New Omnibus Boating Code Aims At Safer Water Sports
The Outboard Boating Club of America pushes a comprehensive Omnibus Boating Code to guide federal and state lawmakers. It expands the CBC rules to cover water skiing careless operation overloading and powering limits and prohibits local regulation. The plan emphasizes state control with uniform laws to prevent a patchwork system. Existing federal penalties include fines up to 2000 dollars or a year in jail for negligent operation.
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Outboard Boating Club of America
CBC
Watermelon Twilight and River Bend Fishing Tale
A lyrical reminiscence from a Marshall Herald feature recalling summer days. The narrator describes watermelons peaches corn and a family river trip to Sugar Creek with a trotline boat and a dog named Frank. Aunt Sarahs dinner bells and Grandma’s feast anchor a vivid rural scene.
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Rora Bend
Sugar Creek
Frank
Inlaws and Friends Gather for Sunday Visits and Anniversaries
A long list of social visits and family events from Marshall includes Mr. and Mrs. Orville Taylor hosting, the Kirby open house for a twenty fifth wedding anniversary, and many relatives from Terre Haute Durango and West Terre Haute visiting relatives. Notes mention illnesses and church verses, with remarks on local pig farming advances and Emerson on friendship.
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Ezekiel
Haley
Orville “Taylor
Clara
Ann Kirby
J. HL Johns
Harold Johns
Jane
David-Bland
Donnetta
Morris
C. Groves
Durango
Colorado
A.‘E.’ Doll
Carl Kirby
Dean Holmes
Paris
Daisy Prusett
Leona Stepp
Detroit
Michigan
Barbara~Laufman
Jack Lewis
Ernest Long
West Terre Haute
Anna Newell
David Switzer
Marshall
Estel Holmes
Harold Holmes
Earl Bays
Russel Taylor
Grace Weaver
Tony Galafaro
Mollie Wernz
Terre, Haute
Glen Lee
Bertha Lee
Charles Beltz
Lafayette
Indiana
Hony Galafaro
Glenn Lee
Verlan Hurst
Annetta Hollenbeck
Winford Taylor
Bert Joy
Alberta Flinn
Moris C. Groves
Nina Johns
Bernadine
Carol Ann
Dee Sweitzer
Pearl Mount
Terre Haute
A. E. Doll
Edward Doll
Nancy
Warren Orndorff
William Lackey
Kate Lackey
Irene Huston
Dorothy (Cooper) Monroney
Wayne Cooper
Max Colliflower
Ralph Fairgrief
May Wilson
Ernest Jones
Russell Taylor
Nelle Liggett
West
West Union Social Roundup At Home And Away
Local residents hosted and visited across towns including West York Hardinville and Terre Haute. Guests included Mr and Mrs Paul Hazeltine L A Shawler Louie Lawrence and Bessie Waitt with extended travels to Chicago Woodstock Paris and Arizona. Community members attended church services and the Illinois Agriculture Association convention while family gatherings and hospital recoveries were noted.
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Paul Hazeltine
Mae Mason
West York
L. A. Shawler
Earl Stiner
True Thompson
Luthor
Lyman Shawler
Steve
Ann
Harry Thompson
Christian Church
Hardinville
Louie Lawrence
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Bessie Waitt
Cloyd Waitt
Scotland
Illinois
Ruth Hayek
Union Hospital
Terre Haute
Mack Strohm
Lyman Crumlin
Shirley Morton
Illinois Agriculture Association
Chicago
Nellie Strohm
Woodstock
John Strohm
Chicago Congress Trip for 4-H Boys
Two Illinois 4-H members James Main of Karnak and Mark Zimmerman of McHenry earned trips to the 36th annual 4 H Club Congress in Chicago on December 15. Generous sponsors include General Motors and the Westinghouse Educational Foundation for the two winners.
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Chicago
James Main
Karnak
Pulaski County
Mark Zimmerman
McHenry
James
General Motors
Post Creek Agriculture
Mark
Congress
Westinghouse Educational Foundation
Westinghouse College
Cooperative Extension Service
Smiths Visit Sister in St Elmo
Mr and Mrs H L Smith of St Elmo visited their sister Mrs Clay Cork and her husband recently during the winter months.
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H. L. Smith
St. Elmo
Clay Cork
Youth Rally Attendance at West Union Church
Fifteen youths and ten adults from the area attended the youth rally at the West Union Christian church Monday evening. Several local residents hosted guests and shared meals, with Tracy Wilhoit of Lincoln Bible Institute as the speaker.
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West Union Christian Church
Carolyn
Beverly Burkett
Ralph Burkett
Tracy Wilhoit
Lincoln Bible Institute
Jennie Wilholt
Paris
Rosemary Higginbotham
Glenn Wilhoit
Joyce
West Union
Tracy
Virgil Veach
Chrisman
Anna Veach
Don Burkett
Stevie
Champaign
Donald Staggs
Frances Hutchens
Washington
Indiana
Herbert Hutchens
Vicki
Nelson Auld
Harlan Hutchens
Remembering an Old Timers Neighbor in Lynwood
Lilian C Arthurs recalls a Lynwood neighborhood doctor with a white beard riding a horse and buggy. She notes his iron fenced home with spring tulips and his wife who gave blossoms, plus a son whose black dough pills were dissolved in water as medicine.
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Lilian C. Arthurs
Lynwood
Calif
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Fis
Havec
Dhesem Stites
Salee
Tempco
Fuel Building Service
R. Hills
Weck
Joe
Yaller
Sarah
Samuel
Golda
Old Frank
Aunty
Uncle Samuel
Marshall Herald
Dennison
Russell” Taylor
University of Illinois
Emmerson
Bill Foley
Nelle Strohm
Orval Burnam
Will Gard
Eileen Ferris
Eloise Nichols
Burton ‘Prust
Leona Highsmith
Harnett Wright
Edith, Ledermann
Ruth Wright
John Lour
G. B. Wilhott
Rosens Valdes
Maryville
Missouri
Miami
Crandon Park Zoo
Harry
PrInceton Farms
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