Road officials discuss classification under HB 820 in Illinois
Representatives from four counties met with State Division of Highways officials in Jonesboro to study a five year road program under House Bill 820. Engineer Ed Keen outlined plans to classify all state roads and prepare municipal improvement programs due by Jan 1 1952.
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Jonesboro
State Division of Highways
Ed Keen
Sixty-Fifth General Assembly
Illinois
General Assembly
Keen
Jackson
Union
Alexander
Pulaski
Tarbondale
Franklin
Perry
Randolph
Perry County
Pinckneyville
Gallatin
Hardin, Pope
Saline
Harrisburg City Hall
Williamson, Johnson
Massac
Court House
Marion
C. A Case
Dick Schereretz
Oscar Day
Charles L. Smith
Robert L. Kahl
James F. Newton
Mr. Keen
Big Earl Ambushed Again in Fairfield Shooting
In Fairfield Indiana on May 23 1950 Big Earl Shelton was wounded in the right forearm while riding with his nephew Little Earl. A gunman fired through the windshield and another slug hit the car rear. Big Earl previously survived a May 24 1949 back shot while at a gambling house.
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Big Earl
Fairfield
Shelton
Shelton Brothers
Fairfield Square
Earl’ Shelton
Pond Creek
Earl
Carl
Bernie
Peoria
Ill
Little Earl
Baptists Called to Counter Communism Through Appeal
Mrs. Howard G. Colwell, president of the Northern Baptist convention, urged about 5 000 delegates representing 2 000 000 Baptists in 36 states and Puerto Rico to appeal to mass trends and mass hungers to stem communism. She said communism thrives where churches are least democratic and warned churches should focus on people over forms and traditions.
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Boston
Northern Baptist Convention
Howard G. Colwell
Loveland
Colo
States
Puerto Rico
Car Crash Injures Man and Busful Students Near Kinmundy
Charles Stewart 67 of Charleston Ill in critical condition after his car struck a Clay County school bus carrying 38 seniors from Louisville High on Illinois Route 37 near Kinmundy. Stewart's wife injured lightly. three students shaken up during the collision yesterday on the curve en route to Forest Park St Louis for an all day outing.
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Kinmundy
Ill
Charles Stewart
Charleston
Stewart
Clay County
Louisville High
Forest Park
St. Louis
Weather summary and lake readings for region
Cloudy and warm with periods of sun and possible thunder showers tonight and Wednesday. Daytime highs near 90 and lows around 65. Crabs Orchard Lake four inches above spillway yesterday, Little Grassy Lake twenty two inches below spillway yesterday, Mississippi River at 25.3 feet rising 0.3 feet in 24 hours. Wind averaged 2.08 mph, humidity 54 percent.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Grassy Lake
Index Area Highlights National News and Local Briefs
The edition lists content across sections with National front page coverage Local news on page 3 Editorials on page 4 and Sports reviews on pages 7 and 8 Comics on page 8 and Classifieds on pages 10 and 11 Markets featured on page 11. The schedule indicates a comprehensive daily briefing for readers.
Union Official Rebukes Wildcat Strike Leaders
Union president Evan Dale warned delegates from 33 Hod Carrier and Laborer locals in Southern Illinois that unauthorized strikes will face charges. Speaking at the Southern District council meeting in Johnston City, Dale urged adherence to contracts to protect labor movement prestige and bargaining power.
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Evan Dale
Hod Carrier
Illinois
Southern District Council
Johnston City
Dale
International Hod Carriers and Laborers
American Federation of Labor
Carbondale
Benton Man to Succeed Rushing as Union Rep
Owen H. Bolen of Benton was named field representative for District 50 of the United Mine Workers of America, taking over from Hubert Rushing who resigned for health and rest. Bolen, 38, has nine years with District 50, is a member of Local 1265 at Orient No. 2 mine near West Frankfort, and worked as a coal miner before taking union duties.
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Owen H. Bolen
Benton
United Mine Workers of America
Herrin
Adam Mair
District 50
Paducah
Rushing
Bolen
United Mine Workers
Orient No. 2
West Frankfort
State Police to Check On Truck Safety Tests
The Illinois state motor carriers division says state police will arrest drivers of trucks failing the spring safety test next month. The Illinois Truck act requires semi annual inspections in April and October.
