Midway Airport Faces Scrutiny and Proposals for Its Future
Eight miles from downtown Chicago Midway, once the world’s busiest airport, faces calls to convert the 640 acre site or repurpose it. Proposals favor youth centers private enterprise or a University of Illinois campus while critics warn against extending runways for jets amid O’Hare expansion.
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Mort. J. Sullivan
Chicago
UPI
Chicao
Midway
Ohare International Airport
O’hare
Charles S. Skriba
Savings and Loan Association
Skriba
Garfield Ridge
John Waner
Federal Housing Authority
Airport
University Ofllinois
Waner
Garfield Chamber
Midway Airport
John Casey
Temperature Report for June 21, 1961
The article records temperatures with a high of 90 degrees on Wednesday evening and a low of 69 degrees on Thursday morning. It notes June 21 1961 had a high of 89 degrees and a low of 62 degrees, with scattered numeric readings.
Dow Jones Averages Slip Amid Broad Decline
United Press International reports the Dow Jones averages lower in afternoon trading with drops across all major indices. The industrial average falls to 955.58 down 7.70, rails 119.47 off 1.01, utilities 106.83 down 1.26, and the total 65-stock index at 193.87 down 2.37 as sales reach 3.18 million by 2 p.m.
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United Press
Temperature Extremes Reported Across States
United Press International reports today's low of 34 degrees at Marquette County Airport Michigan and a high of 110 degrees at Needles California along with readings at Yuma and Gila Bend Arizona.
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United Press International
U. S. d Weather Bureau
Marquette County
Mich
Needles
Calif
Yuma
Gila Bend
Ariz
Simultaneous auroras and Confederate propagandist Henry Hotze
The text notes that the aurora borealis and aurora australis can appear at once. It also identifies Henry Hotze as a Swiss Confederate propagandist in England during the Civil War who founded the Index newspaper and used press channels to push Confederate material into Continental newspapers.
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Henry Hotze
England
The
Index
Estes case delays as grand jury continues fraud probe
A federal grand jury in El Paso kept investigating Billie Sol Estes despite Estes trying to halt proceedings. Estes, indicted on 57 counts of fraud, challenged Judge Thomason who denied motions to dismiss. His lawyers accused press bias from Time, Life, Newsweek, WSJ, Dallas Morning News, Saturday Evening Post and CBS.
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EL Paso
Rex
UPID
Billie Sol Estes
Agriculture King
Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Estes
Cofer
Thomason
Time
Life
Newsweek
The
Wall Street Journal
Dallas Morning Nws
Saturday Evening Post
Columbia Broadcasting System
Nine Million Households Earn Over Ten Thousand
Sales Management magazine reports nearly nine million U S families exceed ten thousand dollars in income. Scarsdale New York tops with an average household income of twenty nine thousand two hundred seventy six dollars followed by Glencoe and Winnetka suburbs of Chicago. Other cities in excess of twenty thousand include Mountain Brook Alabama San Marin California River Forest Illinois Milburn New Jersey Bronxville New York Heights Ohio and Highland Park Texas. The survey aims to locate luxury product markets.
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New York
UPI
U. S
Scarsdale
N. Y
Chicago
Glencoe
Winnetka
CWA Suspends Official Over Teamsters Conspiracy Claim
The Communications Workers of America suspended Kenneth A. Silvers, national director of the Western Electric installation bargaining unit, amid charges that he conspired with Teamsters officials to defect the 18,000-member CWA local. AFL-CIO said locals alleged secret meetings to steer the unit to the Teamsters.
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Washington
UPI
Communications Workers of America
CWA
Teamsters Union
Afl-Cio
Kenneth A. Silvers
Western Electric
Silvers
Teamsters
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