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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1962
Page
2
The Wabash Valley Printing Co Marshall Illinois publishes weekly by Mark and Carlos Stewart with editor Mark Stewart. Subscriptions cost 2.00 per year local ads 35c per column inch and reader ads 20c per line.
Maurice B. Scott executive secretary of the Taxpayers Federation of Illinois argues inflation acts as a heavy tax on rising incomes. He cites CPI records and a Tax Foundation study showing a production worker’s income doubled from 1947 to 1960 while his income tax nearly quadrupled due to bracket creep.
Sunday dinners mark West Union and nearby towns with multiple guests. Mrs. Beulah Dickey dies after a stroke, while Mrs. Rosa Tolbert returns home from Union Hospital. A wedding unites Miss Peggy Frost and Albert Lindley at West Union Christian Church. Funeral for Robert E. Gard held. many relatives attend from Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Chicago.
Names of farmers across townships including Marshall Casey Darwin Parker and Melrose report completed diversions W ditches turnstrip ditches and corrugated metal pipe outlets. The notice lists owners and farms with specifics on ditch types and outlets and invites spring surveys and planned work in coming days.
Tollways and expressways offer fast safe travel with limited access. Entering requires acceleration to traffic speed and safe merging. Exit slows traffic and obeys yield signs. No stopping on tollways except for emergencies on the right shoulder. Carry flares emergency fuel and spare tires. If broken down raise hood signal with white cloth. After dark use interior lights and vehicle lights. Tollways are patrolled and speeds enforced. Minimum 40 mph maximum 70 mph. reversing or U turns prohibited. If you miss an exit proceed to the next. For more info contact Charles F. Carpentier and the Illinois Toll Highway Commission.
Elder Gaylord Green of Casey will preach at Mill Creek church Sunday morning and evening. Weekend visitors include Marshall and Carroll Williams of Chrisman, and Mable Renner of Auburn. Donna Blankenship remains in Union Hospital after Friday surgery. Roger Williams近期 health status not specified.
Several from Mt. Olive Church attended the ordination of pastor Jerry Ford at Highlands Avenue Baptist Church in Robinson on Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Odin Stogsdill of Salem and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Leasure were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Leasure. Alva Wells and Buel Millis hosts at Palestine. Doyle Artman and Janie visited Lena Artman. Raymond Ford of Lawrenceville and family visited with Ben and Mrs. Ford. Joe McCrory attended their nieces Donna Lockhart wedding in Oblong Saturday night.
Sandra McCrory of Robinson is named in a Sunday afternoon note in The Herald. The item focuses on local residents and appears in the periodical's social or community brief section.
Under President Barnard the university advanced in physics and astronomy while the Old Observatory was built. In 1960-61 total enrollment reached 5,177 with high faculty qualifications. The campus comprises eight schools and is known for Ole Miss football and pageant success with Miss Americas Mobley and Mead.
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