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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1966
Page
6
A home cook’s guide to quick leftovers mixed with noodles or macaroni and frozen dinners. Includes Snow Pudding with lemon gelatin and whipped egg whites, cookie crumb desserts, poached pears with ice cream, and a lime gelatin fruit salad variation.
Immaculate Conception School Crusaders used a full court press to build a 23-3 first half lead and beat St. Mary's Belleville 40-29 at the Belleville School gym on Sunday January 9. Gary Haberl led with 17 points, Kenny Mees 9, Terry Breeding 8 as the Blue and White dominated both ends. The I C S Midgets fell 33-18 to St Mary's B team with Dan Habert scoring 8 and Mike Watkins 7.
Pvt. Gerald E. Nungesser, 21, son of Mr and Mrs Milton L Nungesser of Waterloo, finished a 28 week radio relay and carrier repair course at the Army Southeastern Signal School Ft Gordon Ga on January 7. He trained in servicing field telephone telegraph and radio relay gear through classroom work with models and real equipment and hands on lab and field practice. Nungesser entered the Army in July 1965 after basic at Fort Leonard Wood Mo, was a Waterloo High School graduate, and earlier worked for Endicott Johnson Shoe Corp in St Louis.
The annual Monroe County Horsemanship meeting will be held at the Farm Bureau Hall in Waterloo on Friday January 14 at 7 30 p m. Films on different kinds of horses will teach young horsemen about breeds uses and care. Riverside Riders 4-H Club hosts with Floyd Niebruegge as club leader. Public invited.
Wayne Van Pelt and Howard Gault, owners of Columbia Airport, show a unit of the new runway lighting system. The system uses over 6,000 feet of underground cable and 32 lights to mark a 2,700 foot runway plus overruns. Lights improve safety and extend the field’s use as a commercial airport. The owners also add a Cessna 150 to their rental fleet.
SPPS students collected for the March of Dimes during the week of January 3 7 to aid polio victims and nursing scholarships for graduates. Six students will perform The Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton at the district one act comp at Notre Dame High School in Belleville on February 5.
A large shipment of canned goods funded by St Paul Ev and Reformed church members was packed by Consistory members to aid war sufferers in Europe. Mrs John J. Mueller reported district 20s 1945 War Fund campaign raised 1622 toward a 1800 quota, with further gifts directed to Philip Klein Valmeyer. Columbia Daily Rebekah Lodge 515 installed officers January 10 led by Noble Grand Margaret Mosbacher and others. Two new membership applications were presented. a Christmas card from Dist 26 officers was read. Refreshments followed.
Illinois total traffic fatalities for 1965 reached 2 228, averaging over six per day, up one percent from 2 207 in 1964. December deaths fell to 214, down nine percent from 234 in December 1964. February March August October and November 1965 saw higher deaths than their 1964 counterparts.
Illinois Department of Conservation officials report a total harvest of 15 079 geese for the season running from November 8 to December 23. Most were taken around Horseshoe Lake near Cairo in Alexander County with 9 334 birds. Union County hunters bagged 5 095 Canadas and Williamson County 650.
Illinois public aid rolls kept shrinking in 1965 after a turn upward ended in 1962. The December 1965 caseload dropped by 8,200 from November and was 20,000 below December 1964, totaling 27,400 fewer cases and 53,000 fewer persons than the May 1962 peaks of 199,173 cases and 453,279 people.
Shipfitter Second Class James A. Wren USN son of Mr and Mrs James A Wren Sr R R 1 East Carondelet serves aboard destroyer USS Sproston now in transit to the South China Sea for Seventh Fleet operations. Sproston operates from Pearl Harbor Hawaii and had trained in Hawaiian waters before departing for fleet operations.
William Vogt Sr a renowned Columbia merchant will observe his 85th birthday on Thursday January 17. A family gathering is planned at the Vogt home Sunday January 20 with relatives attending St Paul Evang and Reformed Church in the morning followed by dinner and open house in the afternoon.
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