Poor People Campaign to Launch City Boycott in Washington
A leader of the Poor People Campaign led by Jesse Jackson says economic boycotts in about 40 cities will begin in downtown Washington next week to pressure Congress for hunger relief funding. The plan targets specific products like salmon and grapes to force action on appropriations. Jackson aims to compel federal help while Freeman resists reallocation of $227 million already earmarked for food prices.
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Washington
Congress
Jesse Jackson
Jackson
Orville Freeman
Freeman
Federal Treasury
Andrew Young
House Agriculture Committee
House Gallery
John Conyers
Dmich
Capitol Hill
U.S. Park
Interior Department
Marilyn Riviere
Columbia
Police Clear Streets After California Riot
In Richmond California more than 400 police cleared streets early after a confrontation with snipers and arsonists. Firemen put out a dozen fires and about 60 people were arrested during a second straight night of disturbances. Police sealed an eight block area and called reinforcements from nearby cities including 50 San Francisco officers with dogs. Authorities could not estimate numbers injured or total damage. The unrest followed a Tuesday night shooting of a Negro teenager by a reserve police officer in North Richmond.
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Richmond
Calif
San Francisco
Oakland
Joliet Carpenters Accept Two Year Contract
Will County carpenters accepted a two year contract ending a three week strike. The deal provides a 50 cent hourly raise the first year and 45 cents the second, retroactive to June 1. The base wage rises to 6.40 dollars an hour for journeymen, the highest in the state.
Fourth of July Celebration at Yorkville in Kendall County
Yorkville Illinois hosts joint Sesquicentennial and Independence Day events on July 4 with a parade at 10 a.m. and activities from 9:15 a.m. including flag ceremonies, footraces, a noon speech by John S. Peterson, barbecue by Wilder Fay and crew, judo demo, Pony League game, water fights, and baseball games. Fireworks parking opens at 6 p.m. and dusk display will be one third larger. Robbie Green chairs the parade and invites participation.
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Yorkville
Illinois
Kendall County
Black Hawk
Charles Baird
16Th Judicial Circuit
John S. Peterson
Aurora
DeKalb
Kane
Kendall
Wilder Fay
Bobh Corwin
Ottawa
Robbie Green
Weather: Clearing Tonight With Warm Weekend Ahead
The forecast calls for gradual clearing tonight with a low near 50. Friday should be mostly sunny and warmer with a high in the lower 70s, and Saturday may be partly cloudy but warmer. At Collins Weather Station a 70 degree high and 52 low were recorded yesterday, with local readings at 9 and 11 am around 52 to 53 degrees.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Morris Board Awards Safety Contract For McKinley Lincoln Center
Morris elementary board of education awarded Narvick Brothers a contract not to exceed 16700 for urgent safety survey repairs and classroom ceiling work at McKinley Lincoln and Center schools. Allie Van Duyne plumbing won 3600 for plumbing at McKinley Lincoln. Other bids ranged up to 4600 by Les Allott.
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Narvick Brothers
Morris Elementary Board of Education
McKinley, Lincoln
Center
Allie van Duyne
Morris
McKinley
Lincoln
O. A. Kiger
Les Allott
Wilmington
Bren
House Panel Cuts SST Funding and Delays Supersonic Project
The House Appropriations Committee rejects new SST funds and orders $223 million cut, with $30 million already advanced to be returned. A one year delay is possible, as FAA grants for airport aid are also withheld pending a revised plan. The action affects fiscal 1969 transportation funding and slows US SST development.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Johnson Administration
Treasury
Congress
United States
France
England
Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Two Bids Rejected On County Bridge
Grundy Kendall County Line Bridge bids by James EF McElwain Co and Charles O'Brien Co were rejected for exceeding the estimated cost. Both bids quoted $22,683.25 and $23,587.65 respectively for a precast concrete slab bridge on treated timber pile abutments. Bidding will reopen at a later date.
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Grundy-Kendall County Line
County Bridge Committee
James Ef, McElwain Co
Charles O’brien Co
Senators Seek Truth in CEO Contradictions
Senators probe a federal antipoverty grant of 927000 to rehabilitate two Chicago street gangs amid claims of perjury and falsified testimony. Rev John Fry denies charges as hearings reveal alleged church ties to gang activity and coercion of witnesses.
