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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1968
Page
1
Dolph C. Simons Jr. laments a turbulent week for the United States with the president facing setbacks in politics and prestige. He notes Vietnam deaths past 20,000, stock and gold market strains, and rising doubt in leadership and fiscal policy amid Kennedy and McCarthy challenges.
Salina Kansas AP The attorney general told graduates of the basic police training school that officers will have to fight crime with little public help. He warned citizens may push to act after becoming victims or hearing of crime. He noted 1968 legislature moved toward police professionalism.
Washington AP reports the AFL-CIO United Steelworkers Union ratified a contract settlement with Phelps Dodge Corp ending eight months of nationwide copper industry strikes. The agreement is part of broader negotiations with major firms to resolve the holdout and restore production.
A partial OCR line suggests a date around August 17 with unclear prior context. The readable terms indicate a time reference but lack event, place, or person details to confirm scope. Further text needed for a precise, grounded summary.
Dr Willard Taylor of Nazarene Theological Seminary Kansas City will be guest speaker for a spiritual renewal week at the First Church of the Nazarene 1942 Mass with 7 30 nightly services from Sunday through March 24. He will also preach at 10 45 a m service Sunday Curtis R Brown Canton Ohio is the special song evangelist known for secular and sacred performances. Rev Dale Galloway serves as pastor.
Eleven people were hurt in a sequence of crashes about ten thirty p m five miles south of the city. Dale Mack 19 Ottawa stalled. Robert Holt 18 Ottawa hit him. Evelyn Glover 36 Ottawa checked on Holt and left her son Gary in the car. Mike Stouffer 19 Prairie Village struck the Mock car. Gary suffered a forehead cut and was treated. Others from the Stouffer car were taken to LMH with various injuries. Vehicle damages totaled 350 for the Mock, 500 for Holt, and the Stouffer sedan was demolished.
The cargo ship African Star, after a crash with two oil barges on the lower Mississippi River near Pointe A La Hache Louisiana, burst into flames killing eleven crewmen and injuring at least 22. Coast Guard reported many bodies and witnesses said several of the 59 aboard jumped into the river seeking safety along the levee.
An all white jury in Hattiesburg Mississippi found Cecil Victor Sessum a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan guilty of causing the fatal harm to Vernon Dahmer who died defending his family from a firebombing. He received a life sentence.
France's foreign minister urged the six European Common Market nations to coordinate policy during the international money crisis as gold surged to a record level in Paris. He noted a European monetary unit could be a long term goal but unity is needed now, while the United States and central bankers seek a solution. Canada eyed a two price system for gold to support its mines as world markets react.
William L. Brooks, 39, was found guilty by a federal court jury for his role in the December 21 robbery of the Westgate State Bank in Kansas City Kansas. Kobialka, who pleaded guilty, is serving a 10 year term. Brooks faces a pre sentence investigation.
Three persons were injured in Friday city traffic crashes. Mrs. Margaret J. Robertson 55 hospitalized after a three car collision at 612 Kentucky Street causing whiplash. Police noted damages of 634, 700 and 65 dollars.
The Journal-World editorial titled A Great Example regarding Kansas Power & Light pre program for air and water pollution abatement is cited in the Congressional Record at Sen James Pearson request. Dean Thomas Gorton corrects KU concert date noting New York Pro Musica will perform at 3 30 p m Sunday in University Theatre. Kennedy visit at KU remains scheduled for Allen Fieldhouse at 1 30 p m Monday despite earlier cancellations.
Two huts unearthed at Hell Gap near Guernsey Wyoming date to about 8000 B C and nearly 9000 years before any prior Western Hemisphere houses. The find shows early paleo Indian people built shelters contradicting prior views of a nomadic lifestyle.
Robert F Kennedy announced his presidential bid from the Senate Caucus Room, arguing to broaden opposition to current policies and end bloodshed. He warned Vietnam could widen conflict and pledged to close gaps between rich and poor, aiming to restore hope and leadership. He trails Sen McCarthy in early races and faces opposition from some Democratic leaders worried about a party split.
Gilberto Concepcion de Garcia 59 founder and president of the Puerto Rican Independence party died Friday from a kidney ailment. He had long advocated Puerto Rican independence and led the party.
U S infantrymen fought through rice paddies and sand dunes along the central coast killing 128 Viet Cong guerrillas. Two Americans died and 10 were wounded as heavy fighting broke out six miles northeast of Quang Ngai City and 330 miles northeast of Saigon. The wider operation Quyet Thang-Resolve to Win involved about 50 000 troops with major clashes near Thu Duc and Saigon as the government sought to prove control.
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