Mt Vernon Kings win Mt Vernon baseball franchise 1954
A new Mt. Vernon group won a Mt. Vernon franchise in the M O Valley League for the final two months of the 1954 season. The Mt. Vernon Kings will operate with officers elected yesterday. Community donations totaling about $5,000 and league support ensure the team’s completion of the season. The Kings open at Veterans Park tonight against the Paris Lakers.
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Mt. Vernon
M-O-Valley
Mt. Vernon Kings
M. J
Jack) Mitchell
Harold Watson
Max Cornick
George
Tater) Hill
Harry Maulding
Kings
Egypt
M-O-Valley League
Paris Lakers
Veterans Park
Uncle Sam Ends Year In Red As Predicted By the Associated Press
Washington reports the 1954 federal year closed with a deficit near 3 percent, about 2.93 billion dollars, due to lower revenues and deeper spending cuts. President Eisenhower forecast a 1955 deficit around 2.93 billion, with final 1954 figures likely released around July 19. The 1954 debt stands near 270 billion dollars.
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Associated Press
Washington
Uncle Sam
Eisenhower
Treasury
CIO strike to delay picketing of phone offices next Tuesday
Seventeen thousand CIO workers who install and maintain telephone equipment were called on strike across the nation. A delay in picketing eased immediate danger to phone service though previous strikes have disrupted long distance calls. The CIO Communications Workers Union announced the strike after 6 am with New York and Baltimore delaying to 11 am EDT. Picketing plans for Tuesday were announced but could change. The walkout follows a breakdown in negotiations between CWA District 10 and Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T.
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New York
CIO
CIO Communications Workers Union
Baltimore
CWA
District 10
Western Electric Co
American Telephone and Telegraph System
Western Electric strike hits St Louis area workers
About six hundred Western Electric employees in the St Louis area walked out after breakdowns in nationwide contract talks with the CIO Communications Workers. Union officials said picketing would begin when triggered and would involve five thousand Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. members in the region, likely affecting long distance service while local calls would be unaffected at first due to the dial system.
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ST. Louis
Western Electric Co
CIO Communications Workers
Southwestern Belle Telephone Co
House backs travel fund plan to Russia relocation
The House approved using government funds for one way tickets to Russia for any U S resident seeking to move there. Reentry to the United States would be barred under the proposal.
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Washington
House
United States
Russia
Frank Case Elected Mt. Vernon Lions Club President
Frank Case was installed as president of the Mt. Vernon Lions Club at a club luncheon at Hotel Emmerson, succeeding Louis Paviedes. Offiers installed included Ben Bullock, Robert Melcher, Robert Ward, Dr. R. B. Guthrie, J. Marvin Powers, George Tyler, R. C. McMillan, C. E. McMullen, J. C Livingston, and helpers Holdover members A. Schroeder, James N. Henneberry and Frank Neal. City Manager Chester Lewis spoke on recent city water rate developments.
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Mt. Vernon Lions Club
J. C. Livingston
Lion Tamer
J. Marvin Powers
George Tyler
al Schroeder
Cc. E. McMullen
Tall Twister
R. B. Guthrie
Louis Pagledes
Hurley Mader
Fairfield
Frank Case
Ben Bullock
Mt. Vernon
Fire destroys Breeze home in Bluford
The Donald Breeze family of five lost their five room house on east Fourth street to a morning fire just after 5. A neighbor woke the family and all possessions were destroyed. No injuries reported. The home belonged to J. M. Davis of Wayne City. Firefighters from Mt. Vernon aided Bluford with emergency equipment due to district limits.
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Donald Breeze
Bluford
Breeze
Mt. Vernon
Nashville Man And Car Missing
Nashville man Elmer Hake 66, an employee of the State Highway Department at French Village, is missing. State police say Hake was last seen Wednesday afternoon on his way home from work near an Okanville intersection 12 miles from Nashville, when a car pulled up and a man entered Hake’s car before both drove south.
