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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1968
Page
1
The total collected and pledged in the 1968 Community Chest drive is 22 507 75 with some pledge cards outstanding in the Advance Division Business I and II. The School Division has turned in 1 573 to date and Chest work continues.
Thousands of rock throwing students occupied Tokyo's busiest rail hub and set fires in an anti US policy protest. Police arrested nearly 1,000 nationwide with Shinjuku Station actions yielding more than 700 arrests. About 100 injured as Zengakuren led the rioting against the Vietnam war stance and Japan US security treaty.
United Press International reports Hanoi ignored Washington’s bid to de escalate the Vietnam War while demanding an unconditional halt to all US bombing of North Vietnam. Paris talks, Saigon reaction, and the New Jersey’s movements frame a tense diplomacy amid war reports.
Apollo 7 returned its three astronauts safely to the Atlantic after an 11 day, 163 orbit mission. Commander Walter Schirra navigator Donn Eisele and systems engineer Walter Cunningham braced for pressure as they splashed down inverted, then righted themselves with flotation bags. The recovery men coordinated with Essex carrier helicopters amid low clouds and showers, confirming contact and reporting all as well. The mission paves the way for Apollo 8 to orbit the Moon and marks a milestone in U.S. spaceflight history.
A bearded closeup of Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele during Apollo 7’s space telecast highlights the three man crew. Cunningham, Eisele and Schirra returned to the Atlantic after an 11 day mission, ending a record breaking flight.
Five people were killed and three others seriously injured in a head on crash seven miles southwest of Mount Pleasant. Victims include John Mahlon Millard 31 Theresa 9 John 8 James Simpkins 19 and Mary Ellen Hoelscher 18. The Millards wife Carol 29 Sidney 10 Nancy 6 were hospitalized, Nancy in critical condition at University Hospitals Iowa City. Simpkins and Millard were first cousins. their mothers are sisters.
Iowa labor officials report four more written complaints about safety at the Burlington ammunition plant. A unsigned letter alleges a freon leak prior to the June explosion that killed five men and blames management for unsafe ventilation. Parkins seeks AG ruling on inspection authority as U S Army officials deny state access. Eleven death tolls in 16 months cited. new letters bring total complaints to eight in a month. A worker recounts delayed medical care after foot injury. a wife notes her husband lost a hand and was loaned to another line.
Wallace spoke to 7,000 at Wharton Field House and faced demonstrations as hecklers shouted racist chants. Violence followed, with a backer punching a demonstrator, bricks and missiles injuring a woman and a trooper, and cars damaged. Wallace defended farm program aims and urged calm while promising to raise farm prices.
Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline will relocate to New York in about two weeks, destination uncertain aboard either the $3 million yacht or Olympic Airways jet. The couple Honeymooned at sea as the yacht remained docked on the Onassis island. Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss disclosed plans while flying with Caroline and John Kennedy Jr and Kennedy sisters Pat Lawford and Jean Smith aboard TWA 881.
Dick Anderson and Bob Gross, co chairs, opened the Payroll Division drive with a YMCA breakfast. Business leaders joined, payroll deduction plans discussed, and volunteers will start contracts Wednesday aiming for 100 percent completion by next Tuesday. Donors may gain YMCA membership with $1 per week. The drive centers on eliminating double contacts and follows the slogan $36,000 in 36 days.
The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight with a cooler trend. Wednesday brings fair conditions in the east and partly cloudy skies with a chance of widely scattered showers in the west late in the day, along with a warmer feel. Highs Wednesday reach the lower 70s and tonight's low drops to the 30s.
The Apollo 7 mission reports the crew enduring a head cold while over the Atlantic, described by the crew as unusually mild and nearly heavenly, with the orbits and sea below noted as a backbeat to the condition.
The decomposed body of 88 year old James Mahoney, who wandered from a Johnson County nursing home July 26, was found in the Iowa City treatment plant lagoon digester tank. Medical examiner T T Bozek said death was drowning with no foul play, identified by dentures and his daughter.
In Prague Polish troops joined Hungarian forces in withdrawing from areas they occupied during the Aug 20 21 Warsaw Pact invasion. The Soviet army newspaper Red Starsaid both Hungarian and Polish forces began leaving Czechoslovakia but gave no sign of Soviet departure.
Notice of probate of will and appointment of executor for the estate of Louis Pruess. Names Joseph F. Havel and John J. Aller appear as involved parties in the probate matter as published in public notices.
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