Senate OKs judicial pay and ban on private payrolls
The Illinois Senate approved higher pay for state judges and a ban on serving as officers or directors of for profit companies. A grandfather clause delays the private payroll prohibition after current terms. Salaries rise to 25 000 for Downstate circuit judges and other scales for associates, lawyer magistrates, and non lawyer magistrates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Zakarian Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Senate
House
Alan Dixon
Belleville
Dixon
Democrats Trim Kerner Sales Tax Plan Cuts City Revenue
Democrats overhaul Gov. Kerner’s sales tax extension proposal cutting expected city revenue by 107.7 million over the next biennium. The plan retains the four percent city state tax while moving to a broader service tax and faces Republican resistance and constitutional questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph M. Webb
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Otto Kerner
Kerner
Senate Revenue Committee
Senate
Naval assault uncovers vast Red fortress on Vietnamese coast
U S armored forces burst into a major Viet Cong bunker complex in Quang Ngai Province after a naval bombardment that shattered bunkers and trenches. The action followed record U S casualties and heavy North Vietnamese air losses in May, with 300-plus troops sweeping the dunes and beachhead area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
U.S
North Vietnam
Quang Ngai
Russia offers India planes to shift regional balance
An authoritative source says the Soviet Union offered India at least 200 SU-7 fighter bombers adding to Moscow’s growing military aid. Observers in New Delhi and other capitals say the move could escalate the India Pakistan arms race and alter regional power dynamics as Washington and London push for limits on aid.
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Soviet Union
India
New Delhi
Rawalpindi
Kabul
Subcontinent
Pakistan
United States
Britain
Moscow
China
Asia
Periods of showers and thunderstorms through Friday
A weather advance notes scattered showers and thunderstorms likely through Friday with cool temperatures. It calls for lows in the 50s and highs in the 60s and mentions a map on page 18.
Kerner Page Renew Hope on Statewide ETV Development
State Supt. Ray Page and Gov. Otto Kerner's spokesman urged compromise on a statewide educational television network. A second meeting is set. Kerner commission support faces House opposition. Also, House passes a bill banning teacher strikes with injunctions by the attorney general in such cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph M. Webb
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Kerner
House
Page
Gene L. Hoffman
Elmhurst
Bill Outlaws Walking While Intoxicated in Illinois Highways
The Illinois House passed safety bills including a measure making it unlawful for drunken pedestrians to walk on state highways. Rep. William E. Pollack said the move tightens penalties for drunken drivers and now targets pedestrians leaving taverns. Rep. Elroy Sandquist described the aim as stopping intoxicated pedestrians from directing traffic.
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Springfield
Illinois
William E. Pollack
Chicago
Major Marcus Reno Cleared Of 87 Year Old Army Charges
An Army Board cleared Maj Marcus A Reno of 1876 charges including drunkenness brawling and taking liberties with another man’s wife, overturning a dishonorable discharge from 87 years ago. Reno died in 1889, but the ruling allows his remains to be moved to a national cemetery and supports reburial at Custer National Cemetery Montana per his great nephew’s petition.
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Marcus A. Reno
Army
Reno
Washington
National Cemetery
Col
George A. Custer
the Little Big Horn
Army Board For Correction of
Secretary of the Army
Stanley R. Resor
Army Adjutant General
Charles Reno
Custer National Cemetery
Montana
Illinois House defeats task force education funding hike
The House rejected raising state aid for elementary and secondary schools beyond the $400 per pupil level endorsed by leaders and the governor’s education task force. Rep. Scariano urged a $500 minimum for two years and $600 in 1969, arguing the extra cost would exceed current appropriations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
House
Anthony Scariano
Dpark Forest
Senate
Ray Page
Otto Kerner
Scariano
Intrepid Shadowed as Gulf of Aqaba Crisis Intensifies
U S aircraft carrier Intrepid sailed from Suez into the Red Sea shadowed by two Egyptian submarines amid protests from about 300 demonstrators. Washington says the mission is to Vietnam while Cairo accuses the ship of breaching Egypts blockade plans. Egyptian and Iraqi forces reinforce Arab unity as Britain warns against closing Aqaba, and Jordanian recruits prepare with Western arms.
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Cairo
U. S
Intrepid
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Canal Bank
Egypt
Gulf of Aqaba
Defense Department
Washington
Vietnam
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Middle East
Iraq
Kuwait
Gulf
Brown
Aden
Hermes
Far East
Nasser
Sinai Peninsula
Israel
Abdul Rahman Aref
Army doctor’s ethics ruled not a defense in Vietnam case
A military judge in Columbia ruled that medical ethics cannot excuse Capt. Howard B. Levy from disobeying orders in a general court martial. Col. Earl V. Brown outlined instructions for the 10 member panel as closing arguments approach. Levy, a battlefield physician, argued ethical beliefs could block orders in the Green Beret medics program.
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Columbia
S. C
Howard B. Levy
Vietnam
Earl V. Brown
Levy
Brown
U.S
Group backs RFK Fulbright in New Hampshire primary
A New York group, Citizens for Kennedy Fulbright, says it will enter a slate of delegates in the 1968 New Hampshire presidential primary that are favorable to Robert F. Kennedy. The delegates would commit to vote for Kennedy in the first convention ballot, then may switch. Kennedy has disavowed the effort to place him on the Johnson ballot. The group will hold a news conference in Concord to outline its supporting program for Kennedy and Fulbright.
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Concord
N.H
New York
Kennedy
Johnson
Citizens For Kennedy-Fulbright
Sen
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate OKs libel act limits damages after retractions
An Illinois Civil Libel and Slander Act cleared the Senate 41 to 4 and moves to the House. Sponsor Sen. Mitchler says the measure bars general or punitive damages when a retraction is requested and granted, with malice required and editorial opinion exempted. Opponents warn it shifts liability and helps newspapers evade accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Springfield
Illinois
Senate
House
Robert W. Mitchler
R-oswego
John W. Carroll
Illinois Sesquicentennial funds approved amid ethics dispute
The Illinois Senate approved reallocation of 87 800 and 1.4 million in new funds for the Sesquicentennial Commission despite a former member’s charge of improper spending. Sen. Sours defended the project as boosting tourism and economic development, while Sen. Horsley criticized lavish costs linked to Ralph Newman.
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Senate
Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission
Hudson R. Sours
Ameoria
Illinois
Sours
National Geographic Magazine
G. William Horsley
Springfield
Commission
Ralph Newman
Horsley
Newman
Lincoln
Sesquicentennial Commission
U S Officials Deny Plans for Any Test or Unilateral Action
Secretary of State Dean Rusk said there were no immediate plans to force Egypt's blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba or to take unilateral U S action in the Middle East crisis. He called talk of a multi nation naval force purely speculative and noted no testing plan was in place.
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United States
U. N. Security Council
Middle East
Egypt
Gulf of Aqaba
Israel
Aqaba
Gulf
Elath
Gamal Abdel Nasser
George Brown
House of Commons
Harold Wilson
Commons
Washington
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
United Nations
U.S
Eugene McCarthy
D-Minn
Baptists OK call for peace at Vietnam war debate
Fifteen thousand Southern Baptist delegates in Miami Beach approved a watered down peace statement by the Christian Life Commission. The measure urged Americans to rethink the war and avoid distorted patriotism while adding a line that U S forces should not withdraw without a just and honorable peace.
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Southern Baptist Convention
Vietnam
Christian Life Commission
The
Baptist Convention
U. S
Harold Coble
Westminister
Calif
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New York City
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Jordan
Mediterranean
RFK
Fulbright
Baptists
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