Retirement housing plan eyed by Southern Illinois boards
County housing authorities discussed forming a nonprofit to promote retirement living in Southern Illinois. L D Martin urged 12 to 15 area boards to join, explore FHA loans, build a few homes in undeveloped areas, and publicize via ads and a railroad tour. Local boards from Williamson County and others welcomed the idea as state funds could back pilot sites.
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Southern
Illinois
L. D. Martin
State Housing Board
Martin
Williamson County Housing Authority
Herrin
Saline
Pope
Hardin
Southern Illinois Housing Authority
Pope County
Ohio River
Partly Cloudy For Southern Illinois Forecast
Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers likely this afternoon or evening. Thursday remains partly cloudy with a few thundershowers, little temperature change. Tonight will dip to the upper 60s and Thursday’s high will reach the 80s. Overnight low in the 60s, yesterday’s high 94, noon today 91. Sunrise 5 32 am, sunset 8 33 pm.
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Illinois
Sweden Breaks Up Extensive Spy Ring Aligned with Poland
Oslo reports police have dismantled an espionage ring not controlled by the Soviet embassy. The crackdown follows the surrender of Polish refugee Stanisla Podskinky who testified to spying for Communist Poland.
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Oslo
Norwegian Journal of Commerce and Shipping
Stanis ‘A’ Podskinky
Poland
Southern Route Sparks Mt. Vernon Industrial Growth
Mount Vernon will gain a new industry as a result of a federal state decision to place the intersection of two superhighways near the city. J. Marvin Powers, a local banker, declined to name the company, but said the highway ruling drove the relocation plans. Interstate 64 will meet Interstate 57 about a mile southwest of Mount Vernon, after shifting from the northern U.S. 50 alignment.
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Temple McFayden
Southern
Illinois
Southern Illinoisan
Lindsay-Schaub
California
Florida
Harry Wilson
John McVey
Edward Finnegan
John Marlow
Julius Steinmarch
McVey
Wilson
Rt. 37
Rt. 64
Mount Vernon
J. Marvin Powers
Atlas Test Launch Tests New Nose Cone in Atlas Flight
Atlas rocket launched from Cape Canaveral on a 5,000 mile test flight delivering a new tactical nose cone and a General Electric re entry body to a pre selected target off Ascension Island. It marks the first of seven simulated Atlas warhead flights planned from Cape Canaveral.
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U.S
Air Force
South Atlantic
Ascension
General Electric
Khrushchev Defends Coexistence Policy at Bucharest Congress
Soviet Premier Khrushchev asserts peaceful coexistence will triumph in the socialist camp and rejects calls for world war. He cites the 20th Party Congress line that war is not inevitable and targets U.S. policy as missteps as he praises socialism’s appeal.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Kremlin
Khrushche
Romanian Congress Party
Bucharest
Tass
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Peiping
Lenin
Eisenhower
America
Trade Merger Talks Eye Britain's European Ties
Allied envoys from Britain and six Western European nations began formal talks at the Foreign Office in London on a possible basic industry tie up. Britain may join Euratom and the European Coal and Steel Community, as part of a broader package including trade policy terms with a seven nation free trade group led by Britain.
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Arthur L. Garshon
Associated Press
London
Britain
European Atomic Energy Community
European Coal and ‘Steel Community
Harold MacMillan
Euratom
Coal and Steel Community
European Free Trade Assn
Senate Panel OKs Pay Bill Extending Wage Law
The Senate Labor Committee approved 12 to 2 a bill to raise the minimum wage to 1.25 dollars by 1963 and bring five million more workers under the Wage-Hour law. It would cover retail and service enterprises for the first time, mainly impacting those workers.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
House Labor Committee
Treaty Pushed Despite Strikes
The United States Japan security treaty moves toward final ratification as Senate approval and presidential assent loom. Leftist strikes and demonstrations aimed at blocking lawmakers and officials failed to derail the process as Kishi's cabinet approved the pact and Hirohito affixed the imperial seal.
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United States
Japan
U.S Senate
Nobusuke Kishi
Hirohito
Four Rhee Officials Go On Trial In Pusan
Four members of Syngman Rhee's government faced trial in Pusan on charges of rigging the March presidential election to favor Rhee and his running mate Lee Ki-Poong. The defendants held offices in Tokyo, according to AP dispatches from Seoul.
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Seoul
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Pusan
Rhee
Lee Ki-Poong
Tokyo
Japanese Students Denounce Treaty at Shinagawa Station
In Tokyo amid rain and protests, hundreds of Japanese students rally against the U.S. Japan security pact. A 23 year old leader calls for overthrow of the bourgeoisie and a dictatorship of the proletariat, while others insist violence no solution. The group rejects democracy as defined by the majority and vows continued opposition regardless of election outcomes.
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Sinagawa Railway Station
Tokyo
U.s.-Japan
Fujiwara Josikisi
Piggy-Back Space First: Two Satellites In Orbit
The United States launched a two stage Thor Able Star rocket to place Transit II A and a piggy back satellite into orbit. The dual payload orbited about 500 miles high with signals strong from both satellites. Navy officials reported stable orbits as tests continue toward an operational network in 1962.
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Associated Press
United States
Air Force
America
Vanguard
Soviet Union
Seattle
Navy
Washington
U S Launches 13th Satellite as Orbit Milestone Reached
Navy scientists celebrate the second navigation aid satellite test as the United States reports 13 satellites now in orbit. Rear Adm. Connolly notes devices can be launched up there and used, marking a space age advance. Russia has two Earth satellites and one solar satellite in orbit.
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Navy
United States
Thomas F. Connolly
Pacific Missile Range
Astronautic Department
Russia
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