County, Probate Judges Lead Move To Restore State Schools Funds
County and probate judges join Illinois groups to seek restoration of about 5 million dollars cut from the Department of Welfare budget for the Lincoln and Dixon state schools for mentally retarded children. The Senate appropriations committee backed a resolution urging restoration and an amendment to the next week's session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Senate Appropriations Committee
Illinois At Council For
Senate
Jackson County
Peyton Kunce
Lincoln
Dixon
John P. Meyer
Danville
Appropriations Committee
Illinois Department of Welfare
House Aviations Committee
House
Clyde Lee
Bert Baker
Wayne Fitzgerell
John Miler
Clyde Choate
W. J. McDonald
Senate Committee
Kance
France appoints Maurice Bourges Maunoury premier by narrow vote
Paris June 13 AP Maurice Bourges Maunoury was confirmed as France's 22nd postwar premier by a margin under 50 votes. The session ended a cabinet crisis with 240 votes to 194 and 73 abstentions. His aim is limited reforms, higher taxes, and reduced imports as he pledges vigorous action in Algeria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
National Assembly
Maurice Bourges - Maunoury
France
Assembly
Bourges-Maunoury
Bourges - Maunoury
Guy Mollet
Mollet
Radical Socialist Party
Pousacists
Pierre Mendes-France
Weather Summary for Crab Orchard and Little Grassy Areas
Thundershowers in the south give way to partly cloudy skies tonight with a fair Friday. Temperatures to near 90 by Friday high, nights around 70. Precipitation total 0.06 inches since yesterday. Crab Orchard Lake 3 inches above spillway. Little Grassy Lake 2 inches above spillway.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Senate Debates Foreign Aid Waste and Cuts
Sen Morse charges foreign aid is a colossal waste and a hoax while Sen Long backs a 390 million dollar reduction from the 3.637 billion dollar aid bill. Lyndon Johnson and Knowland signal caution as Long argues waste and secrecy surround long range funding.
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Morse
Washington
Sen
D-Ore
Long
Dla
Senate
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Deena Republi‘can
Knowland
California
Sen Long
Peggy Joyce Dies Glamor Girl of 1920s Broadway
Peggy Joyce, once famed for the Ziegfeld Follies and Earl Carroll’s Vanities, died of throat cancer at Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. She was about 64 and surrounded by her sixth husband, Andrew C. Meyer, at her bed. Born Margaret Upton near Norfolk Virginia she married at 16 and became a noted Broadway beauty with a tumultuous armful of marriages.
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New York
Petey Hopkins Joyce
Miss Joyce
Memorial Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Andrew C. Meyer
Woodbury
Earl Carroll
Three Coal Towing Boats Serve Joppa Plant
The Nashville Coal Co owns three coal hauling boats named Papa Lere Mama Lere and Baby Lere used to supply the Electric Energy Inc Joppa power plant. The Papa Lere largest was placed in service May 1 completing the family circle.
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Metropolis
Electric Energy, Inc
Joppa
Papa Lere
Cicle
The
Nashville Coal Co
Navy Reports Isolated Plane Fire Incident Off Formosa
Navy officials describe the event as an isolated incident after an American plane from the carrier Hornet was fired on by a Chinese shore battery near the Formosa Strait. The aircraft was eight miles off the coast, damaged slightly, and returned to the carrier.
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Washington
Navy
Formosa Strait
Peiping
London
Hornet
Hong Kong
South China Sea
China
Swatow
Withon
U.S. Navy
Formosa
Ormosa Strait
7Th Fleet
Connecticut Soldiers Claim Wartime Rays Caused Sterility
A Connecticut lawyer asserts that at least a dozen tank crewmen in a top secret wartime experiment suffered sterility or fathered deformed children. He represents four soldiers from Bridgeport, Milford, Hamden and Fairfield, detailing miscarriages and birth defects linked to overexposure from 13 million candlepower arc lights mounted on tanks. The Army says no official complaints have been received and will investigate if any arise.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Atty Raymond Lyddy
Connecticut
Lyddy
Tank Ordnance Company
New York Daily News
Washington
Wilber Brucker
Commy
Marshal White
Chicago
9Th Armored
Rhine
Lucy
John J. Zawesz
Fairfield
Peter Decerbo
Milford
Huarvid Saunders
Joseph Vanacore
Hamden
Veterans Administration
Lvddy
9Th Armored Division
538Th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance
Secret Girard Case Report Links Shells to Shooting
A Michigan soldier Vic tor Nickel told Japanese authorities that Specialist 3.C. William Girard tossed empty shell casings on a U S Army range at Girard's urging. The shells allegedly enticed scrap collectors, and a 46 year old woman, Naka Sakai, was shot.
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Maebashi
Japan
Michigan
William Girard
Victor Nickel
Inkster
Mich
Girard
U.S
United States
Tokyo
Army
Washington
Naka Sakai
Termites Run Out Of Herrin School Despite Infestations
Hungry termites enrolled in Lincoln School Herrin at 500 N 10th St are being treated by Orkin Exterminating. They damaged a floor sill under a classroom and caused minor dam age in other parts of the building. Lee Booth says other elementary schools have been affected by termites.
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Lincoln School
N. 10Th St
Herrin
Orkin Exterminating
Lee Booth
Long Voyage Ends Mayflower II Greeted Plymouth
Mayflower II, replica of the Pilgrim ship, completed a 5,000 mile voyage in 54 days from Plymouth England to Plymouth Massachusetts. Skipper Alan Villiers steered the 180 ton bark into harbor after 1 a m with a Coast Guard escort as bells rang and a crowd watched.
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Plymouth
Mass
Plyeouth
England
Coast Guard
Alan Villiers
Plymouth Rock
Garnet
Maytower
Cape
Provincetown
Wesday
Cmdr
Villiers
Cape Cod
Hub Cap Stolen From Car at Holden Hospital
Mrs Myrttle Cox of 308 East Walnut Street Carbondale reported a hub cap stolen from her car Wednesday night while parked at Holden Hospital. The incident was logged by local authorities.
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Myrttle Cox
Walnut St
Carbondale
Holden Hospital
Stricter U S boat rules eyed by lawmakers for inland waters
The House committee urged extended registration for all powered craft on inland and navigable waters. If enacted, Crab Orchard Lake boats would require numbers for identification. Operators would face examinations for licenses, with no current legislation expected until a future session.
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U. S
House of Representatives Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee
Herbert Bonner
North Carolina
Henry Wuench
Second Coast Guard District
St. Louis
Crab Orchard Lake
Wuench
Congres
Father Blames Society For Brutal Crime
Six year old Mary de Caussin was found slain in a Detroit area dump two miles from her home in Ecorse Township. Police traced footprints and tire tracks as thousands of volunteers helped the search. The father blamed society for contributing to violent crime citing magazines and Hollywood, while the RC parish priest offered prayers and last rites. The case unsettled the Penn Gardens subdivision area near Dix and Trenton roads.
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Detroit
Mary de Caussin
Ecorse Township
Paul Panter
Dix
Trenton
Panter
Trenton Road
Mary
Edmund de Caussin Jr
Geraldine
St. Pius School
Edmund J. de Caussin
Detroit Fire Department
de Caussin
Ford Motor Co
James C. Curtain
St. Pius Roman Catholic
Father Curtain
Penn Gardens
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Kunce
Felix Gaillar
Gaillard
Bourves-Maunoury
Bank of France
Ele
Algeria
Peggy Joyce
War Project
Wild Horse
America
Mayflower II
Action Eyed
Bentley Galloway
Ecorse
Hunt
Anny
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