Transit Aid Faces Setback in Illinois Tax Bills
Illinois House rejected two sales tax expansion bills that would have raised 75 to 85 million dollars per biennium. Gov. Stratton’s budget balance hinges on revival or building authority plans. votes set to reconsider. CTA eight million in school transportation funding could cut per pupil aid if funds are not found.
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Springfield
Illinois
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Stratton
House
Chicago
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Senate
Building Authority
Everett R. Peters
R-St. Joseph
Samuel Shapiro
D-Kankakee
Gov. Stratton
Illinois House
Chicago Transit Authority
Charles W. Clabaugh
Champaign
School Problems Commission
Clabuagh
Weather Outlook for Southern Illinois Shows Showers and Warmth
Showers are possible tonight with considerable cloudiness. Saturday looks fair with little temperature change and highs in the low 80s. Lows will be in the 60s tonight and Saturday night, with yesterday’s high around 78 and today near 74. Rainfall totals show a trace from yesterday to today. Sunrise at 5 30 a m and sunset at 8 30 p m. Crab Orchard Lake spillway readings note Little Grassy Lake just under spillway.
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Illinois
Soviet envoy rejects Western Berlin plan amid Khrushchev speech
Geneva June 19 Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko rejected Western stopgap Berlin proposals as a basis for discussion. Khrushchev declared the Allied occupation of West Berlin must end. Western officials noted no new hope for a Berlin settlement and discussed possible moves with Gromyko including a longer occupation timeline and a German nonaggression pact.
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Berlin
Gromyko
Khrushchev
Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Kremlin
West Berlin
Russia
U. S
Christian A. Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Long hauled to Louisiana mental hospital amid turmoil
Governor Earl K. Long resisted being admitted to Southeast Louisiana State Hospital in Mandeville as deputies escorted him to a hospital for the second time in three weeks. Doctors cited paranoid schizophrenia yet Long refused treatment, while Lt. Gov. Luther Frazar faced questions over who would assume the governorship.
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Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Louisiana State Hospital
Mandeville
Chester Williams
East Baton Rouge Parish
Long
Mandeville Institution
Charles Belcher
Southeast
Associated Press
Belcher
Earl Kemp Long
Luther Frazar
John Sealy Hospital
Galveston
Tex
New Orleans
Frazar
Jack Gremillion
Chesner Foundation Hospital
Ochsner
First Cabinet Nominee Turned Down Since 1925
Eisenhower called the Senate rejection of Lewis L. Strauss as secretary of commerce a sad episode and said Americans are losers. The roll call ended 49 to 46 against confirmation with 31 Republicans and 15 Democrats voting yes and 47 Democrats with 2 Republicans voting no. Strauss had faced 16 days of hearings and was the first cabinet nominee rejected since 1925.
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Eisenhower
Senate
Lewis L. Strauss
White House
Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Bixon-Yates
Commerce Post
Calvin Collidge
Charles B. Warren
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
William Langer
North Dakota
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Congress
Senate Commerce Committee
Sen
Douglas
D-Iil
Dirksen
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Cost Of Living Index Reaches New Peak In May
Prices across most consumer goods rose slightly in May lifting the Labor Department index to 124 percent of the 1947 49 base the highest level ever and signaling a possible further small rise through the summer months.
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Washington
Labor Department
Gray Reports Prison Project Assured by Senate Action
U S prison project at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge won Senate subcommittee approval of 1 million dollars. Rep Kenneth Gray said the measure moves to the full Appropriations Committee and then the Senate, with a potential 2 million request to match the House.
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U. S
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Senate
Kenneth Gray
Dwest Frankfort
Southern Illinoisan
Justice
See
Judiciary
Gray
Appropriations
House
Sen
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Argentina Faces Revolt as Frondizi Government Denounced
Argentina reports a revolutionary plot against President Arturo Frondizi's government. Unconfirmed word says a military revolt has begun in the interior with officers gathering at Cordoba 400 miles from Buenos Aires. Cordoba leaders of the local garrison oppose government policies since Tuesday.
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Arturo Frondizi
Cordoba
Buenos Aires
Coroba
Great Lady Of The Stage Ethel Barrymore Dead At 79
The show business world mourns actress Ethel Barrymore who died in her Beverly Hills apartment after a long illness. She was last surviving member of the Barrymore acting trio and won a 1944 Oscar for None but the Lonely Heart. Burial is planned for Calvary Cemetery.
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Calvary Cemetery
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Lionel
Barrymores
Ethel
Pinky
New York
Ethel Barrymore Theater
Hollywood
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Philadelphia
Maurice Barrymore
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John Drew
Montreal
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Horse Marines
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Firearms
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