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Newspaper

Columbia Star

Location

Columbia, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 1966

Page

6

Local Bowling Scores From New Hanover League Standings

New Hanover leads men’s Monday night handicap with 562 to 334. Team highs include Luhr 489 and Mehrtens 569 for New Hanover, Janson 608 in ind high three, and Greatting 608 in team play as standings show Kruse Chevrolet and Steppig Truckers close behind in a dense field of teams and individual scores.

New Hanover Baltz’s Tavern Buettner Construction Greatting's Market Neighborhood Shell Budweiser M. C. Schwartz Weisbacher's Philgas Luhr Rehmer Mehrtens Rev. Biasch Friz Portell N. Kempf A. Hofstetter R. Koch K. Hofstetter Steppig Truckers Kruse Chevrolet Columbia Lanes Vogt's IGA Foodliner Monroe Bldg. Supply Luhr Bros., Inc S & S Service Center Koch S. Roessler Gummersheimer Frank Dotzauer Schorr Schmidt Juengling Osick Greatting Durrer E. Diehl H. Diehl Crowder Jahr Hemmer Toenjes Myers Janson Finnerty Alspach Taake Doettling Giffhorn Asselmeier Schaefer Riechmann Langhans Rusteberg Wessel VOGT H. Roessler Draper Christopher Riebeling Buettner Conrad Dundon Karn Bivins Eschmann

Figure Talk on Foundations for This Season’s Fashions

Barbara Thompson outlines foundations for women’s underpinnings including brassieres lightly contoured with fiberfill or molded cups, adjustable straps, front closing designs, and low-sided options. Pantie briefs, girdles, and corselets offer smoothing and shaping with lace, pastel shades, and skin tones, while sheer fabrics prove effective in control.

Easter Egg Hunt Opens Legion Park Summer Fun

At Legion Memorial Park on Sunday afternoon, more than 500 children joined parents for the annual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by Columbia American Legion Post 581. Over 1400 colored eggs were hidden, with 80 marked eggs awarding prizes and 65 plastic eggs containing candy. The event marks the park’s summer-season opening and highlights its baseball, Khoury League, soft ball diamonds, playground, and picnic shelter, available free to the public with shelter reservations handled by George A. Wilde.

Legion Memorial Park Columbia American Legion Post 581 Memorial Park Legionnaires George A. Wilde

Remembering the 1918 flu epidemic in a small town

Mrs. Leslie Putnam recalls the 1918 flu outbreak in Lin ton North Dakota. Eleven people died in one week, doctors and an Army medic helped, a female high school principal aided families, and schools closed as sickness spread. Contributions can be sent to The Old Timer in Frankfort Kentucky.

Leslie Putnam Linton N.D Dad Doc Phipps

Our Town to Be Enacted by SPPS Cast

SS Peter and Pauls prepares its production of Our Town by Thornton Wilder. The play explores Life Love and Death with a bare stage and imaginative staging. Cast includes Diane Schoenhoff as Emily Tom Arns as George and John Mosbacher as others.

SS. Peter and Paul Our Town Thornton Wilder Broadway Our Diane Schoenhoff Emily Tom Arns George John Mosbacher

Fountain of Youth Quest in Early American Exploration

The article recalls Ponce de Leon's famed search for the legendary fountain of youth as part of early American exploration. It references a biblical passage from John 4 7 14 and the theme of living water, tying spiritual symbolism to historical narratives from The Upper Room in Nashville Tennessee.

Americas Ponce de Leon

SPPS Dramatics Club Presents Our Town at Gymnasium

The SPPS Dramatics Club under Sister Esther Marie and Jerome Toenjes stages Thornton Wilder’s Our Town with a cast including Pearl Schneider Tom Diehl Janice Riebeling Barbara Diehl Jim Tucker Tom Bengo Sandra Jung Tom Kish John Conrad Mike Whelan Kevin Kelly Kurt Haberl Ruth Schmitt and Bob Pape. Performances April 22 at 7 30 pm and April 24 at 2 00 pm and 7 30 pm tickets from SPPS students or at the door.

Pearl Schneider Tom Diehl Janice Riebeling Barbara Diehl Jim Tucker Tom Bengo Sandra Jung Tom Kish John Conrad Mike Whelan Kevin Kelly Kurt Haberl Ruth Schmitt Bob Pape Esther Marie Dramatics SPPS Jerome Toenjes Belleville Junior College Dramatics Club of

Cadet Dirk Gress Honored at MMA Banquet

Cadet Dirk Gress of Columbia was honored this week at a Missouri Military Academy winter sports banquet. He earned a varsity swimming letter and is the son of Mr and Mrs Eberhard Gress of 313 Thomas Street.

Dirk Gress Columbia Missouri Military Academy Gress Eberhard Gress Thomas Street

I O J D Columbia Hold April Meeting At Masonic Temple

The International Order of Jobs Daughters of Columbia met April 4 at 7 p.m. in the Masonic Temple with Honored Queen Candice Hoffman presiding. Plans were made for the Easter Sunrise Service at St Pauls United Church of Christ cemetery on April 10 at 6 a.m. No new business was reported. Three petitions for membership were turned in. Rehearsal for I Wish I Were Night occurred with performances scheduled for April 11. The May initiation will be preceded by a family potluck. meeting adjourned at 8:25 p.m.

International Order of Jobs Daughters of Columbia Masonic Temple Columbia Candice Hoffman St. Paul’s United Church of Christ Bernice Bess

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