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Newspaper
Columbia Star
Location
Columbia, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1966
Page
3
A photograph of graduate Vickie Range was omitted from last week’s Columbia Star graduation list due to an oversight by the supplying party, delaying engraving. The correction notes the missing image is now provided to complete the record.
Elkins West Virginia nostalgia recalls color from natural dyes, family knitting stockings and mittens, side saddle riding, and barn raisings. It notes community singing schools, home organs as wealth symbols, and churned butter sold at the corner store for eight to ten cents.
Scoutmaster and Mrs Rea O Neil move to a farm house near Millstadt after eight months of searching in Columbia amid a housing shortage. Miss Mary Harres rents her Cherry Street house to them two hours after learning tenants were leaving. Mr and Mrs Russell Tunze return from Waterloo where Mrs Hamilton recovered at St Vincent Hospital. Mrs R P Briegel hosts a birthday pillow fight for Billy Reichert with eight candles, guests include Carl Breidecker Clarke Habermehl Gene Sander Billy Rauch Bobby Schueler Leon Harres Virgil Harres. Elmer Volkert receives word his son Horace Volkert has completed cooking and baking school. Vernon Kremmel returns home from Great Lakes after 26 months service.
Shirley Ann Paterson of R. R. 1 joins 25 SIU upperclassmen elected to the Liberal Arts and Sciences Honor Society. Seniors must maintain a 4.5 GPA or better, juniors a 4.75, with selection by SIU faculty Phi Beta Kappa members.
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