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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1968
Page
3
U S warplanes B52s launched multiple raids north of Saigon and near Tay Ninh as officials warn of a possible winter offensive. Bombers dropped about 730 tons of bombs and hit enemy hideaways while sporadic ground fighting continued with limited clashes reported north of Saigon.
Dorothy Whitney Straight Elm hirst 81 founder of The New Republic and close to public charities died at Dartington Hall Derput. Daughter of William C Whitney and Navy secretary Grover Cleveland's secretary Blomirst she used wealth from her father’s death to champion social reform and education. She helped feed millions of starving European children after World War I and led the New York and National Junior Leagues. The Straights founded The New Republic and her son Michael was long a magazine editor.
Washington observers viewed today as a bland reprise of quadrennial rites with 593 electors gathering to award votes in the Nixon Agnew ticket. The anticipated tally shows 302 for Nixon Agnew, 191 for Humphrey Muskie, and 43 for Wallace LeMay, though debates linger on potential disruption if Wallace’s third party alters the majority.
Dallas Mayor Erik Jonsson and city officials badgered the Quanas Crime Commission for a report alleging Dallas area high school girls were recruited for prostitution by an interstate ring. The mayor questioned the report's usefulness and urged sharing information with police rather than publishing to the press.
A Marcord housewife misplaced her purse, later found in a milkbox near a Linen Dairy delivery route. Purser Kendell delivered the bag to the dairy office, where an employee verified the owner as a customer. Also notes a First Flag display from January 1, 1776 in American lines around Boston.
The Associated Press tally shows a rise in violent deaths in Texas over the weekend ending Sunday night. Victims include Judy Kaz Tierski, 21, and Sharon Dee Gorulla, 20, in a Giddings crash, plus Joe Guajarde, 42, in a Bloomingon wreck. Additional fatalities involve multiple vehicle crashes, shootings, and pedestrian injuries across cities from Dallas to Galveston and Houston, with numerous injuries and ongoing police inquiries.
Philip Blaiberg the world’s third heart transplant patient defends Christiaan Barnard’s courage in performing the operation. He writes that Barnard showed cold calculated courage under global scrutiny, and recounts his own recovery, renewed life, and reflections while noting a second crisis in the summer.
Washington agency officials deny claims by the National Association of Government Employees that the FAA uses recently fired trainees to direct air traffic. The spokesman said trainees would not be used in central live air traffic, and noted that training periods are longer than a few months. The dispute follows comments by Stanley Lyman, NAGE Air Traffic Division, about employment practices and overtime pay.
A fragment notes a patent from 1805, referencing Mra Mary Kies of Combeelient for a genvuin device. The garbled text suggests early patent history and a named inventor tied to a genuine device claim.
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