Voters confront wide range of issues in East St. Louis mock election
East St. Louis voters will cast ballots on ten social and political referendums including Viet Nam policy, school integration, teachers strikes, summer rioting and Great Society programs. The vote also combines mayor and city commissioner races with Neighborhood Opportunity Center elections across St. Clair County. A separate presidential choice list includes ten candidates. Ruby Hawkins, 73, former Herrin resident and ex coal miner, died at Anna State Hospital after five years as a patient. service is Saturday in Herrin with burial at Oakwood Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsay-Schaub News Service
East St. Louis
Vietnam
Great Society
Neighborhood Opportunity Center Advisory Board
St. Clair County
Lyndon Johnson
Eugene McCarthy
Robert Kennedy
George Wallace
Dick Gregory
Richard Nixon
George Romney
Nelson Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
Charles Percy
Ruby Hawkins
Herrin
Anna State Hospital
Hopkinsville
James
Mary Pendley
Hawkins
United Mine Workers of America
Carolyn Walco
Marion
Marvin
Clinton
Hattie Thompkins
Butte
Mont
Elmer
George van Natta
Lester Caraway
Oakwood Cemetery
Carterville
Slaying at the Pick Congress Hotel Dominates Illinois Crime Report
Police trace several fingerprints to a room in the Pick Congress Hotel where prominent Rockford attorney Frederick H. Haye was strangled. Haye, 57, attended an Illinois Bar meeting in Chicago and checked in after a Rockford bus trip. In St Louis, a Decatur woman was killed and her daughter abducted, with suspect Leslie Galiher charged after being confronted by an off duty officer. In Macoupin County, three men were charged in copper theft tied to railroad outages. Other items list deaths and funeral notices in Du Quoin and Hillsboro areas, including Edgar R. Keepper and Minnie Lee Kunkel.
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Chicago
Frederick H. Haye
Rockford
Pick Congress
Haye
Michigan Avenue
Winnebago County
Decatur
St. Louis
Leslie Galiher
Donna Dratwick
Fred P. Baker
Galiher
Minnie Lee Kunkel
S. Mulberry St
du Quoin
Jackson County
Murphysboro
Kunkel
Franklin County
Phil
Lou Hammond Wellington
Edward Harvey
Conrad Kunkel
Harley Harvey
H. J. Harvey
Sheridan
Lyle Harvey
Macon
Ethel Thompson
Julius
Elsie) Youngber
Weather synopsis and obituaries from Grand Tower area
Colder in New England and plains Montana area with snow flurries. Warmer in Texas Oklahoma region. Temperatures page shows highs near 35 and lows around 19 to 21 with 10 am reading 34 and precip trace. Lake stage notes list Crab Orchard Lake 6 inches below spillway and others near numbers. John W Wright 79 died after long illness in Carbondale. born 1888 Pomona Township. survived by wife, daughter, four sons, 18 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at Crawshaw Mortuary with burial at Walker Hill Cemetery.
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John W. Wright
Grand Tower
Doctors Hospital
Carbondale
Pomona Township
Richard Mathew
Lydia Jane Cook Wright
Murphysboro
Lala Anglia
Wright
The
Baptist Church
Frank Cripps
Carl
Millard
Floyd
Claude
Wittenberg
Crawshaw Mortuary Chapel
Walker Hill Cemetery
Immigration ban clears Britain as royal assent granted
The Labour government bill to restrict immigration from Kenya was enacted after Queen Elizabeth II gave royal approval following House of Lords approval in an all night session. The measure caps British born abroad entrants at 1500 yearly and targets about 100000 Kenyan Indians and Pakistanis who held British citizenship at independence.
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Labor
Kenya
House of Lords
House of Commons
Britain
Grammy Awards Highlight 1967 Winners and Honors
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences named Up Up and Away the top song of 1967 with six awards. Gentle on My Mind and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band each earned four, while Ellington's Far East Suite led jazz with two wins. Classical honors were split between Berg Wozzeck and Mahler Eighth Symphony. Everett Dirksen won for spoken word Galant Men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Sgt. Pepper
Liverpool
Duke Ellington
Billy Strayhorn
Academy
Leopold Stokowski
Ellington
Stokowski
Berg
Wozzeck
Paris National Opera
Pierre Boulez
Mahler
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Leonard Bernstein
Illinois
Everett Dirksen
McNamara quits as Johnson shifts staff after long tenure
In a quiet departure McNamara leaves the Defense Department after 7 years with a brief call from the President noting his early exit. Gardner also leaves HEW quietly to chair the Urban Coalition. Farley undergoes abdominal surgery at St. Clare's Hospital and is expected to recover within a week.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
Defense Department
United States
McNamara
Robert Strange McNamara
Aspen
Colo
John Gardner
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
John W. Gardner
Gardner
HEW
Urban Coalition
Lic
Mark
Defense
Johnson
New York
James A. Farley
Democratic Party
Farley
St. Clare’s Hospital
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Carlinville (Ap
Macoupin County
Woody Neighbors
Hubert W. Brown
Kennett
Gary E. Bradford
Joe R. Davis
Blytheville, Ark
Phoenix, Ill
Willie Ellis
Wallace E. Merrick
Park District
Ellis
Arthur Hooker
Merrick
Phoenix
Hazel Crest
Weinberg Funeral Home
Fay Willey
Edgar Keepper
Edgar R. Keepper
Wendell E. Keepper
Southern Illinois University School of Agriculture
Hillsboro
Bass Funeral Home
Morrisonville
Christian County
Keepper
Montgomery County
Butler
Dean Keepper
New England
Plains
Montana
Minnesota
England
Plains States
Texas
Oklahoma
Crab Orchard Lake
Devil’s Kitchen Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Lake of Egypt
Osta
U.S. Weather Bureau
ESSA
AKX
Pacific Northwest Coast
Idaho
London
Christopher
West Frankfort
Lena Ducan Bussard
Union Hospital
James and
Mila Flowers Teffertillar
Church of God
Bussard
Vesta Furlow
Granite City
Dollie Butler
Walter
Gilbert Funeral
Stanley Joplin
Harrison Cemetery
James Farley
Queen Philip
Juliet Film
Franco Zeffirelli
Juliet
Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip
Olivia Hussey
Margaret, Snowdon
Barbados
Margaret
Lord Snowdon
West Jackson
North Market
North Washington
Salem
South Broadway
Windsor
Boe
Ing’s Ransom
Boyer Freres
France
Bourbo
Henry McKenna
Fand Made
Yellowstone
Crown of
Kentucky
Carbondale Appliance and Television Mart
S. Illinois
Westmore DR
Libby Wimberly
George Bennet
Sunnybrook
Alvert
Calvert
Charnoff
Westerfield
Galliano
DeKuyper
Creme de
Menthe
Walker
Wisconsin Beer
Wisconsin
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