Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized last spring, the Radcliffe Debate Council will be sponsoring a local area tournament for the first time. Last weekend two 'Cliffe debaters competed against 36 schools in a National Forensic Tournament at Boston University and gained an even 3-3 record...
...story, rebuked Starzel for failing to run it. The backward progress of another bank-robbery story was a capsule of the Pantagraph policy. Since the rifled bank lay outside Pantagraph territory, the news broke on Page One; as the bandits fled toward Bloomington the story fled to page 2 (area news); when police trapped the culprits in Bloomington, the event was covered on page...
...break the Page One rule was Adlai E. Stevenson, one of the five grandchildren and heirs of the late Pantagraph publisher William O. Davis. During a short hitch as assistant managing editor years ago, Stevenson (who is still a major stockholder in the Pantagraph) dared to put an area story-of a southern Illinois tornado -on the front page...
Some Said Die. South Bend, as well as Studebaker, has made a comeback with the Lark. Through most of 1958, the city and surrounding St. Joseph County constituted a "critical" unemployment area. As sales and production grew steadily smaller, the layoffs mounted, until by March barely 4,700 workers had jobs at the plant. Along with recession slowdowns at other big companies-Bendix Products Division, U.S. Rubber, Curtiss-Wright-the cutbacks pushed total county unemployment to a record 15,900-more than 16% of the labor force. Lines started forming on Lafayette Street for handouts of surplus Government beans, rice...
Most Said Buy. Even before word got around of S.-P.'s gamble to survive, South Bend had decided to do what it could to help the company. A group started a "Citizens for Studebaker" committee, toured the area soliciting pledges to buy a new 1959 Studebaker, issued 60,000 stickers and 10,000 buttons promoting the Lark, wrote' letters, gave speeches, finally staged a huge parade depicting the company history from Studebaker's first Conestoga wagon in 1852 to the present. The county A.F.L.-C.I.O. council mailed 14,000 letters across the U.S. pushing the Lark...