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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1967
Page
2
Ideas for landscaping lightens a Sunday tour on April 30 at 1 30 pm starting at the Waterloo Post Office. Six stops cover lawn management shrub care and tree and rose selection with plant choices for plans. Farmers urged daily field checks for alfalfa larva feeding and spraying with labeled chemicals when wind is calm.
The Farm Adviser notes spring pruning to remove overgrown branched canes and preserve new whips that bloom next year. It recommends transplanting if pruning is too severe, and dividing fall plants to prevent thick mats and sparse flowering. Also suggests spacing, thinning, and fertilizing after replanting. A separate pest note mentions a common pepper spot mite indoors near windows.
Rain reduced grain aphids in wheat fields and storm likely blew winged adults north. Spraying is not recommended now, but a buildup may appear as wheat heads form. Malathion at 1 lb per acre can control aphids. Farmers, landowners with past ground hog demos may buy gas bombs in 1967 with permit. For questions contact the conservation office or Gus Kipping.
Parents of children who have not attended kindergarten and will enter Columbia Community Unit No. 4 in 1967-68 are asked to meet in the Unit Building gym Friday May 5 1967 to register by last name letters. Birth certificates and health exams required for kindergarten before September 1967.
Gov Otto Kerner proposed a 12 year bond program to fund air and water pollution control, water resource management, flood control, and recreation. The plan totals various loan and grant programs totaling several hundred million dollars and requires legislative and voter approval in November 1968. Additionally the state outlined budget timing, flood duty deployments, Arbor Day activities, youth conference, litter surveys, and trout stocking across multiple streams with opening day rules.
Adults are drawn indoors by warm air currents and wander in search of plant meals. Indoor control needs selective insecticides. daily vacuuming or a pyrethroid pressure bomb helps. Outdoor pests can be managed with aramite or Kelthane. use liquid formulas. An eighteen inch ground strip around houses prevents spring problems. For crabgrass, prevention and crowding out with fall seeding and watering helps bluegrass seedlings. Pre emergence chemicals, applied once per season, offer good control though not 100 percent. Zytron Bandane Betasan Dachthal Azak Tupersan and Calcium Arsenate are effective. Tupersan is the only one for new seedings.
Property deeds show transfers from Robert Hurd and others to Ralph Buettner, Alfon Larson to Philip Caruana, Charles Crook to LeRoy Loehr, Zeph Johnson to Harold Becker, Mary Lich to Helen Wild, Walter Pieper to Walter Pieper, Sentry Royalty Co to Charles Beil, Wm R Lynn to Robert Gri der, Louis Gauen to George Gauen, covering lots, sections, townships and parcels in multiple add ons and subdivisions including Sunset Acres, Pautler Heights, Giffhorns Sub Div No 1, and assigned tracts with references to township ranges.
Walter Wills of Southern Illinois University urged Hamilton County Telephone Cooperative members to stay informed and active. He cited democratic control, limited returns on invested capital, and earnings distribution by patronage, stressing member involvement, capital, and capable directors to guide adaption to change.
Roy C Schmidt thanks voters of Road District No 5 for support at the April 4 election and pledges continued work for road improvements in the district.
Markets closed with mixed results as cattle calves hogs and sheep collectively edged lower from prior weeks and year totals. Hogs rose to 18.10 per cwt while steers heifers and feeders traded mostly lower with several price bands detailed for various weights and grades.
For rent a new home furnished with no children allowed. Phone 281 4378. Elsie Dorgan at 217 East Rauch. I express sincere thanks to voters in Ward 1 who supported me for alderman at the polls Tuesday. I will justify your confidence. William E. Landgraf.
A candidate thanks voters in Ward 4 for their support on Tuesday April 18 and pledges to work hard during the term as alderman.
David A Vogt thanks everyone for help during illness and death of husband J Thomas McDierman. Special thanks to Rt. Rev. Msgr. Elmer Holtgrave and Father Dollar for visits and prayers. Your kindness will always be remembered. Mrs J T McDiermon, John and family
Robert F. Lepp thanks Ward 3 voters for their support at the polls on Tuesday and pledges to serve the district to the best of his ability.
SIU horticulture expert J. K. Leasure warns that tricycle and mower damage, called trike blight, kills many new trees. He advises placing stakes a few inches from trunks and driving into them to protect saplings during lawn and garden courses with Southern's Division of Technical and Adult Education.
General classified notice inviting readers to explore seamless floors kitchen carpet wall coverings and murals at Columbia Decorating Center located 511 N Main Columbia Illinois phone 281 4161.
Julia A. Bieber is informed through publication that a divorce action has been filed in Monore County Court Waterloo Illinois. She must answer by May 9 1967 or a default decree may be entered. Clerk LeRoy M Reitz and Attorney Floyd E Crowder represent the plaintiff. Address 108 South Main Street Columbia IL 62236.
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