Belleclair Speedway Sets Opening Night April 30
Belleville track Belleclair Speedway will open its 1965 stock car season Friday night April 30 with weekly Friday races. Time trials start at 7:30 p.m. and the first race at 8:30 p.m. Defending champions Don Klein of Ste Genevieve Missouri in A car and Joe Kocot of Collinsville Illinois in hobby car headline a returning all star field for the season.
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Belleclair Speedway
Belleville
Raymond T. Erlinger
Erlinger
Don Klein
Ste. Genevieve
Joe Kocot
Collinsville
Ill
Teachers named for 1965 66 Messenger column
Kathy Bard and Bernice Freund will write the weekly column in the Messenger and town papers during the 1965 66 school term under the guidance of Pat Toal and Bonita Arns. Twenty SPPS students will take part in the SIU Math Meet on April 24 with a math importance lecture.
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Kathy Bard
Bernice Freund
Messenger
Town Papers
Pat Toal
Bonita Arns
SPPS
SIU
Emmanuel
Ladue High School
Intercollegiate Press
Paris
Wanted in this paper will sell whatever it is you wish to dispose of
Classified line offers quick disposal services by phone 281-4292, inviting readers to list items for sale or sale of unwanted goods. The terse ad emphasizes ease and prompt contact to sell any item.
OKawville Rockets defeat Eagles 7 to 6 in Saturday clash
Okawville Rockets hand Eagles 7 6 loss at Okawville as Don Weeke wins in his first outing. Gary Roediger takes the loss with six hits and six runs in 4 1 3 innings. Eagles tally five in fifth aided by Frierdich and Gould. Carlyle also posts runs with errors shaping the game. Eagles coach Vernon Smith praises Crocker as the best right hander seen this year.
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Don Weeke
Don
Steve Randall
Weeke
Rockkts
Norbert Behrman
Schuessler
Dennis Shubert
Behrman
Shubert
Steve Scher
Eagles
Jim Kossina
Kossina
Eschmann
Barker
Paul Frierdich
Davenport
Jim Gould
Rockets
Carlyle
Bob Wilton
Kremmel
Bruce Brubaker
Gould
Crocker
Vernon’ Smith
Kremmel Hurls One Hitter In Loss To Carlyle
Jim Kremmel pitched a one hitter against Carlyle but Eagles dropped a 2-1 decision amid five fielding errors. Carlyle ace Alan Crocker earned the win with 17 strikeouts while allowing one run on five hits.
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Jim Kremmel
Carlyle
Eagles
Alan Crocker
Alan
Crocker
Kremmel
Jim
Waterloo Bulldogs Hand Eagles 2-0 for Third Straight Loss
Waterloo defeats the Eagles 2-0 to stretch their skid to three games and improve to 7-3 overall. Rich Binder pitched seven shutout innings with 11 strikeouts to earn the win, while Bill Eschmann took the loss for the Eagles in a tight Cahokia and Kaskaskia Conference matchup.
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Bulldogs
Waterloo
Eagles
Cahokia
Kaskaskia
Gary Miller
Studt
Rich Binder
Miller
Bill Gardner
Walters
Gardner
Rich
Bill Eschmann
Bill
The
Jim Gould
Alan Studt
Terry Hoffman
Illinois Finds Welfare Education Leaders in Nation
The State of Illinois runs the most extensive statewide programs for adult public aid recipients. In January 1965 over 12,000 recipients were enrolled in about 200 programs across 54 populous counties, with study areas including Cook St Clair Jackson Saline and Williamson Counties.
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Illinois
Department of Public Aid
Cook
St. Clair
Jackson
Saline
Williamson
Warning Urges Horse Owners to Vaccinate in Illinois
Howard Mce Ward of the Illinois Department of Agriculture warns horse owners to vaccinate horses especially valuable ones against equine encephalitis or sleeping sickness. Illinois faced a severe western type outbreak last year with 263 cases and 57 deaths, the worst in two decades and a state record fourth largest.
