Hydroplanes and Runabouts Compete at Cairo Race Day
Ohio River speedboat event drew about 2000 spectators as hydroplanes and runabouts circling a barrel buoy course faced delays from a large workboat. National champion Earl Renfrew praised sportsmanship amid two to five heat races with top speeds up to 75 mph and prize money of 30 dollars per first place heat.
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Bob Pops
Cairo
U. S
Tes Hall Peak
Earl Renfrew
Booneville
Pat Jordan
Wichita
Kans
Pat
John
Jordan
Fie
Jordans
Devot
Six Anna Jonesboro Men Enlist in Navy
Six men from Anna Jonesboro have enlisted in the Navy and will report to the U S Naval Training Center at Great Lakes. Names include Mickey Joe Kelley Darrel Wayne Sauerbrunn Noel Richard Dougherty Ronald Gayle Bittle Howard Dean Bittle and Leon Merle O Daniel. A Navy high school graduate program guarantees service school placement after recruit training with a recruiter in Anna each Thursday at 1 p.m.
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Anna-Jonesboro
Navy
U. S. Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Manior Station
Mickey Joe Kelley
Louie Kelley
Jonesboro
Darrel
Wayne Sauerbrunn
Ferdinand Sauerbrunn
Noel Richard Dougherty
Arve
Dougherty
Anna Ronald Gayle Bittle
Marior
Anna
Douglas Submits Spar Aid Bill
Sen Paul H Douglas announces a bill requiring all federal agencies buying fluorspar for the national stockpile to use domestic sources at prevailing prices. He says the measure would ensure wartime supply and aid spar mining families in Southern Illinois and Kentucky, while mine operators protest Mexican imports. The bill is not a cure all but aims for rapid relief to unemployed miners.
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Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
Douglas
Illinois
Kentucky
Denver witness mustered sobriety eyes judge city jailed
Victor A. Weig, 45, interrupted a Denver Police Court session to tell Judge George M. McNamara he shouldn't look so sober. The judge ordered Weig jailed for drunkenness after misreading the witness's stance in the police case.
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Victor A. Weig
Denver
George M. McNamara
McNamara
Weig
Teacher examination set in Murphysboro
The Jackson County Superintendent of Schools announces a teacher examination in Murphysboro on Friday to issue provisional Plan I certificates. Applicants need 60 semester hours, including 10 in education, and must be at least 19 years old, with testing starting at 9 a.m. in the county courthouse.
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Jackson County
Murphysboro
W. N. Wheeles
Wheeles
Britain faces rail and dock strikes during mass layoff crisis
London June 4 AP a seven day rail strike and dock walkout paralyses Britain as 80 percent of locomotive crews walkout and ASLEF disputes threaten nonstriking NUR members at Stockport. Mauretania disruptions soar with 130 seamen joining passengers for New York as unions push for shorter work weeks and government appeals fail to halt the crisis amid escalating unemployment.
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London
Britain
Southampton
Stockport
National Union of Railwaymen
NUR
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
ASLEF
Besma
Mauretania
New York
le Havre
France
Cobh
Ireland
Liverpool
Ascania
Britannic
Empress
Australia
Federation of British Industries
Scotland
Ex Marion Woman Dies in Chicago
An inquest was scheduled by Cook County officials into the death of Christine Steinke 40 of Marion Illinois found in her Chicago bathroom. She died at St Elizabeths Hospital. Her service will be in Chicago and body returned to Marion for burial. She is survived by husband Alfred and daughter Barbara.
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Christine Steinke
California Ave
Chicago
Marion
Cook County
Steinke
Alfred
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
John Krumrey
Rt. 4
Barbara
Obelisk Yearbook Distribution At Southern Illinois
First copies of the 1955 Obelisk yearbook are issued to SIU students from a temporary center in the gym ticket office. About 1,900 copies arrived Thursday with 1,600 more due June 11, funded by student activity fees. Don Hargus, Carbondale, is associate editor in charge of distribution and news for the 1956 Obelisk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinois University
SIU
University Nasium
Don Hargus Carbondale
Frankfort Home Show Opens in Town at Roller Rink
The second annual West Frankfort Home Show opened Friday at the roller skating rink four blocks west. The event runs Saturday 7 to 9 and Sunday 1 to 5 with about 40 displays of furniture utilities appliances and related items. Free rides ice cream search light concession booths and outside rides attract families. Exhibitors offer prize registration with giveaways including a ironing board blanket wagon and suitcase. Local singing and band talent will provide a stage show.
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West Frankfort
Hot Line Courses Set at SIU June 27
A series of cooperative Hot Line Tool Training programs for selected hot line crews from rural electric cooperatives in Illinois will open at Southern Illinois University on June 27. E J Simon SIU dean says each group will have one week of intensive training at the SIU Vocational Technical Institute campus near Carterville with further sessions on July 11 18 September 26 and October 3 10 for subsequent groups.
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Illinois
Southern Ilinois University
E. J. Simon
SIU
SIU Vocational- Technical Institute
Carterville
Cairo Races Draw Crowd Despite Long Drive
Spectators arrived by car and on foot to the Cairo track with at least one driver noting a two hundred mile trip just to witness the racing event. The scene reflected strong local interest despite the distance.
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Cairo
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Bouys
Eaton & Brown Appliance Co
E. Main
Carbandaie
General Electric
Porgets
Bracken’s
Theater
HURST
Osburn
Marion Motors
Hamlett Motor Sales
Chrysler
East Main Street
Eden
Tiis
Elizabeth
South Side Lumber Co
South Park Avenue
Herrin
Frankfort
Office of
John Winn
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Christopher
Zeigler
Lewis
E. Main Street
Bea
Kroehler
Frost Furniture
Forest City
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