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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1952
Page
8
Hal Boyle argues middle age offers balance and advantages. It allows continued pleasures with fewer drawbacks, including a raise potential and social perks, while letting one avoid reckless youth behavior. Middle age is a mindset and a financial social asset, not a loss.
Carterville grade school will start Monday August 25 with a new kindergarten and a music room in the gym area. A room is being added to the gym to house the kindergarten and the lunch room gains tile and a tan. Taft Baker again serves as school superintendent and helps coach with Freeman Greer and Ralph L. Cox. Teachers listed across grades include Miss Betty Peterson, Miss Nora Hall, Miss Violet Wagner, Mrs. Joe Bruce, Mrs. Loren Felts, Mrs. Lena Martin, Naomi Love, Mrs. Hugh Tygett, Mable Craig, Freeman Greer Jr., Ivis Trammel, Mrs. Raymond Hall, Miss Agnes Stewart, Miss Mamie Walker, and others. Lester Cox and Joe Nuremberg hired as janitors. Greer to drive the bus.
Norwegian Prime Minister Oscar Torp will arrive in New York on September 9 for a three week U S visit. He will tour Norwegian American districts in the Middle West before moving to Washington on September 22. Aristotle is noted as an early thinker on logic.
Popcorn village near Nashville illustrates a nationwide rise in a multimillion dollar industry. Jim Blevins grew a one man operation into five states with a 1500 person workforce and plants in four states. Hybrid popcorn developed by Purdue and Iowa State professors underpins grain quality and popping standards.
Montgomery Alabama August 18 AP murderer's row at Kilby Prison prepares a curtained death row cell for 54 year old nurse Earle Dennison convicted of poisoning her two year old niece. She is scheduled to be executed September 26 and may be transferred to Kilby today due to no facilities for condemned women.
The law exempts firms with fewer than four employees from mandatory coverage and also excludes non profit religious charitable scientific literary and educational groups from coverage requirements.
The 1952-53 Johnston City Unit District opens Aug 28 with a new book rental system and centralized books for grade students. Attendance centers are restructured with Pond Creek Concord Partridge and others moving to alternate schools due to low enrollments. High school adds chemistry and new teachers. extensive redecorating planned.
The Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis notes higher area business activity in June and early July with rising initial jobless claims in seven states from 23 600 to 36 800. Industrial output declined modestly due to stoppages and weak demand while electricity use varied, coal and crude oil outputs held, shoe manufacturing rose, and June construction contracts rose 19 percent from May. Retail sales remained strong amid heat and hot weather, with department stores above June 1951 levels and furniture sales up year over year though down from May. Savings bonds gained in June and July due to Treasury terms.
In Lowell Illinois women plan their annual Sundy Day dinner honoring abolitionist Benjamin Lundy who lived in the village for six months in 1839. Lundy published The Genius of Universal Emancipation and died in August 1839. he is buried in nearby Putnam County.
Rural elementary teachers sought for Pleasant Grove and Grant schools. Positions include teaching duties in core subjects with full-time roles, salary based on experience, and benefits. Applications encouraged from qualified candidates with appropriate certifications.
More than 100 Egyptian Council scouts from Southern Illinois travel to Little Grassy Lake Aug 23–24 for a two day Hoe Down at the camp. Activities include scoutcraft periods with axe work fire building and camping skills plus church services and a final inspection session.
Mrs. Helen Young Hassler of Fort Collins Colorado shows a portrait of the Republican presidential nominee to General Dwight D Eisenhower. Beside her are Mrs. Hassler’s mother Mrs Lou Young and her son Christopher Hassler nine. Hassler, a polio survivor, said she worked from a snapshot.
The flood toll rose to 22 with 12 missing after floods swept a 15 mile coast of Southwest England over the weekend. Army engineers used dynamite and bulldozers to divert the Lyn River as rains and gales threatened further floods. Local resort Lynmouth was devastated as floodwaters washed through the town.
Direct or Joseph Pois of the Illinois department of finance announces July net allotments of motor fuel tax to Southern Illinois municipalities. Benton 2673. Cairo 3886. Carbondale 3727. Carterville 865. Centralia 4676. Du Quoin 2369. Eldorado 1508. Harrisburg 3637. Herrin 3002. Metropolis 2062. Mt. Vernon 5345. Murphysboro 3120. Salem 2103. West Frankfort 3820.
Pvt. Russell G. Deppe of Sparta Illinois serves with the 7th Infantry Division on the west central front in North Korea. He fights near Khumwha in the Iron Triangle as tank and artillery fire pummel enemy fortifications. He joined the Army in January 1952.
Heat and drought pushed Illinois July egg production to 222 million, 14 percent below June. Milk output reached 465000 pounds, down 6 percent from June and the lowest July level since 1937, according to federal agriculture officials.
Downer Grove Aug 18 A 50 year old woman was shot to death in her living room while lying on a davenport. Sheriff Rollin M. Hall of Du Page County sought Robert Westerhauses Jr. 32 an ex con for questioning in the fatal shooting of his step mother Mrs Regina Westerhauses. A murder warrant against Westerhauses Sr was signed by his father. The sheriff said there had been several arguments recently between Westerhauses, his father and step mother and that Westerhauses fled after the shooting.
The United States will aid Jordan with 230000 dollars and 15 tractors under the Technical Assistance Program. The equipment aims to start agricultural projects and should arrive within a month.
Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg reports improved living conditions for American servicemen and families in Europe and North Africa after an inspection tour. She says conditions are better than a year ago but still not as good as they should be.
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