Herrin Ordill Phone Rate Increases Enforce Today
The Illinois Commerce Commission authorized General Telephone Company of Illinois to implement a rate hike in Herrin and Ordill, with pending increases in other Southern Illinois areas. Current versus post increase and potential future levels are listed for business and residential services, following prior approval tied to improvements.
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Iinois Commerce Commission
General Telephone Company of Illinois
Iinois Commercial Telephone Company
Herrin and Ordill
ICC
Illinois
Herrin and
Orcill
Herrin
Ordill
Floods Kill Five in Bristol Channel Area
England reports five dead including two Boy Scouts and many missing after rapid floods sweep Southwest towns. Torrential rains wash out bridges, cut lines, and leave thousands homeless, with Lynton Lynmouth and the River Lyne area hardest hit.
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Bristol Channel
Barnstaple
England
Perses
Lynton
Lynmouth
Lyne
South Kiounton
Tropical Storm Seen Far From U.S. Coast
The season's first hint of a tropical storm formed Friday night about 3,000 miles from the United States and 1,200 miles southwest of Dakar on Africa's west coast, located far from inhabited areas.
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Miami
Fla
United States
Dakar
Africa
Fair, Cooler For Southern Illinois With Weekend Outlook
Southern Illinois forecast calls for mostly fair and cooler weather with Sunday partly cloudy. Lows in the 64 to 69 range and Sunday highs near 84 to 89, with recent and current temperatures noted. Precipitation totals reach 0.14 inches since yesterday morning as sun rises and sets around 5:14 and 6:52. Lake level at Little Grassy Lake sits 12 inches below spillway today.
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Illinois
Little Grassy Lake
Index listing for Southern Mindisan PDaily Free Press
Public daily index page from Southern Mindisan edition published by Southern Illinois Publications, Carbondale, Illinois. Contains notices and listings as of current issue, excluding Sundays and holidays.
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Southern Mindisan
Pdaliy Free Press
Southernllinois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale
Llnois
Illinois
Ender
Hershey warns draft pool to run dry within a year
Washington reports Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, says the manpower pool for the draft is dwindling and may be drier than at any point in World War I. He warned that by next summer most potential draftees will be in training unless exempt.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service Director
Hershey
CBS Radio
Capitol Cloakroom
AEC Probes Paducah Strikes Over Nuclear Plant Work
Two wildcat walkouts cripple the Paducah atomic energy project drawing a probe by the Atomic Energy Labor Relations panel. Pipefitters and later AFL carpenters and millwrights walked off, unions deny authorization, and the Paducah trades council urged returning to work while E A Wende of the AEC called the actions pointless.
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Paducah
Atomic Energy Labor Relations Panel
F. H. McGraw, Co
Defense Project
AFL United Association of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industries
AFL
Paducah Building and Construction Trades Council
E. A. Wende
Atomic Energy Commission
Delayed Bomb Explodes in Korean Area After Lethal Delay
An Allied bomber wreckage near Seoul holds the body of a dead U S flier for four days due to a delayed action bomb. A jet pilot survived after parachuting. another major in the second craft died. About a dozen 250 pound bombs plus two 1000 pounders aboard remain unfound as three villages evacuate until danger passes.
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U. S
Keith
Seoul
North Korea
Rail Wreck Injures 26 Near Carlisle
A locomotive struck the rear of a standing passenger train just north of Carlisle injuring 20 persons and blocking rail traffic for about two hours. Authorities investigated the cause of the rear-end collision.
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Carlisle
England
Costello begins 18 month prison term behind bars
Rackets kingpin Frank Costello woke behind prison bars for the first time in 37 years after surrendering to start an 18 month federal sentence for contempt of the Senate. He told reporters I have come in to do my bit and asked for no favors. He is to be moved to a federal penitentiary likely in Danbury Connecticut and becomes parole eligible in six months.
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New York
Frank Costello
Senate
Danbury
Conn
Surgeon Says He Offered to Undo Sterilization in Virginia Suit
Front Royal Virginia August 16 AP surgeon Dr Lyle J Hansbrough testified he offered to reverse a sterilization on a 23 year old mother but the husband James F E Williams refused the offer Williams 26 an electrician sues for 25000 claiming shame and humiliation for lack of consent noting the wife had a fourth child two weeks ago after the operation
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Front Royal
Lyle J. Hansbrough
James FE. Williams
Williams
Hansbrough
North Korea Hopes Armistice But U S Sees Empty Gesture
North Korea leader Kim Il Sung called for a no victor no vanquished armistice in a Pyongyang radio speech. UN diplomats sought an opening in Panmunjom talks, but the State Department on Friday said Kim's remarks added nothing new.
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Washington
North Korea
State Department
Kim -1 Sung
Pyongyang
United Nations
Kim
Springfield Station Applies for TV Channel
The Communications Commission announced Friday that WCVS Inc Springfield has filed to use ultra high frequency television channel 20.
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Springfield
Washington
the Communications Commission
Wcvs, Inc
Austria Requests U N Action After Russia Rejects Peace Pact
Austria asks the United Nations for help after Moscow rejected an abbreviated 8 article peace treaty proposed by Western powers to end the occupation of Austria. Negotiations on a full 59 article accord have broken down after six years of talks among Russia the United States Britain and France.
