Fair Attendance Tops 100000 as Stratton Speaks
Attendance rose toward 150000 at the Quoin State Fair with 44693 on hand for the biggest Wednesday crowd in 30 years. Gov candidate Stratton accused Stevenson of fiscal excess, urging restraint and tax measures amid races, livestock judging, and regional winners listed from Illinois communities.
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Quoin
Kentucky
Goshen
N.Y
William G. Stratton
GOP
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Illinois Weather Summary Shows Warm Trend and Low Precipitation
The report notes mild temperatures across the region with highs around 90 to 94 and lows near 56 to 62. Yesterday’s high reached 80, while today’s noon reading is 66 and 6 p.m. 71. Precipitation remains at 0 inches from yesterday morning to today morning. Sunset is 6 36 p.m. and sunrise 5 25 a.m. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake levels are 16 and 13 inches below the spillway respectively.
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Hern Illinois
Daily Free Rose Edition Brief Notes
Evening edition of Southern Minnotean reports brief city notes from local sections. Partial OCR yields scattered references to editor Bundage and statewide sbications with unclear topics and dates.
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Southern Minnotean
Bundage
Cru Finols Fe
Oil Firms Face Monopoly Charges Silence Hearings
Senate Small Business Committee said none of seven major oil firms named in a Federal Trade Commission report has agreed to appear and dispute monopoly allegations. The list includes Standard Oil of New Jersey Standard Oil California The Texas Company Socony Vacuum Gulf Oil Kapitanian Oil and Royal Dutch Shell. Justice Department probes and damage suits totaling 67 million dollars have been filed against two Standard affiliates and Socony Vacuum.
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Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Senate Committee
de Att Memb
Michi State College
East Lansing
Mich
Standard Oil of New Jersey
Standard of California
The
Texas Co
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co
Gulf Oil Corp
Kaptenian Oil Co
Royal Dutch Shell
Generall
Justice Department
the Teas Co
Soconycuum
Atom Group Seeks More Companies for Diffusion Projects
The Atomic Energy Commission seeks additional industrial firms to join its program. C. E. Center of Union Carbide announced the company will not operate the Portsmouth diffusion plant, but will provide services to start the project, citing the need for multiple operators for the gaseous-diffusion process. Oak Ridge and Paducah facilities are referenced in the context.
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Atomic Energy Commission
C. E. Center
Union Carbide Company
Atomic 1
Pa- Center
Union Carbide
Oak Ridge
Center
Carbide
Portsmouth
University of Illinois student wins dulcimer job by telephone audition
Indiana University planned a piano development exhibit at the state fair but lacked a dulcimer player. Robert G. Spinner of Elk Rapids Michigan qualified for the job by playing on 16 dulcimers over the telephone for W A Smith, IU exhibits chief. The instrument master is a 19 year old UI student.
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U. of I
Indiana University
Robert G. Spinner
Elk
Rapids Mich
W. A. Smith
I. U
University of Illinois
Magic Carpet Service Ends Air Force Moves Over 3,000 On Mecca Trip
U S Air Force flown more than 3 000 pilgrims from Beirut to Jidda to speed on to Mecca ending at noon as Saudi authorities restrict arrivals. The operation began Tuesday with American transports operating round the clock to aid stranded Arabs seeking the pilgrimage amid praise from Islamic leaders and Middle East papers. funds set aside for pilot training financed the airlift.
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Air Force
Mecca
Beirut
Lebanon
U. S. Air Force
Legation
Saudi Arabia
Mohammed
Herve
Red Sea
Jidda
U. S
Middle East
State Rejects Progressive Dry Ticket In Illinois Ballot
The State Electoral Board ruled against placing Progressive and Prohibition party candidates on the November ballot. It sustained objections that Progressives lacked 20 signatures in each of 50 counties and that Prohibition petitions failed to reach 25 000 voters. Socialist Labor petitions were upheld.
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Springfield
State Electoral Board
Illinois
Prohibition Party
William J. Fulton
State Supreme Court
Boar
John Cassidy
Peoria
Democratic Party
Progressives
William H. Miller
Chicago
Progressive Party
Miller
Pany
Lisenhower
Prohibition
Cassidy
Strikes in July Cost 12% Million Man Days
The Labor Department reported that strike idleness in July cost 12.5 million man-days of work, led by the steel strike. About 850,000 workers were on strike in July versus one million in June, when 14 million man-days of idleness were recorded.
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Washington
Labor Department
Malik Leaves U. N. Position
United Nations announces Jacob A. Malik will depart as Soviet Union delegate with Valerian Zorin named as new chief delegate. Malik, weakened by a heart ailment, is returning for rest and reassignment after decades as ambassador to Japan and as expert on the Far East.
