Integration report urges prompt school board action
The Carbondale District 95 board should implement the Advisory Committee on Integration’s recommendations to improve equal education. The committee led by Harold Dycus finds Negro students trail white peers academically, notes studies favor black students in white schools, and proposes 1968 69 steps including formal guidelines, sensitivity training, staff integration, and expanded black history teaching with full elementary integration planned for 1969 70.
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Carbondale
District 95
Board of Education
Harold Dycus
Dycus
John Francisco
Leland Stauber
Milton Edelman
John C. Feirich
David Rendleman
Edward O’day
Walter Moore
Donald Darling
Czechoslovakia Rebuffs Soviet Pressure and U.S. Silent Reflection
The piece argues Hungary’s 1956 crisis and Czech 1968 pressures reveal long standing distrust, noting Washington’s limited aid and moral stance. It urges prudence, economic ties, and nonmilitary support, trusting Czechs to shape their own fate amid Soviet domination.
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Czechoslovakia
Europe
Reston
Britain
France
Soviet Union
United States
John Foster Dulles
Anthony Eden
Washington
U. S
Prague
Hanoi
Moscow
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Moscow misjudge cited as Czech affair draws criticism
In Bucharest observers say Moscow bungled its Czech intervention and split world communism. Rumanians note Prague gains unity behind Dubcek while Western and non Soviet parties show sympathy, challenging Moscow ahead of a world congress.
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Harry Schwartz
New York Times
Bucharest
Romania
Moscow
Czechoslovakia
Kremlin
Prague
Budapest
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Cechoslovakia
Alexander Dubcek
Dubcek
United States
Vietnam
Soviet Union
Soviet Pressure on Czechoslovakia Grows
James Reston argues the Soviet Union brutalized Czechs and tried to bully for liberty while ignoring American intervention claims. He warns that the crisis endangers the East–West balance and Washington must respond carefully to defend sovereignty without direct military action.
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Washington
James Reston
New York Times
New York
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Red Army
Lincoln and Davis linked by Senate seats and court caravan
The piece recalls Abraham Lincoln and David Davis as close friends on the Eighth Illinois Judicial Circuit sharing lodgings and bed space at times while traveling by horse and buggy. It contrasts the old circuit days with modern air conditioning and reflects on U S foreign policy amid Prague crisis and Vietnam tensions.
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Abraham Lincoln
U.S. Supreme Court
Eighth Illinois Judicial Circuit
David Davis
Bloomington
Lincoln
Rinehart
John J. Duff
New York
Linder
Farner defends tax delinquent collection costs
Williamson County Sheriff Tax Collector Harold Farner says his office spent under $3,000 to collect delinquent taxes from December 1 to May 31 and that most penalties and costs stayed with the county. He notes only about $3,600 went to the sheriff’s excess fee fund, and that using a collection agency would not save county money.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
Harold Farner
Williamson County
Illnoisan
Farner
Route 13 modernization must drive election campaigns in Illinois districts
Russell W. Rose of Harrisburg urges voters in Williamson Saline Gallatin Pope and Hardin counties to prioritize completion of Route 13 from Marion to Shawneetown. He accuses politicians of misusing highway funds and demands a swift renewal to improve access to I 57 SIU Carbondale and St Louis services, warning that poor advocacy means political defeat.
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Southern Ilinoisan
Marion
Shawneetown
Illinois
Williamson
Saline
Gallatin
Pope
Hardin
Southern I Illinois University
Carbondale
St. Louis
Cook County
Route 13
Russell W. Rose
Harrisburg
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Lake Creek
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Lyndon Johnson
Community of Nations
Johnson
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Honolulu
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