KVOR News, March 1968

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Here now is the latest KVOR news. This is the 10 o'clock World News Roundup, Thom Foulks reporting. 

The United Nations Security Council has been called into urgent session tomorrow to consider the fighting in the Middle East. The Council will meet at 12:30 tomorrow afternoon our time. Jordan was the first to request the meeting, charging there has been a renewal of what it calls Israeli aggression.

Then Israel, too, asked for a Security Council meeting. Israel charges that there have been new Jordanian violations of the 1967 ceasefire agreement. Military spokesmen in Saigon report the Viet Cong have shelled a big U.S. helicopter field and five Allied bases ranging from the highlands to the northern end of South Vietnam.

Reports indicate considerable damage to helicopters at Camp Holloway in the Central Highlands, but the U.S. command says casualties at the camp are light. One of the heaviest shellings struck a base camp of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division about 70 miles north of Saigon. The command says more than 100 mortar rounds hit the base, but it reports light casualties and damage.

Viet Cong also shelled an American infantry base camp in the highlands, a large bridge just below the demilitarized zone, and a government infantry position in Quang Nam province. Two South Vietnamese soldiers were wounded at the bridge. In the air, American B-52 bombers have made five raids against enemy positions around Allied bases in South Vietnam's northeast corner.

Over North Vietnam, U.S. Phantom jets attacked an army barracks and power facilities in the Hanoi Haiphong area, and the new F-111s raided the southern panhandle for the fifth day.  Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has proposed a meeting in the United Nations Security Council of all nations involved in the Vietnam War.

Mansfield also warns against enlarging the U.S. commitment in Vietnam, but he predicts U.S. troops will increase beyond present levels. He spoke in Helena, in his home state of Montana.  The White House has given a non-committal response to a report President Johnson is considering a new pause in the bombing of North Vietnam.

GOP Congressman Melvin Laird of Wisconsin has voiced belief the administration is considering a 30-day pause. But a White House news aide, Tom Johnson, told newsmen tonight, “I haven't seen the report and I have nothing on it.”

Draft Director Lewis Hershey charges, “violent protesters against the draft are enemies of the United States, or stooges for the enemies of the United States.”

He voiced his belief in a monthly publication of the Selective Service System. Referring to anti-draft demonstrations announced for April, Hershey speculated on the demonstration leaders tactics and stated, this type of operation should convince the most gullible that the ultimate objective of the basic promoters of unrest is to weaken and, if possible, destroy the United States.

Dr. Martin Luther King has left Memphis, Tennessee for Atlanta. where he says he'll map plans for another mass demonstration in Memphis late next week. A second curfew is in force in Memphis tonight, after a day of uneasy peace was maintained by National Guard troops. King led yesterday's march in sympathy with the city's striking garbage men that erupted into violence.

He blames the rioting on what he calls a small group of young militants.  President Johnson today called on all Americans to obey law and prevent violence. The chief executive deplored the outbreak of violence in Memphis. And he said, “federal assistance is available, if it's needed, to preserve order.”

Backers of California Governor Ronald Reagan have purchased television time in Wisconsin to show films promoting the Republican governor. Reagan's name is listed on Tuesday's primary ballot, but he has not campaigned in the state. Richard Nixon is expected to capture the state's 30 GOP convention delegates, but aides fear Nixon's total may be diminished by a last-minute Reagan drive.

Senator Robert Kennedy has received a standing ovation on his arrival to address some 5, 000 persons at the University of Arizona at Tucson. Kennedy arrived on the campus about two hours behind schedule. The New York senator gave a short talk, then attended a meeting with Navajo tribal officials at Window Rock, Arizona.

Elsewhere around the world, Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Soviet Communist Party, has attacked dissident Soviet intellectuals as double dealers who seek Western support. And Brezhnev says they should not expect to go unpunished. The party leader's speech to a Communist meeting in Moscow is the strongest official answer to internal criticism, yet made public behind the Iron Curtain.

A vacation in Hawaii is the in the mind of Colorado's Queen of the Ice, Peggy Fleming, who returned home today to a warm welcome from her hometown and home state. The Colorado College co-ed says she plans to take a trip soon to Hawaii before making up her mind whether to turn professional. Colorado Springs gave her a huge welcome today after her triumphs in Europe where she won the only United States gold medal in the Olympics and followed that up with a victory in the world championships.

