Pasteurizing Feed Bags Radar Cuts 50,000 Sacks Daily
Radar powered pasteurization at Eastern States Farmers Exchange sterilizes used burlap sacks. A $250000 General Electric radar oven bakes 50,000 bags daily on a moving belt at 230 to 250 degrees, destroying disease organisms much like milk pasteurization. Ward Flach led the lab work with GE.
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Associated Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Eastern States Farmers Exchange, Inc
General Electric Co
Ward Flach
Eastern States
General Electric
Rail Strikes Continue Amid White House Talks
The White House ordered a 3 pm meeting between unions and rail carriers as token walkouts loom. Steelman cautioned no ground yet found. Strikes affect Cleveland, St Paul, Louisville terminals and Elgin Joliet & Eastern Pittsburgh & Lake Erie lines.
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Associated Press
White House
John R. Steelman
Steelman
New York
C.S.O
Washington
Cleveland
St. Paul
Louisville
Elgin
Joliet
United Electrical Workers Union
F.E.U.E
C.so. United Auto Workers Union
U.A.W
Harvester
Chicago
U.A. W
General Office
General Electric Company
Electronic Parks
Syracuse
N. Y
Chemist defies retirement to pursue cancer research at Rutgers
At 66, Dr. Moses L. Crossley retires from American Cyanamid to join Rutgers Bureau of Biological Research as an honorary specialist. He and team test ethylene imine drugs like TEM on rats and cancer transplants, aiming to slow tumor growth while cautioning that a universal cure remains unlikely within a decade. Supported by the American Cancer Society, Damon Runyon Fund, and American Cyanamid.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Associated Press
New Brunswick
N. J
Moses L. Crossley
Crossley
American Cyanamid Company
Cairo Chemical Co
Rutgers University
Bureau of Biological Research
James B. Allison
TEM
American Cancer Society
Damon Runyon Memorial Fund
American Cyanamid
July Retail Sales Jump on Korea War Scare
Washington August 18 Retail store sales in July rose nearly 20 percent from July last year as scare buying fueled by the Korean war.
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Washington
Area Suited for H-Bomb Plant
Everett M. Dirksen former congressman and U S Senatorial candidate told the Atomic Energy committee the Southern Illinois region known as Little Egypt has fuel power and transportation and ample manpower. He spoke at a Republican Day meeting at the Washington County fair and urged defense planners to consider relief employment trends and mining curtailment in Southern Illinois when locating the proposed H-bomb plant.
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Nashville
Ill
Everett M. Dirksen
U. S
Atomic Energy Committee
Little
Egypt
Illinois
Dirksen
Washington County Fair
Big
Little Inch
Ilinois
Du Quoin Chief Heads Egypt Fire Fighters
August Schneider, Du Quoin fire chief, was elected president of the Egyptian Fire Fighters association at noon today during the association’s 25th anniversary convention in Herrin. He succeeds Cairo fire chief J. W. Mason. Other officers elected were Urba E. Hanson Murphysboro fire chief treasurer Victor Stocks Carterville secretary Jerry Fallon East St. Louis second vice president and Alta McGhee West Frankfort chief first vice president.
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August Schneider
du Quoin
Egyptian Fire Fighters Association
Herrin
Schneider
J. W. Mason
Cairo
Urba E. Hanson
Murphysboro
Victor Stocks
Carterville
Jerry Fallon
East St. Louis
Alta McGhee
Weather Summary For Crab Orchard And Nearby Areas
Partly cloudy and cooler with brief scattered showers tonight. Sunday remains fair and cooler. Temperatures: low 60s to 65 tonight, highs near 75 Sunday, Friday highs around 79. River at 8 am today 22 feet and rising, beginning to fall. lake levels below spillways at Crab Orchard and Little Grassy.
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Mississippi
Newspaper Section Overview
The page list outlines sections for today including Index Area nation page 1 Church News page 2 Local news Page 3 Editorials page 4 Women's News pages S and 6 Sports pages 7 and 8 Classified ads pages 10 and 11.
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Nation
Japan backs United Nations in Korean War White Paper
Tokyo reports Japan releases 3800 word White Paper affirming support for the United Nations in the Korean conflict as a self defense measure. It calls all Japanese to help curb sabotage by extremists and places Japan with Western democracies against communism. It warns against noninvolvement.
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Nippon
United Nations
Japan
Smith Named CIA Chief to Succeed Hillenkoetter
Washington Aug 19 Walter Bedell Smith former ambassador to Russia and Ike aide is named new director of the CIA. He will assume late in September succeeding Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter who will command a cruiser division. The change follows criticism of intelligence lapses over North Korea.
