30 Jun 1969
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1969
Page
1
South Vietnamese forces launched a new drive around Ben Het as seven battalions moved in from the Central Highlands. A 20 day sweep earlier left 254 North Vietnamese dead. one South Vietnamese soldier died and one was wounded. US air and artillery supported the operation.
Sel Cloyd Edwards of Troop F helped arrest three suspects in a Mulberry Florida bank robbery case. The trio, William Glenn Fahrenback, 29, Glenn Raymond Herrold Jr., 21, and Kathy Ann Fahrenback, 18, were taken to Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Department for questioning after evidence linking a vehicle to the Florida robbery. Federal agents reported $7,645 and a loaded pistol found in the vehicle. The suspects were arraigned in Monroe with bonds set. two men face armed robbery charges in Florida and California, with Fahrenback also tied to a Long Beach bank robbery.
James Richard Cascio of 1008 Sandifer Monroe is in Room 409 at Glenwood Hospital recovering from a car accident. Doctors expect a long recuperation of two to three more weeks in hospital and four to five months at home. Friends are asked to write.
Police reserves were mobilized across Wales after a time bomb exploded near the Cardiff post office, causing a three foot hole. Authorities blamed Welsh nationalist extremists aiming to disrupt Prince Charles investiture festivities in Caernarvon and Cardiff. Spokesmen warned of large security deployments including up to 3,000 officers locally.
New York reports a higher stock market at 1 p.m. with the Dow up 3.30 to 873.06. Gains outpaced losses by more than 375 issues as bargain buying supported a broad advance led by conglomerates steels and motors. Thiokol Chemical topped activity on the NYSE with 107,900 shares unchanged at 13 percent as most-active issues rose on the day.
The FAA proposes area navigation to relieve congestion and shorten flights by letting planes fly direct routes between airports. The plan envisions self generated phantom beacons along straighter lines, replacing beacon to beacon routing as tests in the Washington area and corridor prove successful.
Monroe area residents face high temperatures ranging 98 to 102 today and Tuesday with night lows in the 70s. At Monroe Municipal Airport a Sunday high of 101 and a 79 overnight were reported. Rain chances are 30 percent today, 20 percent tonight and Tuesday over northeastern Louisiana. Dew points in the 70s signal little soil moisture relief. conditions remain clear to partly cloudy and hot through Wednesday.
Governor Rockefeller’s 36 hour tour in Argentina saw a major security dragnet. Police in Tucuman used tear gas to disperse rioters damaging a department store, with losses around 65000 dollars. Demonstrations and bomb blasts flared in several cities before and after his arrival in Buenos Aires.
A humorous line from today references George Washington as the first in war and peace, joking he was the first to wear a wig and white stretch pants with boots, as noted by a fashion expert's child.
President Nixon met with Republican lawmakers as the House debated extending the income surtax for a year. A final vote was expected later, with leaders predicting administration victory as the tax braces for expiration at midnight and continued withholding from pay through July.
Mrs. Lawrence Gibbs, 46, of 3718 Grammont Monroe died unexpectedly at St. Francis Hospital. Funeral 4 p.m. Tuesday Mulhearn's Monroe with Rev. N D Pearce and Rev. Stone Caraway officiating. Burial Memorial Park Cemetery. Survived by husband four sons Law rence Gibbs II Kenneth Gibbs Bobby Gibbs Gary Gibbs all of Monroe three brothers A R Hibbard Monroe Jack Hibbard Searcy Ark Carl D Hibbard Baton Rouge and mother Mrs Lexia Hibbard Monroe. She was a native of Jacksonville Texas and member of Memorial Methodist Church.
Hundreds of Cubans illegally cross from Mexico into the United States by boat, barge, and bribes. About 500 known to have crossed Texas to Arizona in the first four months of 1969, as U S officials tighten enforcement and ease some rules to curb the flow.
President Nixon names Gilbert W. Fitzhugh to lead a blue ribbon panel to study the Defense Department. The panel will review organization, research and development programs, and procurement practices amid cost worries and Pentagon centralization debates.
In Lake Charles two more men were arrested on mail fraud charges tied to a secret Shreveport federal indictment. Phillip J. Shaheen Jr. and Mayor Perez, both of Lake Charles, were freed on $2,500 bonds. The grand jury indicted 14 defendants for schemes to defraud insurance firms through staged auto accidents, with up to five years in prison or a $1,000 fine per count.
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