30 Jan 1968
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Newspaper
Snyder Daily News
Location
Snyder, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1968
Page
1
The SDN COLUMN notes nationwide auto insurance tensions with experts predicting possible federal intervention. It highlights that defective driver behavior drives most claims, urges defensive driving, and cites college degree earnings rising to 140000 to 200000 by age 60. Scurry County Coliseum impresses visitors as basketball returns with a Tigers vs Littlefield league game.
The report tracks temperatures and skies across Snyder and multiple Texas regions. It notes highs from 55 to 80 degrees, lows from 32 to 66, with clear to partly cloudy conditions in some areas and scattered showers or thundershowers in others. Southeast winds remain 8 to 18 knots along the coast.
Viet Cong mount their largest coordinated assault of the war at Tet time striking seven provincial capitals including Da Nang and five U.S. airfields. General Westmoreland calls the announced 7 day truce a hoax while U.S. forces warn the attacks may be diversionary and part of a broader offensive. Detailing fighting in Da Nang Nha Trang Pleiku Hoi An Kontum Ban Me Thuot Tuy Hoa and Qui Nhon, the situation remains fluid with unconfirmed gains and ongoing clashes.
Senate Democratic Leader Mansfield and Republican Dirksen clash on how to win release of the USS Pueblo and its 83 crew from North Korea. Mansfield urges avoiding a Vietnam like blood bath, while Dirksen says the nation cannot lie down. White House says diplomacy continues with limited, orderly military deployment under way.
Princess Sophie wife of Spanish Prince Juan Carlos has a baby boy their third child Elena aged four and Cristina Frederica Victoria nineteen months are the two daughters the couple already share in Madrid AP report
Scurry County voters rush to register as deadline nears. Don Adams, tax assessor collector, reports about 6450 registrations this year, surpassing last year’s 5900. End of day Wednesday is final chance. mail postmarks dated Jan 31 accepted. No registration fee. all voters including rural over 60 must register. New auto license tags go on sale Thursday morning.
The Texas Liquor Control Board and the attorney general's office held a lengthy hearing that drew only five witnesses. Gov. John Connally criticized the scant participation and a Dallas private investigator facing charges did not testify. Key figures included state Sen. Oscar Mauzy and Rep. Billy Williamson among others, with testimony suggesting ongoing investigations into misconduct in liquor law enforcement.
A teen rabbit hunter found Michael Robineau 21 dead in a cotton field in San Angelo. An AWOL Odessa soldier Miguel Galligas Ybarra 21 is charged with murder with malice. Ybarra had just returned from Korea and was escorted to the Odessa police. Robineau heir to Colorado millions, Robineau had just finished six months’ Army Reserve duty.
The United States plans super-hard launch silos to shield Minuteman III missiles from highly accurate Soviet weapons. Defense officials say the project, part of a 1969 budget outlined by President Johnson, aims to render silos invulnerable to all but direct nuclear strikes.
Israeli forces opened fire on four Egyptian launches near the Suez Canal northern end during a probe for obstacles delaying 16 foreign ships. Both sides exchanged fire with Egyptian artillery and small arms. three Israeli soldiers were wounded, no fatalities or launches damaged, and the launches retreated to Ismailia.
The Dallas Times Herald reports President Johnson is expected to appoint Rep. Graham Purcell of Wichita Falls as a federal judge in Amarillo this week. If confirmed Purcell would vacate the 13th Congressional District, opening a Democratic nomination contest with State Sen. Jack Hightower of Vernon a leading contender if Purcell leaves to succeed retiring U.S. Dist. Judge Joe Doolet.
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