Instant City at Du Quoin Campers Arrive for NCHA Meet
About 40 families from Centralia and Champaign Rantoul began arriving at the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds for the ninth annual National Campers and Hikers Association convention. Officials expect about 5 400 families, creating an Instant City with 24 000 people. Resources are mobilizing as vendors, exhibits, and shower facilities go in. Local business leaders warn of major economic impact for Du Quoin and surrounding towns as gas stations and services prepare for the influx. Governor Shapiro is to welcome campers.
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National Campers and Hikers Association
NCHA
Illinois
Centralia
Champaign - Rantoul
du Quoin State Fairgrounds
Warren Fowler
Aurora
Headache Hill
Fairgrounds
State Departments
Dept. of Conservation
Samuel Shapiro
Ilinois
du Quoin
Ralph Dunn
Dunn
Kenneth J. Gray
D - West
Frankfort
Young Men’s Christian Association
YMCA
Martin
Thant Holds Paris Talks With U S and North Vietnam
U Thant, in a brief Paris visit, met with the American and North Vietnamese delegations to Vietnam talks. He offered no new proposals, described the trip as educational, and said no third party mediation is planned. A North Vietnamese spokesman reported Thant urged an end to U S bombing in North Vietnam.
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New York Times
Paris
United Nations
U Thant
Vietnam
Thant
Geneva
Hanoi
Averell Harriman
Cyrus R. Vance
North Vietnam
Blaiberg May Get New Heart and Lung
Cape Town doctors consider a combined heart and lung transplant for Dr. Philip Blaiberg as his condition worsens. His wife Eileen says only a new heart can save him, with prior donor heart possibly failing after seven months. Groote Schuur Hospital notes further deterioration.
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Philip Blaiberg
Groote Schuur
Blaiberg
Eileen
Philip
Christiaan N. Barnard
Barnard
B52 raids press Saigon area amid Viet Cong buildup near city
Airstrikes hit around Saigon as Viet Cong flags reportedly appear inside the city signaling possible mid July assault. B52 missions total 83 this month to ease pressure on front lines near the DMZ with bunkers and storage areas targeted in Khanh Hoa and near Con Thien.
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Saigon
U.S
Ellsworth
Khanh Hoa
Central Highlands
Hanoi
Paris
North Vietnam
U.S. Marines
Con Thien
Demilitarized Zone
Vietnams
Pleasantly warm weekend forecast with mild temps
Partly cloudy conditions persist with little temperature change through Monday. Lows tonight expected from 60 to 65 and today’s high in the upper 80s. map on page 7 lists details.
Johnson visits San Salvador pledges regional market loans
President Johnson arrives to a cheering crowd in San Salvador where antiwar youths throw paint and eggs at his limousine. He joins five Central American leaders to back a seven nation regional market and announces $65 million in loans plus $30 million for economic integration and $35 million for national programs. Johnson cites self help and a spirit of accommodation guiding development.
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San Salvador
E. Salvador
Johnson
Secret Service
el Salvador
Nicaragua
Guatemala
Honduras
Costa Rica
Annouces
U.S
Central American Fund For Economic Integration
Justice Department launches drive to end freedom of choice in South
The Justice Department said on Saturday it began a court push to require about 159 Southern school districts to replace freedom of choice desegregation with methods yielding real integration. Ramsey Clark said the action targets Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana to mix white and Black students when school opens. The move follows a May 27 Supreme Court ruling holding freedom of choice plans unacceptable if other reasonably available methods promise faster unitary integration.
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Washington (c
New York Times
Justice Department
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Ramsey Clark
Supreme Court
High Court
South
Rend Lake Planje Complexes Vie for Area Convention Centers
Rend Lake area officials plan a 5,000 seat convention center near Whittington Point and Mt. Vernon considers a 2,500 seat combined convention community center. Rend Lake development relies on private investment and state bonds while Mt. Vernon pursues federal building grants and a downtown site.
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Bob Hagen
Southern Illinois
Reno Lake
Mt. Vernon
Joe Martin
Martin
12Th
14Th Streets
Main Streets
Fields
Goldman and Magee
Conservancy District
Rend Lake
Economic Development Administration
EDA
Greater Egypt
Richard Jones
Jones
Ray gives lawyer leads for King assassination defense
James Earl Ray handed his U S attorney names and other leads to probe his involvement in the Martin Luther King Jr assassination. Arthur J Hanes former Birmingham mayor met Ray 70 minutes in Wandsworth Prison to discuss the case.
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London
James Earl Ray
Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Arthur J. Hanes
Birmingham
Ala
Wandsworth
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Roger Hughes
The
Southern Illinoisan
Cape Town, S.A
Two Die
Los Angeles
Far East
Brandi Perry
the Bubble Machine
Jack Bone
Paula Levine
Brandi
Long Binh
Phil Pill
Curt Willis
Jeer
Central America
Asia
Africa
Middle East
San Antonio
Tex
iPresident
Justice Department Presses For Integration
Whittington Pont
Marcum Branch
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
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