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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1968
Page
10
Peter Cheshire, 45, plans to sail solo from Great Kills Harbor, Staten Island, 170 miles daily for 30 days to reach Dover. English businessman and ex merchant mariner officer, the trip leaves today.
Dr Philip Blaiberg the world s longest surviving heart transplant patient signals victory from Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town South Africa. He recently faced complications but is recovering. In Cleveland Ohio curfew eased as 1 200 National Guard troops depart and police resume regular duty after nights of violence including 10 shooting deaths, looting and arson. National Guard remains on duty with 1 600 total. Washington AP postal service cutbacks delayed a week as Congress weighs exempting the Post Office from manpower cuts. The CAB approves rare talks among air lines to ease congestion and potential fare changes with offsets. Josef Pavel Czech interior minister is attacked in the Soviet Union re socialist demobilization.
In Saigon the pace of ground fighting slows while officials warn the lull may end. Gen Abrams calls the enemy elusive as Allied leaders note troop replenishment and potential major assaults by September. Casualties in the week ending show a low, with U.S. deaths at 157 in action. Nearby, Abercrombie & Fitch closes seven gunshops after a customer suicide in New York.
Washington reports President Johnson held a one on one briefing with former Vice President Richard Nixon on U S foreign policy for about thirty minutes, joined later by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and aide Walt Rostow for another hour at the LBJ Ranch in Texas. Partly cloudy conditions with possible showers and warm temperatures forecast.
West Palm Beach Florida AP reports the Ben Franklin, America’s newest research submarine, began its first full day of testing in the water as preparation for a 1500 mile drift in the Gulf Stream next February. The 135-ton vessel, sausage shaped and about as long as a railroad tank car, was lowered onto the ocean surface for the first time Friday at Palm Beach.
The Mulberry school in Muscatine hosts over 100 migrant children this summer under Headstart and elementary programs led by Jerry Lange and Sister Louise Wilkus. The effort includes teachers, nurses, aides, and volunteers from Muscatine and Texas to prepare children for fall, with focus on language, reading readiness, social skills, and medical care.
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