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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1968
Page
16
Actor Gary Merrill finished last on the Republican ballot in Maine's 1st District congressional primary. Incumbent Rep. Peter Kyros won the Republican nomination for a November race, with Horace Hildreth Jr. defeating Merrill by about 2 to 1.
In St Louis two men in a stolen car robbed the Gateway National Bank drive in window taking about seven thousand nine hundred dollars. Police said the suspects passed a note demanding cash and warned of accomplices behind the teller. Auditors later raised the loss to the seven thousand nine hundred ninety one dollars indicating the higher figure.
About 1,000 longshoremen refused to report for work at Calumet Harbor Terminal after IBEW picket lines formed to protest alleged use of non union workers by Illinois Bell Telephone Co. A temporary injunction from Judge Laverne A. Dixon barred illegal picketing and damage to property, with June 26 set for further hearings.
President Theodore Roosevelt faced a double bereavement on February 4 1884 when his mother died of typhoid fever and his wife Alice passed away from Bright's disease leaving the future leader to cope with a family loss while serving in New York's assembly.
Weather outlook covers a wide swath from the central Plains through the central Mississippi Valley to the Great Lakes with rain likely tonight. Monday highs reach 83 and a low of 70 with 55 overnight. 10 am temperature about 77. No rainfall expected from 7 am Monday to 7 am today. Sierra Nevada showers noted. Sunset 8:49 pm. sunrise Wednesday 5:13 am. Lake stage readings show Crab Orchard Lake 2 inches above spillway, Little Grassy Lake 2 inches below spillway, Devil's Kitchen Lake at spillway, Lake of Egypt.
Police and FBI agents surrounded a brief anti-draft protest on Capitol Hill outside the Supreme Court building. Two people were arrested during a scuffle as officers used night sticks to break up the demonstration. Francis Thomas Femin, 20, of Holden West Virginia, was seized by the FBI for failing to report for induction last January. Joann P. Paine, SIU assistant professor, attends a summer math applications institute at Virginia Tech through July 31.
Crainville will hold a public hearing June 27 at 7 30 p m in the Crainville school lunch room on a proposed comprehensive plan guiding future land development. The plan, prepared with the Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission, focuses on street and facility improvements, parks, and keeping growth along existing utilities.
London AP reports Frederick West 45 died after a heart transplant his 45th day with the organ from an Irish laborer West who died of an overwhelming infection had been walking after the May 3 operation and developed kidney and chest infections.
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