18 Mar 1968
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Newspaper
Snyder Daily News
Location
Snyder, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1968
Page
1
Cubans faced a first nonalcoholic weekend as Fidel Castro orders closure of private and state bars and cabarets with beer and wine allowed at meals. The crackdown aims to free manpower after a poor sugar harvest and bolsters agricultural work across the nation.
The column notes key events on this date across history. Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959. Washington troops occupied Boston in 1776. Grover Cleveland was born in 1837. Berlin insurrection began in 1848. A 1937 New London Texas school gas explosion killed over 400. Vanguard 1 orbited Earth ten years earlier. President Johnson flew to Georgia for Vietnam talks a year ago.
Readings show a chilly start with 7 am Sundays at 58 in today, highs in the 60s. Northwest Texas mostly fair then cooler tonight, with lows 30 to 45 and highs 48 to 58 Tuesday. Coast winds 12 to 22 knots, easing tonight.
Paris and Zurich opened free gold markets as the two-price system took effect. Prices eased from Friday’s peak with $40.10 an ounce in Paris and $43-$45 in Zurich. Central banks and banks in Canada and West Germany paused trading as markets adjust to the new regime.
In Rapid City South Dakota a Beechcraft BE18 returning from the state Class A tournament crashed after a crosswind. Pilot Ivan Landstrom 56 and his wife Mary died along with English teacher Dorothy Lloyd and six high school cheerleaders. Fire and grass fires followed. city schools closed in mourning.
Heavy snow settled over the northern Rockies as storms spread eastward. Thunderstorms rolled through the upper Mississippi Valley while wind driven rain drenched the Atlantic Coast. Boston reported over an inch of rain in six hours and nearly three inches in a day. Flash flood warnings were issued for small streams in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
President Johnson is expected to approve a moderate rise in U.S. troop strength in Vietnam by about 35,000 soldiers, potentially adding one division. Washington sources say the move follows Gen. Westmoreland’s appeal to raise the 525,000 ceiling, with the boost likely spread over months as the administration also plans to speed up equipping South Vietnamese forces with modern light weapons.
Snyder High School choirs won three sweepstakes awards at the Region VI UIL choral concert in Midland. The SHS Boys Choir Girls Choir and A Cappella Choir earned first division ratings for three concert pieces and sight singing.
In Albuquerque two high school students were detained when one allegedly sold a packet claimed to be marijuana for ten dollars to the other. Police released them after tests showed the substance was tea.
The Rhodesian government announced nine members of a terrorist band were killed after a border incursion from Zambia. One security member died and two were wounded in the battle as authorities pursue further infiltrators who threatened prison‑breaks and revenge for hangings.
The American Party in Texas launched a petition drive to place former Alabama Governor George Wallace on the Texas general election ballot. Wallace canceled a scheduled statewide speech due to Mrs. Wallace’s illness. Weaver Moore, former Houston state senator and Wallace campaign manager, was reelected chairman as about 800 delegates and guests attended a meeting in an Austin motel.
Kennedy and the Johnson administration traded sharp charges after Kennedy proposed a blue ribbon panel on Vietnam policy as a condition to stay out of the presidential race. Johnson rejected the idea as a political deal, and Newsweek cited a White House aide disparaging the move as blackmail.
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