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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1968
Page
7
Kansas City Kansas police report an 11 year old boy was shot dead Monday night while three masked bandits robbed an A and P store at 2900 North 13th. Lloyd Wayne Delapp was shot in the back as he bent to pick up a ball. Bandits fired twice, threatening about 10 customers and workers who were looted of wallets a butcher was slugged.
On Vietnam in Salina Kansas former Gov William H Avery said if no honorable peace is possible with North Vietnam the United States should use full strength to win the war He also backs a UN supervised truce in Viet Nam while peace talks proceed as he seeks the Republican nomination for the U S Senate.
Fragments tell of two giants in Franklin and Miami counties the 8-6 Louis Wilkins and Horn Ford known as the Giant Bushwhacker. Wilkins toured with a circus at 14, later died age 24, buried under his parents’ Stanton house steps. Ford and wife Ellen allegedly killed for money, with grisly tales of lye soap and ambush.
Walter P. Reuther won reelection as president of the United Auto Workers, defeating rebels who sought a unionwide referendum. With 1.6 million members, the UAW remains the federation’s largest affiliate amid earlier tensions with AFL-CIO chief George Meany. Reuther, 60, will serve another two-year term unless a constitutional amendment curbs future tenure.
President Johnson warned that mortgage money could reach ten percent if Congress does not approve a ten percent income tax surcharge. He signed a bill removing the FHA 6 percent ceiling and VA guarantees, allowing market-driven rates potentially around 6.25 percent, and praised the House Ways and Means Committee for a ten percent tax rise paired with large spending cuts.
W Averell Harriman told a New York dinner the United States cannot abandon South Vietnam and must honor its commitment. He said the goal is for South Vietnam to decide its own future, as talks reportedly move toward Paris at the Majestic Hotel with potential Hanoi approval pending.
Carl W. Craemer Jr., 46, of Overland Park, Kansas, died in an Emporia hospital two hours after his car struck a bridge pier on the Kansas Turnpike in heavy rain. The fatal accident occurred 13 miles south of Emporia while Craemer was driving southbound.
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