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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1968
Page
1
Matthew Marcus, age 12, starts as a freshman at City College after completing grade school in five years and high school in two. He aims to prove himself despite youth and plans to earn acceptance through knowledge in science and math. He enjoys sailing his father's 26 foot boat and stands five feet tall with freckles.
Lois Erickson reports the 51st Chanute Mexican Fiesta begins Friday at Santa Fe Park with High Mass at St Patrick church and a crownings ceremony. The event features dances, food stands, Kids Day, a sidewalk bazaar, and a dance by the Junior Perales Band from Hereford Texas.
AP reports two small clashes on Tay Ninh fringes with an ambush on a U S convoy along route 22. U S advisers say enemy pulled back for the moment as 2 000 South Vietnamese paratroopers and marines sweep areas once held by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese infiltrators. Saigon HQ says calm returns to Tay Ninh City with no major fighting. Fourteen enemy soldiers and one American killed.
The Senate opens debate on gun control measures, seeking to ban interstate mail order rifle sales and restrict over the counter transfers between non adjoining states. The bill lacks Johnson era registration and licensing proposals, prompting a floor fight led by Sen. Tydings. Atty. Gen. Clark urged support for the administration plan, arguing lives are at stake. In Vietnam, U.S. and allied forces report casualties and slow ground action amid ongoing fighting in Tay Ninh and Pleiku regions.
An intercepted note asks Cha if they are superstitious and warns to be alert tomorrow, identifying Friday the 13th as a potential event.
Justice William C. Douglas blocked the shipment of 113 Army reservists to Vietnam citing substantial constitutional questions. The 113 from the Cleveland area were ordered to duty May 13 for two years with Ft. Meade in Maryland as their posting. The suit challenges Congress 1966 mobilization power without a formal war or national emergency declaration.
The National Parkinson Institute reports that a bean extract gave definite to dramatic relief to over half of patients in a nine month trial. Dr. Spiegel, of Temple University, says the extract rivals the synthetic drug dopa and could be cheaper to produce, though not yet a final cure.
Chanute property taxes total 87.26 mills this year, or 87.26 per thousand of assessed valuation. County clerk Virgil Lowe notes a drop of 5.91 mills from 1967, with state, county, city, district, and junior college levies detailed. Weather and traffic fatality data follow in the same alert.
Clarence Hadley saved a lime aid hose from the Missouri River then helped pull Neal Thomas a 47 year old welder from Salina Kansas from the water. Thomas struck his head on impact and was hospitalized in Kansas City Kansas for observation while employed by Econono Flo Flour service operating Wolcott barges and grain storage.
Washington officials say no firm evidence of Soviet plans to threaten Berlin but keep alert amid U.S. Russian tensions. Johnson warned Moscow force will not be tolerated in Berlin, while Pentagon officials note possible pressure moves and no immediate reinforcement of European forces planned.
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