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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1968
Page
1
Inquiring reporters capture public views on the national debt of about 1.6 trillion dollars. Respondents from Iola Savenburg and surrounding areas call for spending cuts, debt reduction, jobs, and buying American, with varied opinions and safeguards.
Stephen A. Prag Jr., 27, of Independence, Missouri, was killed in a two car crash on the Muncie expressway when his vehicle was struck after another car crossed the median. The other driver suffered no injuries.
Kansas traffic death log shows 3 fatalities in the 24 hours to 9 am Saturday. For May, totals reach 32, with 223 deaths in 1968, compared to 27 in the same period in 1967.
Torrential storms drenched Chanute and surrounding area with about 4.6 inches in parts, causing basements to flood, power outages, and a fire alarm at Bryant Rest Home. Neosho River rising, highways closed, and drainage ditches overflowed as officials assessed damages and forecast continued cool, unsettled weather.
Sen. Frank Carlson told Field Kindley High School graduates that the Poor People's march will not force prompt legislation. He urged equality in economic opportunity and said respect and dignity cannot be legislated, noting his own retirement from the Senate.
Charles D. Fisher aged 4 and Winiford Fisher aged 40 of Coffeyville sustained minor injuries in a two car collision at Washington and Ash about 6:45 p.m. yesterday. La Verne Tripp, 16, of Route 4, R. 4, collided with the Fisher car. Tripp was shaken but not hurt. Police estimated $500 damage to the Fisher 1967 Plymouth and declared the 1958 Ford driven by Tripp a total loss. Both drivers said hedge obscured their view, preventing a timely stop.
A 1967 Renault driven by David S. Durrett 19 of Tulsa was damaged beyond repair in a one car accident on highway 169 two and a half miles south of Thayer around 8:20 last night. Durrett escaped injury while passenger Gary R. Hataway 22 of Parsons received a forehead cut. Trooper Roland Vogel reported Durrett said his attention wandered while tossing cigarette ashes from the window. Neosho County Sheriff George Neely assisted at the scene.
About 100 demonstrators gathered outside Rep. Wilbur Mills's apartment in Washington to protest welfare cuts as he turned 59. Organizers vow to pressure Secretary Orville Freeman and follow him to offices and homes, while most evacuees return to Resurrection City near the Lincoln Memorial.
Four year old Peggy Lou Hughes, daughter of Mr and Mrs Vernon Hughes of Simpson Kansas, died in Great Falls Montana after she either fell or jumped from a family car that rolled away from a parked trailer court. Authorities suggest the car may have shifted into neutral and rolled onto her. The family had just arrived in the city where the father is employed as a government surveyor.
Viet Cong guerrillas seized homes around a key Saigon bridge as allied forces launched a counterattack with machine guns tanks and rocket helicopters. Civilian refugees flooded into downtown Saigon and columns of smoke rose over the area amid renewed fighting on Saigon's northern fringe.
Premier Georges Pompidou denounced the overnight violence as an attempt to trigger civil war and urged law and order forces to crush further demonstrations. The clashes killed two, injured hundreds, and led to hundreds of arrests, with 648 in Paris. Hospitals treated 456 injuries. a 26-year-old man died of knife wounds in Paris. In Lyon a police commissioner died when a rock-filled truck crushed him as protests raged.
Lightning struck a gasoline base deck tank at the American Oil Co refinery in Neodesha Kansas about 6 10 a m starting a fire. Company personnel isolated the blaze and said it would burn out. No immediate information on gasoline losses. Other tanks believed safe and production continued.
Amid Paris talks, U.S. officials push for admission of North Vietnamese troops in the South, with estimates around 85,000. Both sides warn of potential breakoffs as Harriman and Thuy resume negotiations after a four day recess.
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