Stevenson Hits Lobby in Road Tax Hold Up
Gov. Adlai Stevenson blames lobbyists for blocking two Illinois highway tax bills. He warns a failure to pass an adequate road program would be a major tragedy. Bills would raise truck license fees about 28 million dollars yearly and gas tax by two cents per gallon.
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Sunday Restaurant To Open In Elkville
Mrs. Ruby Cavitt former Sigma Beta Mu cook at Southern Illinois University opens a Sunday dinner family style eatery in Elkville on Route 51 this Sunday June 3. She plans weekly meals all summer with self serve tables featuring fried chicken dumplings and ham. The Vienna native has lived in Elkville 32 years in a home built two years ago.
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SIU Initiates 14 into Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society
Fourteen College of Education students at Southern Illinois University were initiated into Kappa Delta Pi. The ceremony was led by officers Eugene Howey Beverly Baine Lena Pantaleo and Dr T R Ragsdale with Miss Mary Entsminger addressing guests at a banquet.
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Costello Keeps Slim Lead in Irish Election Figures
Dublin reports Prime Minister John A. Costello's coalition leading Fianna Fail as votes come in. With 70 seats to 61 for Fianna Fail, Costello's bloc holds a nine-seat edge though 14 contests remain undecided.
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Forest fires destroy wood to build 86000 homes yearly
Each year forest fires in the United States, mostly man caused, burn enough timber to construct about 86 thousand homes, highlighting the scale of wildfire damage to forests and housing supply.
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Rites for Hoyleton Hobbyist Saturday
Funeral services will be held in Hoyleton Saturday for Emil Mottert 82 a nationally known hobbyist who gained fame making miniature musical instruments from toothpicks corn stalks and gourds He also crafted flutes from pig windpipes Mottert a cobbler by trade left his work after retirement to devote himself to his hobby
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Alabama Negro Gets Stiff Burglary Term
A Birmingham circuit court jury sentenced Willie Burch, 25, to two life terms plus 70 years for seven burglary counts. The decision is described as among the toughest in burglary cases, with the terms to run consecutively.
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