Herrin High Board Opens Doors? By Closed Meetings
Editorial attacks the Herrin Township High School District for denying taxpayers a voice in budgeting. It claims the seven board members claim meetings are open while none are regularly held, leaving residents ignorant of when or where meetings occur. Presidents Wallace and board members are named as part of the critique.
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Herrin High Board
Herrin
High School Board of Education
Oe Paar
Herrin Township
Board of Education
Oncf
Wallace
High
Loe Te
Wallace Owen
A. T
Tony) Brown
Douglas Bryant
T. J. Creek
James E. Gladson
Lan Haney
Millage King
Thorough Looting Probe Needed After Marion Fire
The Marion looting after a recent fire demands more than routine inquiry amid rumors of police and firefighter involvement. No formal charges or evidence, but public officials should be cleared if innocent. The episode urges stricter watch, more officers, and posted guards after disasters to prevent theft and protect property.
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Marion
Anxi Polis
Spotlight On Water Rates In Car Bondale
An audit of Car Bondale water and sewer finds a rate study is badly needed as some users pay less than cost, subsidizing others. The ongoing survey should determine changes to restore fair rates and ensure sufficient income for operations and improvements. The city’s department runs efficiently but must return to a sound financial basis despite political unpopularity of rate changes.
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Carbondale Water and Sewer Department
A Iterioral
Energy in peanuts beats steak for value
A compact comparison notes that energy in a pound of peanuts equals energy in four pounds of steak while cost favors peanuts, highlighting nutrition and price efficiency in a concise health or food economics line.
Illinois House votes on judicial reform amid political delay
The Illinois House pursued a Senate approved judicial amendment with 109 members voting for it and 36 present during overtime Monday. Tuesday night the House advanced a judicial amendment 165 to 3 after six hours of debate adding several amendments, yet no final passage. The Senate had rejected House amendments, sending the issue to a joint conference committee as supporters cite political pressure and the need for a modern court system.
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Illinois House
House
Senate
Richard Daley
Chicago
Ac Jones
Cook County
Illinois
Critics push for limits on Supreme Court power debate
Critics warn against giving the highest court a blank check while noting opinions on military strategy. The battleship debate resurfaces as observers say the ship is obsolete, a claim echoed for a century since the Monitor and Merrimac clash.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Reductions in US Forces Abroad Questioned
The article argues against a rapid or significant recall of foreign based troops amid Cold War tensions. It notes a recent US and Soviet troop cap of 2.5 million each and warns European allies and Japan oppose large US concentrations abroad while defense needs and deterrence require steady strength.
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U.S
Japan
Sietesi Caspian
United States
Soviet Union
Roach
Moscow
Kremlin
Learn To Live With Inflation?
A postwar inflation report notes May prices rose for the ninth straight month, setting a new record as experts debate causes. Dr Edwin G. Nourse warns inflation could be curbed only at the cost of a low mood, urging powerful policy steps, while Prof. Slichter sees creeping inflation as likely and not alarming. President Eisenhower calls for restraint from labor and management without new federal controls.
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Washington
Edwin G. Nourse
Council of Economic Advisers
President Truman
United States
Dr. Nourse
Sumner H. Slichter
Harvard
Nourse
Prof. Slichter
Slichter
Eisenhower
Princess Margaret Wins Ascot Race Over Queen Elizabeth II
David Felts reports a Royal Ascot race where Princess Margaret won by several lengths over Queen Elizabeth II. Finish order included Duke of Gloucester and his duchess, Beaufort, Duchess of Norfolk, and others. Lord Irvin predicted eighth place before the start.
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Princess Margaret
Queen Elizabeth II
Royal Ascot
Royal Enclosure
College of Heralds, Chili Pty Ty Oy
Ren VI
S Gee Doe
Gloucester
Beaufort
Duchess of Norfolk
Earl Marshal of
England
Beauworts
Lord Irvin
Noted Driver Jackie Cooper Arrest Report Critique
Jackie Cooper was stopped by police for driving his sports car at 145 miles per hour and protested he did not know he was being cited. The passage reflects on weather memories from June 1957 and mentions two Russian warships passing straits, then imagines routes via Aqaba, the Suez, and Formosa toward Panama.
