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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1967
Page
3
Health column explains that even minor injuries can cause future disease via nerve pressure in the spine. Symptoms may appear years later, with loss of function in affected body parts. Chiropractic care by Dr A L McAuliffe is promoted.
Sunday school services and chapel activities were led by First Baptist Waterloo with residents transported by church members. Volunteers from Waterloo Womans Club and St Paul United Church of Christ organized games, treats, and transport across multiple afternoons, including dominoes, euchre, pin ochle, lotto, and Easter cupcakes.
Special recognition was given at a 10:15 a m service in Columbia to confirmands from classes 1907 1917 1942 1957 and the current year along with those confirmed before 1907. Lizzie Osick Rauch was the oldest attendee. A 50 year class member Joe Bergmann, his son Maryin, and granddaughter Coleen Lewis were noted with family flowers. Walter Beckeer from California traveled the farthest.
Mr and Mrs Dale Warren announce the birth of a baby boy at St Elizabeths Hospital in Belleville last Friday. This is their firstborn. Mrs William R Kane of 315 North Agnew Street Columbia is a patient at St Clement’s Hospital in Red Bud after becoming suddenly ill at home Monday afternoon.
The column explains that even if you continue to work in your own business you should apply for Social Security and Medicare before turning 65. You gain immediate Medicare coverage, and if illness stops work later, your benefits can start right away.
Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians perform eleven contemporary and classic hits including Work Song Somewhere My Love and Strangers in the Night. Net Miller fronts a country set Teardrop Lane with eleven originals. Frank Pourcel and Les Baxter present La Femme a Paris LP with twelve Baxter compositions.
The guide advises completing like tasks in one run to speed work, such as finishing all buttonholes before changing machine settings. A buffing wax coats leather, pewter, and metal items for shine, with non rubbing wax for furniture also usable on metal. Falls are the top home hazard, so install handrails and keep treads safe. Potatoes offer high thiamine value and rank high in vitamin and mineral yields for dollar.
Evidence shows seat belts reduce injuries in crashes though effectiveness depends on wearers. Most collisions happen within 25 miles of home and under 40 mph, often on familiar streets, so always buckle up whether near home or on long trips.
Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell announced a completely revised Rules of the Road manual the first since 1954. The edition updates content format and size adding sections on vehicle registration equipment motorcycles and medical aspects of driving with improved illustrations and reorganized topics.
An average 13 percent rise in international surface and airmail rates will take effect May 1 1967 to aid a roughly 16 million dollar annual international postal deficit. The change excludes Armed Forces mail, and domestic APO FPO mail follows US rates. Highlights cover airmail rate hikes to Central America and Caribbean to 15 cents, Europe to 20 cents, rest of Western Hemisphere at 15 cents, and aerograms/air post cards to 13 cents, with surface parcel post up 20 cents per parcel.
The Monroe County Public Aid Office at 123 W Mill St was broken into early Monday morning. Chief Keith Branson said entry was gained through a rear window. One desk was ransacked and a small amount of cash was missing.
The distribution plan targets automobile dealers to hand booklets to new vehicle buyers. The booklets are available at driver license examining stations statewide, at three Chicago Motor Vehicle Facilities, or by writing to Secretary of State Paul Powell in Springfield Illinois 62706.
Thirteen new members were accepted at St Paul United Church of Christ in Columbia during the 10 15 a m service on Sunday. Mrs Robert Gummersheimer of 408 Columbia Ave entered Memorial Hospital in Belleville for surgery this week. Mr and Mrs Carl L Wenkel sold their home near Columbia to Mr and Mrs Arthur W Kuni and moved to Texas. Mrs Roy Stumpf of Columbia R R 2 returned home after a stay at St Elizabeths Hospital in Belleville.
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