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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1963
Page
5
Thieves broke into the Hisen hauer Wood Working Co in Du Quoin early Sunday, taking about $8 in change. Police Chief Wallie West said a side window was broken to gain entry. The incident was reported Sunday night.
Richard P. Lister reports after a three week British Travel Agency tour that tourist groups from the Communist bloc travel to see China. He notes bureaucracy, surveillance, and deliberate image management, yet finds Chinese people purposeful and calm amid dilapidated housing and labor-intensive farming.
Report from New York notes a new healing substance called Bio-Dyne enables shrinking hemorrhoids stopping itching and relieving pain without surgery. Trials show reductions and patient statements that piles have ceased to be a problem, with Preparation B available as suppository or ointment.
Cape Canaveral May 20 AP report details Gordon Cooper’s whirlwind tour viewing Red China and the Himalayas from his capsule. He describes re entry calm and precise flight, humor about pot roast dehydrated food, and the odd weightless sleep position with controls in reach.
President Kennedy's Boeing 707 completed a nonstop Washington to Moscow flight in 8 hours 38 minutes 42 seconds, averaging 580 mph and setting 15 records. Piloted by James B. Swindal, the trip included Glenn Seaborg and nine other U.S. officials, with the plane heading next to Cape Canaveral to collect astronaut Gordon Cooper.
Two vehicles collided on Rt 13 about four miles east of Carbondale at 1 a.m. Saturday. James Mathews Mathews 24 of Kankakee and Gary B McVey 18 of Carterville drove westbound. Mathews passed McVey, leading to the wreck. McVey and Mathews reported the accident at Carbondale police headquarters. dim Fike and John Hicks of Carterville were passengers in the McVey auto.
The Shmoky Advertising Club hosts three representatives from J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency in Chicago at 7:30 p.m. today at Tom's Restaurant north of De Soto. They are in town for Advertising Agency Day at Southern Illinois University today.
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