Union officials pledge to equip DNC with volunteer tech help
The Brotherhood of Electrical Workers will allow designated members to install communications gear for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Robert A. Nickey announced after talks with Chicago labor leaders and Mayor Daley that volunteers will install necessary facilities at the International Amphitheatre without personal compensation. The move does not end the ongoing strike against Illinois Bell, which will accept the offer.
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Chicago
Strinking International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Robert A. Nickey
Richard J. Daley
Illinois Bell Telephone Co
Nickey
International Amphitheatre
Illinois Bell
Phone Workers Back IBEW on Miami Job
Telephone company installation men at Southern Bell voted 39 to 28 to honor a picket line outside the Miami Beach Convention Hall. CWA Local 3107 president Gene Russo said the workers chose not to cross the line, with 28 voting against because they did not see the electrical workers as truly on strike.
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Miami Beach
Fla
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Communications Workers of America
Aflcio
Gene Russo
CWA
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Kennedy uncertainty clouds potential Humphrey ticket
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey said his choice of running mate would depend on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's wishes and views. Kennedy has not commented on the idea amid renewed speculation after a Hyannisport meeting and assassination of Robert Kennedy. Nixon taped TV appearances before resting at a Laguna Beach home.
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Associated Press
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edward M. Kennedy
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Humphrey
ABC
Robert F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
North Carolina
Richard M. Nixon
Los Angeles
Laguna Beach
Soviets Withdraw Troops From Czechoslovakia Amid Talks
The Soviet Union pulled the last of about 18 500 troops from Czechoslovakia and agreed to send its Communist party politburo to Bratislava or Josice for a conference with the Czechoslovak presidium. Moscow backed down from top level talks on its soil and set conditions for frontier stability with West Germany.
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Prague
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Cechoslovakia
Moscow
West Germany
Kremlin
Communist Party
Bratislava
Josice
Presov
Johnson appeals for restraint to curb inflation
President Johnson urged business and labor to avoid sharp wage and price increases in the coming months. He cited contracts in steel aerospace longshore coal mining airline and railroad and noted price rises around 4 percent and wage gains of 6 to 7 percent as dangerous to anti inflation efforts.
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Austin, Tex
Johnson
Police Kill Bus Bandit On Chicago South Side
A Chicago policeman fatally shot Lonnie Blackmon 30 as he and Phillip Malloy 28 robbed a CTA bus driver. Malloy was charged with armed robbery after the chase and shootout, during which the officer reported the men stole the driver’s wallet watch leather pouch with a coin changer and transfers.
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Chicago
CTA
Lonnie Blackmon
Phillip Malloy
Michael Murphy
Murphy
Chemical firm eyed for Ordill plants shrimping into Southern Illinois
Ordill industrial area near Crab Orchard Refuge draws interest from a major chemical company to use 1.4 million square feet of leased space now homes to 29 tenants. Project manager Arch Mehrhoff says the area is full and a new tenant could rival Olin Mathieson Chemical if a deal proceeds. SII pushes for an industrial resource catalog and a full time prospecting staff to aid local developers. The Greater Egypt commission calls for an information center and coordinated efforts. Mary Resheter notes visiting campers praised Du Quoin fairgrounds and Southern Illinois hosts.
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Ordill
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Arch Mehrhoff
Southern Illinois Inc
Herrin
Southern Illinois
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
Mehrhoff
Southern Illinois University
Marion
Goffrey Hughes
SII
Emphasized Experi
Ence
Orchill
Robert Carlock
Carlock
Greater Egypt
National Campers and Hikers Association
Mary Resheter
Benton
du Quoin State Fairgrounds
Robert Birwell
Little Grassy Lake
Crab Orchard Refuge
U. S. Department of Interior
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Birwell
Bureau
Minneapolis
Minn
Illinois House and Senate Approve Ghetto Insurance Plan
The Illinois legislature passed a ghetto insurance program with bi partisan support. The bills create a risk pool for fire and property damage insurance for blighted urban areas and establish an Insurance Development Fund to back the pool during emergencies.
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Richard H. Ieen Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois House
Senate
House
Illinois Insurance Development Fund
Chicago
East St. Louis
Congress
Illinois
Office bill dealt blow in Marion and Collinsville
A Senate proposal to authorize 235000 for regional office buildings in Marion and Collinsville was defeated. A House bill with the same aim has passed the House and awaits Senate action.
