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Lettered across the front window of the Flora, Ill. Sentinel (circ. 2,500) is a proud slogan: "A free press, a free nation." Like many another country editor, stocky, aggressive Charles Allen Crowder writes almost all the stories in his twice-weekly Sentinel himself; his wife Dorothy and their 15-year-old son Charles Jr. (whose column is called "Crowder's Chowder") do the rest. In reporting the news of Flora (pop. 6,000) and Republican Clay County, Republican Editor Crowder says he sometimes "plays up what the business interests want played down...
Last January, 48-year-old Editor Crowder, a lawyer who switched to journalism four years ago, was handed the hottest issue of his newspaper career. Employees of the Flora Municipal Light & Water System joined the A.F.L. Electrical Workers, and asked the City Council to recognize them as a union for collective bargaining. When the council refused, 19 employees went on strike. The Sentinel declared itself editorially neutral in the dispute, promised to report "both sides" in its news columns...
West Virginia's New River rose 30 feet above its normal level, swept scores of houses and other buildings into the Bluestone Dam basin. At Clarksburg, W.Va., the West Fork River rose to its highest stage since 1888. A 10-ft. levee collapsed at Crowder, Miss. The raging Duck River split the town of Columbia, Tenn. in half; Columbians were evacuated from their homes by the Red Cross and the National Guard...
...Major Donald William Ingham of the Medical Service, Camp Crowder, Mo., reported 700 cases of rheumatic fever (heart disease caused by streptococcus infection) at two Army posts. The disease is also frequent in the Navy. Lieut. Colonel Irving Sherwood Wright, chief of medicine, Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., said that rheumatic fever cases should never be returned to duty; they are often germ carriers, always poor risks if put on heavy jobs. Average cost of an Army rheumatic fever case...
...continue in school on inactive status until graduation provided they meet scholastic standards. Two weeks after graduation each reservist will be ordered to active duty reporting to the reception center nearest his home for processing. Upon completion he will be sent to the Central Signal Corps Replacement Center, Camp Crowder, Missouri, for at least three months' further training...