Budgets and Vertical Tillage Highlight Illinois Notes
Sidelights from Springfield review budget procedures in Illinois as the state plans a 6 billion-plus two year total with major education cost growth. The Budgetary Commission, led by George Stastny, faces limited staff and proposes cuts while debating executive and legislative review and increasing personnel to improve future budget scrutiny. The piece also covers Southern Illinois University agronomist Joseph Vavra describing vertical tillage, a method for improving tree and shrub growth by boring a passage through subsoil to aid drainage and root development.
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University of Illinois Press
Thomas Anton
Illinois
Department of Finance
House
Senate
Budgetary Commission
Executive Department
Southern Illinois University
SIU
Vavra
Southern
Division of Technical and Adult Education
Help Youth Help Themselves This Summer 1967 Effort
The 1967 Youth Opportunity Campaign aims to add jobs for 12.7 million youths aged 16 to 21, with 2 million likely to remain unemployed. Previous campaigns cut youth unemployment in 1966 despite rising job seekers, but white and nonwhite youths still face large gaps. The note urges cooperative effort from business, government, labor, and communities to expand summer employment and reduce racial disparities.
Crossword Puzzle Last Week's Answer Across
Crossword clues span across and down with a mix of definitions and abbreviations. Answers include terms for flow, travel, objects, and common phrases fitting a standard puzzle grid from a newspaper page.
What Becomes Of The Individual In A Modern Society
The note argues against compulsion and overreach as computers sort people, warning that arbitrary power rises when rules grow, and cites John Locke to claim the law should preserve and enlarge freedom rather than restrict it. The piece stresses preserving individual liberty as humanity's highest goal.
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John Locke
Optimist ROTC remarks urge duty in free world
Rear Admiral O H Dodson notes major challenges facing new graduates. He cites non committed nations population growth and rising expectations as tests for remote communities seeking schooling. He expresses confidence in US military strength and pride in officers guarding Ram parts of the Free World. Our hopes and prayers are with you.
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United States
Free World
The
Southern Illinois eyed for Dendur temple bid
Southern Illinois leaders weigh bids to bring the Dendur temple from Egypt, facing stiff competition from the Smithsonian, New York’s Metropolitan Park District, and Chicago’s Oriental Institute. A $150,000 relocation and humidity controlled housing are required, with funding hoped from state, federal, and local sources, while critics question the project’s viability and cost.
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James Larkin Pearson
Edgar Guest
Egypt
Illinois
Ilinois
Goffrey Hughes
Southern Illinois, Inc
United States
Nile
U.S
Hughes
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
Metropolitan Park District
New York
Oriental Institute of Chicago
United Arab Republic
Guarantree
Purple Martins Bring Week to Illinois, Worms, and Trivia
The article explains crime classifications mala in se and mala prohibita, notes Illinois Purple Martin Week proclaimed by Gov. Kerner, highlights Griggsville’s martins and mosquito control, mentions breakfast burgers at SIU, and adds a birthday trivia quip about dates and forms.
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Lonergan
Southern Illinois University
California
Illinois
J. L. Wade
Griggsville
Pike County
Griggsvillians
New Orleans
Miami
Otto Kerner
Family Care: Restoring Rug Curl and Dress Selection Tips
Practical notes for home care and sewing urge steam ironing for rug corners and pressing to reduce flaws. Dress buyers should consider size figure and personality for a satisfying fit and look. Terrylene polyester fiber details compare British imported blouses with US produced polyester standards.
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Thenited
Sidelights From a History Notebook
A compact history note cites Magellan’s voyage and Del Cano’s crew, date of Magellan’s death, and longitudinal references. It also mentions James Buchanan born near Chambersburg Pennsylvania on April 23 1791 with his political shifts and 1856 election, plus Ulysses Grant born April 27 1822 in Point Pleasant Ohio and his Civil War leadership. It notes The Rocky Mountain News first issue on April 23 1859 and Grant’s 1868 election win and second term.
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Ferdinand Magellan
Philippines
Juan Sebastian del Cano
Magellan
Mactan Island
Greenwich
del Cano
Seville
Banda Island
James Buchanan
U.S
Eeesesbara
Pennsylvania
Beore
Buchanan
South Carolina
Confederate States
Colorado
Denver
Rocky Mountain News
Platte River
Cherry Creek
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Point Pleasant
Ohio
West Point
Mexico
Republican Party
Grant
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George W. Smith
Roy P. Conrad
Ophelia Mueller
Alice Horcher
Clarion Printing Company, Inc
Columbia
Athe Grips
Ee Newspaper
Springfield
STATE
Icollege
U.S. Army
New Zealand
Florida City
U.S. Navy
Judea
P.I
Belgium
USA
Ussr
O. H. Dodson
USN
University of Illinois Classical and European Culture Museum
Urbana
Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University Information Service
John Lonergan
Irene Payne
Peter Falk
Ash TV
Peter Tork
David Smith
David Wayne
Andrew Prine
Don Quine
William Smith
Bill Buckley
David Ames
Abraham Lincoln
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