A widely known Colorado Springs business executive and sportsman, 56-year-old Thayer Tutt, has married Mrs. Kay Servatius Murphy. Tutt's 32-year-old bride is a former ice skater and a former executive secretary of the Broadmoor Skating Club. Tutt is president of the Broadmoor Hotel and numerous other business enterprises with headquarters in Colorado Springs.

The marriage took place in Las Vegas Tuesday. Mrs. Murphy was divorced in 1965. Tutt and Mrs. Margaret Timmons Tutt were divorced this month. A rash of small grass fires broke out today in Gilpin and Boulder counties and in the Denver metropolitan area. Tutt's The largest fire, two miles east of  Rollinsville in Gilpin County, burned over 20 acres.

About 25 volunteers fought the blaze all afternoon. Six blazes were reported in Boulder County, with the largest fire-burning grass and timber on nearly 20 acres in the Pactolus Creek area, southwest of Boulder and Coal Creek Canyon. Volunteer firemen from Coal Creek, Pine Cliff, and Mid County fought the Pactolus Creek fire.

Three grass fires were reported in Denver. Three were reported in Arvada. Firemen blamed the outbreaks on dry ground conditions and stiff March breezes.  Elsewhere around the state, a 24 year-old man and three teenagers have been charged in Lake County District Court at Leadville with the murder last Sunday of 31-year-old Luis Garcia, who died soon after he was sliced with a knife in the head and body.

The attack took place in front of a closed liquor store. District Attorney Eugene Lorig filed the charges against 24-year-old Daniel Martinez, 19-year-old Henry Martinez, 19-year-old Leroy Gonzalez, and 17-year-old Henry Alirez. Lorig specified that the four men be held without bond. They are to be arraigned in Lake County District Court on April 11th.

Arapahoe County officer said today a 500 reward has been offered for information leading to the discovery of 18-year-old Constance Marie Parris, an Englewood High School senior who disappeared Tuesday. The reward was announced at a town conference attended by the girl's father, James Parris, a mailman.

Parris says he's convinced his daughter has met with foul play. He added, Connie isn't missing of her own free will. The reward, as posted by Inglewood Post Office employees. Parris has been a letter carrier for two years. Officers have discovered most of her clothing and other personal possessions from Dry Creek.

She was last seen after alighting from a bus following a visit to the Denver Library.  On the political front in Colorado, new efforts to end the war in Vietnam were urged today by two candidates for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate. State Representative Kenneth Monfort of Greeley said at Colorado State University in Fort Collins that there should be a phased withdrawal from Vietnam to allow the South Vietnamese government a chance to become a visible government.

University of Colorado Regent Don Lynch told the Arvada Democratic Club that the bombing of North Vietnam should be ended. Lynch also urged an agreement to negotiate with the National Liberation Front. The political arm of the Viet Cong.  The weather forecast for the state of Colorado and the Pikes Peak region in half a moment.

Payless shoe stores have much in store for you this coming season. Color is the keyword for shoes at Payless. Styles and colors are at their peak this season. Shoes are not just for walking. This season they are a fashion happening. Wild colors, and wonderful styles. Slicker yellow, Johnson green, hot orange, and many other exciting colors at Payless Shoe Stores, located at 2441 East Highway 24, and at 610 East Fillmore, here in Colorado Springs.

It looks like a good weekend in store for the state of Colorado, and of course the Pikes Peak region, from the standpoint of the weather. For the rest of tonight, for the state. Fair with low temperatures, 35 to 45 at lower elevations, 20s in the mountains. Generally fair tomorrow and Sunday. A little cooler across the state Sunday.

Highs tomorrow, 75 to 85 in the southwest, 70s in the northeast and southwest, 65 to 70 in the northwest, and 55 to 65 in the mountains. Lows tomorrow night, 35 to 45 at lower elevations, 20s in the mountains. That translates this way for the Pikes Peak region, generally fair and mild through Saturday, partly cloudy and a little cooler Sunday.

Our precipitation probability is less than 5 percent tonight and tomorrow. It is 10 percent tomorrow night. The overnight low forecast at near 35 degrees, tomorrow's high, 65 to 70 degrees. Today's high temperature in Colorado Springs, 69 degrees. It's currently 54 degrees in downtown Colorado Springs. And that's the news.

Thom Foulks, KVOR News