Death notices John T. Latham Dies at 63
John Thomas Latham, 63, died suddenly at 11:20 this morning at his home 508 North 12th Street. A World War I veteran, he belonged to the Central Church of Christ and the Masonic Lodge. Born January 21, 18% at Creal Springs Illinois, he was the son of John Wesley and Jennie Price Latham. Survived by wife Etha Breeze, a son John of Rockford Illinois, a daughter Nah Ferne Kunmann of Washington D C, three grandchildren, a brother Essel of Marion Illinois, and three sisters May Hood Ruth Smith and Ruby Jones. Funeral arrangements were incomplete this afternoon. Bed to Pulley Funeral Home.
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John Thomas Latham
North 12Th Street
Latham
Central Church of Christ
Masonic Lodge
Creal Springs
Ill
John Wesley
Jennie (Price) Latham
Etha Breeze
Pulley Funeral
John
Rockford
Nah Ferne Kunmann
Washington, D.C
Essel
Marion
May Hood
Sparta
Ruth Smith
Old Saybrook
Illinois Sets 60 Pupils as Daily Attendance Standard
SPRINGFIELD AP The state will require high schools to average at least 60 pupils daily starting 1959 60, superseding a 36 pupil rule. After probation, schools not meeting the standard will lose state aid. Asst State Supt Guy E Cornwell notes concern but won’t estimate number at risk.
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Springfield
Tellinois
General Assembly
Guy E. Cornwell
Cornwell
She Has Polio Second Time in Salisbury
Candy Johnson, 23, a housewife from Princess Anne, is hospitalized with a second polio case in Salisbury, after a prior bout seven years earlier left partial paralysis. Doctors confirmed polio today, noting she had not received Salk vaccine shots and had been advised she was immune from the first illness.
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Hurdle
Marion County Levies Sales Tax Approved
In unincorporated areas of Marion and Fayette counties merchants face a one half cent sales tax starting after September. County supervisors approved the levy in both counties. Marion County expects about 175 merchants to be taxed and revenue around $25,000 annually.
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Marion County
Centralia, TM
Marion and Fayette County
Marion
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admitted and Discharged
Jefferson Memorial admits Emil Harris Dean Irwin Hertenstein Donald Pigg and Mrs Ethel Burns. Discharged: Mrs Iaa Frances Spiller of Christopher. Good Samaritan admits Lettie Myrtle Long Albert Eugene Hargus Herman Lloyd Summers Robert Walter Short Mary Ann Lowry Jean nine Marie Austin Sylvia Grace Smith and Jean Vivian Warfield. Discharged: Jed Douglas Starman John Samuel Barbee Bobby Gene Hosick Lee Hayes Brenda Lucille Hartley and Mary Kay Witges.
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Jefferson Memorial
Emil Harris
Dean Irwin Hertenstein
Donald Pigg
Ethel Burns
Iaa Frances Spiller
Christopher
Good Samaritan
Lettie Myrtle Long
Albert Eugene Hargus
Herman Lloyd Summers
Robert Walter Short
Mary Ann Lowry
Jeannine Marie Austin
Sylvia Grace Smith
Jean Vivian Warfield
Jed Douglas Starman
John Samuel Barbee
Bobby Gene Hosick
Lee Hayes
Brenda Lucille Hartley
Mary Kay Witges
Births Mr and Mrs Ernest Lowery welcome a son
Mr and Mrs Ernest Lowery of 2514 Logan are the parents of a son born last night at 11 37 o clock at Good Samaritan hospital He weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces. Mr and Mrs Earl Price of No 6 Elm Circle are the parents of a son born August 12 at 11 29 a m at Good Samaritan Hospital He weighed 8 pounds and Mary Eai nd had been named Edward
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Ernest Lowery
Logan
Good Samaritan Hospital
Earl Price
Elm Circle
Ns Samaritan
Mari Eaiid
Edward
Steel price cut proposal rejected amid strike talks
Washington AP reports the steel industry rejected Bowles proposed price cut to placate a monthlong strike. Blough of U.S. Steel said wage increases for workers are inevitable. administration delays Taft-Hartley actions until mid fall. Union argues profits rise and work rules not the core issue.