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Soviet
Russia
Valerian Z. Zorin
Czechoslovakia
United Nations
Jacob A. Malik
Malik
Far East
Singapore
Japan
Moscow
Zorin
Europe
Kimball Urges Legionnaires To Back Navy
Secretary of the Navy Lan Kimball urged the American Legion to back navy funding at their national convention. He stressed strong armed forces as essential against global aggression and noted the army’s progress and budgetary context. The convention also named leaders and set next year’s meeting in St. Louis.
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Secretary of the Navy
Lan Kimball
American Legion
America
Kimball
Frank Pace
Legion Todday
Lewis K. Gough
Pasasena
Calif
Waler
Alessandroni
Phildelphia
Coffe
Europe
Pace
Sons
Madison Square Garden
Legion Auxiliary
40 and & Society
Legion
John O. New
Jefferson City
Woman Accused of Swindling Bank of $450 000 in Mineola
A 47 year old businesswoman Mrs Lillian B Robinson faced a second degree forgery charge and $10 900 bail after alleged falsified home loan applications brought $450 000 from Central National Bank of Mineola over four years. She is president of Ideal Insulators Inc and secretary treasurer of Ideal Aluminum Inc with plants at Roslyn and East Williston New York.
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Mineola
N. Y
Lillian B. Robinson
Rosson
William H. Alex
Central National Bank of
Robinson
Stuyvesant Pinnell
Planes Pound Vital Targets In North Korea Actions
U S air strikes hit supply centers near Pyongyang and Chosin as Boxer and two sister carriers join air operations. B28s and B26s hit targets from Kojo to Chongjin with fires and explosions. UN tally cites 1 572 allied losses versus 642 confirmed enemy planes, plus 143 probably shot down and 620 damaged.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
Pyoungyang
North Korea
U. S. Navy
Boxer
Northeast Korea
Princeton
Chosen
Kojo
Chongjin
Sohung
Pyongyang
Chunghwa
U.N. Command
Tokyo
Navy
Benton Woman Wins 10 000 Prizes At Illinois Fairs
Mrs. Laura Holman of Benton has collected over 10 000 ribbons from Illinois fairs since 1930 for recipes and garden displays. She quilts ribbons into covers and has long maintained a home with seven children while competing at Du Quoin State Fair.
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Laura Holman
Benton
Seven Firsts Earned By Benton Entrant
A Benton exhibitor earned seven first prizes at a fair, featuring preserves and sauces. The contestant, tied to Mrs Phillip Sch, entered jars including green tomato sauce and gooseberry preserves. She traveled to Du Quoin that year to compete.
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Phillip Schgreen
Broadcasts to Cost Parties Millions in 1960 Campaign
Republicans and Democrats plan to spend more than 3 million dollars to air national candidate ads on radio and television. Robert Humphreys, PR director for the Republican National Committee, said up to two million will be spent by the GOP. The Democratic National Committee has contracted for more than one million dollars.
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Robert Humphreys
Republican National Committee
GOP
Democratic National Committee
Writer Denies Red Charge In Senate Hearing
New York Aug 28 AP radio script writer Robert C Lyon Jr known as Peter Lyon denied a Senate subcommittee charge that he is a Communist. The subcommittee accused the Radio Writers Guild of hosting a pro Communist faction and called Lyon and Millard Lampell hard core Communists. Lyon’s attorney said Lyon is not a Communist and used the Fifth Amendment citing personal reasons to avoid testifying.
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Robert C. Lyon Jr
Peter Lyon
Senate Subcommittee
Washington
Radio Writers Guild
Lyon
Millard Lampell
Guild
Subcommittee
Office of War Information
Benedict Wolf
Communist Party
Slack Denies Blocking Jury in St Louis Grand Probe
Ellis N. Slack acting assistant attorney general denied responsibility for a St. Louis grand jury partial report on scandals in 1956. He called the report a whitewash and said he had nothing to do with its drafting or contents. Grand jurors testified they were under the aid of the district judge in handling tax cases.
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Washington
Ellis N. Slack
St. Louis
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Slack
The
Grand I
Aes
Stevenson Campaign Strategy Emphasizes Four Me Too Attacks
Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson outlines a four point attack plan targeting Eisenhower. He argues Republicans have co opted Democratic ideas on domestic policy and attacks McCarthyism, while GOP leaders debate foreign policy and party control of Congress.
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Adlai Stevenson
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
McCarthy
William F. Knowland
Rcalif
Seattle
Senate
Knowland
Stevenson
GOP
Karl Mundt
South Dakota
Truman
New York
Richard J. Gray
Albany
N.Y
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Robert Jones
Farmer City
Lee Breeding
Chrisman
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Corridale
Clyde F. Simms
Albion
Hampshire
Bob Haggemeier
Lee
Alvin Helms
Belleville
Cheviotewe — Helms
W. H. Frederking
Nashville
Society
North Bend
Wash
Jack R. Foley
Tacoma
George G. Perry
Butte, Mont
Atom Group
Indianapolis
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N. Korea
du Quoin
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