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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1968
Page
10
A 23 story East End London building suffered a catastrophic collapse described as like a deck of cards after an explosion. More than a dozen feared dead and many injured as tenants had recently moved in two months after completion. An AP Wirephoto caption accompanies the report.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson refused to resign after Labour’s worst local election defeat. He plans to stay at No 10 while Britain faces economic turmoil and a cabinet split. He warned he will not resign and faces two more years of austerity ahead of the 1971 general election.
Roanoke Va AP Norfolk and Western and Delaware and Hudson railways asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for a one month delay in including the D H in the N W The delay request was described as routine as the railroads could not complete inclusion procedures by the May 31 deadline and the ICC had not replied as of Tuesday.
Hammond Indiana woman Connie Victor received the Handicapped Mother of the Year Award from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago for a 1967 auto crash that left her paralyzed. Her third child was killed in the crash. She now works as a homemaker from a wheelchair.
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