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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1968
Page
8
The AP reports Philip Blaiberg left his hospital bed for the second time since his January 2 heart transplant. His wife says he looks marvellous, sat to eat supper, and again for lunch today, while a hospital description notes his condition has improved.
A vast winter storm disrupted Europe from England to Iran with hurricane winds and heavy snow. In Sicily a pair of earthquakes centered near Gibelfina killed over 250, razing Salaparuta Poggioreale Partanna Santa Margherita de Belice Menfi and Santa Ninfa as tremors toppled churches castles and farms.
Calif AP report says Mike Kasperak remains in critical condition today after emergency operation at Stanford University Medical Center to remove a blocked bile duct and enlarged gall bladder. The one hour surgery, led by Br Norman E Shumway, followed the heart transplant on January 6 using a heart from a 43 year old Santa Clara housewife who died of a brain hemorrhage. The transplanted heart continues to beat normally.
The Federal Housing Administration says it never advised that wearing miniskirts in cold weather could cause chubby legs. A spokesman dismissed the memo as a hoax saying someone used agency stationery to issue false guidance to female employees. The bogus memo later surfaced in the news media.
Twenty five elderly Iowans received draft notices from Uncle Sam last year and must relinquish local draft board positions many had held for nearly a generation. They reached or passed 75, the mandatory retirement age for board members under new Selective Service rules. Six of Iowa's 330 draft board members will retire this year and about 20 are over 70.
Controversy marks the start of the 1964 session with Vietnam war fallout, rising crime, inflation, and racial unrest pressing Congress. Senate leader Mike Mansfield urged a peace push, while GOP hopeful H R Gross weighs a Senate bid facing Gov Harold Hughes. Opening ceremonies were routine, but major battles over civil rights and spending threaten quick action.
Saigon report says a MIG2L shot down a U S Air Force Thunderchief during a strike on Yen Bai airfield in North Vietnam. The pilot is missing as weather limited missions to 83. North Vietnamese forces moved river crossings near Khe Sanh after previous Marine deaths. Operation Muscatine was announced, begun December 19 to root Viet Cong along coastal lowlands northeast of Saigon.
Eight people die in a snowdrift linked crash on a rural Iowa road. Richard Baker 37 and wife Janet 30 perish with five children ages months to 12 years. Terry Lee Chidester 25 from Blakesburg is the eighth victim. State Patrol cites a snowdrift as cause and broadside impact as fatal.
Surgeons at Jewish Hospital in St Louis say they have successfully restored an amputated hand to Howard W Steen Jr The 29 year old lost his hand on December 27 when it became entangled in a garbage truck crusher blade The doctors asked that their names not be used and noted only a bit of skin held the hand to the arm
A fragment shows a South Vietnam peasant woman carrying firewood beside a member of South Korea's elite Blue Dragons Marines unit in the Que Son Valley about twenty miles south of Da Nang. The scene mentions firing positions along the valley.
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