Senate Hopes to Ratify Japan U S Security Pact
Senator Fulbright leads push for early Senate approval of the U S Japan security treaty ahead of President Eisenhower’s Tokyo visit set for June 19. House plans cited by Herter and Rockefeller cited support despite protests and misgivings about the trip.
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Washington
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate
Eisenhower
Japan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Tokyo
White House
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rock
Christian A. Herter
Fulk
Herter
Russell B. Long
D-La
Nixon
Venezuela
Move Begins to Squeeze Out Symington Stevenson
Democratic race narrows as Kennedy and Johnson push to purge Symington and Stevenson. Kennedy gains Stevenson backers while Johnson contends with Symington delegates. Truman may help Symington if deadlock returns. Stevenson prepares a statement clarifying his position amid pressure from Humphrey.
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Symington
Stevenson
Washington
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Adlai E. Stevenson
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Johnson
Kennedy
Senate
Missouri
Harry S. Truman
Congress
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Illinois
Nixon Tops In California Primary Vote
Nixon led California Republicans with 668,073 votes to Brown 627,584 and McLean 291,180 as the party eyed a Nixon landslide for November. In New York, Tammany leader Carmine De Sapio faced a setback as reform Democrats defeated some followers.
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Richard M. Nixon
California
Tammany Hall
New York
Nixon
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Tammany
Carmine DeSapio
New York City
Montana
Idaho
South Dakota
Mississippi
George H. McLean
McLean
DeSapio
Will Forward Aid to Quake Wave Victims
Grundy county American Red Cross chapter accepts donations for Chile relief with no local fund drive planned. Joseph Mattson, chairman, notes at least a million affected by earthquakes and tsunamis along Chilean coast south of Santiago. President Eisenhower appealed for church and Red Cross support, prompting generous responses.
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Chile
Grundy County
American Red Cross
Joseph Mattson
Santiago
Eisenhower
Red Cross
Five day temperatures near normal with warm highs
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts five day readings near normal for the season with highs close to 80 and lows around 60 for the local area. Today’s high expected in the upper 70s, tonight’s low near 50s, and Thursday slightly warmer with Friday turning cloudy and a thundershower possible later. Collins Weather station reported 46 degrees as a Tuesday night low with today’s 9 am near Tuesday’s high. yesterday’s high was 68 and today’s 9 am reading 66.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Million Dollar Will Contested in Grundy County
A probate contest filed in Grundy County Circuit Court challenges the will of Mrs. Mabel G. Goold who died August 18 1959. Nieces and nephews Mabel Gilligan Eleanor Phillips Leota Bourge and Ivan Germain charge she was of unsound mind and suffered mental infirmities when the will was made. They contest the bequests to Grace Holmes Louis Germain Mrs. William Lathrop and Virginia Inman and seek to have the will set aside.
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Grundy County
Mabel G. Goold
Mabel Gilligan
Lockport
Eleanor Phillips
Rural Morris
Leota Bourge
Joliet
Ivan Germain
Goold
Grace Holmes
Louis Germain
William Lathrop
Germain Wilkinson
Virginia Inman
Seattle
Wash
Virginia G. Inman
Savannah
Georgia
Beloit
Wis
Jean W. Lathrop
Rockford
Ill
Trussville
Alabama
Subcommittee Approves 285 Million for Defense Program
The Senate Defense Subcommittee approved a 285 million dollar addition to the defense money bill for the high altitude supersonic B70 jet bomber weapons system. This plus Tuesday’s increases would push total near 895 million on top of the 39 billion already approved by the House.
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Washington
Senate Defense Funds
Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
House
Baptists denounce states legalizing gambling as deceitful
The American Baptists convention, in its final session, declared governments that legalize gambling to raise revenue are partners in deceit and part of economic and cultural decay. The body also urged anti communism education, disarmament, nuclear ban, cultural exchanges, foreign aid, and birth control and food production improvements.
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George W. Cornell
Rochester, N. Y
American Baptists Convention
United States
U. S
Des Plaines Flood Control Plan Proposed for Region
The Cook County Forest Preserve District unveiled a seven million dollar plan to control floods and boost recreation on the Des Plaines River. It envisions five dams on the upper Des Plaines at three million dollars with four million more for land, affecting up to 5000 acres in Lake County. Charles G. Sayers said the project could be state run or county initiated as part of expanded preserves and parks.
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Chicago
Des Plaines
Cook County Forest Preserve District
Northwestern Illinois Metropolitan Planning Commission
Upper Des Plaines
Lake County
Charles G. Sayers
Forest Preserve District
Lake County Forest
Visitor warned of deadly gas rooms at Chicago Museum
A museum visitor could be asphyxiated if allowed into certain rooms at the Chicago Museum of Natural History without a gas mask. The dangerous chambers house carbon tetrachloride and ethylene dichloride gases used to protect mummies ancient textiles and animal hides from mold and insects.
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Chicago
Chicago Museum of Natural History
Divinity School to Remain Open at Vanderbilt
Vice Chancellor R R Purdy said Vanderbilt University would keep its divinity school operating after Dr Walter Harrelson rejected the deanship and Chancellor Harvie Branscomb accepted resignations of 10 faculty members. Nelson and other faculty quit over Vanderbilt’s refusal to readmit Rev James.
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Nashville
Tenn
R. R. Purdy
Vanderbilt University
Purdy
Walter Harrelson
Harvie Branscomb
Harrelson
University of Chicago Divinity School
Divinity School
J. Robert Nelson
Nelson
Vanderbilt
James
54 Tax Suits Filed Here in County Court
August Black, Grundy County states attorney, filed tax judgment suits against 54 residents to collect 4493.94 in personal property taxes. Judgments entered after delinquents failed to pay post summons. costs and execution against property are ordered. Braceville leads with 17 judgments, Morris 15, Felix 8, Garfield 4, Greenfield and Mazon 3 each, Goodfarm 2, Vienna and Goose Lake 1 each. Amounts range 14.78 to 261.54.
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August Black
Grundy County
Braceville Township
Morris Township
Felix Township
Garfield
Greenfield
Mazon
Goodfarm
Vienna
Goose Lake
Scouts Will Eat At National Jamboree in Colorado Springs
About 55,000 Scouts will attend the Scouts National Jamboree in Colorado Springs July 22 28. The menu includes 18 800 pounds of hot dogs 110 000 pieces of chicken 48 000 quarts of lemonade and 119 120 doughnuts.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado Springs
Missile Fire Sparks Radiation Scare at McGuire AFB
A damaged Bomarc missile with an atomic warhead caught fire in a concrete launching pen at McGuire AFB New Jersey triggering a radiation scare. Investigators from AEC Defense Department and New Jersey Health probe the incident while Air Force and state authorities contain radiation confined to the launching shelter.
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Mcguire Air Force Base
N. J
Air Force
Atomic Energy Commission
Defense Department
New Jersey Department of Health
Jackson Township
Ocean County
Fonda to Star in Critic's Choice on Broadway
Henry Fonda is slated to headline Ira Levin's comedy Critic's Choice, set for a Broadway bow next December. The plot follows a drama critic whose wife writes a new play and may spark dramatic and romantic complications.
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New York
Ira Levin
Henry Fonda
Plan Huge Welcome for Ike in Japan
Japanese conservatives and business leaders form National Welcome Ike committee to greet President Eisenhower with a 600000 turnout in Tokyo. The plan follows leftist protests and threats of sit-down strikes at Narita Airport as Kishi pushes ratification of the U.S. Japan security treaty before Eisenhower arrives June 19.
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Tokyo
Eisenhower
Nobusuke Kishi
Liberal-Democratic Party
Kishi
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