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Springfield
State Motor Carriers Division
44 Witnesses Yet To Testify In Hijack Case
In Memphis on May 23, the government called more witnesses seeking to link seven men to 540 cases of hijacked whisky worth 22000 dollars. The liquor was seized Dec 31 near Cairo Illinois from a truck owned by George A Mueller Co. and driven by Herschel Helm. Witnesses described unloading and repackaging at a farm owned by W J Harris and involving Frank Bellaomini and others as the trial progresses.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cairo
Ill
George A. Mueller Co., Inc
Decatur
Herschel Helm
W. J. Harris
Elbert Smith
Smith
Henry Thompson
Frank Bellaomini
Anderson Haynes
Asst
U. S
Thomas Farnsworth
Gambling Grand Jury Unlikely in Williamson County
Circuit Judge C Ross Reynolds of Vienna said a Williamson County grand jury for gambling investigations is unlikely. He noted gambling shutdowns and private clubs locking slot machines as reports spread. He favored state police raids like Governor Sonny Songer’s Madison County action over a special grand jury.
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C. Ross Reynolds
Vienna
Williamson
Reynolds
Stevenson
Madison County
Waller recount suit deadline set for Wednesday
Tomorrow is the deadline for answers to petitions seeking a recount of votes for state representative in the 44th districtRepublican primary. Judge Ralph Maxwell postponed hearings May 9 to allow defendants to file in Carbondale. Waller trailed by 23 votes. petitions seek recounts in three Washington county and one Randolph county precinct. Defendants are Dr. Thomas J Thornton in Chester with 11 215 votes, W J McDonald in Murphysboro with 13 01914 votes, and Kenneth Hiller in Pinckneyville with 6 136% votes.
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Ralph Maxwell
Elbert Waller
Carbondale
Waller
Washington County
Randolph County
Thomas J. Thornton
Chester
W. J McDonald
Murphysboro
Kenneth Hiller
Pinckneyville
Russia Faces Western Demands to Disband German Forces
Six forestry observers from Western Europe toured Southern Illinois with hosts on May 18. The next day near Ware, district forester Harry Switzer of Murphysboro drowned while paddling a boat across a borrow pit. Dr. G Houtzagers of Arnheim Netherlands required medical aid after rescue.
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Ilinois
Ware
Harry Switzer
Murphysboro
Switzer
G. Houtzagers
Arnheim
Holland
G. H. Deitschman
Carbondale Research Center
L. S. Minckler
Stig Wijkstrom
Jonkoping
Sweden
R. D. Lane
Carbondale
H. C
Cobden Market Sees 275 Crates Daily of Blakemore Strawberries
Cobden growers report 275 crates of Blakemore berries daily with Chicago prices at 5 to 7 dollars per crate. Profit margins shrink as costs—picker 5 cents quart, crate 85 cents—raise overhead to about 2.05 per crate. Migrant labor from the Deep South floods Anna Cobden Dongola Villa Ridge Tamms Balcom as Union county anticipates peak May 26 to 30.
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Cobden People’s Markeet
Chicago
Frank Rendleman
Missouri
Arkansas
Southern Illinois
Union County
K. W. Blair
Illinois
Deep South
Anna, Cobden, Dongola
Villa Ridge
Tamms and
Balcom
Centralia
Edgar County
Tractor Accidents Kill Two Illinois Farmers
O'Fallon Illinois May 23 Harold Kimmle 39 was crushed to death yesterday when his tractor overturned on his farm about a mile west of here Aloys Roth a neighbor found Kimmle's body pinned beneath the tractor on an embankment
Tragic Tractor Accident Claims Oconee Farmer
Alva E. Christian, 44, was killed near his Oconee farm when a tractor he was cranking suddenly started and ran him down, pinning him beneath its front wheels as he returned from plowing for a neighbor.
