Southern Illinois University graduates 300 at 79th commencement
The 79th SIU commencement at McAndrew Stadium conferred degrees on 300 graduates. Dr. Kenneth McFarland urged continued leadership and enterprise as essential for freedom, noting action over waiting for opportunities. The Vocational-Technical Institute awarded associate degrees and certificates to 35 students in a separate ceremony at University School. President Lloyd Morey received an honorary doctor of laws.
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Benjamin C. Lowery
Creal Springs
D. W. Morris
Southern Illinois University
Ciate
SIU Vocational-Technical Institute
SIU
Low
Ery
McAndrew Stadium
America
McFarland
Southern’s Vocational - Technical Institute
University School
Southern Illinois University Vocational-Technical Institute
Joseph L. Ainslie
Herrin
Lloyd Morey
University of Illinois
Weather synopsis for Southern Illinois with heat ahead
Partly cloudy and warm humid conditions continue into tonight and Tuesday in Southern Illinois. Lows near 74 tonight with highs around 96 Tuesday and a Tuesday night low near 62. yesterday’s low 64, 7 am today 80, 6 pm yesterday 90, yesterday high 95, noon today 90. Sunrise 4:34 am, sunset 7:27 pm. Crab Orchard Lake Spillway level and Little Grassy Lake Spillway level noted.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Duel Challen ger Seized by South Elgin Posse
A 19 year old William Frenchack waited two days for a rival to duel with .22 rifles at a gravel pit in South Elgin. Police said Frenchack admitted quarreling with Leroy Snow over two girls and issued the challenge. Snow left to swim when the note urged him to shoot first. none were harmed.
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Elgin
South Elgin
Cliff Factly
William Frenchack
Frenchack
Leroy Snow
Snow
Baby saved by ducks in Little Rock lake rescue
A 19 month old girl Beth Cook fell into a private lake in Little Rock on a Saturday. Several ducks began quacking an alarm prompting the mother to reach the scene. Firemen revived her with artificial respiration and a resuscitator.
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Little Rock
Ark
Beth Cook
Wheeton Cook
Young faction wins control of New York Central Railroad
Financier Robert R. Young certified winner in the battle for NY Central leadership. His 15-member slate edged the Central management by about 1,064,000 votes, with White signaling a cooperative transition as Perlman is eyed for president and Young plots an ambitious reform of passenger service and dividends.
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Albany
N. Y
Robert R. Young
New York Central Railroad
Young Forces
Central Management
William White
Young Group
White
New York Central
Young
Perlman
Rio Genias
Central
Grocery Liquor Trade Broken Up
Ex inmate Bernard Guethle of Chester was arrested near the Menard Prison fence for trading groceries from the prison with liquor given by Elvin Burton of Jefferson County. Burton, serving 1 14 year sentence for manslaughter, helped hide food rations on the honor farm, enabling nightly exchanges before Guethle’s parole. Guards and Warden Ross Randolph supervised the investigation and custody transfer to Randolph County jail.
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Menard Prison
Menard
Ross Randolph
Randolph
Bernard Guethle
Chester
Rt. 3
Chester Implement Company
Randolph County
Guethle
Elvin Burton
Jefferson County
Burton
Honor Farm
Thomas O’keefe
Four car crash near Richmond leaves one dead
One man was killed and nine injured in a four car crash near Richmond in McHenry County Sunday night. The victim Edward Grocker 25 of Wonder Lake died at the scene. His wife Jean 25 was listed in critical condition at Memorial Hospital Woodstock.
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Richmond
McHenry County
Edward Grocker
Wonder Lake
Jean
Memorial Hospital
Woodstock
Atomic Civil Defense Drill Tests North American Alert
The first international civil defense drill, Operation Alert, prompted millions to seek shelter as alarms sounded across 54 cities from Puerto Rico to Hawaii. President Eisenhower and the White House staff joined the sheltering actions while officials tested emergency communications and command posts at the Pentagon. New York City faced multiple simulated atomic blasts with a projected death toll of 2,175,000.
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America
Eisenhower
White House
Defense Wilson
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Boston
New York
New York City
Ground Zero
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Bronx
Hiroshima
Doctor’s Amputated Leg Found in Alley In Chicago
Police faced a murder mystery when two boys, Rodney Edwards and Joseph Gates, found an adult leg in an alley. Dr Samuel J Burrows admitted amputating the leg from a 67 year old man and placing it in his car trunk to dispose at Cook County Morgue. He suggested one child may have removed it from the car and discarded it.
