CIO Hits New Index of Cost Of Living
The CIO charges the new cost of living index underestimates price rises and could alter pay boosts for over a million workers. The old and new indices differ in monthly changes, affecting auto and railroad contracts and prompting calls for more data before adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Washington
C.I.O
Eric Johnston
Ford
Chrysler
Bureau of Labor Statistics
C.I.0
Stanley H. Ruttenberg
Labor Bureau
Ruttenberg
Labor Research Committee
Weather Summary for Crab Orchard and Surrounding Areas
Cloudy and colder tonight with diminishing winds. Sunday mostly fair and colder. Temperatures include low tonight 23 to 33, high Sunday 40 to 45. Yesterday’s low 40, today’s 6 pm 67, high yesterday 56. Precipitation 0.02 inches. Humidity 84 percent. Wind averaged 4.16 mph with 100 miles recorded between 7 am yesterday and 7 am today. Crab Orchard Lake 14 inches above spillway Monday. Little Grassy Lake 25 feet below spillway Monday.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Area National News Editorials and Women’s Coverage
A listing of newspaper sections shows national and area news on page 1, editorials on page 2, women’s news on pages 4 and 5, sports on pages 6 and 7, classified ads on pages 8 and 9, and church news on page 10. The page order outlines multi-section coverage across the edition.
Classified Ad Phones for Illinois Towns
Local classified line lists phone numbers for Carbondale Herrin and Murphysboro to place ads. Rates are stated on the Classified Page.
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ABC
Carbondale
Herrin
Murphysboro
Heavy Chinese Red Fire Slows Yank Drive North
American marines push north of Hoengsong on the central Korean front as heavy Chinese fire slows progress. Units report four miles gained in three days with artillery and small arms fire from mountain positions and updates from Pangnim and Haanghung fronts. Allied air and naval power struck Pyongyang and supply lines while Seoul endured bombardment.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hoengsong
United Nations
G.i.s
Pangnim
Seventh Division
William
Buffalo Bill) Quinn
Pangnim-Changpyong
Haanghung
Yongdu-Hoengsong
Seoul
Red Capital
Chunchon
Parallel 38
Central
Korea
18 Year Draft Age Battle Faces Senate Vote
Senate leaders say enough votes exist to defeat an amendment setting the draft age at 18 years six months as Sen. Wayne Morse plans a Monday test vote on universal military training. The measure would lower the draft age from 19 to 18 years six months, timing the Senate view on a provision of the defense department bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Wayne Morse
R-Ore
Morse
Defense Department
Dutch Volunteers Sail to Reinforce Korea Detachment
One hundred fifty volunteers from The Hague will sail on March 19 to reinforce the Dutch army detachment in Korea according to the army information service.
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The
Hague
Korea
Army Information Service
Death Toll 16 At Sioux City
The Mid-Continent Airlines DC-3 crash near the Sioux City airport in a snow storm killed 16 people and left nine survivors. Archie McKillop of Artesian South Dakota died later in hospital from third degree burns. Stewardess Marilyn Woodbury of Kansas City was seriously injured. Civil Aeronautics inspectors investigated the fatal crash. the airliner burst into flames after plunging into a cornfield.
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Iowa
Mid-Continent Airlines
Archie McKillop
Artesian
S.D
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Mid-Continent
Marilyn Woodbury
Kansas City
Trainmen's Union Pays $25,000 for Sick Call Strike
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen paid a $25,000 fine for its three day sick call strike in December. Judge Michael I. Igoe ordered the payment after finding the union in contempt for ignoring a federal court no strike order. The union had also been fined $75,000 in Washington and faced another 10 day stoppage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Brotherhood of Railroad
Michael I. Igoe
Washington
Pinckneyville Bans Skirts Behind Its Taverns Bars
Pinckneyville city officials ordered women not to work behind tavern bars unless they held an operator license. The rule also extended to tavern owners' wives.
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Pinckneyville Bans
Pinckneyville
Wives
Six Prisoners Escape From Wheaton Jail Break
Six inmates escaped from Du Page county jail in Wheaton between 3 and 5 53 pm. Deputy Sheriff John Eyer identified two as dangerous and said the escape involved opening a bullpen lock then sawing bars and pushing a window screen before leaping five feet to the ground. The escapees were Norvel de Grove Des Plaines rape and indecent liberty Frank Grover Elmhurst assault with intent to commit rape and resisting arrest Robert Richard Wheaton rape involving an eight year old girl Dominick Carlino Chicago bad neck charges Harry O Teeman Bensonville larceny and Kenneth Factor Racine larceny. Sheriff Rollin M Hall said a cab driver later ferried three men toward Cicero and that Richard son had previously helped plan the escape.
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Frank Grover
Elmhurst
Robert Richard
Wheaton
Dominick Carlino
South Tripp Avenue
Chicago
Harry O. Teeman
Bensenville
Ill
Kenneth Factor
Racine
Wis
Richardson
Grover
Rollin M. Hall
du Page County
Cicero
Hall
Sterling Hayden Embraces Acting Comeback After Sailor Life
Hollywood's Sterling Hayden, once famed for his sailing life and rugged image, returns to films with renewed focus. After wartime service in the marines earning a Silver Star and a Medal of Merit, he signs a seven year deal with Paramount and is groomed as an action star. His first postwar project is Fort Savage a Western filled with riding and shooting.
