Du Quoin Fair Opens With Record Attendance Hoped
The 1955 Du Quoin State Fair opens with motor cycle race action and strong advance ticket sales. Ezra Browning predicts surpassing last year's 403,202 gate admissions as the American Motorcycle Association national championship races debut at the Southern Illinois venue with defending champion Smokey Joe Leonard expected to attend.
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du Quoin State Fair
Ezra Browning
Southern Illinois
American Motorcycle Association
Smokey Joe
Fair Schedule Highlights Page Weekend Events
The listing details Sunday nine AMA National Championship motorcycle races at noon followed by Monday events including Grand Circuit Harness Races at 1 30 p m Society Horse Show at 7 45 p m The 1955 Stagerama features the McGuire Sisters and Leo De Lyon in arena performances.
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AMA
McGuire Sisters
Leo de Lyon
Labor Day fair features Gobel and grand finale at Du Quoin
The 1955 Labor Day program at Du Quoin includes George Gobel and Monica Lewis headlining a special cast with the Sensational Denvers, plus Ted Horn Memorial 100 mile big car race. Attendance and livestock exhibits set records as fair officials call it one of the busiest days.
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George Gobel
Monica Lewis
Bud
Cece Robinson
Denvers
Ted Horn
Air Force
Southern Illinois University
Fair For Southern Illinois Forecast
Mostly fair with a slight temperature change tonight and Sunday. Lows tonight upper 60s, highs Sunday in the low 90s, Sunday night lows around upper 60s. Yesterday’s low 55, today’s 72 at 7 am to 6 pm, yesterday’s high 95. Crab Orchard Lake 10 inches below spillway, Little Grassy Lake 7 inches below spillway.
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Southern
Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Reservoir Burst Kills 180 in India Near Jodhpur
The Indian Express reports a swollen reservoir burst its banks washing away the village of Kalu near Jodhpur. About 180 people were killed and 200 injured in the disaster.
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New Delhi
India
Indian Express
Kalu
Jodhpur
De Forest Celebrates 82nd Birthday in Los Angeles
Dr. Lee De Forest, pioneer of the three element radio vacuum tube, marked his 82nd birthday in Los Angeles with honors Friday. The inventor’s work helped shape the electronics industry and his contributions were celebrated by peers and friends.
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de Forest
Los Angeles
Lee de Forest
Seventh Week Little Stinker Prize Reaches $350
The weekly puzzle game Little Stinker advances to puzzle No 47 with a $350 prize and 10 percent extra for postcard winners. No. 46 drew 5 770 entries. a Percy woman came closest, missing two. Players struggled on weight and river. The new Stinker appears on page eight of today's Southern Illinoisan.
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Percy
Southern Illinoisan
Airman Bumpass Suffering Severe Skull Injury in Korea Rescue
Lt. Guy H. Bumpass was flown from Seoul to Tokyo with a severe compound skull fracture after being shot down near the DMZ on August 17. The Air Force confirmed the injury and noted he denied Communist radio broadcasts attributed to him. His observer Capt. Charles W. Brown was killed. Brown's body is en route home via Yokohama.
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Tokyo
Guy H. Bumpass
Seoul
Demilitarized Zone
U. S
Bumpass
U. S. Army
Air Force
Pyongyang
North Korea
Burgeois
Jackson
Miss
Army
Charles W. Brown
Louisville
Brown
Yokohama
Judge Disqualified Indy's Fair Official Arrives with Rash
Hal L. Royce of Austin Indiana arrived to lead the State Fair cattle department and immediately broke out in a rash due to an allergy to cattle.
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Indianapolis
Hal L. Royce
Austin
Ind
State Fair Cattle Department
Pranksters in Critical Condition After Dynamite Blast
Two teenagers in Galesburg were left in critical condition after a dynamite blast at a Prairie City farm last Thursday. John Roger Everly, 20, lost an arm and was blinded, while Gene Cooper, 18, lost part of a hand and suffered leg and chest injuries. The blast disrupted Marilyn Tucker’s overnight party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tucker.
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John Roger Everly
Gene Cooper
Ralph Tucker
Prairie City
Galesbur
Tuckers
Ria
Marilyn
University of Illinois
Tucker
Hugh Erwin
Plane Wreck Claims Iraq Sheik’s Son Salem Al Jaryan
Salem Gadhban Faris Al Jaryan son of a prominent Iraqi sheik and former Southern Illinois University agriculture student dies from injuries after a plane crash near Hillah Iraq on August 18. His brother Sami Jaryan was critically injured in the same wreck. The plane rented to reach the family estate plunged into a palm grove after engine trouble. Salem had returned to the United States last June and studied at SIU 1952 to late last year. He previously married Helen Gurley of Stonefort. He lived in Carbondale at 805 W Main St while at SIU.
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Salem Gadhban Faris Al-Jaryan
Southern Illinois University
Sami Jaryan
Baghdad
Salem
Hillah
Iraq
Sheik
S. Young Al-Jaryan
United States
SIU
Colorado
Helen Gurley
Stonefort
Carbondale
W. Main St
Bank Robbed By Couple In Poplar Grove Illinois
State local police and the FBI hunted a couple after they robbed the Poplar Grove State Bank and tied up customers and staff. They fled south in a 1946 maroon Nash sedan with 4775 dollars. A tavern owner was also tied up during the holdup. Poplar Grove lies in Boone County near the Wisconsin line.
