Hays Damns De Gaulle NATO Policy in Strasbourg Speech
Rep. Wayne L. Hays of Ohio assailed France's withdrawal from NATO and warned that De Gaulle's stance endangers the alliance and European unity. He said sovereignty cannot tear at international commitments and urged Western nations to uphold postwar cooperation.
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Strasbourg
France
Wayne L. Hays
D-Ohio
Charles de Gaulle
North Atlantic Alliance
NATO
Europe
European Consultative Assembly
Hays
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
de Gaulle
Consultative Assembly
Council of Europe
Judge Orders Women from Menard Trial
Widows of three slain Menard Prison guards were ordered from the courtroom as jurors were being selected for the murder trial of four convicts. Circuit Judge Creek Douglass issued the order. The state plans to seek the death penalty for defendants John W. Stamps William E. Bassett Princess Ray Griffin and Alonzo H. Jones.
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Springfield
Ill
Menard
Creek Douglass
Lewis Paul
Chester
Arthur Kisro
Murphysboro
George Wilson
West Frankfort
John W. Stamps
Granite City
William E. Bassett
Fairfield
Princess Ray Griffin
Chicago
Alonzo H. Jones
Manchester
Tenn
Warmer Weather Ahead With Moderate Temperatures
The U S Weather Bureau expects fair skies and warming tonight with a low in the 40s. Thursday turns partly cloudy and warmer with a 70s high. Thursday night and Friday call for partly cloudy and cooler conditions. Collins Station logged 57 high and 32 low yesterday, 48 at 9 am today, and 55 downtown by 11 30 am.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Rail merger talks enter final ICC hearings
The Interstate Commerce Commission opens hearings on Rock Island Lines merger bids from Union Pacific and Chicago and North Western. Union Pacific values its offer at about 125 million dollars with 3500 miles of Rock Island trackage to be sold. North Western counters with 204 million dollars and a future merger plan.
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Chicago
Union Pacific
Chicago and North Western
Rock Island
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
North Western
Western
Rock Island Now
South Pacific Railroad
Kansas City
Santa Fe
Illinois
Omaha
West Coast
St. Louis
Ford faults past auto safety efforts and praises hearings
Henry Ford II told a national purchasing agents convention in Detroit that the auto industry should have acted sooner to improve highway safety. He endorsed congressional hearings as educational and urged broader focus on roads and enforcement beyond car design gains.
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Detroit
Henry Ford II
Ford
House Commerce Committee
Coal City Salvation Army Pickup Planned for Friday
The Salvation Army will return to Coal City Friday after Monday’s collection remained incomplete. Residents are asked to place donations near the curb or on porches where the truck can see them.
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Salvation Army
Coal City
Coal City moves ahead with 74 acre sewage plant site
In a Tuesday afternoon settlement of the condemnation suit with William J. Trotter, Coal City cleared the way to build a sewage oxidation pond on about 74 acres north of town. Land price unavailable. agreement to be recorded within a week. plans submitted to the state for review.
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Coal City
William J. Trotter
Trotter
Donald Koerner
Atty
John Zerboglio
Zerboglio
Illinois Sanitary Water Board
Mazon
Bombers Hit Southern Viet Nam Supply Route Again
American B52 bombers pounded the southern end of the Ho Chi Minh trail near the Cambodian border for the seventh time in eight days as monsoon weather looms. Australia began deploying 400 troops and equipment, while U.S. Marines reported 29 Viet Cong killed in two actions.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
South
Viet Nam
U.S
Australia
Sydney
U.S. Command
North Viet Nam
Navy
GOP Candidates Night Friday in Grundy County
Meade Baltz of Joliet Republican state senate candidate and former legislator will speak at a Candidates Night by the Grundy County Republican central committee. The event starts at 7 30 p m Friday at the Masonic Temple and invites the public to meet candidates and ask questions on legislative issues the Revenue Act and state constitution. Refreshments will follow.
