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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1968
Page
8
Boston based publisher Little Brown & Co announced a formal purchase agreement with Time Inc. The venture will see Time Inc acquire Little Brown by exchanging 170,000 shares of Time Inc common stock, a move previously disclosed in January.
In Seattle AP reports a gunman menaces There sa Suarez during a robbery at her store. She tells him to kill her so she won’t have to work, but the assailants flee empty handed leaving Suarez unharmed.
Medina Washington officials consider lowering the town sound limit after a morning survey near the freeway found passing trucks averaging 90 decibels at 50 feet. A truck from Oregon recorded 99 decibels and incurred a $25 fine. The mayor lives about 150 feet from the highway.
Richard F. Fincke a 51 year old self employed exporter from Babylon New York was arraigned on federal charges of running up 146000 in telephone credit card charges from 1962 to last June. FBI agents arrested him and he was held on 5000 bail awaiting grand jury action.
Marion County Treasurer John Dobkins announced a new option allowing residents to charge personal property and real estate taxes to an Indianapolis bank credit card. The extension runs through the May 6 deadline, and aims to ease tax payments for residents.
Adrian Michigan AP reports truck driver Richard Woitura, 21, Utica, got his hand jammed after his lighter fell into a corner pocket at a truck stop pool game. Deputies used a crowbar to dismantle the table and free him.
Two Rockefeller emissaries, Sen Morton and William Miller, head to the Midwest to push a Republican presidential draft as Rockefeller says momentum is growing while nonaligned members doubt success. The tour begins in Minneapolis with Gov LeVander present, then Des Moines, Chicago, St Louis, Topeka as delegates weigh a potential draft against Nixon forces.
More than 1,200 elite officers will graduate from the Army Command and General Staff College at Leavenworth on June 7. Six women, five WACs and one Army nurse, will complete the full 10 month course, the first to do so. They describe the experience as positive and note support from male classmates. Names include Maj. Marilyn J. Russell, Lt. Col. Nancy M. Hopfenspirger, Lt. Col. Martha J. Thompson, Lt. Col. Kitt M. MacMichael, Lt. Col. Inez L. Nease, and Lt. Col. Doris S. Frazier.
New York reports a wave of menswear evolution with canvas and elephant hide bags called manbags. Sam Smith of H Margolin Co notes pocket changes in suits push men to carry belongings, as European men already accept the concept and American adoption nears.
Algerian President Houari Boumedienne escaped an assassination attempt outside the government palace as machine gun fire struck his car. He suffered a minor lip injury from flying glass while doctors said he could continue normal activities. Soldiers and guards killed two attackers. a guard and the driver were wounded in the exchange.
In Mexico City an AP report says a U.S. citizen resembling the man sought for slaying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was questioned and released. Daniel Kennedy of Baltimore said he was touring Sonora and denied King’s death ties. FBI said no resemblance to James Earl Ray. Kennedy’s mother in Baltimore said there is no connection.
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