Election Eve in Herrin Over City Manager Plan
Voters in Herrin face a city manager referendum tomorrow with 6 AM to 5 PM polling. Both sides claim likely victory as turnout nears 1949 mayoral levels. absentee ballots total 24 by noon Saturday.
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Herrin
All-Herrin Committee
Citizens For Representative
Wipe Herrin
Citizens For Representative Government
Paul Frick
Charles Kell
Aioe Alae Exin
Regula
Hertin
Iae
Faint radio clue fuels hope for 52 aboard Globemaster
A faint SOS heard along the Alaska coast offered the only clue to the fate of 52 aboard the C124 Globemaster that vanished over the Gulf of Alaska. Twenty four search planes faced poor weather while crews waited on Middleton Island as officials announced 41 Army and Air Force passengers and 11 crew members were missing.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Gulf of Alaska
Middleton Island
Army
Air Force
U. S
Korea
Montana
Globemaster
CAA
Yakataga
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Middleton
Elmendorf
McChord Air Force Base
Tacoma
Wash
Weather Outlook for Southern Illinois Cloudy Warm With Light Rain
Cloudy and warm with occasional light rain tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight in the upper 40s. High Tuesday 50 to 55. Temperature readings show 29 at yesterday’s low, 56 high yesterday, 41 at 7 am today, and 49 at noon today. Sunrise 6:53 a.m. Sunset 4:40 p.m. Crab Orchard Lake 25 inches below spillway and Little Grassy Lake 4% feet below spillway.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Southern Dinossay Daily Free Press Postal Data
Evening edition of the Southern Dinossay Daily Free Press published by Southern Illinois Publications Inc. at 227 West Main Street Carbondale Illinois. Entered as second class matter at the Carbondale post office under the 1878 act.
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Southern Dinossay
Daily Free Press
Southern Mllinois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale
Minois
Linois
Young Dying Hunter Passes After Shotgun Wound
In Greensburg Pennsylvania on November 24 two teen companions sang hymns as 15 year old James W Gibson lay dying from a shotgun wound. He was wounded when a log dropped and discharged one of the shotguns the boys had stacked while seeking wood. A friend fetched a doctor and James asked the others to sing hymns before he died.
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James W_ Gibson
Jame
Len
University of Chicago Laboratory School
Chicago Heights
Young Couple's 77 Year Marriage Despite Opposition
In Sagle Idaho Ben Hartley and Drusilla Keith wed when he was 16 and she a few years older. They celebrate 77 years of marriage with 3 sons 14 grandchildren 51 great grandchildren and 20 great great grandchildren living with one son and his wife.
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Sagle
Idaho
Ben Hartley
Drusilla Keith
Ben
Drusilla
Hartleys
Draft age likely to fall to 19 years soon
Washington reports may begin drafting 19-year-olds soon but not before end of January. Surveys are being assembled to show how many 20-year-olds remain eligible. State directors will meet national officials next week to discuss changes to the 19-year-old ban. Maj. Gen. Hershey could order local boards to admit youths over 19 years and nine months, then lower age by three month steps as needed.
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Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service Director
Money Guard Dies of Fumes in Armored Truck Theft
Thomas F. Doerflinger, 24, guard, died from ammonia burns after a crude bomb released gas into a locked money compartment during a daylight armored car robbery on a city street. Jacob R. Katz, 45, head of Reed Ice Cream Stores, and University City resident, was identified as the suspect who died later.
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St. Louis
Thomas F. Doerflinger
City Hospital
Jacob R. Katz
Doerflinger
Katz
Chhurch
University City
Reed Ice Cream
Arrests Acknowledged in Fields Brothers Case
Vienna report says the Austrian communist paper admits the arrest of Noel and Hermann Field, missing Americans tied to U S wartime operations. It notes disputed motives and notes State Department statements while detailing the Fields’ past movements and alleged roles with intelligence networks.
