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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1968
Page
1
Considerable cloudiness with a chance of brief snow flurries and cold nights in the teens. Saturday will be mostly fair and colder with highs in the upper 20s. Snow chances: 20 percent tonight and 5 percent Saturday. High Thursday 36 with night low. temperatures steady around the teens to single digits.
The AP report notes Martha Chaffee wed real estate developer William C. Canfield, 41, in a disclosure issued after her husband died in the Apollo fire at Cape Kennedy last year. The Nevada Iowa State University case follows with Vanderbur’s news conference on possible Republican bid for attorney general amid a murder investigation.
More than 500 North Vietnamese soldiers attacked the Khe Sanh Combat Base before dawn, breaching the eastern perimeter near a ring manned by 500 South Vietnamese Rangers. The assault was repelled with at least 70 enemy killed as US B52 bombers supported ground troops nearby.
Boone County supervisors sealed a secret settlement of 62 000 to cover a 114 000 shortage in county funds uncovered by a state audit in April 1967. The late treasurer I Harold Peterson died before completion. Fidelity and Deposit Co of Baltimore represented the bonding company in the closed session. The deal leaves Boone County 52 000 short to be made up by a statewide 99 county special assessment.
London AP reports the Labour government’s bill to curb immigration from Kenya received royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II after an all-night Lords session. The measure caps entry of non born British citizens with non British parentage at 1500 yearly, affecting about 100,000 Kenyan Asians left stateless by independence in 1963.
In Miami on Leap Year Day 29 wealthy bachelors, each earning over 25000 yearly, hosted a ballroom party to pick among 29 chosen women from 10000 applicants. A British millionaire, a legislator, doctors and executives attended as models and teachers mingled, while age chatter was politely avoided.
In central Rome hundreds of students fought police as tear gas, clubs, and paving stones flew. More than 150 students were arrested and 150 officers injured. Downtown transit stalled, shops closed, and travelers fled as riot spread from campuses to major city streets.
AP report from Chicago states a suspended officer, Donald Heath, 20, is accused in testimony on Thursday of plotting to assassinate Mayor Richard J. Daley and two top police officials. Heath was suspended Jan. 6 after his Ku Klux Klan ties were revealed and he later admitted leading the Klan in Illinois.
New York observers hail the riot commission report for naming white racism as a core cause of national racial tension. Roy Wilkins and Floyd McKissick praise its focus while Sen. Edward Brooke and others call it a major step, with some GOP leaders showing receptiveness to several proposals. In Phoenix, Willie Bilis, 37, faces murder charges for the shot death of Wallace H. Merrick, park district director, after a dispute over a locked door to Bilis’ apartment.
Edith Cohen handles incoming income tax returns in Philadelphia as Joan Wilson ferries more tax reports. An IRS spokesman says 1,710,791 people in the Philadelphia district have received 289,962,227.85 in refunds. Returns pace ahead of last year's comparable period, with peak not yet reached.
Strikes by militant teachers unions disrupted classes in Pittsburgh Florida and San Francisco, closing high schools and threatening elementary operations. The walkouts affected thousands as a midwinter wave echoed last fall’s nationwide disruption. Gardner exits HEW, to lead Urban Coalition. McNamara’s departure marked separately.
Billy Gay a 17 year old Costa Rican native who speaks Spanish said he left his homeland 44 days ago with $30 to recruit police help in locating his father John T Gay an iron worker last known in Decatur Ga whose death certificate shows he died July 31 1967 and was buried in Marietta Ga The Tallahassee police planned to inform him later with the aid of AP reporter Brian Howland serving as interpreter
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