Legends and Caves of Hardin County Illinois
A feature on Hardin County sights highlights Cave-in-Rock and Ford's Ferry Road along the Ohio River. It notes ghostly lore, ancient carvings, Indian mounds, springs and the Big Sink lake formed by limestone caves, with mention of Ford's Ferry and local routes.
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Ohio
Ohio River
Caverne Dans le Roc
Lock and Dam No. 50
Kentucky
Ford's Ferry
Ferry Road
Thomas Ford
Pott
Cave-in-Rock
Hardin County
America
Retirement Values Create Two Apricots in a Senior Life
A 71 year old groundskeeper, once a vice president, lives in a Sunshine retirement community. He earns $90 a month, rents two rooms, and manages maintenance rather than enjoying former status. He warns that retirees cling to past careers, losing joy in the golden years. A new 36 page booklet on New GOLDEN YEARS is offered by CSPS.
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J. Mike Sawyer
Sawyer
Midwest
Mr. Sawyer
Lo Dept. Csps
Grand Central Station
New York
N.Y
Grain shipments rise in 1965 season with record loads
The Dreamed grain total surpassed 24 million bushels loaded through June. Hard winter wheat shipments reached about 5.6 million, while yellow soybeans totaled around 5.4 million bushels. Shipments to foreign ports climbed over 20 percent versus 1964.
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Schneider
Kerner signs discipline bill linking teachers to parents
Governor Otto Kerner signed a new bill aligning teacher discipline with the parent pupil relationship. He says the measure defends teachers from harassment suits and codifies long standing loco parentis practice while forbidding child brutality. Grain shipments from Chicago rose sharply with 35,116,000 bushels loaded in June, up 69.4 percent from last year.
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Otto Kerner
Gov. Kerner
Kerner
Water cycle expected to drain Big Sink after plug decays
Historical description notes stones and debris plug a drain to renew the lake then Big Sink fills as water returns. After years the plug decays and Big Sink drains again. Currently the outlet plug holds and water level rises, predicting a morning without water and a crevice washed clean at the lake center.
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Big Link
Easiest shade tree fertilizer method outperforms others
Tests reported in the 12 page Biological Notes No. 53 show that leaf application yields no extra growth, while broadcasting fertilizer on the surface gives a slight growth edge over punch-bar holes or soil injection. The study by Dr. Harlow Mills of the Illinois Natural History Survey covers pin oak, white ash, and honey locust with rates and methods, plus a simple way to estimate needs.
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Harlow Mills
Illinois Natural History Survey
Urbana
SIU report shows June rainfall above normal for Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University Climateology Laboratory reports June was wetter and cooler than normal across most of the region with an area average 5.52 inches of rain. Some stations recorded their wettest June in up to 14 years while Benton Du Quoin and Sparta were below normal.
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Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University Climatology Laboratory
Floyd F. Cunningham
Benton
du Quoin
Sparta
Cunningham
McLeansboro
Jonesboro
Elizabethtown
Glendale
Golconda
Anna
Carbondale
Cobden
Creal Springs
Grand Tower
Ilinois
Scientific notes and curious advances from the era
A digest of science items covers low calorie peanuts processed by the USDA, a National Bureau of Standards rummage sale, drought suggesting chemical blankets for reservoirs, a dentifrice coating for long space missions, high speed canning lines, and air traffic growth. Also noted are Yellowstone earthquakes, a mineral oil moon theory, rainfall comparisons across towns, and meteorite oil hints by Willard Libby.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
National Bureau of Standards
Washington
Gaithersburg
Yellowstone National Park
National Park Service
Old Faithful Geyser
Willard F. Libby
UCLA
Kentucky marriage age and parental consent guidance
The letter responds that in Kentucky parental consent is needed for marriage until age 21. It warns that running away to marry or leave home is unwise, urges family involvement, and stresses the value of parents in a teenager's life, inviting future letters to the column.
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Kentucky
Meteotipes SN
State Fair Highlights Butter Churner Grabowski and Tiny Pony
Illinois State Fair 1965 features Jim Grabowski the Illinois star fullback butter churning in Farm A Rama Building on Saturday August 14. Also on display is Sugar Dumpling claimed as the world’s smallest fully developed horse at 20 inches, owned by Smith McCoy of Roderfield West Virginia with a $1000 challenge to disprove the claim. Farm City Day on Tuesday August 17 will include a Governor speech emphasizing rural urban interdependence.
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Jim Grabowski
University of Illinois
Grabowski
Farm-A-Rama
Smith McCoy
Roderfield
W. Va
McCoy
Illinois
Otto Kerner
WGN
War on Poverty programs highlighted in new national briefing
A Washington report urges strengthening the War on Poverty after outlining progress: Job Corps volunteers exceed 200,000. 500 community action programs funded. Head Start underway reaching 600,000 children. first six months VA Vista volunteers. efforts to eliminate the other America recur alongside calls for focused reform and continued government support.
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VISTA
Michael Harrington
America
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues
A readable OCR fragment lists crossword clues across and down. The grid hints include multiple numbered clues such as Be off Pursue Paleness Percolate and various down entries like Hollow out a and Job. The text mixes spellings and broken words, with partial phrases from across and down sections and truncated terms.
Astringent fruit and British Tank abbr clues
A compact puzzle clue set lists items such as ay’ arice antelope and African terms with numbers and a poetic preposition. It appears as a cross word style hint group with several cryptic references.
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Jonanw
W. Allew
Riverside
Chicago
Robert M. Schneider
Illinois Department of Agriculture
SIU
Albert Meyer
East
School of Aerospace Medicine
Texas
U.S
Votator
Louisville
Ft. Smith
Ark
Federal Aviation Agency
California
Alaska
Brookport
Carmi
Shawneetown
Chester
Harrisburg
Makanda
Mt. Vernon
State Fair News
Washington Report
Europe
World Health Service
Peace Corps
Johnson
88Th Congress
Congress
Pete Fountain
Jackie Vernon
Disney
Walt Disney
Anaheim
Calif
Division of Tourism
Illinois ‘Board of Economic Development
Abraham Lincoln
Bartion
Isaac Walton
Monster
Peer Gynt'’s
Iran
Egypt
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