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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1959
Page
1
The Federal Reserve Board reports May industrial production rose to 152 percent of the 1947-49 average, a new all time high. April was revised to 150, with durable goods and non-durables both expanding and unemployment falling. Rubber industry remained weak due to work stoppages.
Fair to tonight and Tuesday. Warmer Tuesday with lows around 60 this evening and highs in the 80s on Tuesday. Tuesday night lows in the 60s. Yesterday’s low 47 and high 77. today’s readings include 76 at 11 a.m. Sun rises at 5 30 a.m. and sets at 8 31 p.m.
Thomas Rutledge, 33, a father of three, was executed at the state prison in Nashville for the rape and murder of his 12 year old cousin, committed about a year earlier.
Gary Indiana June 15 AP Metro Holovachka resigned as deputy prosecutor amid Senate committee accusations linking him to organized crime in Lake County. He defended his record denying any gambling or hoodlum payoff and blamed a smear campaign by the committee Gary Post Tribune and local civic groups. Prosecutor Floyd Vance then fired all three investigators in the office as part of the shakeup. Holovachka claimed he earned 327000 from 1952 to 1958 while serving as prosecutor, saying the funds were for private law work and not personal funds.
The Utah State Business Regulation Department sues to enforce new barber regulations barring shaving mugs and lather brushes. Rules require canister or machine lather, brush sterilization, and customer permission for use.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen with 90 000 members asks railroads for a 14 percent wage increase plus an upgraded escalator clause and higher daily earnings guarantees for road engineers and firemen. Minimums target 26.00 for engineers and 23.00 for firemen. current bases are 20.49 and 18.54 respectively.
Four people died in two clashes with police as opponents of Kerala's Communist regime protested by picketing schools and offices. Police fired on crowds with two deaths in Beli near Trivandrum and two at Pulluvilla, while 15 youths were injured in a stone-throwing incident at a Roman Catholic school.
A Tallahassee jury convicted four white youths of raping a white coed and sparing the death penalty due to lack of brutality evidence. The foreman said verdicts were based on law and evidence, not race, and sentencing is set for about 30 days with possible life or probation options.
The United States Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to a three power scientific study on detecting high altitude nuclear explosions. It calls for meetings in Geneva from June 22 to 29 to report on progress. The talks enter their eighth month with the 95th session held.
Negotiators meet again in St Louis to settle a six day old strike by 44 stereotypers halting both daily newspapers. This is the fourth session since the strike began last Tuesday at midnight, with Friday's talks ending without progress and no comments from either side.
In La Jolla California on Sunday a shark killed skindiver Robert Pamperin 33 while spectators watched from the beach about 50 yards away His companion Tom Lehrer 30 described a 12 foot white belied monster with jagged teeth He could not reach Pamperin and the diver disappeared underwater and was not seen again
Louisiana Governor Earl Long, confined at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston after a Baton Rouge escape, faces a habeas corpus hearing that widens into a family dispute. His wife challenges court actions while Long accuses plotters and calls for a special legislative session to revive stalled bills.
Western ministers led by the United States Britain and France pressed for a settlement with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko in Geneva as talks stretched into a sixth week. A compromise was sought to lift the immediate West Berlin threat while timing a possible summit.
A 15 year old boy is held after confessing to shooting his father Carlos Smith 58 and dragging the body a quarter mile with a tractor. He said the killing followed a plan to stop his father's strict rules.
A fire on the Ocean Layer 500 miles off the Atlantic coast forced abandonment of ship. 98 survivors including 12 supervisors and 86 crew were rescued by the German freighter Flavia bound for Hamburg. Ten Americans from ATandT were among the rescued. The Ocean Layer, aiding a Newfoundland to France cable, burned hours after the rescue while the Flavia towed away the two sailors left aboard.
Foster H. Brown 41 longtime KMOX general sales manager died Saturday after a cancer battle. He previously taught radio news reporting at the University of Missouri St. Louis College and Lindenwood College in St Louis.
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