SIU Regulates Off Campus Student Housing
SIU defends new off campus housing rules as essential to protect health safety and supervision for unmarried undergraduates. Married and graduate students retain housing choices. Board supports up to 60 percent off campus housing if facilities meet standards. Critics claimed injustice while SIU aims to improve living conditions and accountability.
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Southern Illnois University
Board of Trustees
SIU
He University
Machines Take Over? Baker’s Wry View on Cybernetic Fears
Russell Baker argues the public worries about machines taking over are overstated yet cites dramatic feats by computers. He notes Urbana’s giant prime discovered by a machine, and the vast calculations that would have required thousands of workers. He jokes cyberneticists doubt self interest but warns of unemployment risks and questions machine oversight.
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Washinigua
Hitler
Urbana
Illine
Issac II
Atlanta
der Tag
Democrats Toss In Political Senate Plan
Democrats in the General Assembly push a Senate reapportionment based on population, a move seen as political. Republicans control both chambers, leaving passage unlikely. The piece notes 1954 rules favor Cook County and GOP strength downstate, while Supreme Court rulings support population bases. It links motives to public aid ceilings and House redistricting timing, warning the plan could block House action and urging focus on constitutionally required House reapportionment.
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General Assembly
State Senate
Senate
Cook County
House
House of Representatives
Two Boards Act Wisely Commutity Health Edicts Passed
Franklin and Williamson County boards commendably enacted parallel health and sanitation ordinances. One targets restaurant cleanliness while the other shields the public from faulty septic systems and non public sewage facilities. Dr. David P. Richerson lauds local government for advancing health in the bi-county area.
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Franklin and Williamson County
David P. Richerson
Franklin-Williamson
Space race rhetoric frames mercury flight coverage
In 34 hours in orbit Gordon Cooper, radio and TV crews, and street interviews shaped public questions about space exploration. A New York woman voiced a belief that beating the Russians drives science funding and public interest, noting Americans may spend around 20 billion dollars to reach the moon if feasible, while asking about Russian advances in cancer research and treatment.
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Gordon Cooper
New York
United States
Outer Space
U.S
Churchill the young MP and the navy defense
Dave Felts recalls Winston Churchill as a 27 year old MP defending the Royal Navy against economizer attacks. He warned that without a supreme Navy all plans at home and abroad would fail and the country could turn cities into arsenals. The piece moves through Curtis Publishing leadership changes and assorted anecdotes from public life and culture.
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Winston Churchill
House of Commons
The
Manchester Guardian
M.P
Royal Navy
Churchill
Atarm
United States
Rosenman a key adviser who coined New Deal term
Samuel Rosenman, longtime adviser to Franklin D Roosevelt and to Presidents Kennedy and others, chaired the rail work rules panel. A lawyer and organizer, he held multiple public and private posts, including judiciary screening for Wagner, Worlds Fair board roles, and Lincoln Center trusteeship. Born 1896 in San Antonio, he rose from New York Democratic circles to shape national policy.
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New York Times
Samuel Rosenman
Erie & Uplift
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Rosenman
Roosevelt
Sammie the
Rose
Executive
Albany
White House
Kennedy
Wagner
Repertory Theater
Jincoln Center
Association of the Bar of the City of
Irving Ben Cooper
State Power Authority
Triboroughbridge and Tunnel Authority
Webb & Knapp
New York Life. Insurance Company
Washington
U.S
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
San Antonio
Tex
Townsend Harris High School
Columbia College
Columbia University Law School
Democratic District Club
James J. Hines
Democratic State Organization
University Powers Stir Carbondale Incomes Fight
A Southern Ilinois editorial warns that University zoning and housing rules threaten Carbondale’s income stream and tax base. It argues 4000 students in trailers and small homes would bring about $60 000 in monthly income, higher taxes, stalled development, and potential city decline.
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The
Southern Ilinoisan
Carbondale
Southern Illinois
Negroes barred by Southern churches test of right conduct
The South faces a painful church crisis as many congregations bar Black visitors at doors. The piece condemns ushers and clergy who justify exclusion, warns it hampers Christian mission, and urges meeting the test with Christian principle to avoid sectarian damage and scorched ecclesiastical policy.
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South
Africa
Ers
Christ
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Pentagon
Dave Felts
Matthew J. Culligan
Curtis Publishing Company
Saturday Hvening Post
James’ Home ‘Journal
Wellday
American Home
Jack & Jr
Culligan
Curtis Organization
Curtis
Major Cooper
Rutgers
Frances Folson Cleveland
Edith Carew Roosevelt
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Oleg Cassini
Yale. University
Va. New
JFK
Old Hand
Roosevelt Raceway
Paign
Brain Trust
Dorothy Reuben
James
Robert
New York City
Rosenmans
Park Avenue
Carmel
N.Y
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