May Call Bus Strike In Quad City Area
Davenport area faces potential bus strike as Davenport and Rock Island Moline transport drivers authorize their bargaining committee to strike. The AFL union seeks a 40 hour five day week with no pay cuts pending contract talks. Robert Stack of Chicago would direct if called.
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Davenport
Quad-Cities
Roc! Island-Moline
AFL
Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and
Motor Coach Operators of America
Itr
Robert Stack
Chicago Union International
YMCA Pool Reopens After Cleaning and Repairs
Washington's YMCA pool will reopen Tuesday morning after draining cleaning and repainting pipes radiators and fixtures. Av emas Brown secretary announced resumed swimming classes for two to three weeks with schedules for Grade school Junior high school and High school and family mixed swimming on Thursday nights.
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YMCA
Washington
Avemas Brown
Congressman Martin Speaks At Y Here
Congressman Thomas Martin spoke at the Washington County Republican Women’s club meeting comparing ancient and modern nations and urging vigilance to avoid old pitfalls. He arrived from Des Moines after attending Herbert Hoover’s state fair appearance. Dave Livingston spoke on his congressional trip, and Mrs. Livingston announced a food sale by the club at Modern Appliance on September 8. musical numbers by Mary Shields and Alice Hunter accompanied the program.
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Martin
Washington County
Republican Women’s Club
Des Moines
Herbert Hoover
Dave Livingston
Congress
Mary Shields
Alice Hunter
_auto accident damages sought in Nebraska suit
Damages totaling 22000 are asked in a district court suit filed by Robert L. Quinn and H. Lee Huston as executors of Thomas R. Quinn. Defendants Johann Lauritsen and James M. Green are charged with negligence in a fatal May 15, 1951 crash in Ainsworth at the intersection of street and highway 92 near the Rock Island overpass. The suit seeks 15000 for the death and 7000 for injuries to Loretta Dacy.
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R. R. Nonnan
Johann Lauritsen
James M. Green
Kennard
Neb
Robertl. Quinn
Lee Huston
Thomas R. Quinn
Loretta Dacy
Ainsworth
Green
Ainsworth Street
Rock Island Railroad
Quinn
Livingston & Day
Washington
Russell R. Newell
Columbus Junction
Washington Stores To Close On Labor Day
Most Washington stores will be closed on Monday September 8 in observance of Labor Day. Some stores will keep usual hours and a State theater matinee is planned at 2 260 o clock with the State and box showing regular evening movies. The Evening Journal follows a noon Monday publication time.
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Washington
State Theater
State
Box
Ing
Evening Journal
Court House Tower
Court House
Washington Hotel
Presbyterian Church
Fire at Phillips butadiene plant in Borger Texas injures eight
An explosion plagued blaze at the government owned Phillips butadiene plant in Borger injures eight workers. About 50 employees escape uninjured as 5 of 16 tanks burn and flames rise 100 feet. Firefighters remain on standby as the area is evacuated.
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Borger
Tex
Phillips Butadiene
Tlmore
Phillips Petroleum Company
Phillips
Cass Serena Medical Center
Buenavista
Panhandle
Telegraph Rate Increases Approved by FCC
Washington reports the FCC approved rate boosts for Western Union Telegraph Co. new schedules raise night letter minimums and per word costs while offering a single 5.2 percent government message rate cut. Day letters now cost 65 cents to 2.10 dollars with a 15 word minimum.
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Washington
Western Union Telegraph Co
Federal Communications Commission
Mother Collie Adopts Four Little Porkers
Eight miles from here on the Frank Stepanek farm a mother collie cares for four piglets found as neighbors gifts. Dwaine Stepanek planned to bottle raise them, but the collie nursed the litter, leaving her own puppies to fend for themselves. The pigs grew to about fifty pounds and are now fattened for market.
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West Branch
Frank Stepanek
Stepanek
Dwaine
Allied Infantry Planes and Warships Open Offensive on Korea Front
UN forces push across nearly a third of the front with infantry artillery air power and naval units in a broad assault. Reported enemy supply convoys disrupted by air strikes and 472 enemy dead on a ridge near Yangxu as fresh North Korean troops enter the battle.
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Korea
United Nations
Yangxu
Alaska Plane Toll Rises to Eighty-Eight in Alaskan Mishaps
In Alaska over six weeks a navy patrol bomber crash and a missing air force C-47 transport left at least eight dead and two missing. The navy plane went down on an Aleutian island with four to eight crew likely aboard. The C-47 radioed Bethel after departing Platinum for Wing Salmon, about 400 miles southwest of Anchorage, at 5 15 p.m. Alaska time. Cap Ronald Green reported four aboard and possible passenger pickup at Platinum.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Aleutian
CAA
Bethel
Platinum
Etha Dawson Retires From State Bank Post
Etha Dawson, longtime teller at the Washington State Bank, retires today after a career starting in 2010 with the old Commercial Bank. She will devote time to hobbies and club activities, receiving a wrist watch from directors and a necklace from coworkers.
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Washington
Etha Dawson
Washington State Bank
Miss Dawson
Old Commercial Bank
D. J. Ross
Carl Keck
State Bank
Lee A. Holland
Agnes Wheelan
4-H and FFA Winners Crowned at Iowa State Fair
4-H and FFA youths from the area won top honors for livestock exhibits at the Iowa State Fair. Willis Longer led with a best purebred Guernsey heifer, while LeRoy Hammen joined top placings. Crawfordsville youths dominated Tamworth swine results, and Washington and Brighton participants earned high ribbons in various categories. Bill Winegarden and others earned red ribbons in market lambs and related classes.
