Forest Park council splits on eight vs sixteen acre school site
Forest Park residents voiced disappointment as the council backed eight acres for a new school site, not the proposed sixteen. The meeting also debated the city manager salary, with Wade and others arguing over pay while letters from residents and officials prompted further requests for bus service and civic improvements.
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Forest Park
City Planning
Nicholas Wade
Edward Wavre
Wavre
Wade
Wavro
K.D
Pershing Blvd
39Th Ave
Richard H. Ter
Vernon Christensen
Council
Forest Park Area
65Th St
51St Ave
Roosevelt School
Racine
Dulles Calls for Bipartisan Foreign Policy Council
John Foster Dulles urged a cross party approach to foreign policy after the November elections. He proposed forming a high level council to coordinate long range planning against communism.
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San Francisco
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower Campaigns in Minnesota and Illinois Crowd Backs Candidate
General Eisenhower toured Minnesota and Illinois on a whistle stop, urging a consistent farm program and attacking Democratic price controls. He drew crowds of 2,000 to 3,000 at Albert Lea and Owatonna, and 2,500 at Notre Dame, where he spoke to incoming freshmen and met coach Frank Leahy.
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KKE
LaPorte
Ind
Dwight D. Eisenhower
GOP
Indiana
Illinois
Minnesota
Albert Lea
Ilinois
Eisenhower
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
Agriculture Department
Owatonna
Julius Start
Bob Hope
Adlai E. Stevenson
Sen
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Chicago
Joliet
Wheaton
Aurora
Ottawa
South Bend
University of Notre Dame
Frank Leahy
Notre Dame
Kohler Flies to St. Paul for Ike Conference
Gov. Kohler flew to St. Paul to confer with Republican presidential nominee Dwight Eisenhower. He was asked to make the trip by Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Eisenhower’s campaign adviser, to discuss campaign plans.
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Madison
Kohler
St. Paul
Dwight Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
New Hampshire
Eisenhower
Radio-TV industry disavows bad taste before Congress
Industry spokesmen told a House Interstate Subcommittee that programs aim for clean living and moral standards not hootchy kootchy content. Leaders from NAB, ABC, MBS, and Dumont testified as Seavey of MBS outlined efforts to keep objectionable material off the air and ensure crime shows follow the code that crime does not pay.
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Washington
Radio
Congressional
House
Hollis M. Seavey
MBS
Seavey
Adlai Trains His Big Guns On Sen Taft
Springfield Ill Gov Adlai E Stevenson mobilizes a political road show to portray Sen Robert A Taft as the election campaign villain and Dwight D Eisenhower as Tafts surrender victim. He plans a tour into Connecticut Massachusetts New York Virginia and Maryland to cast Taft as taking over Eisenhowers campaign and reducing foreign policy differences. Stevenson aims to win independents and lure Republican progressives away from Eisenhower while keeping his critique of Taft strong.
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Springfield
Ill
WPR
Adlai E. Stevenson
Robert A. Taft
R-O
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Eisenhower
Sevenson
Stevenson
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York
Virginia
Maryland
East
Illinois
Sherman Adams
New Hampshire
Watts Captures Rep Nomination Against Fogarty
Providence attorney James O. Watts won the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent John Fogarty, who ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination in November.
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Providence
R. I
James O. Watts
Narragansett
John Fogarty
End Building Regulations Relax Mortgage Down Payments
Washington reports removal of emergency controls on real estate credit. Veterans move can buy VA homes with as little as five percent down and no down payment on $7,000 or less, while non veterans face FHA down payments from five to 20 percent with a $14,000 mortgage ceiling. The action aims to spur home purchases, especially for veterans, amid lower housing starts.
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Washington
U.P
Federal Reserve Board
Articulture Department
Federal Housing Administration
Veterans Administration
Ciaries
FHA
Typhoon Strikes Wake Island Leaves Island Destroyed
Wake Island residents huddle as a 138 mile per hour typhoon devastates the atol. Navy says 90 percent of facilities destroyed and all communications down for eight hours. Evacuation planned as runways damaged and Pan American facilities destroyed.