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Walter Bedell Smith
U. S
Moscow
Central Intelligence Agency
C.ia
Smith
United States
Russia
Truman
C.sa
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
White House
Charles Ross
Hillenkoetter
C.1la
Navy
C.la
C.I.A
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Allied Supreme Headquarters
Egyptian REA Group Elects Record 3600 at 12th Annual Meeting
A crowd of over 3600 attended the 12th annual meeting of the Egyptian Electric Cooperative association serving Randolph Jackson Perry Williams and St Clair counties at Steeleville. Incumbents Edward Stellhorn Evansville and John S Pyatt Pinckneyville won re election to three year terms along with William Sipe Carbondale named to his first term.
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Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association
REA
Randoph
Jackson
Perry, Williams
St. Clair
Steeleville
Co-Op
Edward Stellhorn
Evansville
John S. Pyatt
Pinckneyville
William Sipe
Carbondale
July Reported Record Home Building Month
Government data show July as the best home building month with 144000 new non-farm dwelling units started. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the first seven months total near 893000, indicating a historic surge in housing construction.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Head Belgian Red Murdered in Siege Belgians Kill Leader
Julien Lahaut head of Belgiums Communist party was shot dead at his home in a Liege suburb last night. The official party newspaper accused pro Leopoldists of the assassination. Lahaut 66 a veteran MP and anti monarchist headed the Siege district chapter during the king s exile dispute.
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Siege
Belgium
Julien Lahaut
Belgian Communist Party
Lahaut
Liege
Leopold
Centralia Private McKelvey Listed Missing in Action
Private Richard A. McKelvey son of Howard E. McKelvey is listed as missing in action in Korea. His name appeared on the latest casualty list announced by the Department of Defense.
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Centralia
Richard A. McKelvey
Howard Edgar McKelvey
Lagenfeld Coffee Shop
Korea
Department of Defense
Miller Killed by Car in Springfield Crash
Springfield reporting Philip Clifton Miller 61 died after being struck by an automobile last night. The driver Mrs. Frances Davis said Miller ran into the path of her car.
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Springfield
Philip Clifton Miller
Frances Davis
Miller
GI retracts sighting of Gen Dean shot in Korea
An 18 year old gunner from Palestine Isle recants his claim of seeing Maj. Gen. William F. Dean shot during Korea fighting. He says he did not witness the general being shot and attributes his earlier tale to talking too much. The man remains in Fitzsimmons Army hospital with wounds.
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Gen
Dean
Denver
Colo
Korea
Donald Biehl
William F. Dean
Biehl
Palestine Isle
Car Crash Kills Malcolm Ford in East St. Louis
Malcolm Ford, 27, of St. Louis died when his car struck a MacArthur bridge pier near the eastern approach in East St. Louis. Police said he was thrown from the vehicle. Passengers Paul Lamb, 28, and John Kimack, 22, were unhurt andsaid they were returning from an East Side tavern when the 8 a.m. crash occurred.
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East St. Louis
Ill
Malcolm Ford
St. Louis
MacArthur Bridge
Ford
Paul E. Lamb
John W. Kimack
East Side
Walk Slowly Honey and I Will Catch Up Funeral Tragedy
In Buffalo New York at a funeral home Frank E Smith 48 killed himself beside his wife's casket after she died days earlier Detectives found a note in his pocket reading Forever and ever you and me Walk slow honey and I will catch up The wife Winifred died Wednesday and he died yesterday
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Buffalo
N. Y
Frank E. Smith
Smith
Winifred
Reserves Called Up by Army and Marines Across Services
The Marine Corps and Army announced new recall orders sending additional reserve officers and enlisted personnel to active duty. Marine reserves under sergeant rank and above will be called, with pilots and non pilots affected in aviation and ground forces. Army recall adds 570 reserve captains and lieutenants from the engineer corps, with active duty by October 13, bringing total recalls to 8,432 officers.
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Washington
Marine Corps
Army
Marines
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve
CORPS
Engineer Corps
Lester C. Hunt
D-Wye
Senate Armed Services
Navy
Midway Island
Pacific
Trinidad
British West Indies
Eden Park Apartments Advertised For Quick Rent
Eden Park Apartments offers two and three room units near Herrin at Route 148 beside the Egyptian Drive-In Theater. Owner John Smith says the $2.00 classified rental ad fills vacancies rapidly with new Southern Illinois families moving to work, renting out quickly after each vacancy. Calls come from across Southern Illinois.
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Eden Park
Herrin
Illinois
John Smith
Eden Park Tourist Court
Ilinois
Allies Land on West Island Amid Korean Front Shifts
United Nations forces report a surprise allied landing by South Korea on Tokchok island 35 miles southwest of Inchon as North Korean four division buildup rumored near the Naktong river front. MacArthur notes some enemy back areas may be active behind lines.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Nakton River
U. N. Wall
Taegu
MacArthur
Naktong
Red
Changnyong
Tokchok Island
Incochon
Seoul
Yellow Sea
Tokchok
Inchon
General MacArthur
Chinni
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