Johnson backs higher federal aid for education
President Johnson transmitted a 33 page advisory council report endorsing large federal support for education while criticizing the first year of the 1965 education act. The council urged earlier action in 1966 and stricter guidelines to ensure private school aid fairness and minimize federal control concerns.
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San Antonio
Tex
Johnson
Congress
Advisory Council
National Advisory Council
O. Meredith Wilson
University of Minnesota
Office of Education
Miners Appeal To Governor On Safety
A coalition of eight United Mine Workers locals representing about 2300 miners asks Gov. Otto Kerner to intervene over what they call lax enforcement of Illinois mine safety laws by the Mining Board. They note no responsive action since a telegram on April 4 and reference a 1947 Centralia disaster.
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West Frankfort
Ill
Illinois
Illinois Mining Board
Otto Kerner
United Mine Workers
Kerner
Gene Casagrande
Benton
Union Safety Committee
Waltonville
UMW
Progressive Miners Union
Progressive
State Mining Board
Save Our Lives
Centralia No. 5
Kenneth Wells
Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals
Franklin
Jefferson
Williamson
Morris Mother Honored as Handicapped Mother of the Year
Mrs. Gerald Harbin 24 year old Morris mother of two was named Handicapped Mother of the Year at a Chicago ceremony by the Rehabilitation Institute. She has been paralyzed from the waist down since 1963 after a car crash in Ballston Spa New York and spent five months at the institute after earlier hospitalizations. Her husband works at Dresden nuclear plant in Illinois and the family lives near Morris with support from relatives. Her oldest daughter helps with chores as Linda, eight months old, begins to move about.
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Gerald
Phyllis) Harbin
Morris
Chicago
The
Rehabilitation Institute
Harbin
Saratoga School
Glen Thompson
Illinois 47
U. S. Navy
Linda
Wisconsin
Military
Green Bay
Wis
Chicago Institute
New Jersey
Kenosha
Navy
Dresden
Paul Hinderlinter
Ray
E. A. Carlson
Decatur
Much colder with frost tonight and cool Tuesday
The U S Weather Bureau warns of frost and freezing temperatures tonight with a low in the 20s. Tuesday will be partly sunny and unseasonably cool with a high near 40. Collins Weather Station records a Saturday high of 76 and low of 36 with a trace of precipitation around 5 p m. Sunday highs reached 58 and lows 30 with 90 percent precipitation. At 9 a m today Morris district noon readings were 35 and 39 respectively.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris Business
Minnesota-Canada
Bemidji
Michigan
Madison
Wis
Duluth
Detroit
St. Louis
Great Lakes
Akron
Ohio
Maine
Texas
Desert
Oklahoma
Maryland
Gulf
Florida
Gifford Dies Former U S Ambassador to Britain
Walter S. Gifford aged 81, former U S ambassador to Great Britain from 1950 to 1953 and retired president of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., died Saturday in New York.
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NEW York
Walter S. Gifford
U.S
Great Britain
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Britain Seeks Compromise With Rhodesia Crisis Talks Opened
Britain begins secret talks with Rhodesian white minority officials led by Sir Cornelius Greenfield to explore a possible basis for negotiations. The Rhodesians, who declared independence in November, seek to end a six month crisis without African majority rule as London and African states watch closely.
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London
Britain
Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Cornelius Greenfield
Gerald Clarke
Stanley Morris
Public Services
Oliver Wright
Harold Wilson
Duncan Watson
Commonwealth Relations Office
Salisbury
Smith
Cold Weather To Continue Across Region Tonight
A sharp cold front brings freezing temperatures and sleet across northern Illinois with a low near 28. Highs reached 58 in Morris before a wind shift dropped temps early Monday. gardens may suffer if the cold persists, delaying early planting and stressing corn germination.
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Morris
Robert Purdue
Grundy County
Testimony Begins in Smith Benham Damage Suit
In Verona Indiana, five witnesses testified on day one of the damage suit by Helen Smith administrator for James G. Smith's estate against Aden Benham over an October 24 1964 collision on Illinois 47 north of Morris. Evidence included seven exhibits and multiple accident photos.
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Helen Smith
James G. Smith
Verona
Aden Benham
Linton
Ind
Smith
Benham
Illinois
Morris
James Smith
James
Carlton Smith
James Grenell
Mazon
Lockport
Grenell
Richard Pierce
Pierce
Walter Dunbar
Rte. 2
Dunbar
Mansfield backs U S recognition of Mongolia as listening post
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield urged recognizing Mongolia to ease Cold War tensions and provide a listening post between China and the Soviet Union. He backed a Kennedy McGovern call for a blue ribbon China policy commission and said Johnsons stance would shape any action.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
United States
Mongolia
China
Soviet Union
Asia
Mansfield
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
George S. McGovern
D-S.d
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
CBS
State Department
Republic of China
Formosa
U.S
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Javits
Mutual Broadcasting System
Viet Nam
U S Jets Chase Soviet MIGs Near Haiphong Frontiers
U S air forces reported two Soviet built missile sites knocked out north of Haiphong and a MIG interception near MIG Alley about 35 miles from the Chinese frontier. One U S Thunderchief was lost. total North Viet Nam losses reached 232 planes.
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Saigon
U.S
Viet Nam
Red China
U.S. Command
Navy
Haiphong
Air Force
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Cao Ning
North
Guam
Cambodia
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Birmingham
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
da Nang
National Assembly
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LBJ
North Viet Nam News Agency
VNA
Tokyo
Honor Morris
Gifford
Weather Bureau
Northern Illinois
Collins Weather Station
Dakotas
Great Lakes Region
Ohio Valley
New England
Minn
el Paso
Plains
SKY
First Cavalry Division
Air Mobile
Plei Ku
Mansfields
Dean Rusk
Commission
Rusk
ABC
Sion
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Robert F. Kennedy
DNY
J. W. Fulbright
Fulbright
Arkansas
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