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vtONROE'S END DENIES COMtoUNISTDiscipline But Donated to Front t Arthur Miller Tells House Un-s Committee. Can’t Get Passport, ng Juvenile Delinquency Movie.wright ; com-livities Com-front it—I’m thelength hen lie t. Tlie possi-gs polls lism. recall which ed: IClaim* City Attorney Lack* Authority to Try to Evict Himid sign days,wouldn 1947 nood 1lyn' 13rwriflhtMAYOR ASKS FOR DISMISSAL OF CITY SUITEISENHOWER ABLE TO WALK FROM ROOMGoes From Bed Into Corridor; Six Doctors Are ReleasedWANTS U.S. TO BUILD A LAKE AT SHELBYVILLEMayor O. It. Buford has asked the circuit court to dismiss the city council’s suit to evict him from his city hall office. « The mayor, represented by attorney Neil H. Thompson, alleges City Attorney Alvin Lacy Williams had no authority or power to bring the eviction suit.The mayor’s answer is the latest round in a dispute which broke into the open March 27.The city council on that day had a special meeting, and after a two-hour-and-45-minute session ordered Mayor O. R. Buford to move his private business office out of the city hall by May 1. charging he was in arrears op his rent. The council also adopted a motion instructing City Attor-XIMtinn.r *lt;» (aba tho rrnnprWASHINGTON UP* — President Elsenhower left his hospital room today for the first time since his operation Juno 9.White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the President walked without support about 40 feet from his hospital bed into a corridor where he sat in a chair for a while before walking back to the bed.WASHINGTON iff - President Eisenhower began his 12th day of convalescence today with fewer doctors hovering about him but with political questions buzzing on all sides.The six Army surgeons who have taken turns staying in the President’s room around the clock were relieved of that duty late Wednesday — a new indication. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said, that the chief executive’s recovery from his June 9 intestinal operation is proceeding very satisfactorily.This morning’s medical bulletin was in line with Hagerty’s summation.It said: The President had a good night's rest. His condition continues to progress satisfactorily.'’Eisenhower designated Vice President Nixon to preside—as Vtvnn ha* dnne at various timesRep. Mack Call* on Congre** To Spend $22,000,000 on Dam ProjectWASHINGTON ff — Rep. Peter F. Mack Jr. fD-Ill urged today that Congress authorize construction of a 22 million dollar lake at Shdbyville. III.The lake would be pari of a federal Hood control program for the Kaskaskia River Valley. It also would provide a water supply for Shelbyville and nearby communities.Mack made his plea in testimony prepared for a House public works subcommittee. He asked that the project be included In pending civil worics legislation.Mack said Army engineers are studying the advisability of building two Kaskaskia Valley lakes for flood control purposes, including one at Shelbyville in addition to one which congress already has authorized at Carlyle, 111.Congress authorized the 32 million dolar Carlyle lake when it approved-the Kaskaskia flood control program in 1938.However, about 15 years went by before Congress voted anv money for the lake and it still is in the planning stage. In addition to $32.00(1 previously appropriated for planning the lake. $205,000 is earmarked to complete the phase of the project in the fiscal year starting July 1.Mack suggested that Congress authorize the Shelbyville lake without waiting for a final engineers'in.viU U a mit if fHir
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Mt Vernon Register News
Mt Vernon, Illinois, US
Thu, Jun 21, 1956
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