Democrats attack Ike plan for wheat program
Democrats in Washington criticize President Eisenhower for appealing to the country for a less costly wheat program before Congress convenes. Sen. Ellender says the move is purely political, while Sen. Mansfield urges an alternative approach and calls for Benson to present comprehensive farm legislation.
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JACK BELL _ WASHINGTON
Eisenhower
Congress
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Senate Agriculture Committee
Gettysburg
Ellender
Benson
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate
Eisenower
Mansfield
Patrick Henry to be launched as second Polaris sub
GROTON Conn AP The Patrick Henry the second nuclear submarine capable of firing Polaris ballistic missiles will be launched September 22 at Electric Boat Division General Dynamics builders of the George Washington The 380 foot 5400 ton vessel will carry torpedoes and is due for completion in 1960 following the June 9 launch of the Washington
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Groton
Conn
Electric Boat Division
General Dynamics Corp
Notable corporate leader dies in New York
ARLE C Conway 81 former president and chairman of Continental Can Corp died Wednesday in Lake Placid NY. JAMES A Doctor 48 marketing VP for Vickers Petroleum Co Wichita was struck and killed Wednesday changing a tire on US 54 Augusta KS. Armando Lira Sepulveda 56 Chilean painter died Tuesday of a heart attack in Caracas Venezuela. Robert J Dienst 69 president GM Beau-fah Park Horse Racing Track Grove City OH died in Columbus Ohio.
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Associated Press
Lake Placid
N.Y
Arle C. Conway
Continental Can Corp
Augusta
Kan
James A. Doctor
Vickers Petroleum Co., Inc
Wichita
U.S
Caracas
Venezuela
Armando Lira Sepulvedad
Columbus
Ohio
Robert J. Dienst
Beauf@h Park
Grove City
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admits Multiple Patients
Jefferson Memorial records admit William Franklin Hicks Nellie Howell Bluford Pamela Dale Webb Elsa Aline Dodson Sue Ann Hopkins Karen Jean Shelton Olive Sneed Olita Elizabeth Flack and discharge a list including Paul Ritchie Ben McBride Marilyn Sei del Joseph Blanton Jerry Skinner Delmar Shorb Anna Coberly Marion Sampson and infant Richard Dominec Louisheli. GOOD SAMARITAN admits and discharges noted.
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Good Samaritan
Pamela Dale Webb
Elsa Aline Dodson
Sue Ann Hopkins
Karen Jean Shelton
Olive Sneed
Olita Elizabeth Flack
Paul Ritchie
Ben McBride
Marilyn Maxine Seidel
Joseph Dale Blanton
Jerry Don Skinner
Delmar Ray Shorb
Anna Bell Coberly
Marion Ann Sampson
Baby Coeree Richard
Dominec
Louis “Heli
Births for Colbert Dodson Blakely families
Mr and Mrs Joe Colbert of East Alton Illinois welcomed a daughter Vicky Jo born at 8 00 am Wednesday August 19 weighing seven pounds two ounces. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Glen Etheridge of East Alton formerly Mt Vernon residents. Mr and Mrs Ivan Dodson 1313 South 25th Street are parents of a son born yesterday at 3 49 pm in Good Samaritan Hospital weighing five pounds eight ounces named Ivan Aaron. Mr Blakely and Mrs Given O Blakely of Griffith Indiana are parents of twin daughters Ro Chel Faith five pounds four ounces and Michell Hope four pounds twelve ounces born recently in a hospital there. Mr Blakely is a former minister at the West Long Prairie Christian Church.
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Joe Colbert
East Alton
Ill
Vicky Jo
Glen Etheridge
Mt. Vernon
Ivan Dodson
South 25Th Street
Good Samaritan Hospital
Ivan Aaron
Given O. Blakely
Griffith
Indiana
Rochell Faith
Michell Hope
Blakely
West Long Prairie Christian Church
Royal Neighbors Meet Centralia Lodge at T.O.F. Temple
Royal Neighbors of America will entertain the Centralia lodge at the T.O.F. Temple Friday August 1 at 7 30 p m. Members are urged to attend and to bring a picture. Oracle Oya Harris signs the notice.
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Royal Neighbors
Royal Neighbors of America
Centralia Lodge
Oya Harris
Oracle
Sound Like Vaudeville Routine about Steel Strike
James Marlow analyzes the prolonged steel strike through a sardonic lens. Eisenhower and Mitchell release a 42 page government factbook on wages profits and prices to inform the public. The foreword stresses no conclusions leaving management and labor to decide. If no progress occurs the strike may extend into fall risking a national emergency.
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James Marlow
Associated Press News
Washington (Ap
Eisenhower
James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
Washington
Tape Recording Of Blast Aboard Wasp Reveals Fire Tapes
An unusual tape recording captures the explosion and fire aboard the aircraft carrier Wasp during antisubmarine maneuvers off Virginia. Lt jg Jim Hagen and Aviation Apprentice Donald Trask died, 28 injured, damage over five million dollars. Cribbage players near the hangar inadvertently recorded the blast.
