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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1955
Page
8
The 99th Illinois State Fair in Springfield runs for 10 days starting next Friday with about one million expected visitors. Highlights include Children’s Day events, a $627000 prize pool, and attractions like the WLS Barn Dance. Democrats plan to skip their designated program.
New York city meters earned 4,388,363 dollars from 26,314 meters in 1954. Traffic Commissioner T. T. Wiley told Mayor Wagner that 12,000 more meters would be installed this year and would pay for themselves within four months of operation.
Mrs. Margie Flowers Cohn of Okanville organizes the David Crockett Descendents Fund and Crockett Kids Inc to raise money for needy descendants and protect the Crockett name. About 100 descendants are represented as they seek to profit from Crockett merchandise and defend public portrayals.
San Antonio will mark Davy Crockett's birthday with a six day celebration from Aug. 17 to Aug. 23. The program includes a parade to the Alamo, events for children with August 17 birthdays, displays by the Texas Muzzle Loaders and Rifle Assn, and a "bear grinnin’" contest for kids.
Two men from the AFL International Assn. of Machinists Union were held on charges of destroying property after the Tuesday night bombing at the Barber-Greene Co earth moving equipment plant in Aurora. Orville Wayne Hunter and Harold Clifford Newland, both 28 to 30, admitted taking part and were arrested after authorities learned they bought six sticks of dynamite in Aurora. Hunter said he threw one bomb. the other did not detonate.
President Eisenhower will not deliver a radio television address on Congress' work after the session. White House officials had signaled such a talk earlier but Press Secretary James Hagerty said there would be none. Hagerty said the forthcoming news conference, filmed and recorded for TV and radio, would serve a similar purpose.
Four Baptist clergymen started a two week tour of Russian Baptist churches from Stockholm. Rev. Theodore T. Adams of Richmond Rev. Joseph H. Jackson of Chicago Rev. W. Carney Hargroves of Philadelphia and Dr. Arnold T. Ohbran of Washington were invited by the Russian Baptist Church.
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