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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1968
Page
9
The Iowa forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions through Wednesday with a cooler night. Lows near 60 to 65 degrees, with daytime highs around 87 and near 66 at night amid light rain totals of about 2.03 inches.
Des Moines reports 73 mph winds loosened a DC-3 from its moorings, with damage to another aircraft at the airport. Rain hail and lightning pelted the city causing downed branches and sporadic power outages. In Roxbury a city concert sparked three hours of vandalism as youths smashed windows. Four officers injured. seven juveniles arrested.
Local river stages and rainfall readings listed for La Crosse Lansing Guttenberg Dubuque Davenport Muscatine Keokuk and surrounding locales. Several sites show falls or rises with numbers indicating stage height and recent change, reflecting current river conditions across the region.
In Corry Pennsylvania a 15 year old girl Karen Sue Cooney vanished from her rural home as a large search by about 100 police and volunteers scoured 150 acres of woods and hills using bloodhounds and a helicopter. The missing teen was later found alive by a helicopter pilot in a wooded area near her home. Police planned to question her as soon as possible.
AP reports intensified clashes around Saigon and in the northwest as U S Marines claim heavy enemy deaths near Khe Sanh and along the northern frontier. A marine company faces hours of fighting. air assault units report successes against infiltration roads. Separately, Ohio Guardsmen restore order at London Correctional Institution after fires and disturbances.
A Fort Dodge youth, 18, described by his stepfather as mentally disturbed, waives preliminary hearing and is bound over to the Webster County grand jury on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder after shooting two teens. Bond set at 25,000. Victims Dennis Lee Johnson and Leah Ann Weber were wounded, with Weber hospitalized. Police found a .22 rifle with scope in the Wahkonsa Hotel room, and the story notes the suspect’s past and family details.
Attorney General Ramsey Clark renewed the appeal for federal registration of firearms as Senate juvenile delinquency subcommittee members discussed the Johnson backed firearms registration and licensing bill. Sen Strom Thurmond led the debate amid House setbacks while Rules Committee members secured Rep Emanuel Celler pledge to oppose attaching such provisions to other bills banning interstate firearm sales by mail or counter.
Paris reports intensify as Premier Pompidou meets with Debre Malraux and later with President de Gaulle. He also discusses with Gaullist deputies in the National Assembly, but no clear plan for a new cabinet has emerged following last month’s legislative victory.
Iowa Safety Commissioner Jack Fulton announced the seizure of five .45 caliber semi automatic carbines made by Spitfire Mfg Co of Phoenix. The weapons, capable of conversion to full automatic use, were taken in Warren Polk Jasper and Scott counties. A Cartiste gun collector reportedly bought three of the guns. None of the sales to Yowans were over the counter.
A manhunt for Thomas Fulton Scholfield, a 22 year old Marine, centered in California and Nevada after he kidnapped 2 year old Vicky West from Marysville. Scholfield allegedly forced delivery back to Marysville 12 hours later after taking the child as a hostage to flee.
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