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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1967
Page
1
U.S. military analysts warn Israeli supply lines risk overextension if spearheads push across the Suez Canal into Egypt. They say fuel water ammunition and food must reach advancing units while routes to Cairo become longer and more contested.
President Johnson created a Cabinet level Middle East committee led by Secretary of State Rusk to map plans for a permanent peace with Israel. The aim includes UN coordination and curbing arms shipments, amid Arab world breaks with Washington and evacuations of embassies.
Pope Paul VI urged the heads of state of Israel United Arab Republic Jordan Syria and Iraq to heed the UN cease fire request in a message sent from Vatican City.
A 24 year old former Lawrence resident William Linn O Laughlin Garrett died after his car hit a utility pole in Kansas City Kansas. Funeral services are set for 2 p m Friday at Rumsey Funeral Home with burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. He is survived by his mother Virginia Garrett of 346 Locust St his father Glenn G Garrett of 219 N 7th St three sisters Darlene Wilks Yvonne Rose Celestia Garrett two brothers Richard Garrett of Kansas City Kan and Richard Garrett of 346 Locust St and two daughters Brenda and Lorrie O Laughlin of 1120 N J St.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Herbert W. Boeckenhaupt was sentenced to 30 years in prison after being convicted of conspiring to pass American defense secrets to the Soviets. Proceedings followed his October arrest at March Air Force Base California and his alleged communications with Aleksey A. Malinin, a former Soviet Embassy aide. Boeckenhaupt’s lawyers vow to appeal both sentence and May conviction. He is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Germany, listing Superior Wisconsin as his home.
Ann Pellegreno 30 of Saline Michigan plans a five week 28 000 mile flight in a Lockheed Electra starting Oakland California to mirror Amelia Earhart. She will fly via South America Africa India New Guinea Howland Island and Honolulu and back to Oakland with Col William Payne as co pilot William Polhemus navigator and Lee Koepke mechanic aboard.
Micah Bertin an 18 year old Edison High School honor student and class president can attend classes with long sideburns after the New Jersey State Board of Education ruled in his favor on his appeal of a school board decision. Bertin plans to speak at graduation about following convictions to help improve the world.
Republicans who swept President Johnson's camp on a debt limit measure tabled a plan to extend the $336 billion ceiling to Sept 30 to avert a July 1 government payment crisis. They say the move pressures Johnson to rewrite the budget with domestic-spending cuts and to draw a new fiscal picture.
Bishop W McFerrin Stowe urged elimination of racial hatred prejudice and segregation at the Kansas Conference of the Methodist Church opening in Baldwin. About 500 ministers and lay delegates attended as the body debated merger with the Evangelical United Brethren Church jurisdiction changes and delegate appointments. Nine men joined full ministry 11 transferred in eight transferred out five retired.
AP correspondent David Lancashire and Finlay Campbell of al News Service were expelled from Syria after 13 hours in a Damascus jail for sending Arab-Israeli war dispatches. They were driven to the Lebanon border in a sealed police truck, escorted by three armed officers. The men were arrested at their Damascus hotel, questioned at a military HQ, then spent the night in a cement cell with eight inmates. They described courteous interrogations and were later repatriated.
Aboard carrier America in the Mediterranean on Wednesday as many as six to seven Soviet vessels shadowed U S ships near Crete. Vice Admiral William S. Martin warned Soviet boats to clear the area while U S helicopters tracked a possible submarine. A Soviet cruiser later moved near the task group as the 6th Fleet considered its role in policing any UN action. No U S Air support for Israel was observed by reporters aboard the carrier.
A 59 year old Polish émigré armed with a long knife tried to enter the embassy car to kill U S Ambassador Charles E Bohlen in Paris. Police seized the man Maurice Gordon of Lodz before the car door opened. he offered no clear reason. He was held for investigation.
Funeral directors from across the United States gathered in St Louis to oppose private funerals and memorial services. Howard C Rathing executive director urged open casket ceremonies and public funerals to avoid repressing grief and to keep funeral directors in the profession.
Topeka AP report says Gov. Robert Docking canceled the September 1966 pact with the federal government on predator control. The agreement allowed either party to cancel before July 1. it expires June 30. Critics feared federal action might use poisons harming non predator wildlife.
Lawrence reports summer enrollment began with classes to start Monday as over 5,000 students expected. Sessions continue Friday and Saturday ahead of final exams August 3 to 5. A Baldwin City woman sought stamps at the post office while noting Methodist Conference on Bakerampus. Lance Hill, 16, was named a Court Justice by the Boys State Governor, after running for governor and losing in primary elections.
Dr. James Moffett, 58, director of the U S Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor since 1950, died Tuesday.
I thank all my friends nurses and doctors for their thoughtfulness during my illness and for their care and support through my recovery.
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