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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1958
Page
1
A Morris column praises Yorkville for elm disease control and urges similar laws in Morrison. It notes a public meeting, penalties, and spraying plans. The piece also celebrates the Morris Fire Station dedication and progress on Grundy courthouse, hospital, turnpike 6 corridor, Dresden plant, and Pony League Field dedication.
Want ad notes a furnished apartment available through a keyhole concept for working girls. includes location and rental terms omitted in readable text.
Illinois farmers approve federal marketing quotas for the 1959 wheat crop by about 83.7 percent. A referendum across 38 states mirrored the choice, with 165 868 voting for quotas and 32 342 against. The program limits production per farm and taxes surplus sales, spanning about 55 million acres.
The Grundy County 4-H Club Share-The-Fun Festival is set for Monday night at 8:00 p.m. in the Mazon Verona Kinsman High School Gym. Over 165 members from twenty clubs enter three to five minute acts including instrumental and vocal numbers and stunts. Three acts and a master of ceremony will be chosen to represent Grundy County at the Sub-District festival in St. Charles on July 7. The public is invited.
The U S Weather Bureau reports mostly sunny conditions today with a mid 70s high and fair skies for Sunday. A band of showers is forecast to sweep midwestern southern and eastern states, with Pyatt station recording 65 degrees at 9 am and a Friday high of 76.
Gov. William G. Stratton signed the emergency unemployment compensation bill and approved $15 million for relief after a special session of the Illinois Legislature. Unemployment offices open June 30 to accept applications. benefits rise to 39 weeks, with 76,000 to 115,000 eligible state wide.
The Morris Fire Department hosts the Summer Festival with Imperial Shows at Gould park starting Monday night and running nightly through Saturday June 28. Concession spaces are open to local organizations at no charge. Water fights occur Tuesday Thursday and Friday nights as an eight team tournament for prize money.
Associated Press reports that pro and anti Adams editorials split among newspapers as Eisenhower weighs Adams fate. Some pro Adams papers urge resignation or dismissal while others defend him, with Democratic papers generally calling for Adams to go. Eisenhower expresses cautious support for Adams despite improprieties.
Firemen complete preparations for Morris new fire station dedication today. Doors open at 1 30 p m with children’s hours 2 to 4 p m and formal ceremonies at 7 30 p m when Bert Maunder will turn keys to Mayor Donald Caisley. Free dancing 8 to 11 p m with music by Three Guys and A Doll.
The Morris Chamber of Commerce Retail Division will hold a 6:45 p.m. dinner meeting Monday at the Morris Food Centre. The gathering plans the upcoming Sidewalk Sale and urges all members to attend.
The United States urges Soviet authorities in East Germany to free nine U S military personnel held after a helicopter ran out of fuel in bad weather. The State Department, led by Robert Murphy, cites postwar allied agreements and seeks immediate action to secure release.
Herbert Bayard Swope, longtime editor of the old New York World and first journalist to win the Pulitzer Prize, died Friday at age 76 in New York. His career shaped modern journalism and earned him a lasting legacy in press history.
Go Puan Seng publisher of Manila's Fookien Time and Morning Journal recounts survival in the Philippines jungle after the Japanese invasion. His book The Hour Had Come details faith sustaining hope during torture and hiding, and notes his paper plant was burned yet publication resumed February 8 after American forces landed.
An Arkansas federal judge ruled that racial integration at Little Rock Central High School could be suspended for 2½ years. The decision affects seven Black students enrolled at the 2,000 pupil school, delaying desegregation through September 1961 as Gov. Faubus may no longer be governor.
Joseph Bisso and Angelo Persico were fined after being found with 32 bullfrogs beyond the eight per person limit. Investigator James Carkhuff brought them before Justice W L Dix. Bisso paid $45 fine plus costs and all frogs were confiscated.
Belgrade report states Franjo Jambrekovic former supreme provincial of the Jesuit order was given a 15 month prison term by Zagreb district court on charges of hostile propaganda and provocation of national and religious intolerance according to Borba the government newspaper.
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