Talks Resume as Steel Firms Prepare Walkout
Pittsburgh June 28 AP CIO United Steelworkers President David J McDonald resumes negotiations with six big steel producers to avert a nationwide strike. U S Steel and Jones & Laughlin plan orderly shutdown steps as talks continue with Bethlehem Republic Youngstown Sheet & Tube Inland Steel.
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David J. McDonald
U. S. Steel Corp
Jones& Laughlin Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin
U. S. Steel
McDonald
Ith
New York Post
Bethlehem
Republic
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Inland Steel
Big Steel
Weather Roundup for Fair of Southern Linas and Local Lakes
Forecast shows little temperature change tonight and Wednesday. Lows near 65, highs around 80. Previous day noted 50 low, 69 at 7am today, 80 noon today. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake show 1 inch spills today.
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Linas
Tobacco taxes blamed for cigarette drop says industry
Virginia Beach reports tobacco officials credit rising taxes for two years of falling cigarette use. F M Parkinson of the Tobacco Council cites "ample statistical data" and urges halting further tax increases by states and municipalities as federal taxes average about 8 cents per pack and local taxes vary widely.
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F. M. Parkinson
Richmond
The
Tobacco Council
Illinois House passes loyalty oath bill 83 to 53
The Illinois House approved an antisubversive bill requiring loyalty oaths from state and many public employees including teachers. It bars pay from state funds for refusers and bills to outlaw the Communist party were killed. The measure now goes back to the Senate for amendments before possible approval by Gov Stratton.
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Broyles
Illinois House
Senate
House
Communist Party
Paul Broyles
Mount Vernon
Gordon E. Kerr
Brookport
Paul Powell
Vienna
G. William Horsley
Springfield
Alan Dixon
Belleville
Stratton
Forty & Eight Seeks Break With American Legion
Indianapolis June 28 The Forty and Eight executive committee recommended the group break away from the American Legion declaring it dissolved. They accuse the Legion of domination by kingmakers. want a Miami October convention break ratified. cite lack of parade credit and control over funds as key grievances.
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Indianapolis
Forty & Eight
American Legion
Legion
Forty & Eighter
Society
Miami
J. Earl Simpson
Tulsa
Okla
Forty &Eight
Children’s Welfare Fund
The
Speed Limit Bill Defeated in Illinois House
Springfield Illinois June 28 AP The Illinois House defeated a 65 daytime 55 nighttime speed limit bill for passenger cars after Senate passage. The measure lacked 77 votes needed, with 42 voting against. Rep David Hunter urged passage to lower highway deaths while Rep Paul Powell warned the law would be routinely broken by most members.
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Springfield
Illinois House Today
Senate
David Hunter
Rockford
Paul Powell
Vienna
Springfield Woman Killed in Two Car Crash
Mrs Goldie Hofnagle 62 of Springfield died from injuries sustained in a Monday collision at a Springfield intersection. Her husband Harry 67, driver of the other car, was injured. Irwin Jackson of Jacksonville Ill the other driver was uninjured and charged with reckless driving.
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Goldie Hofnagle
Springfield
Harry
Irwin Jackson
Jacksonville
Ill
Stinker Contest Totals Rise Rapidly Amid Deadline Warnings
Totals for the "Little Stinker" event climbed from 94 to 679 today. Fans are urged to place their "Stinkers" on back of post cards to gain an extra ten percent, and to check the deadline date as some entries arrived after the cutoff last week.
Bank President Fails to Stop Bandit in Heist
In St Louis Park Minnesota bank president Allen Burrill fired four shots with a deer rifle during a teller holdup at Citizens State Bank. He warned staff before shooting but the bandit escaped in a stolen car, later found abandoned two miles away.
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Minneapolis
Allen Burrill
Citizens State Bank
St. Louis Park
Rayma Kohout
Dulles Labels Soviet Pilots Trigger Happy Over Alaska Incident
Secretary of State Dulles blamed trigger happy Russian pilots for the shooting down of an American Navy patrol plane off Alaska. He doubted it reflected Soviet policy and urged calm as Washington weighs demands for full cost recovery and reparations for seven wounded crew.
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Washington
Dulles
Alaska
Soviet Union
Eissenhower
Tom Mane
Russia
Navy
Kodiak Air Base
Burkhart Quits As Marion Clerk In Local Shuffle
The Marion clerkship ends as Burkhart resigns after settling a bill. Demos push a new federal highway plan matching Eisenhower scope, proposing a 24 billion interstate program over 12 years with 90 percent federal funding and state share.
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Burkhart
Bill
Marion
Demos
Eisenhower
Congress
Lattimore Case Dropped After Indictment Challenges
The U S government moved to drop its perjury case against Owen Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins lecturer and Far Eastern affairs expert. Brownell cited twice-voided key counts by district and appeals courts and said remaining charges could not proceed. The allegations of promoting the Communist line were deemed too vague.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Brownell
U. S
Lattimore
Senate Internal Security
Johns Hopkins
Federal District
Luther W. Youngdahl
Youngdahl
Court of Appeals For
District of Columbia
El Reno Fire Devastates Central Business District
A six hour blaze in El Reno Oklahoma Monday night destroyed two to three story buildings and left the heart of the business district blackened. Insurance estimates put damages at up to 500000 dollars as power lines were knocked out and a department store frontage ruined. No cause has been determined.
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el Reno
Okla
Oklahoma City
Ottawa to London Jet Flight Record Set
The Royal Air Force set an international jet record for the 3,330 mile Ottawa London route. A Canberra bomber landed at West Malling 6 hours 48 minutes after departing Ottawa on Monday. The RAF said the average speed was 496.8 mph.
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London
Royal Air Force
Ottawa
West Malling
Air Ministry
Plane Sights Raft At Sea
An Air Force search plane spotted a tiny life raft about 120 miles south of Tokyo and near 9:30 p m, possibly carrying one of two U S Marine fliers missing at sea for the third night. Navy and ships of three nations hunted the missing men as signals from the raft persisted. The wife of one flier, Mrs David Winton Bell, arrived from Minneapolis with her 5-year-old son, confirming Bell's status as missing and identifying him as son of General Mills president Charles H Bell.
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Tokyo
U. S
Air Force
Western
Pacific
Minneapolis
David Winton Bell
Charles H. Bell
General Mills, Inc
Navy
Bell
Ed ward Zemanek faces jokes in Bermuda shorts at work
Ed ward Zemanek described being laughed at and whistled while he switched cars on Monday. He said the remarks do not bother him and he gets a kick out of the attention.
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Edward Zemanek
Delinquent tax funds settled as clerk resigns in Marion
Marion City Clerk W S Burkhart resigns after turning over to the City Council a 2946.48 cash payment and 4207.36 in special assessment bonds covering delinquent taxpayers from 1953 to 1955. Ira Nelson named to succeed him. an audit team to inspect the books.
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W. S. Burkhart
Sistas
Ira Nelson
W. Main St
Bill Armstrong
Gray, Hunter, Stenn and Co
Marion
Southern Illinoisan
Burkhart
Robert Cooksey
Gilbert Bratten
Cooksey
Bratten
Armstrong
Corp
David Warford
Bill
Nelson
Raymond McCormick
William Dunger
John Lashley
E. Everett Sr
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