Shawneetown Bridge Plans Discussed At Public Hearing
Illinois and Kentucky interests unveiled a proposed 2.86 million dollar Ohio River bridge at Shawneetown to boost southern Illinois industry. River traffic reps urged 800 to 1,000 foot spans for safety and opposed the two 726 foot truss spans.
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Miineisan
Illinois
Kentucky
Shawneetown
Ohio
U. S. Army Engineers
Gallatin Court House
Kentucky Department of Highways
Col. J. L. Person
Louisville
Shawneetown Rocks
Kentucky Pier
Willow Line
Gallatin County
J. Wood Smith
Sverdrup and Parcel, Inc
St. Louis
Wabash River
Cincinnati
Thomas’ Richards
Union County
John David Upchurch
Eldorado
Barrett J. Woods
Cairo River Pilot
George Scherer
Greater Egypt Association
Lewis C. Brooks
Mount Vernon Firm Wins $229 908 Trailer Contract
The Pressed Steel Car Co. C. P. John division in Mount Vernon won a $229 908 contract to build 83 trailers. The award was one of several in a government distressed area and let by the Chicago Procurement Office Corps of Engineers. Norman Bitterman noted S. L. L. will receive weekly summaries of procurements over $25,000.
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Mount Vernon
U. S
Pressed Steel Car Co
C. P. John
Southern Illinois, Inc
Norman Bitterman
Bitterman
Chicago
Corps of Engineers
U. L
Martins Return To Hoyleton Rose Garden Home
Hoyleton Illinois hosts 250 pairs of purple martins from South America each summer. William C Rixmann and wife maintain 21 housing units with a church hotel and town hall for the birds, dating back to 1918. The birds migrate 2000 miles, raise four young, then depart each autumn, leaving a quiet town until spring. Hoyleton lies about 11 miles southwest of Centralia.
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William C. Rixmann
Hoyleton
Hoyleton Rose Garden
Ill
South America
Rixmanns
Martins
Six B-36 Bombers Attempt Long Range Flight
Six large B-36 bombers tried a Pacific training flight extending their reach on the Great Circle route toward the Marshall Islands. Engine trouble forced a seventh plane to return to Hawaii after conditions kept them north of the islands yesterday.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Hawaii
Atomic Proving Grounds
Marshall Islands
Du Quoin Loses To Pinckneyville In 1950 Census
Du Quoin dropped 376 residents from 1940 to 1950, while Pinckneyville grew by 140. Preliminary 1950 census figures show Du Quoin at 7,139 and Pinckneyville at 3,286, per census supervisor William L. Grindle. World Almanac volumes list 1940 figures as 17,515 for Du Quoin and 3,146 for Pinckneyville.
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du Quoin
Pinckneyville
William L. Grindle
Herrin
Weather Summary with Temperatures and Measurements
Warm humid conditions with partly cloudy skies through tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 70 to 75 high Saturday in the 90s. Thurs highs near 87 and 69 overnight. No precipitation since yesterday, sunrise 4 29 am sunset 7 35 pm. Humidity 78 percent at 7 20 am. Crab Orchard Lake spillway level yesterday and Little Grassy Lake eleven feet below spillway yesterday.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
America backs McCarthy Sabrie son
Atlantic City Republican chairman Guy Gabrielson kicked off a two day meeting of leaders from Maine to Florida to energize the 1950 campaign. He asserted Americans wholeheartedly back McCarthy and predicted gains in the Senate and House, while stressing the meetings are for idea exchange rather than action planning.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Guy Gabrielson
Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
Gabrielson
Maine
Florida
McCarthy
State Department
G.O.P
National Committee
Salt Lake City
Chicago
Congress
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Idaho
Utah
Fluorspar Miners Back As Settlement Reached
Employes of the Minerva Oil fluorspar mine north of Cave In Rock return to work after a June 1 strike. A company spokesman says 72 strikers in United Mine Workers District 50 receive a five cent hourly raise and $1,000 life insurance, totaling about seven cents per man with other concessions. The workers had demanded eight cents more per hour.
