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Mt Vernon Register News in Mt Vernon, Illinois
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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1958
Page
3
Emergency calls flood lines at Chesapeake and Potomac
IP Manager J R Michels of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co reports 3020 emergency calls with only 373 real emergencies. He cites teens who dial to say come over for records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. V
J. R. Michels
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Michels
Exchange Of Artists With Russia
Hollywood impresario Sol Hurok pushes for broader cultural exchange with the Soviet Union. He sponsors tours by Moiseyev dancers and plans for Bolshoi ballet, Berioska dancers, and American artists abroad to foster peace. He notes American singers lack outlets and sees reciprocal talent benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Sol Huivok
John Foster Dulles
Show Biz
Uo Town
Russia
John Smith
Ivan Speanovich
Hurok
U. S
Molseyev
Marian Anderson
Jan Peerce
Leonard Warren
Isaac Stern
Roberta Peters
Nathan Milstein
Moiseyev
Berloska
New York
Bolshoi Ballet
Ellis Island
Europe
Grandmother Sets 28 Hour Talkathon Record for $1500
A 49 year old grandmother gabbed 28 hours 44 minutes in WFLB's talkathon race winning $1500 and breaking a 27 year old world record. The Passion Play in Oberammergau Germany will be performed next in 1960, a tradition stretching 300 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ae Naire
C. Cauley
WFLB
Louis Grant
Secrere
Oberammegau
Germany
Cobden Seeks Doctor for New Medical Center
Cobden Illinois places itself among small southern towns seeking doctors as 78 year old Dr. James R. Tweedy winds back to routine practice. A $250000 medical center fund drive is planned to attract a new physician amid daily needs for medical care. Royalton also searches for a doctor and builds a center with volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobden
Ilinois
James R. Tweedy
Tweedy
St. Louis
Marlow Weekend Visits and Weddings Photos Notes
Mr and Mrs Joe Colbert and Glenda of Alton spent the weekend with Rev and Mrs Glen Etheridge. A wedding of Janice Glee Hawkins and Don Kern occurred at Donoho Prairie church. Various locals visited includes Miss Margie Wilson Veronica Clark Carol Morgan Bluford and others. Elmira heads to an air line school in Omaha while Parish family plans move to Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Colbert
Glenda
Alton
Illinois Central R R proposes cut to one Chicago to St Louis train
Illinois Central at an Illinois Commerce Commission hearing proposed reducing three daily Chicago to St Louis passenger trains to one to cut losses from about 600000 to 44000 yearly. A counter plan by Emerson Baetz suggested a night Chicago St Louis train and two daytime Chicago Springfield trains, plus cost savings from fewer parlor and dining cars. IC officials questioned traffic projections. Objectors from Kankakee Manteno and Springfield attended. The report notes a Thompson submachine gun, Calibre .45, weighing 10.8 pounds, referenced elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield, Ill
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago
St. Louis
Ilinois Commerce Commission
Clinton
Gibson City
Illinois Central
Emerson Baetz
Alton
Springfield
Baetz
Ilinois Central
Otto H. Zimmerman
Kankakee
Manteno
Community Notices From Mt Vernon Weekend Update
Visited Sunday with Rev and Mrs Glen Etheridge in their former home in Mt Vernon. Mr and Mrs Eddie Rutherford and sons have moved to the Greenwalt property on the Fairfield road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Etheridge
Mt. Vernon
Eddie Rutherford and Sons
Greenwalt
Fairfield Road
De Gaulle Faces Questioned Dictatorship Pose
AP News Analyst outlines De Gaulle’s effort to avoid dictatorship. He pledges parliamentary sovereignty, a referendum on changes, and a cabinet aimed at appeasing Western allies. Skeptics doubt decree powers can restore parliamentary rule and manage Algeria’s Moslems and Europe. Port Tobacco trivia ends the note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles de Gaulle
North Africa
Maurice Couve de Murville
France
Paul Henri Spaak
NATO
Algeria
de Gaulle
More
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