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Newspaper
Daily Gazette
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1971
Page
1
AP reports colleges nationwide are shifting from rigid coatroom curriculums to independent study and accelerated programs. Deans and professors highlight bottom-up reforms while some worry about over-specialization and job market fit, with campuses like New College and Harvard studying three-year tracks and flexible options.
Infrared aerial maps guide searchers across Feather River orchards as 25 bodies are unearthed. Sheriff Whiteaker says the 25th grave was found in a peach orchard and investigations continue. Most victims are unidentified middle aged farm workers or drifters. Juan Corona, a farm labor contractor, faces murder charges for the first 10 killings. A Sacramento Bee report about a ledger with 34 names is noted but not confirmed.
North Vietnamese gunners pressed a two week bombardment of DMZ allied positions and struck near Saigon. Maj. Richard Gardner said 11 Americans were wounded in three Friday rocket attacks on US bases including Charlie 2 near the DMZ, with light damage but some helicopters hit. Saigon reports clashes with up to 400 North Vietnamese in Pleiku area, resulting in fatalities and injuries. Hanoi claimed Viet Cong support from three southwestern provinces and said over 2,500 enemy units were put out of action in five months, with deserters and other disruptions.
Government investigators say half of 9 inspected Oklahoma Michigan and New York nursing homes under Medicaid have too few doctor visits improper nursing supervision and weak fire protection. GAO found missed monthly doctor visits lengthy lapses and lack of qualified on shift nurses and fulltime RNs in charge. Payments to six Oklahoma facilities were suspended and two closed.
Sharbara Ross uses wooden shingles on her tennis court to spell messages for LAPD helicopters overhead. Since starting last year she has sent nearly 400 notes to brighten the pilots day. Her family helps craft these messages as the LA police air unit patrols her Eagle Rock neighborhood.
James R. Polk reports at Dulles Airport a cocked pistol wielding hijacker, Glen Riggs of Ashford West Virginia, is disarmed by hostage Flight Engineer Greg Colliton after the plane lands. The United Air Lines jet, hijacked from Charleston West Virginia to Newark New Jersey, is empty of passengers with Riggs captured and charged with air piracy. No one was hurt.
Sterling and vicinity part ly sunny hot and humid with thunderstorms likely high 88 to 94 partly cloudy tonight warm with thunderstorms likely low 63 to 69 mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunder storms Sunday not quite so warm high 84 to 89 sunrise Sunday 5 32 DST sunset Sunday 8 25 DST
The Gazette features a special pull-out section with graduating students from Sterling, Rock Falls, and Newman High Schools. It also covers classes from Prophetstown-Lyndon Morrison Tampico Chadwick Milledgeville Polo Walnut Manlius Erie and Lanark.
Joe E. Lewis, famed nightclub and casino comic, died at Roosevelt Hospital in New York at age 69 after a diabetes coma. He built a 49 year career from Las Vegas to Copacabana, earning fame for a gravel voice and sharp drinking and gambling persona.
AP dispatches report a dynamite truck blast in Waco, five dead and 27 injured as 400 cases explode. Bodies of 25 men unearthed at orchard sites prompt continued weekend probes. Nixon to dedicate a half billion dollar waterway in Tulsa amid mixed party support. Senate votes push extending the draft for two more years. Rocket bombardment nears Saigon, signaling new hostilities in the region. Studies show Medicaid nursing homes lack doctors visits and proper supervision.
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