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Logansport Pharos-Tribune from Logansport, Indiana • Page 21

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Thursday Oct. 16, 1952 AEC Saiiclions Huge Indiana Will Provide Electricity for Gigantic Atomic Plant in Pike County, Ohio. WASHINGTON Atomic Energy Commission Wednesday approved plans for construction of an electric power plant in Southern Indiana to provide power for the new Pike County, atomic plant. The commission announced it had contracted with a group of 15 Ohio Valley power companies, including two Indiana firms, to supply energy for the atomic installation. Among the 15 firms in the power pool are the Indiana and Michigan Electric Fort Wayne, and the Southern Indians Gas and Electric Evansville.

The AEC has been negotiating with the companies for several months. The group confirmed plans to construct two steam generating plants in the Ohio River Valley with a total capacity of 2,200,000 kilowatts. The group, known as the Ohio Valley Electric will furnish all power needed to run the huge installation when in full operation. The government is expected to pay about a year for the power. The new Indiana power station will be located on the Ohio River between New Albany and Law- reneeburg, Ind.

It will have a capacity of 1,200,000 kilowatts. The Ohio station will be located between Portsmouth and Marietta, O. The Hoosier station will be constructed by the subsidiary Indiana- Kentucky Eelectric Corp. at a cost estimated at 3250.000,000. It is expected to take from three to five years to build and to employe about 25.000 construction workers.

Atty. John Groves. Indianapolis, representative of the firm, said he does not believe a definite site for the plant has yet been determined. However, company representatives have been reported taking options on Jand along the Devil's section Jefferson County near Madison. Workmen Begin Repairing Exterior Of City Building child was ill at Bellevue and "I wanted another one." She said she wanted to have a new babv in her home so she would be eligible for a relief check.

Korean Vet Leads MPs on Merry Chase NEW'YORK Carroll Price, 20, a Korean veteran, decided to go for a joy ride Wednesday night. He took an Army 2 1-2 ton truck at Ft. Tiiden and headed for the bright lights of Broadway. Pvt. Andrew, Jenkins, an MP, gave chase in 'a light truck.

The wDd ride through the streets of Brooklyn ended after Price smashed into seven automobiles and crashed into a tailor shop. Jenkins smashed Into two parked cars. Authorities said Price had been drinking. Injunction Limits Picket Line to 6 Men At 1 McCormick Works CHICAGO lines at the International Harvester Com- paily's McCormick works were lim- ite'l to six men today after police complained the strike was tying up large numbers of the. force.

Judge John F. Haas issued a. temporary injunction Wednesday limiting picketing and restraining strikers from violence. The strike at McCormick is a part of a Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers (Independent) walkout against eight Harvester plants in Illinois, Indiana an'd Kentucky. The strike has been marked by violence.

A non-striking worker at McCormick was beaten to death. The police labor detail, mean- while, was Investigating complaint by a non-striker whose house was splattered with yellow paint. WifeChosesTVSet Rather Than Husband CHICAGO Alice Vokik had her television set today bat not her husband George Vokfl left their home last March and the television set with him because his wife was "glued to the set" and didn't have time to fix dinner. George returned the set Wednesday when Alice promised to drop alimony demands in her divorce suit. "What consolation will a TV set be- on a cold and lonely night?" Judge Julius H.

Miner asked. Read the Classified Ads logomport, Indiana, il OwlThrows New Yorker Hotel Into an Uproar NEW YORK fashionable Hotel New Yorker was thrown into an uproar Wednesday when an uninvited and unregistered "guest" was found ift Room 2752. The guest turned out to be a tyto alba, better known as the American barn owl. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the brown and white owl with a four-foot wingspread, flew in the open' 27th floor window. Society agents took the bird to a city park.

BIRDS LIKE DARK BOSTON Of) Records compiled by the Audubon Society in Masachusetts showed that bird traffic reaches its peak in Boston between 11 p. m. and midnight. Renovation of city building began Wedesday with removal of all terra cotta decoration around the edge of the roof. This trimming in recent years was deteriorating at a rapid rate and several chunks already had fallen to the ground.

