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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1968
Page
1
Aeroflot announces inaugural Moscow New York air service for next Monday with a four engine IL62 jet carrying 120 passengers. Flights will depart Moscow weekly via Montreal and land at Kennedy at 4 30 p m with fares set by IATA. Pan Am to begin Moscow service the same day.
Traffic deaths on US roads fell to 615 over the four day Fourth of July weekend, below the National Safety Council forecast of 700 to 800. Boating deaths were 45 and non boat drownings 180. Illinois highways reported 25 deaths.
France starts a two month series of nuclear tests on Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific. The program aims to culminate with a hydrogen bomb detonation. Japan protest follows the Sunday blast and a call to cancel the tests, which Paris is expected to ignore. The exact nature of the initial test was not disclosed.
President Johnson, on a tour of five Central American capitals, seeks a hemisphere path of new hope. Crowds greet him in Managua as he and host presidents discuss summit outcomes and future challenges, while gun control debates unfold in Washington with petitions and potential mail order bans.
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with warm temperatures. Tonight and Tuesday stay warm with a high near 90 and a low around 65 to 72. A chance of thunderstorms is noted for this evening.
U S officials aim to reach a formula by week’s end for initiating talks to curb the nuclear missiles race. William C Foster will meet with Alexei A Roshchin before the July 16 start of the 17 nation disarmament conference in Geneva.
Chicago Mayor Daley met with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers official Rogert A. Nickey to resolve a two month Illinois Bell Telephone Co strike. The outcome could decide if the International Amphitheatre remains the August convention site amid threats of a taxi strike and potential move to Miami Beach. Bell President James W. Cook warned full communications facilities must be ready by entry deadlines to admit delegates and cover coverage.
A Springfield man and his wife, both 36, were struck and killed by lightning while leaving a wooded picnic area at Lake Springfield. Mrs. Leonard Solomon of Lincoln suffered leg injuries.
U S Marines report 201 North Vietnamese killed along the eastern DMZ over four days and air strikes drop more than 5 000 tons of bombs. Regiments mass near Quang Tri and Thua Thien threaten a major northern push while a senior adviser Maj Allen Pasco is reportedly executed by Viet Cong.
New Jersey officials report insurers canceling many policies in Paterson Trenton and Newark following racial violence. A high risk pool was created by Gov Hughes to cover danger areas and New York plans a similar plan in September.
Golda Meir, former Israeli foreign minister, resigns today as Secretary-General of the United Labor party. The 70 year old widow with two children sent her resignation letter to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol.
Britain secures a 2 billion dollar, about ten year medium term credit from Western industrialized nations to avert a pound devaluation. Bank of England Governor Sir Leslie O'Brien, back from Basel talks, said signs show progress and no fear of a second devaluation. France did not join. other central banks including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, West Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U S participated.
Cape Town doctors used a new serum to reverse the worst setback since Dr. Philip Blaiberg’s January 2 transplant. His wife Eileen reported a dramatic improvement and doctors no longer plan another heart procedure. Blaiberg, 59, had faced hepatitis, double pneumonia, and signs of heart failure.
Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's Liberal Democratic party gains momentum as returns show they will surpass their 139 seat majority in the 250-member House of Councillors. Socialists gain seats amid anti U S treaty push. Komeito and other groups add to totals with several new incumbents.
Three men died when a convertible overturned several times on Interstate 74 near Champaign. The victims are driver Monty A. Pierce 23 of Mahomet, Arthur Turner 21 of Mahomet, and James Wiegel 23 of Dooley.
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