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Minerva Oil Company
Fluorspar
Cave In Rock
United Mine Workers’ District 50
Fairfield Farmer Killed as Tractor Overturns
Clyde Young 55 year old farmer and father of six died when a tractor overturned on his farm near Fairfield Ir yesterday.
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Fairfield
Clyde Young
Here
Administration Opens Drive To Arm Europe
Washington June 23 AP Administration forces pushed for Senate approval of a foreign arms program to place modern weapons along Western Europe defenses. Sen Tom Connally guided the 1 222 500 000 plan into its second year amid Republican opposition. Key disputes include authority to hand over 122 250 000 in arms to vital allies and credit sales to friendly nations. Committees said postwar weapons would be capable of mass production to defend Western Europe. Connally expected quick Senate approval, with a final vote likely early next week.
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Washington
Senate
America
Europe
Tom Connally
Texas
Truman
United States
U. S
Sen
Henry Lodge, Jr
R-Mass
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Western
Connally
Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Fire destroys Fullerton hotel and citrus plant in California town
Fire swept from a Ford agency to the three story Fullerton hotel and a hardware store then to Pacific Citrus Products Co. plant gutting buildings and threatening the business district. Fire Chief L. W. Eckels said no one was injured and damage was about 175000 dollars. Fullerton, population about 13000, lies 18 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
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L. W. Eckels
Ford
Fullerton
Pacific Citrus Products Co
Los Angeles
Chicago Baby Dies Of Swallowed Penny
Nineteen month old Arthur J Burger Jr died after swallowing a penny. A coroner physician said an autopsy showed the penny cut through the esophagus and lodged under his collarbone. The inflammation squeezed the esophagus and choked him. Arthur was an only child. his father repairs cameras for the Revere Camera Co.
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Chicago
Arthur J. Burger, Jr
Arthur
The
Revere Camera Co
Navy Jet Crash near Bedford Kills Three Aboard
A Navy AJ-1 experimental attack plane crashed at 8:30 p m near Patterson Rock Quarry eight miles south of Bedford Virginia. Pilot Lt Com Willard A Sampson formerly of Evanston Illinois co pilot James A Moore Jr of Los Angeles and civilian Navy employee Holliday Lee Turner of Washington DC died in the fireball. The aircraft was on its first transcontinental flight from Edwards Air Force Base California to Patuxent Maryland.
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Bedford
Navy
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Patuxent
Phetterson Rock Quarry
Here
Willard A. Sampson
Evanston, NL
Holliday Lee Turner
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Washington, D. C
James A. Moore, Jr
Los Angeles
North American Aviation Corp
Hawthorne
Hughes built jet helicopter wrecks during ground tests
Culver City California June 28 AP reports the giant jet helicopter under construction for the U S air force tore loose from its moorings and was wrecked during ground tests yesterday.
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Culver City
Calif
Howard Hughes
U. S Air Force
Quick Passage Seen for Draft Law Extension
Washington June 23 AP The peacetime draft will extend 15 days and likely three years more. Congress passed a stopgate 15 day extension to Truman by voice vote in Senate and unanimous consent in House. Senate and House differ on length and authority with debate over whether Congress or the President may order inductions and the scope of emergency power.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Senate
House
Armed Services
Senate Armed Services Committee
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Kenneth S. Wherry
Nebraska
Leverett Saltonstall
Rmass
G.O.P
Armed Services Committee
Walter F. George
D-Ga
Taft
Mother to See Canonization in Vatican Square
Mrs Assunta Goretti to witness the canonization of Maria Goretti, who died in 1962 at age 11 after defending herself from a youth. Her killer Alessandro Serenelli served 27 years and, penitent, unlikely to attend. Ceremony marks first canonization in St Peter's Square with vast crowds expected.
