Truckers Log Millions Of Miles For Herrin Allen
Detroit bound drivers for Herrin Allen Industries log over half a million miles yearly on a 1060 mile round trip, with ICC regulation limiting driving time. John Sawyer, 46, a veteran with safe driving awards, notes strict health checks and rotating routes to manage weather and road conditions. Company officials say using own trucks speeds delivery to Detroit, aiding production schedules.
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Herrin Allen Industries Inc
Detroit
John Sawyer
National Safety Council
American Fire Insurance Co
Auto Forwarding Co
Sawyer
ICC
William Corney
Herrin
Allen Sotisches
Du Quoin General Telephone Adds 106 Lines
The installation of 106 new lines in the Du Quoin office of the General Telephone Co was completed this week in Chester. H. J. Lorentz district commercial manager said the upgrade can serve up to 400 additional subscribers as part of the 1961 program. The project used an 18 million dollar budget for service improvements.
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du Quoin
General Telephone Co
H. J. Lorentz
Chester
L. M. Gower
Lorentz
Utility Firm Builds Garage In Murphysboro
Illinois Utilities Co. of Murphysboro is constructing a 44 by 80 foot sheet metal garage on South D Street to house its fleet of 10 liquid propane gas tank trucks. Footings were poured last week and completion is planned for late January. A building permit of 4000 dollars was issued.
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Illinois Utilities Co
Murphyspere
South D Street
Herman White
Pigs Sold by Benton Livestock Association Reach 2729
The Benton Livestock Association sold 2,729 feeder pigs at the final sale of the year on Thursday. Pigs averaged 60 pounds and brought about $16.21 per head. In 1961 the association sold 16,913 pigs for $278,930, with calf sales totaling $22,058, per Franklin County farm adviser Calvin Cowsert.
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Benton Livestock Association
Franklin County
Calvin Cowsert
IC Central Rail plans $23 million equipment and rail work
The Illinois Central plans a 1962 program totaling over $23 million for equipment and rail improvements. Purchases include 1,000 70 ton hopper cars 800 50 foot double door boxcars 200 50 foot boxcars 25 71 ton gondola cars and 50 50 ton 60 foot flatcars plus 66 50 foot insulated box cars. Two new E9 locomotives cost $504,000 for passenger service. Also 166 seventy ton hopper cars will be added in 1962 and East St. Louis hump yard modernization costs $2,300,000 with centralized traffic control planned along 60 miles of line from East St. Louis to Quincy. Since World War II capital improvements exceed $415 million. This year 183 trailers were added to the piggyback fleet bringing total to 444 units and 97 new or expanded industries on the TC in 1961 are estimated to add $5.4 million in annual railroad revenues.
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Illinois: Central Rail‘and
Jion
Illinois Central
East
St. Louis Cand
St. Louis
Farm Jobs Decline Across Regions in Nov 1925
The Agriculture Department reports 6.3 million people worked on farms in the week of Nov 1925, a 4 percent drop from a year earlier. Unpaid family members totaled 4.9 million, down 4 percent, while hired farm employment stood at 1.4 million, about 4 percent below last year. Regional drops occurred except in the Pacific, with January to November comparisons showing total farm employment about the same as 1960 levels. Average workdays around Dec 1 show 4.5 hours for operators and 3.3 hours for hired workers, little changed from recent years.
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Agriculture Department
Pacific
Bible's Best Seller Hits 3.4 Million Worldwide
London reports the top selling book of the year is the new English Bible with sales surpassing 3.4 million in nine months. Nearly one million copies have been sold in the United States according to publishers.
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Publishers Report
United States
Poultry Aid Plan Begun by Eight Member Subcommittee
An eight man subcommittee begins work on a plan to stabilize the distressed broiler industry. Selected by a national broiler advisory committee, it met with Agriculture Department officials to discuss problems. The aim is a federal marketing order to regulate broiler marketing and raise prices, addressing losses across most counties.
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Agriculture
Department
Cesco
Frank
Lin
Randolph
Congress
Williamson Mines Lead Coal Report in November Output
Williamson county mines produced 558,772 tons of coal in November led state report. Sixteen mines employed 1,291 men, with totals down from October but above November 1960. Other counties show Perry four mines 240,604 tons 310 men. Franklin three mines 394,661 tons 802 men. Jackson four mines 79,661 tons 213 men. Randolph four mines 141,620 tons 244 men. Saline eleven mines 295,773 tons 720 men.
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Williamson
Coal An
Perry
Franklin
Jackson
Randolph
Saline
New Laundry Planned On Main Street In Carbondale
A new laundry and dry cleaning building rises on Main Street in Carbondale with concrete block walls and a steel roof. Peter Prineas says the facility will house Maytag washing machines and Huebse dryers and aims to open in about 60 days. Prineas, an electrical engineer who left a St. Louis post, will lease and operate the business. he is married with three children.
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Steeh Ated
West Lure
Carbondale
Peter’ G- -Prineas
Rt. 2
Carl
Acdé
Prineas
St. Louis
Illinois Central Statistical Outlook 1961 62
The Internal Revenue Service reports about 5 billion annually in farm income goes unreported for federal taxes but notes steady improvement since 1939. Illinois Central Railroad forecasts 1961 earnings per share of 4.04 with 22.6 million dollars in net income and 251 million in operating revenues.
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Internal Revenue Service
Sam
Illinois Central’ Railroad
Contracts Reach $144.66 Million in October Illinois
Dodge reports October contracts total $144,658,000 with splits showing non residential at $56,845,000 up, residential at $65,255,000 down 12 percent, and heavy engineering at $22,558,006 down 46 percent. First months of 1961 total $1,680,023,000, down five percent from 1960.
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Ilinois
F. W. Dodge
Miles W. Beatty
Dodge
Bauernfeind to Speak at Business Teachers Meet
Harry Bauernfeind assistant dean of Southern Illinois University Division of Technical and Adult Education will speak at two sessions of the National Business Teachers Association annual meeting on December 29 in St. Louis. More than 3,000 teachers of business subjects are to attend.
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Harry B. Bauernfeind
Southern Ilinois University
National Business ‘Teachers Association
St. Louis
Whitman Study From Southern Milnot University Press
A new study titled Walt Whitman as Man Poet and Legend will be issued Monday by Southern Milnot University Press. Gay Wilson Allen, a professor at New York University, authored the work for serious Whitman readers, according to press director Vernon Stenberg.
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Walt
Whitman
Man
Southern Mlinots University
Gay Wilson Allen
New* York University
Vernon Stenberg
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