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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1955
Page
5
Chicago editors forecast a 2000 life with an 18 hour work week moving sidewalks women traffic cops and doubled consumer purchases. Education economics farming medicine sports transportation and autos are imagined with atomic power lunar landing and tax instalments as quirky note.
The Spartan Printing Co in Sparta is printing a religious color book of 32 pages for Oral Roberts of Tulsa Oklahoma. The firm, known for comic books, has previously printed evangelistic literature for Billy Graham.
John, famed as the man with a thousand secrets, narrowed public appearances as a Red mouthpiece. His East visit sparked West Germany's largest postwar security scandal. He ran a counter intelligence operation for the Bonn government valued at two million dollars annually.
Princeton December 23 Chief Justice Earl Warren leads Republican voters as top GOP ticket choice if Eisenhower cannot run with 27 percent. Nixon follows at 24 percent. Dewey 10. Milton Eisenhower 8. Stassen 8. Dulles 7. Warren has not indicated any candidacy since withdrawing.
Richard D. Rainey 24 with wife Anna Belle lives at 320 Hudson Buffalo New York was promoted to specialist third class in the Communications Zone at Camp Bussac France Rainey son of Mr and Mrs James Rainey 213 North Oak Sparta is a truck driver with the zone 78th Transportation Company
The Herrin Fire Dept answered a weed call near the Denham Grocery Store on South Park Avenue around noon Thursday.
The Bell System builds Morris Illinois as the first fully electronic telephone exchange for experiments. It will switch calls with transistors replacing vacuum tubes and offer a musical dial tone. About 3,000 customers will be served, and speeds are expected to rise from one thousandth to one millionth of a second.
Philadelphia December 23 AP A strike threat by 22 560 Pennsylvania Railroad non operating employees was postponed indefinitely to allow contract talks. The Transport Workers Union accepted the railroad request and called off seven hours before the deadline. Next session set for January 4 with a presidential fact finding board’s wage recommendation to 10 to 14 percent.
Little Egypt District Agency of State Farm Insurance held its annual Christmas party at the Marion Motel Pine Room on Dec. 15. S. S. Schneider, assistant state director, Bloomington, spoke on 1955 accomplishments and 1956 objectives. Dist. Mgr. Orval Leukering, Marion, gave each woman a rosebud. Agents Bill Young, Marion, and Glen Barnes, Johnston City, received gifts for sales. Twenty-six attended.
More than 20 area individuals and groups contributed to the Southern Illinois Children's Service Center in Bush. A luncheon for child welfare staff and center employees, a student led program, and a Christmas Eve party were noted while officials invited visits.
Atlanta mayor William Hartsfield announced that the city would end segregation on municipal golf courses in compliance with a federal judge's order. He noted the ruling applied to golf courses only and that swimming pools and playgrounds would remain segregated.
A December fire at 211 South 22nd street in St. Louis killed a two week old baby and a two year old child after their mother Leona Dalton dropped them from the third floor to a concrete alley as she feared they were trapped. Henry Brown, an invalid on the first floor, died when his bed caught fire from a cigarette. Two women were injured in the blaze that swept through the building housing Black residents.
The December meeting of the Board of Directors for Southern Illinois Inc. will be at the West Frankfort County Club at noon December 31. Executive secretary Geoffrey Hughes announced. A luncheon precedes a Sink or Swim meeting at 2 p m in West Frankfort High School gymnasium called by U S Representative Kenneth Gray.
A historical tally notes seven men rising from the vice presidency to the presidency. The list highlights the line of succession and mentions notable transitions in U S political history.
Bonn federal prosecutors charged Otto John with suspicion of treason after his return from East Germany where he had been held under voluntary detention since December 12. Investigators will review possible additional offenses and whether he divulged state secrets to the Communists.
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