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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1968
Page
4
Vice President Hubert Humphrey meets Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa after a longer than planned talk, as a student crowd on the Ethiopian University campus stages an effigy of President Johnson. A tiger image caption notes a tiger snarling beside Humphrey during the palace visit.
Greek Orthodox worshipers crowded the Church of the Nativity for midnight mass led by Benedictos of Jerusalem. Gen. Uzi Narkiss and Greek officials attended alongside Arab dignitaries and other Christian groups. Curfew in the West Bank was lifted as Bethlehem opened to all, unlike last month’s Christian-only entry during Protestant and Roman Catholic celebrations.
Karl R Natho 70 of 1024 George St Chester died Friday at Memorial Hospital after five days illness. An agricultural consultant and 19 year board member of Illinois State Sail Conservation Association he was cited in August 1987 for outstanding services to agriculture. Born November 11 1897 in Danville he was survived by wife Dorothy Herschbach daughters Dorothy Keagle and Virginia Natho and one grandchild. Funeral 2 0 p m Welge Funeral Home Chester Rev Ivan B Clayton Rev Eric Cash officiating burial St John Lutheran Cemetery. Turkey eggs dirty water with reddish spots.
Acacia trees comprise about 500 native species in tropical and subtropical regions. Indian acacia produces a valuable medicine called eatechu, noted for its traditional use.
Humphrey postponed his campus visit at Addis Ababa after a large student demonstration demanding U.S. aid cuts and Vietnamese withdrawal. Protesters on Ethiopian University campus hung in effigy President Johnson, quoted angrily at delays and accusing the United States of bloodshed, while signs targeted U.S. policy and the CIA.
Fire calls reported in Carbondale Benton Marion Sparta and nearby towns on Friday and Saturday. Incidents included a trash truck fire near the city dump a straw trailer fire near Pirate's Cave a house fire on Center Street and a furnace fire at 409 Buchanan Street with minor damage and an overflow of barns and calves at a Carl Uchtmann farm fire. Local crews from Sparta Chester and Steeleville responded to contain spread and save a neighboring dwelling.
Two drivers and a farm equipment operator were hurt in separate rural crashes near Pinckneyville and Nashville. Glynn Shubert, 34, Nashville, suffered minor injuries in a three vehicle wreck west of Nashville involving a car driven by Hardel Mittendorf, 48, Addieville, and a farm combine. Mittendorf brothers were unhurt. In another wreck northwest of Pinckneyville, Sylvia Wright, 18, Pinckneyville, escaped injury while Richard Bruno, 17, Pinckneyville, received minor injuries. Wright was not hurt. Also noted, Jules Feiffer and David Dellinger attended Cuba’s international cultural congress with about 400 delegates, as five commissions conducted sessions. Cuban Education Minister Jose Llanusa was named president of the meeting.
A Missouri man, Kenneth E. Forbes, 48, of Ste. Genevieve, died when his car left Rt. 4 and hit a concrete culvert five miles south of Sparta. Investigation considers possible heart failure. coroner's report pending. Another crash on Sparta Country Club road injured one occupant. no other serious injuries reported. Police note additional Red Bud incidents and a historical reference to the siren’s invention by Seebeck.
Administration outlines a plan to end the dollar drain by discouraging travel abroad rather than imposing bans. A tourist tax and cuts on overseas trips, especially to Western Europe, are likely as part of a broader austerity push described by officials.
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