Sangamon County crime probe opens hearings
Springfield based report by Richard Icen Lindsay-Schaub News Service covers the Illinois Crime Commission public hearings in Sangamon County. Sheriff Ed Ryan testifies about a solid gold badge from a gambler and a $100 donation from Merle Hornstein while denying campaign contributions from gamblers. He also addresses payroll padding rumors, prostitution scope, and sheriff’s office fee transfers.
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Richard Icen Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois Crime” Commission
Sangamon County
Ed Ryan
Commission
Charles Siragusa
Ryan
Merle Hornstein
Springfield Area
Eight drown in capsizing at Wells Beach Maine
Coast Guard recovered six bodies after a 16 foot boat capsized in high winds off Wells Beach Maine. Only one of nine Springfield area men and boys survived. two more were missing and presumed drowned. Eight victims belonged to two families. a ninth was a friend.
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Wells Beach
Maine
Springfield
Mass
Coast Guard
al Friend
Weather Outlook for Cool Cool Tonight and Tuesday
The forecast calls for a cool night with temperatures around 45 to 52 degrees. Tuesday should be partly sunny and slightly warmer with highs in the 70s. Weather details and a map appear on page 10 inside, alongside the classifieds and sections such as Comics, TV, Bridge, Crossword, Editorials, Family Living, Farm, and Sports.
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Family Living
French Wage Pact Ends One Day Strike Faces Worker Backlash
Paris unions along with management and the government reached a wage agreement to end France’s one day strike. Paris Lyon Marseilles and Nantes factories rejected the settlement while widespread electricity cuts occurred. The accord raises minimum hourly pay to 3 francs for 450,000 workers, boosts industrial wages 7 percent June 1 and 8 percent October 1, trims the work week to 40 hours, and reviews retirement age demands.
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Paris
Lyon
Marseilles
Nantes
Gas and Electricity Company
Seguy
Georges
Pomnidow
de Gaulle
Prance
Enders
Woman fires shot at wedding turns deadly in Houston
At a candlelit Houston church wedding more than 200 guests watched as a woman, Rita Usher, former wife of the groom, stood and shouted that the couple were not married. Three shots from a .22 cal pistol killed Lester Anderson, 22, best man. Police charged Usher with murder. the minister recalled blocking fire. Attendants and relatives described preplanned objections to the marriage.
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Lester Anderson
Lorena Mae
Rita Usher
Clarence Stewart Jr
Edward L. Usher
Woodlawn Cemetery Decoration Day first observed 1866 Carbondale
The Carbondale community marked Memorial Day on April 29, 1866 at Woodlawn Cemetery with a parade, prayer, talks, and graveside honors. General John Logan issued Order No. 11 in 1868 designating May 30 for Decoration Day. The observance linked to local figures, a barber cue, bread and hog barbecue, and a communal effort to honor Civil War veterans.
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Woodlawn Cemetery
Carbondale
James Green
Woodlawn
John Alexander Lo-' Gan
Murphysboro
Lo- Gan
Crab Orchard
Carbondale — Methodist Church
Daniel H Brush
Brush School
U.S. Post Office
Dillinger
John Borger
Logan
Supreme Court upholds draft card burning ban
The Supreme Court 7-1 upheld the 1965 law criminalizing burning or destroying draft cards. Chief Justice Warren wrote the opinion, rejecting the Boston circuit court ruling that draft card burning could be protected as free speech. David P. O'Brien of Farmingham, Mass., was the defendant in the case, sentenced for March 1966 actions. The decision cites Congress power to raise armies and to pass necessary laws as the basis for regulation. Justice Douglas dissented. Justice Marshall did not participate.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hart
Warren
William C. Douglas
Thurgood Marshall
U. S. Circuit Court
Boston
Congress
Douglas
David P. O’brien
Farmingham
Mass
South Boston
U.S. Circuit Court
O'Brien
Circuit
U S and North Vietnam Clash Over Peace Talks
U S Ambassador Harriman accused North Vietnam of distorted casualty figures as talks in Paris falter over bombing. Thuy's 5400 word statement questioned when bombing would end. Harriman denied the purpose of meetings was to set a bombing cessation date. He cited over 200,000 Northern troops in the South and high casualties.
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North Vietnam
Paris
United States
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Xuan Thuy
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Harriman
Lyon
U.S
South Vietnam
Airmen report Soviet antiaircraft guns destroyed
U S forces reported destroying or damaging 16 Soviet made long range anti aircraft guns north of the demilitarized zone as weekend fighting raged from Saigon outskirts to the DMZ. Allied forces said over 1 000 enemy troops were killed while American casualties reached 54 killed and 192 wounded amid renewed clashes in Dong Ha and the central highlands. North Vietnamese forces reportedly massed up to 20 000 troops in the central highlands in a possible bid to sever South Vietnam.
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Pang On
Demilitarized
Sone
U. S
Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Hanoi
Paris
Dong Ha
Central Highlands
South Vietnam
Coed slain on campus at University of Wisconsin
Madison authorities joined city county and state investigators into the death of Christine Roths child an 18 year old Chicago sophomore whose stabbed body was found Sunday night by a male student. A doctor said she may have been killed Saturday.Christine Rothschilds daughter of Emanuel and Mrs Rothschild of Chicago was identified as the victim.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Carbondale Plans Memorial Day Parade and Sesquicentennial Events
Carbondale will host a Memorial Day parade from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. featuring Westphalian stallions, the Black Knights Drum and Bugle Corps, marching bands, floats, and Boy and Girl Scout units. Rear Adm. J W Kelly will speak at Woodlawn Cemetery after a 12:30 p.m. luncheon with Arthur Godfrey as principal speaker. The day also includes the play Make Her Wilderness Like Eden and a MM star flag presentation.
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Bonita ‘Troute
Carbondale
Memorial Day Association
Sesquicentennial Commission
Carbondale’ Community High School Central
Rué Gene Starr
Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission
Black ‘Knights
Belleville
Ang
Tllinois ‘Istory
Southern Illinois University
Arthur Godfrey
University
Tinois
Eden
Communications
Anni Ely Sary
John A. Logan
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Labor Confederation
Renault
Renault Automobile Works
Citroen
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Seguy
General Confederation of Workers
Houston
John Logan
J. W. Jane
Ingersall
Dilengers Boys
John Borgher
Maren
Branson
Russel
Ilinois
Egypt
Kentucky
Tennessee
Benjamin Franklin Sheatham
Little
Boston Court
Cates
Toliday
Illustraton Ag
Tower Federal
New Kent County
Jackson, Tenn
Gould, Ark
William J. Brennan Jr
John M. Hightower
Associated Press
L.s
Carbondale Memorial Day
W. Kelly
Navy Chaplaina
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