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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1968
Page
6
An express train bound for Madras struck a crowded Hindu pilgrim bus at a grade crossing near Venkatachellum, South India, killing 19 and injuring 44. The crash underscores unsafe crossings amid monsoon travel.
Five persons perished in a Meriden blaze that struck a four-story 50 unit apartment building. Smoke inhalation is the apparent cause for victims identified as Peter Howard, 24, and his wife, Mrs. Peter Howard, and Ralph Howard, of Methuen Massachusetts, plus Florence Baginski, 52. Nine others were hospitalized and several released after treatment.
A compact page highlights women’s News Editorials and Comics with daily sports notes and a brief obituary. It summarizes community voices, upcoming events, and local profiles in a period tone.
CALUMET LA AP The bodies of 21 men who perished in a salt mine fire were found as a four day search ended. Sixteen were in a tunnel 3000 feet from the shaft and five more located later. Officials say some safety recommendations by the federal bureau of mines had been pursued, others awaited approval, with no single measure cited as preventing the fire. The incident follows an eight month lag since the recommendations for ventilation and escape routes were issued.
Communist troops and Americal Division forces clash in the coastal lowlands nine miles northwest of Tam Ky. U.S. reports 129 enemy killed, one American dead, 25 wounded. Civilian losses include four killed and 20 wounded in Saigon housing areas. Additional shelling hits several posts near Saigon as heavy fighting continues along the DMZ near Dong Ha.
In Nassau Bahamas an oil spill from a tanker grounded on Eleuthera Island reef sent thick black oil onto pink beaches near Point James. A tug waited nearby as seas remained rough and the U S Coast Guard said little hope to save the 555‑foot General Colotronis. One crewman is missing after a rescue boat capsized in an oil slick Friday.
A one engine plane with SCM Corp chair Edward H. Litchfield aboard plus five others, including his wife and children, plunges into Lake Michigan near Meigs Field in fog. Litchfield’s body recovered. crew reports no wreckage seen. Also noted: a liquor-store holdup in Richmond, Indiana, and a brief weather forecast.
Two young men from Waterloo died when their car struck a girder on the U S 13 bridge over Snag Creek at Cedar Falls north limits. Monte Hall age 20 believed driver and Ronald Lee Mervin 19 were victims.
A breezy community page notes Mrs. Dean Symmonds of Columbus Junction turning gray from hair rinse on her birthday. It also swoops through family moments including Lisa Belknap skating at a party, newborn Bradley Green weighing five then six pounds, and postal worker George Lindow’s ten year route with 12 miles daily.
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