Illinois House Kills Death Penalty Ban and Strips Bills
In Springfield the Illinois House cleared its calendar of pending measures, defeating a six year moratorium on executions and pushing ahead bills for a $1 minimum wage and a new labor relations board. The wage bill passed 132 to 30, but faces Senate defeat. labor board measures advanced 103 to 32. Several other bills were removed, including a school textbook subversion evaluation.
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Stan Koven
Springfield
House
Senate
Robert McCarthy
D-Lincoln
Illinois Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
Anthony Scariano
Park Forest
Abner Mikya
Chicago
Water Fight Championship Stated Tonight
Eight teams race for $200 in cash prizes plus a trophy at Gould Park during the Morris Fire Department Summer Festival. Winners from earlier rounds include Ransom Gardner Dwight and Ottawa entries. finalists tonight include Newark Braceville Yorkville and Morris.
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Morris Fire Department
Gould Park
Imperial
Ransom
Gardner
Ottawa
Dwight
Lisbon
Essex
Elwood
Marseilles
Newark
Braceville
Yorkville
Morris
Stratton Sees Benefits From Midwest Soviet Visit
Illinois Governor Stratton reports Moscow talks show Soviet use of American seed corn methods and larger cattle feeding plans. He notes improved geneal U.S.-Soviet understanding from governors meetings and cites peaceful, quiet Moscow observation during his stay at the Sovietskya Hotel.
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Chicago
Moscow
Stratton
Illinois
Chicago Tribune Press Service
U.S
Vladimir Matskevich
U.S.S.R
United States
Sovietskya Hotel
Groceries Trigger Car Crash In Morris Town Center
Mrs Edward Cohenour driving south on Wauponsee street turned onto Main street when groceries spilled from the bag. She reached for the sack as her car turned into Leslie Davidson Sr.s parked vehicle causing considerable damage to Cohenour and some damage to Davidson. The collision occurred about 11 35 a m near Morris police station on a hot June day.
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Edward
Red) Cohenour
Morris
Wauponsee Street
Main Street
Cohenour
Leslie D
Red) Davidson Sr
Division St
Davidson
Morris Police Station
Governors Visit Soviet Atom Smasher on Moscow Trip
Seven visiting governors led by Tim ois Stratton travel from Moscow to Dubna to view the Soviet Union’s giant atom smasher. Two governors remain in Moscow to arrange visits, others board Volga steamer returns. They proceed to Leningrad for a four day stay after attending the Bolshoi ballet.
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Moscow
U. S
Tlmois
Stratton
Dubna
Soviet Union
Robert Meyner
New Jersey
Luther H. Hodges
North Carolina
Hodges
Volga River
Leningrad
Bolshoi Ballet
Seventy Five Register for Swim Lessons at Morris Pool
Seventy five Grundy county children seven years and older registered at Morris Municipal pool this morning for next Tuesday’s classes. Instructor Mrs. Donald Lindahl announced registrations will continue Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the pool.
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Grundy County
Morris Municipal Swimming Pool
Donald Lindahl
Steelworkers Call Direct Talks Amid Bargaining Standoff
United Steelworkers president David J. McDonald rejected further meetings with the four man industry team calling it a farcical filibuster and urged direct talks with steel executives. He said two offers were rejected and a strike looming as contracts expire Tuesday with 500000 workers at risk.
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New York
United Steelworkers Union
David J. McDonald
McDonald
R. Conrad Cooper
Satchmo Makes Very Strong Rally
SPOLETO Italy Louis Armstrong known as Satchmo shows signs of recovery after pneumonia and heart strain. He sat up and walked to the bathroom unaided as doctors monitor for complications following two fever crises and a dangerous temperature rise.
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Spoleto
Italy
Louis
Satchmo) Armstrong
Armstrong
Newark Child Bitten by Rabid Skunk
Linda Lou Hume three at rural Newark was bitten on the ankle by a rabid skunk near her home Wednesday. The child began a two week series of Pasteur treatments after the skunk was shot by her father Kenneth Hume. the animal’s rabies were confirmed in Chicago. The family collie defended the child and was unharmed. Serum from Chicago arrived and treatment started promptly, with expectations of no lasting ill effects beyond the treatment itself.
