Education Advances Illinois Fails To Meet Revenue Problem
Editorial on the 7th Illinois General Assembly failing to resolve constitutional revenue reform. Gov. Kerner signals no special session. lawmakers split on the revenue article and debates shift toward real estate classification, flat income tax, and assessment issues. Business groups gradually back a possible flat tax, while parties remain divided and wary of new taxes.
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Ilinois General Assembly
Otto Kerner
W. Russell Arrington
Evanston
Tlinots
Arrington
Illinois Manufacturers Association
Illinois
John Parkhurst
Peoria
Parkhurst
Kerner
Joint Committee On
Ilinois
State Supreme Court
Joint Committee
Bachrach
Nelson
U.S
Illinois Agricultural Association
Illinois Education Association
Paul Elward
Chicago
Ilinois Revenue Study Commission
Revenue Study Commission
Terrell E. Clarke
Western Springs
House Revenue Committee
Clarke
John Morris
D-Chadwick
Cook County
Downstate
74Th General Assembly
Dynamite levelled quake ruins in Skopje
In Skopje Yugoslavia 90 percent of the city was wrecked by the quake. Rescue teams pulled 10 more survivors from rubble after blasting began. A tiny microphone helped locate trapped victims. Death toll nears 1,000 with hundreds more feared buried. The city will be rebuilt or relocated as officials decide safety for future use.
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Skopje
Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Macedonia
Four Killed Under Truck in Illinois Crash
AP report details two fatal crashes in Illinois. At Bureau County near Wyanet a Rathjen family of Clarence and Shelbyville perished when their car collided with a semitrailer driven by David Reese of Galesburg, the truck tipping onto the auto. The victims were Edward Rathjen 58 Elzena Rathjen 60 Cinday Conrad 9 and Eddie 6. Separate crash on U.S. 66 seven miles north of Litchfield killed John Young 20 of Bloomington. A passenger Floyd Gaddis, about 19, survived with non life threatening injuries. both crashes occurred July 30.
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Edward W. Rathjen
Clarence
Elzena
Cinday Conrad
Shelbyville
Eddie
Wyanet
Bureau County
Rathjen
David W. Reese
Galesburg
Ill
Reese
St. Francis Hospital
Litchfield
Syncom 2 Nears Station Over Atlantic and Nigeria
Syncom 2 satellite moves toward a synchronous orbit above the equator near Brazil, enabling potential Africa United States communications within weeks. In early operation it will cover Lagos Nigeria and Lakehurst New Jersey as ground stations, with full two way link after three weeks. A separate local item reports Mrs Carried Staley 70 of Lincoln killed when struck by a train at Springfield after an auto stalled and companions escaped. The Gulf Mobile and Ohio Udall wants to expand Assateague National Seashore access in Maryland Virginia.
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Africa
United States
Space Agency
Brazil
Earth
Lagos Harbor
Nigeria
Lakehurst
N. J. Springfield
Staley
Minami
Shejates
Springfield
Stewart L.ty
Gulf Mobile
Ohio
Udall
Assateague
Authorities Island
Maryland
Virginia
Edwin Lester's Civic Light Opera Prepares Zenda for Broadway
Hollywood producer Edwin Lester leads the Civic Light Opera with a modernized Prisoner of Zenda. Alfred Drake stars as the king and impostor, Anne Rogers as the princess, and Chita Rivera is the king's mistress. Production runs Aug 5 in San Francisco and Sept 23 in Los Angeles before Broadway on Nov 26.
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Norway
Kismet
Mary Martin
Hollywood
Edwin Lester
Lester
Civic Light Opera
Oliver
Curran Theater
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Philharmonic
Mark Hellinger
Zenda
Alfred Drake
London
Chital Rivera
Birdie
Jack Cole
George Schaefer
Vernon
Paris
Duke
Gunmen Hold Workers Captive At Puebla Factory
In Puebla on July 30 police freed 55 workers after five days of captivity inside a textile factory. 15 gunmen seized workers to block union changes, and officers entered covertly to take control without any shots fired.
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Puebla
Mexico
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