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Vatican City
Assunta Goretti
Pope Pius XI
Maria Goretti
Alessandro Serenelli
Maria
St. Peter’s Basilica
St. Peter’s
College Graduate Trained in Better Methods Proves It
Arthur H. Miller a 24 year old Michigan State College graduate placed a highway sign near Lansing Michigan announcing his availability as a mechanical engineer trained in better methods. The sign cost 7.60 and led to several job offers from a consulting firm in Lansing which he accepted.
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Arthur H. Miller
Lansing
Mich
Michigan State College
Harry A. Miller
Chicago
Arthur
Dr. Charles E. Riseling Dies at 83 in Murphysboro
Dr. Charles E. Riseling, 83, died at his home in Murphysboro shortly after noon. Born March 7, 1867 in Du Quoin, he practiced medicine there for over 50 years and was the last surviving member of St. Andrew's hospital original staff. He leaves his wife Ida Allene Jennison and two sons Charles Robert and William E., both of Murphysboro.
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Charles E. Riseling
North Fifteenth Street
Murphysboro
du Quoin
Andrew J
Susan Riseling
Dr. Riseling
Missouri Medical College
St. Louis
Ida Allene Jennison
Charles Robert
William E
Riseling
St. Andrew’s Hospital
Church Questions Scouting Ties at Missouri Synod Convention
The Missouri Synod was asked if members may belong to Boy Scouts and Lutheran Men in America. A committee report on Scouting expected for first reading, while a proposal for a new senior college may be debated with sites considered including Chicago Detroit St Louis and St Paul.
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Milwaukee
The
Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod
Boy Scouts
Lutheran Men In America
Wisconsin Synod
Princeton
Wis
Missouri Synod
Synod
Chicago
Detroit
St. Louis
St. Paul
Eight B-29 crew rescued off Guam in crash near island
Eight men of an 11 man B 29 crew were saved by a crashboat 140 miles off Guam. Three others are missing after a crash that planes had sighted a lifeboat attempt. Navy and Far East air force units pressed an air and sea search toward the area.
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Tokyo
Guam
Far East Air Force
Navy
Four Japanese Prisoned Over Letter Targeting General MacArthur
In Tokyo on June 23, a U S Army court sentenced four Japanese to two years in prison each for spreading a Communist inspired open letter that attacked General MacArthur and the occupation.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Springfield Population Rises to 80 880 in New Census
Preliminary census figures released by Paul Dixon district census supervisor show Springfield totals at 80 880, up 5 377 since 1940. Sangamon county metro area reaches 130 654, a gain of 12 742. Springfield growth announced today.
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Springfield
Sangamon County
Paul. Dixon
Senate group plans public questioning of John S Service
Senate investigators will question John S Service publicly over claims he passed secret military data to Amerasia editor Philip Jaffe. McCarthy asserts FBI testimony will reveal a hidden microphone in Jaffe’s hotel room in May 1945 and Service’s alleged awareness of the secret nature of the information.
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Washington
Senate
John S. Service
F.B.I
Amerasia
Senate Foreign Relations
Service
State Department
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Inquiry Committee
Philip Jaffe
Amerasia Magazine
New York
McCarthy
Senate Inquiry Committee
Jaffe
Statler
F.b.il
Robert Morris
China
Big Profits By Few Large Firms in Early 1950s
The Federal Reserve says a few large companies led an upswing in corporate profits in the early 1950s by cutting costs. The June Bulletin notes smaller firms missed the gains due to limited success cutting costs amid rising competition.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Radioactive Mineral Found in Arizona
Santa Barbara college reports discovery near Kingman Arizona of Thalenite a rare radioactive mineral possibly valuable for atomic research Previously found only in Sweden the sample was identified by C Douglas Woodhouse a mineralogy lecturer last spring
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Kingman
Ariz of
Santa Barbara College
University of California
Sweden
C. Douglas Woodhouse
Woman seeks childcare in Murphysboro ad triggers many calls
Mrs. Cullinan of the Ed Cullinan Music Shop in Murphysboro says her classified ad asking for child care prompted about 50 phone calls, with the line ringing every 15 minutes on the first day. She later asked readers to kill the ad after it ran for two days.
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Southern Illinoisan Ad
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