Illinois Ozarks Region Offers Numerous Parks
Illinois hopes to expand its park system from northern to southern counties as lawmakers study increased funding. Giant City state park in Makanda showcases rustic lodge dining and cabins, with 2,000 to 3,000 Sunday visitors, while staff push for more living quarters and winter operations.
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Illinois Ozarks
Illinois
Ilinois
Makanda
Carbondale
Ann Cook
Starved Rock
Pere Marquette
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
State Geological Survey
Champaign-Urbana
George Harrell
Syrian chiefs die in swift military coup in Damascus
In a rapid coup in Damascus Col. Sami Hennawi led officers who killed President Husni Zayim and Premier Muhsen Berazi. Hashem Atassi formed a new cabinet and assumed governing powers as Syria moves toward restored parliamentary rule. The fate of the Trans-Arabian oil pipeline was uncertain as the crisis unfolded.
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Syria
Middle East
Sami Hennawi
Husni Zayim
Great Mazza
Zayim
Muhsen Bey Berazi
Faris el Khouri
United Nations
Hasem Bey Attassi
Hashem Atassi
Republic
Washington
Nazem Kudi
Abdullah Attieh
Attieh
Council of Ministers
Trans- Arabian Oil Co
Weather Snapshot: Tuesday Showers and Warm Temperatures
Partly cloudy with scattered showers expected Tuesday. Temperature remains warm with a low around 70 to 74 degrees and a Tuesday high near 88 degrees. Continuous light rain possible into the day with limited cooling.
Weather Summary For Sunday And Weekend
Morning low 75 at 7 am and a high of 90 at noon today. 6 pm forecast 84. Precipitation 0.62 inches from yesterday 7 am to today 7 am. Sunrise 5:09, sunset 6:59. No late readings for Crab Orchard Little Grassy In 55 or Mississippi River Grand Tower.
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Mississippi River
Grand Tower
Local Newspaper Structure and Page Listings
The listing outlines sections and page numbers for today’s edition including Index Area national page 1 Local news page 3 Editorials page 4 Society news page 5 Sports pages 6 and 7 Comics page 7 Classified ads pages 10 and 11 Births deaths Marriage licenses page 11 Markets page 11 Pictures page 12.
Poirots Return From State Fair Look Back On Governor Visit
The Alex Poirot family from Southern Illinoisan recounts their day trip to the state fair in Springfield. They met Governor Stevenson at a reception, toured exhibits, were escorted by a police detail, and received an orchid corsage and a $50 gift. They later returned home by 1949 Ford with fond memories and joking about staying at the mansion.
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Alex Poirots
Adlai E. Stevenson
Springfield
Poirots
Lincoln's Tomb
Governor’s
Fair Gates
Ford
Ford Motor Co
Howard Calkins
Ottawa
Jewell
Illinois Polio Nearing 1 000
Illinois polio cases rise toward 1000 as 59 new infections push the year total to 948. Most new cases cluster in August. Marion, Champaign, Sangamon and Knox counties report multiple deaths and rising totals. Cook and McHenry counties also add cases with fatalities.
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The
State Health Department
Kenneth Hayes
Decatur
Madison County
Effingham
Marion County
Centralia
Champaign County
Sangamon County
Springfield
Eise
Knox County
Galesburg
McHenry County
Lake
Cook County
Short Circuit Delays Otis Barton Ocean Descent
Smuggler's Cove Calif Aug 15 Marine explorer Otis Barton aged 48 faced a delay as a short circuit in the benthoscope sound equipment halted the planned descent to 6000 feet. The steel diving bell was hoisted, tests completed, and Barton freed from the sphere to await resumption.
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Otis Barton
Barton
Sam Engel Announces Run for Governor
Sam Engel 73, described in Chicago as a gay man with charm, declares in court he will run for governor. He denies taking money from Mrs. Florence Barrette of Chicago and criticizes State's Attorney Boyle. Engel asserts he will be governor, then apologizes when his lawyer prompts the remark.
