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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1950
Page
3
Last Thursday the senior class met to choose a class day that mirrors last year’s. Highlights include Fort Madison prison Keokuk power house locks and Mark Twain’s Missouri residence. Yearbook work progresses with stencils and picture pages. book due by end of school.
Students report finished shorthand books and the chapter The Lady or the Tiger. They completed budgets and speed trials, hoping to raise pace. Geometry reviews Similar Polygons and prepares for Unit 6 test and Areas of Polygons this week or next.
The Sophomore class reports last Friday's track win against Mason City and Easton and plans a match with Petersburg this Friday. Students strive to exempt finals, study ratios in Algebra, extend World History lessons, and begin a new unit on trade with China. A Biology field trip may occur May 8 if coursework is completed, and the class enjoyed a recent night out after a show.
Freshman reporters note the class adviser and science teacher are back. Mr Rush substituted during illness and freshmen enjoyed his teaching. The group studies light energy in science and radicals in math while reviewing citizenship chapters and crime as a social issue. Prose and poetry lessons cover authors and their lives.
In April 1910 freezing weather damaged vegetation across Illinois destroying all fruit. Other notes recount Herman Pieper returning from Germany and local events in Manito and Spring Lake during the era including construction work and the first rural telephone loan announced by the Department of Agriculture.
Mrs. William Ainsworth chairs a Mason County Public Education cancer committee meeting with Mrs. Florence Marshall of Pekin detailing an educational program. A speakers bureau and school of instructions will visit townships, with local organization heads aiding the effort. Tea followed the business session as attendees included residents from Forest City Pekin Bath Manita and San Jose.
The Illinois Department of Revenue reports January sales tax revenue totaling 11,148,000. Of this, 4,874,000 comes from 171 department stores and 67,140 other retail establishments downstate, while 6,274,000 comes from 101 department stores and 57,544 other retail outlets in Cook County.
A Chicago opinion piece likens Post Office service cuts to a husband curbing spending. It argues Congress should applaud economy while urging modernization to save hundreds of millions, noting daily mail will shift to once daily delivery and questioning hardship to citizens.
James B. Stapleton of New Berlin named superintendent of the light horse department by H. W. Elliott and Carson Dodd of Loami appointed superintendent of the stock horse show. Stapleton served as assistant superintendent last year. Dodd is known for rodeo and western horse show work.
Dr Roland R Cross director of the Illinois Department of Public Health told the 10th annual Illinois Public Health Association conference in Springfield that longer life spans will lead to new health problems and require expanded public health work to meet changing conditions.
Dr J C Carter warns that half way measures against phloem necrosis are useless and that thorough spraying with DDT to kill leaf hoppers is needed. The disease has already devastated elm trees in Springfield Mattoon Lincoln Champaign Urbana and Peoria with southern Illinois worst affected. Signs appear in July with leaf rolling yellowing and withering followed by rapid death. Previous community control efforts in Lincoln Peoria and Champaign Urbana campus will show results next summer as trees die a year after infection.
The piece frames the choice between convenience and necessity during weekends. It asks whether society will accept some inconvenience to pursue broader economic gains and examines the public stance on the tradeoff.
I A A President Charles Shuman warns the share of eligible rural voters voting remains disturbingly low, highlighting concerns about participation and representation in rural communities.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that farm stocks of feed grains on April 1 reached the second largest level on record, underscoring ample supplies for livestock feeding and market implications for grain users.
Market report from the Norris Grain Company offices at 10:30 am lists Del. prices for grain futures including No 2 Holt Wheat 10 day 2.08. No 2 Shorn Corn 10 day 1.36. Barley Corn 10 day 1.36. No 2 White Oats 10 day .78. No 2 Yes Beans 10 day 2.66. Pekin callers Friday include Ella Strawbridge Sara Hill Linda Hodkinson and Tommy Strawbridge.
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