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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1968
Page
6
U S and North Korean representatives met at Panmunjom for four hours forty five minutes in their longest session since the Pueblo capture. The State Department confirmed the meeting amid reports that a statement to speed the release of 82 surviving crewmen is being prepared.
U S Steel Corp plans a 4 percent price hike for semifinished carbon steel and a 7 dollar ton increase for semifinished alloy steel effective January 2, 1969. Pilings costs rise seven dollars per ton. The move targets materials that comprise about 4 percent of total industry shipments as steel prices fluctuate after Bethlehem Steel cuts earlier this year.
Robert Bolivar DePugh leader of the Minutemen militant anti communist group remains a fugitive with Walter P. Peyson. Indictments accuse DePugh of bond jumping for failing to surrender and failing to appear for trial while free on bonds of 1000 and 5000 dollars. Peyson is named in the second indictment.
East London South Africa AP reports that next year free schoolbooks will be issued to white and colored children in Cape Province while Africans will not receive them. Blacks must pay for most texts and supplies except language and arithmetic books.
Cambodia announced it would release 11 American soldiers and a South Vietnamese captured last July. The Viet Cong offered to free three U.S. troops Thom as Nelson Jones Donald L. Smith and James W. Brigham. The NLF proposed a Christmas Day meeting to arrange transfers.
Six inmates from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing and counselor Lawrence G. Yerkes were charged in a federal complaint with conspiring to ship one pound of D amphetamine sulphate into the prison. The case names inmates Robert Frederick Mall Clyde M Ralph Gene Austin Rider Sidney Masarsk Dennis E Venn and James Lee Green plus Yerkes of Larned. The filing notes a Chicago firm inquiry and a forged doctor’s name, with the drug found in the counselor’s car after an Aug. 12 shipment attempt was revealed.
Amelia Earhart Putnam, famed aviatrix lost in the Pacific before World War II, was among four famed fliers inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton Ohio Tuesday night. The award for Mrs. Putnam was presented to her sister Mrs. Albert Morrissey.
The US delegation warned North Vietnam any attack on Saigon would jeopardize peace talks, denying directed threats to the North. Negotiators, Cyrus Vance and Ha Van Lau, reported no progress after a private session failed to break deadlock over conference procedures. The Hanoi side claimed the US warned of renewed bombing if Viet Cong attacked Saigon, complicating a broader peace conference.
New York AP Nixon and advisers see no need for new talking rules for Cabinet nominees amid gold price speculation sparked by Treasury pick Kennedy. Ziegler says Cabinet members and President elect will discuss views but no policy pronouncements before the January 20 inauguration. Kennedy’s stance on the $35 an ounce gold price unsettled markets.
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