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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1968
Page
7
.Cloudy to partly cloudy conditions with a chance of showers tonight through Wednesday in Northeast Louisiana and Arkansas. Warmer today, cooler by Wednesday with high 48 to 57 in the north and 50s elsewhere. lows 40s to 50s. Rain chances 20 to 50 percent. total rainfall around half an inch, locally higher. Winds S to SE 8 to 18 mph shifting N by Wednesday.
An old advertisement urges relief from kidney issues with Bukets a tonic diuretic. It claims frequent nights backache and swelling signal kidney trouble and promises relief within 12 hours or money back at drug counters. It advises drinking water and notes availability at drug counters with a 48 cent price.
The Associated Press is wrapping up its fifth large edition The World in 1968 a 296 page volume in color and black and white. It offers dramatic on the spot reporting for readers as a memento or tool for study and library use. Publication is planned for early 1969 with gift certificates available via the News Star World address in the coupon.
Mrs Sam Rainwater of 408 Orleans St Monroe quietly celebrates a birthday while her husband disputes her voting age saying she has voted for years. The column notes her Decatur origins and jokes about becoming a Rebel with 25 more birthdays as Sam reveals her age.
Israeli warplanes attacked Arab guerrilla units near Kfar Ruppin in the Beisan Valley after a police patrol came under fire. Jordanian forces reportedly fired two bazooka rockets and small arms. fire was returned with no Israeli casualties.
A New York AP report traces the surge in federal outlays from $93 billion in 1960 to nearly $179 billion in 1968, driven by nondefense programs and rising defense costs linked to Southeast Asia. It notes inflation, debt interest, aging population needs, Social Security growth, space, and education spending as key factors.
The Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society awards 1968 top anti aviation citation to the U S Defense Department for the F111 jet program. It cites taxpayer cost of 7 million per aircraft and nine crashes by the Air Force as evidence of flight futility. The spoof group formed in 1959 mirrors the Wright Brothers observance with a humorous motto.
Premier Maurice Couve de Murville urged students teachers and government to end the occupation as campus clashes flared at Nanterre Sorbonne Toulouse and other campuses. He warned no sit ins will be tolerated and called for unity amid protests linked to reforms and a bombing case.
A three year old Monroe boy Kenneth Shields of 3000 Owl Street died Monday from burns after his clothing ignited from a heater. Olivia Gibson, 80, was watching him at 3102 Owl Street while his mother Rosie Lee Shields worked. Fire officials say the blaze likely resulted from the child’s proximity to the heater or playing with it. The home burned to the ground as bystanders and neighbors assisted. Graveside services were held at City Cemetery under Miller's Funeral Home of Monroe.
The Pentagon says the $9.2 million cited for the Scorpion loss is not a budget reduction or total saving. Officials note the figure reflects operating funds and overhaul money already appropriated and does not value the crew's lives. They also contrast Pueblo costs, saying routine upkeep was minimal and not a planned overhaul.
UPI reports police mobilized 4,400 riot officers from Kyushu as nearly 15,000 demonstrators promise to protest the arrival of the U S nuclear powered submarine Plunger. Earlier reports note a harbor radioactivity rise after a visit by the submarine Swordfish.
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