The brick work will be pointed up and a new roof completed. (Pharos-Tribune Photo-Engraving) Montana Senatorial Battle One of Hottest in Nation Chicago Bookie Faces Prison Term for Wild Party Aboard Cruiser GARY Gill, an admitted Chicago bookie, today faced 1C years in prison for a wiki party aboard a cabin cruiser on Lake Michigan during which he allegedly beat a divorcee and threw i her overboard. I Gill. 47, was sentenced Wend-se day to 10 years pius a S3.000 fine op. a charge of assault and battery with intent to commit sodomy.

He also was sentenced to two concurrent five and one half year terms for assault with a dangerous weapon and assault on the high seas. He was jailed on the complaint of Mrs. Edna Whimsett, a divorcee now of Hollywood, after a voyage aboard a 25-foot cruiser from Chicago to Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Whimsett said Gill assaulted her.

blacked her eyes, kicked her. hit her, slashed her with a broken bottle and threw her overboard twice. Gill alleged Mrs. Whimsett, 37, had been drinking on the voyage and hit him with a gin bottle without provocation. Federal Judge Charles Briggle handed clown the sentence.

Hugh Kennerk, Gill's attorney. said the case would be Mother Donates Body Of Dead Baby to Save Life of Another Child CHICAGO (UP) A 28-year-old mother, whose daughter was saved by a surgeon's skill and the body a stillborn child, told today of her gratitude to 'he woman who donated the body of the dead baby. Mrs. Werner Wetzel said she had fiot yet met tnc woman consented 'o let a surgeon use the breastbone and ribs of her still- horn baby to save the life of little Utula Wetzel. "But I am so grateful." she said.

Mrs. Wetzel's daughter was born Sept. 27 with her heart outside her body. One quarter of her chest was missing, sbe had no breastbone and only the siub ends of each rib. The child was given almost r.o chance of survival.

Dr. Saul A. Mackler, a specialist in chlldrens' chest surgery, persuaded an unidentified mother to donate the wxly of her stillborn baby so that iJnda'-; life could be saved. He transplanted the dead baby's breastbone and interlaced the infant's ribi with Linda's stubs. Her heart was replaced in her body and her chest cavity closed.

at hospital said it may 30 days or a year before they know whether Linda will live. They said th? transplanted bone will not grow but might serve as a framework for Linda's body to replace with its own bone. By JOHN R. LONG United Pi-ess Staff Correspondent HELENA, Mont. of the nation's hottest senatorial campaigns features this year's in Montana.

The senatorial battle is between incumbent Republican Zales N. Ecton, a self-styled "on the soil farmer" from Manhattan, and his Democratic opponent, Hep. Mike Mansfield, a former history professor at Montana State University in 'Viissoula. Ecton is seeking his second term i'n the Senate He went there in 1946 after beating Lett Erickson ot Helena, who had defeated Sen. Burton K.

Wheeler in the 1946 Democratic primary. Mansfield coasted to five easy victories as one of Montana's representatives in-Congress. But'he was running in the state's First Congressional District which lies i'n traditionally Democratic Western Montana. Rough Sailing Ahead Ho may find it rougher sailing in the senatorial battle where voters in Eastern Montana will have to be considered. That section of the stata usually sends Republican representatives to Congress.

Ecton is the only Republican ever sent to the United States Senate Sy direct vote of the people of Montana. His predecessors were named by the state Legislature under the old system of choosing senators. Ecton -is the first Montana sen- ator of either party in 40 years to be named to the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. Mansfield has been a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee for almost 10 years. In 1949 he turned dowr.

a chance to become secretary of state for public affairs. Fighti'ng for Mansfield's old seat in the House are Democrat Lee Metcalf, an assistant justice of Montana's Supreme Court, and Wellington D. Helena at-1 torney and GOP national commit-j teeman from Montana. Metcalf was elected to the state Legislature in 1936. He received an appointment as assistant attorney general after legislative tour and served in the Army in World War II.

He was elected Supreme Court associate justice i'n 1946. World War I Veteran Rankin is a veteran of World War I and served' as Montana's attorney general from 1921 to 1925. He also served on the state Supreme Court, being appointed to the high bench after his term as attorney general. Rar.kin ran for governor In 1928 and for the Senate in Ia42, but was defeated both times. The race in the state's Second or Eastern Congressional District is between incumbent Republican Wesley A.

