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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1959
Page
5
Washington June 9. A humorous AP column urges readers to drop hatred and embrace happiness. The piece mocks urban scowling and advocates walking in rain, smiling at strangers, and embracing joy as a daily practice. It ends with a self-aware note about the author witnessing his own sour mood.
General John L. Homer, state Civil Defense director, addressed area CD personnel at Carmi. He outlined war surplus material use and emergency hospitals stored in Southern Illinois. He noted hospital use requires national CD approval, usually takes about 30 minutes in one case.
A Loves Park man, George Larsen aged 73, fell from a sailboat and drowned Monday at Turtle Lake about 20 miles northeast of Beloit while vacationing at a nearby resort in Wisconsin.
The piece argues Ike's 1959-60 budget shows no real operating cuts, citing a $77 billion plan with a $3.9 billion reduction from 1958-59. Von Braun warns the missiles race lags the USSR, while stock speculators chase phony tips, repeating boom rhetoric from 1929.
A railroad man suggests that railroads are intentionally hiking passenger fares to price themselves out of the market, hoping federal and local governments will step in. He says the strategy yields profit while shifting the headache of operations to others.
Since 1958 the United States has lost about 2.7 billion dollars in gold to foreign nations, yet almost all remains in New York. It is moved just seven blocks from the U S Assay Office to the Federal Reserve Bank, stored in deep steel and rock bins. Foreign banks stopped taking gold in 1937 amid fears of war and now due to Communist threats. The U S owns about 20 billion in gold, with 12.5 billion at Fort Knox and the rest at the New York Assay Office.
Ray A. Dillinger, 68, Macon County treasurer and former state representative, died Monday in Decatur after a heart condition. A Republican, he won a 1939 General Assembly seat, lost a 1940 bid for state senator, and later served as assistant director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture from 1941 to 1949. He also led the Illinois Association of Agricultural Fairs.
Members of the First Presbyterian Church worshipped in their new air conditioned sanctuary with cushioned pews on Sunday. The Rev. H. B. Streater delivered the sermon Don't Be Too Comfortable.
Hollywood columnist Bob Thomas notes Alan Young must return to the United States from England where citizenship issues arose after years abroad. Young cites lack of American TV comedy and now stars in a dramatic Time Machine role while lamenting TV’s demand for comics. He recalls peers Milton Berle Sid Caesar Jackie Gleason and Red Buttons as other TV casualties. Younger observes the trend of performers losing work as the medium shifts.
The House approved a one year extension of wartime corporate and excise tax rates by voice vote on Monday. If not extended, corporate income tax would fall from 52 percent to 47 percent on July 1 and excise taxes on cigarettes whisky beer wine and new cars and parts would drop. The measure now goes to the Senate where passage is expected with little controversy.
Kenneth Apple 17 of Amboy died after a truck tire blew out while he changed a tire Monday night. A metal rim struck his head causing fatal injuries. Local authorities continue investigation into the accident.
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