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Austria
Reds
Noel
Hermann
Noel Field
State Department
Brother Hermann
Cleveland, .O
Warsaw
Rudolf Slansky
Prague
al Ays
U.S Office of Strategic Services
West
Soviet Union
Timme
American
Fields
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Budapest
Herman Field
Herta
Robert Wallach
Berlin
Paris
Slansky
Vlado Clementis
Humphrey Pushes FEPC Law Renewal in Next Congress
Senator H H Humphrey pledged to vigorously renew the fight for a federal law banning employment discrimination. He said Democratic unity requires addressing FEPC, citing a Princeton study showing seven states and two cities with FEPC laws reduced bias with minimal discord. The report covers Connecticut Massachusetts New Jersey New York Oregon Rhode Island Washington Minneapolis and Philadelphia. It notes about 5900 investigated cases with 2800 findings of discrimination eliminated.
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Washington
H. H. Humphrey
Dminn
Monroe Berger
Princeton University
Berger
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Oregon
Rhode Island
Minneapolis
Philadelphia
Allied Planes Smash Trucks in Major Foray
Allied air units battered Communist supply lines near Pyongyang and along the Red highway network. B26 Marauders destroyed 200 trucks in a nine day total of 1 175 trucks while 12 B 29 Superforts dropped 120 tons on a Red communications center. In daylight, U S F 86 Sabres claimed another MIG 15 in seven straight days of Sabre victories. Weather limited operations Monday with no major ground fighting reported.
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Red
Pyongyang
U. S
Jet Pilots Intercept Plane Over Albany
Jet pilots roared to intercept an unidentified aircraft Sunday but found it was President Truman's personal plane the Independence. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was aboard en route from Ottawa to New York for United Nations meetings. no flight plan had been received.
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Albany
N. Y
President Truman
Independence
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Ottawa
New York City
United Nations
Union Executive On Trial In Chicago Strike Violence
Harold Ward a 30 year old Negro and secretary treasurer of FE UE Local 108 faces trial on assault and murder charges linked to a violent strike against International Harvester Co in the Chicago area. Ward is accused of slugging 51 year old Watson Wright who identified him in a hospital bed. Wright and Foster, both non strikers, crossed picket lines during the Aug 21 to Nov 17 dispute that saw bombings beatings and threats. Ward, an executive board member and Warsaw 1950 world peace delegate, also faces a murder indictment in Foster’s death.
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Chicago
Independent
Farm Equipment
United Electrical Workers Union
International Harvester Co
Harold Ward
Ward
Watson Wright
Wright
William Foster
Foster
FFUE
Harvester
Warsaw
Poland
Russia
Planes Collide in Air Over Quincy injures Clinic Head
Dr Wayne Brewster head of Brewster Clinic Holdrege Neb suffered a brain concussion fractures of the right arm and nose and severe injuries to both knees when his plane collided with another 590 feet over the Quincy municipal airport. Pilot FE Levings 27 Camp Point Ill and passenger S E Litteral 41 Quincy escaped serious injury.
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Quincy
Wayne Brewster
Brewster Clinic
Holdrege
Neb
St. Mary’s Hospital
Brewster
FE. L. Levings
Camp Point
Signage on a Dirt Road Stretch Prompts Curiosity
The excerpt notes a two mile dirt road segment in a U S First Corps sector marked by a sign reading Marilyn Monroe Stretch. After twenty three curves a second sign asks See why implying a provocative roadside display about Jane Russell Hill and related names.
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Seoul
U. S. First Corps
Education path born from war's lessons leads to new role
World War II veteran Len spent 21 months in the Pacific infantry. He now studies education and expects to earn a Master of Education in June. After teaching elementary level he plans to become a school administrator.
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Len
Pacific
Wartorn
America
Acheson Objects to Vague Details in Indian Plan
In New York the United States and Britain faced a deep breach over Korea POWs as Dean Acheson outlined objections to the Indian compromise. India offered changes but US demands fully spelled out details. Efforts by 21 powers and Moscow diplomacy failed to bridge the gap with Eden, Lloyd, and Vishinsky advancing divergent positions.
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New York
Britain
U. S
India
Anthony Eden
Dean Acheson
Eden
Selwyn Lloyd
London
Moscow
Andrei Vishinsky
Korea
U. N
Panmunjom
Churches Should Lead Government Says Truman in Alexandria
President Truman told a crowd in Alexandria that churches must play a leading role in government. He said government should draw vision from the strength of churches and that in foreign and domestic affairs churches should set the standard and point the way while laying the cornerstone for Westminster Presbyterian Church.
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Alexandria
Truman
New Westminster Presbyterian Church
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