Illinois crime commission hears on loan sharks tension
A Chicago witness testified before the Illinois Crime Commission about housewives coerced by hoodlums tied to the “juice loan” racket. The hearing exposed the high cost of easy loans and violence used to extract money from borrowers. Several alleged hoodlums failed to appear and were held in contempt.
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Robert T. Loughran
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Chicago
UPI
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Mike Gritta
Joseph Grieco
Robert Canfield
Nick Carroll
Pete Ori
Raymond Welsh
Bert Sarno
Richard Cardef
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Wee Willie Messine
Ilinois Crime Commisson
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Underworld
Fred Ackerman
Maryknoll Unit Bureau To Meet Appoints Lima Center Chief
Rev. John J. O'Brien MM a Maryknoll missioner with over W1 years in South America and former newspaper writer is named director of a Central Information Center to be established in Lima Peru by the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. The center will collect and disseminate information for Maryknoll missioners across Bolivia Chile Peru Guatemala El Salvador and Mexico and will also serve religious and secular personnel outside the society working in Latin America.
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Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
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Guatemala
el Salvador
Mexico
Maryknoll Society
Latin America
Triplesonic Speed Achieved By Plane At Edwards AFB
An aerospace test reports No. 2 XBT0A, a forerunner of supersonic airliners, flew at three times the speed of sound for four minutes during a 108 minute flight. The craft also sustained Mach 1.0 for 63 minutes at an altitude near 70,900 feet during the test conducted at Edwards Air Force Base California. The article also notes Lubbock Better Business Bureau officers to be installed at a Monterey Center luncheon with Rex Webster presiding and Robert L. Snyder named 1966 president along with other officers and directors. Rhodesia’s name origin traces to Cecil Rhodes per the Encyclopedia Americana.
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Edwards Afb
Calif
UPD
Lubbock
Better Business Bureau
Hemphill- Wells
Monterey Center
Tom Watson
Rex Webster
Robert L. Snyder
Snyder
Alex Miller
E. K. Hufstedler
C. H. Cummings
Robert B. Gaffga
Owen Hamilton
J. R
Bob) Hancork
Joe R. Horkey
M. P. J. Minter
J.C. Rickman
Paris summons 1000 troops to clear snowbound city
Paris called out 1,000 army troops to tackle skin deep snow and slush that froze the city for a third day. Ten deaths from cold were reported nationwide, with many weather related accidents adding to the toll as an unusually fierce snow and ice onslaught gripped the nation. Americans eat more than 3 billion quarts of popcorn a year, says the Popcorn Institute.
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