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Chicago
Sam Engel
Gay Blade
Florence Barrette
Engel
Boyle
Illinois Old Age Pensions Paid In July
The Illinois Public Aid commission reports 128,311 persons received old age pensions averaging 47.66 in July, totaling 6,115,497 dollars. The payments totaled the July disbursement for the program in Springfield.
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Springfield
Illinois Public Aid Commission
McCarthy Pushes Smuggling Claim in Five Percenter Hearing
Senate probe opens amid testimony that a company employee paid for deep freezers sent to Mrs. Truman and other notable figures. McCarthy says no evidence of Mrs. Truman wrongdoing and notes potential links to alleged perfume import actions and a Kansas City bootblack with White House access.
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Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Harry S. Truman
McCrthy
Wisconsin
Senate
Albert J. Gross
Milwaukee
Harry H. Vaughan
Truman
Albert Verley Co
Chicago
Vaughan
White House
Independence
Mrs. Truman
John Maragon
Maragon
Kansas City
New York Herald Tribune
House Panel Approves Western Europe Arms Aid Plan
The House foreign affairs committee backed the full Truman request for Western Europe arms aid but split it into cash and contract authority. No authorization was provided for non Communist China. The fund is divided into two periods, with cash and contract limits set for March 31 and June 30, 1950, totaling 1 160 990 000.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Truman
Western Europe
China
House Committee
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
John Foster Dulles
Vandenberg
Dulles
Congress
R.F.C
Senate Banking Committee
Harvey Gunderson
Homer Capehart
R-Ind
Gunderson
Constitution
Appropriations
Capehart
House
Capitol
Public Enemy No 1 Held in Policeman Death Case
Earl D. Bircham, 45, identified by Police Chief Carl Heustis as public enemy No 1, was held on murder and malicious shooting charges after a fatal ambush on officers. His wife June Bircham, 26, was held without charge. Patrolman John H. Tenton died. Patrolman John A. Ross was in critical condition. Bircham was sought for robbery charges in Kansas and Tennessee.
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Louisville
F.B.I
Carl Heustis
Earl D. Bircham
Houstis
Bircham
June Bircham
Kansas
Tennessee
John H. Tenton
General Hospital
John A. Ross
Fred Hallford
West Germany Ballot Sends Clear Right Wing Victory
West Germany gave the right wing parties a four year mandate in the first free election since 1933. More than 24 million voters backed the Christian Democrats leading with 7.36 million followed by the Social Democrats and Free Democrats. Communists fell to about six percent with 15 seats.
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Germany
Hitler
Europe
France
Italy
West Berlin
Western
Elbe
Red Army
Christian Democrats
Social Democrats
Free Democrats
German Party
Bvarian Party
Communists
Economic Reconstructionists
Center Party
German Right Party
Emergency
Radical Socialist Freedom Party
Man Fatally Injured When Blown off Truck
Varney Schwartz age 56 died after a gust toppled him from a moving truck on Illinois Route 37 near Bellview Park. He fell from the truck bed while reaching for a loose linoleum piece and died at St. Mary's Hospital in Cairo from a fractured skull. The truck was driven by his nephew Glenn Jackson.
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Varney Schwartz
Bellview Park
Tzaho
Schwartz
Glenn Jackson
St. Mary’s Pospital
Cairo
Plane Flying Italian Group To Venezuela
An American four engined airliner with 47 Italian emigrants to Venezuela and 11 Americans on board ran out of fuel and ditched 15 miles off Ireland’s coast near Galway. Ruth Nichols, famed aviatrix, survived as one of eight Americans among survivors. one American crewman died. Royal Air Force and rescue ships found 49 survivors after a ten hour search. The flight originated Rome and was bound for Shannon, with the plane attempting to land at Shannon when fuel ran out.
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Galway
Ireland
Atlantic
Ruth Nichols
Rome
New York
Venezuela
Shannon
Irish
Transocean Airlines
Stalberg
Lanahrone
Otis Nelson
Nelson
Herbert Asbel
Brooklyn
N. Y
Asbel
Miss Nichols
U. S
Los Angeles
United States
U. S. Committee International Children’s Emergency Fund
Verdi
Aran Islands
Galway Bay
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Today's Index
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Newsmen
Wiesbaden
Bonn
West Germany
Reds
Frankfurt
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