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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1951
Page
5
The Census Bureau report on the 1950 census finds 14.56 million dwelling units heated by coal, 9.43 million within central heating and 5.13 million in non central units. About 50 million people are estimated to live in coal heated homes. Gas and liquid fuels trail coal in total units.
The University of Illinois will serve as the national hub for distributing a 245,350 grant from the W K Kellogg Foundation to advance educational broadcasting. Funds go to member universities over five years, with a GE supplied 90,000 transmitter slated for Robert Allerton Park atop a 580 foot tower near the campus.
The three centers Southeast Asia, Northwestern and central Europe, and the northeastern United States together hold about 75 to 80 percent of the global population.
Jor part A was delivered to homes and apartments for heating purposes, describing a distribution effort for residential energy supply.
British pilots air dropped four million leaflets over Negri Sembilan in four days as part of a propaganda campaign. Leaflets urged terrorists to surrender and publicized rewards for information leading to their capture or killing by security forces.
The Univac, a $600000 electronic brain, goes to work for the U S Census Bureau. Invented by Eckert and Mauchly, it promises to compute in hours what once took weeks, storing tens of thousands of impulses and reading magnetic tape to check its own answers. It will help tabulate a subset of states for the 150 million Americans, with rapid individual data like residence and income.
Union County records show only six marriage licenses issued in June, far below the usual month’s total, per county clerk Perl Zwahlen.
Describing a teletype machine feeding punched tape into an electronic calculating unit the system produces an answer in seconds. The passage highlights the speed and automation of early computing devices and their ability to deliver quick results from punched data.
Miss Grace Sitter daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Sitter of Anna was graduated Sunday June 3 at MacMurray College Jacksonville Illinois with a Bachelor of Science major in physical education.
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