Major measures rejected as committees step toward July floor
Illinois House committees sent most major bills to defeat during day hearings. A personal property tax license plate bill passed 17 to 2, while income tax and city sales tax increases were rejected. The gun law repeal was shelved, and a voting-age reduction measure advanced. An interstate program expansion move would extend funding and miles.
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Springfield
Illinois House Highway Committee
Illinois
John Touhy
Chicago
House Revenue Committee
Leland Rayson
Dtinley Park
Rayson
Revenue Committee
Paul Elward
Richard J. Daley
Ben Blades
House Public Works Committee
Marines prevail at Khe Sanh in major Ta battle
U S Marines artillery and air power drove North Vietnamese regulars from positions south of Khe Sanh killing 128 enemy. Eleven Marines died and 30 wounded as the conflict continued for the day. In Gia Dinh area 28 Viet Cong surrendered, totaling 178 since Tuesday morning.
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Saigon
U.S
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
McCarthy Dominates New York Presidential Delegates
U S Senator Eugene McCarthy maintained a large margin in New York's Democratic presidential delegate race as partial returns counted. Paul O'Dwyer scored a surprise Senate victory for McCarthy, edging out Eugene Nickerson. Humphrey and Kennedy factions won fewer delegates.
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Albany
N. Y
U. S
Eugene McCarthy
Kennedy
Humphrey
New York State
McCarthy
Paul O’dwyer
U. S. Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
Hubert H. Hmphrey
Senate
Paul O'Dwyer
New York City
Eugene H. Nickerson
Nassau County
Joseph Y. Resnick
Upstate
Ellenville
Johnson
O’dwyer
Minnesota
Nickerson
Resnick
Richard M. Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Queens
Nixon
Rochester
Rockefeller
Brooklyn
Emanuel Celler
House
Adam Clayton Powell
Harlem
Demonstrators Rally for Poor People's Campaign in D C
Thousands march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial amid dark skies to press for greater government action on poverty. Walter Reuther leads a large group, police estimate 27,500 to 35,000 in area as Ossie Davis cites up to 50,000 expected.
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Washington
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Resurrection City
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
John B. Layton
Ossie Davis
Senate delays vote on mail order gun ban bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed its Thursday meeting to consider a Johnson administration bill banning mail order rifle and shotgun sales. The delay followed a conflict with a Republican Platform Committee meeting led by Everett Dirksen, a top Judiciary member. The bill, seen as likely to pass, faces a broader push amid Johnson’s omnibus crime control act dispute and recent tragic events.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Republican Platform Committee
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Judiciary Committee
House Judiciary Committees
Senate Committee
Martin Luther King Jr
Robert F. Kennedy
Judiciary
White House
President Johnson
Supreme Court
Johnson
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Roman L. Hruska
Rneb
Philip A. Hart
Rend Lake approves 13.5 million in water system bonds
Rend Lake Conservancy District accepts 13.5 million in revenue bonds for the intercity water system. The Department of Housing and Urban Development funds 8.775 million at 3.75 percent, and the Economic Development Administration provides 4.383 million at 3.75 percent and 343 thousand at 4.25 percent. The 40 year plan will be financed from water sales, serving at least 32 southern Illinois communities, with first contractor payments of 3 million by late July and operation expected in 1970. The board also budgets 825,600 for 1968-69 and adds a full-time secretary-bookkeeper.
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Rend Lake Intercity
Rend Lake Conservancy District Board
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economic Development Administration
Southern Illinois
Conservancy District
Richard Jones
EDA
Jones
Muggy Fair to partly cloudy with near 90
A brief weather note describes muggy conditions through Thursday with highs around 90 and a low near 70 tonight. The issue also lists section placements for Classifieds Comics TV Bridge Crossword Editorial Family Living and Sports across pages 23 to 27 and 15-16.
Brandt Makes Surprise Visit to East Berlin Talks
West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt traveled eight hours in East Berlin and met with Soviet ambassador Pyotr Abrassimov to ease East German travel restrictions to West Berlin. The unannounced trip crossed the Berlin Wall and defied East German regulations, signaling a new Bonn Moscow contact. Brandt said there are still difficulties but offered no details of the conference.
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Willy Brandt
West Germany
East Berlin
Moscow
East Germany
Bonn
West Berlin
Brandt
Berlin Wall
Pyotr Abrassimov
Shapiro urges Illinois open housing law in July session
Gov. Samuel H. Shapiro called for a statewide open housing law to be enacted in the July legislative session. He spoke after noting the Supreme Court’s ruling that the 1866 federal anti discrimination law applies today and signaled a future crime policy package including stop and frisk provisions.
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Springfield
Samuel H. Shapiro
Illinois
Shapiro
U.S. Supreme Court
Trade charges in Paris negotiators squabble
North Vietnam and the United States traded sharp accusations in Paris as peace talks continued. Ambassador Xuan Thuy accused Washington of bad faith while Harriman countered with a defense of U.S. aims and a five point program based on the 1954 Geneva accords. Thuy said air strikes increased and targeted residential areas.
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North Vietnam
United States
Paris
Xuan Thuy
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Johnson
Harriman
Thuy
Saigon
Vietnam
North-sonh
Two Workmen Electrocuted Moving Ladder at Dam Site
Antony J. Arresi 35 of Louisville Kentucky and Loren Lee Large 19 of LaFontaine Indiana were surveying sewers at Dam 53 on the Ohio River. While holding a 30 foot aluminum ladder the tool slipped and fell onto a 7200 volt line, killing both men instantly.
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Grand Chain
Antony J. Arresi
Louisville
Loren Lee Large
LaFontaine
Ind
Dam
Ohio River
SIU mob action charges to be presented in grand jury
Seven SIU students named in mob action charges for a May 5 campus protest over inviting Stokely Carmichael will face a circuit court grand jury in Murphysboro. Indictments are to be sought against Dawson Bell Singleton Walker Hughes Thurmond and Vannahmen with another noncustodial student also charged. A separate armed robbery count targets James King and an unnamed co defendant. Perjury charges target Orgenie Lopez with earlier contempt findings. Additional indictments expected in five more cases where defendants are not in custody or on bond.
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Southern Illinois University
Circuit Court
Murphysboro
Atty
Richard Richman
Theodore Dawson
Lorenzo Bell
Edward G. Singleton
Richard Walker
Charles M. Hughes
Craig Thurmond
Patrick F. Vannahmen
Richman
SIU
Delyte Morris
Stokley Carmichael
James King
E. Oak St
Carbondale
King
William James Woodward
Oak St
Orgenie Lopex
Orgenie Gwisdon
Orgenie Sarver
Holiday Inn
Nelson Eveland
James E. Eden
Lopez
C. Ross Reynolds
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Paul Powell
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Rend Lake
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John M. Hightower
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