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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1968
Page
4
The Soviet Union said it will start mid Pacific spaceship landing tests Monday with a possible manned moon return vehicle. Tass listed tests through June 30 but provided few details while asking other nations to keep ships and planes clear of two equatorial Pacific zones where rocket elements will fall.
A Nimbus weather satellite vehicle exploded and fell into the Pacific near Vandenberg Air Force Base California. The 1,260 pound observatory carried two atomic power units designed to withstand ocean conditions and poses no hazards, per a Space Agency spokesman. A Navy ship was sent to assist possible recovery operations.
Chicago police say 32 year old Joe Henry Norman, described as a cook, was charged with murdering Charles R. Meader, 45, an Illinois Department of Public Welfare accountant. Norman was arrested at the Greyhound station after four witnesses identified him as seen with Meader on Wednesday night.
The Carbondale Railroad Relocation Authority sketches a draft report on the low mood project with basic costs around 10.614 million dollars and an additional 303,500 for relocating the Illinois Central Division Office. Other expenses include 545,500 for Wall Street retention and 573,000 for Marion Street widening as a city access route.
Marquette University's faculty asked withdrawing students to return and urged no penalties for withdrawals. The move follows two weeks of protests over institutional racism. Father Cooke and Rev McAuley planned a concelebrated mass as a show of unity, while 20 Negro students, including six basketball players, had withdrawn but 14 stayed firm.
Miss Washington Dorothy Catherine Anstett of Kirkland, a 20 year old English major at the University of Washington, won Miss USA 1968 in Miami Beach. First runner up was Miss Maryland Paulette Beck, with other finalists including Miss Nevada Kathy Landry, Miss Louisiana Kathy Herbert, and Miss New Mexico Bonnie Byan Tafoya.
Police in Chicago Ridge Illinois used chemical Mace to disperse about 50 Bell Telephone maintenance workers from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who had nails on the driveway and blocked entry to the garage. Officers twice ordered the picketers to clear the drive before deploying pepper spray to restore access.
John F Kennedy Jr aged seven fractured his left wrist after a pony fall in Morristown New Jersey. A hospital spokesman said he was brought to Morristown Memorial Hospital on Friday evening, cast before being released an hour later. The Kennedys have used a Peapack retreat as a weekend escape for two years.
Maryland Gov. Agnew declared a state of emergency in Salisbury after civil disorder erupted following the shooting of a 21 year old deaf mute. A 9 pm curfew was ordered as police reported broken windows and disturbances spreading to a predominantly Negro area. State police from the Eastern Shore were sent to assist.
Arkansas State Police says two of three skeletons unearthed at Cummins Prison Farm were not murdered inmates as a convict claimed. The 68 page report lists interviews and a pathologist's finding of no violent death, noting the remains came from a prison cemetery used into the late 1940s known as Bodiesburg or Bolicsburg.
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