Word: paducah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days later, at Indianapolis, Stevenson again promised to keep federal spending at a minimum, and hit at Ike with the charge that military men are notoriously careless of costs. Then, moving on to Paducah, Ky., the Stevenson party stopped off to visit "Angles,".home of Veep Alben Barkley, who served 140 fried chickens and eleven hams to his guests. During lunch at Angles, Stevenson was presented with a trophy of the 1892 presidential campaign-a watch-fob bearing the pictures of Democrat Grover Cleveland and his vice presidential running mate, Stevenson's grandfather. The giver, a Paducah lawyer...
...learn the rest. When the huge, gaseous diffusion plant is completed about four years from now, Goodyear will employ only 4,000 to keep it running, will be paid a cost-plus fixed fee for the job. Meanwhile, Union Carbide & Carbon, which runs AEC's Oak Ridge and Paducah uranium plants, will teach Goodyear the ropes...
...solid year, Father Joseph V. Rhodes, 37, of Paducah, Ky. has been pitching in with lathe, level, and paintbrush to help build a new parochial school. Last week classes began in Rosary Chapel School, a three-story brick building containing six classrooms and eight grades, living quarters for four Ursuline teacher-nuns, a cafeteria, and a basement auditorium seating about 200. But the statistic Father Rhodes was truly proud of was the enrollment: 150 Negro pupils...
Located in the middle of a Negro neighborhood. Rosary draws students from Pa-ducah's entire Negro community. Five years ago. when Rosary first started in a modest private residence, there were not more than ten Negro Catholics in Paducah (pop. 32,828); today there are about 85. In the first batch of 30 pupils, not one was a Catholic; of today's 150, some 40 are Catholic. Most of them became converts at Rosary...
After spending a night in a St. Louis jail, Alben William Barkley Truitt, 18-year-old grandson of the Vice President, was released to continue his hitchhiking jaunt from a construction job in Alaska to Paducah, Ky. Police had picked him up on a downtown street carrying a loaded .32-cal. pistol. He had found the pistol, said Truitt, and was merely trying to sell it to buy food. The state refused to prosecute, on the grounds that Missouri law permits peaceful interstate travelers to be armed...