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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1964
Page
5
Journalist Michelle Klaus explores rising interest in private residential pools as an urban escape. The piece surveys homeowners transforming backyards into wellness spaces, noting trends in cost, maintenance, and design while contrasting with public swimming holes.
The article profiles Benjamin Franklin of Topeka Kansas who started on the Lincoln circuit in Illinois and built a dispatching agency for top civic groups. It notes speaker rates from a few hundred to several thousand dollars, discusses repeat bookings, and honors Sam Kessinger of Litchfield as a noted current “great one.” It also covers IPA convention highlights and Franklin’s ties to Southern Illinois Carbondale.
George R. Arnold, former SIU Edwardsville physics instructor, named chief of industrial hygiene and air pollution services in St. Louis County Health Department. He argues Cahokia Bottoms and American Bottoms face recurring inversions like Los Angeles, urging cautious siting of major industry and roads on bluffs and creation of an interstate advisory panel to study regional meteorology and pollution risks.
Mrs Woodrow Dann wife of the builder said energy will have a new post office within a week or ten days. The building will be leased to the Post Office Dept for 1020 dollars a year and will also house Dann s real estate and insurance office.
The Southern Illinois Fox Hunters Association held its 49th annual meeting at Ferne Clyffe State Park. Harris T. Clymore of Vienna was re elected president and Mable Lauder of Perks was re elected secretary treasurer. Kenneth Brewer of Carbondale was chosen vice president. An estimated 6000 to 7000 attended with about 115 tents and 15 to 20 trailers. Members hunted daily from sunrise to 10 a m and family programs were held afternoons and evenings. The event marks 15 consecutive years at Ferne Clyffe. Committeemen included Cloyd Karnes Donald Forby H E Nash Frank Huff Buck Brush and Bud Hawkins.
Bids for oiling and chipping arterial streets will be opened August 17 at a special City Council meeting. The roughly $3,000 project is funded by state motor fuel tax rebates and money from the sewer construction program. Improvements must be completed by September 15 after streets were torn up for the new sewer system.
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