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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1973
Page
10
Rome, Italy, capitulated to Allied forces marking the first Axis capital to fall on June 4, 1944. The event signaled a turning point in World War II as Allied advances accelerated in Italy.
Aaron, the elder brother of Moses, is identified as the first high priest of Israel, establishing the priestly lineage central to Israelite religious practice.
The Air Force delivered the second of two T-33 training jets to SIU Carbondale's aviation technology department. Edmund DaRosa and Joe Schafer led officials, with Major Gerald Hostetler piloting the jet. Kenneth Gray pressed for keeping the jets' electronic gear for student maintenance, following the May first delivery.
Chicago Sun-Times reports Gov Daniel Walker secretly hired the bond adviser firm duPont Glore Forgan to aid a 100 million capital improvement issue. The adviser charged 75 000 to 100 000, higher than Ogilvie's prior fee, and bought 20000 in tickets to a March fund raising dinner. The move contradicted a budget task force recommendation that Chicago banks handle bond issues.
Illinois Attorney General William J. Scott cited 15-year-old pleas from Illinois youths in Texas institutions. He urged caution before uprooting about 200 Illinois children, saying they are individuals not cattle. A four member task force visited Texas while Gov. Walker defended swift transfers to better facilities. The note on the Soviet Union follows unrelated data.
A senior Air Force officer attributed the Neak Luong bombing that killed 137 Cambodians on August 6 to the navigator failing to throw a single switch. He noted the B 52 used a target finding method the Air Force abandoned six years earlier in South Vietnam as too dangerous, relying on a ground beacon.
New Orleans AP reports investigators fail to produce enough evidence to arrest six Black militants in a conspiracy to kill President Nixon. Officials say beacon and offset bombing details show navigational errors with a ground beacon used in Cambodia, echoing a 1967 Air Force incident.
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