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Meade Baltz
Joliet
Morris native John E. Harrod promoted to US Steel Youngstown post
John E. Harrod, Morris native and son of Grace Harrod, is named assistant general superintendent at United States Steel Youngstown works. He replaces Frank E. Waterman, promoted to vice president of engineering and production at Reactive Metals. Harrod, educated at Morris schools and Missouri School of Mines, has a long Steel career including Gary Indiana division superintendent. He and wife Marguerite have two children. The transfer took effect Monday.
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John E. Harrod
Morris
Horace E
Grace) Harrod
Liberty St
United States Steel
Youngstown, Ohio
Ralph W. Dickson
Frank E. Waterman
Reactive Metals, Inc
Horace ©. Harrod
U. S. Steel
Gary
Ind
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
Association of Iron and Steel Engineers
Harrod
Marguerite
Morris Elementary School Board Reviews Public Questions
The Morris Elementary Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. at Lincoln School to discuss public questions on the proposed building program. Superintendent Kenneth Hamner says a public hearing will be set early next week, with a decision at the next Wednesday meeting on June 11 about the building issue to be presented to the public.
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Morris Elementary Board of Education
Lincoln School
Kenneth Hammer
Board of Education
Memorial statue dedicated at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
In Honolulu AP reports a memorial honoring over 26 000 American war dead was dedicated at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. A dominant 30 foot statue of Columbia crowns the site.
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Honolulu
Columbia
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Negro Nominated For Legislature Surprises in Alabama primaries
The Alabama primary produced a major upset as Lurleen Wallace won a clear path to the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, with Negro voters mobilized under the Voting Rights Act. Attorney Fred D. Gray emerged as a notable negro candidate for the state House, while Sheriff races and other contests shaped a near historic ballot across six states.
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Washington
Alabama
Richmond Flowers
George C. Wallace
Flowers
Wallace
Albert J. Lingo
Melvin Bailey
Jefferson County
Robert Taft Jr
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
U.S. House of Representatives
John Birch Society
Taft
U.S. House
Johnson
Stephen M. Young
Jurors Return To Court In Grundy County Case
About 30 prospective jurors were excused until 1 p.m. today by Circuit Judge Walter Dixon in Grundy County Circuit Court. The next case is Lynn Radtke versus Howard Schardt for $50,000 in damages from a November 25 1964 Pontiac Interstate 80 crash near Morris where she was a passenger.
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Grundy County
Walter Dixon
Lynn Radtke
Howard Schardt
Schardt
Interstate 80
Morris
Negroes Lead Three Races For Sheriff
In Alabama a wave of Black voters backed Negro candidates in Tuesday's primary with Fred S. Gray winning a House seat in a district around Gov. Wallace's hometown and four Black nominees leading in Jefferson County for runoffs May 31. King praised the turnout as a new day, yet rural returns may temper early optimism.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Fred S. Gray
Tuskegee
George C. Wallace
Jefferson County
Martin Luther King Jr
Greene County
King’s
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bill Lee
Thomas Gilmore
Black Belt
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George
Lurleen Wallace
Prattville
George Wallace
Henry Ford
Coal City Pickup
GOP
MCHS
Rotary Arion
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Morris Country Club
Arion
Linda Love
Richard DeAtley
Wayne Graham
Dale Wise
Betty Cornish
Herald
U.S. Steel
Alabama House of Representatives
Fred D. Gray
Macon County
James G. Clark
Selma
Wilson Baker
Selma Public Safety
Florida
Haydon Burns
Miami
Robert King High
Burns
Robert F. Kennedy
High
Sargent Shriver
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John J. Sparkman
Indiana
Richard L. Roudebush
Ralph Harvey
Congress
Harvey
New Mexico
Gene Lusk
Carlsbad
John Burroughs
David Cargo
Clifford Hawley
James A. Rhodes
Frazier Reams Jr
Oklahoma
Raymond Gary
Oklahoma City
Preston Moore
The
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