Illinois House approves truck limits and carrier length bill
Two measures move in Illinois House relaxing truck weight and length limits. One bill allows up to 1 000 extra pounds for unavoidable cargo shifting, with a 350 pound max tolerance. The other increases trailer length to 50 feet to aid long car transport.
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Springfield
Richard Stengel
Rock Island
Illinois
Stengel
Congress
House
John Lewis
R-Marshall
Stratton
State Aeronautics Department
Senate
Downstate
Ralph Stephenson
R-Moline
Legislative Commission
Peron Says Argentina Revolt Quelled Blames Communists
Montevideo reports President Juan D. Peron announced the revolt in Argentina was over and blamed Communists for church damages. He warned against demonstrations under a state of siege while troops and authorities restored order.
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Juan D. Peron
Argentina
Peron
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
Government House
Casa Rosada
Pink House
Associated Press
Luis J. Corner
Navy
Anibal Olivieri
General Confederation of Workers
CGT
Naval Ministry
New Maritime Pact Okayed By National Union
In New York on June 17, 5140 NMU members approved a new contract by voice vote ending a coastwide strike. The agreement includes an unemployment benefit system for seamen with details to be finalized by a joint committee. Other unions still negotiate with shipowners as engines and radiomen follow NMU lead.
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National Maritime Union
Galveston
Maine
NMU
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
John Kadash
Pope Receives Exiled Priests in Rome
Pope Pius XII met Auxiliary Bishop Manuel Tato of Buenos Aires and Msgr Ramon Pablo Novoa exiled from Argentina by Peron. The audience followed their arrival in Rome and their briefing on the church state feud. Vatican sources say excommunication strained Vatican Argentina relations.
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Pius
Argentina
Vatican
Peron
Weather note for Southern Illinois forecast
Fair conditions in southern Illinois tonight with Saturday partly cloudy and warm. High Saturday upper fifties, low Saturday night upper sixties. Yesterday high 82, low 51. Today’s temperatures rose to 73 at noon, 79 by 6 pm. Sunrise 4 34 am, sunset 7 27 pm. Crab Orchard Lake level 2 inches above spillway, Little Grassy Lake at spillway today.
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Bor Southernlinois
Knowland calls for pattern for peace at Big Four talks
Senator Knowland proposes that President Eisenhower use the July Big Four conference to present a pattern for peace as an acid test of Soviet intentions. Senator Humphrey suggests inviting Democratic leaders and experts such as Dean Acheson to help draft the statement and attend preconference talks.
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Jack Bell
Associated Press
Washington
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
Eisenhower
Humphrey
D-Minn
Dean Acheson
Senate
Britain
France
Russia
Germany
McCarthy
R-Wis
Acheson
Averell Harriman
New York
Chester Bowles
George F. Kennan
Moscow
Paul Hoffman
John J. McCloy
U. S
Quiet week on Little Stinker contest entries
No poems or songs were received for Stink No 36. Over 6 400 entries were submitted to conquer the Stinker contest. The big question remains whether a winner will be chosen. results await Sunday.
Rewards posted in C E Chillingworth kidnap case
AP reports rewards totaling 11500 for the return of Circuit Judge C E Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie after they vanished Tuesday night. Sheriff John F. Kirk noted blood traces on a beach path and at a shelter, with meddling possible kidnap for ransom or revenge but no ransom note found.
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C. E. Chillingworth
Harry H. Waller
First Methodist Church
John F. Kirk
Miami
Marjorie
Kirk
Funeral Sermon Ends With Sudden Death in Church
In Toledo, Rev. John T. Mitchell aged 73 died of a heart attack after delivering a funeral sermon at St. Paul’s A M E Church. The service concluded with his passing, leaving mourners and parishioners reconsidering mortality and faith.
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Toledo
Ohio
John T. Mitchell
St. Paul's A. M. E. Church
72,600 Idle In GM Plants Across U.S.
