"Seven employes in the metallurgical coke plant of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, 526 Catalan St., were injured Wednesday morning when gas accumulated at one end of a battery of coke ovens, causing two explosions. The accumulation was caused when a by-pass valve leaked gas into steam that was being used to purge the gas from a gas header line, preparatory to changing an orifice, according to Everett Hart, operations manager of the firm's Missouri Coke and Chemical division."
"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."