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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1950
Page
2
The notice declares Samara rans Thren as a member of the Associated Press and assigns publication credit for all news credited to the paper and its locans. Subscription rates are listed as 5.00, 1.76, and 1.00.
A short devotional note reflects on Proverbs 3 6 urging to acknowledge God in all ways for guidance. It adds a Ruskin reflection that even small matters deserve prayer for direction rather than acting alone.
A Vienna correspondent labels the Soviet effort to communize Eastern Europe an economic failure. The piece notes lagging farm and industrial output, the lure of scapegoats, and rising coercion. It warns of escalating measures including slave labor and prison labor as the system's weaknesses surface, with the Reds courting a grim reality behind their polished image.
A grim note from Western Germany shows new concrete roads with holes under caps that can hold explosives. In an emergency, retreating forces could drop charges into the holes and retreat, saving time over digging. Likely next come bridges and tunnels equipped with TNT and fuses.
Cpl. M. D. McKinney of Bluford has informed his parents that he will join a cruise to Mediterranean regions. He is based at Camp Lejeune North Carolina after completing a high speed radio operator course in San Diego California.
A fragmented word puzzle item lists terms and clues ranging from design to language and geography. The text includes references to monuments, coins, a shrine to a great President, and various labeled items with numbers and partial answers, resembling a cryptic crossword or glossary fragment.
A social etiquette note advises keeping potentially prejudicial facts about a woman private in gatherings. It emphasizes restraint and discretion when names are mentioned and discourages sharing sensitive information to avoid bias.
The United Nations denounces the North Korean attack as aggression and accuses Soviet direction. Analysts see Korea as a strategic lever for Moscow to pressure Japan and influence a future US Japan treaty, while warning the peninsula could ignite broader conflict amid Soviet Western alliance tensions.
Keenes Harry and Mrs Smith visited in Champaign with daughter and family, Merrit Sanders graduates attended with his parents Ray and Mrs Sanders in Urbana, plus Georgia Moore of Mt Vernon visiting Nellie Keen and Oscar Richardson. Other relatives from Mt Vernon Bluford Wayne City Benton Wood and McKinney families linked through Sunday visits and Father’s Day gatherings.
The piece urges stepping back to view life as a whole and evaluating virtues one by one. It cautions against lopsided growth, suggests surrender of competencies to Christ, seeks wise counsel, and ends with a prayer for Christ centered remolding of imperfect virtues into better ones.
Today in Washington, votes at 2 p.m. on a 2.0 billion Farm Price Support increase and debate resumes on a 1.2225 billion Foreign Arms Aid program. Interior and Insular Affairs backs statehood bills for Florida and Hawaii behind closed doors, with public works and highway aid panels also meeting in private.
A weekly Q and A column answers reader questions on kidney symptoms urine blood lessons about heart disease acne itchy rash eczema thyroid failure jerks in children and eyelash hair growth. It cautions against unproven remedies and urges medical supervision for suspected serious conditions.
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