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Among the many domestic stories he covered, old-TIMErs best remember his interview with a wayfarer on Chicago's Skid Row (July 22, 1946), his report on the Centralia mine disaster (April 7, 1947), and the two Alger Hiss trials...
...hospitals, Dr. Francis J. Gerty, director of the department of mental health, plans to spend $50 million on eight "hospital clinics." They will be so distributed that no one in the state will have more than a two-hour drive to reach one: two in Chicago, one each in Centralia, Peoria, Springfield, Harrisburg, Rockford and Decatur-Champaign...
...England, his wife Helen and their son and daughter-in-law farm a 520-acre place near Centralia, Mo. (see third color page), and rent another 180 acres near by. Son Frank, 24, and his wife Jane live in a modern pink-and-gray clapboard house built from architect's plans in a farm magazine. The elder Englands occupy a white frame eight-room house just a quarter of a mile away. The Englands raise soybeans, corn, wheat, have 60 head of Herefords, 150 hogs and 41 Appaloosa horses. They have a heavy investment in machinery and rolling stock...
...performance records of 23 companies-including Imperial -was in the works. It did not matter that the Civil Aeronautics Board was about to investigate Imperial. It did not matter that in 1953 a DC-3 owned by the company (then known as Regina Cargo Airlines) crashed near Centralia, Wash., and killed 19 soldiers. It did not matter that the Federal Aviation Agency fined Imperial $1,000 in 1959 for flying 30 marines in an "unairworthy" C-46. It did not matter that the Constellation, built in 1946, was one of the oldest of its class still in the air. What...
...Republicans' turn, and Dick Nixon steps onto the resin. There is the anguish of the Vice President, halted at the very beginning of his campaign, in the midst of his triumphant tour of the South, by a staphylococcus infection, and there is the bathos of his speech in Centralia, Ill., recalling the story of how his father decided to buy his brother new shoes instead of a hoped-for pony...