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Washington
Chester A. Bowles
D-Conn
Eisenhower
Roger Blough
U.S. Steel Corp
Blough
United Steelworkers
Bowles
New York
James P. Mitchell
U.S. Steel
New Car Will Travel On Air
Curtiss Wright Corp declares it will produce air driven cars at its South Bend plant with production slated to begin in November. The 300 horsepower, four passenger vehicle travels on a cushion of low pressure air, reaches 60 mph, has no wheels or transmission, and operates 6 to 12 inches above ground, water, or swamp. Cars will be offered to industries, not the public.
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New York
Curtiss- Wright Corp
South Bend
Ind
Restaurant Fire Near Greenville Delays Sale Prospects
A grease fire at the Wish ing Well on U.S. 40 caused 20000 dollars damage just hours before an expected sale. Ray Boggs, owner, planned to meet a buyer at 10 a.m. Fire crews from Greenville and Smithboro fought the blaze for two hours, destroying the kitchen coffee shop and dining room with no injuries reported.
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Greenville
Ray Boggs
Wishing Well
U.S. 40
Greenvile
Smithboro
Boggs
Illinois Stays Hot and Dry with Scattered Relief
Illinois continues hot and dry conditions with highs in the 90s across most of the state. Some northern communities saw a brief dip from Wednesday's 9 plus highs, while Chicago reached 93, Belleville Peoria and Quincy around 91. Lows Wednesday night ranged from 61 at Vandalia to 73 in Chicago. No rain expected until Friday as thundershowers target scattered areas, with weekend forecasts showing low to mid 90s statewide.
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Illinois
Chicago
Belleville Peoria
Quincy
Rantoul
Moline
Rockford
Sunpetiet
Vandalia
Unions Switched at Herrin Transformer Plant Vote
In Herrin area Ordill the Supreme Transformer Co plant voters chose District 30 of the United Mine Workers over the International Association of Machinists and the Congress of Independent Unions in an NLRB election. The plant employs 138 workers with 129 voting.
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Herrin, II
Supreme Transformer Co
National Labor Relations Board
District 30
United Mine Workers
UMW
International Assn. of Machinists
Congress of Independent Unions
NLRB
Ordill
Soviet Destroyer Collides With German Freighter
In the western Baltic during NATO drills a Soviet destroyer collided with the German freighter Christel. The 300-ton vessel suffered a crushed bow but its six crew members escaped unharmed. The Soviet ship departed as two other warships followed into the fog amid suspicions of joint maneuvering by NATO forces.
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KTEL
Germany
Baltic
NATO
Christel
Christe
Britain
Denmark
Norway
Last Civil War veteran Walter Williams near death at 116
Walter Williams, the last Civil War veteran, aged 116, hovered near death in Houston as doctors warned he could live only a matter of days. The century veteran had long been a symbol of a fading era and Confederate legacy. Williams’s condition drew attention from local residents and national observers recalling the war’s final years.
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Houston, Tex
Walter Williams
Senate Group Approves New Housing Bill
The Senate Banking Committee approved a substitute 1.05 billion dollar housing bill with one major concession to administration objections. It moved to the Senate floor within 24 hours of failing to override President Eisenhower’s veto of the earlier 1.375 billion measure. The full committee kept intact the two 50 million dollar programs for college classrooms and housing for the elderly, with only the classroom funds shifted to an appropriation basis. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson questioned whether the veto override helped the party, while Sen John Sparkman led plans to base the proposal on the 1.05 billion dollar substitute. Sen Homer Capehart predicted Eisenhower would sign it after minor changes. The Senate previously failed to override the veto 53 to 40.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Senate
Eisenhower
Prescott Bush
R-Conn
Bush
Treasury
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Homer FE. Capehart
Homer FE. Capehart (Rind
Fisenhower
She Wasn't Lost On 80 Mile Hike
Dr. Mary McGehee 65, a retired Vassar College teacher, hiked about 80 miles alone in Colorado’s rough terrain from the Continental Divide and back. An 18man search party was mobilized after she became separated from her companion Miss Georgia Steiner 18 of Lake Forest Illinois, but McGehee returned home unharmed saying there was no need for the rescue.