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Poplar Grove
Ill
FBI
Harry Brace
Boone County
Wisconsin
Bandit Rebuffed by Woman Bank Cashier
A bandit flashed a gun and handed a bank cashier Mrs L L Michaels a note saying This is a stickup Mrs Michaels aged 60 threw the note in the gunmans face You go to hell he fled FBI agents arrested Paul Anthony Ricci 44 hours after the attempted holdup They said he had a toy gun and would be charged with federal bank robbery statute.
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Los Angeles
L. L. Michaels
Defense Lawyer Paid Off With Bad Check
Harold Roberts, an attorney in Santa Fe New Mexico, said a check from a recent client he had defended on a bad check charge is still bouncing. He noted the client was the same one he had previously defended successfully on the same charge.
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Harold Roberts
Militant Wife Rests Case In Strike Standoff
Esther Quigley, 35, wife of union official Andrew Quigley, says she will not pursue further action to end Local 1214 CIO United Auto Workers strike at Harrison Sheet Metal Co. She plans divorce action if workers do not return to work by Monday. Earlier she was charged with disorderly conduct after a scuffle with local union president Nicholas Prete during a milk gesture incident.
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Chicago
Esther Quigley
CIO
United Auto Workers
Harrison Sheet Metal Co
Andrew Quigley
Quigley
Nicholas Prete
Hayden Divorce Claims Henpecked Cause
He man actor Sterling Hayden says he divorced after alleging his wife Betty 33 who was once a Pasadena society figure tried to dominate him and dictate his friends social and business life. Hayden, 39, filed Friday in Superior Court seeking dissolution after eight years of marriage.
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Los Angeles
Sterling Hayden
Hayden
Superior Court
Betty
Pasadena
Calif
Democrats Target Eisenhower in 1956 Campaign Plan
Demos will make President Eisenhower the prime campaign target in 1956 whether he runs or not. National Chairman Paul M. Butler said the party will focus on the President or his record. He noted Taftman’s denial of another run and mentioned Adlai Stevenson potential plans. Butler dismissed prosperity as broad based and said Truman’s popularity will be used as a campaign asset.
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Istiqlal Independence
France
Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef
Pierre July
July
Ben Youssef
Madagascar
Edgar Faure
Paris
Faure
Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Moulay Arafa
National Union
Government of
Gilbert Grardval
French Lick
Ind
Eisenhower
Paul M. Butler
South Bend
Butler
Tauman
Assa
Old Ben Corp. and Southern Firms Sign Wage Hike Agreement
Illinois coal producer Old Ben Coal Corp joined the Buchanan coal group in Illinois to accept a two stage wage raise negotiated by the United Mine Workers. The contract signed by UMWA President John L. Lewis and Southern Coal Producers Assn. President Joseph E. Moody calls for a 15 cent an hour raise on Sept. 1 and a 10 cent raise on the next April 1, lifting base daily pay to 20.25. Operators nationwide generally accepted the deal with Indiana groups expected to sign Saturday.
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Illinois
United Mine Workers
Buchanan Coal Group
Old Ben Coal Corp
Ilinois
Northern Coal
Southern
UMWA
John L. Lewis
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Assn
Indiana
Pedestrian Arrested After Hitting Auto in Idaho
In Pocatello on August 27 Lewis Hootchen, 59, walked into a moving car driven by Janice Payne, 19, and suffered slight injuries. He was arrested on a charge of failing to yield the right of way.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Lewis Hootchen
Janice Payne
Airmen Die After Tire Blowout Destroys Bus
An Air Force bus carrying 16 airmen overturned into a deep dry creek in Nacogdoches Kentucky after a tire blew out on Friday. Two airmen were killed and 14 injured in the crash.
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Nacogdoches
Lex
Air Force
Proposals Would Guarantee Boundaries Between Israel and Arabs
The United States Britain and France pursue a Middle East plan to guarantee borders for Israel and neighbor states pending a permanent peace. Dulles outlines a four point program including a binding treaty, defined boundaries, a multinational loan to compensate 900000 Arab refugees, and regional water projects. Britain endorses the plan and agrees to join the loan to aid refugees.
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John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Britain
Israel
Eisenhower
Dulles
Il On Foreign Relations
New York
Foreign Office
London
Mideast
U.S
United States
France
Middle East
Senate
Palestine
Gasoline refinery blast devastates Whiting Illinois
A 26 story hydroformer at Standard Oil Whiting plant exploded causing at least two deaths and numerous injuries. The blast damaged hundreds of homes and sent flames 200 feet high. Gov. Craig ordered National Guard assistance as smoke plumes drift toward Crown Point and Chicago suburbs.
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Whiting
Ind
Joseph Kasper
George Craig
Indiana
National Guard
Standard Oil Co
Crown Point
Chicago
Richard Plewniak
Walter Rhea
Ronald
Frank
Offic
Isaac Bratcher
Standard Oil
Charles Knoblock
Associated
Chicago’s
Heat ruins evidence but man gets six months for ice theft
Bernard Huggins aged 49 was jailed for six months on a petit larceny charge after stealing a block of ice from a business front in Lexington Kentucky. Despite the heat destroying evidence the case proceeded and resulted in the sentence.
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Lexington
Bernard Huggins
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Morocco
Rabat
Aix Les Bains
Staten Island
North Shore
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Galesburg
James Martin
Everly
Salem Al-Jaryan
Bandit
Santa Fe, N. M
Striker
Old Ben Corp
Pekin Eisenhower
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