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Jackie Cooper
the Bosporus
Sardanelles
Suez Canal
Aqaba
Formosa
Panama Canal
Tad Jones Remembered Yale Coach’s Dressing Room Speech
Albert Dwight Jones, Yale football coach during landmark Blue eras, died last week. Anecdotes flood sports pages, including a famed dressing room ovation where Tad Jones urged players to give football their all for Yale, saying nothing would matter more.
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Thomas Albert Dwight Jones
Yale
Tad” Jones
Tad Jones
Yearbook Names and School Legacy Reflect Community Pride
The article discusses originality in yearbook titles at schools, noting how alumni defend unique names as sacred, while outsiders may mock them. It recalls a midwestern college's reception of the name "Ilio" and reflects on local traditions shaping school memory and identity.
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Ann Piasehies Seca High School
Ilio
Casbah travel restrictions and relics recalled
A New York Times dispatch from Algiers notes Europeans are barred from the Casbah and American visitors require a military escort. The piece wanders through memories of classic cinema, a packaged gas mask, and relics of the Great White Fleet review led by Theodore Roosevelt with images of Rear Admiral Robley D Evans.
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Mae
New York Times
Algiers
Casbah
Hedy Lamar
Theodore Roosevelt
Ham Roads
Robley D Evans
Governors Eye Presidential Race in 1900
Doris Fleeson reports governors from 48 states shaping the 1960 nomination scene. Key figures include Michigan’s G. Mennen Williams, New York’s Averell Harriman, and California’s Goodwin Knight, with Nixon watching Knowland Knight clash and Pat Brown looming.
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Governors Eye
Reckine Paigner
Robert B. Meynet
Averell Harriman
New York
California
Goodwin J. Knight
Senate
William F. Knowland
Knowland
Knight
Nixon
Reader Speaks Obscenity Social Dilemma in Southern Illinoisan
Frank Sehnert of Carbondale argues that Supreme Court actions cannot replace local responsibility to curb obscene material. He urges communities to lead decency efforts, strengthen institutions, and preserve cultural values for future generations amid rising obscenity and moral laxity.
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Southern Illinoisan
Front Pa News
United States Supreme Court
Frank Sehnert
Carbondale
Atom Truce Motive Radiations In Russia The Nuclear Fear
Radiation danger in Russia is described as serious with multiple Soviet sites in the Caucasus and other regions showing intense radioactivity. A Kiev professor links 200 patients to a white blood cell procedure from a German doctor repurposed for Soviet radiation victims. Munich scientists report low fallout from Soviet tests, fueling debate on underground detonations and clean bombs while Moscow expands nuclear facilities at Obninsk, Dubno, and a new Lermentov center in the Caucasus.
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Russia
Soviet Union
Ruseyee
Caucasus
Sigmund Schmide
Pavel Bagdasarov
Kiev
Ukraine
Schmidt
Gerwe
University of Munich
Gerlach
Vyacheslav Molotov
Grelach
Molotov
Bagdasarov
Siberia
Beringstrait Dam
Bering Strait
Alaska
Siberian
Munich
Ganda
Obninsk
Moscow
Dubno
Lermontov
Alsop Warns Nationalism as MidEast Threat to West
The article argues that after the Eisenhower Doctrine the United States bears direct, lasting responsibility for Middle East stability. It cautions that Arab nationalism led by Gamal Abdel Nasser poses a complex danger, not just communism, and that U.S. aid must be carefully managed to avoid alienating key states like Jordan while preventing a broader crisis tied to Soviet influence.
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Paris
America
Europe
United States
Far East
Middle East
Rter
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nasser
Kremlin
Hussein
Jordan
Dulles State Department
Lebanon
Middle Eastern
Hippo Meat Tastes Like Beef With Leftovers
The meat of a hippopotamus is described as good to eat resembling beef and yielding plenty of leftovers for future meals.
Diana Dors Seeks Divorce From Hamilton in England
British film star Diana Dors said she has filed for divorce alleging adultery and cruelty against her business manager-husband Dennis Hamilton. Hamilton told reporters he plans to file a similar suit against Dors, using the same accusations.
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Diana Dors
Maidenhead
England
Britain
Marilyn Monroe
Jayne Mansfield
Dennis Hamilton
Hamilton
Windsor
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