Here are the top headlines from June 18 editions of The Telegraph over the years:
The question of whether to add tornado sirens in the Village of Godfrey sparked controversy. At the time, Lewis and Clark Community College owned and operated the only siren in Godfrey. The idea of adding more sirens arose after severe storms earlier in the spring destroyed a pole barn and shredded a neighborhood in the village. Opponents argued that installing sirens audible throughout the village’s 35 square miles would cost too much, but Godfrey Fire Protection District Chief Greg DeGroot and Eldon “Twirp†Williams, chairman of the Public Safety Committee, were studying the idea.
The Riverbend Futbol Club Father's Day Classic soccer tournament wrapped up on Sunday, June 17, when the Independiente Under-14 boys team from Collinsville outlasted the Jefferson City (Missouri) Capitals on penalty kicks in the championship game for the age group. The three-day tournament drew 86 teams, both boys and girls, from across the Midwest to Gordon Moore Park in Alton.
Volunteers from the Raptor Rehabilitation and Propagation Project (now known as the World Bird Sanctuary) in Valley Park, Missouri, placed three young peregrine falcons in a nest box at the Riverlands Environmental Demonstration Area (now known as the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary) in West Alton, Missouri, as part of an effort to reintroduce the endangered birds to the wild around the St. Louis area. The birds were given water and quail meat inside the box. They were also fitted with dummy radio transmitters on their legs, which were to be replaced with real transmitters to track their movements once the birds had shown they wouldn't try to remove the devices.
U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin Democrat, said he would release the results of five engineering studies that directly challenged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' justification for replacing the Alton Lock and Dam 26 on the Mississippi River. One report, issued by the Illinois Department of Transportation, concluded that rehabilitating the existing lock and dam would cost about $60 million — at least $441 million less than the Corps' estimate. The other four engineering studies, conducted by consultants retained by the Western Railroad Association, concluded that rehabilitating the dam could be completed without closing either lock for more than 60 calendar days.
The Alton Police Department said burglars who entered Midland Supply Coal Co.'s office at 101 Spring St. during the night used acetylene torches to burn their way into the firm's metal safe and metal cabinet, but apparently stole nothing. Company officials told police that neither the safe nor the cabinet had been locked. Police said evidence indicated the burglars had rifled through papers in the safe.
Organizers of the Independent Chautauqua program in Alton announced the lineup for its five-day July 1926 event, featuring four “noted†lecturers, a concert company, an opera troupe, an orchestra quintet, and a dramatic company. The Chautauqua was scheduled to run from July 11 through 15 under large tents in the city, with both matinee and evening performances, and was expected to be the largest such program in Alton in several years.
