Strikers Keep IHC Plant Closed Down
About four thousand CIO United Auto Workers walked out at the International Harvester tractor plant in Melrose Park after stalled talks on revised job standards. Pickets lined the plant at dawn as factory work halted for four weeks due to a steel shortage. The union cited loss of pay from higher piecework standards, with assembly workers seeings wages fall from 2.02 to 1.58 per hour after the changes last February.
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Chicago
Cio-United Auto Workers
International Harvester Tractor Works
Melrose Park
Public Auction Notice of Schoolhouse and Garage in Washington IA
The Independent School District of Washington announces a public auction for the house and garage at 302 East Madison Street Washington IA on August 7 1952 at 7 00 PM. The district may reject bids and contracts will require down payment with remaining due within 10 days. garage payment due in full at signing. Improvements must be removed by September 8 1952. details available from FP Weldin secretary of the board.
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Independent School District of
Washington
Washington County
Iowa
Schedol Metrict
Hope
Hoek
East Washington
Towh
City of Washington
Washington Counry
Tawi
Madison Street
Atetran
Enid Sele
Natrict
Enid Sehoot
FP Weldin
School Distrie
Road maps coated with white shellac decorate recreation room
Colorful road maps glued to a wall and covered with at least two coats of pure white shellac offer a practical attractive and inexpensive wall decoration for a recreation room.
Hi Yi Yippy Threatens Fox Hunts With Prolonged Drought
Philadelphia area eyes rain as a three year drought hits King Ranch cattle supply. Calves shipped from Texas to Buck and Doe Run near Brandywine Creek face year round grazing, reshaping fox hunting lands in Chester County. Green pastures lure travelers as Texas cowboys herd red beef steers.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Texas
King Ranch
Brandywine
Chester County
South Texas
Buck and Doe Run
Brandywine Creek
Huntsman
Unionville
King Ranch cattle and eastern ranch hands reshape Texas herd
The Buck and Doe Run crews are eastern farm natives trained for ranch work while Spanish-speaking vaqueros drive Texas cattle. King Ranch uses 900,000 acres for emergency grazing as farms from Long Island to Oklahoma fatten steers near markets. Nine-tenths of the cattle are red Santa Gertrudis developed by the ranch since 1923.
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King Ranch
Pennsylvania
Texas
Long Island
Illinois
Oklahoma
County Has Trouble Paying the Preacher
In Fulton County Georgia the chaplain Rev Bill Allison who tends to convict inmates and oversees county officials prayers is underfunded as work camps shrink. The public works department now covers only about 40 percent of his 275 monthly salary as county leaders seek funds to keep him employed.
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Atlanta
Fulton County
Bill Allison
Georgia
Fulton Department of Public Works
Allison
Bellwood
Ben Hill
Fulton County Public Works Department
County departments asked to shift salary portions
At county meetings, letters from Mr. Fuller proposed reallocating the remaining 60 percent of Mr. Allison's salary. Four departments were asked to cover parts: Fulton jail 35 percent, almshouse 10 percent, welfare 10 percent, and the county dairy 5 percent.
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Fuller
Allison
Fulton
Alras House
Keokuk Bank Honesty Rewarded by Change Bowl
In Keokuk Iowa a bank installed a fish bowl of nickels and pennies on a counter for motorists to make change. After a week a money check showed no loss or missing coin, proving motorists were honest moneychangers.
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Keokuk
Iowa
Iowa Patrol Reports Sharp Rise in Drunk Driving Arrests
Des Moines IDPA reports 44 more OMVI arrests in first six months of 1952 than year earlier, with 716 charged by July 1 up from 587. Officials cite more patrols as reason. still, liquor sales not rising and death rate down slightly. Other notes include political updates on Hancher, Eisenhower, Stevenson, and Democratic planning in Des Moines.
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SN. Jesperson
Iowa
Pearl McMurry
Public Safety
Jesperson
Milo Chalfont
Highway Patrol
Owan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Virgil Hancher
University of Iowa
Illinois
Wer
Chicago
Daily Press
Eisenhower
Columbia University
Association of American Universities
Hancher
Des Moines Honor for Iowa Highway Chief Fred White
In Des Moines Fred White chief engineer of the Iowa highway commission will be honored at a dinner August 20. He has served 30 years as chief engineer and will retire September 1 though he will remain with the commission in an advisory capacity. No successor has been named yet to fill the post.
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Fred White
Iowa Highway Commission
Des Moines
White
Commission
Three Men Report on "Saucer" Over Clinton
Three men watching from a Mississippi River dam near Clinton Iowa reported a bright egg shaped flying saucer Saturday night. The witnesses were Dean Stull Cedar Rapids Iowa Clarence Thorn New Hampton Iowa and Charles Ryan.
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Clinton
Mississippi
Fulton
Dean Stull
Cedar Rapids
Sala
Charles Ryan
Clarence Thorn
New Hampton
Stull
Moonlit Object Described From Perspective As Large
A witness described an unidentified object as seen from his perspective appearing about 250 feet below the moon and nearly as large as the moon. He emphasized the unusual size and position during the sighting.
Fertilizer Use Fails to Offset Soil Loss on U S Farms
An article notes that over 13 million tons of fertilizer are spread annually on U S farms yet fertility declines due to leaching and erosion occur 10 to 20 times faster than replacement.
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U. S
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Jeffrey Bidg
Theo. B. Bailey
Morrison & Morrison
Morrison
Morrison Jr
Livingston & Day —Attorneys
S. W. Livingston
Robert Day—Abstract Dept
West Main St
George F. Morrison
G. Gifford Morrison
J. ©Ney Co
Stewart & Shearer—Attorneys
R. A. Stewart
Paul Shearer
E. Wash
Optometrists
R. Q
Lemmon
John W. Lemmon
East Side Square
M. L. Smith
North Side Square
P. L. Etter
Osteopathic
Rouse and Garage
T. W. Harwood
General Insurance Agency
Dean
Doan
Panama
Rayon & Seersucker
T A
Joefalk
Clothing & Shoes
West Side
County
A. F. Fuller
By Robert Hogan
IDPA
McMurray
Demos
Democratic State Central Committee
Elmer Krantz
DU. Baker
Thurs
Sherwin Williams
Waital
Roto-Rooter Sewer Service
R. W. Taylor
Martin's
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