See America See American plan to boost US balance of payments
Pan American World Airways launches See America Sell American to attract foreign visitors and reduce deficits. The program includes planes facilities advertising and better procedures with attractive fares. Expected to add about 500 million to the U S balance over three years creating jobs and boosting tax revenues. Cooperation of counties towns and businesses urged.
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Pan American World Airways
Pan Am
United States
America
U.S
Three Generations Carmi Recollections
Emma Graham Shawn recalls Carmi graduation milestones from 1891 to 1893. She lists graduates Emma Winner, Dan Berry, Margaret Jessup, Lucy Grant, W. Fl. Pyle, Chancey Cochran and note class motto Labor Con Queers All with colors pink and yellow. She praises Carmi Times and predicts a bi centennial celebration in her old town.
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Minnie Monroney
Blanche
Emma Winner
Dan Berry
Margaret Jessup
Lucy Grant
W. Fl. Pyle
Chancey Cochran
Ed van Cleave
W. S. Booth
Carmi
Carmi Times
Emma Graham Shawn
Old Graveyard Beautification Continues With Historic Burials
The Old Graveyard Association lists charter members and notes early burials from 1817. Veterans from six wars are buried there, including Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Mexican War, and Civil War soldiers. The cemetery holds a rich, recordless history with names on stones.
Birthday wishes flow to Miss Davis from notable guests
A birthday event featured a cake adorned with rosebuds and lace while Miss Davis wore a large orchid given by friends. President Lyndon B. Johnson also sent best wishes through birthday cards, and though lifelong Republican, she proudly accepted the greetings.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Miss Davis
Fly the Flag of Freedom and Unity for National Holidays
A patriotic message urges every home to display the flag on National Holidays. It emphasizes the flag as a symbol of history, unity, and the spirit of freedom, calling citizens to be vigilant and active guardians of national heritage and democratic ideals.
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United States
D A R Honors Revolutionary War Veterans With Stone Memorials
Liam Truman, a colored World War I soldier, is linked to a 1964 Wabash Chapter D A R project that installed 18 stones in three arch shaped concrete foundations in a prominent cemetery site. The stones list veterans from North and South Carolina, New York, Virginia and other states, commemorating settlers in White County. The ceremony on September 21, 1964 included a tea at Miss Mary Jane Stewart’s General Robinson house. The soldiers are buried elsewhere in the county. the stones were supplied by the federal government.
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Liam Truman
Wabash
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mary Jane Stewart
General Robinson
D.A.R
White County
John Child
New Harmony Bridge
Wabash River
New Harmony
Indiana
Workman
Edgar Leathers
Alys Pyle
Roy Clippiager
Shortridge Hardesty
New York City
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Adam Miller
Elm Street
Lou Carr
Oak Street
Frank C. Sibley
Ralph Benson
Paul McClellan
Harriet Vaught
Atty
North
Carmi, Illinois
Johnson
Amelia Spengaman
Fannie Hay Maffitt
Roy E. Pearce
The
Old Graveyard Association, Inc
C. S. Conger
Eledith Crebs
Lucy Crebs Berry
John G. Powell
E. A. Land
Belle Whiting
Louise Reinwald
Ella Pearce
Jane Craw
Kelly P. Staiger
Joe Rickenhbach
Joe Rickenbach
Nardis
Dallas
Shoheen
Hawaii
Vicky Vaughn
Toni Todd
Flag OF Freedom
Minnie Hayward Jones
Paul A. Schumaker
Hazel K. Munsey
Kisner
Evelyn Rhein
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Surance Company and Commercial Union Group
Evelyn S. Rhein
Tony Kisner
North Church
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