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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1964
Page
3
The Supreme Court closed a milestone term with rulings on state legislative apportionment citizenship and race relations. It struck down several state district maps and issued nine more decisions, signaling broad effects on political power in cities and beyond. The term ended amid anticlimax on expected sit in demonstrations.
In New York City an 18 year old blonde girl, Joan Wilson, was fatally shot near Times Square as she walked home with her sister after a parochial school graduation party. Witnesses heard two shots. no suspect seen. The shot struck top of the head and exited the neck, possibly from the Holland Hotel roof. Margaret Wilson, 13, survived.
U S advisers praised Vietnamese troops for their courage and skill after they routed two elite Communist battalions in a bloody Sunday battle near Saigon. The clash marked one of the year’s fiercest engagements and boosted morale among allied forces.
Mrs Lyndon Johnson will fly to Detroit on Wednesday to address an assembly of the American Home Economics Association. She then goes to Mackinac Island to visit the Grand Hotel and meet wives of officials, staying through Friday afternoon.
Pope Paul VI said the Catholic Church is studying the serious problem of birth control and currently finds no grounds to change its ban on artificial contraceptives. He noted ongoing scholarly collaboration and reiterated that Pius XII's rules remain not compulsory, except to protect the mother in rare cases.
Squall lines swept the Midwest with up to 3 inches of rain from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. Ten inches of snow buried Wyoming mountains while hail and high winds knocked down power lines. In LaCrosse and Waterloo rainfall reached nearly 3 inches, and Missouri rivers rose with 6 inches of upstream rainfall flooding downtown Smithville and flooding near Tracy as Platte river rose.
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