says there may be no pure Cosa Nostra family here but a highly disciplined outfit preying on labor unions. The group penetrates legitimate business to fund illegal activity and gain monopoly profits after eliminating rivals. Officials warn bribery corrupts public trust. A KC policy writer reportedly grossed at least $300,000 yearly, taxed at 10 percent.
An intercepted note to Dear Cha discusses focus on war politics gold and Congress while the space program is said to be upstaged. The missive emphasizes national priorities and public concern during a tense period.
About 60 student demonstrators disrupted classes for two hours at Spring Hill High School. They carried signs urging education with representation and pressed for a judicial board. Superintendent Hayes ordered a board investigation as the district weighs student demands.
The Democrats clash over ideas with Kennedy criticizing Nixon. McCarthy sees aide mutiny as Johnson garners 14 of 24 Democratic governors. Nixon styles himself platform editor, Dirksen notes moderates may be sidelined. Wallace attacks Kennedy over civil rights pressure and street agitation.
More than 900 people were tested for diabetes at a 10 hour free clinic. The event was sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary and the State Department of Health with 911 individuals tested and many referred to doctors. Forty one auxiliary members volunteered, and Health Department staff included David Houck and Mrs. Berga Comer. Auxiliary president Mrs. Kenneth Cumings coordinated the program.
The area forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and a cooler night with lows in the 40s and highs in the 60s. Strong southerly winds up to 50 mph are moving a Pacific cold front across Kansas, stirring dust in central and northwest regions and persisting in eastern areas.
Kansas traffic death log reports 0 deaths in the 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday, 25 fatalities for March, 125 for 1968, and 110 for the comparable 1967 period.
In High Ridge Missouri an angry crowd of about 75 armed with guns and clubs forced volunteer firefighters to douse a burning house after they denied fighting untagged structures. No injuries occurred though the scene drew state police and county officers.
A grass burn off Otis High School track field in high wind fatal to Charles Menzer 17 who died at Central Kansas Medical Center Great Bend. Five others, Michael Bahr Rick Huff Dennis Oxman Phil Ramirez Michael Ochs, suffered 3rd to 1st degree burns and were hospitalized. sheriff said students helped firemen and jumped from a fire truck causing rapid spread covering about 100 acres.
A Kansas City Southern flagman Ernest Fritchie aged 58 of Lee's Summit Missouri was crushed between a loading dock and a switching freight car near Union Station. The accident happened at the Stuart Hall Co warehouse 2121 Central Street Tuesday night.
Adventure Line Manufacturing Co. of Parsons Kansas has been notified of a 5.44 million dollar U S Air Force contract to produce bomb components. Company president C C John says this adds to an earlier 2.5 million dollar contract for the same work.
Vandals damaged the men's rest room at the Santa Fe Park entrance again last night. Police found the wash basin torn from the wall and used to break up stool, causing water pipes to break and the room to flood. A city workman shut off the water, marking the second such incident in five nights after prior damage Friday night.
American infantry with tanks artillery and air strikes fight the Viet Cong in Ap Long Mac near Trang Bang as part of Operation Quyet Thang. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces report high enemy casualties and ongoing efforts to regain the capital region.
In Johnson County, Norman Karlson 18 and Michael Eastman 19 face preliminary hearings April 10 on four counts of malicious destruction of property for shooting four horses with a high powered rifle. They are also charged with two counts of malicious wounding of animals for the deaths of two dogs. The horses were valued at $2675. Karlson, a University of Kansas student, surrendered Tuesday. Eastman, a Kansas City junior college student, was arrested at home. Both pleaded not guilty and were released on $1500 bond.
Washington expects the Senate to back a plan that blends President Johnson's 10 percent income tax surcharge with a $6 billion spending cut. House opposition remains likely, as Ways and Means leaders resist ceding tax legislation. Senate votes and committee actions shape the looming conference on the measure.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower condemns Vietnam war dissenters for aiding the enemy and urges an end to divisive debate. He says he will not back any peace at any price candidate who favors capitulation and South Vietnam abandonment, while acknowledging honorable dissent and the right to be heard.
New York banker Jonathan S Tobey at the National Agricultural Advertising and Marketing Association convention forecasts major farm progress in the next dozen years. He says marketing remains the weak link and predicts future farming will be computerized and centralized with unmanned equipment handling cultivating planting and harvesting.
The Senate approved a tax bill amendment by 51 to 32 to overturn a Treasury ruling that would remove the tax exemption on industrial development bonds. Democrats Fulbright McClellan Harris Symington and Republicans Carlson Pearson supported. Monroney and Hollings did not vote or opposed.
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