Newark calm guardsmen withdraw amid riot aftermath
National Guardsmen and state troopers began retreating from Newark as Gov. Hughes announced the five days of rioting and looting were over. Officials intensified building to building searches for snipers while residents cleaned up and awaited a return to normalcy after deaths, injuries, arrests, and millions in damages.
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Newark
N. J
Richard J Hughes
National Guardsmen
New Jersey
Plainfield
Jersey City
East Orange
Richard J. Hughes
Los Angeles
Watts
Hughes
B52s Strike Five Red Concentrations in Vietnam Offensive
Giant B52 Strato forts dropped close to one million pounds of bombs on five major Communist areas from the Mekong Delta to near the DMZ. Air war cost two U S planes with pilots rescued. one Navy Skyhawk lost between Hanoi and Thanh Hoa and one Air Force F100 downed in War Zone C near the Cambodian border.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Demilitarized Zone
Central Highlands
North
U. S
Hanoi
Thanh Hoa
North Vietnam
Union walkout ties up rails across Southern Illinois
A nationwide railroad strike disrupts lines in Southern Illinois with Illinois Central Gulf Missouri Pacific and other routes shut or run by nonunion staff. Mail service slows and coal mines may close, affecting industries from Olin Mathieson in Ordill to Norge Borg-Warner shipments.
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Illinois
Southern Illinois
Illinois Central
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
Missouri Pacific
Chicago
Burlington and Quincy
Missouri Pacific Railroad Co
Murpysboro
Murphysboro
Illinois Central Railroad
GM & O
Marion
Chicago and
Eastern Illinois
Herrin
CB & O
Roundhouse
Carbondale
Orient 5
Orient
Herrin- Ordill
Virgil L. Laine
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
Ordill
L. W. Braniff
U.S. Powder Co
Afgaret Sanders
Allen Industries, Inc
Vic Reback
Dura-Container Corp
Charles Hardcasstle
Pete Winsavage
Norge Division
Borg- Warner Corp
Herrin Apparel
Margaret Sanders
Rail strike disrupts trains to Carbondale and St Louis
Train services in Carbondale are impacted as freight and passenger routes face cancellations. The southbound Campus from Chicago to Carbondale completed its run. northbound No 28 was canceled along with the City of New Orleans and other St Louis area trains. Pickets from the International Association of Machinists appeared at Carbondale as Congress moves toward rail labor settlement.
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St. Louis
Carbondale
Miami
Chicago
New Orleans
Nationwide rail strike cripples transport and war logistics
The 20 year high rail walkout by 137000 shop craft workers shut down 30 railroads nearly nationwide and forces commuters to roads or hotels. McNamara calls the disruption to arm shipments to Vietnam immediate while officials warn of chaos and seek urgent congressional action.
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Associated Press
Vietnam
Senate
House
New England
South
New York City
Chicago
Philadelphia
Robert S. McNamara
Alan S. Boyd
Lawrence O’brien
Cairo violence follows soldier’s jail death and gas line bombing
Gasoline bombs set fires at a bulk station and several retail sites in Cairo Illinois. A soldier Robert Hunt Jr 19 was found hanged in jail amid rioting claims from NAACP leaders that police mistreated Black residents. Police and state troopers patrolled the city after nighttime unrest and no arrests were reported.
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Cairo
Ill
Illinois
Ross Randolph
William Morris
Preston E. Ewing
The
NAACP
Ewing
Robert Hunt Jr
Ft. Bragg
N. C
Leo Siers
Hunt
Missouri Pacific
Two Rivers Oil Co
Rink
W. E. Audt
Pine St
Rink’s Grocery
Cairo City
Pulaski County
Wycliffe
Alexander County
Chesley Willis
Cairo 1
Freshman Senator Praises 75th General Assembly
Illinois Senator Delmer Mitchell, R Johnston City, hails the 75th General Assembly as hard working and underrated. He cites passage of an Industrial Development Bill with a $1 million revolving fund, the elimination of a $30,000 death liability limit, gains in education and mental health, and opposition to heavy tax hikes. He notes pay, highway, and constitutional issues shaping future session debates.
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General Assembly
Mitchell
Jerry Grotto
Southern Illinoisan
75Th General Assembly
Delmer Mitchell
R-Johnston City
Capitol Building
Thomas McGloon
Illinois
Senate
W. Russell Arrington
Highway Study Commission
William Grindle
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Harley O. Staggers
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Randolph
Springfield
Clyde Choate
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