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Oconee
Ill
Alva E. Christian
Christian
Swerves to Avoid Dog Wrecks Car on Rt 51
Sgt Walter E Russell of 1807 West Main Street West Frankfort escaped serious injury when his car overturned after hitting a culvert on Route 51 south of Carbondale. Witnesses said the gas tank exploded as the crash occurred about 7 30 p m and Russell was hospitalized with cuts bruises and a possible concussion. He is a former Army recruiter and National Guard instructor in West Frankfort.
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Walter E. Russell
West Main Street
West Frankfort
Route 51
Carbondale
Robert Wright
Russell
Holden Hospital
Army
Murphysboro
National Guard
Presbyterian Assembly Agrees on Collectivism Study Panel
Delegates at the 162nd General Assembly in Cincinnati approve forming a nine minister and six lay member committee. The panel will draft a church opinion on collectivism in American life and report to the 1951 Assembly with recommended actions.
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Cincinnati
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Presbytery
Indianapolis
Pravda Urges German Workers to Fight French Pooling Plan
The Communist party organ Pravda called on German workers to form a national front for all-out resistance to the plan to pool French and German coal and steel.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda Today
Truman Wins Revamp Plan In Commerce
The Senate upheld President Truman's plan to reorganize the Commerce Department by 43 votes to 29, defeating Sen. Alexander Wiley's effort to kill the overhaul. With Easter recess extending the deadline, votes were also planned on two General Services Administration reform proposals.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Commerce Department
Alexander Wiley
Rwis
General Services Administration
Senate i
Capitol Gill
House
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
National Labor Relations Board
Otto C. Dahl Named State Fire Marshal
Otto C. Dahl, 61, of Chicago, was appointed state fire marshal by Governor Stevenson. He succeeds Pat Kelly who resigned due to ill health after Dahl retired from the Chicago fire department on May 11, 1949, having served nearly 35 years. He held several department offices and was second deputy fire marshal before retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Otto C. Dahl
Chicago
Stevenson
Dahl
Chicago Fire Department
Pat Kelly
Dahli
Tire Prices Hiked By Rubber Company
New York May 23 United States Rubber Company raises tire prices 2 percent for passenger cars and 5 percent for trucks effective immediately citing higher costs especially natural rubber which has surged 65 percent in six months.
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New York
United States Rubber Company
Tire makers announce price increases in U S rubber lead
Akron Ohio May 23 The B F Goodrich Co following U S Rubber Co announced a price rise of 24 percent on most passenger car tires and 5 percent on most truck tires.
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Akron, C
B. F. Goodrich Co
U. S. Rubber Co
Western powers accuse Russia of fueling German military force
The United States Britain and France accused the Soviet Union of creating a 50000 man German military force and urged Moscow to disband it The three notes charge Russia with violating postwar pledges by establishing a militarized police force in Eastern Germany and threaten to question its pacific intentions The London three power talks produced a plan to present the protests to Moscow with Secretary Acheson to brief Congress next week on the decision The force is described as not an ordinary police unit but a military entity with infantry artillery armor and training facilities that could become a new German army or internal security force if left intact
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Moscow
Germany
State Department
Yalta
London
Dean Acheson
Ernest Bevin
Robert Schuman
Acheson
Congress
Library of Congress
Wek
Pacific
Missouri Officers Reassigned After Grounding
The navy reassigned four top Missouri officers involved in the ship’s January grounding in Chesapeake Bay. Capt. William D. Brown and Cmdr. John R. Miller plus Lt Cmdr. Frank G. Morris Jr. were court martialed and convicted. Brown takes command of Submarine Group Five at Green Cove Springs. Morris heads to the surface antisubmarine detachment and Millett moves to Washington DC. Peckham was relieved and sent to the West Coast.
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Norfolk
Navy
Missouri
Chesapeake Bay
William D. Brown
John R. Miller
Frank G. Morris
George E. Peckham
West Coast
Brown
Big Mo
Submarine Group Five
Atlantic Reserve Fleet
Green Cove Springs Flat
Millett
Department of Defense
Research and Development Board
Washington
Morris
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Southern
State Department of Highways
Bic Earl
Elmer Brown
Wayne County
Merriam
Wildcat
Benton Man
Hubert Rushing
Carterville
Williamson County
Presbyterian Assembly Studies
Collectivism
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