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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1968
Page
8
Weather forecast notes considerable cloudiness through Tuesday with a chance of locally heavy rain in the southern area. Little temperature change expected. tonight's lows near the 60s, Sunday highs around 52 and overnight low near 46 with about .45 inch of rain anticipated.
The North Central Association will not revisit Burlington area school accreditation after noting serious institutional weaknesses from a campus inspection. In Lafayette, quadruplet boys born Friday to Mrs. Alan J. Irvine are doing fine while plans to adopt a one-year-old girl proceed. In Pittsburgh, United Steel Workers wage talks enter final phase amid industry objections to large raises. Atlantic City NAACP convenes its 59th convention with reformers pushing revitalization of leadership. Flood reports from southern China halt cross-region traffic, causing crop losses and fatalities. A South Korean fishing vessel is not an American spy craft, per Seoul papers. New York weather relief as heavy rains ease Northeast drought fears. Waterloo residents receive heroism citations for saving a boy trapped in a cave. Atlantic confirms a soldier killed in Vietnam, Lt. Paul Oakes Jr. Rio de Janeiro cancels classes as protests and arrests rise despite student demonstrations.
Linda Flanders of Muscatine, third runner-up in the Miss Iowa Pageant, rode in a Sunday motorcade to city hall. City officials and chamber members lauded her at a gathering, proclaiming Miss Muscatine Week June 23–29. Linda, 417 Foster, a University of Iowa senior, earned a $200 Miss Iowa scholarship and performed Malaguena in talent.
The Associated Press reports 196 people died from gunshots in the week ending June 17, including 113 homicides and 65 personal crisis or related fatalities. Texas led with 20 deaths, and Sears Roebuck and Ward's tightened mail order gun sales, amid gun control debate following national figures and new anti crime measures.
Rioting inmates armed with ball bats and homemade knives set eight buildings ablaze at the century old Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. At least 20 are injured as guards and convicts clash, with more than 300 inmates involved and two hundred National Guardsmen deployed to restore order. Damage exceeds $1 million. a major fire trapped nearly 100 in the prison hospital.
Mrs Robert Park rushed Troy from a second floor window as flames engulfed their Belle Plaine home. She fell while attempting to rescue Danny and Bobby, 7 and 9, who perished. The father had left for work earlier. The mother mourns after losing two sons and saving one.
Denise Darcel a French film star of the late 1940s was charged with shoplifting 35.08 dollars of underwear outside a Miami department store. A store detective said she had three bags of merchandise while money remained in her purse. She called the charge a bum rap and told reporters in jail that they cannot treat her like a common criminal.
AP reports B 52 bombers struck a Viet Cong training center 13 miles southeast of Saigon with secondary explosions lasting six minutes. The mission aimed to disrupt infiltration routes from Cambodia near Phuoc Long Province as shelling quieted in the capital. Nearby, a three car crash in Perry, Iowa killed four and injured two.
Paris AP report says Charles de Gaulle's forces look set for a large majority in the National Assembly after gains in the first round. Voters, reacting to student unrest and strikes, supported the Gaullist message of Gaullism or Communism, electing 142 of his followers on Sunday.
Ten people died in traffic crashes and two drowned in Iowa over the weekend. Victims include Howard Scholz 21 of Dubuque and James Lewis 24 of Perry who drowned in river currents while aiding a swimmer in the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Road deaths feature Rev. Lloyd Bair 38 of La Porte City, Edward and Hilda Weller 68 of Manilla, Julie Wheeler 17 of Red Oak, three others near Red Oak, Charles Brewer 77 of Promise City, Michael Bach 19 of Monticello, the Leerar children 3 and 6 near Burt, Bonnie Bohle 40 of Olin, and Kenneth Richards 47 of Des Moines, among others.
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