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Springfield
Senate
Marion
Collinsville
House
Partly cloudy with warm spell through Wednesday
Partly cloudy and continued warm through Wednesday with a slight chance of afternoon and evening thunder showers. High Wednesday in the low to mid 90s, low tonight in the 70s. Weather details on map page 14. inside sections listed.
Senate stalls bid to revoke scholarships for riots
Illinois Senate votes 36 to 3 to send a measure revoking state scholarships from students involved in unlawful disturbances at colleges. Expulsion bill for rioters loses by lack of majority. debate highlights concerns over university autonomy and constitutionality. An emergency $231000 grant funds SIU Edwardsville PE building to safeguard a $916657 federal grant.
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Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois Senate
Tom Merritt
R-Hoopeston
John Gilbert
Carbondale
Karl Benning
Beerfield
Gilbert
Benning
Legislative Courtc
Everett Laughlin
Freeport
Senate
House
Edwardsville
Southern Illinois University
Coal purchase bills falter in Illinois General Assembly
Springfield reports a long session where nine bills to allow state institutions to buy coal from out of state were defeated. The measure gained broad support from coal mining regions but failed despite persistently solid backing.
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Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois Coal
General Assembly
Illinois
Illinois Senate Backs Open Housing but Sends Key Bill to Committee
The Illinois Senate adjourned a sweltering session with the open housing bill rebuked and sent to the Registration and Miscellany Committee. Republican support for bypassing committee was noted, while a school fund transfer proposal passed 44 to 6. Bills on taxi shield, Marion Col linsville offices, and other actions were also addressed as lawmakers postponed major open housing action.
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Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois Senate
W. Russell Arrington
Senate
House
Thomas McGloon
GOP
House Public Welfare Committee
Frank Ozinga
Evergreen Park
Cecil Partee
Dchicago
Robert McCarthy
Decatur
Marion
Collinsville
Delmer Mitchell
Johnston City
Illinois House approves stop and frisk style crime curbs
The Illinois House backed similar stop and frisk legislation on a 121 to 32 vote after Senate action. Bills expand penalties for burning draft cards and flags, allow adult trials for serious juvenile crimes, require Youth Commission parole consent, and authorize city curfews during riots pending Gov. Shapiro’s signature.
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Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Senate
House of Representatives
House
Peter J. Miller
Chicago
Paul Edward
Illinois Youth Commission
Parole and Pardon Board
Samuel Shapiro
Emergency bill fate still in doubt amid stalemate
Lawmakers staged marathon sessions as Speaker Ralph T. Smith failed to muster a two thirds vote to call the emergency bill for a vote to divert major fuel tax funds. The Senate backed a similar proposal 43 to 12, with amendments delaying diversion to Oct 21 1968 and advancing repayment to June 1 1970.
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John Zakarian Lindsay-Schaub
House
Ralph T. Smith
Senate
Senate Democrats
GOP
Paul Broyles
Mount Vernon
Donald Carpentier
East Moline
Arthur Gottschalk
Flossmoor
Delmer Mitchell
Johnston City
Tom Merritt
Hoopeston
W. Russell Arrington
Tax receipt move defeated in Illinois license plate bill clash
A bill requiring a personal property tax receipt before auto license plates could be issued failed in the legislature. The measure died 65 to 83 with Chicago and Cook County lawmakers among those voting against it.
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Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Springfield
Chicago
Cook County
General Worley dies in Vietnam air mission
Maj. Gen. Robert F. Worley deputy commander of the U S 7th Air Force was shot down near Da Nang while piloting a RF4C reconnaissance plane. The second pilot ejected and was rescued. Worley had led bombing campaigns in North and South Vietnam and was to assume a new post in September. Fighting intensified in northern provinces with heavy shelling and clashes near Tam Ky 20 miles from Da Nang. Casualties included four South Vietnamese civilians and two soldiers with 17 government troops wounded.
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Saigon
Robert F. Worley
U.S
7Th Air Force
da Nang
Worley
North
South Vietnam
Pacific Air Forces
Honolulu
Tam Ky
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