Defense Head Attacks Air Funds Increase Policy
Defense Secretary Wilson denounces Senate plans to boost Air Force funding as phoney while leaving open whether he would use extra money if approved. In a Marine base news conference he urged voters to pay for any expansion and suggested he would cross the bridge if Congress approves the funds. Senate debate on the defense bill, totaling 34.94 billion, opened with calls to maintain air superiority over the Soviet Union.
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Quantico
Wilson
Senate
Air Force
Marine Corps
Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
Congress
Defense
Sence
Soviet
Russia
Cyprus Town Faces Fine After Wave of Violence
British authorities levy a 35,000 pound fine on Limasol Greek Cypriot community amid six assassinations ten wounded in attempted attacks and 70 bomb incidents since January. An official note blames onlookers for not aiding capture and suggests using part of the proceeds for victim compensation.
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Nicosia
Limassol
Italy approves record postwar defense budget
Italy's Chamber of Deputies on Thursday night approved a record postwar defense budget of 1.06 billion dollars, an increase of 64 million dollars over last year.
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Rome
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Kaskaskia Reservoir OKs Flood Control Project
A House subcommittee approved Army engineers building the Kaskaskia River Shelbyville reservoir as part of flood control plans for the upper Mississippi Valley. The project, estimated at 22.825 million dollars, may join an omnibus bill with Carlyle and other uses including water supply and recreation. Local Shelbyville interests expect to contribute up to six million dollars, while planning funds for Carlyle remain uncertain. The panel also approved Salmon River flood control work with a federal cost of 5,272,000 dollars.
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Washington
Shelbyville
House Public Works
Con Ss
Mack
D-Ill
Army Engineers
Kaskaskia River
Congress
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Kaskaskia
Carlyle
Army
Carlyle Lake
Joseph Brennan
Brennan
Shelbyville Area
Illinois
Saline
Famed Detective Hughes Dies in Chicago at 86
Michael J. Hughes, 86, former Chicago police chief and renowned detective, died after a brief illness. A 39 year veteran who retired in 1935, he earned 31 creditable mentions and led major cases including the Leopold and Loeb confession and the Roundout robbery. Survived by three daughters.
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Chicago
Michael J. Hughes
Chicago Police Department
Hughes
Police Department
Nathan Leopold
Richard Loeb
Bobby Franks
Ireland
Wilsons Order On Civil Clothing For Officers
Secretary of Defense issued a directive requiring on duty officers in the Washington area to shed uniforms and wear civilian clothes starting July 1. The order has caused a Pentagon stir with unofficial reports of strong opposition reaching the White House. Junior officers and reservists face a potential financial burden due to the change.
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Wilson
Washington Area
Pentagon
Strong Stion
White House
Riverside Lifts Ban on Cheek to Cheek Dancing
Riverside California. On June 22 the City Council repealed a 31 year old ban allowing couples to dance cheek to cheek. The ordinance passage marks a shift in local social norms and permits more intimate dancing on the city’s floor.
Kefauver Benson Spar Over Farm Policy in Iowa
In Eldora Iowa on June 22 Secretary of Agriculture Ezea Benson shared the stage with Sen Estes Kefauver a Democratic presidential hopeful. They criticized the Eisenhower administration for a timid approach to the farm program and warned of nearly two billion dollars in potential farmer income if policies are properly administered. Benson touted rising prices and expanding markets while noting the soil bank is temporary and will prove its value in 1957 to 1959.
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Eldora
Iowa
Ezea Benson
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Eisenhower
Kefauver
Benson
Pope
GOP Planning Group Meets on Eisenhower Convention Plans
A 46 member GOP planning committee in Washington meets to approve final conventions plans in San Francisco starting August 30. Chairman Leonard Hall leads discussions as Eisenhower recuperates, with a four versus three day format under debate to speed an Eisenhower Nixon ticket if he runs. Democrats plan an active whistle stop campaign this fall.
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GOP
Leonard W. Hall
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Hospital
Hall
San Francisco
Nixon
Heavy rains blamed for deaths at Redbank fish hatchery
Officials attributed the mass death of nearly a million young salmon and trout at the Redbank hatchery to insecticide sprayed by aircraft to combat forest budworm. Rain washed the chemical into the stream near the hatchery, killing the fish.
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Redbank Fish Hatchery
Colony Club Owner Faces Gaming Charge
Colony Club owner Joe Dodd of Route 3 north of Cairo faces charges of possessing gambling equipment to be filed in Alexander County court. State police raided the Colony Club at 4 15 p m Thursday and confiscated a dice table a roulette wheel and four slot machines impounded in the county courthouse. No arrests were made and no gambling was found in progress during the raid.
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Cairo
Joe Dodd
Colony Club
Rt. 3
Elza Brantley
District 13
William Cooper
Dodd
Alexander County
Dorothy Spomer
Brantley
Plush Colony Club
Highway Bill Approved by House Senate Conferees
Highway bill set for July 1 start with a 32.9 billion program. House and Senate to approve next week. Eisenhower expected to sign immediately. New revenues total 14.8 billion over 16 years, including a one cent per gallon gasoline tax hike and taxes on tires tread rubber fuels trucks buses and trailers.
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Washington
House-Senate
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Illness hits charity banquet in Port Huron
More than 100 people fell ill after a hospital charity banquet in Port Huron Michigan on Thursday. Doctors and nurses worked through the night to aid the stricken with 37 still hospitalized but none in serious condition. Food samples including ham cottage cheese salad and potatoes au gratin were sent to the State Health Department for analysis.
