Frontiers of Freedom to stage historic pageant at Chicago Fair
More than one million dollars of mobile equipment will serve as stage props for the Frontiers of Freedom pageant at the Chicago Fair of 1950. The show dramatizes 270 years of American history in 14 scenes over 63 minutes with authentic and replica items such as an oil derrick, The Kitty hawk, a Baltimore clipper, Erie canal boats, McCormick reaper, Tom Thumb, John Bull locomotives, diesel engines, a jet plane, and modern harvesting machines. The production seats 6,000 on an outdoor stage claimed to be the world’s largest. The fair runs June 24 through Labor Day.
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LeCompte closes campaign for 4th District Congress
Congressman Karl LeCompte urges citizens to vote in the June 5 Primary declaring it the most important in years. He cites cold war, defense, economy, and government controls as issues and warns 45 million potential voters did not vote in 1948. He praises Farm Bureau and stresses nominating reps aligned with views for November.
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