Rail workers scarce in area says Glover
Courtney G. Glover, district manager of the Railroad Retirement board, warns skilled labor shortages across southern Illinois railroads. He cites high demand for journeymen blacksmiths, boiler makers, carmen, electricians and more, with 32 carmen needed by one carrier in the region.
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Illinois
Courtney G. Glover
Railroad Retirement Board
Glover
Murphysboro
East St. Louis
Carmen
Rites for Chester Farmer Set for 20th
Funeral services for Rudolph H. Hamm 75 retired Chester farmer will be at 9 a m Wednesday at St Mary's of Help church Chester with Rev A B Lehman officiating Burial will be in St Mary's of Help cemetery Friends may call at Oscar M Schroeder and Sor funeral home in Chester until hour of services Hamm died in Chester hospital Saturday after a two day illness with heart disease He was born in Chester on December
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Rudolph H. Hamm
Chester
St. Mary’s of Help
A. B. Lehman
Oscar M. Schroeder
Sor
Hamm
Chester Hospital
Six-Shooters Bring Final Gift for Little Tommy
Six year old Tommy Whittington, dying from a brain tumor in West Frankfort, will be buried after receiving a last Christmas gift, a pair of six-shooters from an aunt. Neighbors had sent many toys earlier, but these guns were the only present he could glimpse before his death yesterday.
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Tommy Whittington
West Frankfort
Tommy
Chester Man Dies After Long Life In Community
The obituary notes a Chester native who lived there his entire life and married Pearl M Heine on September 22 1914 in Chester. He is survived by his wife two daughters Mrs Virginia Roth of Chester and Mrs Marguerite Prov ensil of Providence R I two sisters Mrs Mary Novack and Mrs Elizabeth Novack both of Chester and seven grandchildren.
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Chester
Hamm
Pearl M. Heine
Virginia Roth
Marguerite Provensil
Providence
R. I
Mary Novack
Elizabeth Novack
Hadacol Helps Church Point Boy Gain Energy On Team
Delmar Callaway a 13 year old eighth grader from Church Point Louisiana says Hadacol gave him energy and appetite after deficiency of vitamins B1 B2 niacin and iron. He became a football center and enjoys baseball and basketball. The Le Blanc Corporation markets Hadacol with a money back guarantee.
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Delmar B. Callaway
Church Point
Louisiana
Delmar
Delmar Callaway
Church Point High School
le Blanc Corporation
Lafayette
Carterville G I S Wounded In Korea
Two Carterville families learn their sons are wounded in action in North Korea. Privates first class Joseph L Patrick and Davye L Young, both 19, were wounded within days of each other and wrote their parents late last month. Patrick serves on guard duty with the 7th Infantry division, 37th regiment on the Manchurian border. Young, an ambulance jeep driver, is moving to the front with the 2nd Infantry division, 23rd regiment and is believed hospitalized in Japan. Patrick may be in San Francisco seeking a call home.
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Carterville
North Korea
Joseph L. Patrick
Davye L. Young
Joseph L. Pat
James F. Patrick
Route
7Th Infantry Division
Young
Ben Young
Japan
Patrick
San Francisco
Calif
St Louis Man Arrested for Drunken Driving in Randolph County
Herschel South of St Louis was arrested on a charge of drunken driving at 12 30 a m Sunday by Randolph County Deputy Sheriff Richard Bendorf.
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Clower
Missouri Avenue
East St. Louis
Illinois State Employment Service
Murphysboro
Chestnut Street
Herrin
South Park Street
Herschel
St. Louis
Randolph County
Richard Bendorf
Soviet Embassy in Hot Water With U S Workers Union
CIO electrical workers accuse the Soviet embassy of a deliberate insult to American labor by hiring non union workers to install a fire prevention system. James B Carey says hoses and plumbing extensions on all floors show a defense precaution against bombing and exposes a gap between ideology and concern for workers.
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Washington
CIO
James B. Carey
Carey
Russia
The
Communist Party
Campbell Hill Cadet Named to Dean’s Honor Roll
Cadet George Tegtmeyer of Campbell Hill has again earned Kemper Military School’s dean’s scholastic honor roll in Booneville Missouri for the third straight month. Cadets on the honor roll must maintain an average of 87 or higher in every subject.
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George Tegtmeyer
Campbell Hill
Kemper Military School
Booneville
Missouri Man Hurt In Wreck Near Cora
Joel R. Meador 27 of Frederickstown Missouri suffered a head cut and a severely bruised arm when his car left Route 3 near Cora and rolled three times at 3 am Sunday. George Pruett 24 escaped serious injury. Both were treated at Chester hospital where Meador remains confined. They claim a truck forced their car off the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joel R. Meador
Frederickstown
Cora
George Pruett
Meador
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McKenzie
Illinois Ave
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Hadacol
Gruen
Morgan’s Trading Post
Carterville G. I
U.S
Workers’ Union
East Walnut
John Winn
Cpinane Fine Wines
Bardenheier
Bardenheier’s
Bardenheier S Wine Cellars
Tey
Kneehole
Dad
Missouri
Girers
Helleny’s
North 14Th St
Christa
Mallory and Stetson
America
Marion
Carbondale
du Quoin
Mt. Vernon - Benton
Frankfort
PALM
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