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Linda Lou Hume
Kenneth Hume
Newark
Here
Hume
Chicago
Morris
Little Rock Board Plans Integrated Schools This Fall
The Little Rock school board announced plans to operate high schools on an integrated basis this fall amid Gov. Faubus warnings of possible violence. The board said it would use the Arkansas pupil placement law to assign students and maintain control after federal court actions reopened schools.
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Little Rock Board
Little Rock
Ark
Orval E. Faubus
Faubus
le Dackin
U. S. Supreme Court
Central High School
Central
Tax Rate Validation Bill Passes In Assembly
State Representative Carl W Soderstrom backs House Bill 904 to validate Morris grade school district tax referendums from 1947 and 1955. The House approved 1310 with objections from railroads over a 75 cent rate issue. Soderstrom seeks Senate action via Senator Little.
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Carl W. Soderstrom
General Assembly
Morris
Soderstrom
Little
Senate
One Mazon City Well Out Of Production
Mazon village board president K. Hill urged residents to conserve water as one of two wells has gone out of production due to sand shifting. The shortage is expected to be temporary and officials hoped to fix it over the weekend.
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Mazon
E. K. Hill
Five Day Forecast Promises Heat and Scattered Thunderstorms
The region faces a five day spell of hot humid weather with above normal temperatures. The U S Weather Bureau predicts daily chances of scattered late afternoon thundershowers and no relief from heat expected before Tuesday or Wednesday. Thursday's sun pushed the temperature to 94 at Pyatt, then to 73 at night. by 9 am today it was 83 and rising into the 90s.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Pyatt
Minooka Faces Water Shortage Amid Pump Repairs
Minooka is enduring a water famine with repairs to pumping equipment underway into the weekend. Residents are urged to conserve water and avoid lawn watering or car washing. Firefighters have hauled water from Joliet since Wednesday night to maintain reservoir pressure and fire protection while parts arrive Saturday.
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Minooka
Joliet
Long-Time Saratoga Resident Dies at 86
Emma Walstrom Collins, 86, longtime Saratoga township resident, died Thursday at Morris hospital after a brief illness. She taught rural schools, was valedictorian at Morris High, and was active in Plattville Methodist church and local Republican affairs. Funeral Saturday at Davis chapel with burial in Aux Sable cemetery. She is survived by a daughter, a son, a stepdaughter, five grandchildren, a sister, and a step-son. several nieces and nephews.
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Cryder Collins
Saratoga Township
Morris Hospital
Davis Funeral Home
Davis Chapel
Aux Sable
Emma Walstrom
Plattville
Eric and
Keziah Larson Walstrom
Morris High School
Kendall
Grundy
E. W. Thayer
Elva Thoeming
Phillip C. Collins
Ellen Swanson
Champaign
Isaac Collins
Queen Opens Inland Seaway With Eisenhower In Montreal
President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II dedicate the St. Lawrence Seaway and officially open the inland ship channel with a 31 mile cruise from the St. Lambert Lock. The ceremony drew 20 000 spectators as officials praised US Canada collaboration and world peace.
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Queen Elizabeth
Montreal
St. Justine Hospital
Eisenhower
St. Lawrence Seaway
Lke
Elizabeth II
Washington
St. Lambert
Seaway
Congress
Canada
Lewis L. Strauss
United States
Fear 68 Die In TWA Plane Crash
A TWA four engine airliner with 59 passengers and nine crew crashed in flames 15 miles north of Milan. First reports indicated no survivors after lightning struck the plane at about 1500 feet during a thunderstorm on takeoff for Paris. The flight was No. 81 from Athens to Chicago via Rome and Milan.
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Milan
Italy
TWA
Here
Paris
Athens
Chicago
Rome
Gov Earl K Long Freed From Hospital in Louisiana
A Louisiana state court ordered Governor Earl K. Long released from the Southwest Louisiana Mental Hospital in Mandeville. He is free to resume his duties as governor.
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Covington
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Southwest Louisiana Mental Hospital
Mandeville
Long
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