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Port Huron
Mich
House Banking Committee backs revised Area Redevelopment bill
Rep. Kenneth Gray said the House Banking and Currency committee reported favorably a revised Area Redevelopment bill and urged leadership to bring it to a vote soon. Sen. Paul Douglas said the Senate Labor Subcommittee discussed the act and plans to vote next week, with administration support boosting chances of passage. Southern Illinois Chamber urged Dirksen to push for passage, as Douglas’s plan represents a compromise on distressed areas.
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House Banking and Currency Committee
Kenneth Gray
Gray
House
Senate
Paul Douglas
Senate Labor Subcommittee
Douglas
Southern Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Everett M. Dirksen
Saline River flood plan cuts local share to 232500
Rep Gray said the House Public Works Committee approved the Saline River flood control project in southeastern Illinois with local costs capped at 232500. The Budget Bureau and Army Engineers had proposed 930000 locally, part of a six plus million dollar project to be authorized in an omnibus rivers and harbors package. Local costs cover rights of way and industry relocations as 36 miles of channel work on Saline River forks near Harrisburg proceeds.
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Washington
Gray
D-Ill
House Public Works Committee
Saline River
Illinois
Budget Bureau
Corps of Army Engineers
Interets
Harrisburg
House
Motorist’s note on ticket taunts cost of living
A Rome New York motorist paid a $1 parking ticket and wrote a cheeky note claiming a wife costs him $3 after mentioning a $2 marriage license. The line reads I got this ticket while getting a $2 marriage license Guess a wife cost me $3.
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Rome
N.Y
Civil Rights Violated in Ohio Ruling Criticized
Livingston Alabama June 22 AP eight penniless Negro children and a 40 year old mother were forcibly sent from Ohio to Alabama over protests. Judge Wilbur Dearman urged federal and state probes into the custody ruling claiming the family, legal Ohio residents, were denied welfare aid.
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Livingston
Ala
Ohio
Alabama
Wilbur Dearman
Martha Winston
Dearman
Sumter County
Winston
Coatopa
Cleveland
Albert A. Waldman
South
Waldman
Circuit
Tom Boggs
John Patterson
U. S
Herbert Brownell
Enraged husband fatally shoots three in Ohio spree
In Warren Ohio on June 22 37 year old Alfred Wilson enraged by a quarrel with his wife used a car to speed through a shooting spree killing two sisters in law and a girl and wounding a man. The girl Nancy Worthington 16 was kidnapped and later found dead in a ditch. Two 17 year old boys Arthur Johnson and Thomas Heidelberg witnessed the kidnapping. Wilson was identified by Deputy Sheriff Harry Crozier and was being hunted statewide after a prior release on bond.
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Here
Harry Crozier
Alfred Wilson
Leavittsburg
Wilson
Crozier
Geraldine Brown
Hazel Botts
Cortland
Arthur Johnson
Thomas Heidelberg
Nancy Worthington
Miss Worthington
Windham
Joseph Murphy
Murphy
DUKW Joins Landing Ship as Seattle Prepares Arctic Convoy
A large DUKW is loaded aboard a landing ship in Seattle on Thursday while heavy equipment waits nearby for loading to join a convoy. More than 50 supply ships are set to depart Seattle in two convoys to Arctic radar warning sites.
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Seattle
Arctic
Stevenson Attacks Dirksen at Stengel Dinner
Adlai Stevenson urged optimism for the Democratic nomination while sharply criticizing Republican Senator Dirksen of Illinois at a $50 plate testimonial for Richard Stengel. Stengel, Rock Island state representative, was lauded by Stevenson, Sen. Douglas, and Mayor Daley among about 800 guests.
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Chicago
Adlai Stevenson
Dirksen
Illinois
Stevenson
Richard Stengel
Stengel
Paul Douglas
Richard J. Daley
Rock Island
Sen Dirksen
Bricker
Furor over Lehman office wiretap search shocks Senate
An uninvited Defense Department search of Sen. Lehman’s New York office triggered a Senate furor as lawmakers debated electronic surveillance in hearing rooms. Officials said the probe found nothing improper, but the incident prompted calls for safeguards and apologies from the Defense Department and Capitol authorities. Lehman called it an insult and said he would have cooperated with permission.
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Defense Department
Sen
Lehman
D-Ny
Capitol
Senate
Symington
D-Mo
Special Armed Services
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Douglas
D-Ill
Sen. Green
D-Ri
Senate Rules Committee
Johnson
Sai
Sen. Capehart
R-Ind
Reds Fire on Quemoy Signe
Defense Ministry reported Chinese forces on Amoy fired 20 shells at Quemoy killing a civilian and destroying two homes on the Nationalist-held island.
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Taipei
Formosa
Defense Ministry
Amoy
Quemoy
Partly Cloudy For Southern Illinois Weather Summary
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Saturday partly cloudy and cooler with scattered Baker can be expected. Overnight low in the low 70s, Saturday highs in the low 80s. Temperature readings include 69 overnight, 80 at 7am, 86 at 6pm yesterday, and high 96 at noon today. Crab Orchard Lake 2 inches below spillway, Little Grassy Lake 33 inches below spillway.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
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Lehman Office
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Reds
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