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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1957
Page
4
Herrin City Council accepts a 440000 bond bid at a flat 5 percent rate with a 4400 discount. Net interest is 5.048 percent after the discount. The project, long delayed, will clear obstacles to the Rt 148 extension and boost new industry as the city moves to proceed quickly with improvements.
The Carbondale Chamber of Commerce backs a five point traffic program for the city. It urges traffic signals, removing angle parking on Illinois avenue, expanding off street parking, and modernizing traffic ordinances. The chamber warns traffic noise will worsen and calls these steps a solid start for action.
Historical overview of AFL-CIO wage policy proposals by Walter Reuther. The piece weighs whether 1958 should see higher pay and expanded benefits given weaker economic signs, layoffs, and unemployment near postwar highs. It contrasts wage gains with inflation and the risk of price rises eroding real income gains.
Atty Gen Rogers called for a calm pause in Little Rock tensions as nine Negro students attend Central High under court orders. He said no new civil rights action would be pushed this session though enforcement must continue and the Civil Rights Commission needs a chairman. Peace is welcomed but program progress has just begun.
A collage references sports legends Maurice McLoughlin Ty Cobb Honus Wagner Ted Meredith and Napoleon Lajoie noting the California Comet and other celebrity gossip. The column mentions a New York judge orders Theophilus Aderonmu to pay child support and a Nigerian chieftain’s son’s estranged wife reconsidering remarriage amid a court suit.
About 300000 automobile owners in Illinois must renew licenses before year end, but many will miss the final deadline and not yet have their plates when the cutoff arrives.
David Felts reviews Theodore Roosevelt Treasury edited by Hermann Hagedorn Harvard University Press 342 pages of excerpts from private letters state papers and articles covering Roosevelts West early reform Rough Rider presidency father hunter and writer. It highlights letters to his wife on San Juan Hill World War I sons in uniform and centenary observances with Roosevelts lively personality and controversial but never dull legacy.
A Carbondale fire department spokesman defends burning a Grand Avenue house as training for firefighters. He argues the experience saves lives and property, thanks a contractor for the house, and notes the value of practice over dollars in training.
A rural Ellabell Georgia fire of undetermined origin in freezing weather killed eight people. Sheriff IL Ensen said Mrs Mary Lee Mays 49 and Pete Dixon with six of her children were among the victims.
Rep Charles W Vursell R Ill said Thursday he would seek re election from the 23rd district to another term in Congress his ninth He had previously said he was undecided on whether to run again
Phil Logan a Fort Worth Texas born sophomore football player at Golden Colorado’s Colorado School of Mines won the annual rock drilling contest. In three minutes he carried a pneumatic drill to the site set it up and punched a 36 inch hole in a granite slab.
In May 1956 President Sukarno denounces colonialism as a banner for unity while Indonesia faces a West New Guinea dispute. The UN vote on talks with the Netherlands failed, and internal tensions with Communist and Moslem factions shape Indonesia's crisis as Sukarno targets foreign foes to rally support.
Vienna resident urges local authorities to close a vice house at Curve Inn after editorial criticism. Letter complains that residents and officials have not addressed the issue and cites conversations with the state's attorney and county sheriff as showing limited action.
In Bradford, Illinois, on Thursday a bulldozer toppled from an embankment and fatally injuring operator Elmer Ault, 45, a farmer. The incident occurred near Kewanee and was reported by AP.
A letter to Ben Gelman of the Southern Illinoisan applauds his recent piece Fireman Save That House. The writer denounces wasteful burning and backs the paper’s stance on saving lumber and housing amid a broader critique of wartime civilian attitudes.
Hattiesburg Mississippi Sheriff Ford Vance said officers investigating a burglary found the electric light bill of Matthew Magee at 614 South 6th St. Magee, 42, admitted the burglary but could not explain why his light bill was left at the scene.
The Kremlin has promised to champion the Arab cause against Israel, forcing the United States to choose between defending Israel or supporting Arab governments. The piece argues a Soviet bid to redraw frontiers threatens Western interests and Israel, urging limited territorial readjustments and firm guarantees to curb Israeli expansion, while acknowledging no solution can satisfy Arab demands without Israel's destruction.
The article notes rising defense costs and doubts about unifying the Army Navy and Air Force as experts urge civilian military planning boards and a new defense structure. It cites Vannevar Bush James Doolittle and MIT president Killian and references the 1947 1949 act changes amid missile era shifts.
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