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HOMECOMING QUEEN AND HER ATTENDANTSPhoto by J R Scnroii, Pnotograpner Miss Sandra Jackson, center, will reign as queen of Homecoming festivities at B.H.S which will begin tomorrow and continue through Wednesday Her attendants pictured with her (from 1 to r) are Pat | ^jOenseal, freshman. Mary Brannan. junior Betty Harre, senior, and Janet White, sophorao!*e. To-mnrrnw. afternoon at 3 p. m_will ~ he~ the HtHnpcnmlTnrrpamdpr - RidInc-on-the—floaV-wltly-thlt;i-queen.and her attendants will be the football co-captains. Jerry Ramsey and Robert Hagener A rally and bonfire will be held tomorrow night at the high school grounds At 2:00 p., m, Wednesday Is the game-with Rushvillc at B-H-S. day night will be in the highw -w — « J — - w ▼ — w w — ----^ —-------V ---------— - — - - --• » —-1*- - - —— » ▼ ---- H — --- —athletic lielcL and. tlwjtomecomlng dance^from 9 to midnight Wednes-school gym. with alumni invited ~ ' ..... ^ ~Aurora Mayor Seeks To Force State I Homecomingtirc1To Build Bypass arouMCjty. Aurora, HI. UP -r- Scrappy May- j authorities said that Egan may b$ arOPaul Bsan, who caused a4 jumb^-interfering-’ with interstate - com-traffic jam with a temporaiy mercetruck blockade, ordered the bar-1 uut t^e mayor said he would riers thrown up again today in a not glve up Ms fight to keep the fight to force the state to build a “menace to life’* out of the cu.5!' i )t.IuIIItn.ih■* _ idst| »ti ibypass around the city But a Chicago trucking company obtained an injunction restraining Mayor Paul Egan from his plan to blockade this city of 53,-000 persons against all trucks.Egan said he was served with an order, signed by Judge Harry C Daniels of the Circuit Court at Geneva. 111., ordering him to remove highway barriers pending a Dec 21 hearing The Union Transfer Co of Chicago requested the orde**Egan, who declared a “state of emergency’* because of Aurora’s accident rate, oraerea speclai_de-puties sworn In to man the roadblocks and ker*p nil trucks out of Aurora, which lies on busy U S Highway 30 “The situation here Is awful — much worse than any other community of our size in the United States/’ he said “We’re asking the governor for '.*14.000 emergency funds to fix up a good Tiypasjr*’ The roads approachinu the industrial city were snarled with a major traffic jam Saturday when the barriers first went up onEgan's orders.Egan said a shortage of reserve nniimmcn forced him to give upof aoout o3.000 populationEgan has been trying to force the state to build a bypass for months', but state officials have said that such a project would cost far more than the $14,000 Egan estimated. It is possible to bypass the city now on U.S. 30, but only by devious routes.Parade To Be3 p. m.- IueFollowing a pep assembly ,to-morro\v_ afternoon at Beardstown high school where MLss Sandra Jackson will be crowned as queen of Homecoming, a parade will form at 3 p m and continue down State street to the city square where a rally will be held The B.H.8. band will lead the parade. Several floats and decorated cars will .follow Each class is preparing a decorated entry for the paradet I -lt;iThe mayor fired the first shot| on- the Homecoming .float will in his war against truckers some ’ be the queen and her attendants time ago when he ordered his po-iand the football co-captains, Jernlice force to ticket them for such offenses as dirty license plates Hery ^Ramsey and Robert Hagener, Students will follow the floatslite and propertyHis original order also prohibitedclaimed that 2,500 trucks a day1 jn ^ snake dantfe down State street s through the city, endangering and will meet in the city square forcheers aha a peprally *--Another rally and big bonfire passenger cars from entering the will be held at 7 o’clock tomorrow city unless the occupant lived .alght at the high school grounds, there or had friends or relatives The Homecoming game will bo to visit, but this was changed at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon Saturday night. | with Rushville as opponents of theEgan is Uie most colorful mayor Beardstown Tigers.In Aurora history He was broke1 The Homecoming dance, with en and drawing unemployment pay orchestra booked for the occasion, when h(Twas elected last April 10 vill b£ held from 9 o’clock until He claimed that he was offered ^midnight in. thp high school gym. a $50,000 bribe to stay out of the Alumni are invited to tho Home-elcction. I coming dance as well os to otherThe 53-year-old mayor, rotund festivities ~ and gray-haired, waged an un-, This is the most elaborate home-usual campaign, attacking Demo- coming planned at B.H.8. In man*n 1 tiro fllldvear A.
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Beardstown Illinoian Star
Beardstown, Illinois, US
Mon, Nov 09, 1953
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Richard M.
NA, 29 May 2020
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