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Quonset Point
R.i.ap
Wasp
Navy
Virginia
J.g
Jim Frank Hagen
Marianna
Fla
Donald H. Trask
Neene
N.H
Naval Base
Robert Stroh
Carrier Division 14
Patrick Harney
Robinsdale
Minn
Laborers Picket Union Hall Over Hiring Practices
About 100 members of Local 334 laborers union picketed the Detroit hall demanding changes to hiring rules they say encourage nonmembers. They accuse former president Andrew S. McFarlane of prompting contractors to hire nonunion workers who must join and pay initiation fees and dues. McFarlane denies the charges, saying contractors may hire anyone who then joins the union.
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Detroit
Andrew S. McFarlane
McFarlane
Wayne County Federation of Labor
Adam White
White
Soviets Free To Listen Says Moscow Radio Commentator
London AP report says Soviet Radio Moscow asserts citizens may freely hear foreign broadcasts. A Moscow commentator claims most sets have short wave bands, giving everyone a chance to tune in Western programs, though the piece omits any note of Soviet jamming.
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London
Breeekans Radio
Moscow
Tony
Soviet Union
Roosevelt Memorial Site Approved by Senate Committee
The Senate Rules Committee approved a resolution to reserve a 27 acre site near the Tidal Basin southeast of the Lincoln Memorial for a Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial. The House has already passed the measure and funding would come from private subscriptions.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Senate Rules Committee
House
Soviet Submarine Finishes 10,000 Mile Underwater Survey
Moscow radio reports a Soviet submarine completed a 10,000 mile underwater survey of the North Atlantic and the Barents Sea.
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London
Moscow Radio
North Atlantic
Barens Sea
Cuban Electric Co. Rates Slashed in Havana
The Cuban government ordered the American owned Cuban Electric Co to cut its rates by 30.4 percent in metropolitan Havana.
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Havana
Cuban Electric Co
Liquor license denied for Green Lantern club operator
In Marion Illinois the Green Lantern near Herrin had its liquor license denied to Milton Gibbons who leased the tavern from Amos Curry. State's Atty Carl D Sneed and Williamson County liquor commissioner Lonnie Priest cited health and morality concerns as the basis for the action and ordered the club closed in June.
Fund Raising Program For Civil Air Patrol Starts
The Mt. Vernon Civil Air Patrol squadron enters its second year with a fundraising drive led by the American Legion Jefferson Post 141. The cadets, ages 14 to 21, along with senior members, work to promote aviation education, volunteer service, and emergency support in the region including Missouri and northern Illinois. Lt. Carl Mezo commends cadets for initiative while Lt. Charles Green notes the goal of aviation education as preparation for tomorrow’s protection.
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Paul Horton
Jefferson Post 141
American Legion
Carl Mezo
Civil Air Patrol
Horton
Earl Tanner
The
Legion Post
Mt. Vernon
Bne
U. S. Air Force
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Charles Green
Can't Spread Democracy By Force Herter Says
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, returning from a hemisphere conference in Santiago, Chile, said democracy cannot be imposed by force. He noted recent Latin American expeditions claimed to spread democracy and called the foreign ministers conference "encouragingly successful."
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Washington
Christian A. Herter
Caribbean
Herter
Foreign Ministers
Santiago
Chile
Utah teen wins prize with homemade four foot robot
In San Francisco Theo Thompson, 18, from Utah, won $300 at the Western Electronic Show with a four foot robot that has a quart can head and a brain built from a pinball machine. The robot moved across the floor, blinked, sang, and asked scientists, How do you do, sir.
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San Francisco
Utah
Theo Thompson
Rahman Wins Five-Year Mandate to Drive Pro-West Policy
Prince Abdul Rahman secures a five year mandate to push Malaya toward a pro Western stance. His anti Communist alliance defeats Nationalist and Socialist opponents in a nationwide election held Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur Malaya.
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WEST
Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Abdul Rahman
Britain
Rahman
Anna Schoolman Gets State Job
Russell D. Rendleman of Anna was named a supervisor of Illinois elementary and high schools by State School Supt. George T. Wilkins. Rendleman, former Union County superintendent from 1935 until recently, will visit schools in northern Illinois.
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Springfield
Ill
Russell D. Rendleman
Anna Wednesday
Illinois
George T. Wilkins
Rendleman
Union County
Gal Bootleggers Charge Beer Hall In Natal Riot
In Durban South Africa African women defied race laws by attacking a municipal beer hall manager. About 40 to 50 women were jailed at Escourt sixty miles north west of Pietermaritzburg as they protested restrictions on brewing and selling potent home brew.
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Durban
South Africa
Natal
Escourt
Pietermaritzburg
Fatal holiday crash in Spain kills 21 British students
A chartered airliner crashed into a fogbound mountain near Barcelona killing 21 British students and 11 crew and passengers. The plane struck Mount Manresa 25 miles northeast of Barcelona as the group returned to London. The accident left no survivors among the 21 students and 11 others aboard.
