Cahokia Downs investor nets 615 percent profit in eight years
Jacob Bunn Jr of Springfield sold Cahokia Downs interests in November 1962, netting about 330000 on a 60000 investment after eight years of growth. The deal involved Land Trust shares and Cahokia Downs Inc. assets, while Bunn retained a half interest in the Land Trust in his wife’s name.
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Charles O. Stewart
I Linoisa
Cahokia Downs
Jacob Bunn Jr
Springfield
Bunn
Sangamo Electric Co
Cahokia Downs Land Trust
Este H. Bunn
Cahokia Downs Inc
Jacobs
Weather Outlook for Southern Illinois Tonight Through Tuesday
Partly cloudy and thundery in the north tonight with lows mid 60s. Tuesday sees more clouds and thunderstorms with highs in the low 90s.
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Illinois
Harness Race Investment Ties to Cahokia Downs Reorganization
The report details interests in Cahokia Downs and associated entities including Cahokia Sportservice Inc. and Land Trust investors led by Schaefer ONeill. It notes Jacobs holds multiple Cahokia Downs shares and debt, with stockholder actions last November reducing the board from 15 to 11 after the death of John H. Stelle and the sale of track interests by several major holders.
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Cahokia Downs
Louis M. Jacobs
Jacobs
Sportservice Corp
Buffalo, N. Y
Cahoka Downs
Cahokia
Bunn
Schaefer O'Neill
Alton
Cahokia Sportservice Inc
Sportservice Inc
Cahokia Downs Inc
John H. Stelle
Albert C. Hoeffken
Belleville
J. Ralph Hutchinson
Carruthersville,Mo
Police Arrest 250 at New York Construction Site Protest
Police moved into a mass racial demonstration at a downstate medical center construction site where nearly 1,000 protesters sang and blocked entry. About 250 people were arrested as 200 officers, mounted and on foot, restored order following events that echoed a prior week’s picketing.
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New York
Downstate Medical Center
Humiliation cited as Negros push civil rights protest
NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins told the Senate Commerce Committee that humiliation stalks American Negro citizens and protests are fully American. He warned that the public accommodations bill desegregates privately owned facilities, with demonstrations planned in Washington and across the nation.
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Washington
America
Roy Wilkins
Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Senate Commerce Committee
United States
George Wallace
Alabama
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Prouty
Governors To Skip Civil Rights Action At Governors Conference
The 55th annual governors conference voted 33 to 16 to dissolve the resolutions committee to avoid civil rights action. Democratic Gov. Grant Sawyer proposed eliminating the committee, supported by 33 Democrats and opposed by 15 Republicans with Alaska’s Gov. William Egan. The session included a two hour panel on civil rights scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Resolutions Committee
Grant Sawyer
Nevada
Sawyer
William A. Egan
Alaska
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Rockefeller
Kennedy
Albert Rosellini
Washington
Kennedy proposes plan to delay railroad strike via ICC
President Kennedy unveiled legislation to refer rail work rules disputes to the Interstate Commerce Commission for prompt hearings. The plan preserves collective bargaining and aims to avoid seizure or compulsory arbitration while the ICC resolves the case.
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Washington
Kennedy
Interstate Commerce Commission
White House
Congress
Pierre Salinger
ICC
Salinger
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Dr Ward's Trial Opens in Old Bailey Case
London July 22 AP the crown began Dr Stephen Ward's trial before 11 men and a woman on charges he kept pretty girls as sex pets for hire to men Christine Keeler testified for the prosecution denying bed relations with the society osteopath She said a man introduced by Ward first led to acts of vice and Ward allegedly took a cut from the earnings for Keeler Rice-Davies and others with a cottage on Lord Astor's Cliveden estate as a center of vice
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London
Stephen Ward
Christine Keeler
Macmillan
Miss Keeler
Old Bailey Court
Ward
Christine
Griffith- Jones
Cliveden
Lord Astor
Nancy Lady Astor
Buckinghamshire
First Negro Appointed To Labor Board
Howard Jenkins Jr. announced gratitude to President Kennedy for selecting him as a National Labor Relations Board nominee. If confirmed, he would be the first Black member on the board, citing intent to foster cooperative labor management for economic progress. Jenkins, a Denver native aged 48, is a former law professor and current assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Management Reports.
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Washington
Howard Jenkins Jr
Kennedy
National Labor Relations Board
Senate
Jenkins
Denver, Colo
Bureau of Labor Management Reports
Prayer Sessions Barred in Cambridge
A Negro integration leader says National Guard commander in Cambridge Maryland has denied permission for prayer meetings on the courthouse lawn, signaling ongoing racial tensions in the troubled city.
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Cambridge
National Guard
Court‘house
FBI Official Fined For Refusing To Testify In Suit
In Chicago on July 22 an FBI official was fined 500 dollars for contempt after he refused to answer questions about the bureau's surveillance of Sam Giancana in a suit seeking to curb the monitoring. Judge Richard B. Austin had earlier ordered easing of the shadowing by Marlin W. Johnson, Chicago FBI head.
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Chicago
FBI
U. S
Sam (Mooney) Giancana
Giancana
Richard B. Austin
Marlin W. Johnson
Austin
Johnson
Man Plunges From Empire State Building 86 Floors
Police identify the victim as George Alex Frost 35 address unknown after he leapt from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. Guard Frank Di Gesu chased along the ledge and grabbed the man twice before he kicked free and fell to the sidewalk.
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New York
Empire State Building
George Alex Frost
Frank di Gesu
di Gesu
Final Action On Test Ban Treaty Near
Western and Soviet sources report a working party near completion on a test ban treaty banning nuclear tests in air outer space and water Har riman expected to initial the document. Khrushchev and Gromyko held talks as Britain and the U S push for a quick accord while a last minute hurdle such as a nonaggression pact could delay ratification.
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Moscow
U. S
W. Averell Harriman
Washington
Khrushchev
Harriman
Britain
Lord Hailsham
Andrei Gr
U.S
Foy D. Kohler
Lenin Stadium
NATO
Europe
Andrei A. Gromyko
West
Germany
East Germany
Ideological Talks to Resume Between China and Soviet Union
China and the Soviet Union said they would meet "some time later" to renew talks on their ideological dispute. Moscow and Peking announced the plan after a recent break in talks, with Khrushchev hosting a farewell dinner for the Chinese delegation. The central committees will set the pace and time for the next meeting as both sides stated their views on world developments and Sino Soviet relations.
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Moscow
Red
International Communist Movement
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