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Nashville
du Quoin
Elmer Hake
State Highway Department
French Village
Hake
Okanville
Walter Streuter
Streuter
Alligator's Sun Bath Delays Florida Traffic
An injured 12 foot alligator halted traffic north of Miami for about an hour before deputies subdued it with four ropes. Deputies Wright and Laichak suffered rope burns. a $300 fine applies to those shooting alligators. Humane Society workers helped restrain the reptile before officers released it into Everglades National Park.
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Associated Press
Miami
Fla
Everglades
Richard Wright
Robert Laichak
Three Humane Society
Wright
Charles W. Pusey
The
Humane Society
Everglades National Park
Mt Vernon fair to open July 19 with week of events
The 48th Mt Vernon State Fair opens July 19 for six days of horse racing rodeos thrill shows and livestock. President Charles Waite says grounds received fresh paint and oiling. Highlights include horse pulling contest square dance rodeo nightly Western horse show grand parade Kochman thrill show and Pee Wee King performances.
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Mt. Vernon State Fair
Charles Waite
Fair Association
Jack Kochman
Pee Wee King
Golden West Cowboys
Inmates in Illinois Prisons Hit 8,983 May Average
Illinois Public Safety Director Joseph D. Bibb announced inmates in state penal institutions averaged 8,983 daily in May, up 332 from the same month last year.
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Associated Prose
Springfield
Illinois Public Safety
Joseph D. Bibb
Harry Shehorn Installed As Optimist Chief
Harry Shehorn was installed as president of the Optimist Club during a Ladies Night dinner at First Presbyterian Church. He succeeds Jim Trammell as leader.
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Harry Shehorn
Optimist Club
First Presbyterian Church
Jim Trammell
FHA Aide Flies Fifth in Housing Scandal Probe
Washington A suspended FHA official refused to answer senators about girlie parties and fishing trips to Mexico amid a probe of housing programs. Andrew Frost, suspended last Friday as assistant FHA director for New Mexico, claimed Fifth Amendment protection. He is the second former FHA official to invoke the Fifth in the Banking Committee inquiry, following Clyde L. Powell, the former assistant FHA commissioner with a police record.
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Washington
FHA
Mexico
Andrew Frost
New Mexico
Frost
Senate Banking Committee
Clyde L. Powell
Convict guard dies on Alabama road patrol
DOTHAN Ala On a lonely road near Abbeville Otho Towns Ellison a 65 year old guard died of a heart attack Tuesday while supervising a road project for the State Highway Department. Ellison's body was brought to Abbeville Hospital by the 20 convicts he guarded and his revolver remained on his side. Ellison had five years of service with the department.
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Masocintad Press
Dothan
Ala
Ellison
Abbeville
Alabama
Allison
State Highway Department
Rio Grande Flood Kills At Least 55 People
At least 55 dead in the Rio Grande flood with fears of higher toll. Piedras Negras across the river reports 38 dead, while 16 more perished in Ozona and another in Pecos. Bridges washed out and mass homelessness reported. 15,000 homeless and 7,000 refugees in Coahuila with hospitals strained.
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Rio Grande
Eagle Pass
Tex
Piedras Negras
Mexico
Ozona
Pecos
Laredo
Isaovilaxzov
del Rio
Ciudad Acuna
Nuevo, Laredo
Coahuila
Eisenhower Wins On Tax Program and Two Cuts Beaten
Washington reports the Senate defeated a $2.4 billion income tax cut proposal and a separate $20 annual cut plan in the administration’s revision bill. A party-line vote blocked both amendments, with 49-46 tallies. The outcome boosts the Eisenhower administration as the measure heads to House conference.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Capitol
House
Sen
George
D-Ga
Sen. Millikin
R-Cole
Morse
Ind-ore
Langer
R-Nd
Byrd
Holland
Fla
Edwin C. Johnson
Cole
Robertson
Langer and Young
State Studies Mt V Death Trap On Highway 37 Underpass
Illinois officials study options to alleviate hazards at the Mt Vernon area railroad underpass on Route 37 north of the city. In a reply to the Mt Vernon Chamber of Commerce, chief highway engineer R R Bartelsmeyer said the department is investigating possible improvements and will provide details soon. The chamber urged immediate measures such as signs blinkers and markers to reduce fatal accidents and offered full cooperation.
