Weather Forecast Fragment for Boston Area
Partial cloudy period with isolated showers through Thursday. Highs near 90 expected in the Boston region with temperatures around 606 to tow.
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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1969
Page
2
Partial cloudy period with isolated showers through Thursday. Highs near 90 expected in the Boston region with temperatures around 606 to tow.
The State Revenue Department reported that tax receipts for the first two months of the 1969 fiscal year exceeded the same period in 1968 by 4.625 million dollars. July and August 1969 totals reached 58.558 million with August at 31.332 million, up more than 3.5 million from the prior year.
SAIGON reports heavy B52 strikes near Song Be for a fourth day with 30+ dead, 138 wounded, and 1 missing among South Vietnamese and 4 US advisers hurt. Elsewhere, 1000 Green Berets and allied troops face fierce jungle fighting as battles push near the Cambodian border. Across the nation, college officials warn congressional delay on raising loan guarantees to 10 percent will shutter access for many students, with banks tightening lending and universities scrambling to aid seeking borrowers.
The article traces Bishop Pike from U.S. Navy officer to Union Theological Seminary graduate and Cathedral of St. John the Divine dean. Elected San Francisco bishop coadjutor in 1958, he faced charges of heresy for challenging the virgin birth and Bible interpretation, opposed the Vietnam War, resigned in 1966, and later worked as a research fellow in Santa Barbara before his 16th marriage to Diana Kennedy last December.
Judge Bernard Brominski refused to dismiss a petition for autopsy on Mary Jo Kopechne. He ruled Pennsylvania may order an autopsy in proper cases and set 20 days for the Massachusetts prosecutor to amend the petition with sufficient factual basis under state law. The decision sustains the inquest effort by Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis as Kennedy associates seek further inquiry into her death on Chappaquiddick Island.
Senator Everett M. Dirksen 73 underwent upper right lung lobe removal at Walter Reed Hospital after a growth was found. Doctors reported no immediate word on cancer, his office said there was no evidence of tumor spread and his condition was satisfactory.
On September 3 1969 a lung nodule was found during a routine chest X ray aides stated Dirksen re entered the hospital on Sunday amid expectations of possible surgery His Senate absence comes as Congress returns to work on a mass of unfinished legislation including the House passed tax reform bill and GOP leadership changes with Hugh Scott defeating Roman Hruska for assistant Republican leader.
Two people died in Camden New Jersey when a patrolman and a 15 year old girl were shot during a night of violence. Other sniper incidents injured people in Hartford Connecticut and Fort Lauderdale Florida as National Guard and police enforced an overnight curfew in a predominantly Black area.
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