Anna Limestone Firm Aims at National Markets
Jerome Lutz, former tombstone merchant of Anna, opens the Anna Marble Co. with a government SBA loan aided by SIU Small Business Institute. The plant processes 9 ton limestone blocks from a south Anna quarry into 2.25, 5, and 7.75 inch slabs for widespread use. Lutz envisions a 50–65 man operation and nationwide sales.
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Anna Marble Co
Anna
Jerone Lutz
Anna Memorial Service
Egypt
Indiana
Bedford
Lutz
St. John’s Chapel
Chicago
Prudential
Small Business Administration
Small Business Institute
Southern Illinois University
Arnold Rechter
William Graves
Frank Stamberg
SIU
SBI
Stamberg
Southern Illinois Linestone
Washington
Southern Illinois
Detroit
Booke-Cadillac
St. Louis
Utah
California
Institute
Graves
Jerome Lutz
Mar
The
Quarry Wakers
Center of population marks nation’s heart on Illinois field
In 1950 the U S migrating center of population settled eight miles north of Olney in Richland county Illinois beside Highway 130. The center, calculated after each census, shows westward drift with no fixed location and prompts discussion of moving the national capital to Illinois.
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Illinois
United States
Baltimore
Olney
Richland County
America
Sparta Bid for New Federal Prison at 1200 Acres
Sparta submitted a formal brochure to the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington detailing population, geography, water supply, transportation, housing, schools, churches and utilities for a proposed 1200 acre site in the Eden area east of the city. The land, once part of Moffat Coal Co and now owned by C Henderson, includes five mine ponds with 160 million gallons of water reserves.
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Sparta
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Washington, D. C
Eden
Moffat Coal Co
C. Henderson
Post Mortem On Magazines TV Killed Em By Charles Mercer
Charles Mercer reports that two longtime magazines Colliers and the Woman's Home Companion abruptly died amid advertising declines, despite strong readership. The article notes television growth did not crush sales, but a shift of ads away from magazines may have ended them.
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Colliers
Woman's Home Companion
Madison Avenue
Television
Collier’s
The
Companion
Labor Leader Reported Released in Budapest
A reliable informant said Sandor Bari vice chairman of the Central Workers' Council was freed from jail and returned to work at an electrical equipment plant where he was elected chairman of the plant workers' council, despite conflicting reports from the Ka dar regime.
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Budapest
Janos Kadar
Central Workers’ Council
Kader
Sandor Bari
Bari
Marion Water Dept Receives Office Billing Machine
A new billing and accounting machine was delivered Thursday to the Marion Water Dept. It will be installed and in use in January replacing an eight year old unit that broke down five times in October. The Bur roughs Co. machine cost 3300 dollars.
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Marion
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SBA, Siu
Anna Limestone Company
Tombstone
Southern Illinois University Small Business Institute
New Anna Marble Co
Anna Lutz
Keting
Smarl Business Administration
John W. Allen
Southern Ilinois University
Bloomington
Janice Brazeau
New Hyde Park, N. Y
Charles Mercer
Associated Press
New York
Marion Water Dept
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