Editorial on Congressional elections and California primary
The piece argues that Congressional races could outweigh the presidential contest, noting GOP gains in 1966 and cautious optimism for 1968. It highlights California’s primary as a bellwether with Rafferty and Kuchel representing liberal and conservative Republican strands amid national issues.
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House
Senate
Vietnam
California
Sen
Thomasee
Max Rafferty
Ruchel
Barry Goldwater
Ronald Reagan
George Murphy
Rafferty
Sen. Murphy
Gov. Reagan
Congress
Sen. Kuchel
Traffic Woes Prompt Carbondale Signal Calls
Linda Groves of Carbondale urges city traffic changes to ease delays and prevent wrecks. She advocates converting east town streets to one way pairs, adding signals near Rick's Holiday Inn Cousin Fred's and Family Fun, and placing a signal on Route 13 East to serve the new school and reduce pileups.
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Carbondale
Holiday Inn
Family Fun
Linda Groves
School safety concern at Springmore School crossings
A reader cites traffic hazards at Springmore School as patrols flag stopping unsafe due to cars parked on Springer Street. The writer urges the school and community to halt front curb parking or adopt alternative traffic controls to prevent possible injury to students.
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Springer Street
Bill Brandon Carbondale
Overkill in public discourse warned by Amherst professor
Amherst College English professor Benjamin DeMott says hyperbole dominates American speech across literature and politics. He cites Sontag and Welch to illustrate a culture of harsh epithets and urges officials to avoid escalating taunts as student power grows.
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America
Amherst College
Benjamin DeMott
Susan Sontag
Robert Welch
DeMott
Washington
Memory Kit staff’s 50th anniversary breakfast reunion
Marion based writer reflects on the Memory Kit yearbook staff from 1918, recalling senior editors and the class memories. He warns that budget cuts threaten the yearbook and urges students, parents, and alumni to support funding, possibly from teachers’ salaries. The column also notes Burger King’s national account and compares fast food rivals, plus nostalgic tech changes in home heating.
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Marion
Memory Kit
Boards of Education
Judged by their worst officers Police brutality is damned
Policemen defend a broad view of brutality while civil rights leaders in East St. Louis Cairo Champaign and other cities argue that brutality includes beating harassment and abuse The piece cites NAACP leaders Kerner Commission findings and incidents in Chicago and East St. Louis illustrating police excesses and reform pressures
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Dwight Connelly
Lindsay-Schaub
Illinois
Cobby
Rodriquiz
St. Clair County
East St. Louis
Cairo
Champaign
Carbondale
Peoria
Clutts
Decatur
Harold Lindston
Lindsten
National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders
Kerner Commission
Albert Reiss
Center For Research On Social Organization
University of Michigan
East
William A. Westley
NAACP
Preston Ewing
Ewing
Fire and Police Board
Roy Williams
Rodriguiz
Memphis
Chicago
Ronnie McDowell
Chicago Transit Authority
McDowell
CTA
Jay A. Miller
ACLU
Elmo Bush
Bush
Miller
Illinois Division
American Civil Liberties Union
Corporation Counsel
Commission On Civil Disorders
Jimmy Cockerall
Martin Luther King
Jimmmy
Jimmy
Gresham
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Mao
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Burger King
Miami
Pillsbury Co
McDonald’s
Burger Chef
General Foods
Ralston Purina
Hubert Humphrey
David Merrick
Dolly
Lyndon
Johnson
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