Storm Devastates Illinois. millions in damage reported
Heavy rains and winds battered Illinois with Chicago hardest hit. Illinois Bell reports equipment and repair costs near a million dollars while Commonwealth Edison and Public Service endure hundreds of thousands in damage to power lines. River traffic halted near Marseilles and Dresden. Ottawa braces for potential flooding as Starved Rock opens dikes. Nine lives lost in Chicago as basements flood and thousands lose phone service and power.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Weather Bureau
Ilinois
Chicago
Illinois Bell Telephone Co
Chicago Transit Authority
Commonwealth Edison Co
Public Service Co
Illinois River
Marseilles
Dresden Islands
Ottawa
Starved Rock
Springfield
Kankakee
Joliet
Hammond
Ind
Midway Airport
Open Verdict Returned In Penrod Case
An inquest into the death of Charles Durward Penrod 55 was held in West Frankfort city hall. The jury found Penrod died by a blow on the head at the hands of person or persons unknown. His body was found in the Big Muddy river near a bridge on Rt 149 between Zeigler and West Frankfort.
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Charles Durward Penrod
Christopher
West Frankfort
Franklin County
Browning
Penrod
Big Muddy River
Rt. 149
Zeigler
Jury Indicts UMW Official Over Union Meeting
A Perry County grand jury indicted United Mine Workers official William Northern for assault with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors say Northern threatened Enos Bigham with a pistol at a Fidelity mine local union meeting on May 27. He represents the UMW welfare and pension fund and is based in St. Louis. his home is Bethel Pennsylvania.
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Perry County
United Mine Workers
DuQuoin
Lloyd Middleton
William “Bill
Northern
UMW
Welfare and Pension Fund
St. Louis
Bethel
Penn
Middleton
Enos Bigham
Fidelity Mine
Eisenhower Ends Civil Defense Drill Move at White House
President Eisenhower was lowered by helicopter to the White House marking the end of his participation in Operation Alert 1957. He arrived with James Rowley and Secret Service teams after a weekend hiding in a farm command post.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Gettysburg
James Rowley
Secret Service
Two Drownings Reported Near Kankakee River
Gerald Thaden 22 and Paul Vickery 26 drowned when their boat overturned on the Kankakee River Sunday. Two companions, Robert Bressner 23 and Ronald Milligan 23, swam to shore and survived. All four men lived near Kankakee.
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Gerald Thaden
Paul Vickery
Kankakee River
Robert Bressner
Ronald Milligan
Kankakee
Scouts Have Visitors at Valley Forge Jamboree
Scouts from far regions visited the Valley Forge camp covering 1500 acres where 55 000 attended as relatives and friends toured the site. Officials say more than 30 000 people visited Sunday. The event returns to normal today with plans for hikes trips and exhibits.
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Valley Forge
Texas
Pennsylvania
Panama Canal Zone
Denmark
Peru
Lightning causes massive oil tank blast near Nashville
A 250 barrel oil tank exploded when struck by lightning, blowing its top 1,000 feet and igniting four adjacent tanks. The Nashville blaze damaged twelve hundred barrels across five tanks and damaged two more, with total losses estimated at 10 000 to 12 000 dollars. Pinckneyville and Nashville firefighters battled the fire for hours as flames rose and smoke darkened the sky.
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Nashville
Leo V. Horton
Mt. Vernon
Dulles Expected to End China Travel Ban
The State Department may end the travel ban on U.S. newsmen to Red China. Secretary of State Dulles plans to announce a decision next weekend after meetings with leaders in news gathering and publishing to seek backing for a compromise China news coverage plan.
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Dulles
China
Washington
State Department
U.S
Red
Civil rights bill debate pits firm stand against compromise
Senator McNamara urges backers to resist changes that would gut the civil rights bill while Senator Johnson praises measured reform. Talks focus on section three authorizing federal court injunctions and voting rights protections as House bill revisions loom.
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Sen
McNamara
D-Mich
Senate
Johnson
Texas
Knowland
R-Calif
Sen. Ervin
D-Nc
Showers For Southern Illinois Forecast
Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms, little temperature change through tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight near 70, high Tuesday in the upper 80s, low Tuesday night in the low 70s. Precipitation 0.42 inches since yesterday. Sun rises 4 41 a m, sets 7 31 p m. Little Grassy Lake level with spillway.
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Illinois
Courage Clinton Editor Receives 1957 Lovejoy Award
Horace V. Wells Jr editor of the Clinton Courier news in Tennessee is named recipient of the Elijah P. Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism at the National Conference of Weekly Newspaper Editors. Wells praised for upholding law and court rulings amid racial tensions and threats during Clinton's school integration crisis.
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Horace V. Wells Jr
Clinton (Tenn
Courier News
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Wells
Department of Journalism
Southern Ilinois University
Howard R. Long
South
Clinton
Tennessee National Guardsmen
W. E. Lewallen
D. J. Brittain, Jr
Horace Wells
Paul Turner
First Baptist Church
Mabel Norris Reese
Mount Dora
Fla
Alton
Trunk Murder Victim Identified in New York
James F. Malloy, 53, of Philadelphia, identified by fingerprints after a trunk found on Manhattan’s West Side contained his body. He arrived three weeks earlier to seek work and had rented rooms from Oscar Schaeffer. Police say the killer sealed the body with tape and placed it in a lined trunk destined for a Los Angeles hotel that did not exist.
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New York
Soloiel
James F. Malloy
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Oscar Schaeffer
Philadelphia
Schaeffer
Malloy
Railway Express Agency
Manhattan
West Side
Lightning Kills 11 Cattle at Illinois Farm
A bull of lightning struck the Elmer Starkey farm in Moro Illinois Sunday night killing 11 white faced cattle including a registered bull.
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Moro, Ill
Judy
Elmer Starkey
Clinton High School tensions linked to 1960s integration dispute
In Clinton Tennessee jurors heard how threats and tensions rose after Negro students entered Clinton High. Principal David Brittain testified enrollment fell from 800 to about 260 as he faced pressure from John Kasper and other defendants over compliance with a federal court order.
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Knowville
Tenn
Tennessee Highland
Clinton
David J. Brittain
U. S. Dist. Atty
John C. Crawford Jr
Brittain
U. S. Dist
Robert L. Taylor
Zella Lou Nelson
Taylor
Kasper
Crawford
Clinton High School
Lwe
Robert L. Dobbs
Memphis
Effen Ion T
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Washington, D. C
Kenneth J. Gray
Frank Salmo
United States
Pinckneyville
Crab Orchard Lake
Supreme Court
Imman
John Kasper
Clinton Area
Knoxville
Horace V. Wells
Ha! Jefferson
Ambassador
Los Angeles
Calif
Express Agency
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