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Barcelona
Spain
London
Man
Here
U S Bars Danish Doctor From Meeting
Professor Mogens Fog of Copenhagen University says he was denied a visa to enter the United States. He was set as an official delegate for Danish physicians to a World Medical Association and World Health Organization meeting in Chicago from Aug 29 to Sept 4. Fog, a leading Socialist People’s party figure, previously aligned with a former Communist group.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Mogens Fog
United States
Fog
Chicago
Copenhagen University
World Medical Assn
World Health Organization
Mort
Copper Wire Theft Strikes Abandoned Mt. Vernon Car Shops
Thieves torn into the old Mt. Vernon car shops last night and stole thousands of feet of heavy copper wire from the wood mill forge shop and repair shed. Police report the three eighth inch wire was cut from locks at the north Seventh Street gate and that watchman Clarence Hopper alerted authorities on arrival.
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Mt. Vernon
Seventh Street
Clarence Hopper
Pennsylvania Senate approves 4 percent sales tax hike
Harrisburg AP reports Pennsylvania will become the second state after Washington to enact a 4 percent sales tax. The state Senate passed the measure Wednesday night, sending it to Governor David L. Lawrence to increase the current 3 percent rate.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Washington
Senate
David L. Lawrence
Highsmith Attends Banking School at University
C Wayne Highsmith, assistant cashier of the First National Bank, is away two weeks at the School of Banking, University of Wisconsin Madison. The program requires two weeks on site each year for three years to earn graduation certification. The Central States Conference sponsors the school, with 1175 bankers from 40 states attending, taught by over 110 instructors from banking, law, and academia.
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C. Wayne Highsmith
First National Bank
School of Banking
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Central States Conference
Bankers Associations
Mid-Western
Rites Today For Admiral Halsey
The nation buries Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey at Arlington National Cemetery after President, Defense leaders, and many veterans gather at Washington National Cathedral. The 76 year old naval hero died Sunday at Fishers Island New York following a long career that helped win World War II in the Pacific.
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Washington
William F. Halsey
Halsey
Washington National Cathedral
Fishers Island
N.Y
Arlington National Cemetery
Defense Department
Pacific
Batista Exiled to Portugal Madeira Islands after US denial
Fulgencio Batista travels from the Dominican Republic to Portugal on a special plane, heading for Madeira as Cuba’s ex-dictator seeks asylum. Washington blocks any US entry, sealing his exile path to Europe along with 17 in his party.
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Ciudad Trujilo
Dominican Republic
Fulgencio Batista
Portugal
Madeira Islands
Caribbean
Cuba
Washington
United States
Batista
Fidel Castro
Batista Party
Lisbon
Madeira
Morocco
Ciudad Trujillo
Mt. Vernon Delegation Heads to State Water Meeting
Mt Vernon residents will attend a statewide water supply conference in Springfield Illinois on August 26 and 27. City Manager Harlow Richardson Sewer Dept Supt Arch Whitlock Denzer Electric President C J Covington Water Co Supt Clifford Fore and Chamber of Commerce Manager Joe Winfrey will represent the city.
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Mt. Vernon
Springfield
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Red Cross First Aid Class Opens in Mt Vernon
The Red Cross will begin a new standard First Aid class in Mt. Vernon next Monday August 24 at 2 00 p m in the air conditioned directors room of the First National Bank No pre registration is necessary and the course is free Participants should report at the bank at 2 00 p m Instructors will be Pauline Roth and Viola Minor.
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The
Red Cross
Mt. Vernon
First National Bank
Pauline Roth
Viola Minor
Boy Scouts Carry Torch Relay Through Illinois
Illinois motorists on U S 66 were urged to watch for Boy Scouts relaying the Pan American games torch to Chicago. The relay, begun Aug 4 in Laredo Texas, will reach Alton and Hamel via Route 140 and Route 66, to light the friendship flame at the Chicago games. Gov. Stratton pledged support and State Police Chief Morris assigned a squad car to accompany the Scouts.
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Springfield
Ill
U.S
Chicago
Aston
Village Votes To Buy Rockys A Wedding Gift
Sogne plans a gift for Anne Marie and Steven described as some silver but details and cost remain undisclosed. The Rockefeller family will fund the photographers platform construction, while the town must cover the removal costs. Anne Marie's father Kristian Rasmussen deflects questions on wedding expenses saying he will not discuss it.
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Rockys
Sogne
Anne Marie
Steven
Rockefeller
Kristian Rasmussen
Classic oldies lineup from 1950s charts overview
Sleep Walk by Santo and Johnny and Sea of Love by Phil Phillips headline a nostalgic 1950s scene. Other tracks include There Goes My Baby by the Drifters and Mack the Knife by Bobby Darin. A nostalgic trip through enduring pop and rock songs with stars like Everly Brothers and Johnny Cash.
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Santo
Johnny
Jack Scott
Phil Phillips
My Baby
The
Drifters
Mack the Knife
Bobby Darrin
Red River Rock
Johnny—Hurricanes, I
Jan & Dean
Anita Bryant
Skip
Flip
Everly Brothers
Caterpillar
Dick Dixon
Strangers
Knightsbridge Strings
Johnny Cash
Clyde McPhatter
Kookie
Kookie’ Byrnes
Sarah Vaughn
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