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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1957
Page
3
Mrs May Van Zandt of 718 Price Street is visiting Pontiac this week. Mrs Ralph Harper and Mrs Will Miller have returned from Decatur where they attended the 70th annual convention of the Women's Relief Corps.
Lists of admitted patients after tonsillectomies and discharges, then births at area hospitals with times and parent names, followed by dismissed patients. The note closes with a brief description of two coffee making methods, steeping and dripping, and their procedures.
Engagement and forthcoming marriage of Bernice Muffler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Muffler of Saratoga township, to Harold George Gahm of rural Streator. The ceremony is set for 10 a.m. at St. Mary's church Minooka with a reception later at the Morris American Legion home from 2 30 to 4 30 p.m.
Calendar notes list home bureau units meeting daily at various locations with names like Mrs Russell Var land and Mrs Millard Moberg as hosts. Also included are lodge and church group gatherings at Eagles hall Masonic temple W.R.C. and Methodist venues. A cooking instruction line advises cutting vegetables evenly for uniform cooking.
A class of Reed-Custer high school agriculture students led by instructor A. C. Hammond depart for a two week trip through Missouri Colorado New Mexico and Arizona. They will visit Grand Canyon and Santa Fe trail sites including Carlsbad Caverns and other points of interest.
Goodfarm Notes. Larry Bledsoe visits his grandparents in Nashville Tennessee. The Hi club entertained G S W high school graduates at a parish house breakfast. Gifts were presented with Mrs Bert Constantine and Miss Antoinette Naretto serving.
In Piacenza Italy a Sunday night tor nado sucked dozens of four inch eels from the sea and dumped them over the town as the twister lost power.
Pauling warns 1000 leukemia deaths yearly plus more bone cancer from nuclear tests. He cites Dr. E D Lewis Caltech and AEC fallout data, predicting hundreds of thousands of future deficient births. He argues no real scientist disputes fallout harm and urges disarmament efforts aligned with weapon development.
Double 1 in its final motion before halting rolled east in a field catapulting over rocks 75 feet and stopping on its wheels. Durkee and Enger were thrown from the car as it entered the field. Coroner W. Clark Davis will hold an inquest later. Durkee, born Feb 15 1933 in Morris, survived by father George and siblings. his mother Mrs. Durkee also survived with five sons and two daughters and ten grandchildren.
Roger K. Chisholm of Crete Illinois is assigned to Grundy County as a summer extension trainee. He starts today and will work under Farm Adviser M B Tascher through early September. The program provides practical county extension experience and college credit toward graduation. Chisholm is a 4 H member and will work in both 4 H and adult extension tasks under Tascher.
The resolution states it is charged the Defense Department order surrendering Girard to Japan for trial violates treaties with Japan. Girard's brother Louis planned to speak with the President about Williams' case before learning of the President's illness. no meeting was indicated.
The Wauponsee Handy Anns 4-H club met at Marsha Darin’s home for an outdoor supper and set a July 10 tour meeting at Barbara Phillis’s home at 10 a.m. Janet Ryder hosts June 20 at 7 p.m. with roll call on electricity safety rules. Diane Phillips, reporter.
Pro Western Lebanon candidates captured 15 of 22 seats as the first round of the general election concluded. The results affect the government’s support for the Eisenhower doctrine and its stance in the Middle East.
The obituary mentions three children who predeceased the individual: one in infancy, William at age 11, and John. It also notes the presence of several nieces and nephews, indicating extended family surviving or referenced in the notice.
Jesse Owens urged reflection on inner attitudes to end prejudice at the Seventh Statewide Conference on Human Relations in Champaign Illinois. Sponsored by the Illinois Commission on Human Relations, Owens and three others received merit certificates for efforts to reduce prejudice.
Sixteen Explorer Scouts left Morris at midnight and reached Marcel Minnesota by 3 p.m. Saturday for a first stop on their trip to Land O Lakes Canada. Aboard the chartered bus are Richard Barkley post advisor Frederick Walker assistant advisor Charles Bleifield and Glen Odom mechanic.
Gordon Gross of 513 FE Illinois Ave and John Morel of 917 EF Jefferson St left Sunday for Twenty Nine Palms California for two weeks of training with the U S Marine Corps Reserves. Gross is the son of Mrs Gladys Gross and Morel is the son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Black.
The State Agriculture Teachers Association annual conference begins today in the Union Building at the University of Illinois and runs through Friday with A. V. Meadors of Morris presiding. Meetings include executive and section chairmen sessions plus a banquet Tuesday evening.
Farnley J. Phillips age 27 of Kankakee and Majorie R. Davy age 34 of Alton obtained marriage licenses as announced by The Herald Ads for Bargains.
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