Editorial: Less flourish, more substance for crime hearings
The Illinois Crime Investigating Commission hearings in Springfield degenerated into invective and rumor with little proven evidence against officials. Sheriff Edward Ryan boasted of a clean town and accepted questionable gifts, while Mayor Nelson Howarth accused the director of bias. The piece urges return to substance and accountability, urging a grand jury review.
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Illinois Crime Investigating Commission
Springfield
Sangamon County
Edward Ryan
United States
Nelson Howarth
The
Crime Commission
Charles Siragusa
Siragusa
Howarth
Ryan
Supreme Court ends discrimination against illegitimate children
The court ruled that illegitimate children have basic legal rights equal to others. The decision from Louisiana addresses long standing state practices that allowed a child to be sued but denied them the right to sue.
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Union
South
Supreme Court
Louisiana
Letter on Gun Control and NRA From The Southern Illinoisan
A reader criticizes a Herblock cartoon and argues the LBJ speech and polls distort NRA impacts. The letter challenges firearm crime links, cites Vinson and Hoover on gun data, notes Casey bill support, mentions Dodd Sullivan and the Sullivan Law, and cites Orlando Florida and Highland Park gun training effects.
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NRA
Casey
Kennedy
Senate
Dodd
New York
Sullivan
American Bar Foundation
Orlando
Fla
Highland Park
Mich
NRA member disputes cartoon portraying gun debate
A life member of the National Rifle Association objects to a 23 May cartoon linking the NRA with the anti gun lobby. The letter defends NRA cooperation with Congress, protests being labeled criminals, and questions press freedom and the paper's motives. It notes editor Herblock's cartoon and mentions the right to express views.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
LBJ
National Rifle Association
NRA
Congress
Atty
Fred M. Vinson
Justice Department
Criminal Division
Carl Bakal
J. Edgar Hoover
N.R.A
Herblock
Weir
Retired Carbon dale man comments on Horseshoe Lake fish
A reader recounts fishing Horseshoe Lake fifty years ago catching bass crappie and bluegill with flyrods and giving away the catch due to poor tasting water. He criticizes the lake’s fish as inedible and urges visiting RE A lake south of Marion to compare taste and water quality.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Horseshoe Lake
Mr. Dodge
Marion
Illegitimate birth cases spark civil rights critique
A historical aging debate notes illegitimate children barred from suits by state law in Texas and elsewhere, labeling offspring as non persons. Calls mount for change as court decisions challenge birth legitimacy and advocate equal treatment in civil actions.
Book Review on Dodd exposes rise and fall on Capitol Hill
The review discusses Ralph H. Johnson's critique of James Boyd's Above the Law about Sen. Thomas J. Dodd. It outlines Dodd's alleged payroll padding, double billing, and misuse of funds, the staff betrayals, and the Senate censure of 1967 while noting Dodd's survival in politics and the broader ethics debate on Capitol Hill.
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Sen
Thomas J. Dodd
James Boyd
New American Library
New York
Ralph H. Johnson
Lindsay-Schaub
Dodd
Sen. Dodd
Connecticut
Captain Bligh
Capitol Hill
Boyd
House Public Works
John McCormack
Marjorie Carpenter
Michael O’hare
Terry Golden
U. S. Senate
Senate
America
Pearson-Anderson
White House
Washington
Hartford
Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Bobby Baker
Powell
O’hare
Senate Committee
Select Committee
Chicago
Julius Klein
Germany
Klein
Russell Long
D-La
Long
Stennis
U. S
House
Adam Clayton Powell
Congressional Quarterly
Congressional
Metromedia
Mystic
Old Saybrook
Esquire aims back to the fifties on modern media
A jumble of recalls and notes covers Esquire magazine's shift since its early years, a Robert Sherrill essay on Southern evangelists, Josiah Wedgwood's London death, 1968 and 1960s TV ads and culture, Preakness memories, Maryland songs, and a reprint of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Where Do We Go From Here.
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Esquire Magazine
Robert Sherrill
South
Illinois
Woods
Esquire
Pimlico
Maryland
Baltimore
East Shore
Churchill Downs
Kentucky
Louisville
Harold Osborne
Osborne
Martin Luther King, Jr
Harper & Row
Dr. King
Coretta Scott King
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Robert Weir Buckner
Texas
Book Review
American Political Science Association
U. S. House of Representatives
Senate Select Committee On Standards and Conduct
John Stennis
Mississippi
Khe Sanh
Dien Bien Phu
David Felts
Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Ltd
London
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