Thebes Lake would form if Mississippi dammed at Thebes
Southern Illinois geographers study a potential large lake created by damming the Mississippi at Thebes in Alexander County. The project would back water to St Louis and across Big Muddy and Kaskaskia, creating lake ports Carbondale and Murphysboro and possibly powering a half million kilowatts. A detailed SIU presentation is planned for late January or early February.
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Hen Gelman
Southern
Ilinois University
Illinois
Missouri
Thebes
Alexander County
Robert A. Harper
Geography Department
Theodore H. Schmudde
Frankh. Thomas
The
Geography Facult
SIU
Memphis
Tenn
Coumbia
Big Muddy
Kaskaskia
Mississippi
St. Louis
Benton
Big
Muddy
Carlyle
Carbondale
Murphysboro
Fountain Bluff
Tne
Thebes Dam
Thebes Lake
Confession Ruled Out In Slayings
Meridian Mississippi December hearing stalls as federal prosecutors fail to admit a signed confession from Horace Doyle Barnette in the killings of three civil rights workers. Judge Esther Carter blocks testimony on the alleged confession as hearsay, while 19 of 21 defendants face conspiracy charges and possible grand jury action.
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Meridian
Miss
Justice Department
FBI
Henry Rask
Atlanta
U.S
Esther Carter
Rask
Barnette
Owen
Minden
Laouisiana
Shreveport
Bossier City
Red River
Federal Courthouse
Nobel Prize Honors for King and Scientists in Oslo and Stockholm
Dr Martin Luther King Jr received the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for nonviolence to aid civil rights, with Gunnar Jahn presenting the medal. In Stockholm, Nobel prizes were awarded in physics chemistry and medicine to Townes Basov Prochorov Bloch Lynen Hodgkin, with Sartre declining the literature prize.
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Oslo
Norway
Martin Luther King Jr
Gunnar Jahn
Nobel Committee
Oslo University
Alfred Nobel
King
Olav V
Harald
Olav
Stockholm
Gustav VI Adolf
Charles H. Townes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kolay Basov
Alexander Prochorov
Townes
Konrad Bloch
Harvard University
Feodor Lynen
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Oxford University
Bloch
Lynen
Hodgkin
Jean-Paul Sartre
Guissing
Nobel
State Police Boost Sought Proposes 200 New Troopers a Year
Springfield reports State Safety Director Joseph Ragen asks the 1965 Legislature to expand the State police force from 1,200 to 1,600 over four years and grant 5 to 10 percent pay raises. He cites rising crime and highway fatalities as justification. Current minimum monthly salaries are $450 for troopers 550 for corporals 590 for sergeants and 650 for lieutenants.
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Springfield
Joseph Ragen
United Mine Workers Retain Tony Boyle
Washington reports that last spring W. A. Tony Boyle secured for the United Mine Workers union a soft coal contract he called the best made by any labor organization anywhere.
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United Mine Workers
Tony’ Boyle
Washington
W. A
Tony) Boyle
United Mine Workers Union
Closings Set for Jenkins in Baker Probe Hearings
Senate panels will question Walter Jenkins next year as part of the Bobby Baker inquiry into outside business ties. Jenkins resigned during the 1960 campaign after morals charges. Johnson asked his resignation. The committee will decide if Jenkins faces a public or closed hearing, with Jenkins’ condition guiding the timing.
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Washington
Senate
Bobby Baker
White House
Walter Jenkins
Baker
Jenkins
Johnson
Senate Rules Committee
Don B. Reynolds
Austin
Tex
Reynolds
Johnsons
Judge halts rail unions strike with 10 day restraining order
US District Judge Joseph Sam Perry ordered a 10 day restraining order blocking a Dec 15 strike by three rail shop unions representing over 53,000 workers. The order, effective Tuesday through Christmas Eve, aims to keep traffic moving on more than 90 percent of U.S. railroads while lawyers argue for a temporary injunction.
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Chicago
The
Beach
Dist
Joseph Sam Perry
Perry
Washington
Junction
Afl-Cio Railway
Shell Burst Saves Yanks in Ba Dua
Four U S Army advisers trapped in a small Ba Dua building called in air burst artillery to drive off Viet Cong. Six howitzers blasted overhead as the attack faltered, forcing a turn in the fight. Capt. Harry C. Spaulding of Seattle described the shelling from 20 feet up.
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Ba Dua
South
Viet Nam
Harry C. Spaulding
Seattle
Wash
Spaulding
Ba ‘Dua
Coed Beauty Queen Arraigned on Murder Charge
Lancaster Wisconsin December AP report states 19 year old Johnn Trey Jown admitted slayer of Platteville State University's beauty queen and was arraigned in Grant County court on first degree murder charges with bond set at none pending preliminary hearing December.
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Lancaster
Wis
Johnn Trey- Jown
Platteville State University
Grant County Court
Titan 3A Launch Pad Sent Orbit From Cape Kennedy
The Titan 3A space rocket launched from Cape Kennedy at 11 52 a m EST with the stage three firing and the upper stage placing a transtage into orbit about 115 miles up. The 124 foot booster carried a non payload dummy satellite for testing as the mission aimed to refine the launch method for future military space operations.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Globe
Cape, Kennedy
Air Force
Gulf of Mexico
Cuba
Titan 3A
Rain Forecast for Southern Illinois Slight Warmup Tonight
Rain continues over southern Illinois with a brief warming trend this evening. A change is expected late Friday with rain ending, and temperatures rising from the 40s tonight into upper 40s to low 50s by Friday.
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Illnois
Tshombe to Tell His Side at United Nations
The United Nations Security Council debates Congo hostages and rebel aid as Tshombe prepares to present his case. Guinea and Mali accuse Belgian troops and mercenaries of striking Stanleyville to hit African nationalism, while Russia attacks U.S. and Belgian actions as imperialist.
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United Nations
Stanleyville
United States
Belgium
Anea
Mali
Las Security Council
Congo
Louis Lansana Beavogul
Guinea
Mississippi
Ousman Ba
Russia
Moise Tshombe
Moscow
Tshombe
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Adlai B. Stevenson
Soviet Leader Meets Johnson in White House Talks
In Washington, December 10, the Johnson administration pressed Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to use influence to halt Communist incursions from North Viet Nam into South Viet Nam. Rusk asked for peace efforts in Southeast Asia and noted U.S. troop aims in South Viet Nam. Gromyko said talks with Johnson were cordial and disclosed no new topics beyond disarmament.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Johnson
Viet Nam
South
Andrei A. Gromyko
Dean Rusk
Gromyko
Rusk
Southeast Asia
White House
Alexei N. Kosygin
Niki Khrushchev
U.S
United States
Soviet Union
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Tlinois Area
Coed
Rip Congo
Australia
Asia
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