No Presidential Candidates Listed
Illinois voters in the June 11 primary can write in a president since no candidate is listed on the ballot. Voters must write the office, candidate name, and draw an X in the box for the vote to count. Write-ins are allowed on machines and paper ballots with specific guidance from officials.
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Springfield, Ill
Illinois
Chicago
Cook County
Downstate
Josephine Oblinger
Springfield
Sangamon
Richard M Nixon
Nixon
Nickson
Oblinger
Illinois Association of County Clerks
Barry Goldwater
Margaret Chase Smith
Costs of Farm Production Continue Rise
The Agriculture Department reports farm price indexes rose slightly in mid May, with production costs and parity up one point. Gains were centered on potatoes, cotton, motor vehicles, and farm supplies, while the overall index kept pace with costs and remained above the 1910-14 base.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Hungry Burglars Eat Steaks Then Leave Apology Note
The Joe A. Brooks family found their back door open and two steaks missing along with almost half a bottle of rum. A note left on unopened mail reads we are not bums by choice but we were starved so we eat. May God forgive us. Thank you. Sorry we broke your back door.
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Seattle
Joe A. Brooks
Penguin Stolen From Baltimore Zoo
A South American penguin was stolen from Baltimore Zoo by thieves who swam a 25 foot moat and removed one of 14 penguins from an open pen before placing concrete blocks in the water to escape.
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Baltimore, Md
Baltimore Zoo
Arthur R
Ethel Kennedy Stands Vigil at Kennedy Hospital
Ethel Kennedy kept constant vigil at the hospital where Sen. Robert F. Kennedy lay after a gunshot wound. Jacqueline Kennedy and other Kennedys joined, with Edward Kennedy and siblings nearby as John Glenn ferried relatives back to Washington after the shooting at the Ambassador Hotel.
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Los Angeles
Kennedy
Ethel Kennedy
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
Jacqueline
John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Ethel
Good Samaritan Hospital
Martin Luther King
Robert
Ambassador Hotel
Central Receiving Hospital
Good Samaritan
Victor Baz
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Pat Lawford
Eunice Shriver
Kennedys
California
Washington
John Glenn
Hubert H. Humphrey
Local Graduations and Visits Highlight Suburban Notes
Kinsman notes list Mary Kay Drinan and Nan Harty graduation at Mt. St. Claire Academy Clinton Iowa on May 30. Visitors include Floyd Whorral at George Negrays Streator and Hilliary Mullen's party for Mona Mengao Bradley High School graduate. Margaret Ann Baker’s nursing training visit to Anna Illinois accompanies reception for her graduation.
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Leo Harty
Monica Small
Mable Ryan
Francis Dunn
Betty Dunn
Joe White
Donald Drinan
Loretta Dunn
Kay Dunn
Mary Kay Drinan
Nan Harty
Mt. St. Claire Academy
Clinton
Iowa
Floyd Whorral
George Negrays
Streator
Hilliary Mullen
Mona Memengo
Bradley High School
Tom Brown
Martin Baker
Milton Fisher
Marseil
Les
Anna
Ill
Margaret Ann Baker
Mrs. Floyd Whorral
Howard Calvins
East Peoria
Assassinations Create Widows Of Violence
In five years of American history the assassin's bullet created a new Widow of Violence. The piece tracks the widows of Medgar Evers Jacqueline Kennedy Oswald and others, noting their public roles and private losses after pivotal assassinations.
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New York
Robert F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
Ethel
Medgar Evers
Jackson, Miss
Evers
Myrlie
John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Tex
Jacqueline
Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
Jack Ruby
Oswald
Martin Luther King Jr
Memphis, Tenn
Coretta
Medgar
Student Graduation Acknowledged At Local High School
A student from Mazon Verona Kinsman High School was honored at a ceremony with a buffet lunch served by Miss Susan Gallup and Miss Anna Marie Coveny. On June 17 she will enroll in Career Academy in Chicago.
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Uated
Mazon-Verona-Kinsman High School
Susan Gallup
Anna Marie Coveny
Career Academy
Chicago
Mrs Kennedy praised for courage in public life after White House
The article notes Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis remains a public figure after her husband’s assassination and funeral duties. It mentions Mrs Evers at Pomona College, writing a book to sustain her husband's cause, and her public NAACP speaking tours. It also references Kennedy’s efforts to find privacy, including leaving the Georgetown home for New York.
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Pomona College
White House
Georgetown
New York
Poll finds majority favor campaign spending limit law
Gallup Poll results show 68 percent of adults favor a law to cap campaign spending, 24 percent oppose, and 8 percent have no opinion. The national survey was completed last week and covered opinions on candidate spending in public office campaigns.
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Princeton
N.J
Gallup
Dutch-born farmer works with goats in Colorado
Jaap De Leeuw, a Dutch native, wears wooden shoes while tending his goat dairy in Berthold, Colorado. He recalls adapting to wooden footwear since boyhood in the Netherlands.
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Berthold
Colo
Jaap de Leeuw
Netherlands
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