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Hollywood
Sterling Hayden
Hayden
New London
Paramount
Fort Savage
SIU Board Approves $20000 Jones Property Purchase
Southern Illinois University board votes to pay 20000 for the Wallace H. and Etta M. Jones property at 419 W Chautauqua St to support a heating tunnel for the Training School and other new buildings as part of expansion tied to condemnation actions. The board also agrees to buy land from John Landon for 11500 northeast of campus not included in condemnation.
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Wallace H
Etta M. Jones
W. Chautauqua Street
Board of Trustees
Southern Illinois University
Jones
SIU
Jackson County
Totel Velustigens
Charlies Feirich
John Landon
SIU Approves 2 Million Contract Plan for Dormitory
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees approved contracts and related costs totaling 2,068,832 for a partially self-liquidating dormitory to house about 424 women students. Bid packages cover general construction, ventilation, heating and plumbing, electrical work, and kitchen equipment with costs plus landscaping furniture and contingencies. Additional appropriations and potential revenue bonds explain funding while a Doane Service report recommends seven test farms. Dr. R. W. Bradshaw of Oberlin was named director of Student Health Service at SIU.
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Southern Illinois University Board of Trusts
Federal Contractors, Inc
Chicago
The
Zack Company
Robert E. Murphy and Associates
Robinson Electric Company
Mt. Vernon
Bensinger Company
St. Louis
SIU
Doane Agricultural Service
Illinois
University
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Mitchell Quits Finance Post in Illinois Cabinet Shakeup
Gov Adlai Stevenson announced the resignation of George W Mitchell state finance director effective April 1. Mitchell, former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, had been elected vice president there and had been on leave since 1949. The governor offered no successor and cited the job as tough. Also noted was the February resignation of Ernest Marohn, revenue director, and an indictment involving James J Adduci in a state printing contracts probe with no clear link to the legislature.
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Springfield
Adlai Stevenson
George W. Mitchell
Chicago
Mitchell
Federal Reserve Bank
Bank
United States
Stevenson
Ernest Marohn
James J. Adduci
Adduci
Ex-Runner Names Bootleg Ring Tied to Cairo to South Trade
Ex runner Charles Lubbes testified before the Kefauver committee about an interstate whiskey operation moving liquor from Cairo to Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri and hauling whisky to Tennessee and Mississippi. He named Jake Rubin of Cairo as a source and described envelopes of money and a police labeled stash. He accused sheriff Eddie J. Briggs of Noel Missouri of seeking 25 percent and noted a highway patrolman who arrested him was reassigned.
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San Francisco
Cairo
Kefauver Senate Crime Committee
Charles Lubbes
Southwest
Lubbes
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Tennessee
Mississippi
Jake S. Rubin
Rubin
Illinois
Eddie J. Briggs
Noel
Briggs
Sam B. Humphreys
Oklahoma City
Okla
R. Harris
Ada
Tito to Seek More U S Food in Crisis
Belgrade report says Premier Tito may ask for additional aid from the United States as Yugoslavia faces a worsening food crisis. Officials note current grants are not enough due to higher U S prices and lower totnage prospects for the next harvest.
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Tito
U. S
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
United States
Danville mayor police lieutenant indicted for non-feasance
Danville mayor Girth Hicks and Police Lt. J W Stricklin were indicted by a Vermilion county grand jury for non-feasance in failing to halt a gambling house at 407 Union Avenue. Hicks faces bond of 2000 while Stricklin posts 1000, with Taber charged for theft and illegal liquor sale in the same panel.
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Danville
Union Avenue
Vermilion County Grand
Girth N. Hicks
J. W. Stricklin
Lee Thomas
Champaign
Thomas
Taber
Cairo Wholesaler Declares Liquor Business Legal
Cairo liquor wholesaler Jake S. Rubin named as a supply source for bootleggers selling whisky in dry Southern states said to the Southern Illinoisan that his business is legal. He defended himself against Senate Crime committee charges saying his books are open to proper authorities.
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Jake S. Rubin
Cairo
South
Southern Illinoisan Today
Charles Lubbes
Senate Crime Committee
Rubin
Seven Hurt as Head-On Crash Near Mt Vernon Claims One Life
A head-on collision on Illinois Route 37 near Mt Vernon killed Mrs Cora Price 90 Neelysville Mo and left seven others critically injured among the 11 aboard two cars. The Buhler party including six grandchildren Floyd 14 Eugene 12 Ruth 6 Joyce 4 Gary 2 and Charles six months were gravely hurt and unconscious. Roy Shelton of Mt Vernon also remained in critical condition with 10 of 11 occupants hospitalized hours after the crash.
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Mt. Vernon
Missouri
Cora Price
Neelysville
Jefferson County Memories Hospital
Vern Buhler
Mt .Vernon
Buhler
Floyd
Eugene
Ruth
Joyce
Gary
Charles
Roy Shelton
Vernon
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Sioux City
Trainmen’s Union
John Eyer
Eyer
Norvel de Grove
Des Plaines
Star
Jack Quigg
Associated Press
Madeleine Carroll
Italy
Marines
Gretchen Louise
Christian Winslow
Dana Morg&h
SIU Board
Jones Land
R. W. Bradshaw
Oberlin
S. I. U. Friday
Oberlin College
Hicks
Ray Taber
Mt Vernon
Southern Illinoisan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
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