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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1963
Page
2
The notice lists positions for Editor in Chief Business Manager News Editor and Sports Editor at WNews with duties spanning editorial direction reader engagement and sports coverage. It specifies recruitment scope and calls for qualified applicants to apply through official channels.
A brief exhortation from scripture and John H. Aughey urging avoidance of handling tasting or touching matters and ignoring quarrelsome scorners and inquisitive voices for calm, restrained living.
Editorial argues that meteorological satellites and data telemetered from space will vastly improve planting forecasts, enabling forecasts days to days and a year in advance. It notes Nimbus Aeros and a US Soviet teletype circuit as future weather information allies while cautioning almanac loyalists they may not vanish soon.
A 1963 note urges observing June as Dairy Month noting projected milk output around 126 billion pounds, enough to supply a quart per person daily. It cites dairying as 14 percent of farm income and suggests simple celebrations through dairy products and even casein glue from milk by‑products.
The Federal Aid Airports Program enables small cities to obtain airstrips without costly installations. New standards allow a 2000 by 50 foot runway on 22 acres plus 102 acres for clear zones. Safe for small aircraft under visual flight rules, the plan aims to cover up to 50 percent of costs and foster a nationwide airways system.
Puzzle fills the page with a wide word cross theme. Across clues cover circus acts month names cities names and common terms while down clues include weight deductions paradise and various river names. The grid requires solving for a coherent set of intersecting words.
A concerned reader asks how to handle an 11 year old who harasses younger children with stones and foul language. The response urges mothers to write the boy’s parents, involve welfare if needed, and argues that family neglect becomes public business when a child’s behavior threatens others.
President Kennedy urges 100 business leaders to speed integration in southern establishments. They are described as ready to go home and get started.
Britain vows support as anxious relatives await word on the 101 aboard a military chartered airliner that crashed off British Columbia. President Kennedy's western tour focuses on space age prospects amid tense global headlines.
Quiz style item lists six holders of the office who became president: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, and James Buchanan. It also notes the kiwi bird lays an egg one-fourth its weight and that the U S Coast Guard was created in 1790. Britannica Book of the Year reports 51 625 000 households in March 1962.
Reader letters discuss possible junior college or University of Illinois branch on the Old Car Shop Property in Mt. Vernon Illinois. Questions raise cost funding enrollment scale and feasibility while noting state funds and taxation implications. The note ends with thanks from veterans for poppy sales supporting rehabilitation programs.
On this date 1851 marked the first Uncle Tom's Cabin chapter in National Era. 1790 John Fitch steamboat made a round trip between Trenton and Philadelphia. 1863 French troops entered Mexico City. 1933 Roosevelt signed the act invalidating the gold clause. 1945 Norway’s king left Britain to return home after exile. 1946 La Salle Hotel fire in Chicago killed 61. Ten years ago officials studied a report.
Maryland earned the nickname Old Line State for its troops praised by George Washington for gallantry during the Revolutionary War.
A lighthearted anecdote recalls a garden wall scene where a boy asks for his arrow and a neighbor retrieves it from a car. The text notes Nebraska as the Forest State, home to the first Arbor Day in the United States.
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