Carbon Hill Homecoming Opens Aug 7
The Carbon Hill Homecoming festival runs August 7 to 11 with multiple sports events and attractions. openers feature Yankees vs Dodgers and Cubs vs Sox in Little League, pony league contests on Thursday, Old Timers vs Coal City on Friday, and a Saturday soccer match between Atlas Club and Lithuanian Soccer Club, plus a Sunday baseball tournament featuring Mi nooka Ottawa South Wilmington and Coal City. A carnival operates throughout and a dance each night.
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Carbon Hill
Yankees
Dodgers
Cubs
Sox
Atlas Club
Minooka
Ottawa
South Wilmington
Coal City
Eisenhower urged Senators to oppose major civil rights changes
In a closed strategy session GOP leaders were told President Eisenhower urged opposition to further major changes in the civil rights bill. Senators Knowland and Dirksen represented the push, while OMahoney and Kefauver floated jury trial amendments. Russell suggested Southern foes back a limited amendment.
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GOP
Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
Sen
Young
R-Nd
Sens
Knowland
R-Calif
Dirksen
R-N
White House
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Dixiv
Russell
Sen. O'Mahoney
O’mahoney
FTC Adopts Tougher Stance on Cigarette Claims
The Federal Trade Commission announces a tougher approach to cigarette advertising claims amid links between smoking and lung cancer. FTC Chairman Secrest testifies the agency will prioritize a survey to gauge how smokers interpret ads, enabling stricter action against deceptive labeling and advertising. The move follows a Public Health Service warning that excessive smoking is a causative factor in lung cancer.
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B. L. Livingstone
Washington
Federal Trade Commission Aid
FTC
Robert T. Secrest
House
Public Health Service
Secrest
Commission
Blatnik
D-Minn
Surgeon General
Weather Outlook for Grundy County This Week
The United States Weather Bureau forecasts partly cloudy skies this afternoon with highs in the mid 80s continuing through Sunday. Saturday looks fair and warm with a high in the upper 80s, low tonight in the upper 60s. Sunday brings cloudy warmer weather with a chance of a thundershower. At Pyatt Weather Station yesterday 80 degrees high and 65 low, 9 am today 70.
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Grundy County
United States Weather Bureau
Pyatt
Mojave Desolate Search for Missing Passenger After Aerial Mystery
Investigators comb the Mojave Desert seeking clues to a missing passenger from a Western Airlines Convair after a loud blast and a jagged hole in the airliner. S. F. Binstock, a 62 year old North Hollywood jeweler, was last seen entering a washroom before the Las Vegas to Los Angeles flight disappeared from radar. He was insured for 125000 dollars. The plane's distress prompted hopes that recovered wreckage and body would solve the mystery.
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Western Air Line
S. F. Binstock
North Hollywood
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
NEA Telephoto
Victorville
Calif
Mojave
Nev
Binstock
Western Airlines
Convair
Cali
Mendota Sweet Corn Festival Opens August 5
Mendota Illinois prepares for its 10th annual Sweet Corn festival on August 5 and 6 drawing more than 25 000 visitors. The event features a beauty queen street parades a street dance free corn and butter stage entertainment and a midway sponsored by the Mendota Chamber of Commerce. Ten tons of corn will be harvested and cooked in open boilers served with creamery butter starting at 11 30 a m on August 6.
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Mendota
Illinois
LaSalle County
Mendota Chamber of Commerce
Parole Board report awaited on Leopold release decision
Springfield gubernatorial actions hinge on Illinois Parole and Pardon Board findings about Nathan Leopold’s bid for release from Stateville. The board’s detailed July 9 testimony forms the basis of recommendations, with Stratton potentially granting leniency or ordering a prior parole hearing before the 1965 continuance date.
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Stratton
Parole Board
Leopold
Springfield
William G. Stratton
Illinois Parole and Pardon Board
Nathan Leopold
Stateville Penitentiary
Bobby Franks
Richard Loeb
Franks
Chicago
Loeb
University of Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
Franklin A. Stransky
Stransky
Roger Touhy
Stateville
Touhy
John
Jake the Barber
Five Joliet Lions Survive Rough Plane Landing
Five Joliet Lions Club members rode with pilot Watcha McCollum from Joliet Municipal airport for a charity flight. A landing gear lock problem forced an hour long circle above the field before a safe touchdown. Passengers included William Watson of Caterpillar Joliet, Verne Cracker, Morris Liberman, Walter Zenko, and John Belom.
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Joliet, Ul
Lions Club
Joliet Municipal
Watcha McCollum
Danville
McCollum
Themas
William Watson
Caterpillar Tractor Co
Joliet
Watson
Verne Cracker
Will County
Morris Liberman
Walter Zenko
John Belom
Government purge in Hong Kong targets 175000 workers
Hong Kong authorities report 175000 government workers across 61 departments are hunting for non conformists in a crackdown on criticisms of the Communist party. The campaign reveals surprisingly high levels of rule breaking among officials.
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Hong Kong
Red China
Communist Party
Tunisia’s Republic Declared as Bourguiba Leads
The Tunisian Constituent Assembly ousted Bey Sidei Mohammed Al-Amin, proclaimed Tunisia a republic, and elected Habib Bourguiba president. Bourguiba kept the premiership, invited diplomats to the Bey’s palace, and pledged no reprisals against the deposed ruler.
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Tunisia
Tunis
Didi Mohammed Lamine Pasha
Hamib Bourguiba
Habib Bourguiba
Bourguiba
Bey Sidei Mohammed Al-Amin
Libya
Algeria
Morocco
Nasser
Sultan Mohammed V
France
Idriss
Bey
Bricks From Morris Tested In Nevada A Test Blast
Federal Civil Defense Administration says five structures by Structural Clay Products Research Foundation withstood 1957 Plumbbob blasts in Nevada. Tests traced bricks from Morris Illinois to Goose Lake in 1956, showing reinforced brick and tile walls resisting blast pressure.
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Federal Civil Defense Administration
Tae Vacne
Nevada
Structural Clay Products Research Foundation
Geneva
Illinois
Bob Day
Morris
Morris Clay Products
Goose Lake
Ilinois
Dupont Co
Day
Grundy County
Goose
Four Hour Deluge Overwhelms Isahaya Japan
A violent storm on Kyushu Island dumped 29 inches of rain in 24 hours, killing at least 280 with 281 missing and 109 injured. Isahaya, a 57,000 resident city, was submerged, rail lines wrecked, and highways closed as relief workers warn the toll could rise.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kyushu
Isahaya
Nagasaki
Omura
Yasujiro Tachikawa
Chikara Imasato
City to Enforce Garbage Law by August First
Morris City Health and Sanitation Committee announces strict enforcement of the garbage ordinance starting August 1. Residents must use water tight metal cans five to ten gallons with tight fitting lids. violators face fines from 2 to 25 dollars.
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Morris City
Morris
Want Ads Through a Keyhole Brief Rentals and Listings
Three room upstairs apartment for rent. Secretary wanted with shorthand typing and some bookkeeping skills. Wanted to buy standing timber. Beverage cooler for sale.
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Dixie
D-Ga
Rcalif
U. S
Donald Wheeler
Fuchu
Wheeler
Isakaya
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