City Island project boosts Dubuque industry prospects
Dubuque voters approve a two million dollar City Island development to create about 144 acres of industrial sites with dredging, a new channel, roads, sewers and utilities. The Dubuque Industrial Development Corporation will provide equity financing while Chamber of Commerce surveys industries, including glass, chemical, lead and zinc, paper, rubber, electronics, and prefabricated housing. Due for completion by 1957 with early buildings possible in 1955.
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City Island
Dubuque
Dubuque Industrial Development Corporation
Chamber of Commerce
Snow Sculptures Proposed from Winter Snow Piles
In Northfield Massachusetts residents invite children to line Main Street with snow sculptures after two blizzards. If successful the idea could become an annual community event.
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Northfield, Mass
Main Street
Bears and Webster Receive Inverse Sentences
In Shawano Wisconsin two youths Ro and Bear aged 18 and James Webster aged 21 faced burglary charges. Each had asked for probation or a jail term but Judge C B Dillett granted the opposite after reviewing their records.
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Shawano, Wis
Roand Bear
James Webster
Bear
C. B. Dillett
Webster
Dillett
Negroes Cite Bus Driver Mistreatment in King Boycott Trial
In Montgomery Alabama witnesses testified that white drivers mistreated Black riders affecting all 50 000 Negroes including the pregnant and blind. The defense argued the 15 weeks boycott was a spontaneous protest not a calculated plot to ruin the transit system as the state claims. The state rested Wednesday morning as the Rev M L King faces charges with about 90 others in the bus boycott case.
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Montgomery
Ala
M. L. King
Alabama
Laff A Day trial recalls bus driver abuse claim
In a hundred year old courtroom spectators applauded as Ella Perkins testified that none of the citys 50 000 Negro population escaped surrogant treatment from the city bus driver force. A later witness Martha Kate details followed.
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Ella Perkins
Martha Kate
Bus Driver Criticized Over Racial Slurs Allegations
Witnesses recalled segregation era tense encounters on city buses. Mrs Walker described a near fall as her blind husband stepped off a moving bus and a white passenger urged the driver to delay. Richard S Jordan testified about a driver ordering his pregnant wife to yield her seat while using racial slurs. Mrs Perkins reported insulted women and fare denial by drivers.
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Pullman
Richard S. Jordan
Jordan
Roanoke High School Student Becomes City Airport Manager
Earl y Smith, a Lucy Addison High School senior, served as city airport manager for one day during student government day before resigning. His wife gave birth to a girl, marking a family milestone as the resignation followed public duties.
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Roanoke
Smith
Lucy Addison High School
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