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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1968
Page
2
The Viet Senate rejects Premier Nguyen Van Loc's bid for power amid government discontent as U.S. reports heavy casualties. Five hundred forty-two Americans killed in combat last week, near the war's peak, with 24 killed in ground fighting and 48 missing after a C123 crash near Khe Sanh.
The Viet Cong assaults in South Vietnam reduced to three landing points as mortars and rockets slowed. U S Navy pilots conducted coordinated night strikes on six Hanoi Haiphong targets including a battery plant near Hanoi and a key transshipment site. Hanoi claimed three U S planes were shot down but U S Command reported no losses. casualties for the week rose to 2,191 wounded.
Lt Cmdr Don A Gerrish of Terre Haute served aboard the U S Kitty Hawk as it knocked out a Communist mortar position near Khe Sanh three miles north of the Marine base. The AP report quotes Gerrish describing the enemy tactic of running out to fire and retreat to a bunker. Gerrish is a 10 year Navy veteran, married with two children.
U.S. casualties in the Vietnam War soared last week with 3,849 Communist deaths reported by Americans and 5,681 killed plus 827 captured by South Vietnamese headquarters. Government losses dropped to 139 killed and 779 wounded. Total U.S. toll reached 19,251 killed and 117,335 wounded with 1,137 missing or captured. Ground fighting near Con Thien Ban Me Thuot and Da Nang, Marines at Con Thien reporting 81 NVA killed and 10 more, 17 Leathernecks killed and 35 wounded in two clashes.
The piece outlines McCarthy winning Minnesota and California delegates while Nixon calls for an all volunteer army and a nation building team. Johnson debates remaining noncandidate, risks in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and a potential write in plan for New Hampshire. Kennedy petitions threaten California ballot.
Unattended pump at the Coop Feed Mill released about 2000 gallons of molasses into a grain mixer pit. Officials call cleanup sticky and stupendous as the mess is contained.
A major blaze gutted the Greencastle Banner plant, with type setting machines falling into a flooded basement and the 16 page rotary press ruined. Fire officials blamed a chimney from a melting pot in the printing area as the start, spreading to the ceiling and engulfing the building. The fire drew in Bainbridge, Fillmore and Washington community units, and nearby offices were emptied as flames threatened adjacent structures. Editorial operations will shift temporarily to the old Putnam County Graphic Building, with daily publication continuing for now. The Banner, moved in 1964 to its modern plant near the courthouse, is published by the estate of Elizabeth Rariden.
The American Ballet Theater begins a seven week winter tour of 13 states from January 3 to February 18. Scenery and costumes weighing over 70 000 pounds accompany 15 ballets by truck while dancers travel by bus along the Atlantic seaboard and Great Lakes region before a West Coast tour set for March 1 to April 10.
Raymond L. Smith of Michigan Tech warns at a National University Extension Association meeting that U S engineering demand surged 100 percent in 1966 while only 36,700 engineers were graduated versus a need for 72,000. He notes the Russian output rose from 40,000 to 125,000 in the same period.
Former House leader Joe W Martin dies at age 23 term count highlighted by defeat in a 1970 primary to Margaret Heckler. Born November 3, 1884 in North Attleboro he owned the North Attleboro Daily Chronicle and ended a long political career after voting for Ford to replace Halleck.
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