SAGE Inauguration Marks Major Air Defense Upgrade
The Semi Automatic Ground Environment system goes into operation at McGuire AFB New Jersey as Gen LeMay calls it the largest step toward air defense in a decade. The first center protects New York Philadelphia area and nearby states with long range radars and gap filler units linking to NORAD.
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Vern Haugland
Mcguire Air Force Base
N.J
SAGE
Curtis E. LeMay
Air Force
North American Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Colo
New York - Philadelphia
New Jersey
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Delaware
North America
Fewer Illinois Traffic Deaths Reported For First Half
SPRINGFIELD Ill Two hundred fewer persons died in Illinois traffic accidents between Jan 1 and June 24 this year than in the same period a year ago State coordinator Robert Campbell says the trend could yield as many as 232 fewer deaths in the first six months of this year compared with 1957 The decline follows July 1957 legislation doubling the state police force and speeding limit enforcement
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Robert Campbell
Morris Phone Building Advances On Schedule
Construction on the two story Illinois Bell dial building at Franklin and Jefferson streets progresses on time. Holabird Root Burgee drafted a reinforced concrete design with glazed brick and bluestone trim. Workers pour on the east half of the first floor and erect shoring for the second as the first Bell system electronic gear is prepared for the northwest area.
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Illinois Bell Telephone
Morris Herald
Illinois Bell Telephone Dial
Franklin and Jefferson Streets
Ted Polman
S. N. Nielsen
Joliet
Holabird & Root & Burgee
Chicago
Free Red Cross Swim Classes Open at Morris Pool
Registrations for free Red Cross swimming lessons at Morris Municipal pool began this morning and will continue Saturday and Monday from 9 to 11 a m. Miss Ursula Vogeler states no swimming on Monday morning. Any Grundy county child age six or older qualifies. all instruction is free. The first class starts Tuesday at 9 a.m.
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Red Cross
Morris Municipal
Ursula Vogeler
Grundy County
Weather outlook with near normal temperatures this week
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts five more days near normal temperatures with three to five degrees below the seasonal norm and no precipitation until showers Tuesday or Wednesday. Expect sunny and warm conditions this afternoon and through the weekend with highs in the 80s. current reading at 9 am is 68 degrees after a 52 degree low and 72 degree daytime high at Pyatt Weather Station.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Pyatt
Explorer III Satellite Disintegrates After Orbit Lessons
The Army announced Explorer III, launched March 26, burned up in the atmosphere late today after a highly elliptical orbit. It traveled over 32 million miles, provided data on cosmic rays, and showed cosmic radiation at high altitudes is more intense than expected.
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Huntsville
Ala
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Army
Water Fight Championship Bouts Tonight in Gould Park
Eight teams remaining in the Gould Park water fight tournament vie for a $200 prize and first place trophy tonight. Tuesday winners Newark Ottawa South Wilmington Yorkville join Thursday victors Morris Marseilles Elwood Lisbon Reading Township in the finals staged on the Gould Park parking lot near the swimming pool at 6 30 p.m.
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Gould Park
Morris Department
Marseilles
Elwood
Ottawa Rescue
Essex
Lisbon
Reading
Oswego
Newark
Ottawa
South Wilmington
Yorkville
Morris
Morris Fire Department
Imperial
Board of Review Sets Filing Deadlines in Grundy County
The Grundy County Board of Review announces filing deadlines for tax complaints. Personal property tax complaints must be filed by July 26 and real estate tax complaints by August 12.
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Board of Review
Grundy County
Fox Testimony on House Aide Sparks Senate Hearing
John Fox claimed Bernard Goldfine funded a house for Sherman Adams in Washington and sent checks to Adams over years. Adams denied the house claim in a letter read to Rep. Oren Harris's House subcommittee. Fox also said he received a $500000 loan from Joseph P. Kennedy after backing Kennedy’s 1952 Senate bid. he repaid it.
