Illinois Senate backs 40 hour police week and mental health funds
The Illinois Senate approved a 40 hour work week for downstate police in towns over 10 000, and endorsed 1 900 000 for capital improvements to Lincoln and Dixon state schools. It also exempted institutionalized children and relatives from mental health fund payments. A liquor licensing reform bill was rejected.
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Downstate
Senate
Egbert Green
Dpekin
Allegr
House
Lincoln
Dixon
Canton Terrorized by Flood Danger
Hong Kong report says Canton faces what could be its worst flood in a century as rivers swell and dikes hold at midday. Authorities warn of drowning and famine risk for over a million residents while rains continue in the Peh watershed amid rising flood threats in Kwantung province.
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Roy Elsoyan
Hong Kong
South China
Canton
Kwantung Province
Sing Tao Jih Pao
Peh
North River
South China Sea
Pearl River
Taxi Drivers Almost Halt Glimco Hearing
Chicago cab drivers disrupted a National Labor Relations Board hearing to remove Joey Glimco as leader of Local 777 amid corruption allegations. The chaotic scene drew police tickets and cabs towed as Glimco faced potential Senate testimony on Teamster tactics.
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Chicago
National Labor Relations Board
Joey Gliaco
NLRB
Glimco
Democratic Union Organizing Committee
Senate
Union
Sixty One Girl Scouts Complete Six Day Day Camp
Sixty one Morris area Girl Scouts and Brownies completed six days of outdoor camp instruction with a flag lowering ceremony. Leaders praised cooperation and noted three age groups from Brownies to seniors. The camp ran 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with meals cooked on site and activities including crafts and shelter building. Cost was 3.50 for the period, funded by local merchants and volunteer workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Bert Tweeten
Gordon McIntosh
Wayne Sampson
Starkweather Executed in Electric Chair
Charles Starkweather was executed in Nebraska’s electric chair at 12:05 a.m. after a day of legal efforts by his family and attorneys. The prison physician died of a heart attack shortly before the sentence was carried out. Starkweather offered no last words and faced witnesses as the 2,200 volt charge was applied.
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Starkweather
B. A. Finkel
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Stark
Weather
John Greenholtz
Washington
Eisenhower to Cruise Seaway With Queen aboard Britannia
President Eisenhower will board Queen Elizabeth's yacht Britannia and cruise 31 miles along the St. Lawrence Seaway with Queen Elizabeth to Montreal to formally open the joint U S Canadian waterway. They will then travel to Beauharnois after a sea lift through locks and a 21 gun salute.
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Montreal
Eisenhower
U.S
St. Lawrence Seaway
St. Lambert
St. Lawrence River
Lake Ontario
Air
Washington
St. Hubert
North America Air Defense Network
NORAD
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Elizabeth
Canada
John Diefenbaker
St. Lawrence
Heavyweight Title Fight Postponed at Yankee Stadium
The heavyweight title fight between champion Floyd Patterson and Sweden's Ingemar Johansson at Yankee Stadium was postponed to 9 30 p m Friday night due to bad weather.
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New York
Floyd Patterson
Sweden
Ingemar Johansson
Yankee Stadium
Argentina on brink as Frondizi faces mounting revolt
President Frondizi contends the danger is tamped down by cabinet reshuffle while military officers fugitive from arrest and anti-Peron unions threaten mass action. Vice Admiral Rojas warns of a revolution within days if Frondizi does not quit. Alsogaray named to head economic and labor ministries amid union fury.
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Roman Jimenez
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Arturo Frondizi
Frondizi
Alvaro Alsogaray
Hector Solanas Pacheco
Cordoba
Juan Peron
Adm
Isaac Rojas
Alsogaray
Weather brief midday thundershowers possible this week
A break in the dry spell is forecast with occasional thundershowers for today, tonight, and Friday in the local area. Temperatures stay in the 90s through Friday with little change expected Saturday. At Pyatt Weather Station the Wednesday high reached 95 and the overnight low was 69. It was 77 at 9 a.m. today.
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Pyatt
Youth Committee Gathers Grundy County Data
The Grundy county White House Conference on Children and Youth met to collect data on local efforts for children and youth in family life health religion vocational counseling training work placement recreation and education. July 14 deadline set for final reports with a 2 00 p m meeting at the Presbyterian church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grundy County
White House
John T. Even
Aurora
Virginia Carper
Jazz great Louis Armstrong in coma in Spoleto Italy
STAN CARTER reports Louis Armstrong known as Satchmo lay gravely ill in a Spoleto hospital with bronchial pneumonia and heart disturbances. Doctors said he is in a coma with rising fever and deteriorating condition as specialists weigh transfer to Rome.
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Stan Carter
Spoleto
Italy
Louis
Satchmo) Armstrong
Satchino
Alexander Schiff
New Orleans
Armstrong
Spoleto Theater
Rome
Final Band Concert Set For Saturday Morris bands stage benefit on courthouse lawn
The Morris school bands present the final of four concerts at 8 p.m. Saturday on the courthouse lawn led by Robert Appleby with Bob Condon as announcer. The program features the Concert band, a fifth and sixth grade band, and fourth grade beginners performing marches, overtures, waltz, and a drum quintet. The event includes a narrated Jack and the Beanstalk and ends with On the Street March. An ice cream social from 8 to 9 p.m. supports the Morris music department.
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Morris
Court House
Robert Appleby
Bob Condon
Tom Lois
Morris Schools
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Eiffel Tower
Robert H. Smylie
Idaho
William G. Stratton
Illinois
Robert B. Meyner
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Utah
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Cecil H. Underwood
Westree
Stratton
Springfield
Ill
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Utica
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Tlinois Liquor Control Commission
Liquor Control
Local Commission On Appeal
State Commission
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Midland Hotel
Dominic Abata
Patterson
U. S
Abata
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
Girl Scouts
University of Illinois At Urbana
NEA
Neb
Charles Starkweather
Lie
Queen's Yacht
Bulletin
Mickey
Rickey Clausen
Donald Clausen
Hayward
Calif
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