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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1954
Page
3
The document notes time zone adjustments for local radio listings. For Central audiences subtract one hour and for Mountain subtract two hours. It mentions certain locations shifting relay times to align with focal schedules and states last minute program changes cannot be included.
A fragmented listing shows a 15 minute news and variety block followed by sports, news, dramas, and musical programs across CBS ABC and local affiliates. Names like Tennessee Ernie, Dinah Shore, Sinatra, Dragnet, Barrie Craig appear in a looping late evening lineup.
A scrambled TV lineup lists a sequence of shows across networks with times from 7:00 to 10:40 including Capt. Video, John Daly, Dinah Shore, News Broadcast, Cavalcade Film, Jo Stafford, Milton Berle, Gene Autry Film, The Goldbergs, Red Skelton, Fireside, Meet Milllea, Truth or Consequences, and The Nerie Film with various network abbreviations and scheduling quirks.
In about 200 B C Rome enforced rigid personal liberties with laws fixing guests at parties, funeral expenses, and even the color of women’s dresses. The era’s governance tightly constrained social behavior and appearance through formal statutes.
Police seized John Roche 27 and Norman Roye 18 over the weekend in a string of violence including the stabbing and strangling of multiple women and the death of 14 year old Dorothy Westwater. Authorities say Roche and Roye admitted several sex and serious assault crimes in Manhattan and varied locations.
The brightest stars carry individual names alongside their constellation names. The main star in a constellation is Alpha, followed by Beta and so on, according to the Greek alphabet order.
The Atomic Energy Act bans sharing restricted data with foreign powers, prompting the AEC to ask Congress for a revision to allow exchange of intelligence on enemy atomic capabilities with friendly nations. Britain also feels the tight law chokes off data flow, keeping its own Soviet atomic developments private.
U S working for an hour warning from extended radar network says FCDA. Planning assumes dispersal could move people two miles toward suburbs, reducing casualties but not preventing them. The agency notes these are planning assumptions not predictions based on Russian capabilities.
New York Times reports President Eisenhower aims to shield the Central Intelligence Agency from Senator McCarthy hearings. Allen Dulles sought assurances after McCarthy charged CIA concerns exceed Fort Monmouth issues. The CIA chief warned that public probes could wreck discreet operations and harm national security.
Langston a former minister at Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City was chosen as president of Eureka College. A Cozad Nebraska native, he previously directed public relations at the college from 1986 for three years. He succeeds Burrus Dickinson who led the college for 15 years.
A 41-year-old divorcee, Elizabeth Evans, attempted suicide by sleeping pills after marital strife and received a transatlantic rescue when airline official Hurd alerted police in London and his wife notified authorities in St Louis. Notes left with a wedding ensemble photo revealed a conflicted triangle with Hurd and Evans.
Mitchell Ill Everett Wilson a 19 year old Granite City youth drowned Sunday in the Chain of Rocks Canal while swimming beneath the U S Highway 66 bridge with companions Ronald Easley 19 and Jack Ritchie 16 both of Granite City Rescue attempts failed after Wilson called for help and the body was recovered about three hours later.
Britannica notes no heraldic sign marks illegitimacy despite popular use of bar sinister. The statement clarifies heraldry lacks a legal or formal mark of birth status.
Two men robbed a New York hotel night club early today and bound two hotel employees with baling wire. They stole about $30 in Copacabana receipts and fled, missing roughly $20,000 expected to be in the club’s hotel safe pending Monday bank opening.
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