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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1966
Page
8
Irvin LeMay aged 62 of Mount Vernon Ohio died Monday after a long illness. He was the father of retired Air Force chief of staff General Curtis LeMay. Funeral details not available.
In Cleveland Ohio a predominantly Negro neighborhood on the East Side saw gunfire and rioting early today. A 26 year old woman Joyce Arnett was killed and two men were wounded. Fire bombs looted stores and a supermarket burned at Hough Avenue and Crawford Road as police and fire crews battled fires.
National Guard troops remained on duty in Chicago's West Side where order returned after days of violence. Vice President Humphrey criticized ghettos, Billy Graham urged accountability, and Rep Powell warned that ignoring black power risks ongoing unrest.
North Side merchants on Fifth Street formed the North Side Merchant Association and hired four auxiliary officers plus two regular patrolmen to guard a two block area around Fifth and Richmond Avenue on weekend nights. Association leader Joseph Strickland said the move is to curb crime, reassure customers, and foster respect for law but not as a permanent fix.
Robin T. M. Fraser associate professor of chemistry at Kansas University received a General Medical Sciences Council USPHS grant for electron transfer in charge-transfer ligands. The $23,882 current year funds include $11,558 new and $12,324 carried from last year. a third year recommendation of $18,323 for 1967-68 followed. Fraser recently completed a two year Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow appointment.
DETROIT AP The first 1967 models rolled off the line as Ford Wixom plant produced about 75 Thunderbirds and Lincoln Continentals. Chrysler will wind up 1966 model production this week, aiming for a new year high around 1,452,000 cars.
Floyd B. Russell aged 60 a veteran newspaperman and chief of the Baltimore Sun sports desk since 1954 died Monday from a heart attack in Baltimore Maryland.
Detroit teen Mary Kincer who had begun walking after two leg operations remains hopeful as doctors say she may not walk again after a car crash that killed her father Vernici 41 and uncle William Webb 46 and friend Burlay Kiser 38. Mary told her boyfriend Dennis Denham she will have to learn to walk again once released.
About 25 000 acres at Cape Kennedy have been designated a national wildlife refuge. The action creates a protected area for wildlife and habitat conservation on the coastal cape.
The 600 pound Surveyor 2, twin of America's lunar camera, is slated for a fall liftoff in Los Angeles. Hughes Aircraft, builder of the Surveyors, vows a smooth launch and mission.
Bernard E. Esters, 68, former head of the National Editorial Association and leader of Weekly Newspaper Organizations in 1951 52, died Monday in Houston Maine. The organization is now known as the National Newspaper Association.
Six months after a Wichita officer saved Alfred G. Jones from harm the 23 year old laborer faces charges in the slayings of John W. Marshall and his wife both 22. Investigators say Jones held up a grocery store during which $4000 to $5000 was stolen and Jones was arrested after being found armed. Detective Capt. Floyd Hannon notes recovered material evidence. A high speed chase earlier left Jones’ car in a creek.
Alfred Jones was pulled from the water and remained hospitalized for about two months. He is set to return to Wesley Medical Center on Monday for facial plastic surgery.
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