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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1964
Page
15
Sketch book plan S-176 adapts an early American wash stand as a wall decoration for holding fresh flowers or plants. It suits foyers and stair landings, uses full size patterns for easy transfer, and requires three assembly steps. Available through the newspaper for 30 cents.
Brian Allen Cook ten Riverside boy is found safe after spending about 24 hours atop Black Mountain in the San Jacinto range. He drank spring water that tasted like beer and reported swelling and scratches but no serious harm. Search helicopters located him after he became separated from a hiking group amid a summer trek in Southern California. Authorities offered no explanation for the water’s beer-like taste.
Phillip Crosby, Bing Crosby’s twin, married airline stewardess Mary Joyce Gabbard in Las Vegas in a courthouse ceremony overseen by Justice of the Peace Thomas Purser. Crosby, 30, was previously divorced in 1963 from Sandra Drummans. They have two children, Tixie Lee, 5, and Brian Patrick, 4.
Patricia Reynolds, 22, of Chicago, claims an ocelot owned by Peggy Lord of Minneapolis bit her left middle finger on August 22, 1962, while chained beneath the switchboard at the Chicago Playboy Club, seeking 10000 dollars in damages in circuit court.
The fragment lists an architect's sketchbook entry tied to a Southern Indian project, referencing Box 2215 at the General Post Office in New York City. It names the New York state context and a postal facility, implying archival material location.
Architectural feature highlights raised or high ranch concepts by Rudolph A. Matern in House of the Week H-45. Emphasizes a single level main living area with a higher floor and a livable lower level, three upper bedrooms, and a combined kitchen family room with a balcony breakfast area.
The Internal Revenue Service announces a tax free limit of up to 200 gallons of wine for home use per year for heads of families. Prospective wine makers must register using forms from the Office of the Supervisor in Charge, Alcohol Tax, Chicago. Forms must be submitted five days before production begins or faces taxation and possible criminal prosecution. The six hundred word period runs July 1 to June 30.
Two bankers from Zeigler and Benton attend the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin. The two week course runs to August 29. Byron H. Fuller, cashier, Bank of Zeigler, and Doyle E. Culbertson, assistant cashier, Bank of Benton, are the attendees. The program requires three years of study for a graduation certificate plus extension work. Sponsored by the Central States Conference, the group includes bankers associations across 16 Midwestern states.
A new $300,000 Bank of West Frankfort building on the southwest corner of Oak and Emma is expected to be completed in November. Bank president G. R. Lockard said steel work would start around August 31 with walls up by September 3, and no plans exist yet for the current building. Construction is managed by Bank Building and Equipment Corp. of St. Louis with local sub contractors Veto Baldi and Sons, Bill G. Allen Electrical Construction & Maintenance Co., Thompson's Plumbing and Healing, and Reed Meeting and Ai Conditioning Co.
St. Pauls Lutheran Church on RL 149 west of West Frankfort holds an open house from to 5 p.m. today to introduce the new church building and the pastor Rev. Ronald Hotram who was installed June 28 and the building dedicated July 12. The pastor and congregation invite the public.
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