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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1968
Page
1
Cloudy to partly cloudy with a chance of showers over the weekend in Cedar Rapids. Sunday expected fair to partly cloudy skies. Friday high around 48 with a cool night. River stage measured at 11.56 feet continuing to influence local conditions.
AP dispatches detail rapid, multi location briefs. In Essen, West German Catholic Laymen Congress endorses a call for Pope Paul VI to revise his birth control encyclical. Manila doctors and students protest hospital conditions at Philippine General Hospital, with patients walking out in sympathy. Tokyo police arrest 129 left wing students after a Ni hon University clash. Missouri Valley resident Ellis Jacobsen dies in a single vehicle crash near Dunlap. In London, missing Britons report elective supplies and injuries on board. Saigon fire devastates many homes with about 400 structures destroyed and no casualties reported.
AP reports a wave of attacks in Saigon with a bombing in Cholon injuring a woman and two children as US troops advise caution. In Seattle, Black Panthers students seek assurances of safety after a Friday confrontation following a school fight. Other incidents include grenades at ward offices and a booby trapped naval truck. one rocket hit Saigon’s edge, killing a woman and wounding eight. In Kentucky, Pete Brown threats revolt if Chandler is picked as Wallace’s running mate, dissolving the party leadership and quitting key posts.
Detroit teacher candidate seeks Post hypnotic aid to stop tears at her wedding as fiance Thomas Schoenith stands by. Meanwhile teachers strike across Indiana Michigan Tennessee and New York threaten Monday classes with 2 million students at stake. Wounds in an Al Jolerton case and 60,009 Michigan students kept from class amid negotiations. Iowa area schools seek 37.25 million annual funding for vocational tech and community colleges with higher per student aid proposed.
Bubble Gum, Garter Snapper, and Blonde won preliminaries in the Miss America Pageant. Linda Fitts, 20, Charleston dancer, captured the final talent crown with an acrobatic dance and trampoline routine. Judith Ford, 18, University of Illinois sophomore, claimed another preliminary talent victory and stands tall in trampoline rankings. Miss Florida from Panama City caused a stir with a bubble gum gag and garter toss, after which the gum slipped mid performance. Linda Chews gum to ease anxiety and stay relaxed.
Local Muscatine families prepare for the new school year with Mrs Dori Swanson guiding her third grade class at McKinley and aided by sons Dan and Kendall. Mrs Roger Knott, a Central English teacher, supports her son Christopher and oversees ninth grade. Mrs Robert Berry teaches fifth grade at Lincoln with two children in Mulberry and Mrs Wayne Tooman leads fifth grade at Grant while guiding nutrition and daily breakfast.
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