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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1965
Page
1
Dr Martin Luther King Jr led a rainy march of Negro voters to the Selma courthouse today as supporters waited in line to register. Sheriff James G Clark blocked entry at the doorway saying there was no room inside.
Fire at The Barrel roadhouse on Route 68 in Butler damages a marble hall estimated at 75 000 dollars. Officials blame the blaze on unrest as civil rights leaders press for integration while firemen respond. Simultaneous voter registration drives proceed in Dallas Hale Lowndes Marengo Perry Wilcox counties with over 2 000 applicants awaiting their turn under court orders.
Obituary notices list Sara-Laura Ferguson Boyer 62 of 919 School St Indiana Gust. W. Doeage 86 of 411 Locust St Indiana Anna Alberta Cost 73 of Cleveland Ohio formerly Indiana Mildred E. Clair infant of Cherry Tree R D 1 Walter S. Leaf 75 of 322 South Stewart St Blairsville. James T. Byers 62 of Indiana. William A. McCormick 51 of Rochester Mills R D 1. Jeane Frances Barnhart 22 Wilkinsburg formerly Blairsville. Anna Alberta Cost listed under Cleveland Ohio, others pending.
An explosion at the LaSalle Heights apartment development on St. Clement and Bergevin streets in Montreal suburbs left 28 dead, with about 100 missing and many injured. A temporary morgue was set up at LaSalle Arena as searchers swept the U shaped complex, with blocks of homes evacuated and surrounding streets filled with panicked residents.
In Sibu Sarawak a Dyak ceremonial welcome for Prince Philip featured Temenggong Ju gah scattering yellow rice, a chieftain waving a white cockrel, and a verse of welcome as yaks lin in traditional dress bang gongs and perform a war dance a Dyak maiden served him locally made rice wine.
AP reports a vast salt mine 1,000 feet under Detroit, operated by International Salt Mine Co. The underground city includes 50 miles of roads, 100 workers, and large pillars supporting vast chambers. Miners lift salt via skip hoists to surface while conveyors and machinery crush and move salt through endless white corridors.
Indiana State Senator Pechan announced that 177 Punxsutawney Area Joint High School staff members signed a petition supporting Indiana State College becoming Western Pennsylvania State University. The petition, presented to Governor Scranton and the State Council on Higher Education, urges favorable passage of Senate Bill 1 and signals broad local backing for university status.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state film censorship must allow prompt judicial review of bans. It invalidated Maryland’s pre exhibition censorship requirement, saying safeguards against undue suppression of expression are needed, with justices noting limits on censorship regardless of speed. Ronald Freedman, manager of Real Weather in Baltimore, appealed the case.
In the Mekong Delta region southeast of Saigon, B57 and Skyraider bombers halted strikes after an accidental kill of four South Vietnamese troops and 15 wounded due to poor ground air liaison. Government forces, aided by U.S. helicopters, pressed a ground sea air offensive amid mined areas and sniper fire.
President Johnson may receive the first major 1965 measure from Congress, a $1.1 billion Appalachia aid bill. The Senate passed it last month. the House debates it today with a final vote expected Tuesday. If approved, it goes to the President later in the week for signing. The bill authorizes $840 million in federal funds for highway construction in the depressed Appalachia region.
Partly cloudy and mild today and tonight with high temperatures around 44 to 52 and lows near 33 to 42. Increasing cloudiness Tuesday brings rain development.
In Thousand Oaks an animal trainer guiding 12 lions was attacked by Brutus, a 175-pound male lion, during a closing act. Chet Juszyk, 36, sustained lacerations to the torso arms and legs and was treated at Conejo Valley Hospital in satisfactory condition after escaping the cage with assistance from other trainers.
California continues to draw about 1,000 newcomers daily, a decade of steady growth that has left the state the nation's most populous. Officials say migration shows no end. projections anticipate 340,000 new residents this year, with growth likely to persist for the next decade driven by natural increase and migration to Southern California. Governor Brown notes the need for more services to accommodate swelling welfare and tax demands.
Harrisburg reports House Democrats set next Tuesday as target to pass a bill allowing private and parochial school children to ride tax funded buses with reimbursement provisions for added district costs. The bill mirrors a Senate measure backed by the Scranton administration and would extend pickup on established routes. The session also moves toward approving a bipartisan inquiry into alleged milk industry rebates, while budget hearings on Governor Scranton’s 1965 66 proposal resume.
A crash near Salem Olmiois State Pulice said six men died early today. The victims include three presumed students from Southern Mingis University and two identified passengers. Named among the deceased are Robert E.F. Williams 20 of Tuscola Hi Joseph Novtai 20 of Champaign Hi and Dale Elentuny 4 of Chicago.
About 150 miners walked out at the Gateway Coal Co. mine near Waynesburg Pennsylvania protesting that mandatory methane gas checks were not being conducted in certain sections. The mine is a joint operation of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp Pittsburgh Steel Co and others.
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