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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1965
Page
4
The Illinois Racing Board reports a 1965 mutuel handle of 458,587,974 for turf and harness racing. State revenue from wagering licenses and admissions totals 30,501,429. The year lists 307 turf racing days at seven tracks and 242 harness days at seven meetings with total attendance 6,415,900. Per capita wagers average 79.35 on jockey racing and 61.17 on harness racing.
Letters urge caution after a deadly Christmas weekend on Illinois roads. Jaycees promote the "Take Five" pause to save lives and wish readers a safe New Year. Also notes Marines in Okinawa and a Marine squadron earning an achievement award plus SIU Agriculture using cattle breeds for teaching and demonstration.
The menu lists meals for Thursday January 6 with Beef Stew Cole Slaw Hot Biscuits and a Dish of Fruit plus Friday January 7 featuring Tuna Salad on Lettuce Potato Stix Buttered Peas and a Baked Apple. Meals include Fried Chicken Mashed Potatoes and Gravy Buttered Corn Apple Sauce Bread Butter Milk on Thursday.
Parkview School serves Hamburger on Bun baked beans relish kabobs rosey apple slices milk on Monday January 3. Tuesday January 4 offers celery sticks fruit gelatine squares. Wednesday January 5 features toasted combination sandwich lettuce salad ice cream hot rolls and butter chocolate drops crackers buttered vegetable fruit cobbler bread butter milk. Immaculate Conception School serves cookies milk butter cake with orange icing toasted cheese sandwich chocolate pudding.
Gov. Otto Kerner welcomed 20 new state troopers to state service as the 35th class to graduate from the State Police Academy at the fairgrounds in Springfield. The group begins a one year probationary period before certification by the State Police Merit Board. A weekly farm program is produced by Southern Illinois University School of Agriculture for 15 radio stations.
SIU farm economist David L. Armstrong analyzes why farmers may buy or avoid expensive equipment like combines. He notes machinery costs can reach nearly a third of modern crop farm costs and that labor, seasonal timing, tax factors, and the option of custom operators influence each purchase decision.
Christmas week live stock trade moved unevenly higher with curtailed receipts. Salable cattle calves hogs and sheep totaling about 40 000 head were down from a week and year ago yet net gains of 1.00-1.25 cwt for barrows and 0.75-1.50 for sows appeared. The ninth straight upturn week saw hogs top at 30.75 per cwt with a Bond County Illinois lot reaching 31.25. Cattle prices climbed with slaughter steers and heifers up to 25-50c, cows 50c-1.00 higher, bulls up to 1.00. Feeder cattle and calves unchanged. steers 27.00 top, most 25.50-26.50, veal calves steady to higher with heavy gains for Choice vealers, lambs steady to firm.
Linda Norris surveys Christmas releases led by Tennessee Ernie Ford Capitol Sing We Now of Christmas featuring traditional carols. Hollyridge Strings delivers Christmas Favorites arranged by Stu Phillips. Buck Owens and His Buckaroos issue Christmas with Buck Owens containing eight originals.
In the Old World sandgrouse family drink water by bending the head and immersing the bill, a method shared with drinkers and their relatives. Other birds must raise their heads to swallow.
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