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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1968
Page
1
Dozens of rides booths and games headline a Labor Day event. Harness racing runs through Wednesday with a special children's show Thursday afternoon and quarter horse racing Friday afternoon before the main grandstand event.
President Ludvik Svoboda declares a continued liberal path after the January ouster of Antonin Novotny with a staged Soviet troop withdrawal. He vows to develop a socialist order and democratic character while negotiating gradual troop撤 withdrawal with Moscow.
Four newsmen were hospitalized after alleged police beatings while covering clashes between police and peace demonstrators near Lincoln Park. Nineteen reporters testified to being attacked. four listed in good condition include Steven Northup and John Linstead. The incident involved press credentials and white armbands.
About 5,000 visitors on Press and Legislators Day watched The Kids Next Door, graduates of the Young Americans, open and close the two and a half hour show with Phil Harris and Robbie Gen_try. Harris will share a bigger role. Miss Gentry closes the first half. comedy by Don Rice. Hedley Mattingly and Lou Breese provide musical backing. the act lineup includes The Kids Next Door, Gentle Ben, and Harris with Kentucky Kool-aid.
The forecast shows a warmer fair weather pattern becoming partly cloudy. A gradual warming trend continues tonight and into Wednesday with overnight lows in the upper 50s to low 60s and daytime highs reaching the mid to upper 80s.
J D Bearden 48 owner of the 18 Club in Cairo was seriously injured when a bomb under his car hood exploded after he visited a grain inspector in Charleston Mississippi County Sheriff W J Simmons said the blast hurled the dash board assembly backward pinned Bearden to his seat and caused fractures to his lower legs plus cuts from flying glass. Parts of the car flew about 100 yards and nearby windows were shattered. Bearden was taken to Missouri Delta Community Hospital in Sikeston.
An American artillery base northwest of Saigon withstood a 200 round rocket and mortar attack, repelling a weak infantry push. Flare-lit reports say at least 27 enemy soldiers were killed and U.S. HQ places enemy casualties at about 7,500 over the nine days of intensified Viet Cong assaults. The Communist command reportedly shifts to rocket and mortar tactics.
The Democratic Platform Committee endorsed a Vietnam war plank aligned with Vice President Humphrey but insurgents led by McCarthy and Kennedy opponents mounted an immediate challenge to soften or drop the bombing halt. The committee voted 62 to 35 against an unconditional halt, setting up a pivotal floor showdown.
Democrats end century old unit rule voting as the Rules Committee approves abolition with a 1972 effective date. Hubert Humphrey faced criticism in Texas and the South for backing the move and for allies of Eugene McCarthy. Texas delegate Tom Gordon led a bid to keep the rule for this convention, but the proposal failed. A separate freedom of conscience measure to let delegates vote their conscience was approved by voice vote.
Gov Samuel Shapiro led the Democratic National Convention Rules Committee defending limits on seconding speeches to five minutes and banning demonstrations. He urged delegates to vote their conscience as Illinois backed his proposal, defeating a Credentials motion that could trigger an extra session.
A Harris poll conducted last Saturday shows Nixon with a constant six point lead over Humphrey McCarthy and Johnson nationwide. The race features sharp racial divides with Nixon and Wallace drawing votes from those resisting rapid Negro progress while Democrats rally for faster desegregation.
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