Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday before the election, the parish priests read an announcement of Msgr. Jordan from the pulpit: "The issue is simple-the choice of C.I.O.-U.A.W., a good American union, or Communist-dominated U.E.-F.E. Good Catholics, who know the evils of atheistic Communism, should vote . . . C.I.O.-U.A.W." Across the Mississippi in Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, another seven priests joined the campaign. After the sermons, two U.E.-F.E. shop stewards bolted to the C.I.O. Next day at Farmall, though no more than 15% of the workers are Catholic, U.A.W. buttons blossomed everywhere, and the result no longer seemed in doubt...
...There's nothing quite like the glow of inner pride when a devoted birder spots a rarity. One who glowed this season was Ben Coffey Jr. of Memphis, who saw seven pine siskins (common enough in the North, but rare in the mid-South and beyond) on his Mississippi count around a crossroads hamlet named Kara Avis...
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans. Navy, fifth-ranking college team in the U.S., blanked Mississippi 21-0, with Annapolis Fullback Joe Gattuso sparkling both on offense and defense...
...Dixon-Yates power plan at Securities and Exchange Commission hearings, last week got around to the proposed location of the $105 million plant. President Thomas H. Allen of Memphis' municipal utility company, which will be served by the new plant, pointed out that its site across the Mississippi River near West Memphis, Ark. might be submerged by flood waters. Further, he said, a $10 million transmission line would be needed to bring the power across the river, an expense that would not be necessary if a plant were built on the Memphis side of the river. Said Allen...
...expert witness on power-plant sites. SEC called up University of Mississippi Engineering Dean Frederic H. Kellogg, a onetime Panama Canal geologist. Testified Kellogg: "A safe plant could be built at [West Memphis] but . . . foundation soil and river conditions . . . would make the overall substructure costs significantly higher than at other nearby locations." At a press conference, AEChair-man Lewis Strauss defended the site, saying that the Army Corps of Engineers had approved the West Memphis site as "a safe place" after surveying 16 proposed locations. But, as it turned out, the Army Engineers had nothing to do with the plant...