Wednesday Night Women's League Standings
The Steppig Truckers 5S lead the Wednesday night women’s league with a .500 winning percentage while Columbia Lanes shows a .395 loss rate in the latest standings.
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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1966
Page
6
The Steppig Truckers 5S lead the Wednesday night women’s league with a .500 winning percentage while Columbia Lanes shows a .395 loss rate in the latest standings.
Columbia Eagles beat Okawville 4 to 0 as Jim Kremmel pitched four innings of no hit ball, Gary Roediger and Steve Devenport also shut out the opposition. Five Eagles contributed hits in the second inning and held a 4 run lead. The Carlile game was postponed by weather.
The Illinois Department of Conservation released about 34 000 trout 12 000 brown and 22 000 rainbow in Apple River Pine Creek North Fork Kent Creek and three spring fed ponds near Coleta Whiteside County and near Manchester Iowa hatchery stock was used for the rest anglers may take eight trout per day with a 16 in possession limit no size limit applies.
Belleclair Fairgrounds Speedway in Belleville will start its 1966 stock car season Friday night April 29. Track manager Raymond T. Erlinger says the opening program features nine races with many defending champions returning. Time trials at 7:30 p.m. and the first race at 8:30 p.m. Located at the junction of State Routes 13 and 159 on Belleville's south edge.
SPPS sophomore John Gravett won the Zone oratorical contest sponsored by the Optimist Club and will attend the Decatur convention on May 21 to vie for the state title. About twenty juniors take the American College Test at Belleville Junior College on April 23. Sixteen to twenty four French students took the National French Test at Althoff on April 16. Nine SPPS students join the Annual Math Test at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on April 23 with Sisters Calista and John Joseph accompanying. The SS Peter and Paul Dramatics Club presents Our Town with showings April 22 and 24.
From Mrs. Sarah in Mathis Etta Mississippi and Mrs Walter D Johnson in Greenville Alabama memories of small kitchens parched coffee mill grinding by hand mule wagon travels to church country store visits in buggy with Molly the mule or Charley the horse and days with no hurry no cars no wrecks a bygone era of contentment.
The Monroe County Historical Society announces a fashion event titled Styles of Days Gone By as part of the sesquicentennial celebrations. A committee meeting in the Morrison Talbot Library in Waterloo outlined collecting period costumes from residents aged 50 to 100 years for the display with participants from Waterloo Valmeyer Macystown and Columbia.
A letter to our office from Bill and Evelyn Boardman reports fishing is good at Reelfoot Lake Tennessee especially near Boardman Resort. Bass, crappie, and bluegill are spawning with bluegill reaching up to one and a half pounds. Boardman Resort offers modern cabins and other recreational facilities.
The National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association predicts the Lovebird Wing Coiffure will be a popular summer trend in 1966. The report notes fashionable styles for both young men and women while highlighting current hair fashion headlines.
Illinois veterans with 0 percent or greater service connected disability can obtain resident fishing permits at half price under a new law. The Illinois Veterans' Commission will provide required affidavits of disability and assist with applications through service officers in all counties. Inquiries to the Department of Conservation are returned if the affidavit is missing. John N. Chouinard will answer questions at the County Courthouse in Waterloo on Tuesday from 9 to 12.
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