Editorial on Egyptian junior college plan faces voter apathy
The Carbondale vote left the lone on the ballot with fewer than 100 votes, signaling weak local backing for the Egyptian junior college district. The editorial urges including all areas, notes Carbondale High School’s opposition, and warns the new board must plan for broader regional support and timely funding to ensure the district’s success.
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Carbondale
New
Egyptian Junior College Board
Southern Illinois University
SIU
Junior College
Carbondale High School
Fuller design eyed for Carbondale city hall site
City officials weigh purchasing the Good Luck Glove Co property near city hall for 185000 pounds. Council member Randall Nelson suggests outsourcing design to Buckminster Fuller, the geodesic-dome pioneer and SIU research professor, who expresses interest in the project.
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David Keene
Good Luck Glove Co
City Hall
Carbondale
Plan Commission
Randall Nelson
R. Buckminster Fuller
Fuller
U. S
Southern Illinois University
All Catfish and People in a World of Change
The column surveys catfish as a major U S food fish and notes many are not channel cats. It recalls Tippecanoe River fishing, hobos, librarians Margaret Flint and autumn scents, plus Almanac pricing, Tribune poetry features, and Churchill biographers.
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Tippecanoe River
Indiana
Lincolniana
Springfield
Margaret Flint
Sunday
Chicago Tribune
Illinois farmers blame Johnson amid wet weather and plummeting prices
Reporter Van Wolverton visits rural Illinois towns to capture a mood of frustration with rising costs, lagging farm prices, and national issues. Farmers blame Lyndon Johnson while seeking simple answers from politics, labor, and government amid floods of corn at elevators.
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van Wolverton
Lindsay-Schaub
Knoxville
Illinois
Midwest
Harold Hill
Edgar Lee Masters
Illinois Prairie
Peoria
Illinois River
Havana
Galva
Kewanee
Clinton
Lincoln
Taylorville
America
Springfield
Washington
Delmer Appel
Appel
Johnson
Nixon
Romney
Percy
Reagan
Richard Nixon
Viet
Nam
Chicago Bears
Lyndon Johnson
LBJ Eyes Political Alamo as 1968 Bids Tighten
James Reston reports President Johnson moving toward a tighter inner circle and anti-Vietnam voting unity. White House staff solidifies around Texas roots while antiwar campaigners are urged to unify behind the president. McNamara’s sudden move to head the World Bank stirs White House concerns.
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James Reston
New York Times
Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Kennedy
Rockefeller
White House
State Department
Michigan
John Bailey
Defense McNamara
World Bank
Secre
McNamara Doubts Cloud Presidential War Strategy
The piece notes McNamara questions aspects of the Vietnam war and how his doubts contrast with Johnsons line. It discusses his cost effectiveness approach, poetic reflections, loyalty expectations, and political moves as the campaign heats up with McCarthy and Kennedy dynamics shaping the siege mentality around the White House.
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Tary
Vietnam
Johnson
McNamara
Rusk
Pentagon
Montreal
Secretary of Defense
Johnson - McNamara
William Butler Yeats
Robert McNamara
Bobby Kennedy
McCarthy
Robert Kennedy
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David Felts
Chicago
Marion
Illinois State Historical Librarian
State Historical Library
Martha Lee Masters Schmid
Trib
John Fink
Millikin University
Neal Doubleday
Shirley Temple
Charmer
Miss Marker
Damon Runyon
Adolf Menjon
Sir Winston Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill
Randolph Churchill
Winston S. Churchill
Winston
DEPT
AAA
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
William Miller
Korea
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
MacArthur
Yalu River
Galesburg
Pekin
Igalesburg
LBJ
Alamo
Bartlett
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