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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1957
Page
7
A reminiscence column recounts boyhood scenes from Illinois and Virginia. A reader recalls threshing with horse power machinery near Oakland Illinois and later stories of flax spinning and homemade linens from Old Virginia. Letters invite further Old Timers contributions.
Lloyd Paul Garner born in Norman Oklahoma rose from gas station attendant and model to TV and film actor. A Los Angeles native, he met Paul Gregory who steered him into acting. Garner played Steve Maryk in stage and toured with The Caine Mutiny Court Martial and later joined the Maverick series. He married in August 1966 and expected a child around Christmas.
Mrs Rosa Statesman and Mr Clarence Fitzgarrald led a busy week hosting and visiting relatives in West Liberty. Families including the Starks, Gash, Weigant, Stutesman, Curtright, Hornbrook, Cox, Jeffs, Hirschman, Kibler and Statesman shared dinners, birthdays, deadication services, missionary meetings, and weekend gatherings with extended kin.
Comic characters from Donald Duck to Lil Abner are urging readers to contribute to the 1957 annual fund for the Sister Elizabeth Kenny foundation. Al Capp, national volunteer chairman, notes TV and newspaper appeals aim to fund care for polio survivors, stroke patients, spinal injuries and other disabilities across ages and creeds.
Lillian Roth, a noted singer and actress, will appear on television nationwide to support the 1957 annual public fund appeal of the Sister Elizabeth Kenny foundation. She praises Sister Kenny’s methods for polio recovery and notes the group now rehabilitates victims of various neuromuscular disabilities.
Mrs. Russell Dennison and Mrs. John Yeley hosted the October W S C S gathering with assisted by Mrs. Don Jones. Numerous guests from Indianapolis Paris Chicago and Missouri visited Marshall area families over the weekend and local relatives were noted across several households.
Orville Taylor and his new bride visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe Augustus in Crescent Hill over the weekend. The article notes other social visits, including Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hazeltine hosting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Gale Blankenbeker and Mr. Lee Ogle left for France for three years while Blankenbeker will be stationed there. An Illinois agriculture expert says eggs used for Asian flu vaccine are unlikely to affect egg prices this season.
Mr and Mrs Albert Gillis of Evansville Indiana are the parents of a son born October 4 at Deaconess Hospital. The child will be named Mark Allen. Elsewhere Miss Nancy Newman of Terre Haute visited Mrs Mary Ingram and friends. Other notes mention Mr and Mrs George Heleine at Sunday dinner with their mother Mrs Fairy Collier and relatives from Trimble Hammond. Susan Nation Shelbyville Kentucky and Jack Patlock New Castle Kentucky were wed at the bride’s home last Saturday October 12. Paddock is grandson of Mrs Maude Paddock and Mrs Fairy Collier. Frank Hazeltine of Footville Wisconsin is also referenced.
Mrs Lena Artman visited Sunday with her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Alva Thompson at Casey Mrs Ollie Reynolds returned home Friday from the Schmidt Clinic at Robinson where she had been a patient the past week Mrs Lola Evans and children visited Saturday with her mother Mrs Amy Edie at Casey Mrs Louise Ingram of West Union spent Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs Joe McCrory and daughters The Jolly Pal club met Thursday with Mrs Mary Graham.
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