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Washington
John Fox
Bernard Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Adams
Eisenhower
House
Rep
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Fox
Goldfine
Boston
Congress
Joseph P. Kennedy
U. S
Great Britain
Kennedy
John
Boston Post
Joseph P. O'Hara
Minnesota
O'Hara
Harris
Pitched Battles in Lebanon during Moslem holiday
In Beirut and Tripoli heavy fighting erupted as government forces and rebels clashed overnight. Beitgh understood the rebels claimed 12 wounded in Beirut including a brother of Saeb Salam. Tripoli offered no casualty figures. The Moslem Mufti sought to cancel the Sacrifice of Abraham holiday amid rising tension.
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Tom Masterson
Beirut
Lebanon
Tripoli
Saeb Salam
Republic
Abraham
Industrial Development Post Filled Springfield Board Elects New Leaders
Richard Newinson of Chicago was elected chairman of the State Industrial Planning and Development Division. He has served as acting chair since the October 1957 death of James H. Stupka of Kankakee. Gene W. Gunther of Galesburg became vice chairman and Lewis D. Yaeger of Litchfield was named secretary.
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Springfield
Richard Newinson
Chicago
State Industrial Planning and Development Division
James H. Stupka
Kankakee
Gene W. Gunther
Galesburg
Lewis D. Yaeger
Litchfield
City crews clash over fresh street lines in St Joseph
City workmen painted new traffic lines on a St Joseph street and the following day another city crew repaved the area with a fresh layer of asphalt.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
St. Joseph Street
Education in Illinois Accounts for Most Property Taxes
A legislative report shows education taxes in Illinois exceed half of all property taxes in 100 of 102 counties. The study covering 1946 to 1956 notes statewide education levies averaging 54 percent, with Cook County at 46 percent and DuPage at 76 percent, while total property taxes rise 120 percent and school taxes 163 percent.
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Illinois
Chicago
Ilinois
Legislative Commission On
Orville Alexander
Commission
Alexander
Cook County
Downstate
DuPage County
Lake County
Dupage
Cook
Jet tanker crash near Westover kills 15 aboard
A KC 135 jet tanker crashed seconds after liftoff at Westover Air Force Base Mass killing all 15 aboard. Among the victims were six newsmen assigned to cover four Air Force planes attempting transatlantic speed records. Brig Gen Donald W Saunders was aboard.
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Westover Air Force Base
Mass
Air Force
Atlantic
Donald W. Saunders
Athens
Transatlantic Record Set By KC135 Tanker Flight
A U S Air Force KC135 tanker set the fastest New York to London transatlantic time at 5 hours 22 minutes 29.68 seconds landing at Brize Norton England. A second KC135 also beat the previous record before a third KC135 crashed at Westover MA killing 15.
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Brize Norton Air Base
England
U. S. Air Force
Oxfordshire
New York
London
Westover Air Force Base
Massachusetts
Plane crash kills civilians after four-plane takeoff
An airborne mission over New York ended in disaster. The third of four planes began its takeoff before a catastrophic explosion lit the sky. Kazimierz Machowski, who lived nearby, recalled the moment and described wreckage spanning the countryside. Local civilians perished in the crash.
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N. Y
London
Kazimierz Machowski
Boys State Top Officers Are Elected
More than 1,600 boys voted for top offices at Boys State campaign in Springfield Illinois. Candidates from two tickets the Nationalists and Federalists competed for Governor Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State State Auditor Attorney General State Treasurer State School Superintendent and Clerk of the Supreme Court with nominees named from Canton Rock Falls Bement Chicago Cham paign Forrest Canton Watseka Henry Oregon Palatine and other communities.
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Springfield
Boys State
Ronald Harrington
Canton
Michael Abcocie
Winthrop Harbor
Kenneth Siebel
Rock Falls
Brent Davis
Havana
Donald Livingston
Bement
Lester S. Roddy
Chicago
Bob Mantonya
Ronald Alderson
Blue Mound
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Polman
Jack
Earth
Stillman
Fuessen
San Diego
Calif
Camille Chamoun
Chamoun
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