Editorials oppose continuing arms sale ban to local police
The editorial argues against a defense amendment to resume selling surplus weapons to state and local authorities for riot control. It cautions tanks and machine guns are unsuitable for policing, cites the Kerner report, and warns of weak oversight and budget waste. It urges Senate removal of the amendment.
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Defense
Pentagon
Defense Department
Congress
House
Senate
National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders
Illinois
Otto Kerner
Roll call on fund diversion provokes Illinois lawmakers
The Illinois House passed a $60 million motor fuel tax diversion 120 to 37 with an emergency clause. Central and Southern Illinois legislators split votes, listing names of those in favor and opposed, with a few not voting. Senators for the diversion were Alan Dixon James Donnewald John Gilbert William Harris William Lyons Robert McCarthy Everett Peters Paul Simon. Opposing were Paul Broyles Tom Merritt and Delmer aoaeans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
House
Senate
John Alsup
Decatur
Clyde Choate
D-Anna
Charles Clabaugh
Edwin Dale
Champaign
Leland Kennedy
D-Alton
James Krause
East St. Louis
Ed Lehman
Edward Madigan
Lincoln
Miles Mills
D-Effingham
Harold Stedelin
D-Centralia
Roland Tipsword
D-Taylorville
Sam Vadalabene
Edwardsvile
Ben C. Blades
Fairfield
William D. Cox
Charleston
William J. Cunningham
Pinckneyville
George P. Johns
James E. Eatherly
Galatia
Gale Williams
Murphysboro
James D. Holloway
Sparta
John Lewis
Mall
Ben C. Harpstrite
New Baden
Norbert Stringer
Chester
Paul Stone
Sullivan
Lloyd Harris
Granite City
Alan Dixon
Belleville
James Donnewald
Breese
John Gilbert
Carbondale
William Harris
Pontiac
William Lyons
Gillespie
Robert McCarthy
Everett Peters
St. Joseph
Paul Simon
Troy
Paul Broyles
Mount Vernon
Tom Merritt
Hoopeston
Delmer Aoaeans
R-Johnston Ciy
Wife Depicts Huxley A Candid Portrait By Laura Archera Huxley
Laura Archera Huxley recounts Aldous Huxley’s last two decades in a memoir that blends personal letters, diary-like asides, and selections from his works. The book situates his evolution from satirist to mystic and psychedelic explorer while detailing his life with Maria and their circle near Los Angeles.
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Laura Huxley
Huxley
Mrs. Huxley
Laura Archera
Aldous
Maria Huxley
Los Angeles
Maria
Laura
Cutbacks face hard reality as government scales staff
The piece notes threats to cut postal service to four or five days a week prompting Senate to exempt the department from manpower cuts. It discusses broader risks of hiring freezes, noting Illinois plans 22 open competitive exams August 15 16 17 as a Workaround.
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U. S. Post Office Department
Senate
Department
House Post Office
House
Agriculture Department
Customs
United States
Illinois Department of Personnel
Illinois Governent
Miriam K. Ringo
Internal ferment shakes U.S. civil rights groups
Civil rights leaders report turmoil within NAACP and CORE as dissidents quit conventions over relevance to Black people. Urban League unveils a new thrust toward ghetto-focused work amid debates on white participation and black power. Leaders tied to SCLC and SNCC face jail and controversy while Black consciousness spreads in urban communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Johnson
New York Times
New York
United States
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Congress of Racial Equality
Urban League
Whitney M. Young, Jr
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Ee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Paul Hutchings
U. S
America
NAACP
Lincoln O. Lynch
CORE
Lynch
National Core
Columbus
Ohio
Whitney M. Young Jr
Young
Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC
Ures
Phil Hutchings
H. Rap Brown
Hutchings
Martin Luther King Jr
SCLC
Washington, D. C
King
Percy Greene
Militant Action
Greene
Mickey Mouse
Ronald Duck
Huey Newton
Black Panther Party
Oakland
Calif
Bobby Seale
Los Angeles
Black Congress
Watts
Carterville Promises Road Repairs Delay Reconstruction
About 500 Carterville residents gathered on May 20 1963 to press for state county funding and faster repairs of the Carterville Colp road. County officials later approved a 714 000 project with 714 financed by federal aid and local matches, but five years pass with little progress and officials cite lack of funds.
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Carterville
W. D. MacLeod
State Highway District
Colp
Hank Wright
Wright
County Board of Supervisors
State
Springfield
Marion
County to furnish right of way for road project
Williamson County highway superintendent Newton Fred Thane says the county will acquire the right of way only from the railroad north to Colp while the state handles the section south to Carterville. He notes no purchase yet due to other priorities and that the road isn’t scheduled this year. Thane mentions funds for one federal aid secondary road north of Pittsburg and that funds for another likely won’t be available for years.
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Ted
Carterville
Kupel
County Superintendent of Highways
Carterville - Corp
State Highway Department
Colp
Rosalie Hooker
James Newton
District 9
Carterville - Colp
Carterville-Colp
Newton
Fred Thane
Williamson County
Thane
Pittsburg
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Central
Southern Illinois
Lindsay-Schaub
Book Review
Nona Balakian
Laura Archera Huxley
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Aldoux Huxley
Kennedy
U.S. Post Office Department
Colp-Carterville Road
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