Illinois Braces for More Rain Across State
The Weather Bureau warned scattered thunderstorms likely tonight and Friday as Illinois remains soggy from Tuesday’s rains. River crests, including Sangamon near Oakford and Wabash at Mount Carmel, threaten minor floods while mountain towns report heavy storm damage in Kansas.
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Illinois
Weather Bureau
Springfield
Oakford
Illinois River
Havana - Beardstown
Grafton
Mount Carmel
Cairo
Storms and hail forecast across region tonight
Severe thundershowers with hail and locally damaging surface winds are forecast in the area until 6 p m. The U S Weather Bureau has fixed the warning area as 60 miles on either side of a line from 30 miles northwest of Vichy to Cairo.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Vichy
Cairo
General admonished for moon statement
Washington June 12 AP An Air Force general announced planning dates for shooting rockets at the moon. Secretary of the Air Force James H. Douglas said the dates should be wholly disregarded. Lt Gen S E Anderson director of Air Force research and development had said three moon shots were planned this year with the first in August at a Milwaukee news conference.
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Air Force
James H. Douglas
S. E. Anderson
Anderson
Air Force Research and Development
Milwaukee
Weather outlook for Southern Illinois with warm showers
Mostly cloudy weather moves across Southern Illinois with warm conditions and possible showers and thunderstorms. Tonight's low around 70 with Friday highs near 80 and another 70 degree night. Readings show yesterday at 85 noon today 2 and sunrise 4 28 am sunset 7 32 pm with lake levels at spillways.
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Illinois
Industrialist denies Adams influence in government matters
Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine says one of his companies paid hotel bills for Sherman Adams and Mrs. Adams but denies any use of influence with government officials. He asserts the friendship spanning 20 years was not connected to government dealings and denounces the House subcommittee's charges as a smear.
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Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Adams
Goldfine
Washington
House
Samuel P. Sears
Adamses
New Hampshire
Mr. Adams
Testimony Invited In Influence Probe
Rep Orden Harris invited Sherman Adams or others to testify before his House subcommittee on possible improper influence at federal regulatory agencies. Harris warned he will start building the case next week amid allegations Adams used influence to assist Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine.
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D-Ark
Sherman Adams
Harris House
Harris
Adams
Eisenhower
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Arkansas Democrat
Federal Trade Commission
De Gaulle Warns Insurgents as Algerian Crisis Deepens
Paris reports Premier Charles de Gaulle warns insurgent committees led by Jacques Soustelle to withdraw from politics after demands to purge cabinet members and delay Algerian elections. De Gaulle seeks broad Muslim input in North Africa and tightens control as Soustelle evades police. The piece links Algeria turmoil to internal politics and a White House note on policy timing.
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Charles de Gaulle
Jacques Soustelle
Algeria
France
Soustelle
de Gaulle
National Assembly
Algiers
Raoul Salan
Salan
Paris
Stewardesses Marry During Western Air Lines Strike
Forty flight attendants wed during the 108 day Western Air Lines strike that grounded the line. The company bans married stewardesses and when service resumed the crew was 20 percent smaller than before the strike.
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Los Angeles
Western Air Lines
Western
Tieken Denies Conferring Before Subpoenas in Land Deal
U S Atty Robert Tieken of Chicago told House investigators he did not confer with staff before ordering subpoenas for four Illinois officials tied to toll road land near Libertyville. He said the grand jury inquiry was not influenced by the land settlement and denied pressuring Gov Stratton or Downey to improve the offer.
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U. S
Robert Tieken
Chicago
House
Illinois
Ticken
Tieken
Libertyville
Ill
House Essary
Emanuel Celler
William G. Stratton
Edwin A. Rosenstone
Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings
Julian Sigman
Frank Ward Just
Waukegan
News- Sun
Lake County
Thomas J. Moran
William W. Downey
Stratton
Downey
Rosenstone
Ralph Bartelsmeyer
Ilinois
Toll Highway Commission
Charles L. Dearing
Dearing
Bartelsmeyer
Rosensone
State of Illinois
Toll Road Commission
Ben
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Federal Court of Appeals
Tiken
Stephen Mitchell
Natonal
Mitchell
Celler
D-Ny
Senate Votes Railway Aid and ICC Powers
The Senate approved a measure providing 700 million in government guaranteed loans to railroads and eased train discontinuance rules. The bill would allow the ICC to permit cross state train cessations and exclude tax free reserve funds for transportation carriers. The House Commerce Committee was to review the legislation in a closed session.
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Senate
House Commerce Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
ICC
Deathly Casbah: Fear and Decline Under French Rule
In Algiers Casbah, June 12, Arab residents live in fear as French troops patrol. A lingering atmosphere of death pervades the narrow alleys and ruined walls with ruined posters and tense, wary residents.
Detroit restaurant owner ordered 10 000 matches 125 000 delivered
Detroit news reports restaurant owner Martin Eichelbaum ordered 10 000 books of matches in February but received 125 000. A common pleas jury ruled the excess was his error and he must pay for the matches, estimating a 25-year supply.
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Detroit
Martin Eichelbaum
Eichelbaum
Eicchelbaum
Common Pleas
UAW conducts strike vote at Ford amid no immediate threat
The United Auto Workers votes among about 100000 Ford production employees in Detroit as part of bargaining strategy. Two Chrysler plants and several GM locals already moved to authorize or set strike dates. UAW president Walter Reuther takes charge at Chrysler while urging workers to stay on the job.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Co
Ken Bannon
UAW
Ford Department
Chrysler
International
General Motors
Bannon
Ford
Chicago
St. Louis
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Jefferson-Redieval
Norman Matthews
Chrysler Department
McElroy Sees Spartan Life For Cold War
Defense Secretary Neil McElroy warned Harvard alumni in Cambridge that the United States may need drastic measures and sacrifices to win the Cold War. He argued the Soviet Union gains from higher education and industrial growth, urging higher taxes or contributions to fund expanded education.
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Cambridge
Mass
Neil McElroy
United States
McElroy
Harvard
Assa
Soviet Union
Russia
U. S
Metlee
Missing B47 Wreck Seen Near Belvidere Mountain
Burlington officials report an air force helicopter located wreckage on Cold Hollow Mountain about 35 miles northeast of Burlington near Belvidere. The missing B47 stratojet, part of a three plane training flight from Hunter AFB Georgia to Loring AFB Maine, disappeared Wednesday night with four aboard and no signs of life found. Rescue parties from Burlington and Plattsburgh planned to advance to the scene.
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Burlington
Air Force
Ethan Allen Air Force Base
Belvidere
Plattsburgh
N. Y
Ronald A. Warren
Cold Hollow Mountain
Hunter Air Force Base
Savannah
Loring Afb
Maine
Missionary Dr Sam Higginbottom Dies in New York
Dr Sam Higginbottom 83 longtime Presbyterian educational missionary and founder of an agricultural school in India died Wednesday in Port Washington New York He was described as the father of modern farming in India.
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Port Washington
N.Y
Sam Higginbottom
India
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