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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1966
Page
3
Eugene Ore AP A 20-year-old University of Oregon student editor was fined 500 dollars in state circuit court for refusing to identify seven marijuana smokers she interviewed for a campus story. Her attorney said William Knowland contributed 300 dollars toward the fine or legal expenses. the judge called the act contempt of court and imposed the maximum fine without jail.
Ronald McCleery, 18, fingerprints found inside the car of one of two women killed near Quincy. Miss Donella Pickens, 21, was found in the car trunk March 22 and her roommate Miss Judith Ann Greening, 22, in a ditch south of Quincy. FBI agent testified a thumbprint matched McCleery.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare was created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, consolidating federal functions in health and education and overseeing welfare policy. This reshaped federal agency structure during his administration.
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan traces the Vietnam conflict from Kennedy’s early advisers to the 1965 escalation. He notes Pentagon remarks that “the price of the war has just gone up,” as 46 U.S. warplanes strike oil complexes near Hanoi and Haiphong, marking a new phase after five years of U.S. involvement. The piece covers staffing rises, from 685 advisers in 1962 toward tens of thousands, and the drift toward broader U.S. military action culminating with the February 1965 air assault on North Vietnamese targets.
Chicago area barbers seek higher rates but Attorney General William G. Clark says the proposed increases violate Illinois antitrust law and will seek injunctions unless unions withdraw them. Lake County barbers voted to raise prices. Cook County barbers are voting. A 1965 Vietnam sequence follows in the text.
A cement truck driven by Thomas Jim Ryan 43 of Downers Grove collided with an Illinois Central Land O Corn passenger train near Cloverdale in DuPage County. Ryan died and another occupant was critically injured. The train was traveling from Waterloo Iowa to Chicago.
Five cars and two diesel units derailed after a crash at Army Trail Road and Gary Avenue. Engineer A T Ferguson, 48, of Freeport, in critical condition at Central Du Page Hospital. Three passengers treated and released: Sister Isabella of St Clara's Convent Sinsinawa Wis Christine Price 20 Genoa and Florence Musselman Chicago. Remainder of 58 passengers bused.
Army colonel Fielding Lewis, brother in law to George Washington, built an arms factory in Virginia in 1775 that supplied the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
The Andrews Raiders were the first commandos of the United States. The 22 raiders from three Ohio regiments commandeered a railroad train on April 12 1862. Pursued by a Confederate locomotive they damaged bridges and track for 58 miles before capture.
The bite of a rattlesnake is dangerous from its birth. The ABC states of Argentina Brazil and Chile are sometimes grouped together in regional references.
Details describe a car with a 327 engine automatic transmission power brakes power steering tinted glass push button radio rear seat speaker wheel covers 825x14 whitewall tires undercoat in a Regal red exterior with red interior.
The listing describes a 325 HP V-8 engine paired with a turbo hydramatic transmission. It notes power steering and brakes, radio with rear seat speaker, tinted glass, factory air with comfort control, wire wheel covers, tri volume horn, black vinyl roof, deluxe seat belts, 25x14 whitewall tires, undercoating, red exterior with black cloth interior.
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