State Council For Retarded Meets Today in Danville
A meeting of the Illinois Council for Mentally Retarded Children is held today at the Wolford Hotel in Danville. The 50 member council works to improve life for mentally retarded children and adults and their families with officers including Mrs Karl L Smiley president and Bruce L Smyth vice president. The group has committees on membership publicity research and more. Charles DeWitt Mt Vernon is state coordinator for the National Association for Retarded Children. An office opened at 343 S Dearborn Chicago with Adele Karlson as executive secretary. Retarded Children's Aid of Danville hosted the feathering gathering as 1956 ends.
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Karl L. Smiley
Peoria
Bruce L. Smyth
Palatine
Alex Tryslak
Chicago
Kenneth W. Boaden
Springfield
June McNally
Charles DeWitt
Mt. Vernon
Association For
Illinois Council
S. Dearborn Street
Adele Karlson
Wilmette
Retarded Children's Aid
Danville
Feathering
Dale Par
Mmembers
Corn Price Support Referendum Details For December Vote
A December referendum asks corn producers to approve price supports tied to a national average of 1.36 per bushel for 1957. Eligible voters include operators and landlords sharing in 1956 corn proceeds, with landlords on fixed rent excluded. County ASC offices urge eligible growers to verify base acreages and allotments and vote in large numbers.
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Soil Bank
Pierce
Weather Alert Illinois Freezing Rain and Sleet Warning
Central Illinois faces freezing rain and sleet with rapid eastward spread today. Front moves to snow late afternoon, ending later tonight. Rain in the far south transitions to sleet or snow tonight. Snow covers the northern third, little in extreme north. Sunday brings partial sun north, clouds south, with continued cold. Highs 25 to 32 north and central, 32 to 36 south. Lows 18 to 28 north, 28 to 34 south.
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U S And Russia Map Polar Areas
Washington reports the United States and Russia will conduct separate aerial photo mapping operations in their north polar sectors next year. The Soviets rejected an American joint project proposal that had been floated by Soviet scientists as part of the International Geophysical Year.
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United States
Russia
Crop Supports Costing a Hundred Million A Month
government price support programs cost more than 426 million dollars in four months ending October 31 1956 as the Agriculture Department reported a net loss of 240 million for the same period in 1955. The fiscal year ending June 30 showed a loss of 974 million dollars.
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Agriculture Department
Two Accidents Here On Friday
Two noninjury crashes occurred on Mt. Vernon streets Friday. At 4 10 p m a pickup driven by Theodore R Patterson and a car driven by Omer Phil bert White collided in the 200 block of South Tenth Street Patterson was fined five dollars and costs for illegal lane usage. At 1 00 p m vehicles driven by Billie Joe York and Bill Flynn collided in the 1100 block of Broadway with no injuries reported.
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Theodore R. Patterson
Omer Philbert White
South 18Th
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Patterson
Billie Joe York
Neal
Bill Flynn
Broadway
Births in San Francisco and local area announced
Mr and Mrs Jack Patterson of San Francisco announce the birth of a son born Friday morning named Robert Neal. Mr and Mrs Gene Mills report a son born at 2 32 pm weighing four pounds fourteen ounces named Michael Gene. Mr and Mrs Richard Lee Chambliss announce a son born last night at 11 52 pm weighing six pounds thirteen ounces named Rhonda Sue. Mr and Mrs Tony DiPrimo report a daughter born at 7 45 am weighing six pounds twelve ounces.
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San Francisco
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Daisy Patterson
Gene Mills
South Tenth Street
Good Samaritan Hospital
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Richard Lee Chambliss
Airport Road
Rhonda Sue
Tony DiPrimo
South 22Nd Street
Grace A Henry Rebekahs Meet for Lodge Session
Grace A Henry Rebekah Lodge No. 292 to hold regular meeting Monday December 10 at 7 30 pm. Potluck supper at 6 pm and a dollar gift exchange. Election of new officers planned. Visitors welcome. Rosemary Carnes N G and Laverne Shepherd R S also notices of American Legion Jefferson Post 141 meeting at 8 pm with Joe Herbst Commander EF Tanner Adjutant.
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EF. J. Tanner
Wyatt Earp Star Hugh O Brian Tops TV Ratings
Bob Thomas profiles Hugh O Brian known as Wyatt Earp on ABC. The Western series attracts the largest Tuesday audience, ranking with Disneyland and Lawrence Welk among ABCs top shows. O Brian, born in Rochester and raised in Chicago, notes the family appeal and his 37 Earp films this season.
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Hollywood
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Hugh O'Brian
Lawrence Welk
ABC
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Rochester
Chicago
Earp
Marilyn Erskine
Hospital and quake brief at Manila area
In Jefferson Memorial, James Willis Keele and Bluford Tommy Hudson were admitted while James Scott and Woodlawn's dischargees left. At Good Samaritan Alva Hughey and Donald Lee Willis admitted. Lyle Young and Master Kevin Davis discharged. A light quake shook the U S naval installation at Olongapo Subic Bay near Manila Friday night with no damage.
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James Scott
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Donald Lee Willis
Lyle Young
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War against fascism ends today in modern foe communism
Fifteen years after the United States declared war on fascism the struggle persists under a new label, communism. The piece argues both systems share roots in absolutism, mysticism, and elite rule, with secret police and suppression of dissent, and notes past efforts to resolve tensions through force or persuasion.
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United States
American College Dictionary
Hungary
Police Court Fines Before Allan Dulaney
Walter Hutch Wilson fined ten dollars and costs for drunkenness and wearing coats in court. David F Herley of Salem fined five dollars and costs for disobeying a traffic light.
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Allan Dulaney
Walter “Hutch” Wilson
David F. Herley
Salem
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