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Russia
Austria
United Nations
State Department
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
U. N. General Assembly
Star Thaxter Hospitalized With Infantile Paralysis Report
Portland Maine August 16 film star Phyllis Thaxter age 32 was hospitalized here Friday and her physician said today she is apparently suffering from infantile paralysis the illness polio.
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Portland
Phyllis Thaxter
Man Bags Squirrel Then It Scampers Up a Tree
Ross Bradley of Willisville bagged a squirrel after a hunting trip. He placed the animal in his coat pocket, but when he retrieved the prize it sprang to life and ran up a tree, forcing him to shoot again to finish it.
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Ross Bradley
Willisville
Bradley
Whistle Stops For Adlai Ike To Woo Labor Tour Planned
Republicans draft a labor vote strategy for Eisenhower while Stevenson plans a hopscotch whistle stop tour with events in eastern states and Pacific coast travel. Sparkman backs Stevenson Eisenhower debate and NBC offers broadcast forums as campaigns test contrasting approaches.
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Ike
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Richard Nixon
California
Nixon
Denver
CIO
Illinois
Adlai E. Stevenson
Springfield
Truman
Mississippi River
West
Alabama
John Sparkman
Alben W. Barkley
Sparkman
National Broadcasting Company
New York
NBC
Yasmin Causes Parley Break Aly Rita Talks Recessed
Hollywood Aug 16 Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth rushed to a hospital with daughter Yasmin after she swallowed sleeping pills. After stomach pumping Yasmin recovered quickly. Aly later met Rita for a dinner date while media questions about reconciliation were deflected.
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Yasmin
Aly-Rita
Hollywood
Aly Khan
Rita Hayworth
Hospital
Aly
Rita
Beverly Hills
Geiger Counter Sought to Find Missing Alton Radium
Authorities will use a geiger counter to locate about $8,000 worth of radium reported missing from St. Joseph's Hospital. A radiologist noted a radium box was empty and a physician suspects it was discarded with old bandages. the city dump will be checked.
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St. Joseph’s Hospital
Last Big Steel Firm To Reopen
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp prepares to resume full production after signing a complete contract with the CIO United Steelworkers covering 14 000 workers in five plants. The firm was the last major producer idle since the national steel strike ended July 25 and had waited for a complete agreement.
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Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp
CIO
United Steelworkers
Allegheny- Ludlum
Allegheny-Ludlum
Strike vote at Harvester could be held after talks fail
International Harvester Co and the United Electrical Workers union ended negotiations five days before the contract expires. A union spokesman said a strike vote of about 30,000 workers in 10 plants could occur, with results likely by Monday. The union seeks undisclosed wage increases and enhanced pension and health benefits.
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International Harvester Co
Independent
Farm Equipment
United Electrical Workers Union
Harvester
Gerald Fields
Harvester Board
William J. Reilly
Indiana man seized in Chicago claims wife murder
Police seized Milton Philips 51 of Indianapolis in a Southwest Side restaurant after he allegedly told detectives he murdered his wife eight days after their July wedding in Indianapolis. Detective Edward Cagney said Philips admitted killing his bride in May.
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Chicago
Indiana
Indianapolis
Edward Cagney
Milton Philips
May
Philips
Southwest Side
Cool Air Stalls Short of Texas
A south bound surge of cool air stalled in northern Oklahoma halting hopes for relief from a 14 day Texas heat wave. The Canadian air mass spread eastward into the Midwest dropping temperatures about 20 degrees. Texas drought dries wells streams and crops while soil officials warn it may rival historic droughts.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Texas
Canada
Midwest
Bismarck
N.D
Great Lakes
Appalachian
Ohio Valley
Brookport Worker Electrocuted During Trailer Placement
Robert Humble a 36 year old Brookport construction worker originally from Pittsburgh was killed by a short circuit when he grabbed the trailer axle while underneath the trailer being positioned at Everett Randles Trailer Park. State police and Paducah fire department attempted revival for ninety minutes before he was pronounced dead by a Metropolis doctor. Humble had just bought the new trailer Friday.
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Brookport
Everett Randle
Robert Humble
Pittsburgh
Paducah
Humble
Metropolis
Marines Halt 7th Red Counterattack at Bunker Hill
U S Marines repelled a seventh Chinese counterattack on the Bunker Hill position in Korea. About 400 Reds attacked before dawn with fists grenades and artillery support. Marines bolstered by fresh troops held the ridge as Reds pulled back within minutes leaving the front comparatively quiet elsewhere.
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U. S
Bunker Hill
Korea
YUS Eighth Army
Stoppage by John L Lewis Precedes Coal Talks Memorial
John L Lewis orders a 10 day memorial work stoppage Aug 12 to Sept 1 affecting about 475,600 miners. He says the move honors mine disaster routes and will press safety, though formally no link to contract talks is stated. The record cites 334 miners killed since 1951 and 52,256 federal violations.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Coal Way
Lewis
United Mine Workers Journal
West Frankfort
Temperatures Expected to Rise Above Normal This Summer
The Weather Bureau projects average temperatures to exceed normal levels across most of the nation from mid August to mid September. Expected heat peak in the Southwest and Appalachian region. The 30 day outlook notes subnormal rainfall will accompany the warm trend in many areas.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Southwest
Appalachian
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