"Emergency pollution control crews worked to clean a potentially serious oil spill from the River Des Peres as attempts were made to patch its sources at the Great Lakes Carbon Corp. coke plant on the South Side Thursday. The oil has been leaking into the river from a lagoon that contains an estimated 3 million gallons of waste products, authorities said. Carl Walter, chairman of an environmental response team investigating the incident, estimated that several hundred gallons of oil have leaked through the eastern side of the lagoon since at least Monday. 'But while it is small in quantity, it could pose potentially serious problems,' he said."
"Globe-Democrat photographer Jack Fahland captures excitement of deaf youngsters from the St. Louis Hearing and Speech Center Monday as balloons are released during downtown dedication ceremonies for the center's new $40,000 Sound of Happiness mobile testing unit. The 30-foot bus, staffed and equipped to give hearing tests, will be in service at various locations. The woman is Mrs. Corley Thompson, executive director of the center."
"Planning the schedules for the St. Louis Hearing and Speech Center's mobile unit, which travels throughout the St. Louis area, are, from left -- volunteers Mrs. Linda Cope and Mrs. Jean Swan, both of Ballwin."
"W.T. Hampton, left, and Ben K. Baumgardner, employers of handicapped workers, watch as employee Frank Seufert operates drill. The partners, both victims of heart attacks, call their firm Industrial Employment for the Handicapped. It is located at 2600 Iowa Ave."
. The new all-FM broadcasting station is a part of the Globe-Democrat Publishing Company's 1947 expansion program to further serve the great St. Louis area.
Laclede Cab Supervisor William J. wills holding T-shirt to be given away to cab customers who are riding in the cab when Cardinals win National League Eastern Division Title.
(St. louis) Globe-Democrat publisher Jeffery Gluck looks over the shoulder of head make-up Editor Wally Kratzer as the front page for Globe-Democrat's first edition under Gluck is completed.
Steel-rimmed wooden truck tires and steel-rimmed wagon wheels rolled into service yesterday at the loading platform at the 1133 Franklin avenue when the Globe-Democrat inaugurated a new system of delivery to solve the rubber tire shortage. The vehicles are loaded with magazines for today's editions of the Globe-Democrat.
Crowd gathers at Modern Living Show around Jim Denker of the Cottage Bakery in St. Charles, as he demonstrates the art of icing a cake in the Master Retail bakers booth. Cakes were later auctioned for the benefit of the Cripples Children's Society.
W. T. Hampton, left, and Ben K. Baumgardner, employers of handicapped workers, watch as employee Frank Seufert operates drill. The partners, both victims of heart attacks, call their firm Industrial Employment for the Handicapped. It is located at 2600 Iowa Ave.