Coal Loader Speeds Coal Transfer To Barges At Ford
A Missouri Pacific installation five miles south of Chester accelerates coal loading from Southern Illinois for Mississippi River barges at 1250 tons per hour. Electric transfer uses a 220 ton hopper and a moving belt to a loading boom with a unique trimmer to evenly distribute coal. The system serves Williamson Franklin Randolph and Perry counties with destinations along the Mississippi and its tributaries.
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Southern Illinois
Missouri-Pacific
Ford
Chester
St. Louis
Mississippi
Williamson
Franklin
Randolph
Perry
CD Shelters To Be Shown At Marion Store
Five Civil Defense fallout and tornado shelter models will be displayed at Cox Hardware and Furniture Store Public Square Marion from Monday through Friday. Marion Civil Defense Director C A Drew invites residents to inspect the models and obtain free complete construction plans for the five shelters.
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Cox Hardware and Furniture Store
Public Square
Marion
C. A. Drew
Marion Civil Defense
Southern Illinois men attend Insurance meeting in Indiana
Fifteen members of the Metropolis Life Insurance Co Carbon dale office staff attended a business meeting Wednesday at the French Lick-Sheraton Hotel in French Lick Indiana. Attending were Carl A. Parrish Jim Feirich Bill Eblen Carbon dale Eddie Sears and Billie Short Benton Maurice Stille and
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Southern Illinois
Carbon. Dale
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
French Lick-Sheraton
French Lick
Ind
Carl A. Parrish
Jim Feirich
Bill Eblen
Carbondale
Eddie Sears
Billie Short
Benton
Maurice Stille
Hollywood Shop Move Slated to New Carbondale Site
Hollywood Style Shop moves from 203 West Main to the former Illinois Brokerage building at West Monroe Street and South Illinois Avenue in Carbondale. Nathan Cohen, owner, says opening is tentatively set for Wednesday with a remodel including tile floors air conditioning and walnut display areas. The new shop will measure 24 by 100 feet and Cohen plans a grand opening later. He has run a shop in Mt Vernon for about 24 years.
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Carbondale
Illinois
Nathan Cohen
Coehn
West Monroe Street
South Illinois Avenue
George Patterson
Hollywood
West Main St
Cathryn Cartwright
Cohen
Mt. Vernon
Unclear listing of names and places from McCormack to Austin
A fragmentary OCR listing multiple individuals and towns including Gordon McCormack Herrin Jim Watkins Chester Lawrence Smith Anna Robert Place Pinckneyville Oscar McClellan Johnston Joseph Shelton Marion John Morvich Jim Hatchcraft and Dallas Austin West Frankfort.
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Gordon McCormack
Herrin
Jim Watkins
Chester
Lawrence Smith Anna
Robert Place
Pinckneyville
Oscar McClellan Johnston
City
Joseph Shelton
Marion
John Morvich
Jim Hatchcraft
Dallas Austin
West Frankfort
Cotton Crop Delayed and Shrinking in Southern Illinois
Sigsbee Rollins of the North Cairo Cotton Gin reports Southern Illinois cotton will be late by about 25 days due to replanting heat loss frost and rains. Acreage rose under soil conservation plans but expected production under 1 000 bales from 2 400 to 2 500 acres. First bale not due until October with best outlook not until early July.
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Sigsbee Rollins
North Cairo
Rollins
North
Cairolin
Illinois
Alexander
Pulaski
Cairo
Tennessee
Arkansas
South
Absenteeism Highlights Hay Fever Asthma Impacts
On a typical work day in the United States about 37 000 persons are absent due to hay fever asthma 29 000 due to chronic sinusitis and 16 000 due to bronchitis.
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United States
Home Building Sets Pace In Carbondale
Carbondale reports $227,601 in April and May building projects with homes leading the record. Notable permits include J C Williams for offices at the Metropolitan Shopping Center and a $30,000 service station by Gordon Parrish, plus multiple private residences and remodeling projects across Emerald Hills University Hills and surrounding streets.
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Carbondale
J. C. Williams and Sons
New Metropolitan
Gordon Parrish
Parrish
West Main St
Whitman Quotation on Four R's of School Study
A Whitman quip notes schooling centers on readin riting rithmetic and restin. The line humorously frames学习 basics as essential duties across generations.
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Walt Whitman
Butcher Hogs At Price Peak
The butcher hog market reached the highest price levels in over a year with 37,500 head offered. Top bids hit $18.25 per hundredweight on Thursday and Friday, the peak since January 22 1959. Barrows and gilts rose about 50 cents, sows 25 cents, while cattle softened due to weaker wholesale beef prices. Spring slaughter lambs sold to $26, the month’s high.
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West Frank
Missouri-Pacific Coal Transfer
Hollywood Shop
Ellis Mitchell
Willie Anderson
Tomcher
Bill Winstead
Arthur O. Kays
Gene Rath
Southern
Pyramid Block Co
Goreville
Stephen and Limpus Construction Co
Emerald Hills
University Hills
Ralph Wallace
N. Springer St
Ira Parrish
Forest and
Cherry Streets
Buckminster Fuller
Smith and
West Linden Streets
Eugene Propes
Raymond Laffoon
S. Graham St
Lipe Construction Co
W. Sycamore St
Richard Franklin
Herman Lantz
Roy Philipp
Briarwood
C. L. Friend
Charles Ellis
Willowbrook
H. R. Hearn
S. Marion St
Guy Harris
West Oak St
Stephens and Limpus
Lavern Griffiths
N. Poplar St
Maurice Betts
Nina Holfhouser
S Forest St
Student Christian Foundation
W. Pecan St
Rock Hill
Oun County
Oscar Gurley
Mardale Shopping Center
Rt. 13
B & K Furniture Co
Murphysboro
Strato
West Monroe
Eddings Brothers
DIAL
Armco Building
Armco Steel
Steelox
Armco
John C. McKown
West Main
Limpus
Roy Baxley
Samuel
Christopher GL
Ts An
Rohm & Haas
Washington Square
Philadelphia
U.S
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