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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1968
Page
4
President Johnson signed the 21 billion highway bill extending the interstate system and funding the national road program. The action adds 1,500 miles to the 41,000 already planned, with 12.3 billion in new money and a 1974 completion target.
A lightning bolt struck a crowded Crawford County Fair tent in Meadville Pennsylvania killing two people and sending 72 others to area hospitals. The tent housed youngsters and ponies during the final weekend of the six day Crawford County Fair amid a driving afternoon storm.
Sixty Negro soldiers at Ft Hood balked when told they would be sent to Chicago for riot suppression during the Democratic convention. Military police escorted 43 to the guardhouse and they face court martial for disobedience of a superior’s order. Riot-trained troops camped at Bergstrom Air Force Base ready to deploy.
Doctors at Walter Reed General Hospital say former President Dwight D. Eisenhower remains in critical condition with two brief episodes of rapid heart action identified as ventricular fibrillation the most serious symptom of his heart attack. No further episodes have occurred.
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