Illinois highway woes hinge on traffic flow not miles
Springfield, Dec 6 Illinois highway planners face a clash between road miles and actual traffic. Edward Lindsay argues the system, funded by borrowed money, wears out as vehicle licenses balloon from 500000 to over 2 million annually. Two reform plans exist: a Chicago Motor Club tax tweak and an ILA A plan to consolidate township districts and raise the gas tax.
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Springfield
Illinois
Edward Lindsay
Lindsay- Schaub
Associated General Contractors of Illinois
Lindsay
Illinois Highway Division
General Assembly
Chicago Motor Club
Illinois Agricultural Association
Motor Club
Ila.a
La.a
Ilnois
Hugh Cross
Griffenhagen
Seamen Rebel Onboard Freighter. Officer Shot
Four voyage weary seamen were jailed after a shipboard uprising on the American freighter Nathaniel B. Palmer in New York harbor near the Statue of Liberty. Captain Victor G. Diaz was defending himself when the radio officer, William Belazano, was shot in the back as the clash escalated after 31 days of shore liberty.
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New York
Nathaniel B. Palmer
New York Harbor
William Belazanow
Victor G. Diaz
Walter Upchurch 69 Former Benton City Commissioner Dies
Funeral service held in Benton for Walter E. Upchurch age 69 former Benton city commissioner. He died Sunday after an illness of several months.
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Benton
Walter E. Upchurch
Benton City
Weather Summary for Local Area
Clearing and colder tonight with low 30s to 36. Wednesday turns colder and mostly cloudy with a few showers early, then clearing. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s, lows near 20s to mid 40s. winds light, humidity around 36 percent, sunrise 7 09 a.m. sunset 4 33 p.m. Grand Tower at 5.7 feet with a 0.2 foot rise in 24 hours. Crab Orchard and Little Grassy lakes readings unavailable.
Quintuplets Born to Maria Arroyo in Angostura
Five boys named Fermin Ramiro Rodrigo Nabor and Francisco were born to Maria Arroyo in Angostura, Antioquia. The births were reported by telegram from the mayor. The governor ordered the mother and babies moved to Medellin for care, father named Alfonso.
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Medellin
Colombia
Maria Arroyave
Angostura
Fermin
Ramiro
Roadrigo
Nabor
Francisco
Alfonso
Antioquia
Here
Route 13 Wreck Fatal To Man
Norman Harrison 24 of Lucedale Mississippi dies from injuries after a Route 13 crash south of Pinckneyville. William C. Powell 22 of Belleville injured with a fractured collar bone and other trauma. Harrison drove a Yellow Cab. Powell was a passenger. The car overturned, struck a railroad embankment, then emergency aid and hospital transfer followed. Coroner notes Harrison was discharged from Scott Air Force Base November 14 and had just picked up Powell for the return trip.
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Norman Harrison
Lucedale
Miss
Pinckneyville
William C. Powell
East van Buren
Belleville
Marshall-Browning
du Quoin
Harrison
Powell
Pyramid Strip
Hardin County Demolishes Historic Jailhouse
The old Hardin County jail in Elizabethtown was razed leaving only a ground scar behind the courthouse. A new $33,000 jail is nearby awaiting completion while estimates of prisoner escapes range from 50 to 100 as inmates breached walls and some tunneled out. One man was found stuck in his escape hole.
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Elizabethtown
Hardin County
Hall
Andy
Pioneer Emden resident dies at 93 in Emden
Emden reports the death of Fred Terviel, 93, a longtime local resident. He is survived by two sons, two daughters, 25 grandchildren, and 52 great grandchildren. His wife and four other children died earlier.
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Emden
Fred Terviel
State reports mostly unchanged property tax factors
The Illinois Revenue Department found 1949 equalization factors unchanged from 1948 in 79 of 80 downstate counties. Dekalb County is the exception, with the factor dropping from 30 to 28, raising the multiplier from 3.333 to 3.5714 to improve assessment uniformity. Weather counties will keep 1949 multipliers, while surveys continue in Cook and 21 counties including Boone, DuPage, Kane, Lake, Macon, St. Clair, Will, and Winnebago.
