Annual Session JP changes ok'd by Illinois Senate
Illinois Senate approves House bills cutting justice of peace posts to three to five districts per county and salaries from 600 to 12000 dollars. Also OKs 150 million bond for state mental hospitals and tax collection fee relief, plus constitutional measures on sessions and terms.
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Springfield
Illinois Senate
House
Judicial Advisory Council
P’s
Senate
Stratton
State Revenue Department
Illinois
Elmer Conti
Franklin Park
Steps Listed For Control Of Inflation
Washington June 29 AP A Cabinet committee led by Vice President Nixon urges Congress to three actions to curb inflation. It calls for protecting the buying power of the dollar, accepting target price stability, balancing the budget and reducing debt, and removing the interest ceiling on government bonds. The report warns Treasury would issue short term bonds otherwise. Signers include Nixon Treasury Secretary Anderson Postmaster General Summerfield Agriculture Secretary Benson Commerce Secretary Strauss Labor Secretary Mitchell and advisers Saulnier Wallis.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Richard M. Nixon
Treasury
Nixon
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Arthur E. Summerfield
Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Commerce
Lewis L. Strauss
James P. Mitchell
Raymond J. Saulnier
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
W. Allen Wallis
Illinois Welfare probe splits on contracting favors
A special Illinois House committee report split along party lines. Democrat Rep. Abner Mikva chaired seven members who said state contracts were steered by specifications to favor certain bidders. Republican leaders said the investigation failed to yield significant results.
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Springfield
Ilinois House
State Welfare Department
Abner Mikva
Chicago
George P. Coutralion
Congress Considers Tax Extension To Avert Revenue Drop
Congress acts today on a compromise corporation excise tax extension bill to avert a three billion dollar drop in tax revenues next year. The House acts first and the Senate must follow to continue present tax rates beyond Tuesday midnight. It marks the sixth time Congress has been urged to extend Korea war funding measures begun in 1951.
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Congress
House
Senate
Georgia butane train blast leaves seventeen dead
Disaster teams hunted for more victims after a Seaboard freight train explosion near Meldrim Georgia. Seventeen people are confirmed dead including two children, with many injured as two tank cars erupted in flame and ignited a wide riverbank area along the Ogeechee River.
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Ogeechee
Seaboard Air Line
Associated Press
Savannah
Red Cross
Memorial Hospital
Gorgia
David Parker
Melcum
Montgomery
Ala
George Hodges Jr
Near
Meldrim
Court Overturns New York Movie Censorship Law
The Supreme Court invalidated New York's film censorship statute as unconstitutional, overturning a ban on Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Justices debated speed of ruling. Justice Stewart led the majority, affirming First Amendment protection of ideas despite explicit content. The film adapts D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel about intimate relations.
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Supreme Court
New York
Lady Chatterley
Harlan
D. H. Lawrence
Lost Girl Found Alive After 13 Hours In Michigan Woods
A 3 year old girl from Niagara Wisconsin named Carol VanHullin was located alive after an extensive search in Upper Michigan. Bloodhounds traced a path through a wooded area crossing a country road and moving east of Norway Lake where she was found unharmed.
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Upper Michigan Wilds
Carol VanHullin
Niagara
Wis
Norway Lake
Long plans divorce and re election bid after Pea Patch weekend
Gov. K. Long, appena refreshed at his Pea Patch Farm, travels to Covington with plans to divorce his wife Blanche and purge politics. He aims for a fourth Democratic term, predicting 60 percent in next December’s primary, and will pursue a special legislative session as campaigning continues. He will seek treatment ahead of Baton Rouge visit.
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Winnfield
K. Long
Long
Covington
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State Mental Hospital
Mandeville
Estr
Blanche
Earl
Louisiana
DAV Elects Peoria as 1960 Convention Site
The Disabled American Veterans selected Danville as the site for its 1960 convention and named John Unger of Danville as commander. The announcement lists Peoria and Danville as key locations for the event.
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Peoria
Milnois Department of the
Disabled American Veterans
John Unger
Danville
Amvets Elect Edwin Fifielski Illinois State Commander
Amvets in Illinois elected Chicago lawyer Edwin P. Fifielski born 43 as the new state commander at the Jacksonville session held June 29, with AP reporting the outcome and positions.
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Jacksonville
Illinois Amvets
Chicago
Edwin P. Fifielski
Honeymooners Spend First Two Weeks in Bomb Shelter
Kelley Geiger, 25, a University of Miami Russian major, and Nancy Bellmyre, 23, a dance band singer, will wed on Sunday and begin their honeymoon 10 feet below North Miami in an 8 by 14 foot shelter. The couple's postwedding trip will be funded by shelter manufacturers as a publicity gesture for civil defense.
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Civil Defense
Togheter
North
Miami
Kelley Geiger
University of Miami
Nancy Bellmyre
Weather forecast for Southern Illinois region and lake levels
Warm and hot conditions expected with fair skies this afternoon and partly cloudy nights. Tuesday remains warm and humid with highs in the 90s and lows around 75 to mid 70s. Yesterday recorded highs of 94 and lows near 75, with sunrise at 5 33 a m and sunset at 8 33 p m. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake levels are 1 and 3 inches below spillways respectively.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Family Slaying in Stettler Prompts Murder Charge
In Stettler Alberta police found seven battered bodies, a father Raymond Cook 53 his wife Daisy Mae 37 and five children aged 9 to 3. Robert Raymond Cook 22 son of the slain man was charged with murder after neighbors reported he had been involved in a car matter. The bodies lay in the garage beneath tires and other objects.
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Stettler
Alta
Alberta
Robert Raymond Cook
Raymond Cook
Daisy Mae
Cook
White House
Edmonton
Robert Raymond
Gerald Ray
Patrick William
Christopher Frederick
Kathy Verne
Linda Mae
Robert
Robert Cook
Soviet Official Walks to Exhibition Hall in New York
First deputy premier of Russia Frol Kozlov walked from the Soviet diplomatic mission to a cultural and scientific exhibit hall in Midtown Manhattan. Police officials, aides, and Soviet delegates followed as a motorcade was not used. The trip showcased Kozlov ahead of opening ceremonies with Eisenhower Nixon Herter. Kozlov arrived aboard a TU114 from Moscow, setting a nonstop record flight time of 11 hours 6 minutes for the 5,092 miles.
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New York
Russia
Frol R. Kozlov
Kozlov
Park Avenue
68Th Street
Kremlin
Eissenhower
Christian A. Herter
Moscow
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N.Y
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Mich
DAV
Amvets Elect
Miami, Fla
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