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State Highway Department
Mt. Vernon
Chamber of Commerce
R. R. Bartelsmeyer
Springfield
Hudson Biery
Biery
Mt. Vernon, Jil
Mr. Vernon
Jefferson County
Linois
Hinois
Chicago
Memphis
Duelling Guatemalan Peace Talks Break After Night of Haggling
In San Salvador rival anti communist leaders failed to seal a peace accord as Col. Carlos Castillo Armas and Col. FElMexza Monzon extended a cease fire to Friday. Osorio mediated efforts amid reports of Red agitation near Guatemala City with troops hurried to combat zones in Esquintla Pinula and Concepcion.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
Guatemala
Carlos Castillo Armas
Felmexzn Monron
Castillo Armas
Chiquimula
Oscar Osorio
Monzon
Red
Escuintla
Pinulla
Concepcion
Guatemala City
Three Dollar Steel Price Increase Announced
U S Steel Corp, sole producer of over a third of U S steel, said prices will rise by about three dollars per ton. Current basic carbon steel sits at 120 dollars a ton. The move follows a CIO contract granting 190,000 workers a five cent hourly raise and new pension and insurance programs.
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Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steelworkers
Bumper Wheat Harvest Rolls Across Jefferson County
Jefferson county farms log a record wheat harvest with yields soaring. Stewart Grain Co on the Ben ton Road processed 34 988 bushels in one day as about 300 trucks delivered grain. Wheat sold at 1 65 per bushel, beating the prior high of 1 72. The elevator has taken in 158 98 bushels by Monday and officials expect well over 300 000 bushels by harvest end. County yields hit a historic 68 bushels per acre at Ina by Irene Dunbar, with many farmers doubling per acre from last year.
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Jefferson County
Stewart Grain Co
Benton Road
Ina
Irene Dunbar
Dale charged in shakedown of 16 contractors in 66,991 case
Evan R. Dale, Illinois AFL Building Laborers Union head, was charged in a 30 count federal indictment with extorting 66,991 from 16 contractors. Four other men face indictments in related cases involving 48,398 from four contractors and a 1,030,000 extortion attempt on a Joppa project. Dale, active in Republican politics, oversees 32 local unions across Illinois and Kentucky and worked at Paducah plant sites. Tax actions allege 209,121 in unpaid income taxes for 1947-52.
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Associated Press
East ST. Louis
Evan R. Dale
AFL Building Laborers’ Union
U. S
Illinois
Republican National Committee
Kentucky
Dale
General Construction Laborers’ Area Council
Paducah
Atomic Energy
Joppa
Shawnee
St. Louis
Army Corps of Engineers
Police Chief Charged Over Fatal Mound City Shooting
Dewey Carrington former Mound City chief of police waived a preliminary hearing and posted 3500 bond after the fatal shooting of Carl Haws. An officer with Carrington said Haws struck him and returned toward Carrington during a speeding warning, leading to shots fired with a .22 caliber pistol.
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Mound City
Ill
Dewey Carrington
Carl Haws
Dan O'Sullivan
Carrington
Harry Parks
Orlan Youngblood
Haws
Youngblood
Hawf
Woman seeks warrant for husband over nonsupport
A Shelby North Carolina woman asked the sheriff to issue a nonsupport warrant against her husband. When asked when he stopped supporting her she replied that he had not yet but she recently bought new furniture and doubts he will pay. The warrant was denied.
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Shelby
N. C
Sheriff's Office
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