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State Revenue Department
Downstate
Dekalb County
Richard J. Daley
Daley
Cook
Boone, Dupage
Henderson
Kane
Kankakee
Lake
LaSalle
Macon
Madison
Mason
McHenry
Peoria
Randolph
Rock Island
Langemon
St. Clair
Stephenson
Vermillion
Wabash
Will
Winnebago
Discontinuance of Buses In Du Quoin Authorized
The Perry County Transit Company received Illinois Commerce Commission approval to discontinue bus service in and around Du Quoin effective today. The company cited insufficient riders and lack of profit, and the city approved the abandonment of operations by resolution.
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du Quoin
Springfield
Perry County Transit Company
Illinois Commerce Commission
Rent controls in Henry county Illinois end
Henry county Illinois rents controls were lifted by housing director Tighe E Woods who ruled demand for rental housing in the area has been reasonably met.
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Washington, Nec
Henry County
Illinois
Tighe E. Woods
Doctor Andy Hall Named Outstanding General Practitioner of the Year
Mount Vernon physician Andy Hall is honored as the AMA's outstanding general practitioner of the year. He is celebrated for community service, a six decade medical career, and wartime service plus a dramatic early 1900s bank robbery pursuit he chased down.
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Washington
Andy Hall
Mount Vernon
American Medical Association
Mount Vernon Doctor Honored For 59 Years Of Service
Dr. Andy Hall 84, a longtime Mount Vernon Illinois general practitioner, praised as the community’s best neighbor, has served residents for 59 years. He mentored generations, saved a foot, and in 1929 became the first downstate public health director, opposing socialized medicine.
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Lyle “Bunny” Hare
Spearfish
S.D
Halk
Northwestern University Medical School
Mount Vernon
A.M
Hall
Upton
N. Y
Medical Board of Appeals
Illinois
Ilinois
Andy
Andy Hall
Southern Illinois
Lee Badgett
Lee
Moss Maxey
Charles Warfield
C. R. Williams
Southern Illinois Inc forms new leadership board
S II officers chosen at Carterville meeting name M J Bozarth Murphysboro furniture merchant and former Chamber of Commerce president as president. O W Lyerla Herrin becomes chairman with Paul McRoy Carbondale secretary and J W Hayton Carterville treasurer. Six vice presidents include W W Naumer Du Quoin and others, terms one year.
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M. J. Bozarth
Murphysboro
Chamber of Commerce
Southern Illinois
SIS
Carterville
O. W. Lyerla
Herrin
Paul McRoy
Carbondale
J. W. Hayton
SII
W. W. Naumer
du Quoin
Goffrey Hughes
Benton
C. D. Jacobs
West Frankfort
Oscar Schafale
Marion
J. W. Walker
A. G. Hendricks
Ray Cook
Zeigler
Harold Grob
Winton Walkup
H. A. Whittenberg
Ralph Thurmond
J. E. Etherton
L. J. Wohlwend
Jettie Vaughn
Cambria
Virgil Bowman
Clyde Brewster
Paul Mc Roy
Roland Murman
Johnston City
Valier Man Pays For Officer Glasses After Beating Charge
James Jackson of Valier paid 65 dollars in fine and costs in Williamson county and restitution for glasses damaged during a confrontation with a Franklin county officer. He had been charged November 28 with beating three Hurst women and was later jailed in Franklin county before release after settling the officer’s losses.
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James Jackson
Williamson County
Christopher
Franklin County
Jackson
Hurst
District Road Men Recognized For 25 Years Service
Six engineers of district 9 in the State Highway department will receive merit buttons marking 25 years of service. Five attended a Springfield ceremony to receive them from the State division of public works and buildings. R. E Herald Son of Carbondale will also receive a button. Other honorees include F. W. Boriske and C. L. Smith of Murphysboro and E. F. Curtin, E. D. Harward, H. B. MacLeod of Carbondale.
