End-of-session clash yields tax boosts and reapportionment
The 1955 General Assembly, facing adjournment, pushed through 350 bills and adopted reapportionment for the first time since 1900. Governor Stratton formed a coalition with Chicago Mayor Daley, securing key tax measures including a state sales tax boost and expanded city taxing powers. The session also rejected several Stratton proposals such as a 75 cents per hour minimum wage and a statewide attorney general authority, while endorsing some program parts.
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Warren Wood
State Department of Personnel
Stratton
Daley
Chicago
Stratton-Daley
Call Wortman Home To Face Slaying Quiz Call Wortman Home To Face Slaying Quiz
Frank Wortman a reputed rackets boss agreed to return from a Michigan vacation for questioning in the slaying of county prosecutor J. Fred Koenig at East St. Louis. State's Atty. Carter said Wortman telephoned from Mackinac Island and would come back within about 36 hours.
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Frank
Buster) Wortman
Michigan
Richard T. Carter
Wortman
Mackinac Island
Mich
St. Clair County
Carter
J. Fred Koenig
East St. Louis
Utility Tax Bill Advances in Illinois Senate Conference
Illinois Senate adopts four conference committee changes to allow cities to tax utilities up to five percent of gross revenues. House action expected. governor to sign. Key provision requires equal tax rate across all utility service businesses within a city, private or municipal. Committee includes Democratic and Republican leaders.
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Springfield
Illinois Senate
Conference Committee
House
Stratton
Senate
June Meter Take Goes Up in Carbondale
Carbondale parking meter receipts surged in June, rising to 2403 dollars from 1851 in May. The increase reflects higher meter usage and revenue for June 1954.
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Carbondale
May
Weather Outlook For Partly Cloudy Southern Illinois
Partly cloudy and warm humid conditions expected. Tonight and Friday bring highs near 90s and lows around 70s. Yesterday reached 90 with a noon reading of 88 and a 85 at 6 PM yesterday. Sunrise is 4 38 AM and sunset 7 29 PM.
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Illinois
Toll Road Office Closes in Chicago as Funds Run Low
Illinois Toll Highway Commission cuts Chicago and Springfield staff after depleting a 400000 dollar housekeeping fund. Executive secretary Francis Old and chief engineer George Jackson waive salaries. four others lose positions. Bonds sale delays cited. staff to resume normal operations after bond issue finalizes.
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Chicago
Illinois Toll Highway Commission
Francis Old
Commission
Springfield
Old
George Jackson
Jackson
Governors Bill Sign Raises Judicial Salaries in Full
Springfield June 30 AP A slate of bills signed by Gov Stratton raises pay for future circuit superior and Supreme Court judges. Supreme Court justices will be $24000, downstate circuit judges $15000, Cook County superior and circuit judges $22000. Other measures include awarding $51000 to Earl Howard freed after 17 years, banning distributors from forcing retailers to take obscene periodicals, creating aging and alcoholism study commissions, and extending the high school district deadline to Sept 1 1959.
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Supreme Court
Stratton
Cook County
Earl Howard
Chicago
Standard
Reval man quilts as gift to new mothers
Elmer E. Hoskins a 75 year old resident of Reval Nebraska makes baby quilts and donates them to hospitals for new mothers. He imposes a personal rule that the baby receiving a quilt must be born on February 8 his own birthday.
Milkshake Accident Sprays Vanila at Akron Court Counter
About 20 lunch counter patrons at Summit County courthouse in Akron were hit by vanilla flavored spray from a milkshake incident yesterday. Witnesses recall no clear cause. no injuries reported.
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Summit County Court House
Hero gets 8 years for aiding Communist enemy
Cpl Harold M Dunn formerly hailed in Baldwinsville NY was sentenced by a severance court martial to eight years hard labor In addition he received a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of pay Dunn pleaded guilty to writing articles praising the Red enemy and broadcasting from North Korea urging Americans to end the war.
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Hero
New York
Harold M. Dunn
Baldwinsville
N.Y
North Korea
Dunn
Illinois Tax Bill Awaited By Governor Stratton
Gov Stratton has not received a bill authorizing a 2 percent tax on the privilege of using property bought out of state in Illinois. The bill cleared the General Assembly but must undergo enrolling and engrossing procedures.
Little Stinker puzzle fans ponder word game
Readers of the Little Stinker puzzle night reflected on the challenge as entries for the latest puzzle surged to 2,365, more than doubling the previous day. Fans paused for poetry, with one bemused fan declaring the ribbing to be a tough but fun Sin and hoping to crack the puzzle's word.
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Stinker
Fire injures three women in roadside lodge blaze
A fire leveled The Villa and two adjoining motel buildings on Route 3 north of McClure injuring two girls, Sharon Moore and Debbie Dunning, and a cook Flora Beal. Debbie and a friend jumped from a second floor window while Sharon remained inside and was critically burned. Flora Beal was treated and released from a hospital. Total losses exceed $100,000.
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McClure
Debbie Dunning
John Dunning
Dunning
Sharon Moore
Debbie
Sharon
Cape Girardeau, Mo
Flora Beal
Ro. 3
Golde Stores to Buy Borger Building in Carbondale
Golde Stores Inc announces purchase of the Borger Building at 20002 S Illinois Ave Carbondale. Harry S Goldstein president states the price is undisclosed and no immediate remodeling is planned. Golde Stores have occupied the building for 13 years.
