April Area Relief Rolls In Southern Illinois Decline
General assistance rolls across 17 southern Illinois counties dropped 37.2 percent in April, the Illinois Public Aid Commission reports. Total recipients fell to 10,066 from 16,034 a year earlier, with area allotments totaling 200,890 versus 301,914 in April 1950. County figures list recipients and payments for Alexander to Williamson, led by Saline and Pulaski counties.
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Southern Illinois
Illinois Public Aid Commission
Carl K. Schmidt, Jr
Southern
Illinois
Eight-ounce Premature Baby Dies in Miami
An eight-ounce baby girl born in a doctor's office died Monday night in Miami. The four month premature infant was kept alive in an incubator at Jackson Memorial Hospital for a few hours. The mother was Mrs. Ruby Ivey of Coconut Grove and the birth occurred during an examination with Dr. Alfred Nadler.
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Miami
Fla
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Ruby Ivey
Coconut Grove
Alfred Nadler
Church urges members to avoid Boy Scouts in Grand Rapids
The Christian Reformed church urged its youth to skip joining the Boy Scouts of America, preferring its own youth organization. The synod announced the policy, citing a study that the Boy Scout movement lacks an adequate religious basis. Gutadema hog disease affects at least two Illinois herds, marking its first appearance in the United States.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Christian Reformed Church
Boy Scouts of America
Synod
Boy Scout Movement
United States
Illinois
Office Mural Echoes Pioneer Southwest in Marion
A new two story brick office building at 111 West Main Street Marion brings a Southwest flavor with Western pioneer era murals and knotty pine interiors. The structure houses five attorneys including Winters and Powless, optometrist Eaton and Ash, insurance offices, a radio station WJPF, and soon Floyd Bracy and Maurice Clark. Local architect W. B. Ittner Inc. of St Louis and contractor Herman Bearden supervised the project with Mrs Jettie Winters and family owners.暫
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Southern Illinois
Marion
West Main Street
Jettie Winters
Nelson Ash
Charles Winters
Winters
Kenneth Powless
A. R. Cagle
A. G. Hendricks
Robert Holbrook
Eaton and Ash Optometrists
Robert L. Pulley Insurance
Underwriters Association of Safety Claims and Insurance
WJPF
Herrin
Ash
Powless
W. B. Ittner
Red Cuban Newspapers Return to Owners After Seizure
Havana Cuba The Communist newspaper Hoy closed and seized by the government last August has been turned back to its owners Anibal Escalante Communist representative in Congress and editor of the paper said it would resume publication as soon as possible but would cost about 80000 in repairs He noted machines were rusted and damaged by clubs.
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Hoy
Anibal Escalante
Congress
Archbishop Grosz to Stand Trial in Hungary
Archbishop Joszef Grosz and eight officers face a government indictment in Budapest on charges of plotting against the Communist regime, black market currency dealings and aiding escapes. The document says all eight officers confessed and the trial begins Friday.
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Budapest
Hungary
Joszef Grosz
Joszef
Mindszenty
Jets Make Mercy Round Trip From Illinois To Texas
At Scott Air Force Base two jets flew 200 miles to Wichita Falls Texas and back in two and a half hours to take Pvt James Neville to his dying father. The mission used a trainer aircraft with an F-80 Shooting Star as escort and returned Neville by 9 30 p m. His father died at 3 a m Saturday.
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Illinois
Texas
Neville
Joliet Bomb Blast Shakes National Hotel Area
At 3 20 am in Joliet a bomb shattered windows in the National hotel and a Greek Hellenic veterans club doorway across the street. Police say damage runs about 5000 dollars and five men in the club were unharmed while a nearby tow worker, Emmet McCanna, suffered minor injuries. Police pursue motive in the case.
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Paul Metzger
Buddhist Chief Warns Against Early Peace Treaty
Takanao Yoshida, supreme adviser to Japan's 70 million Buddhists, opposes an early peace treaty. He warned such a treaty could push an immature Japan into the society of free nations and potentially provoke Russia to act.
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Tokyo
Japan
Takanao Yoshida
Society of Free Nations
Russia
Salt Lake City Blaze Destroys Bathhouses
A midnight fire at Saltair amusement park on Great Salt Lake destroyed bathhouses including the boiler room laundry and hot house with no injuries reported. Extent of loss was not immediately estimated according to manager William Armstrong.
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Salt Lake City
Saltair Amusement Park
Great Salt Lake
William Armstrong
Appellate Court Judge Assignments Announced
Chief Justice Joseph E Daily of the Illinois Supreme Court announced appellate court judge assignments on Tuesday. The First District Chicago divisions include Hugo M Frields Joseph Burke Grover C Niemeyer in division one and John M Tuohy Ulysses S Schwartz Edwin A Robson in division two and Roger J Kiley John C Lowe Michael Feinberg in division three. The Second District lists Franklin R Dove Shelbyville Fred G Wolfe Quincy and Ben F Anderson Charleston. The Third District includes Charles A OConnor Aurora Harry E Wheat Freeport and Roland W Griffith Granite City. The Fourth District assigns John T Culbertson Jr Delvan A J Scheineman Sterling and William M Bardens Monmouth.
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Joseph E. Daily
Illinois Supreme Court
Chicago
Hugo M. Frields
Joseph Burke
Grover C. Niemeyer
John M. Tuohy
Ulysses S. Schwartz
Edwin A. Robson
Roger J. Kiley
John C. Lowe
Michael Feinberg
Franklin R. Dove
Shelbyville
Fred G. Wolfe
Granite City
John T. Culbertson, Jr
Delvan
A. J. Scheineman
Sterling
William M. Bardens
Monmouth
Illinois dairy herd sires ranked fourth nationwide in 1950
A University of Illinois dairyman notes Illinois had 284 proved dairy bulls in 1950, ranking fourth among the 48 states in the number of proven bulls.
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Illinois
University of Illinois
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