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FFA
Washington
Willis Longer
FEA
LeRoy Hammen
Ainsworth
Longer
Richard Hedger
Crawfordsville
Ronald Robertson
Bennie Barnes
Brighton
Poland
China
Keith Horn
Bill Winegarden
Wellman
Gromyko Arrives in San Francisco for Japan Peace Treaty Debate
Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko arrives in San Francisco as the United States and allies prepare for a major clash over the Japan peace treaty. He meets a cautious American delegation ahead of a high-stakes conference to be held after a defense pact signing with Australia and New Zealand.
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San Francisco
Russia
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Gromyko
Hiis
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific
Kremlin
V. M. Molotov
Plane Drops Flares Over UN Base in Neutral Zone
Unidentified aircraft reportedly dropped about 12 flares from 2000 feet over the United Nations advance cease-fire base in Korea late last night. The flare run occurred within hours of UN denouncing a communist claim that an allied plane bombed Kaeson. No plane type could be determined due to darkness.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Korea
Kaesan
North Korea
Kaeson
Kaesong
Nam Il
T:he A.m
Corn Belt Plant Sells for 85000 at Sheriff Sale
R. R. Osborn and R. J. Wagner, co partners in the Corn Belt Turkey Farms, bid 85000 Friday to acquire the Corn Belt plant and equipment. The sheriff’s sale, conducted by Sheriff Charles Snyder, included several thousand dollars of personal property. No other bidders appeared.
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R. R. Osborn
R. J. Wagner
Sherif Charles Snyder
September Court Term Opens Tuesday At Court House
The September term of district court will open in the court house here Tuesday morning September 4 with Judge R G Yoder presiding. Petit jurors drawn for this term are to report at 1 30 o'clock Monday afternoon September 16 unless otherwise notified.
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R. G. Yoder Presid
Predict 390 Traffic Deaths in Weekend Warns Safety Council
United Press reports the National Safety Council predicts 390 deaths in traffic during Labor Day weekend as millions travel for the final summer holiday. Early Friday to 4 am CST saw seven deaths. mass exodus continues with bumper traffic and capacity crowds on roads. Airlines report solidly booked, with few reservations available until Wednesday.
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National Safety Council Today
Doom
CCST
Sleeping Pills Cause Of Crooner's Sickness
Crooner Frank Sinatra, hospitalized after an overdose of sleeping tablets, denies any suicide attempt following a spat with Ava Gard ner. He says the incident was not self harm and plans more nightlife and boating with Gard ner next week.
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Crystal Bay
Lake Tahe
Nev
Frank
Sinatra
Ava Gardner
Gardner
Here
Will Try Serum In Fight Against Polio
Provo Utah doctors announce a five day mass inoculation study using gamma globulin on 12 000 children to test polio paralysis prevention. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sponsors the experiment amid a Utah polio surge with 50 local cases and five deaths in Provo and about 6 5 0 total cases statewide in 1951.
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Provo
Utah
CUP
Phycnicians
National Foundation For
Highway 92 Opens Through City With Caution
City announces Highway 92 is now open to traffic across Washington. Detours via West Madison and West Washington end, but unfinished sidewalks and driveways require drivers to proceed at a moderate speed through the new pavement.
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City of
Washington
West
Madison
West Washington
Hope For Settlement Of Copper Dispute
Denver reports the International mine mill and smelter workers union foresees a quick settlement with Kennecott and expects similar deals with Phelps Dodge Anaconda and American Smelting. Eight thousand Kennecott workers who walked out in Utah Nevada and New Mexico await final instructions and plan to return Tuesday. The strike ended as Kennecott accepted a package wage increase of about 22 cents an hour.
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Denver
International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union
Kennecott Copper Corp
John Clark
Kennecott
Phelps-Dodge
Anaconda
American Smelting
Utah
Nevada
New Mexico
Iummsw
Starts Work Today In County Clerks Office
Juanita M. Gould began work in the office of R. R. Noonan clerk of district court this morning. She replaces Mrs. Lee Mangold who resigned to accept a teaching post at Eureka rural school. Dorothy Frazer who had agreed to teach at Eureka this year had earlier submitted her resignation to the board.
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Juanita M. Gould
R. R. Noonan
Lee Mangold
Eureka
Dorothy Frazer
Transposed photos announce church speaker and Legion leader
Pictures of Dr H A Kelsey who will speak at United Presbyterian church in Ainsworth Sunday and James T McCabe first district American Legion commander were transposed in Friday's Evening Journal. McCabe is a speaker at the first district Leveson conference in Washington Monday September 3.
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H. A. Kelsey
United Presbyterian Church
Ainsworth
James T. McCabe
American Legion
McCabe
Washington
Des Moines Weather Outlook with Scattered Showers
Mostly cloudy and cool today with possible showers in the extreme west tonight. High near 70 to mid 70s, low 55 to 60, then Sunday mid-70s with scattered showers mainly west and cooler. Monday partly cloudy, then Tuesday cloudy and cool.
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Des Moines
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