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Twin Lakes
Colo
Colorado
Mary McGehee
Vassar College
Aspen
Georgia Steiner
Lake Forest
Tours Kaskaskia Valley By Air
Major Gen. William A. Carter toured the Kaskaskia River valley by air after inspecting work on an under construction site at Carlyle. He headed the Army engineers district office in Vicksburg, Miss., and was accompanied by Col. Charles Schweizer of the St. Louis office and Eldon Hazlet, Carlyle president of the Kaskaskia Valley association.
House Rejects Soft Labor Bill Over Amendment Clash
The House turned down a soft labor bill amid a Powell amendment dispute viewed as a bid to derail reform. Leaders said 10 to 15 undecided members could swing passage of a plan aiming to protect union rights, require financial disclosures, and regulate boycotts and picketing while addressing NLRB duties in minor disputes.
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House
National Labor Relations Board
Harmonica Was His Downfall
Robert Jordan, 31, was captured on a burglary charge after Deputy Jennings heard him playing a harmonica on a highway. He admitted breaking into vending machines at a Teutopolis garage and leaving the instrument behind. he later retrieved it. He lived in Detroit with no street address and was held on a $5,000 bond after a Wednesday preliminary hearing.
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Effingham, Tit
Robert Jordan
L. R. Jennings
Jennings
Jordan
Teutopolis
Detroit
Pontiac
Mich
Bernard J. Blechars
Bloomfield Hills
Blechars
Blechar
Nancy
Pacific
Seven Mt Vernon area graduates at SIU summer commencement
Seven Mt Vernon and Jefferson county youths are among 458 graduates at Southern Illinois University summer exercises. Masters go to John Richard Davis and Jack L. Story. Bachelor’s degrees award to Karol Warren Doris Greenlee J W Sanders Max Shurtz Dorothy Hahn Christopher Bima Ira Elliott Keith Upton Rosa McLain Doris Draege Geraldine Massa Curtis Englebright Wyman Fischer.
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Mt. Vernon
Jefferson County
Southern Ilinois University
John Richard Davis
Isabella
Jack L. Story
South 12Th Street
Karol Lee Warren
Salem Road
Doris Irene Greenlee
North Seventh
J. W. Sanders
South 24Th
Max W. Shurtz
Waltonville
Dorothy Devers Hahn
Woodlawn
Ristopher
William J. Bima
Fairfield
Ira Randall Elliott
Keith Edward Upton
McLeanshoro
Rosa Isabell McLain
Richview
Doris Faye Draege
Ashley
Paul Edward Daniels
DuBois
Geraldine B. Massa
Curtis L. Englebright
Nashville
Wyman Edwin Fischer
Kroger Store Faces $18048 Shortage at St Louis Shop
A Kroger Co store at 4301 Hampton Ave in St Louis reported an $18048 shortage found by a company auditor Frank J. Kocar. Investigators believe the loss occurred gradually. The auditors delayed reporting to police for two days to confirm no error, a delay complicated by the death of the auditor who last checked the accounts.
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ST. Louis
Kroger Co
Hampton Ave
Kroger
Frank J. Kocar
Lightning Kills Two Guardsmen in Desert Headquarters
Lightning struck a field headquarters in the desert north of El Paso wrecking through the New Mexico National Guard camp. Two guardsmen were killed and twelve others injured by shock and burns. names withheld pending next of kin notification. All injured expected to be released from William Beaumont Army Hospital today.
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EL Paso
Tex
Here
New Mexico National
Little Rock School Integration Timeline Faces Court Ruling
The report details the 1957 start of integration at Central and Hall High, Gov Faubus’s 1957 National Guard actions, subsequent federalization, and school schedule adjustments amid legal challenges. It notes six arrests, 16 year olds Elsie Robinson and Horace Mann transfer referrals, and current half-day sessions pending full hours.
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Elsie Robinson
Central
Hall
Horace Mann High
Faubus
Hall High
Two Young Men Kidnap and Rape St Louis Woman
A 27 year old police records employee was abducted from a street corner by two men about 11 PM. They drove her north of the city beat her and raped her after threatening to kill her. She resisted, was struck, and the assailants returned her clothing and took $7 before leaving her on a northern road. They gave her $2 for a taxi. Each man about 21.
