D-Day Ranger feats recounted by G K Hodenfield
In a Normandy diary style piece writer G K Hodenfield recalls Ranger units landing at D-Day H Hour 6 30 a m on June 6 1944. He highlights Sgt Bob Youse and Pvt Alvin White who braved cliffs minefields and German positions to anchor a thin line and destroy a machine gun nest.
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G. K. Hadenfield
Stars and Stripes
Wisp
Hodenfield
G. K. Hodenfield
U. S
2Nd Ranger
Bob Youse
Alvin White
Royal Navy
Youso
White
English Channel
Kingdom Come
Youse
Reuther Urges Survival Plan Against Discrimination
Walter Reuther addresses 3,000 delegates at a National Federation of Women’s Clubs meeting urging end to racial discrimination and broad educational, overseas aid and economic reforms. He warns freedom versus tyranny hinges on global unity and urges dialogue with peasants in India. Charles Sligh Jr. of the National Association of Manufacturers also speaks criticizing labor power.
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Los Angeles
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
America
Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
India
Little Rock
Charles R. Sligh Jr
National Assn. of Manufacturers
Sligh
Funeral services for Electrocution Victim Downs
Gerald Franklin Downs 9 of Verona dies from an electrical shock received at home. Funeral at 2 p.m. Saturday at Davis Funeral Home with Rev. C. Fred Stolzenbach officiating. Burial in Braceville-Gardner cemetery. Survived by mother Mrs. James Braghini and father Joseph D. Downs, three brothers, a twin sister, and grandparents.
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Verona
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Joliet
Davis Funeral Home
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Fred Stolzenbach
Gerald
Public Service Co
Morris Hospital
Verona Consolidated School
Cub
James Braghini
Joseph D. Downs
Detroit
Mich
Sidney
Andrew
Jerry
Patricia
Civil Defense Office Announces Summer Hours
The Grundy county Civil Defense office will be open 9 am to 12 noon Monday through Friday during the summer months starting Monday. Mrs. L Mae Reagan CD director announced. Office located in Morris City Hall. Afternoon appointments via Morris 2406.
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Grundy County Civil Defense Office
L. Mae Reagan
Morris City Hall
Grundy Staff Named to Gather Data for White House Meeting
Miss Carper will head a county team including Mrs. Helen Schenck, Grundy County Public Aid. Mrs. William Reed, county health nurse. the Rev H C Montanus. the Grundy county Ministerial Assn.. William Reed, Mazon schools superintendent. and Max Lindsay, Morris elementary teacher. The White House Conference on Children and Youth meets March 1960. Illinois committees are chaired by Mrs. Robert L. Foot and Naomi Hiett serves as executive director with a state conference planned for February 1960.
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House
Eisenhower
University of Illinois acquires Will County farm
Gov Stratton announces the University of Illinois receives a free 160 acre Will County farm four and a half miles southeast of Elmwood for an Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service. The land, once DoD property, was available through the SASP after a May 1957 notice and a January 1958 completion of final negotiations.
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Chicago
William G. Stratton
University of Illinois
Will County
State Agency
Stratton
Elwood
U. S
Illinois
U.S. Department of Defense
Edward Crowley
SASP
Adenauer Chooses to Remain as Chancellor
West Germany's Konrad Adenauer defied pressure and stays as chancellor instead of moving to the presidency. Opponents sought a no confidence vote with potential defections, but Christian Democrats yielded after hours of wrangling. Brandt condemned the nomination process as disgraceful amid calls for Adenauer to run for president in the July 1 Federal Assembly election.
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George Boultwood
Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Geneva
Bundestag
Adenauer
Christian Democrats
Greece Objects to Soviet Missile Base Pressures
Athens asserts that plans for missile bases are a strictly Greek matter and rejects any outside pressure. The foreign ministry also declined a Soviet suggestion that Greece quit the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Athens
Greece
Election boards named for ASCS committteemen race
Russell A Huston announces countywide community election boards for ASCS committees. Mail ballots June 24 to July 6. elected committeemen take office August 3. Voters must farm in community and meet program eligibility. List of township boards and members follows. nine more lines show.
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Russell A. Huston
Grundy County
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee Election Board
Huston
Skindiving Becomes Valuable Police Rescue Tool
In 1957 Chicago divers form the Illinois Council Underwater Recovery Team to aid police and rescue work. Led by Dan Wagner, 22 Cook County divers plus squads in Champaign, Danville, Aurora and Rockford organize training and plan demonstrations to gain statewide acceptance. Members include a dentist, an electrician, an airline clerk and others, called primarily for body recovery and crime clue hunts.
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Chicago
Ilinois
Timothy O'Connor
Montrose Harbor
Judith Mae Andersen
Memperea Popagy
Rouna i
Dan Wagner
Hazel Crest
Illinois Council
Cook County
Champaign
Danville
Aurora
Rockford
Wagner
Carl Hauber
University of Illinois
Southern Illinois
Frank Sain
Illinois
Herter Says Soviets Seek West Berlin Annexation
Secretary of State Christian Herter charged that the Soviet Union aims to strip West Berlin of Western protection and push for its annexation by East Germany. He told Andrei Gromyko the Western powers will not abandon West Berliners or accept a new status by force. The Big Four met in semi public session after secret talks as Berlin tensions loomed.
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Geneva
U. S&s
Christian A. Herter
Soviet Union
West Berlin
East Germany
Palace of Nations
Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Berlin
Germany
United States
Britain
France
Still Hope Wilmington To Get Plant
Officials of the Joliet Association of Commerce say Johnson and Johnson may still build a 2.5 million dollar plant near Wilmington. The firm delayed due to a bill to raise Illinois corporate franchise tax tenfold. About 30 company officials will visit Joliet and Wilmington to review housing schools and facilities while Personal Products Corp moves from Chicago to Wilmington on a 207 acre site.
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Joliet Association of Commerce
Johnson and Johnson
Wilmington
Illinois General Assembly
Illinois Corporation
Arthur Leonard Jr
Stonebridge Paper Corp
Leonard
Warm spell expected with five days of above normal temps
The Weather Bureau forecast five straight days of warmth with temperatures four to nine degrees above normal. Some precipitation may occur in the state but not in the local area over the weekend. Tonight will be partly cloudy and warm, Saturday fair and warm with a mid 80s high, and Sunday partly cloudy with little temperature change. Pyatt station hit 85 Thursday. 9 am today read 72 with a 61 degree low overnight.
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Pyatt
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