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State Highway Department
Carbondale
Highway Department
Springfield
State Division of Public Works and Buldings
R. E
H. B. MacLeod
Ward and staff prepare to depart Mukden today
Angus Ward reports he and 23 American consulate staff and dependents are set to leave Mukden this afternoon. They will ride a train 700 miles to Tientsin under Communist pressure. Ward's report was telephoned to U. S. Consul General Clubb in Peiping and relayed to the State Department.
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Washington
Angus Ward
Mukden
Ward
North China
Tientsin
U. S
O. Edmund Clubb
Peiping
State Department
Senate Club Raided in Pulaski Slots Destroyed
Pulaski County State’s Attorney Warner Wall announced the owner of a tavern, Harry Goins, faced two gambling charges after a raid on the Senate club found slot machines. Wall pledged to enforce the judges’ decree banning all gambling in Pulaski County and destroyed three one arm bandits with an axe following the raid.
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Pulaski County
Warner Wall
Wall
Harry Goins
Senate Club
C and O Head Seeks Coal Settlement Mediation
Robert R. Young head of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad acts as intermediary in the soft coal dispute. He meets operators' representatives and possibly United Mine Workers officials to push talks. The C and O spokesman notes the railroad's coal focus as major, while a separate hard coal contract session in New York proceeds.
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Robert R. Young
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Young
United Mine Workers
George Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Pittsburgh
Joseph P. Routh
Pittston Co
New York
United States
Thomas Kennedy
U.M.W
Hotel
Waldorf-Astoria
Former Major Reveals Radar Equipment Haul For Russia
Former Air Force Major George Racey Jordan recounts ripping radar gear from four planes bound for Russia at Great Falls Montana. He says a fifth plane from Washington carried the same material but reached the Soviet Union, prompting new inquiries into wartime Soviet access to uranium and radar tech.
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New York
Air Force
George Racey Jordan
Russia
Soviet Union
Jordan
Great Falls
Mont
Washington
Gitzinger
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Arnold
H. H. Arsnold
Army Air Force
A. I. Velyaev
Triangle Low Bidder On Rt 37 Patching Project
The Triangle Construction Co. of Kankakee with a Carbondale branch was the apparent low bidder among five for a Marion to West Frankfort highway widening and patching job on Route 37. The bid totals $127,308.64 for 8.87 miles of work including grading, binder courses, pavement removal, drilling, and bituminous material infusion.
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Triangle Construction Co
Kankakee
Carbondale
Marion
West Frankfort
Springfield
Triangle Company
Johnston City
Fifteenth Street
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Unions Strike At Oak Ridge In Tennessee Plant
About 250 members of the A F L steamfitters drivers and engineers walk out at the 66 million dollar gaseous diffusion plant project in Oak Ridge. They protest non union labor on a short natural gas line into the K-29 area run by Oman Construction Co. supervisor A A Corrigan of Harriman says no prior trouble with non union workers is known.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
Maxon Construction Co
Oman Construction Co
Nashville
Oman
A. A. Corrigan
Harriman
Springfield Man Elected Illinois Contractors President
William H. Kewley of Springfield was elected president of the Associated General Contractors of Illinois at their annual meeting. Norman R. Jansen of Pekin was named vice president, Thomas H. Joyce Jr of Springfield treasurer, and Leo Eaton of Bloomington named director.
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Springfield
William H. Kewley
Associated General Contractors of Illinois
Norman R. Jansen
Pekin
Thomas H. Joyce, Jr
Leo Eaton
Bloomington
Death ruled accidental in Mrs Reinhardt vehicle death
A Washington county coroner's jury in Nashville ruled the New Minden traffic death of Mrs Chris Reinhardt accidental. The 38 year old New Minden woman walked into the side of a moving truck yesterday. the driver was not held.
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Washington County
Nashville
New Minden
Chris Reinhardt
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The
Southern
Illinoisan
House UN- American Activities Committee
Lewis J. Russell
Francis’ Walter
W. E. Upchurch
Mississippi River
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Emden Pioneer
Henry
Reds
Dr. Hall of
A.M.A. House of Delegates
Thomas Edward Rhine
Thornton
Ark
A.m.a.’S Board of
Mt. Vernon, Ill
Bozarth
Lyerla
Aro
Pulaski
C &O Head
John L. Lewis
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
Triangle
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