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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1968
Page
2
Viet Cong halted heavy fighting in Saigon while North Vietnamese prepare for talks with U.S. envoys in Paris. Refugees return to ruined suburbs amid traffic jams. Communist casualties reach 2,170 killed with 117 Allied dead and 442 wounded, including 44 Americans.
The Saigon toll climbs with 383 American deaths and 1,501 wounded in the past week, the highest in two months. The weekly report covers seven days ending last Saturday and notes 2,264 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed while South Vietnamese losses reached 242.
A US Marine in Vietnam killed 11 North Vietnamese soldiers with a single hand grenade during a four mile sweep north of Dong Ha. The unnamed Marine drew the enemy into a bunker and struck, leaving 11 dead.
Ten miners trapped in a flooded coal mine near Hominy Falls, West Virginia, may be doomed as a high speed pump delays rescue efforts for at least another day. Fifteen other miners, in two tunnels, remain in contact with surface crews.
Sen Robert F Kennedy and wife Ethel are expecting their 11th child around late January near the presidential inauguration. The couple, who have seven boys and three girls, previously disclosed the count through a Washington society column. The eldest is 16 and the youngest, Douglas, was born March 24, 1967.
George D Hay the Sol Emn Ole Judge who originated the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville Tennessee died Thursday at age 72. His Ozark Mountain hoedown after World War I formed the Opry and helped launch Nashville’s country and western music recording industry.
A Red cape wearing man nicknamed Super Nude jumped from I 95 in Melbourne Florida startling motorists. He vaulted a fence hopped a horse and rode off. State Trooper Tom Barry saw him as two truckers pursued but he vanished into woods.
A 67-year-old ex air mail pilot completed a 3000 mile sentimental trip along the old transcontinental route and landed at Anacostia Field instead of National Airport in Washington. Hackbarth took off from Santa Paula April 19 with 23 stops including an emergency landing in a California cantaloupe patch.
The American Heart Association said it will study the scientific legal and ethical issues after six heart transplants since May 2 in Houston Paris and London. Four recipients were alive. the latest French patient 65 in Montpellier was reported in satisfactory condition while Houston survivors showed mixed progress.
Public notice from a Se. publication listing daily delivery details and street location at Sixth Street and Pine including office entry and circulation notes for a Lone favorite period.
Rose Kennedy, mother of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, says her family has the right to spend as much money as they wish to elect him president. She compares their wealth with that of the Rockefellers and calls campaign spending unregulated and not unethical.
Marion Lorne, 82, long time stage and screen actress and star of Bewitched as Aunt Clara, died in her New York apartment. Creator Harold Gray of Little Orphan Annie also died of cancer in La Jolla at 74 after decades of drawing the runaway comic strip.
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