Area Woman Hurt In Crash In Pekin Downtown Sideswipe
West Frankfort resident Elizabeth Herron aged 50 was injured in a Pekin crash when a bus and a slow-moving train collided in downtown. Twenty-two people were hurt, with two in serious condition as glass shattered from the bus. Herron, visiting Elmwood, works part time at Union Hospital while her sister Janet Waters is a practical nurse at Herrin Hospital.
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West Frankfort
Pekin
Elizabeth Herron
W. Main SL
Springfield
Herron
Tom Ramsey
Elmwood
Union Hospital
Janet J. Waters
E. Poplar St
West
Frankfort
Herrin Hospital
Stocks Still Dropping Tobacco Up
New York June 27 AP The stock market slid in dull trading with the Associated Press average down 40.4 at noon to 241.60 as industrials rails and utilities fell. Gains appeared rarely with American Tobacco stock advancing over a point while Du Pont Woolworth Chesapeake and Ohio and Southern California Edison posted small increases. The Dow Jones industrial average stood 1.66 lower at 479.50 as bonds stayed mixed.
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New York
Associated Press
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
American Motors
Gulf Oil
Consolidated Natural Gas
Sperry Rand
Goodyear
Allied Chemical
American Tobacco
du Pont
Woolworth
Chesapeake & Ohio
Southern California
Edison
U.S
St Louis Man Fined in DUI Case in Union County
A St Louis man identified as Robert Hedgepath, 30, was fined $100 in Union County court for driving while intoxicated after a Friday night arrest on Route 3 south of Ware. Also in court, Floyd Webb, 21, of Jonesboro, pleaded guilty to an intoxicated driving charge from a Friday crash at the East Anna 2 limits. Judge Paul Reese set bond at 8500 and Webb was jailed.
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St. Louis
Union County
Union County Sheriff's Office
Robert Hedgepath
Rt. 3
Ware
Floyd Webb
Jonesboro
East Anna 2
Paul Reese
Webb
Paul Pearce
Anna
Mitchell Receives Medical Degree at Washington University
Carl Edward Mitchell 26 has earned an M.D. from Washington University Medical School and will begin an internship at City Hospital in St. Louis. He is the son of Clyde and Mrs. Mitchell, a Hertin High School graduate who earned a BA in 1987. He married Mana Hinson on June 10 and they reside in Manlewood, Missouri. She trained at Barnes School of Nursing and works at Renard Hospital.
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Carl Edward Mitchell
Heyvin
Washington University
City Hospital
St. Louis
Dr. Mitchell
Clyde Mitchell
14Th St
Hertin High School
Mana Hinson
Union, Mo
Manlewood
Barnes School of Nursing
Renard Hospital
Barnes
Johnston City Girl Designs Nursing Pin
Carolyn Ann Barham, daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanley H Barham of Johnston City, won the Irin design contest for SIU nursing graduates official emblem. She receives 100 dollars from an anonymous donor. The June 1961 class was first to complete the four year Basic Program leading to a B S in nursing.
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Johnston City
Irin
South Horn
Ilinois University
Carolyn Ann Barham
Stanley ‘H. Barham
Barham
Virginia Harrison
SIU
Illinois House backs bill to outlaw correspondence nursing schools
A House bill up for Senate action would outlaw correspondence schools of nursing. House Bill 278 imposes penalties for operating unapproved practical nursing schools. The text notes approved schools are linked to supervised hospital or institutional programs, with state oversight by the Department of Registration and Education. Lead and context mention ongoing legislative activity and related nursing education concerns in Illinois.
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Senate Acion
State of Illinois Department of Registration and Education
Eugene Prudent
LPN
Canada
Practical Nurse Association of
Tilinots
Prudent Aid
Kennedy
Admi
Claude V. Rick
Minis
Felts
Fen
Jie
Prudent Said
Vocational of Naval Operations
Training Institute of Southern
Ric Kettsill
Kennedy to Sign Bill Extending Interstate Highway Plan
President Kennedy is expected to sign a highway bill to complete the 41,000 mile system by 1972. The measure provides 90 percent federal funding for 11 years, preserves a four cent gas tax, and extends financing for states to contract with federal support. It also tightens billboard controls and tax provisions raising several trucking and vehicle levies.