D'Ewart and Willard Fraser, a Billings businessman. Democratic Gov. John W. Bonner is opposed by state Sen. J.

Hugo Aronsor. of Cut Bank In the gubernatorial battle. Bonner was elected governor in 194S and is seeking his second term. He served as attorney for the stat'; Highway Commission and as attorney general prior to World War II. Aronson served as state representative from Glacier County in 1939, -J941 and 1943.

He has been state senator from that same county since 1944. Mother Who Stole Baby From Hospital Faces Kidnaping Charges NEW YORK (UP) Police pressed a kidnaping charge today against a 32-year-old mother who said she stole another couple's baby from a hospital so she could qualify for a relief allowance. Mrs. Carmen Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican woman who speaks no English, was arrested in a tiny Midtown apartment Wednesday night. Police found her with the eight-day-old girl she had kidnaped from the Bellevue Hospital nursery last Sunday.

The baby, Gloria Hernandez, was returned qui'ckly to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Hernandez, who had prayed for the child's safety since the kidnaping was discovered Monday. Doctors said Gloria apparently was in health but would get a thorough checkup at the hospital today. Mrs.

Kodriguez. herself the mother of eight children in Puerto Rico, toid detectives she took the baby because her own newborn Veteran Employes Of Penfisy Will Convene Veteran employes of the Pennsylvania railroad will meet in the Annex N'o. 2 Tuesday evening, Oct. 21. George Molique, secretary the group, has announced.

Carl Manders, president, will be in charge of the meeting which will begin at 7:30 p.m. Following the session members and guests will ho served coffee, refreshments and cigars. Yummy cereals topped with country-fresh Poured from tho container, rich, country-fresh Milnot is absolutely delicious on cereals! Wholesome, too! Milnob is a pasteurized, homogenized dairy product just packed with energy-giving proteins bone-building cnlcium pure vegetable fats. Milnot is fortified with Vitamins A and also contains natural Bt (thiamine) and Vitamin (riboflavin). In fact, Milnot contains more than twice the rich mineral and protein values found in whole milk and cream! And thrifty Milnot costs less than a canned milk! Use Milnot for all cooking purposes, as you would use cream, or a canned milk! Delicious in IT WHIPS! Produced modern dairy plants in Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma, Missouri whsre fine bu Country-Fresh Flavor! ter and other delicious dairy products are made.

BAmRED BUMETSJ2 MANOR HOUSE ALL GRINDS IB. TOP MO. 1 mm gifz3 PI iSHltjil iSH'r-a II If II li itTF-rfl POTATOES 10 BANANAS 3 Lbl 29c RED tm fr'BH! itfJjfiK Delicious Apples 3 29c Pascal Celery I9c BIRDSEYE BOOTH OQ-. Blue Water Lb. O7C ISSJii Can mm: liSJW 32c I OLD SOUTH Orange Juice 2 cans 33c CAKE MIXES ARMOURS Chili Con Carn 3 cans $1.00 SWIFTS PREMIUM Beef Sandwich Not Less Than 7 Steaks TIN OJ Lage Box 79' NUTRO HILLCREST CHEESE SNO-TIP ALASKA SALMON SPREAD Tall Tin FRESHRAP WAX PAPER 2 LIBBY'S PEACHES COTS HUNTS Weed No.

Tin No. 2V4 Tin MER-DELS CARACAS CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM 2 GAL 95c PINTS 0 CHOICE MEMS FRESH LEAN Ground Beef A WILSON'S CERTIFIED 4 to 6 Ib. av. Lb. FRESH DRESSED Chickens stewingorRoastins 49ci Smoked Picnics MIX 5 TOTAL SAVING ib.

29c FRESH Pork Liver FRESH Pork Hearts Lb. Lb. NOTICE! WE DELIVER EVERYDAY EXCEPT MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY BEER WINE YOUR 2 Gal.andQts. SIOUX BEE 5 Ib. jar 99c Shrine Minstrels BiSHINGTON TV SCHOOL OCT.

22 WASHINGTON TWP. SCHOOL PITTED DATES 2 Ibs. 59c.

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