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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1963
Page
6
Washington march 5 the latest spasm of labor strikes signals worse economic jitters. The 34 day east gulf coast docks strike crippled foreign commerce costing 800 million in losses. Meany and wirtz warn reforms may be needed.
A hospital bus carrying eleven people plunged into the East River off Welfare Island after the driver, John Alberts, likely suffered a heart attack. Six are dead, with five others missing or survivors including Elizabeth Newton who clung to a survivor and Richard Haas who rescued her. The bus went underwater and was later swept out and submerged.
The Herald Tribune distributed a one page circular citing risks to publish today and refusing to join the Post in resuming publication. Five hundred thousand copies printed in Philadelphia urged that the Post accept terms or close. The paper favors bargaining or independent determination to reach a livable solution.
In Paris on March 5 AP reports 90 to 95 percent of France's 200000 coal miners refused to return to work. De Gaulle's decree drafted miners into service, with fines or prison possible. Lorraine and southern mines stayed out, power outages hit central Paris for an hour. Sympathetic strikes were urged by other unions.
Jack D. Murray of Carbondale was fined 15 dollars including costs by Police Magistrate Charles Helwig Sr for immoderate driving on a ticket issued by Russell Wingerter and James Givens.
Five railroad unions representing about 210 000 on train workers prep for new bargaining with carriers on March 13 after the Supreme Court upheld railroads right to change work rules. If no deal emerges a presidential emergency board could delay a strike and rule changes by at least 60 days.
Pakistan buys a $500000 bond from the United Nations issued to cover a budget deficit. The UN issue totals $200 million, with $139 million either purchased or pledged to date.
French officials accuse Britain's BBC of giving a platform to Georges Bidault, former premier and CNR head, who vows to topple De Gaulle. The story notes Bidault's wartime role, his treason charges in France, and ongoing trials of alleged conspirators linked to the August 1962 assassination ambush on De Gaulle and his party.
Martin LaVerne Bowen aged 19 days died at 5 30 p m Monday in St Joseph's Hospital Highland after birth illness. Survived by parents Basil M Bowen and Mrs Bowen sisters Cheryl Ann June Elaine Marilyn Rae grandparents Mr and Mrs Albert Caraker Herrin and Mr and Mrs J A Bowen Rt 1 Carterville. Funeral 2 p m Wednesday Murman and Wilson Funeral Home Johnston City Rev J E Gray Herrin Pentecostal Church officiating. Burial Hurricane Cemetery between Herrin and Carterville. Friends may call after 6 p m today at the funeral home.
Military funeral services were held Monday at Evergreen Cemetery in Chester for Omer Longin, 50, a Menard Penitentiary inmate who died Thursday. Longin was received at Menard in May 1941 from Kankakee on a commitment as an insane person.
Hartford judge fines 13 defendants including eight companies a total of 158000 for conspiring to fix prices of pipes and tubing from 1956 for five years. The defendants were convicted February 11 after pleading no contest to the charges in a federal price fixing case.
An explosion on the Mississippi River sank two barges in Hartford Illinois. One man was killed and three others were missing presumed dead while cleaning the exterior of an empty gasoline barge. Rescue efforts continued as weather and fog complicated the search.
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