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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1949
Page
2
Agriculture officials warn that as bumper fall crops approach and pork supplies rise, farm prices could drift below parity, erasing the wartime price edge farmers enjoyed. Beef, hogs, and lambs currently bid well above parity while grains and dairy run under it. Government supports aim to keep major products above 90 percent of parity.
An American embassy official Capt. John Ghilds assistant air attache Lewiston home said a home made bomb wrecked his automobile early today in Prague Czechoslovakia. No one injured though windows in nearby buildings were shattered by the blast.
Susan Pegg, five, from Huggescote Leicestershire, won a $20 prize for the best bunch of radishes grown by a boy or girl under 16 at a horticultural show. She began helping her father at two and started her own garden at three, calling gardening fun.
Bar Mills Maine AP reports Marless Alice a pink hide Hereford heifer owned by William KH Bruce Maine Farm Bureau News editor. Born May 15 she wore a coat and blanket while a neighbor plans to knit a sweater. A prior calf of the same cow was normal.
An early morning fire in Cerro Gordo leveled the township garage and the Graves building, destroying two corrugated steel structures with equipment valued at about 25000. Explosions inside the garage sparked the blaze, which was controlled after 4 am amid heavy rain and calm winds. The Graves loss neared 15000 with trucks and shellers inside. Groves firm faced about 10000 in damage. Insurance partially covered both losses.
Ecuador faces new tremors as Ecua dors richest agricultural area mourns dead from last Friday's quake. Col Gabriel Nunez reports tremors terrorize residents and collapse walls. Engineers consider a cable line to Patate to aid survivors while Pelileo riverside isolation worsens with landslide wrecking bridges and highways.
Bloomington coroner Dr. Robert E. Lyons, after interviewing passengers, says the fiery collision resulted from the driver failing to clear a bridge abutment. He notes no mechanical failure or tire blowout and urges a grand jury for the 16 dead and 12 injured. The Greyhound driver Wayne L. Cranmer, 25, of Indianapolis, is suspended. There is controversy over driver fatigue.
Chicago rush hour snarl clogged the edge of the loop as impatient drivers honked. A traffic cop blew his whistle and ordered the scene back to order using a Toscanini like baton and shouted play it together in the key of C.
Southern Illinois peach shipments pickup contrasts with Elberta stock still in orchards. Reports show 32 rail car lots and 96 truck car lots from Anna Alto Pass Cobden Metropolis areas. Prices posted for U S Number ones two inch minimum 1.65 2.00, one inch 0.90 1.45, number twos 1.25 1.50, unc 0.75 1.50, orchard run unc 0.75 1.50.
Churchill leads European assembly in Strasbourg as delegates push for real powers beyond advisory status. They attack a three day gag rule and press for a free parliament with cross border authority while Spaak presides and forms a 15 member committee to negotiate with the ministerial body.
An AP report notes unofficial heat readings in New York City as a reporter records extreme indoor and rooftop temperatures. Readings include 103 degrees in a police officer's shoes and 130 degrees on a roof top with 37 degrees in a high altitude plane, before a thundershower cooled the official 98.1 degree high.
A narrow band of cool air lies across the northern tier from the Great Plains to Southern New England with no signs of moving south. Forecasters say it is oriented in an east west direction.
Patricia Donnellan, 23, a rookie stewardess from North Quincy Mass led passengers to the rear door as a Convair from New York and Boston crashed at Portland Municipal airport. 27 escaped as the plane burned, pilot Captain Roderick Cote 40 said the landing gear collapsed and the right engine ignited. Northeast safety record noted with 16th anniversary and 26 million miles without a fatality.
The eastern half of the nation remains under extreme heat with no relief in sight. Chicago on the southern fringe of cooler air awaits a forecasted 83 degree day, while areas south of the cool air mass rise again into the low 90s. Moderate to heavy showers yesterday and last night affected the Northern Rockies, Northern Missouri, Southern Iowa, Western Illinois, Florida, the Great Lakes region and northeast states, with Moline, Illinois recording the heaviest rainfall at four inches. Pleasant normal temps were noted from the Rockies to the West Coast.
A gusty sign misdirection leads visitors to the First National Bank after a wind shift moves an arrow meant for the post office. Bank officials say reselling stamps isn’t profitable, and they’re glad to be out of the postal business.
Gasoline trickles into Chicago area filling stations as 110 trucking firms agree to 17 percent wage increase, lifting a potential fuel famine. Union official H E Wood said 110 operators, about 590 stations, would continue hauling motor fuel after terms were accepted.
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