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Chicago
Samuel J. Burrows
Cook County
Rodney Edwards
Joseph Gates
Six Illinois Cities Simulated In Nationwide Civil Defense Drill
Illinois cities including Chicago Peoria Springfield Rock Island Rockford and Decatur were targets in a civil defense readiness exercise with simulated atom bombs and incendiaries. 125000 CD volunteers directed evacuations and firefighting as jet planes flew over Chicago and sirens wailed signaling a red alert.
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Illinois
Chicago
Peoria
Rock Island
Springfield
Rockford
Decatur
Civil Defense Corps
Carr Testifies Stevens Offered Schine Ride Job
In Phoenix on June 14 AP reports Daniel J. Marson, 41, accused of kidnapping the wife of a wealthy industrialist for 75,000 dollars. Police comb the Superstition Mountains for hidden ransom by a small force, searching mine shafts and debris for marked bills and weapons. Mrs. Smith overheard a second man after being locked in a trunk. she described one masked kidnapper. Marson, arrested near a ranch four hours after release, faces 50,000 bond and disputes the identification methods used by officers.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Daniel J. Marson
Evelyn Ann Smith
Herbert
Smiths
Smith
Marsin
John J. Flynn
Maricopa County
Flynn
Investiture Ceremony For Churchill At Windsor Castle
Queen Elizabeth II placed the Garter around Sir Winston Churchill at Windsor Castle in a historic investiture ceremony. The 79 year old prime minister was formally named a knight of the Order of the Garter, Britain’s oldest chivalric order, with the ceremony delayed from April 24 1953.
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Elizabeth II
Sir Winston Churchill
Windsor Castle
Order of the Garter
Britain
Order of Chivalry
Winston
Mendes France Named To Head France's New War Cabinet
Paris June 14 Pierre Mendes France agreed to form France's 20th war cabinet amid doubt he can win National Assembly support for a policy of cutting Indochina expenditures and slowing Europe military buildup. He seeks Assembly confirmation after Laniel's resignation. Geopolitical aims include negotiating with Ho Chi Minh and backing Western defense, with Bidault to push peace talks in Geneva.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
Ho Chi Minh
Indochina
France
National Assembly
Europe
Mendes-France
Rene Coty
Joseph Laniel
Laniel
Assembly
Radical Socialist
Vietminh
Mendes- France
Georges Bidault
Geneva
Carr Testifies That Stevens Sought Help From Schine
Francis P. Carr testified at the McCarthy Army hearings that Secretary of the Army Stevens proposed using G. David Schine as an observer in Army intelligence schools and reporting to Stevens. Carr said Stevens suggested shifting focus to security risks in defense plants Air Force and Navy to ease pressure on the Army.
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Francis P. Carr
Stevens
G. David Schine
Army
Carr
McCarthy Investigations Subcommittee
Pentagon
Roy M. Cohn
Schine
McCarthy
McCarthy Army
Sen
R-Wis
FBI
Cohn
Sen. McCarthy
Air Force
Navy
John G. Adams
McCarthy Subcommittee
Pvt
Adams
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Secretary of the Army
Richard C. Partridge
Monmouth
Himself
Steak and Tomatoes Diet Sparks Weight Loss Romance
Marvin Samples, a park lot attendant, shed 137 pounds in eight months by a steak and tomato juice regimen. His love interest Maxine demanded further loss, and he continued dieting, weighing 170 after marriage, claiming he simply ate steak and tomatoes and drank black coffee.
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Marvin
Samples
Maxine
Brunet
Weather Signs From Local Amateur Forecasts
The article describes how readers use sky conditions, wind, and barometric pressure to predict weather 24 to 36 hours ahead. It notes anecdotes about animal signs, smoke behavior, and maple leaf orientation, and includes cricket chirps as a temperature indicator.
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Price
U S High Commission Declares June 17 Holiday in Bonn
The U S High Commission announced a holiday for June 17 to mark the 1953 uprising in East Germany. West Germany designates June 17 as Day of German Unity and a national holiday.
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Bonn
Germany
U. S. High Commission
East Germany
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