Universities Seek 351 Million for Wabash Flood Projects and Growth
Six Illinois universities request 351 million dollars for flood defenses and campus improvements. The University of Illinois asks 131.51 million for operating costs, a 26 percent rise, including 12 million for faculty salary increases. Southern Illinois University seeks 47.81 million for operations and 62.12 million for improvements. The State Teachers College Board requests 37.94 million operating and 17.05 million for improvements. SIU President Delyte Morris notes enrollment at 10,418, a 229 percent rise since 1947-48, with overcrowding and a proposed 12 week summer session to use existing facilities.
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David ©. Henry
University Oflinois
Henry
Southern Illinois University
State Teachers College Board
DeKalb
Charleston
Macomb and Normal
Delyte W. Morris
SIU
Commission
Newark Votes on School Bonds Saturday
Residents of Newark-Lisbon Community High School District No 18 vote Saturday on 235000 dollars in bonds to build additional classrooms. Polls open noon to 730 PM at Lisbon Grade School and Newark High School. no registration required in-district voters.
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Newark
Newark-Lisbon Community High School
Lisbon
Want Ads Through a Keyhole
House for rent to married man with option for part time farm work. Woman wanted to help care for three small children. Three room furnished house for rent.
Morris Grade Board Ups Teachers' Pay
The Morris Grade school board met at Franklin School and approved a new 1959 60 calendar starting September 1. They adopted higher pay to recruit and retain qualified teachers and named trustees for district duties.
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Morris Grade Board
Morris Grade School Board of Education
Franklin School
F. Wayne Graham
Robert Beckwith
Kenneth Hammer
State
Elementary Principals’ Association
Los Angeles
Calif
Hammer
Principals’ Association of Illinois
Morris
Morris Quietly Marks Abe's 150th Birthday
The city of Morris observed Abraham Lincoln's 150th birthday with minimal fanfare. Flags adorned the business district and government buildings while schools and county offices closed, and banks closed though post offices stayed open as the day is a state holiday rather than a national one.
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Abraham Lincoln
Morris
United States
Court House
State of Illinois Department
Lincoln Green Stamp Issued On Behalf Of Lincoln Sesquicentennial
The second Lincoln commemorative stamp, a green one cent piece, debuts with a first day sale in Hodgenville Kentucky near Lincoln's birthplace. Postmaster General Summerfield highlights Lincoln's postal reforms and a beardless Healy portrait now at the Corcoran Gallery.
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Lincoln
Jack Adams
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Summerfield
Hodgenville
George Peter Alexander Healy
Corcoran
Paris
Universal Postal Union
Freeport
Ill
Cooper Union
New York City
Lincoln Memorial
Speeding Train Derails Near Baltimore With Minor Injuries
A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train traveling about 80 mph from Washington to New York derailed ten miles east of Baltimore. Thirty-two people were hospitalized. two released after checkups. None of the remaining thirty sustained more than minor injuries. The electric engine and all ten cars stayed upright. cause under investigation.
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Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
New York
Two Laborers Die in Amboy Trailer Fire
AMBOY Ill two laborers Thomas McGovern and Butch Fahs were burned to death when a trailer home burned in an early morning fire of undetermined origin Amboy about ten miles south of Dixon investigators probed cause and extent of damage in the rural community
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Amboy
Ill
Thomas McGovern
Butch Fahs
Dixon
Sound Advice Sign in Police Wagon
In Baltimore a familiar sign reading Relax Sit back and enjoy your ride appears not on a taxi but inside a police paddy wagon. The caption underscores a humorous contrast between public messaging and law enforcement transport.
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Baltimore
Friday Deadline for Grundy County Farm Signup
Farmers in Grundy County face the Friday deadline to apply for the 1959 conservation reserve program. Chairman Russell Huston cites benefits including reduced weather risk, steadier income, protection from price swings, and long term conservation like ponds and forestry plantings. Average Grundy County payment is $20 per acre.
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Grundy County
Russell Huston
Grundy
Huston
Thousands honor Abraham Lincoln on 150th birthday
In Washington and Springfield crowds paid homage to Lincoln. Carl Sandburg called him incomparable before Congress as Supreme Court justices Cabinet members and diplomats listened. Lincoln's tomb visit drew Legion head Preston Moore and remarks on facing the atomic age with American life as exemplar. Eisenhower attended a memorial dinner with Hoover and Truman letters read.
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Oled Arm Aviver
Lincoln
Carl Sandburg
Congress
Earth
Abraham Lincoln
Sandburg
Washington
Supreme Court
Diplomatic Corps
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Springfield
The
American Legion
Preston J. Moore
United States
Moore
Eisenhower
Ike
Herbert Hoover
Harry Truman
Lincoln Group
District of Columbia
Shar
Sudden Thaw Floods Kankakee River Area
Flooding from a rapid thaw hit the Kankakee river area between Kankakee and Wilmington as two feet of ice broke up. Homes were swept away and cottages damaged near the Warner bridge. Morris saw rising river levels while Dresden Island dam operators monitored ice flow. Grundy county streams rose and roads iced over as melted snow flooded ditches.
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Kankakee
Wilmington
Rte
Carl Kunde
Warner Bridge
Will-Kankakee
Bourbonnais Fire Department
Henry Rossio
Carbon Hill
Morris
Illinois
U. S. Weather Bureau
Dresden Island
Lehon Corp
Grundy County
Weather turns unsettled with rain and snow forecast
Forecasters predict rain Friday and Saturday with a chance of snow by Saturday as temperatures drop. Warm southerly winds should clear ice and snow from the northern areas. Highs in the 40s and lows above freezing, with 21 degrees Wednesday night and 32 for the day at Pyatt station.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Pyatt
Flood Crisis Deepens as Wabash Swells Across Indiana
The Wabash River flood spreads over western Indiana farmlands with 1,500 families already displaced. Rain anticipated tonight could worsen the crisis, with Terre Haute and Peru eyed as future trouble spots. A car with an unidentified body was recovered north of Terre Haute. Gov Handley declares a state of emergency in 13 counties and seeks disaster designations for federal aid.
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Peru
Ind
Indiana
Terre Haute
Wabash
Harold W. Handley
Eisenhower
The
Psychiatric Exam Sought for Aurora Mayor Egan
Chicago officials and police seek a federal court ordered psychiatric examination of Aurora Mayor Paul Egan amid a $50 million civil rights suit. The motion, tied to an Oct. 14 arrest and a later overturned disorderly conduct conviction, argues Egan is delusional and megalomaniacal.
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Chicago
Onn
Policerora
U. S. District Court
Aurora
Paul Egan
Donald Curran
Charles Darling
Egan
William J. Campbell
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