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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1968
Page
1
In Memphis the MLK led march ended as crowds turned violent with looting and window smashing. Police used tear gas. a policeman was injured during clashes while demonstrators hurled bricks and missiles. King departed for the church after violence peaked amid a general work stoppage.
Wilford Elliott of White City, president of the Morris County Farmers Union, claims wealthy non-farmers are using farming to dodge federal income taxes. He told the Farm Union Co op annual meeting that $200 to $400 million in taxes are avoided yearly by claiming farming losses offsetting other income and later recapturing as capital gains at lower rates. Elliott urges Congress to close the loophole to stop unpaid taxes subsidizing competition with bona fide farmers.
The quarter ending March 15 apportions 414 to the four counties. Allen receives 2964.80, Neosho 3075.02, Wilson 2721.60, and Woodson 1213.00 from the net liquor enforcement tax.
John Williams age 25 of Topeka died from injuries suffered Wednesday night when his motorcycle reportedly grazed a pickup truck, then crashed through a fence into a tree, police said.
Intercepted letter suggests planting a tree tomorrow as a strong step against Dutch elm disease. The message is unsigned and addressed to Cha, urging immediate action.
Washington AP report on a push to defeat a Senate tax and spending cut plan combining a 10 percent income tax surcharge with a $6 billion reduction. House action delays Johnson tourism tax talk while committees edge toward final excise bill, amid interparty and administration opposition and new tariff ideas.
Erie sheriff George Neely reports six Thayer businesses broken into early Wednesday. Umbarger Service Station owner Harold Umbarger says $350 in merchandise including tires and auto accessories missing. Thayer Lumber Co. owner Charlie Payne reports $60 missing. Bill's Derby Station owner Bill Dyke reports $40 in cash and three tires missing. tires found under a loading dock. Carl's Motor Service owner Carl Studebaker reports no losses. door broken. Thayer Laundry owner Ernest Harms reports a demolition of a change-making machine and missing $90 to $100. a separate pop machine was damaged with cash taken. 169 Club owner Eldon Springer reports six coin machines broken into and $25 cash taken from the register.
The Topeka AP traffic death log lists fatalities over a 24 hour span to 9 am Thursday, March 28, 1968, noting 3 deaths for the period, with 128 for March 1968 compared to 111 for the comparable 1967 period, and includes one earlier fatality not previously reported.
Weather reports show temperatures high near 71 at 1 p.m. with a forecast of generally fair skies across Kansas. Winds southwest 20 to 30 mph, sunrise at 6 14, sunset at 6 41, and a low tonight near 50 with Friday high in the 70s. Precipitation remains unlikely across the state.
US aircraft hammered the A Shau Valley near Hue with hundreds of tons of bombs as 35 Stratofortresses and B52s conducted five to seven missions targeting truck parks bunkers depots and ammunition dumps. Casualties were light with fewer than 100 shells fired in the period. The operation followed reports of Russian trucks supplying the area and North Vietnamese routes being rebuilt toward Hue.
An Ozark Air Lines DC-9 struck a single-engine Cessna 150 Wednesday night near Lambert Airport, killing two pilots aboard the Cessna. The jet diverted for a normal landing despite fuel escaping from a ruptured wing tank. The Cessna’s occupants were Bob Allen, an Interstate Airmotive instructor, and John Brooks of Hazelwood, a pilot trainee.
Washington AP reports three Kansans appear on the Defense Department casualty list from Vietnam. Two are listed as killed in action Marine Sgt Maj Donald W Bean of Topeka and Marine Pfc Patrick M Berwert of Topeka. Marine Lt William G Hall of Wichita died of wounds and is noted as the third casualty.
The Tribune warns that a notice about subscription payments circulating in Chanute was not issued by the paper. The advisory asks customers to pay at the Tribune office to avoid carrier contact, but the plan is not endorsed. Regular direct contact between carriers and customers is preferred for service.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, famed for the first manned spaceflight in 1961, dies in a training-flight crash along with Col. Vladimir Seregin. Ashes to be interred at the Kremlin Wall. The crash comes a year after Viktor Komarov’s death and precedes nine U.S. astronaut fatalities.
Pierre Salinger former press secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson postpones a speaking appearance at Kansas State Teachers College Emporia due to his involvement in Senator Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.
A House subcommittee led by Rep. Rosenthal investigates how rejected government purchases, including 30,000 pounds of thawed turkey and 18,563 frozen dinners, were salvaged and sold to consumers. The probe also covers faulty trousers sold after rejection. officials note labeling and disposal issues.
The Defense Department reports one F111A fighter bombswing aircraft from Ta Khri Thailand is missing after a bombing run over North Vietnam. Six F111s recently based in Ta Khri carried an earlier combat mission. No word on the cause or location of the missing crew and plane.
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