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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1968
Page
9
Red haired Alice Crimmins, 29, former night club waitress, was sentenced in Queens Supreme Court to 5 to 20 years on a first degree manslaughter charge for the strangling of her 4 year old daughter. Justice Peter T. Farrell imposed the term.
Across multiple cities and hot zones, violence spans Miami race clashes where guardsmen quell rioting after three deaths and dozens wounded, plus Vietnam where Marines face murder charges for killings near Hue. Other notes include Illinois crop estimates and a Baltimore & Ohio train derailment with one death and about twenty injuries.
A four engine turboprop airliner crashed and burned near the Munich Berlin autobahn at Pfaffenhofen in misty weather. Police reported 57 dead, airline says 44 passengers and four crew aboard. Federal officials noted the exact toll remained uncertain.
The World Medical Assembly in Sydney adopted a code requiring two doctors to pronounce death before heart transplants or similar surgeries. The 159 doctors from 3 nations issued a statement of death, stopping short of defining death. Japan pressed for organ transfer laws after its first heart transplant. the patient, 18-year-old Norio Miyazaki, remained stable with no signs of organ rejection.
Nixon launched a new presidential campaign pledge to avoid orders against allies while pursuing leadership. He planned a trip to the LBJ ranch on Saturday to meet President Johnson and hear a Vietnam war briefing from Cyrus R. Vance. Johnson phoned Nixon with congratulations and pledged to keep him updated on Paris talks as Agnew stood nearby during the briefing.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller leaves a tough week bitter about not securing the Republican presidential nomination and resenting Nixon’s running mate choice. He congratulates Nixon but rejects a joint platform appearance, saying he will speak solo and push a campaign focused on law and order and Vietnam. Nixon seeks to unite the party while signaling a hard line on crime and war. Eisenhower reportedly supports Nixon’s bid.
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