Trade Winds Home Building Hike Seen By Lou Schneider
Upward push in executive salaries slowed early this year as many accept pay cuts. New residential building starts may total as high as 1,100,000, up from last year. Canada inks wheat sales to Communist China totaling 3,000,000 bushels, potentially opening Far East markets. Canada’s export moves, Japan Israel trade talks, and UN forecasts on air travel match a global business mood.
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Lou Schneider
France
Ber
Canada
China
Far East
Bureau of Advertising
American Tobacco
Japan
Israel
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Federal Reserve Board
Texas
Post Office Department
Ie Foods
C. G.mortimer
Australia
UN Educational, Scientific , Cultural Organization
Senator and Wife Argue for Right to Bathing Suit
Maurine Neuberger wife of Senator Richard Neuberger of Oregon advocates the right of a senator's wife to wear a bathing suit. She modeled one at a Democratic event drawing letters of protest, which the couple answered in their Washington weekly newsletter.
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Washington
Maurine Neuberger
U. S
Silent Film Star Lloyd Hughes Dies at 60
Lloyd Hughes, aged 60, a noted silent film star who co starred with Mary Pickford in Tess of the Orm Country, died Friday in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Lloyd Hughes
Mary Pickford
Orm Country
Madagascar’s Former Name La France Orientale Revealed
A historic note records Madagascar as the French colony formerly named La France Orientale. The island lies off Africa’s east coast and has since been known simply as Madagascar.
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Madagascar
Africa
la France Orientale
Beer Bottle Overload Plagues Australian Towns
In outback towns along the Queensland New South Wales border heaps of empty beer bottles pile up as breweries refuse deposits and no returns are collected. Barraba New South Wales officials file complaints while state authorities seek tourism appeal amid 125 million bottles emptied last year and an estimated 25 million not returned.
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Sydney
Outback
Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Tles
Barraba
Ex Jacksonville Man Dies. Former Congressman and Roosevelt Aide
James Martin Barnes of Jacksonville Ill a former Illinois congressman died Sunday at age 59 from a liver ailment He practiced law in Jacksonville served as county judge and was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1939 He served two terms later becoming an administrative assistant to President Roosevelt serving under both Roosevelt and Truman
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James Martin Barnes
Jacksonville
Ill
Illinois
Barnes
Roosevelt
Herrin Marine is Top Class Graduate
Mr and Mrs Clyde M White of Herrin have been notified by Maj Gen David M Shoup that their son Gerald Franklin Marlow is honor graduate in the 3rd Marine Division clerk typist school He achieved a 992 per cent average in a class with marines serving in the Far East Marlow entered the Marines in August 1957 and is stationed on Okinawa
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Clyde M. White
N. 17Th St
Herrin
David M. Shoup
Gerald Franklin Marlow
3Rd Marine Division
Marlow
Marine Corps
Far East
Marines
Okinawa
Truman Timeline Death and Survivor Mentioned
The obituary note states Truman until July 15, 1945, with his widow Mrs. Betty Grove Barnes surviving him.
Funeral services for Walter Hall at Mt. Carbon church
Funeral services for Walter Hall 87 of D Street Mt Carbon will be at 1 30 p m Thursday in the Chapel Hill Free Will Baptist Church Murphysboro with Rev Hardy Edmonds and Rev P J Rogers officiating. Burial will be in Tower Grove Cemetery Friends may call at Jackson Funeral Home Carbondale after 5 p m Wednesday Hall died Sunday at St Andrews Hospital Murphysboro He is survived by stepsons John Willie
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Walter Hall
D Street
Mt. Carbon
Chapel Hill
Free Will Baptist Church
Murphysboro
Hardy Edmonds
P. J. Rogers
Tower Grove Cemetery
Jackson Funeral Home
Carbondale
West Frankfort Man Fined in Marion
Clarence Braggs of West Frankfort was fined 111.20 by Marion Justice of the Peace Elmer Farmer for driving while under the influence. Braggs was arrested by city police at 8 a.m. Sunday. A passenger, James Burn of West Frankfort, was fined 21.20 for intoxication.
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Clarence Braggs
West Frankfort
Marion
Justice of the Peace
Elmer Farmer
Braggs
James Burn
Farmer
Byrd Family Ties Highlight Murphysboro to Rockford Names
Pyrd and Liz Byrd of Murphysboro with grandchildren Larrell Malone Mable Townsend and Lucy Malone of Rockford are named in a family connection notice.
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Pyrd
Liz Byrd
Murphysboro
Larrell Malone
Mable H. Townsend
Lucy Mallone
Rockford
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