Word: alton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rhode Island runners basked in the reflected glory of stocky Alton Wiley who won both the 100 and 220-yard dashes. Wiley, who finished far ahead in each race, took the latter in 22.6 seconds, a very good time for the Stadium's curved track. Dick Weiskouf ran second to Wiley both times...
...puffed cigarettes and stared at shoreside railroad cars loaded with jeeps, at fireboats squirting a welcome. There was no mood of wild celebration. "We figure we'll have to go back there," said Pfc. George Miller, of Brooklyn. All Corporal Raymond Herren wanted was to get back to Alton, Ill. and see his wife and kids. "The boy, Paul, I've never seen," remarked Herren. "He was born in October. You miss things besides drinking and helling around. You just want to see green American grass...
...Alton, Ill. (pop. 32,176), Paul S. Cousley, local president of the Community group, said, "The few complaints we've had have come from merchants who think we're sometimes getting a little too longhair." In Chillicothe, Mo. (pop. 8,649), Owsley Welch had the same report: "If we have a criticism it's that the programs are usually a little heavy for Chillicothe." In Streator, Ill. (pop. 16,442), Linden Mulford laid it down: "All we have in Streator is middle-class people, and if you give them all longhair stuff, you'll find only...
...usual on a Marine jump-off, the leathernecks were not losing any time. Corporal Ardrick Hammon of Alton, Ill., radioman for an artillery observer, slogged his way north, so loaded with fighting and communications gear that he could stoop to tie the flapping lace of one combat boot. He felt a tap on his shoulder, looked into a lean face under a pile cap with three stars and a paratrooper's silver badge...
Last week Minister Gill was looking for another parish, and Negro children were still segregated in Alton's elementary schools...