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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1966
Page
8
Mrs Elden Sumerix gave birth to a seven pound thirteen ounce daughter while napping. She was taken to Ingam County Medical Hospital with the baby reported healthy. Doctor Kaare Lovell noted such painless births are possible but unexplained.
Moscow says the Soviet Foreign Ministry bans distribution by the U.S. Embassy of a Russian language Warren Commission text on Kennedy’s assassination. The embassy and U.S. diplomats object, while Moscow cites slander and improper content related to Lee Harvey Oswald and his Moscow life.
U S Navy planes destroyed one torpedo boat and damaged another in the Gulf of Tonkin, boosting the tally to three PT boats sunk and three damaged since Monday. Aircraft also hit a surface to air missile site near Vinh and Hai Phong. A reconnaissance RF8 Crusader was lost and the pilot rescued.
Judy Lynn Funsch, 5, who endured rare heart surgery, died today at 5:30 a.m. at the University of Michigan Hospital. She had hoped to enroll in kindergarten and underwent extensive surgery last March to remove a pulmonary vein obstruction.
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