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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1950
Page
3
HAL BOYLE argues the art of conversation remains alive despite claims of its demise. He urges bold, opinionated talk to capture attention, criticizing passive cocktail party chatter and TV as silencing real voices. The piece celebrates human dialogue as a remedy to modern couchbound social life.
Fines assessed before Magistrate A M Dulaney include R B Mc Pherson 22.40 Isom Trow bridge 22.40 George R Phelps 22.40 Ernest Skelton 13.40 James Russell Harriman 6.40. All actions relate to drunk and disturbance charges or related parking offenses.
In Washington on June 5, Secretary of Defense Johnson and Secretary of State Acheson urged arming Europe as essential for peace. They supported a 1,222,500,000 authorization to bolster defenses against communism, while Senator Byrd criticized the foreign arms program as wasteful.
Dr. Roland R. Cross, state health director, proposed reorganizing the 15 divisions into five administrative units without reducing services. A U S Public Health Service survey urged the change, needing legislative approval in many cases. Cross said the plan could save about 90000 dollars yearly in clerical salaries and highlighted aging as a growing public health concern.
Quebec police and hundreds of searchers combed woods near the town for Nicole Renaud a three year old visitor who disappeared Saturday in a nearby forest bear tracks were found about a quarter mile from the home and authorities fear a bear may have attacked her.
Vatican City June 5 Pope Pius XII privately consecrated the central grotto altar to Saint Peter in the Vatican Grottos marking the burial site linked to the Apostle. The ceremony drew pilgrims and involved stones from the original Basilica built by Constantine, with past remarks noting Peter's burial under Saint Peter's dome.
More recent excavations are reported but no Vatican confirmation has been issued. A first inspection by the Diplomatic Corps and journalists is expected soon, after which the grottos will be opened to the public.
Six passengers were killed and six wounded when two Chinese Nationalist warships fired over 200 shells at the British blockade runner Cheung Hing, about 20 miles from territorial waters. The ship, carrying over 100 Chinese passengers and a crew of 62 including four Europeans, was returning today after six months of blockade running.
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