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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1960
Page
1
William L. Ryan reports from Moscow on how installments, credit, and advertising creep into Soviet internal trade. Government stores in GUM offer installment purchases, while quality goods remain scarce and consumer discontent grows under Khrushchev era policies.
Butler of Marseilles received medical care at Morris Country club Tuesday evening after a golf ball struck the back of his head during Wendell Wilson of Morris's second stroke on the No 1 fairway. The impact caused a slight head wound.
Soviet planners announce a new series of multistage rockets to be fired in the central Pacific next month. The test area lies about 200 miles west of Palmyra Island and 600 miles from Christmas Island, with a July 5 to 31 window and a 50 000 square mile target zone.
Lincoln Zonn, lie detector expert, testified that a Miami hotel clerk took $42 to cover a horse bet he could not fund. The clerk planned to win by betting $2, but his boss refused. After the horse paid, he took the $42 from the cash register.
The Illinois Federation of Republican Women plans a Hukilau with the National Republican convention at the Palmer House Chicago inviting Grundy county Republican women. Reservations with Mrs Harold Coleman Morris due by July 12 at six dollars per person. Honored guests include Mrs William G Stratton Mrs Everett M Dirksen Mrs Peter Gibson and Federation officers.
The Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy warm weather this afternoon with lower humidity later. Tuesday saw a sultry 85 degrees at Collins Weather Station with a shower. night low near 66 and .08 inches of rainfall. At 9 am today the temperature was 74 degrees.
Fidel Castro sends two bargeloads of Soviet crude to the Texaco refinery in Santiago and vows to nationalize the American owned plant if Texaco refuses to process. He also pledges to seize all American property in Cuba penny by penny in response to U S sugar quota cuts, warning that every pound removed from the quota costs an American sugar mill. He speaks at a sugar workers rally in Artemisa and threatens reallocation of sugar land if sales to the United States fall. The speech frames U S policy as stupid and criminal and labels Americans as grin gos.
Carbon Hill gears up for its annual Homecoming July 13 to 17 with a large carnival and a packed sports calendar. Governor and Mrs. Stratton will lead a parade at 10 30 a m on July 17 with dignitaries and old timers joining in. Baseball games July 13 feature Yankees and Sox Cubs versus Dodgers.
Imperial Beach, California. H. W. Dukes bought an unopened old trunk containing seven volumes of the 1778 Encyclopaedia Britannica. The owner notes that the set covers the American Revolution era, but does not mention the war itself. topics include the New World and New Zealand in the America chapter.
Democratic leaders abandoned plans to finish Congress before the party conventions. Johnson proposed a recess beginning Friday or Saturday and return on August 8. Rayburn had urged postelection session to tackle major items including a wage bill and housing measure. The Senate and House move on defense funding and tax extension, with the conventions opening July 11 in Los Angeles and July 25 in Chicago.
Western experts attending the International Congress on Automations are astonished by Soviet progress in automatic devices for computation and control systems. They cite self optimizing control systems and pneumatic computers, noting the lack of moving parts and safer use in chemical plants, with MIT as the only comparable institution.
Englewood hospital opens a bloom closet offering beauty treatments to women patients. Treatments are provided in the hospital salon or at bedsides via a glamor wagon, a project sponsored by the hospital auxiliary.
A line of destructive thunderstorms swept Illinois Missouri Kentucky Iowa and Minnesota. Strong winds up to 125 mph toppled trees damaged buildings and cut power. Edna Gause died in Quincy Illinois as an apartment collapse occurred.
Gov. John E. F. Davis Republican clings to a slim lead over Democratic Rep. Quentin Burdick in North Dakota’s special Senate election. With 1,799 of 2,310 precincts counted, Davis held about 51 percent of votes, though rural returns narrowed the margin from early leads.
Nepali Prime Minister B P Koirala announced a Nepali border patrol officer was killed and 15 Nepalis were captured by Chinese forces near Mustang Tibet border. He corrected an earlier count of 15 killed and 12 captured and said only one Nepali was killed and 15 arrested. A protest has been filed with Peiping.
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