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Golde Stores, Inc
S. Illinois Ave
Carbondale
Harry S. Goldstein
Henr
Essie Borger
Golde
Goldstein
Covered wagon voyage of Eligren family toward new West
A two mule drawn wagon carries Ernest Eligren his wife and six children from East Killingly Connecticut toward the West. The family, including Oscar age 18, ponders moving to Nebraska or Colorado and buying a farm there. The scene shows a dark mule leading the way near Cashki, Wisconsin.
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Aire
Cashki i
West
Ernest Eligren
East Killingly
Conn
Jume
Nebraska
Colorado
Oscar
Last Minute Steel Talks Held In Tight Secrecy
Washington June 30 AP A New York Times reporter Charles Grutzner testified as a former Communist member from 1937 to 1940 before the Senate internal security subcommittee. Weingarten, a Brooklyn Eagle worker turned publicity man, refused to name others and faced potential contempt. Burdett, a former Eagle staffer, testified about Communist ties and espionage in Europe before joining CBS.
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Washington
New York Times
Charles Grutzner
Grutzner
Victor Weingarten
Brooklyn Eagle
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Weingarten
Pleasantville
N. Y
Grutaner
Cat Eagle
Nat Lees
Winston M. Burdett
Columbia Broadcatte System
Burdett
the Eagle
Europe
Gladys Bentley
J. G. Sourwine
Subcommittee
Sen
Eastland
D-Miss
Sourwine
Burdest
Russia
Columbia Broadcasting System
Big Steel Hints New Pay Offer Being Prepared
Pittsburgh June 30 AP The CIO Steelworkers Union negotiators secretive talks with U S Steel Corp hint a new monetary offer may be prepared. McDonald has rejected a 10 cent hourly raise for 600000 members while mills shut down in anticipation of a possible last minute settlement.
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Pittsburgh
David J. McDonald
CIO Steelworkers
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel Corp
Stephens
McDonald
W. Abel
Abel
Associated Press
Steel Workers Union
Philip Murray
CIO
United Steelworkers
Kokomo Teens Admit Grave Insertion Initiation Act
Two Kokomo High School youths confessed to opening a World War I veteran’s grave in Twin Springs Cemetery and removing vertebrae for a boys club initiation. Sheriff Tex Sport withheld names as police investigated the June 17 discovery of bones and rotted clothing behind the six year old grave.
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Kokomo High School
Tex Sport
Twin Springs
Chicago barber pushes $2.50 crew cut price
A Chicago barber urged raising the crew cut price to $2.50, arguing a crew cut takes 30 minutes while a regular cut lasts 15. He spoke to about 1,000 shop owners meeting to discuss journeymen wage demands. Crew cuts currently cost $1.50 on weekdays and $1.75 on Saturdays.
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Chicago
Lewis Orders No Overtime For Coal Miners
UMW President John L. Lewis ordered soft coal miners to work Saturday July 9 on straight time due to the July 4 holiday. District presidents were informed June 20 that a fifth day at straight time was necessary, prompting protests in Pennsylvania over a contract clause guaranteeing time and a half for Saturday work.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Czechs Who Fled To West To Live In U S
President Eisenhower signed bills allowing two Czechs who fled Communist Czechoslovakia aboard a commandeered plane to reside in the United States. The men Antonin Volejnicek aged 31 and Boumil Suran aged 47 are among the passengers involved.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Antonin Volejnicek
Boumil Suran
C47 Crashes Off Alaska With All Aboard Feared Lost
An Air Force C47 transport with four crew disappeared while en route from Kodiak to Sitkinak Island in the North Pacific. A search aircraft later found wreckage but no sign of survivors, and officials at Elmendorf Air Force Base stated all aboard are believed dead.
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Alaska
Sitkinak Island
North Pacific
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Kodiak
Air Force jet crash near Fairbanks kills two officers
In Alaska near Big Delta a jet training plane crashed killing two Air Force officers. One identified as 2nd Lt. Darrell C. Biggs of Sterling Illinois. his wife lived with him at Ladd AFB in Fairbanks. The other victim's name was not released. cause unknown. The crash occurred about 125 miles southwest of Fairbanks.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Air Force
Illinois
Big Dela
Darrell C. Biggs
George C. Biggs
Sterling, Ill
Biggs
Ladd Air Force Base
Flaming jet engine narrowly misses Kalamazoo home
A flaming engine fell from a B47 jet bomber near a farmer's home in Kalamazoo Michigan. The engine, ignited midflight, landed within 100 feet of the house but did not injure the family. The Air Defense Filter Center confirmed the incident and said the damaged craft directed to Lockbourne Air Force Base in Ohio.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Grand Rapids
Hoover Commission wraps up amid conflict on power curtailment
The Hoover Commission ends its two year work at midnight amid controversy over a water resources and power report urging drastic federal power curtailment and expanded private utility role. dissenters include Attorney General Brownell, Arthur Flemming, and Rep Holifield who accuses the task force report of withholding.
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Washington
Hoover Commission
Herbert Hoover
Commission On Organization
Hoover
Gen
Brownell
Defense
Arthur S. Flemming
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Rep
Holifield
D-Calit
of the House
Commission
Task Force
Foreign Operations Administration
FDA
America
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