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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1965
Page
8
Public notice urges donations to fight tuberculosis in Illinois. It highlights the disease’s toll with 500 yearly deaths, one every 18 hours, and eleven new cases daily, urging readers to mail a contribution to protect life.
A four man team from the Atomic Energy Commission will tour five Illinois sites for a proposed world largest atom smasher. The tour is slated for Tuesday November 30. Gov Otto Kerner presented a 240 page report to the AEC on June 15 with scientific data backing Illinois as the accelerator site. The facility would be ten times larger than present accelerators and 24 times larger than the Zero Gradient Synchrotron at Argonne National Laboratory near Lemont. It would be built in a ring over 3000 acres with a one mile diameter and employ more than 3000 technical personnel with about 2000 indirect jobs in support and service fields.
The Vienna Branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary received its first prisoners at 10 am on Tuesday November 23 as 15 inmates arrived. Two buildings valued at 4 million dollars form the first phase of a four stage plan to house 1200 inmates, part of Governor Kerner's modernization of the correctional system.
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