Seversky Predicts Inevitable U S Military Showdown
World war pioneer Alexander de Seversky spoke in Carbondale during a Southern Illinois University honors ceremony. He urged unified defense, emphasizing air power, integrated services, and a shift to a single department. He argued for technological and doctrinal change to deter war and cited Gen. Nathan Twining and others as guiding leaders.
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Ander
P. de Seversky
U.S
Tharadology
DeSeversky
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Air
Navy
Army
Esprit
Nathan Twining
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Seversky
Twining
Curt LeMay
Thomas White
Push for Judicial Reform in Illinois Amid Budget Confusion
The Illinois Legislature faces a choice on a judicial amendment to reorganize the state judiciary and set a referendum plan for 1958. Gov Stratton's recommendations on judges selection and tenure are urged, with the Morey Jenner Rendlemen reforms guiding a reset of fiscal procedures in 1959. The paper argues for postponing 1957 fiscal reforms and pursuing a comprehensive overhaul to achieve a short ballot and stronger auditing, while noting current code department changes do not fix constitutional auditing shortcomings.
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70Th Assembly
Stratton
Illinois Supreme Court
New Code Department
Gvernor
Springfield
Illinois Judiciary
Supreme Court eases limit on Smith Act advocacy
In a 6 to 1 ruling the Supreme Court reverses Dennis era stance, saying the Smith Act forbids advocacy of forceful overthrow only when tied to concrete action, not abstract teaching. The decision signals a shift in court view on communism amid postwar anti Communist pressures. Justice Oder writes for the court while Justices Black and others previously favored striking down the act.
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U. S. Supreme Court
High Court
United States
Dennis
Supreme Court
Joseph McCarthy
Majori
Justice Oder
Communist Party
Black and Mye
No Peace In Algeria Rages Over Terror and Occupation
The piece argues that Algeria faces ongoing bloodshed as Nationalist and French forces clash. It outlines the uneasy status of French residents, the occupation dynamic, and the uncertain political prospects under Premier Bourges-Mauroury.
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Algeria
Algeri
France
M. Bourges - Mauroury
More Money For Schools Hospitals in Illinois Budget Debate
Gov Stratton keeps Republican lawmakers in line against budget increases for public school aid and state mental hospitals. Democrats push modest school aid hikes and higher funding for Dixon and Lincoln hospitals for mental defectives, arguing care costs are low and Illinois can afford greater improvements.
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Chicago Daily News
Stratton
Senate Democrats
Sen. Korshak
Proposa
Dixon
Lincoln
Illinois
Old Town Holiday Arts and Crafts Outdoor Fair in Chicago
David Felts reflects on the 8th Annual Arts and Crafts Outdoor Fair by the Triangle Association near Lincoln Park Chicago. He describes bohemian street scenes, open houses, garden walks, and the artist atmosphere with paintings prints ceramics and mosaics priced from ten to twenty five dollars. The piece weaves in cultural notes about Chicago life, civil war centennial forecasts, and nostalgic reminiscences of literature and cinema icons.
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Chicago
The
Triangle Association
Lincoln Park
North Clark, Ogden
West North Avenue
Triangle
New York
Greenwich Village
Paris
Old Town
New Edition of Photo War Published in 1911
Our host brought a bulky box of books for the club meeting as they featured five items from a new edition of the Photo War first issued in 1911 to mark a semi centennial. Edited by Henry Steele Commager, the volume presents excellent picture books with a subscription history flavor, and many photographs have become classics in repeated use across multiple War volumes.
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Five
Francis Trevelyan Miller
Henry Steele Commage
Liberace Worries Over Fewer Jokes This Season
A brief remark notes that Liberace seems concerned as jokes about him fade this year. The line hints at a shift in public humor and media coverage without detailing specific incidents or dates.
Confusion Over Fallout Groping In Nuclear Fog
Scientists admit uncertainty about nuclear test radiation effects while outlining three key points. Small individual health risk from peacetime testing exists, but long term genetic dangers could be significant in human terms. Most scientists advocate an annual limit near ten megatons. current testing totals far exceed this, raising questions about global safety in potential all-out war.
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Willard Libby
Atomic Energy Commission
Genes
Missile missing as Navy fails to unearth one ton shell
Erica Virginia June 18 AP three days of digging yielded only a yawning hole behind a cottage where a non explosive 16 inch shell from the Dahlgren Naval Proving Grounds misfired and landed several miles from target. Crater now 26 feet wide and 30 feet deep. water filled and cave ins hinder further work. Navy may abandon search.
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Erica
Navy
Dahlgren Naval Proving Grounds
Congressional Voting Record for Illinois Senators
Washington June 18 roll call shows Illinois senators Douglas and Dirksen voting Yea on multiple measures. Fiscal 1958 DC appropriations passed 83-1 June 11. Departments of Labor Education and Welfare and related agencies annual appropriation passed 70-0 June 12. Agriculture Department funding passed 78-0 June 11.
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Washington
Illinois
Senate
District of Columbia
Douglas
Dirksen
Departments of Labor and Health
Education
Welfare
Agriculture Department
Candid Comment From Neighbor To Small Dirty Boy
A neighbor jests about the soil bank in rueful fashion, asking if the boy is overdrawn. The Wall Street Journal framing casts the remark as a sharp, quotable aside reflecting local culture and humor.
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Soil Bank
Wall Street Journal
Nuclear weapons as central tool of power debated
The text questions whether the United States, in wartime, is justified in relying on nuclear weapons as the core instrument of national power, asking readers to examine this central issue clearly despite other wartime testing concerns.
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United States
Reader praise for Southern Illinoisan editorial on mental retardation
The Egyptian Association for Mentally Retarded Children and the Illinois Council for Retarded Children thank Southern Illinoisan for a June 14, 1957 editorial highlighting the need for a spokesman and better facilities. They praise informed electorate, future legislation, and the paper’s series on state schools, noting public opinion can curb mental retardation like polio. Peyton H. Kunce, president.
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Southern Ilinoisan
Egyptian Association For
Illinois Council For Retarded Children
Illinois
Egyptian Association
Peyton H. Kunce
Graham Crusade Requires Additional Funds for Madison Square Garden
Sponsors report $500,000 raised for Bill Graham’s Madison Square Garden crusade with about $160,000 still needed to sustain meetings through July 21. Daily receipts are expected to total roughly $420,000. Roger Hull, crusade committee chairman and Mutual Insurance Co. of New York head, said the money will be available. Graham and his team receive no wage from the crusade beyond living expenses.
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New York
Bill Graham
Madison Square Garden
Roger Hull
Mutual Insurance Co
Graham
Combined working area on carrier USS Saratoga exceeds six acres
The report notes that the combined working area for flight operations on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga covers more than six acres, highlighting the scale of handling aircraft and maintenance tasks aboard the vessel.
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Saratoga
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Easil
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Ozark Airlines
Maj. de Seversky
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Oman
Hugh Foster
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Suchlaiahtly
Pe Hopkins Joyce
Mae West
Jean Harlow
Gypsy Rose Lee
Marilyn Monroe
Peggy Joyce
Liberace
By Galbraith
Gropin
Ike
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