Students End Sit-In Protest In Chicago
About 500 students voted to end a six day sit-in protesting University of Chicago cooperation with the Selective Service. A 25 member token group remained to avoid pressuring the administration. The university declined to resume operations under the protesters conditions and workers were largely sent home.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Selective Service
University
George W. Beadle
Walter V. Leen
FBI agent killed during manhunt in Shade Gap
In Shade Gap Pennsylvania an FBI agent hunting kidnapped Peggy Ann Brodnick was shot and killed while searching a wooded area. The agent Terry Ray Anderson age 42 from Hemphill was the Har Risburg office chief for 10 years and died within minutes. A dog was also killed by a sniper during the six day abduction manhunt.
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Shade Gap
FBI
Peggy Ann Brodnick
Pennsylvania
Washington
Terry Ray Anderson
Anderson
Hemphill
Harrisburg
John
Omaha
Neb
Brodnick
Philadelphia
First Lady Lyndon Johnson Earns Trail Blazer Award
Mrs Lyndon B Johnson receives the National Home Fashions League Trail blazer Award honoring her advocacy for highway beautification and environmental improvement in Dallas Texas.
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Dallas
Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
National Home Fashions League
Thunderstorms and Winds Hit Wide swath of states
Severe weather swept a six state region from Arkansas to Iowa with tornado and severe thunderstorm watches. Tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and Kansas with funnel clouds across eastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. A separate storm caused injuries and property damage in Columbus Georgia and near Milton Florida.
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Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Iowa
Missouri
Tonkawa
Wellington
Columbus
Georgia
Muscogee County
Phenix City
Ala
Gulf Coast
Milton
Pensacola
Fla
SBA approves disaster aid for Grundy County flood victims
The Small Business Administration grants disaster assistance for Grundy County after flooding. A temporary Morris office will open at City Hall to accept loan applications and assess needs. Gause plans to visit Morris Wednesday to finalize setup with hopes of Friday operations and Red Cross contact numbers are provided for relief inquiries.
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Grundy County
Thomas E. Guase
Chicago
Small Business Administration
Paul A. Douglas
D.-Ill
Morris Daily Herald
City Hall
Morris
Gause
SBA
Red Cross
John Harder
Grinnell Student to Teach in Thailand Next Summer
Miss Virginia Harford senior from Mazon will join Grinnell College's Travel Service Scholarship program to teach at Dara Academy in Chiang Mai Thailand. She departs this summer for a year abroad, writing reports for publication and sharing experiences on return.
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Grinnell
Iowa
Little Peace Corps
Virginia Harford
Mazon
Bernard L. Harford
Harford
Thailand
Dara Academy
Chiang Mai
United Presbyterian Church
United States
Burma
Brazil
Ceylon
Chile
Colombia
Greece
India
Liberia
Nyasaland
Tanganyika
Turkey
Donald Bogue
Barbara Cooper
Darlene Keeler
Grinnell-in
China
A. B. DeHaan
Sioux City
Miss Harford
YWCA
International Relations Club
Women’s Recreation Association
Tassles
Honorary Society For Women
Morris Community High School Presents First Spring Band Concert
The MCHS band stages a 8 p.m. Thursday concert in the MCHS Auditorium featuring contemporary classical and traditional works. Soloists include John Tibbett Jr. and Barbara Bossert with guest Roger Rinaldi. dance and choir numbers also slated. Proceeds fund color guard equipment.
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Morris Community High School
MCHS
John Tibbett Jr
America
Barbara Bossert
Roger Rinaldi
Seneca High School
Janaye Matteson
Elza Allen
Morris
Stephen Foster
Betty Cornish
Park Avenue
Foster
Richard DeAtley
August Drews
Jim Sanders
William Drews
Larry Varland
Million Sought in Ardmore Airline Crash Lawsuit
Chicago widow Tina Lara lists Richard Lara as a deceased Army private in a $1 million damages suit against American Flyers Airline Corp. The chartered plane from Ft Ord California to Ft Benning Georgia crashed near Ardmore Oklahoma on April 22 killing 75 soldiers and six crew members out of 92 aboard.
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Chicago
American Flyers Airline Corp
Ardmore
Okla
Tina Lara
Richard Lara
Ft. Ord
Calif
Ft. Benning
Viet Premier Alerts Troops For Rioting In Saigon
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky ordered 7th Infantry Division units to Saigon amid Buddhist protests and treason charges against the regime. Monks planned a 48 hour hunger strike as dissident forces resisted government crackdowns across northern provinces and Hue incidents raised tensions.
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Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
1St Corps
Hue
U.S
Huynh van Cao
Viet Nam
Jonas M. Platt
1St Army
Lewis W. Walt
Meeting Thursday On County Home
A public meeting to explain the proposed Grundy County nursing home will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Grundy County Courthouse circuit courtroom. Voters will decide on a $750,000 bond issue at the June 14 election. Committee chairman Burl Gonham urges all interested persons to attend, with Healy and Moore architectural firm representatives present.
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Grundy County
U S Leaders Back Military Role in South Vietnam
After two days of talks on the Vietnam crisis the Johnson administration backs a strong military role for Saigon in any future government while avoiding endorsement of Premier Ky. Officials note the move aims to build a nation and fight a war but may provoke Buddhist opposition and complicate elections. Ambassador Lodge leaves for Saigon en route to Seoul for talks with President Park Chung Hee.
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Washington
Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
da Nang
Dean Rusk
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rusk
Fulbright
National Press Club
Viet Nam
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Seoul
Chung Hee Park
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Thich Tri Quang
Tri Quang
Weather forecast shows showers and mild temps in region
The U S Weather Bureau predicts showers and thunderstorms tonight with a low in the 50s and locally heavy rain possible. Wednesday should be partly sunny with a high in the 60s and Thursday looks fair. Collins Weather Station logged 72 high and 51 low Monday, with 59 at 9 am today. Morris district at 60 degrees by 11 am.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris Business
Gemini 9 mission delayed after Agena satellite fails to orbit
Cape Kennedy AP A Gemini 9 rendezvous mission is postponed at least three weeks after the Agena target satellite fails to reach orbit. Astronauts Stafford and Cernan would practice docking and space-walk maneuvers, with an alternate satellite in line if needed.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
William C. Schneider
Thomas P. Stafford
Eugene A. Cernan
Stafford
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Cernan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
George E. Mueller
Atlas
Agena
Atlantic Ocean
Mission Control
Houston
Earth
Atlantic
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Burlington
THE
Associated Press
Bulletin
Strugle Movement
Viet Premier
Ky Sunday
Kansas City
Kan
South Viet Nam
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