Lake Michigan Pollution Seminar Scheduled in Chicago
A federal session will meet in Chicago on January 4 to review a Lake Michigan and Calumet River pollution abatement program. The Dept of HEW says this follows an enforcement action begun March 2 with Illinois Indiana and the Metropolitan Sanitary District forming a technical committee to set water quality criteria.
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Calumet River
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Prudential Building
Building Falls In Car Crash In Milwaukee
A three story brick building in Milwaukee collapsed after a car struck its corner, forcing evacuation of about forty people from the store and apartment complex. Police noted two cars collided at the intersection. one careened into the entrance. The upper floors housed apartments. the debris covered the vehicle except for the left taillight.
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Milwaukee
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Father shoots daughter in risky dare in Santa Monica
In Santa Monica California a father Eugene Van Denburgh 32 was booked on suspicion of murder after shooting his five year old daughter Elizabeth in the head while aiming at a tangerine balanced on her head in the backyard. The girl died Saturday after surgery. A witness was another five year old April Gilbreath. The father said he was crazy to try it and did not know the gun was loaded.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Elizabeth van Denburgh
Eugene
April Gilbreath
William Tell
Michael P. Landis
Landis
van Denburgh
Life sentences asked for eight Moslems plot to kill Nasser
Cairo AP reports the prosecution seeks life terms for eight Muslims accused of conspiring to assassinate President Gamal Nasser and overthrow his regime by force.
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Cairo
Gamal Nasser
Showers End Early as Colder Air Moves In
Showers and thunderstorms will end this forenoon in southern Illinois with potential heavy rain hail and strong gusty winds in the more intense storms. Clouds decrease this afternoon with clearing tonight and turning colder. Highs in the 50s and a low in the upper 30s. Mostly sunny with little temperature change Monday.
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Illinois
Officials Study Hanoi's Lastest Move
U S officials study North Vietnamese actions after Hanoi published Secretary of State Rusk's May message about a pause in bombing. Hanoi calls the U S peace probes deceitful and insists on Pham Van Dong four points as the basis for negotiations. Johnson signals renewed search for peace ahead of possible further steps.
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Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
Hanoi
Pham van Don
United States
Robert J. McCloskey
State Department
Rusk
Johnson
Austin
Tex
Afl-Cio
San Francisco
Hanoi- Haiphong
Kidnaper Frees Family After 280 Mile Drive in California
An unidentified kidnapper released a Dusharme family of four after forcing them at gunpoint to drive 280 miles from Castroville through Oakland to a Ranger station near Fort Ross and back to San Francisco. Wen dell Dusharme, 47, suffered head injuries. the family was later reunited at a police station.
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San Francisco
Oakland
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Here
Wendell Dusharme
Dusharme
Castroville
Dirk
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Cazadero Ranger Station
Fort Ross
Mission District
Marines Press Viet Cong in Valley South of Da Nang
Fresh U.S. Marines pour from helicopters into a blood stained valley near Da Nang to trap a Viet Cong regiment. Casualties on the Viet Cong side total 42, with additional enemy actions and air strikes reported elsewhere as operations continue near Hue and in the Mekong delta.
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Peter Arnett
Associated Press
Saigon
da Nang
Mekong
U.S
Hue
Imperial
Viet Nam
North
Kitty Hawk
Candidates on TV in France run-off campaign
In France the Dec 19 presidential run-off pits Gen. Charles de Gaulle against Francois Mitterrand. Both spoke on national television with De Gaulle defending his seven year regime and Mitterrand challenging him and linking with Communist and socialist supporters.
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Francois Mitterrand
de Gaulle
Queen Elizabeth Gets 2.8 Million Dollar Refurbishment
The 83,650 ton liner Queen Elizabeth, aged 25, began a four month drydock facelift costing 2.8 million dollars. Two thousand five hundred workers will upgrade passenger accommodations to match modern ships aboard the world’s largest liner.
Maugham Near Death in France After Severe Illness
W. Somerset Maugham, 91, lies in a coma at a Nice hospital with three doctors reporting a grave vascular neurological condition likely to cause death within days. The novelist and playwright, famous for Moon and Sixpence and Of Human Bondage, has long traveled for material but has reduced activity in recent years.
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W. Somerset Maugham
Marcel Guiran
Maugham
Mediterranean
Anti Birth Bill Studied in Salt Lake City
A new one a day birth control pill that may become a yearly injection blocks egg and sperm meeting rather than ovulation. Researchers say it could be cheaper and easier to use with no required pre or post menstruation timing. Dr Harry Rudel notes it could aid population control in underdeveloped nations. not yet commercial.
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Harry Rudel
Britons to Visit Zambia on Commonwealth Mission
The Commonwealth Relations Office said Cledwyn Hughes and Maurice Foley will travel to Zambia on Wednesday. Hughes is minister of state for Commonwealth relations and Foley is parliamentary secretary to the Department of Economic Affairs.
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London
Commonwealth Relations Office
Cledwyn Hughes
Commonwealth Relations
Maurice Foley
Department of Economic Affairs
Zambia
Gemini 7 Logs 3,000,000 Miles in Space Chase
Gemini 7 has logged over 3 million miles in space as the two crews prepare for a 103,000 mile rendezvous with Gemini 6. The day features church services beamed from Chicago, laser communications tests, and hopes to set a new world duration record.
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Houston
Tex
A.P
N.Y
U.S
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
Gemini 6
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Borman
Lovell
L. Gordon Cooper
Charles P. Conrad Jr
Fire Destroyed 16 Automobiles At Local Dealership
In Libertyville Illinois sixtee n automobiles eight of them new were destroyed Friday night in explosions and fire at Gustafson Motors Rambler Pontiac service area. No injuries occurred. Owner Percy Gustafson estimated damage at 500000 while Fire Chief Harry McDonald put it at 250000. Initial blast may have been caused by gas and later explosions possibly in fuel tanks. A replica of a 1902 Rambler survived. Gustafson Motors sits at the junction of Illinois 176 and Illinois 21.
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Libertyville
Percy Gustafon
Gustafson Motors, Inc
Harry McDonald
McDonald
Gustafson Motors
Illinois 176
Illinois 21
House Fire Kills Bay Boy in East Peoria Home
A seven year old boy, Jerry Hulmquist, died in a house fire in East Peoria Illinois Friday night. Firemen extinguished the blaze and found him on the second floor. His widow mother Dorothy Hulmquist escaped safely after waking to the fire and hearing her son say he could not come down.
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East Peoria, Ill
East Peoria
Jerry Hulmquist
Dorothy Hulmquist
New Christmas Toys Highlight Area Prep Basketball
The Southern Ilinoisan previews this year’s Christmas toy selections and profiles local sports coverage including Herrin, Jayland aiding Santa, and 21 area prep basketball results. SIU basketball team win noted with broader Marion business context in the issue.
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Herrin Jayland
SIU
Marion
Virgil Bowman
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