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Howard Mce Ward
Illinois Department of Agriculture
Illinois
Flooding Near Illinois Rivers Spurs Typhoid Booster Call
Dr. Franklin D. Yoder, Illinois public health director, warns flooding border counties may contaminate water with typhoid. He urges boosters for those with prior immunization and immediate initiation for those never vaccinated. Counties Adams, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Jo Daviess and Whiteside have vaccination sites.
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Illinois
Franklin D. Yoder
Yoder
Adams
Carroll
Hancock
Henderson
Mercer
Rock Island
Jo Daviess
Whiteside
Forecast of Destructive Bacterial Wilt in Illinois Corn
Stewart's disease or bacterial wilt of corn is expected to be more destructive and reach farther north in Illinois this summer than in 1964. The northern half should see little early wilt in commercial sweet corn, with light infestation in the north central area and moderate levels in the southern half, per G H Boone associate plant pathologist of the Illinois Natural History Survey.
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Stewart
Illinois
G. H. Boone
Illinois Natural History Survey
Ladies Softball Meeting Set at City Hall
A meeting to organize married ladies softball teams will be held at City Hall at 7 30 p m on Thursday April 22. All interested ladies and any men willing to manage are urged to attend.
County Khoury League Meeting Set for April 27
The Monroe County Khoury League will meet Tuesday April 27 at 8 00 p m at Whelan s Hall Waterloo. All managers or coaches are urged to attend. The schedules for various leagues will be compiled.
Two CHS Seniors Run 0.812 Mile Sprint to Waterloo Diamond
On April 20 James Gummersheimer and Wayne Polacek from Columbia High School ran a 0.812 mile course from the CHS parking lot to the Waterloo High School baseball diamond. They finished in 73 minutes amid wind and traffic, both lettering members of the CHS track team.
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James Gummersheimer
Clarence Gummersheimer
Wayne Polacek
William Polacek
Columbia High School
Waterloo High School
Illinois Museum Audiovisual Loan Service Peak in March
Milton D. Thompson reports a record high for the Illinois State Museum Audiovisual Loan Service with 1,526 shipments to schools statewide in March. Over 190000 students are served by/audio visual materials, led by 16mm films and supported by filmstrips and slides. The statewide program reaches more than two million people annually.
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Seum
Milton D. Thompson
Thompson
Illinois State Museum
Illinois
Marine Private Crimm graduates from San Diego recruit depot
Phillip R. Crimm son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Crimm of Columbia completed 11 weeks of Marine recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San DiegoCA. He learned marksmanship bayonet fighting drill history and Marine traditions and is assigned to Camp Pendleton for four weeks of advanced infantry training. Second Lt Orrin A Stemler son of Mr and Mrs Homer Stemler finished a nine week engineer officer basic course at Fort Belvoir VA learning duties logistics road construction and equipment operation.
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Phillip R. Crimm
Willard Crimm
R.R
Columbia
Marine
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
Calif
Mississippi River
Marine Corps
Camp Pendleton
Orrin A. Stemler
Homer J. Stemler
R.R. 2
Box 129
Waterloo
Army Engineer School
Fort Belvoir
Stemler
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Council of America
Lorna Dwyer
U.S Marine
da Nang Air Base
South Viet Nam
Doggie
Rome
Tokyo
Clarion Printing Co
N. Rapp
Columbia, Ml
First National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Spps High School
Southern Illinois University
Gene Parkhill
Central Publications
Carbondale
Edwardsville
Parkhill
Pretty Dareth Rich
Sherman Oaks
California
Mobil
By Bennie Bergmann
Okawville
Waterloo Hands Eagles
United States Brewers Association, Inc
Illinois State
Tigers
Freehan
Detroit
Mickell Cochrane
Freenaal
Detrat
Immaculate Conception
Columbia, Illinois
Columbia Star
Ilinois
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