Metzler Bros Peach Plant Rolls Out 30 Rail Cars Daily
Cobden packing plant operates at full speed packing 1,200 bushels per hour to fill 30 railroad cars in a 10 hour day. Metzler Bros Inc plans to process about 70,000 bushels in 10 days from its Cobden orchard holdings. The facility uses three conveyor lines and 175 workers for grading sizing and packing while 500 pickers handle the crop.
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Mike Grehl
Metzler Orchard Company
Cobden
California
Georgia
Metzler Bros
Union County Company
Union
Illinois
Logan Colp
Carterville
Lloading
U. S. Cort
Colp
Metzlers
Optometric Ride For Wahl Named
J Harold Bailey joins Dr James F Wahl president of the American Optometric Association at national headquarters in Anna to serve as executive director. He previously led the California Osteopathic Hospital Association since 1947 and served in the USNR 1944 46. Bailey will head the national association from temporary offices on South Main Street Anna assisted by a long career in YMCA and educational service work. Bailey and his wife with three sons will reside in Anna.
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J. Harold Bailey
James F. Wahl
American Optometric Association
National Optometric Headquarters
Anna
National Association
Wahl
South Main Street
Bailey
California Osteopathic Hospital Association
Seabee Journal
Samar, P. I
Pasadena
San Jose
Santa Clara County
YMCA
Hollywood
Hollywood, U.S
California
Illinois October draft quota set at 2680
The Illinois draft quota for October will be 2,680 men, to be drawn from registrants who reach age 20 by October 1952. The state quota accounts for about 5.7 percent of the national October call of 47,000 men.
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Ilinois
Chicago
Illinois
State Selective Service System
Suits filed over Mexican deaths and other injuries
Damage suits totaling 20 000 each have been filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court against Eddie and Charles Cottone and Everett Henshaw of Union County Truckers for five Mexican deaths on August 12 1951 at Highway 37 near Grand Chain. Administrators Jesse Rutherland Cai ro and Ernest Audt seek the damages. James Thomas Atherton seeks 1 000 for injuries from a car driven by Helen Richardson with 250 hospital costs. Joe Crain represents Crain and City in two other suits for James Hayden seeking 5 000 on seven counts against Charles Cooper and Bessie Pillow at Hill Top Inn Olmsted Route 37. Homer Inman administrator seeks 15 000 from I C Railroad for the death of August Inman at Villa Ridge crossing on Sept 14 1951.
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Grand Chain
Pulaski County
Eddie
Charles Cottone
Everett Henshaw
Union County
Robert Lansden
Cairo
Ernest Audt
Jesse Rutherland
Olmsted
James Thomas Atherton
Mound City
Helen Richardson
Joe Crainman City
Charles Cooper
Bessie Pillow
Hill Top
Homer Inman
Karnak
August Inman
I. C. Railroad
Villa Ridge
French Attempt To Find Noah's Ark Fails On Ararat
A French expedition led by Jean De Riquer reached Mt Ararat's summit with a Turkish detachment but found no trace of Noah's Ark. After climbing through snow rain and heavy winds the team raised the French flag and began descent.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Mt. Ararat
Anatolia
Pilar
Jean de Riquer
First Greek Logic Study Emerges in Ancient Times
The earliest logic study in the Western world is believed to have originated in ancient Greece. This echoes scholarly assessments of early Greek philosophers shaping formal reasoning foundations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Anna men named delegates to national Moose convention
John Fuller of Anna and Earl Lingle of Jonesboro will serve as delegates to the 1952 Moose National Convention in Chicago and Mooseheart August 17 21. Lingle attends as special guest at the 50 Club dinner, while Vernis Deming receives the Fellowship Degree August 19 for service to the Moose.
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John Fuller
Anna
Earl Lingle
Jonesboro
Anna Moose Lodge
Chicago
Mooseheart
Lingle
Vernis Deming
Moose
Child City
Mooseheart High School
Ayl
the Loyal Order of the Moose
England Terminology: Hood Called Bonnet for Cars
In England the term for the car hood is bonnet not hood as used in American English. The word bonnet appears in older English texts and is still common in British usage for the front cover of a car.
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England
Check Pastures Renovation Can Double Returns Says U of I
Illinois agriculture expert W. O. Scott urges farmers to renovate poor pastures this fall to double or triple forage returns. Key steps include soil tests, applying nutrients, creating a seed bed, selecting deep rooted legumes like birdsfoot trefoil or alfalfa, and using grazing management to maintain the stand. If lime is not needed the project can finish this fall. if lime is required seed should wait until spring.
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W. O. Scott
Illinois College of Agriculture
Scott
De Soto Marine Hurt Attempt to Flee AWOL Charges
Joliet August 18 AP A De Soto Marine suffered a fractured leg when deputies say he attempted to escape officers returning him to Great Lakes Naval Training Station to answer AWOL charges. Will County officers seized Pfc. Henry G. Melton 21 of De Soto along a railroad right‑of‑way after a passing train crew saw him lying on the ground. Cpl. Glen Jeffery said Melton escaped through the train’s men’s room as it approached Joliet.
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de Soto
Sheriff's Deputies
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Will County
Henry G. Melton
DeSoto
Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Glen Jeffery
Juliet
Melton
Typhoid Cases Linked to Queens Day Camp Cook
Health authorities traced 15 definite typhoid cases at Camp Hi- Li in Far Rockaway to a 45 year old woman cook. The camp, attended by more than 300 youngsters, reported the outbreak on Friday.
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New York
Far Rockaway
Queens
Hi- Li
Man Detained by FBI After AWOL Till February 15
A window in the room framed the scene as the train reached Joliet. Melton was apprehended by the FBI last week after being AWOL since February 15.
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Joliet
Melton
FBI
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Thelma Smith
Matthews, Mo
Bobbie Johnson
Maynard, Ark
Betty Toler
Joyce Patterson
Sue Tilley
Matthews
Margaret Lindhorst
Tamms
Mona Damron
Betty Pearson
Metzler
Metzler Plant
S. Rughway
Facers
Stanley Lamer
Delbert Knight
Wolf Lake
Turner
Stanley
Turner” Center
Charlotte McCann
Joan Griffith
Shirley Lipe
Gene Jent
Johnston City
Jent
Crain
James Hayden
U. of I
DE Soto Marine
Cook
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