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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1959
Page
5
The Vienna Work Happy Stay Hap py 4-H club met at Mrs. Paul Fitzmaurice home with Bev erly Gonnam as reporter. Members discussed Share-the-Fun ideas and planned a Wash Your Duds party to demonstrate operating an aromatic clothes washer and dryer. Lunch was served.
O E S advance night meeting at Masonic temple 8 p.m. Nettle Creek Home bureau unit with Mrs Wayne Center 8 p.m. Rebekah lodge at W R C hall 7 30 p.m. Morris Hospital Nurses Alumni Ullrich hall 6 30 p.m. Legion auxiliary election at Legion home 8 p.m. Wednesday Erienna Day unit Home bureau with Mrs John Scock 1 30 p.m. Erienna Night Unit Home Bureau meets 7 30 p.m. with Mrs C F Gipes. Past Presidents club American Legion Auxiliary with Mrs Mary Tan 1 30 p.m. Thursday Bethlehem Lutheran Mission Aid at church 2 p.m. VFW Post at Post home 8 p.m. Friday Rural home club with Mrs Russell Hexdall 2 p.m.
Mr and Mrs Orville Mitchell marked a 25 year union with an open house at the Knights of Columbus hall. Guests included attendants Mrs David Bum garner and Reynold Mitchell, with music by Miss Ginger Wise and a church Mass later that Sunday.
Morris Night Unit of the Home Bureau met with Mrs Osmund Bjelland. Roll call asked what to do with a 25th hour. 4 H fair slated for August 4 5 and 6 at Mazon fair grounds with visitors day at Camp Shawwanasee. Next meeting July 6 at Folk Valley Marseille. Lunch hosted by several members.
The 63rd Misener reunion will be Sunday June 21 at 680 S River St Aurora in Fox Valley Recreation Center. Hosts Mrs Verna Anderson and Mrs Millie Landers request attendees bring their own rolls potluck dishes drinks and table service.
Admitted include William Powers at 1257 Wauponsee St Mrs Clara Peterson 8402 Fremont Avenue Carol Peacock Route. Births report a son to Arthur and Helen Helling Mazon at 11 16 a.m. Monday and a son to Kenneth and on Liberty St at 6 35 a.m. today. Dismissals list John Warriner Laura Talman Feliberto Chavez and daughter Mrs James Watters and son 808 W Jackson St Mildred Buck 114 W Main St Tilman Thompson Lisbon Road Morris hospital. correction Mrs Thompson was not admitted yesterday.
Mrs. Russell Hexdall will host the Rural Home club at her home Friday at 2 p.m. Members will answer roll call with their favorite tree and the program will be presented by Mrs. Alta Peterson.
Gabriel M. Franco age 30 of Streator and Shirley R. Prindiville age 30 of Kinsman are authorized for marriage. Robert W. Speicher age 21 of Joliet and Jeanne K. Wilkinson age 18 of Joliet also received licenses.
Fidel Castro rejected claims that Soviet officers are training Cuba’s armed forces or that a Soviet arms ship has reached Cuban waters. He labeled the allegations from a former rebel officer in Miami as part of an insidious campaign against his government.
A purse containing 225 dollars and a 150 dollar gold compact was stolen at a Tucson home party. Several guests saw a young man calmly rifling purses but believed he was a son of a guest.
The Senate committee questions Holovachka over more than $327,000 in cash deposits during eight years as an official and lawyer. He claims none of the money came from labor or rackets and argues the probe into his personal affairs is unwarranted. His past income and role in Lake County politics are referenced by investigator Richard Sinclair.
H. B. Petty of the University of Illinois explains termites resemble flying ants except for two or three differences. Worker termites are white while worker ants vary in color. A wing-size difference helps distinguish them, as termites have wings of equal size, whereas ants have front wings longer than the rear.
A quotation attributed to Thomas Jefferson asserts he would rather have newspapers than a government without them. The remark emphasizes the vital role of a free press in governance.
Jay Larson 91 of Lisbon died shortly after noon Monday at Silver Cross hospital Joliet where he had been a patient for a month. Services Thursday at 2 p.m. at Frnland Chapel with Rev William Hutter. Burial in Helmar cemetery. Survived by three nieces and four nephews. Born August 18 1867 in Fox Township Kendall county. He spent his life farming near Lisbon.
The House approved provisions for calling special town meetings and set new hours for school township trustee elections from noon to 7 pm. A rival measure to raise local option petition thresholds failed. Other actions included limits on motels near tollways and curbs on county licensing of transient lodgings.
Illinois tops a list of veteran Republican lawmakers honored with special elephant pins for long service in the House and Senate. Five Illinois lawmakers earned ruby set pins for 20 to 30 years, including Leo E. Allen Everett M. Dirksen Leslie C. Arends Noah Mason, with Dirksen at 24 years and Arends at 24. Rep. John Taber of New York led all with 36 years. Also noted is a 1952 trial of piggyback railroad service carrying truck trailers on flatcars between Wichita and Kansas City.
A proposal to establish a two year technical institute at Sterling was rejected by the State Teachers College Board. The decision followed a Sterling delegation's request with the community to supply building and Northern Illinois University staff. The board also set 1960 salaries for the four schools with raises up to eighty dollars per month.
A fragmentary ledger lists payments to auto supply, plumbing, lumber, cement, coal, gravel, limestone, oil, and utility firms. Notable entries include Central Limestone 57.20, Crown Rock Asphalt 210.60, Morris Coal 4.65, Public Service Co 782.18, and Ludlow Valve 821.76, among others.
Harry Woodborne of Melville New York presented a hand illuminated scroll titled Golfer's Prayer to President Eisenhower. The verse asks divine forgiveness for golfers trampling grass and echoing a light mockery of sacred turf with lines about pasture, carpet, and trespass.
The bower birds in Australia adorn their bowers with shells and other vivid objects to attract mates. This behavior highlights their use of color and display in courtship strategies.
Chandler cites NI Gas reaching 120 000 permits in 12 months and negotiating 50 to 100 million cubic feet daily for 1960 61 winter. New Northern Natural connection adds 65 million, Midwestern capacity can double with new stations, Herschel storage and Troy Grove project eyed for cold weather. projected expenditures around 158 million from 1959 to 1963 with about 39 million this year.
Of the 15 governments that backed the Atlantic Charter with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in 1941, nine were in exile.
Brace ville Police Magistrate Joseph Rockis corrected a Saturday Herald report stating Lewis Ayers of Dwight had a 25 bond. Ayers, chased by Braceville Chief Junior W. Zilm at 110 mph, was later caught hiding in a Dwight weeds patch.
In Land Springs Oklahoma the election board ordered two candidates for re election to cover their names on office doors to avoid influencing voters who passed the doors to reach the ballot place.
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