Illinois highway plan aims to refocus on city traffic needs
Illinois leaders discuss routing and funding for roads to serve cities. Mr. Lindsay calls for state led planning using origin destination data, federal aid, and a detailed job map with costs. He warns against relying on city demands for higher gas taxes and urges state control of urban road development.
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General Assembly
Chicago Motor Club
Lindsay
Decatur
Illinois
Illinois Highway Division
Pennsylvania Highway Department
Editor notes Mr Lindsay unable to speak in Oklahoma City
The obituary-like note explains Lindsay’s mother’s death prevented a live address. O T Banton read the paper aloud, with the author noting his recent focus on Illinois highway problems through research and writing.
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Lindsay
Oklahoma City
O. T. Banton
Herald and Review
Illinois
Green Announces Re election Bid for 45th Senate District
Rep Hugh Green a Jacksonville Republican former Illinois House speaker announced his candidacy for re election from the 45th senatorial district. Green was first elected to the House in 1932 and has held the seat since.
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Jacksonville
Hugh Green
Illinois
Green
Four-H Girl Pitches in Reading Eng
Margaret Slate a 22 year old from Bernardston Massachusetts travels on a 4-H tour to British farms. She argues against push-button farming and shows practical American know-how. British farmers praise her common sense and hands on approach.
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Margaret Slate
America
Margaret
Bernardston
Mass
Peppy
Farmer R. Hodge
Berkshire
Jimmy Roosevelt deficit plan challenged as faulty policy
A newspaper critic argues Jimmy Roosevelt’s defense of deficit spending is flawed. It contrasts Roosevelt’s view with F D Roosevelt’s balanced-budget stance and notes dangers of inflation and non payoff of debt, warning against treating the government as a businessopolis.
Party for Youngsters Ice Cream Cake Molasses Candy
A community kids party features egg sandwiches hot cocoa and a holiday ice cream cake with molasses candy. The recipe yields 14 pounds of almond centered candies rolled in waxed paper and cooled firm.
Pastor Objects to Merger Move in Congregational Union Case
New York Dec 6 AP Dr James W Fifield pastor of Los Angeles First Congregational church testified in the Cadman Memorial Congregational church suit to block the merger with the Evangelical and Reformed church He estimated 2200 to 2800 churches would secede if the plan passes and said the merger would centralize control weakening local church autonomy The trial resumes with Fifield still on the stand
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New York
James W. Fifield
Los Angeles
Calif
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Congregational Christian Churches
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Cadman Memorial Congregational Church of
Brooklyn
General Council of Congregational Christian Churches
State Supreme Court
Meier Steinbrink
Fifield
United Church of Christ
Congregational Church
Kenneth W. Greenawalt
Cadman
General Council
Frank F. Moore
Verona
N. J
Moore
Dr. Fifield
AEC Official to Take U. of I. Professorship
Paul M. Green resigns from the Atomic Energy Commission to join the University of Illinois as professor and division head in management after completing current EC A and ECA duties. He will oversee commerce division and finance in Illinois College. Green, from East Liverpool Ohio, will finish EC A work before assuming the Illinois post.
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Washington
Paul M. Green
Atomic Energy Commission
University of Illinois
Economic Cooperation Administration
E.C.A
College of Commerce and Business Administration
The
University
East Liverpool
Ohio
Hopkinsville Slayer Gives Advice After Case
Franklin Thomas Slay, 22, confessed killer of his 16 year old high school sweetheart Mary Ellen Harmon Evansville, was placed under close observation in Christian county jail. He plans to plead guilty and said he would pass along mothers' warning about teens at night as his motive and actions are investigated. The girl’s body was found in a sinkhole with fatal head injuries.
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Franklin Thomas Slay
Christian County
Kentucky
Evansville
Ind
Slay
Florida State College
Mary Ellen Harmon
Mary Ellen
Grandma-Style Artist Wins Local Admiration in Santa Monica
Alice Robbins, 90, a Santa Monica resident, completed two paintings after only a few weeks of painting. Her first landscape copied from a postcard, her second a hunting dog, drawing praise from area art lovers. A tangy aside notes Tangerines as an early orange variety.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Grandma Moses
Granny
Alice Robbins
Minnesota
Job Picture Brightened In Late Fall
Census Bureau figures released by Secretary Sawyer show November employment improving with 60.954 million jobs including 1.436 million in the armed forces. Nonfarm employment rose 350 thousand to 51.54 million, unemployment fell to 3.409 million, and farm work boosted the total due to mild weather and harvesting completion.
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Census Bureau
Secretary of Commerce
Charles F. Sawyer
Sawyer
Bureau
Tex the evergreen shrub with cream and rose blooms
Tex is described as a small evergreen shrub that produces cream white flowers with rose tinges. The passage highlights its ornamental appeal and flowering characteristics.
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Tex
Measles Drop Shocks Illinois Health Figures
Illinois health officials report a sharp decline in measles during the first nine months of 1949, with 5,467 cases versus 41,638 in the same period of 1948. While measles fell, polio influenza scarlet fever and whooping cough rose, and other diseases such as diphtheria meningitis typhoid and para typhoid also decreased.
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Springfield
Illinois
State Health Department
State Police Parity Near With Board Aims for 50 50 Split
The state police merit board chairman says parity between Democrats and Republicans in patrolman jobs will be reached by January 1951. Currently 64 Democrats, 264 Republicans, and the rest vacant. 190 of 420 patrolmen to be Democrats and 210 Republicans after upcoming training and screening.
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Springfield
State Police Merit Board
David Cummings
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Police Merit Board
Cummings
Good Duck Season in Vallejo Ends with Duck on Car
Ed Case and his son skipped school to hunt ducks. They returned with two dressed ducks and a shot duck that had flown onto the Case car before collapsing.
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Vallejo
Calif
Ed Case
Aces Advise Truman On State Of The Union Plans
Presidential advisers flocked to Key West to draft Truman messages for Congress and the budget. Clark M. Clifford began rough drafts of the state of the union with goals including repeal of Taft Hartley and expanded social security. Margaret Truman heads to New York for voice studies while Mrs. Truman returns to Washington.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Congress
Clark M. Clifford
Mrs. Truman
Margaret
White House
New York
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