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Kennedy
House
Senate
HiTi
U.S
Khrushchev says USSR will pass US in production by 1970
Khrushchev told a Communist party rally the Soviet Union is snapping at the heels of America in the economic race and will surpass its production by 1970. He boasted that the USSR founded 44 years ago has already forged ahead of Britain and France.
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Russsia
U.S
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
America
Communist Party
Britain
France
Economist Keyserling Criticizes Kennedy Economic Policy
Unity House, Pa June 27 AP economist Leon Keyserling, former Council of Economic Advisors chair, says Kennedy policies are too weak to restore full production and employment. He criticizes “business as usual,” urges wage and price guidelines and real industry by industry analysis, as AFL-CIO leaders meet nearby.
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Unity House
Leon Keyserling
Kennedy
Keyserling
Harry S. Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Pocono Mountains
SEC to Probe Nation's Mutual Funds
Congress heard SEC Chairman William L. Cary declare the agency will investigate mutual funds to assess investor protections against high fees and questionable practices. He noted staff already began work amid rising complaints of excessive fees and dubious ties among funds, brokers, underwriters, and fund directors.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Congress
SEC
William L. Cary
House Commerce
Cary
Red Vocational Education To Be Studied
Mark Nichols Utah state director of vocational education will lecture in July for a Southern Illinois University summer session graduate program. The eight week course will compare the Russian industrial and technical education system with U S practice. Nichols, a former American Vocational Association president, has taught at Illinois Clemson Penn State and holds Utah State degrees. He was Utah state supervisor of agricultural education until 1949.
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Mark Nichols
Utah
Southern Ilinois University
Special Industrial Education Department
Nichols
Russia
American Vocatonal Association
University of Ilinois
Clemson College
Pennsylvania State Universit
Brigham, Utah
Utah State University
Murphysboro Man Dies in Springfield at 79
Benjamin Bates, 79, of Murphysboro died Sunday in the Carver Nursing Home Springfield after a month as a patient. Born Feb 18 1882 in Murphysboro he lived there all his life and was a Bethel AME Church member. Services Thursday at Bethel AME Church with Rev Charles Williams officiating. Burial in Tower Grove Cemetery. Jackson Funeral Home Carbondale in charge. Friends may call after 5 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
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Murphysboro
Springfield
Benjamin Bates
Carver
Bates
Bethel Ame
Charles Williams
Jackson Funeral Home
Carbondale
Tower Grove
Rickey Suffers Heart Attack in Canada
Baseball figure Branch Rickey, longtime major league executive and farm system pioneer, was stricken with a heart attack today in Canada. His secretary Ken Blackburn reported Rickey was taken to a Sudbury hospital. condition not known. Burial plans are set in Chester with services at St. Marys Catholic Church.
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Pittsburgh
Schroeder
Chester
St. Mary's Catholic Church
iChester
Vincent ‘Tikuisis
Church
Inmate dies at Menard Penitentiary Hospital
Edward Bennicuff, 71, a life term for murder, died early today in the Menard Penitentiary Hospital. Convicted in 1930 for the murder of a young woman in Cook County, he arrived at Menard in May 1930 and was in the psychiatric division since 1935. Funeral arrangements set at Schroeder Funeral Home in Chester.
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Edward Bennicuff
Menard Penitentiary Hospital
Bennicufff
Cook County
Menard
Peneding
Schroeder
Chester
Archbishop Enthroned Canterbury Amid Anglican Leadership Change
Archbishop Archichael Ramsey was enthroned at Canterbury succeeding Geoffrey Fisher who retired after 16 years as spiritual leader of the Anglican communion. Ramsey, aged 16, becomes a prominent church figure in England and within the Church of England hierarchy.
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Canterbury
England
Archichael Ramsey
Church of England
York
Geoffrey Fisher
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