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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1965
Page
5
The article notes rapid progress in cancer research over 25 years including a drug for a rare pregnancy-related cancer, the Pap smear for early uterine cancer detection, and a 50 percent drop in uterine cancer deaths. Leukemia lacks a cure but new drug combos extend lives. It urges public support for the American Cancer Society’s April Crusade to accelerate breakthroughs.
Charles G. Mortimer of General Foods argues in Look that current labeling rules protect consumers and that government power over packaging would curb freedom of choice and market competition. He asserts housewives act as their own regulators and that brands rely on repeat sales, not deception, to succeed.
Washington reports say labor leaders chafe at the Administration's reluctance to back a sweeping legislative program. They seek to repeal Taft-Hartley section 14b, impose a 35 hour week, set a $2 minimum wage, and expand coverage to about 10 million workers mainly in services. They favor compulsory membership and fiat wage rules, risking inflation and political pushback.
The menu lists daily offerings from Monday April 5 to Friday April 9. It includes Coney Islands Potato Chips Vegetable Relishes Buttered Peas Glazed Doughnuts Milk on Monday, Salisbury Steak and Gravy with Mashed Potatoes Green Beans Supreme Fruit Cup Bread Butter Milk on Tuesday, Roast Pork on Bun Cole Slaw Creamed Corn Lemon Pie or Meringue on Wednesday, Beef Stew Lettuce Salad with French Dressing Hot Rolls Butter Ice Cream on Thursday, and Toasted Cheese Sandwich Fresh Fruit Chocolate Drops on Friday.
The menu lists a variety of dishes including veg beef stew homemade biscuits spicy apple sauce and bread with milk. Additional items feature sloppy joe on a bun glazed carrots radishes olives crunchy cherry squares with sauce meat loaf stewed tomatoes scalloped potatoes celery sticks a fruit dish sliced franks in kraut buttered green limas fruit-filled yeast rolls tuna salad on lettuce baked potato buttered peas and chocolate pudding.
The excerpt lists a meal plan for Monday April 5 featuring Hot Beef Sandwich Buttered Corn Pickle Slices Fruit Salad Spanish Rice Slow Biscuits Butter Milk Green Beans Jello Vegetable Soup Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Apple Quarters Tuna Salad Lettuce Salad Prune Cake.
Christina Coyle Berry recalls Fresno days from Tulare to Fresno including horse drawn fire engines, police shifts on Broadway in 1903, Salvation Army crowds, Lowell School fire, and the evolution of Roeding Park and Zapp's Park. She notes city growth and asks readers to send contributions to The Old Timer.
Live stock classes registered good price gains during the week as moderate receipts and higher dressed trade boosted values. Combined receipts of salable cattle calves hogs and sheep topped 54 000 head with hogs advancing to the best March level in four years.
Herbert Reider and wife transfer Pt Lt 13 Sunset Acres to Hugh Baxter and wife. Lewis W. Lich and wife transfer Pt Tax Lt 1B West Outlets Waterloo to Lloyd A. Weitzler and wife. Lewis W. Lich and wife transfer Pt Tax Lt 1B to George W. Arras and wife. Lewis W. Lich and wife transfer Pt Tax Lt 1B West Outlets Waterloo to Ronald H. Roush and wife. Mrs Jules Ghyselinck of 231 St Paul Street, after surgery at St Marys Hospital Clayton last Friday, returns home Wednesday.
Readers ask about early disability applications and when to file earnings estimates. Officials advise contacting the Social Security office now, reporting significant earnings changes, and filing annual reports even after turning 72.
A collage of simple era recipes and tips. Cinnamon spiked chocolate milk with vanilla ice cream, fruit salad with grapefruit mandarin and ginger, Welsh rarebit with egg yolk and onion, mashed potatoes with creamed codfish center, tomato boats stuffed with chicken salad, and creamy asparagus with hard boiled eggs.
Southern Illinois University plant industries professor Lloyd V. Sherwood told Agronomy Day attendees that farmers are increasingly using chemical weed control in corn to curb competition and cut labor. He noted benefits of broadcast pre-emergence herbicides, post-emergence directed spraying, and rotating herbicides to limit residue damage.
The polling place for the primary election on April 13 1965 for Mitchie Precinct Monroe County Illinois will be the Fire House Macystown Illinois. Paul G Ziebold County Clerk.
In probate proceedings in Water loo Illinois administrator Josephine Schmidt will present her final account for the estate of William Edward Meyers deceased at 9 30 a m on April 22 1965 in the Monroe County Circuit Court. The hearing asks that the court approve the account declare the estate settled discharge the administrator and allow interested heirs and creditors to resist if desired. Floyd E Crowder attorney at law of Columbia Illinois represents the administrator.
The Columbia Community Unit School District No. 4 in Monroe and St Clair Counties Illinois announces an election on April 10 1965 to elect three board members for a three year term. Precinct 1 includes all district territory with polling at the Unit School Building from noon to 7 p.m. Oliver Rey secretary Wilbert H Kremmel president.
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