Missionaries to Japan from Carbondale Couple
Rev. W. A. Robinson and his wife of Carbondale depart for a two month mission to Japan. They join 32 workers in Chicago then travel via Seattle and Anchorage to Tokyo to help establish cententary centers and grow local churches. They aim to reach one million Japanese Christians by 1959.
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W. A. Robinson
Carbondale
Southern Illinois
The
Methodist Church
Chicago
Japan
Robinsons
Southern Illinois Conference
Ovens
Navy
Lawrence Lacour
Tomio Muto
Christian News
Illinois
Juan
Labor Surplus Areas Trimmed From Special Contract Aid
The U S Department of Labor reports eight major areas removed from eligibility for special contract treatment, with Southern Illinois unaffected. Key employers in most production regions need more workers by mid-July, while Herrin Murphys West Frankfort show no change. Labor Market Trends cites 13 300 idle workers in Franklin Jackson Johnson Perry Union Williamson Counties, out of a 60 900 labor force.
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U. S. Department of Labor Today
Department
Herrin
Murphys- West Frankfort
Inois
Ers
Franklin
Jackson
Johnson, Perry
Union
Williamson
Fair Employment Law Appears Doomed in Illinois Senate
Springfield reports the Fair employment practices bill faces an apparent death blow after an 8 to 5 Senate Industrial Affairs Committee vote. The measure, approved by the House last month, would need a Senate upset to gain new life this session.
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Springfield
Illinois Senate
Senate Committee On Industrial Affairs
Senate
House
Mock Attack Highlights Need for Wider Disaster Plans
Robert E. Woodward warns radioactive fall out requires broader evacuation planning. A northeast June wind could have sent a radioactive cloud from La Grange Park to Peoria and beyond, with Weather Bureau projections toward Springfield and Moline Rock Island region. Maj. Allen Friedman notes local observer efforts and calls the scenario hopelessly problematic.
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Robert E. Woodward
Civil Defense
la Grange Park
Chicago
Peoria
U. S. Weather Bureau
Springfield
Moline
Rock Island
Eisenhower Orders Martial Law Mock Decree In Drill
President Eisenhower rushed to the Defense Department emergency HQ for a National Security Council briefing on a nationwide imaginary atomic attack. He announced a mock martial law declaration to mobilize federal authority and resources to coordinate a destabilized nation in the drill.
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Eisenhower
White House
Defense Department
National Security Council
Martial law declaration during Operation Alert 1955
The President proclaimed martial law on the second day of Operation Alert 1955, a hydrogen age preparedness exercise. The drills began Wednesday after enemy bombers allegedly caused death and ruin in the nation’s capital, while Congress was reportedly unable to reconvene.
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Congress
Nat Leary Dies Sparta Merchant at 75
Nathaniel Jordan Leary a Sparta merchant died Tuesday in St. Clements Hospital Red Bud after a two week illness. He operated a shoe store and a paint and wallpaper shop. Survived by wife Elizabeth Brockett he was a lifelong Sparta resident and church member. Funeral services Friday at 2 30 pm at Eiker Funeral Home Sparta with Rev C W Armentrout officiating burial in Caledonia Cemetery.
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Nathaniel Jordan Leary
Sparta
St. Clement's Hospital
Red Bud
Leary
Elizabeth
First Presbyterian Church of
Eiker
C. W. Armentrout
Maryland Places Hurry Dames Quarter and Accident
A note lists locations in Maryland named Hurry, Dames, Quarter, and Accident. The text catalogs quirky place names and their geographic reference within the state.
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Maryland
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J. L. McDowell
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Poe
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America
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Florida
Owl
Ladies’ Beautiful
Jonn
Emi
Green Oxfords
Nome
Ben
Nat Leary
Sparta Merchant
Caledonia Cemetery
Egyptian Heights
R. E. and
Jo Ann Chapman
Helen Chapman
Hugh Perry
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