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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1965
Page
1
The piece extols June as a sweet month, longer days, and the season of graduations and brides. It contrasts June’s joys with wartime and world concerns, urging readers to savor vacations, nature, and the leisurely pace of summer, quoting poets to bless the month.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors approved a resolution backing reapportionment of state legislatures and congressional districts by population. They also endorsed President Johnson’s foreign policy. Neal S. Blaisdell of Honolulu was installed as president.
Variable cloudiness and continued warm tonight with a 25 percent chance of a thundershower. Mostly sunny and warm Thursday with highs near 90. Weather details on map page 18.
Washington June 2 The House passed a measure to extend the Coal Mine Safety Act to small operations employing under 15 workers. The bill, reported by the U S Bureau of Mines in Vincennes Indiana, would allow closing orders for dangerous small mines within six months of enactment.
Communist antiaircraft fire shoots down two U S Navy aircraft from the carrier Midway during a raid on the North Vietnamese coast near Hanoi. A rescue plan says the five American crewmen could not have survived. Three separate US losses occurred as Viet Cong ambushed near Pleiku, with 80 or more South Vietnamese dead or missing.
In Saigon on June 2, Catholic, Buddhist, Cao Dai and Hoa Hao leaders petitioned Chief of Staff Phan Khac Suu and the National Legislative Council to replace Premier Phan Quy Quat. They accuse him of failing to unite the nation against communism, establishing a dictatorial regime and drafting discriminatory religious laws.
Olney Illinois student Jack Smith, 24, secretly boarded the liner France in New York on May 27 with a visitor’s ticket to remain in France. He hid in an empty cabin for two days until crew found him and he was jailed without passport or money. He will stay in the brig until the France sails back to New York on Friday.
The GOP Policy Coordinating Committee called for a free world conference on Viet Nam with nations willing to join in fighting communism. They avoided specifics on nuclear use and on repealing Taft Hartley provisions, while urging Johnson to outline goals for a political settlement and a stable South Viet Nam with an indigenous government and regional guarantees.
The Gemini 4 mission readies for blastoff at 9 a.m. CDT. Command pilot James A. McDivitt and Lt. Edward H. White II assess a strong spacecraft and mission prospects as Kraft notes fuel and orbit decay will guide decisions after the first 24 hours.
The Illinois Crime Commission voted 5 4 to publish a report about alleged corruption in the General Assembly without naming individuals. Several members opposed the decision citing a need for accountability while a minority may prepare a separate report. The 15 page document will be released soon and will not propose ethics enforcement measures, though such steps could come later.
The Illinois Senate confirmed Ward en Ross V Randolph of Menard Penitentiary as director of the Department of Public Safety. Also approved were Francis Lorenz for Public Works, William Cowhey as state fire marshal, and James McMahon as Randolph’s assistant.
About 300 Communist demonstrators surrounded the U.S. military mission in East Germany and damaged the building in Potsdam. A flagpole was broken and U.S. flags desecrated while no one was injured. The protest followed a rally with North Vietnamese diplomats speaking nearby.
The Senate passed a bill to pump 3.325 billion dollars in federal aid over five years into economically depressed four county areas similar to Appalachia. The program emphasizes regional development with public works grants, requiring local matches, and would replace prior area redevelopment acts.
Ebony magazine reports that Edward Dwight Jr. the U S first and only Negro astronaut has been rejected by NASA for further training Dwight 31 faced racial pressure claims from his aerospace training noted by Ebony NASA spokesman said lack of selection reflects stronger candidates not disqualification The story cites Dwight’s letter about racial pressure during defense training as the reason for shelving him
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