The GM idled 72,600 workers as strikes and parts shortages closed 25 of 119 plants. Seven plants and 17,600 were directly struck, 18 plants and 55,000 were affected by supply gaps. About 42,000 idle workers are in Michigan. Three Illinois plants resumed today after local settlements. Electro-Motive No 1 McCook 5,100. No 2 South Chicago 1,500. Central Foundry Danville 2,400.
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Detroit
General Motors
Michigan
Illinois
Electro-Motive No
McCook
Electro-Motive
South
Chicago
Central Foundry Division
Danville
Judge connected to bigamy case with niece in law
Harold J. Pauch a paving engineer married Elizabeth Cook Maullendore the judge’s niece. Mullendore began an inquiry after Rauch told him of the marriage to his niece and learned Rauch had a second wife Ruby McGowan Ranch. Ranch received a year in jail on bigamy with requests for annulment from Mullendore’s niece and Ruby.
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Los Angeles
Harold J. Pauch
Elizabeth Cook Maullendore
F. B. Mullendore
Mullendore
Rauch
Ruby McGowan
Mal
Ruby
Eisenhower Wins as House OKs Dixon Yates TVA Link
The House approved a $1.37 billion public works bill funding the Dixon Yates private power project with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Democrats failed to block TVA line access and a Fulton Tennessee plant, while the measure moved to the Senate amid party clashes over TVA expansion and public contracts. The vote highlighted battles over federal power policy and pork-barrel spending.
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Eisenhower
House
Dixon-Yates
Tennessee Valley Authority
Senate
TVA
Fulton, Tenn
Dixon-Yates Private Utilities Group
Mississippi River
Dixon-Yates Group
West Memphis
Ark
Si Suen
Kennedy Boy Scouts Begin 160 Mile Texas Hike
About two dozen Kennedy Troop scouts embarked on a 160 mile trek to Indian Creek Camp near Kerrville. They reached Fashing, twenty miles southwest of here, on the first day of what organizers call the longest scout hike in Texas.
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Kennedy
Tex
Texas
Indian Creek
Kerrville
Texas Hill Country
Fashing
Here
Nation Finds Resolve In Operation Alert Civil Defense Drill
On the final day of Operation Alert 1955 government officials say the war economy remains viable despite mock devastation. FCDA reports 4.4 million saved through evacuations, 24 million homeless, with casualty projections of 8.2 million dead and 6.55 million injured in the continental United States. President Eisenhower oversees simulated decrees to sustain the wounded civilian economy as steel and machinery sectors suffer heavy damage and martial law provisions tighten.
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Federal Civil Defense Administration
FCDA
Val C. Peterson
United States
Eisenhower
Washington
Soviets Expel Three American Military Attaches
The Soviet Foreign Office labeled Lt. Col. John S. Benson Capt. William R. Stroud and Capt. Walter Mule persona non grata, saying their conduct was improper. It was unclear if the three had left Russia.
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Washington
Russia
Moscow
John S. Benson
Soviet Union
William R. Stroud
State Department
Felehlin
McKinney
U. S
United States
Senate Votes Draft Law Extends Draft and Reserve Programs
Senate approved a four year extension of the regular draft and a two year extension of the doctors draft. The fate of the new reserve program was left undecided as the measure moved back to the House where differences exist over selection service extensions.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Sen. Jackson
D-Wash
Armed Services Committee
House
Piano Collapse Kills Kindergartner In Classroom
Five year old Paul Gallo died after a heavy upright piano toppled in a kindergarten class as teacher Miss Harnet Andrews moved it for music hour. Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien ruled the teacher blameless in the accident.
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Paul Gallo
Harnet Andrews
Paul
Gerald K. O’brien
Churchill Declines U N Ceremony Invitation
London June 17 AP Sir Winston Churchill 80 declines invitation to attend San Francisco ceremonies marking the United Nations tenth anniversary. He is the only surviving member of the Big Three who helped found the UN with Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.
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Winston Churchill
San Francisco
United Nations
U. N
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph Sealin
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Army Corps of Engineers
Atomic Energy Commission
Southwestern Power Administration
Southeastern Power Administration
Bonneville Power Administration
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London
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