Seyfrit Chosen Chairman of State Democratic Party
Michael F. Seyfrit, Carlinville lawyer, succeeds George D. Kells as chairman of the Democratic state central committee. He was elected without opposition at the organization meeting. Seyfrit resigns July 1 from the state pardon and parole board to assume duties directing the fall campaign.
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Michael F. Seyfrit
Carlinville
George D. Kells
Chicago
Democratic State Central Committee
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Kells
Cook County
State Pardon and Parole Board
Lcouse
Paul Powell
Downstate
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Vienna
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Jacksonville
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East St. Louis
John F. Petit
Elgin
Edward S. Gorski
Macoupin County
State
Scott W. Lucas
Washington
Michael J. Howelett
C. Hobart Engle
Ora Smith
Supreme Court
Illinois Power Closes Du Quoin Ice Plant
Illinois Power company closed the Du Quoin Ice plant which supplied railroad refrigeration cars after 48 years of operation. A private firm will assume the city’s retail ice business, the plant having a 108 tons per day capacity.
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Illinois Power
du Quoin
Illinois Power Company
Union County signs up seven to new Community Consolidated School Board
Election set for Saturday June 3 at Jonesboro grade school from 6 am to 5 pm to choose seven members for Community Consolidated School District No. 43 Union county. Nominations must reach Superintendent Russell D. Rendleman by 5 pm May 24. board to decide school expansion and pupil transfers after organizing.
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Community Consolidated
Union County
Jonesboro
Jones
New York Dime Calls Set for 1951 Increase
Public Service Commission approves New York Telephone Co. rate hike to raise about 48.49 million dollars yearly. Local pay-phone calls will cost a dime starting January 1, 1951, with the commission granting the higher price alongside other rate increases.
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New York
Public Service Commission
New York Telephone Co
First Woman Licensed As Structural Engineer in Illinois
The Illinois Registration and Education department announces Emma Frances Barnett 27 of Chicago the first woman to become a registered structural engineer since licensing began in this field She has worked for the city of Chicago since April 1949 Barnett is a University of Colorado graduate and daughter of an engineer Also noting United States production of tung nuts in Mississippi Louisiana and Florida
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Linois
State Registration and Education Department
Emma Frances Barnett
Chicago
University of Colorado
Barnett
City of
Nephron Inhalation Therapy Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement claims Nephron Inhalation Therapy relieves bronchial asthma spasms in about one minute and offers a 10 day sample through Tart's Pharmacy in Murnhvsboro. Caution: use only as directed.
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Murnhvsboro
Jury Probing Chicago Vice
Chicago grand jury began an inquiry into alleged police bribes to permit vice on North Clark Street honky tonks. It requested Virgil E Peterson of the Chicago Crime Commission testify and cited a report alleging police bribery and vice in the near North Side district serving convention crowds.
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Cook County
Grand Jury
North
Clark Street
Virgil FE. Peterson
Chicago Crime Commission
Near North Side
Loop
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