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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1968
Page
2
Communist forces attack three Saigon police stations as curfews tighten in the Chinese quarter during the Paris peace talks. Government orders 24 hour curfews while thousands of refugees flee toward central Saigon for safety.
International war reporting notes renewed mortar and rocket fire on Saigon and Tan Son Nhut with limited damage. U S forces report heavy casualties for the Viet Cong around Saigon and near Hue, Dong Ha and Kak To as air power targets infiltrating troops and supply routes. In Paris, Harriman leads a six member U S delegation to start preliminary talks with North Vietnam, with Ha Van Lao joining Hanoi’s negotiating team and expressing optimism.
Premier Thanom Kittikachorn declared in New York that little hope exists for lasting peace in Southeast Asia no matter the outcome of U S talks with North Vietnam. He warned Communist China would continue armed liberation movements in the region even if the Vietnam war ends.
Moscow rejects claims Soviet agents killed Czechoslovakia’s Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in 1948. Prague discusses possible Soviet military intervention amid rising tensions over liberal reforms.
The government lifted the maximum rate on FHA and GI loans from 6 percent to 6 3/4 percent and President Johnson warned that without a tax surcharge mortgage rates could reach 10 percent. He noted conventional rates already climbed from 5 1/4 to 7 percent and sometimes 8 percent. The move came as HUD secretary Weaver announced the new ceiling. A Senate House conference reported progress on tax and spending measures, aiming to finish soon.
Flags at half staff mark the death of Alabama governor Lurleen Wallace a cancer victim aged 41. Lt. Gov. Albert Brewer inherits the office after her January 1967 succession and takes the oath. Wallace lies in state at the executive mansion and capitol, with ceremonial periods announced.
A large storm center crossed the northern Plains Tuesday bringing blustery winds rain hail and snow as a mass of cold air moved southward from the Rockies. Tornado watch issued for parts of northeast Texas eastern Oklahoma southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri with severe thunderstorm watch in central and southwest Texas. Warnings to stockmen in central Nebraska and high wind warning for Iowa.
Dr. David J. Sencer, head of the National Communicable Disease Center, told a House subcommittee that gonorrhea is out of control in the United States with a 12 percent rise in reported cases in each of the last several years and that the trend is dangerous.
Julie Andrews won an uncontested divorce from British designer Tony Walton in Santa Monica on grounds of cruelty. The nine year marriage ended with custody of their daughter Emma awarded to Andrews, who also received the family home and all other property. alimony and child support were waived.
Taft woman Louise Amadisto learns she will inherit $2 million from Aunt Alice Sanders who died in London. The estate includes a $100,000 home and 500 acres near London, with most of the assets in cash. Amadisto's sailor husband Leroy is serving in Vietnam and based at Port Huemene.
A group of 113 San Gabriel Valley residents petitioned the state Attorney General for a grand jury investigation into the prosecution of Anthony David Dontanville on murder charges. Dontanville, 35, was acquitted on two counts of murder in the Altadena sisters’ slayings after a retrial following a prior conviction.
Los Angeles superior court Judge Arthur L. Alarcon disclosed Tuesday that he married the former Mrs Lynn Sellman Graf Tuesday in Carmel. Mrs Alarcon, 32, is the daughter of Stuart Davis chair of the Great Western Financial Corp board.
The California Assembly commended radio personality Arthur Godfrey for conservation work. Godfrey urged resource conservation and warned that by century's end only one acre of arable land per person may remain in the United States. Mexican police arrested Freddie Lee McKenzie, 27, in connection with a Fort Worth nightclub firebombing that killed eight.
Fragmentary classified line shows a delivery notice and legal references with dates 1943 1941 and a decree number. It mentions a Superior Court in Los Angeles area and a monthly single copy delivery. The readable items include a phone number and page identifiers.
Walter P. Reuther was unanimously re-elected president of the United Auto Workers Union at the constitutional convention in Atlantic City. Reuther, UAW leader since 1946, will serve a two year term with a salary of 29 500 dollars per year as delegates from the United States and Canada voted.
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