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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1968
Page
10
Mostly cloudy tonight through Saturday with glazing and freezing drizzle turning to light snow tonight. Lows around 20, Saturday highs near 30. Five day outlook below normal temperatures with up to quarter inch precipitation in Saturday. Earlier readings show high 24, low 28, rainfall 0.65 inch.
A hospital notes page lists patient names and addresses including Daniel Horne Chester Wilks Emery Corbett Gary Hallenbeck Grace Hopkins Phyllis Mathis Janet Glass and others. It records dismissals for Laura Cooper Mildred Vanderslice and baby boy Ida Nunemaker Pamela Dutt and others. Births note Gregory Feuer and Harvey Allen daughters and sons born to multiple families.
The Post Office Department said it will stop policing congressmen for improper usage of frank ing or free mail privileges. Senator Griffin of Michigan had accused the department during the Fortas controversy and said Congress should set its own guidelines next session. Griffin led the 1968 effort to block Fortas and noted the shift as partisan change.
An Ozark Air Lines DC9 carrying 62 passengers crashed on take off at Sioux City Airport. Police and witnesses report no deaths or serious injuries though the jet struck trees, skidded into snow, and landed on its belly with the right wing sheared off.
U S command reports reduced fighting in past three months while South Vietnamese forces claim 46 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese killed in four clashes near Da Nang and Saigon. They report 9 soldiers killed and 33 wounded, with 74 enemy and 7 ranger killed in the Da Nang area. The Viet Cong cease fire extended to 1 a m today but allied forces ended the truce at 6 p m. US reconnaissance notes light contact and 133 incidents during the truce with 47 considered significant.
Washington AP report shows living costs rose four tenths of one percent in November. Grocery prices fell five tenths while housing clothing transportation and medical care pushed the CPI to 123.4. The 1968 rise may total about 4.8 percent for the year, the largest since 1951. Kansas City food prices fell two tenths but remained 4.4 percent above November 1967.
A head on collision on U S 50 about eight miles east of Emporia involved a pickup driven by David Hess 21 of Waverly Kansas and a semi trailer truck. Hess was killed while the other driver William Hume 51 of Kansas City was hospitalized with condition not yet known.
Joint services for Austin Gerald Carmack 45 and Jerry Gregg Carmack 10 sons of Prairie Village were held at 2 p m in Lubbock Texas. The bodies were moved from Ames Funeral Home Shawnee to Henderson Chapel in Lubbock for burial at Rest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery. Austin Carmack was a metropolitan district manager for Montgomery Ward Co and Jerry attended Trailwood elementary School in Overland Park.
Across the nation during a 30 hour Christmas holiday period, traffic accidents killed 231 people. The one day record remains 253 from 1946, with 107 fatalities noted in a nonholiday period of the same length two weeks earlier.
U S Senator Edward V Long of Missouri resigns effective immediately. He wires his resignation to Vice President Humphrey and Governor Hearnes and urges Governor Hearnes to appoint Lt Governor Eagleton to fill the vacancy. Long notes Eagleton will gain seniority by being appointed now.
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