Father supports crippled son to graduate cum laude
Leroy Smalley, 69, accompanied his partially paralyzed son David Lee Smalley during 1948–52 to the University of Miami for an intensive sequence of classes. David earned cum laude in business administration and joined Delta Sigma Pi and the Management Club. The Smalleys, former Mt. Vernon residents, illustrate parental dedication and fall 194...
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Miami
Ary
David Lee Smley
University of ‘Miami
Leroy Alfred Smalley
David Lee
Business Administration
Vernon
Illinois
David
Smalley
Delta Sigma Pi
Management Club
City Versus County Parking Battle in Lincoln
Logan County Board of Supervisors faces the city council over parking meters in the courthouse square. The council voted eight to one to proceed, despite a prior threat of legal action. The disputed strip is the spot where supervisors usually park, deeded to the city by the county board 20 years ago, which the current board says was illegal.
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Lincoln, Ill
Courthouse Square
Logan County Board of Supervisors
Opdyke 4-H Club Plans Day Camp Visit
The Opdyke Coop 4-H club meets at leader Ruth Schwenininger’s home on Wednesday June 21 and plans day camp departure the next day June 22 at 12:15.
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Opdyke
Opdyke Coop
Ruth Schwenininger
Thailand tightens border to curb Chinese infiltration
Bangkok reports Thailand bars border crossings by Chinese except with visas. The move follows earlier reciprocal agreements with Burma and Indo China permitting border trades. The government aims to prevent possible Communist infiltration across the Indo-China border.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Burma
Farrington Center Meda Vox Attendance Sunday
Mr and Mrs Gene Johnson spent the weekend in Rochelle with their aunt and uncle J O Burke. Numerous neighbors and relatives from Wayne City Iuka Carmi and Mt Vernon attended Home Coming at Wells Chapel Sunday with close family visits and a long list of local residents visiting relatives and friends.
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Gene Johnson
Rochelle
J. O. Burke
Emery Youngblood
Orley Youngblood
Wayne City
Harry Warden
Austin Donoho
Tom Donoho
Salem
Euel Clark
Iuka
W. D. Holloway
Mary Nell
Dahlgren
Loyd Bosley
Xenia
Wanda Chambliss
Opdyke
Lowell Fox
Burnt Prairie
Ben Bradshaw
Fred
Carmi
Wells Chapel
Kay Pierce
Sharon Kay
Charles Curtis Mills
Shields
Melza Fox
Eck McEl
Della McElevery
Virgil McElevery
St. Louis
Clarabelle Fry
Vern Ellis
Jack Bigely
Perola
Pege Blankenship
Kell
Harve Knauss
Kenneth Dale Osborne
Fox Ranch
Bonnie Eller
Mt. Vernon
Farrington Center
Gordon Greenwalt
Centralia
Lambert Greenwalt
Adelle Eller
Vera Fazekas
Lee Eller
Nona Eller
Sylvia Johnson
Vera Fazeka
Ruth Chambliss
Edith Shurtz
Harmony Unit
Amy McGinley
Ilamay Bigely
Maude Pinkston
Tom Bigely
Inlay Shields
June
Frank Muir
California
Mattie
Sarah
Ethel Davis
Earl Pierce
Joe Davis
Farmers Prefer Homes Over Barns, Ward Says
Amos H. Ward of the Farmers Home Administration told the American Society of Agricultural Engineers that most loans from the Agriculture Department agency go to building or repairing homes, not barns, in the Washington report from June 20.
Germans Split On West or Neutral in Postwar Poll
An official American occupation poll released in Frankfurt on June 20 shows 4 percent of Germans favor the West in the cold war and 42 percent favor neutrality. Less than one half of one percent support Russia, with the rest undecided or without opinion.
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Associated Press
Frankfurt
Germany
Russia
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H. B. Taylor
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Farrington
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