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ST. Louis
Aho
Police Department
City Hospital
Faubus Has Not Changed Mind
Gov. Orval Faubus, at a Mount Nebo chicken fry, renewed attacks on Little Rock public officials over the school integration dispute. He refused to say what more he could do, criticized police over arrests, and questioned the characterization of Everett Tucker as a gentle man.
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Little Rock
Ark
Mount Nebo
Orvald
Faubus
Gene Smith
Everett Tucker
Tucker
Jeanne Pig 13 Undergoes Spine Surgery in Decatur
Jeanne Pig, 13, daughter of Mr and Mrs Voris Pigg once of Mt Vernon, is a patient at Macon County Hospital Decatur Il for spine surgery. She had a procedure last week and will be operated on again Friday. She will stay several weeks in hospital and then bedridden for months at the Pigg home in Effingham. Cards may be sent to Macon County Hospital Decatur Il.
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Jeanne Pigg
Voris Pigg
Mt. Vernon
Macon County Hospital
Decatur
Miss Pigg
Pigg
Effingham
Devil's Kitchen Lake fills as dam valves close
Devil's Kitchen Lake in Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge begins filling after valves on the 670 foot dam are shut. The lake will hold 10 acres and reach full size in four months to a year depending on rainfall. Construction, started in 1940 by the WPA, faced war delays and is now nearing completion with $450,000 more needed for recreational facilities. total spent since 1955 amounts to $3,300,000.
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Carbondale, III
Devil’s Kitchen Lake
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Little Grassy
Crab Orchard
Devil’s Kitchen
Works Progress Administration
Tells Editors Bid For Smart Young Workers
Seattle AP report notes journalism school director urges editors to compete with engineering science and medicine for top young minds. George J. Kienzle from Ohio State warns of journalism losing glamour to science and calls editors to market the profession to students and communities. Tebbetts and Murphy discuss sports reporting quality and limits on athlete private-life details.
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Seattle
Wash
George J. ‘"Kienzle
Ohio State University
Associated Press
Assn
Star of Science
Kienzel
Kienzle
APME
I. William Hill
Washington
D.C
Star
George R
Birdie) Tebbetts
Milwaukee Braves
Tebbetst
Jack Murphy
San Diego
Calif
May Build Swimming Pool At McLeansboro
McLeansboro city news covers a council vote denying immediate pool construction citing debt. Kiwanis backed plan for a pool is deferred for further study on costs and fundraising potential. The council approves a Ford pickup for the light plant and accepts land to extend Oak street to Broadway. Sales tax funds may shift to the General Fund. Local police report a shotgun assault incident, with a 65 year old man held, and his wife hospitalized recovering.
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Dave Barnes
South 29Th Street
Ethel
Barnes
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Mcleansboro
Kiwanis Club
Adams
Val Bethel
L. O. York
Bethel
Chalmer Miller
Oak Street
Broadway
McClellan
Hyatts Addition
Council
Castro Foes Go For Broke
An anti-Castro spokesman in Miami said a full-scale counterrevolutionary offensive is under way in central Cuba and the movement intends to "go for broke." The insurgents are said to be ex Cuban soldiers and defectors who landed near Trinidad from the Dominican Republic, led by former general Jose Eleuterio Pedraza via shortwave.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
Miami News
Fidel Castro
Trinidad
Dominican Republic
Jose Eleuterio Pedraza
Castro
Pedraza
Arrest Made In Mascoutah Church Break-In
Mt. Vernor police last night arrested Ernest Stanbery, 36, a transient, on charges of breaking into a Mascoutah church and stealing clocks. He was turned over to Mascoutah police chief for processing.
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Mt. Vernor
Mascoutah
Ernest Stanbery
Mamie Eisenhower Visits Ailing Mother in Denver
Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower arrived in Denver to visit her ailing mother Mrs. Elivera Doud at her bedside. An Secret Service official said there was no major change in the 81 year old's condition. Eisenhower had left Washington by train Tuesday night and White House spokesman Wayne Hawks said health had been poor for some time. He disputed claims the First Lady's departure was sudden.
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Mamie Eisenhower
Elivera Doud
Secret Service
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