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Wake Island
U.P
mid-Pacific
Navy
Digs Into 1946 Files On Kansas City Vote
Rep Claude Bakewell digs through justice department files on the 1946 Kansas City vote frauds. He says no new findings yet and has only scratched the surface in seeking evidence about possible FBI investigation sabotage.
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Kansas City
Washington
U.P
Claude S. Bakewell
Justice Department
Missouri Republican
House
FBI
Weather Dips Near Freezing in Wisconsin Firmer Cold Hints Ahead
The thermometer fell to 34 degrees at Grantsburg, two degrees above freezing, while Kenosha saw 50. Sewage Treatment plant records note 67 tomorrow, 72 downtown, with forecasters promising more fall air tonight and Wednesday and generally fair conditions tonight and tomorrow.
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Wisconsin
Grantsburg
Kenosha
Nash Motors
Truman Attacks Opponents of Medical Insurance Plan
President Truman, speaking to the American Hospital Association, denounced foes of compulsory medical insurance as retreaters from progress. He defended a national health program as American enterprise and noted Eisenhower’s locally administered indigent care ideas, insisting health care must be affordable for all.
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Philadelphia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
American Hospital Association
Convention Hall
Eisenhower
New York
Washington
White House
American Medical Association
Cicero Votes On Name Change To Erase Capone Era
Cicero voters were asked to approve a name change to Electra or Normandy to shed the towns Capone era stigma. The town board voted to submit the measure to a municipal election after pressure from citizens. City attorney Nicholas Berkos noted public perception of hoods, and officials said the choice rests with voters.
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Cicero
Ill
U.P
Scarface
al Capone
Chicago
Electra
Normandy
Nicholas Berkos
Mass Crash Kills Six Marines During Korean War Flight
Six American Marine Pantherjet pilots died when their F-9F jets crashed into a 3,000 foot mountain near Taegu South Korea amid fog last week. The Abie Eagles squadron loss is described as the worst mass crash of the war with the remaining flights landing safely. Names listed: Maj Raymond E Demers Maj Donald F Givens First Lt Alvin R Bourgeois Second Lt John W Hill Jr Second Lt Carl R Lafleur Second Lt Richard Lee Roth.
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Seoul
Korea
U.P
Far East
North Korea
Washington
Marine Air Wing
United Nations
Air Force
Next of
Abie Eagles Squadron
Raymond E. Demers
Genesee
Idaho
Donald F. Givens
Attleboro
Mass
Alvin R. Bourgeois
Detroit
John W. Hill, Jr
Moncks Corner
S. C
Carl R. Lafleur
Pooleville
N. Y
Richard Lee Roth
Lockridge
Iowa
Brass Union Reach Accord Ends Bargaining Standoff
The American Brass company and its 16200 member union reached a new contract over the weekend. The accord includes an 11 cent hourly wage increase, three weeks vacation for 15 year employees, a company paid comprehensive insurance plan, a pension proposal now in effect at 90 percent of parent plant sites, a five cent raise for skilled trades, and job reclassifications on 49 operations. Approval by the Wage Stabilization Board is required, to be processed through the Chicago WSB office.
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American Brass Company
Gerald Henderleiter
Anaconda Copper Company
Wage Stabilization Board
Chicago
WSB
Washington
Truman Warns AFL Convention Over GOP Victory
President Truman told the Federation of Labor in New York that plans are afoot to make the labor climate more oppressive and unfair if Republicans win in November. Taft to make only Wisconsin stop in Racine on September 25 during Eisenhower tour.
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New York
Truman
Ae Federation of Labor Today
Taft
Racine
Ohio
Robert Taft
Wisconsin
Drivers Strike Negotiations Swing Between Claims
Milwaukee reports show union Local 260 claiming seven produce firms signed agreements with the AFL Teamsters while two Produce Exchange spokesmen deny any breakthrough in the strike that has tied up commissions since Thursday.
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Milwaukee
AFL Teamsters Union
Produce Exchange
Commission Rew
Iran Hears World Court on Oil Nationalization Compensation
Premier Mossadegh told parliament Iran is willing to let the World Court decide Britain’s compensation for nationalized oil properties. He stressed this is the only payment Iran will make.
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Tehran
Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh
World Court
Britain
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