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Washington
Chicago
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Office of Economic Opportunity
John R. Fry
Blackstone Rangers
Senate
Rev. Fry
George Rose
Fry
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
John Fry
Karl E. Mundt
S.D
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Mundt
Annabelle Martin
Eugene ‘Bull
Hairston
Ranger
Lockport Car Crash Kills Joliet Man
Roy Moore aged 30 from Joliet died when his car crashed into the rear of a gasoline tank truck in Lockport. Truck driver James Robinson 31 from Lockport was not injured.
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Lockport, Ir
Roy Moore
Joliet
James Robinson
Lockport
Morris Community High approves land sale to Morris grade school
Morris Community High School board Wednesday night approved a 45 000 sale of 20 acres on the northern part of the property to the Morris grade school. The meeting also covered athletics spending for 1967 1968, a proposed limited physical education program for students with minor disabilities, ice cream bids, and personnel changes including hiring Marikay Policello as science and math teacher and the resignation of counselor Rodger Gordon who urged a vocational center study.
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Dan O’mara
Narvick
Mc.Kinley
Lincoln
Center School
Parker Robinson
Moreris Insurance
Ohio Casualty
Charles Slovick
Mutual Casualty
Morris Community High School
Eugene Hayes
Grundy County National Bank
First National Bank
James Peterson
Leslie Tibbitts
Kenneth Hammer
Morris Grade School
Ferguson
Winds Valley Dairy Co
Beatrice Foods Co
Illinois Valley Dairy Co
Marikay Policello
Sioux City
Iowa
Claude Rose
Charles Newland
Rodger Gordon
Gordon
Joliet Junior College
Supt
Flood Waters Receding on Illinois River
Flood waters from heavy rains began receding on the Illinois River after cresting around midnight. By 10 am the river stood at 16.9 feet, with flood stage at 3.9 feet above, while roads slowly dried and minor creeks continued to affect crossings in several areas.
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Illinois River
Ray Webb
St. Louis
Dresden Lock
Mazon
Aux Sable
Richard McTague
Livingston- Grundy
Wilmington
Richard Pierce
Blacktop
Illinois 47
River Bridge
Collins
Crash Near Plano Kills Two Men
Two young men died and three others were injured in a two car collision on U S 34 west of Plano. Earl Damm age 29 and Francis Wiggins age 19, both of Sandwich, died in the crash. Dennis LaBoub 19 of Somonauk faced charges of improper lane usage. Edward Fritch 18 of Earlville and David Gudmunson 18 of Somonauk were injured and treated at Sandwich Community Hospital.
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Plano, Ill
U.S
Plano
Earl Damm
Francis Wiggins
Sandwich
Sandwich Community Hospital
Dennis LaBoub
Somonauk
Edward Fritch
Earlville
David Gudmunson
Fritch
Gudmunson
LaBoub
U.S. Moves to Level Khe Sanh Base Amid Mobile War Strategy
U S troops abandon and bulldoze the Khe Sanh combat base as part of a new mobile warfare concept. Brig Gen Winant Sidle says bunkers will be closed and the base leveled. In ongoing clashes nearby South Vietnamese forces report 125 enemy deaths east of Quang Tri and 19 miles below the DMZ with seven U S killed and 50 wounded. A large weapons cache including 126 rockets was found 12 miles west-northwest of Saigon.
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Saigon
U.S
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Winant Sidle
Sidle
Quang Tri City
Ray denies killer role in King's murder at Bow Street
James Earl Ray testified in Bow Street on extradition to the United States saying he never met Dr. King and held no grudge. U S prosecutors presented fingerprint evidence linking Ray to the rifle used in Memphis, while security was tightened for the historic hearing.
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London
James Earl Ray
United States
Martin Luther King Jr
Rayemond
George Sneyd
Dr. King
Bow Street Court
U.S
Ray
King
Scotland Yard
Roger Frisby
George Jacob Bonebrake
FBI
Bonebrake
Missouri State Penitentiary
Frisby
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
David Calcutt
Frank Milton
Memphis
Tenn
Calcutt
Delayed police report on Bedford Road car lot collision
Police Chief Donald Ward confirmed no immediate report was issued about a 5:20 a.m. Tuesday collision involving a 1968 police squad car and a 1965 Chevrolet at Greenway Pontiac Olds on Bedford Road. Officer Robert Lynes, on routine patrol, touched the agency vehicle in the lot. repairs to the squad car’s right front fender are planned.
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Donald Ward
Greenway
Bedford Road
Chief Ward
Robert Lynes
Auto Agency
Ward
Reine
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Peterson
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Peter Gates
John Hendrickson
Gordon Lear
Gardner
Herman Roeder
Goodfarm
Roeder
Timon Costello
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Appleton
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