KWK's Television Antenna, twice as tall at the 40-foot "clover leaf" antenna once used for FM broadcasting, will go up on the Globe-Democrat Tower Building at Twelfth and Cole streets. Workmen are shown as they strung cable and telephone lines to the top of the 500-foot tower yesterday preparatory to dismantling that FM antenna portion and replacing it with an 80-foot "bat wing" antenna for TV.
Memory of life in France helps boy win contest. Mark Willingham, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Willingham, O'Fallon, Ill., became a winner in the "What Is It" contest because he once lived in France. Mark could identify the object in the contest as a barber bowl because while living in a small French village he used to notice them at the barber shop. Mark's essay on the bowl, which
Finalists in Saturday's Spelling Bee, front row from left: Maureen Corbett, Janice Chrum and Linda Fennewald; back row from left: Scott Rubin, Robbie Stagner, Kirk Shipley and Carl Power. Standing in back is Nico Garcia-Otero. Maureen Corbett, 14, became the local spelling bee champion in the final round of The Globe-Democrat Spelling Bee competition Saturday afternoon.
Cab Driver Patriotism. Laclede Cab Co. drivers display American flags that all Laclede cabs will be flying on radio antennas during the VP Fair/July fourth period. Many drivers and employees are lifelong area residents and veterans from as far back as WWII. (From left to right) Robert Russell, Vietnam; Issac Bonner, Korea; Harold Dallas, WWII.
Ed DeRoche, Ph.D., explains a point to teachers at a recent Globe-Democrat Newspaper in Education summer workshop held at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Another summer workshop will be held Aug. 1-10 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Bettendorf-Rapp Display at the Globe-Democrat Modern Living Show attracts considerable attention from the thousands of visitors attending the fifth annual show at Kiel Auditorium. The show, open from noon to 10:15 p.m., ends Saturday.
Name Game Winner - Jesse Johnson (left) a TWA representative, gives name Game winner Donna Baer of Caseyville, IL her prize... two tickets for airline flight. She is thinking of going to Atlanta.
Name Game winner Donna Baer of Caseyville gets her prize, two tickets for a TWA flight, from Jesse Johnson, a TWA representative.
Various takes of testimonials by Dave Starling of In-Terminal Services and Rick Dorsey of Piggyback Services, intermodal terminal operators of Greenbrier Intermodal's Twin Stack bulkhead double stack container cars 1987.
A Step Ahead in Intermodal Railroad Equipment 1989 discusses the best use of Maxi-Stack I and Maxi-Stack III double stack container cars. Maxi-Stack I is made for International container traffic with a capacity of 124,000 pounds per well and capability to handle 220' containers or one 40' container in the wells and 40', 45' or 48' containers on top. Maxi-Stack III is considered the Terminal
This map of September 23, 1911, which covers construction of the Nevada - California - Oregon Railway (NCO) between Alturas and Davis Creek, California (a distance of about 32 miles), has been shared by the Shasta Division Archives. The Alturas, California to Lakeview, Oregon portion of the NCO was purchased by Southern Pacific on April 30, 1925, and would become its Lakeview Branch. At the