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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1949
Page
9
The Illinois state library bookmobile announces its fall schedule starting Tuesday September 6 in Union County and nearby areas. Russell D Rendleman Union County superintendent notes both community and school stops, with rural areas sharing time between school and non school patrons.
Southern Illinois university displays at the Du Quoin State Fair run through Sept 5 featuring a geiger counter demonstration by the physics department a yeast cell study by Balaji Mundkur and a giant illuminated map of Southern Illinois with county lighting. Exhibits include large photographs by Horrell and Richards and a designed display by Ben Watkins with hand cut titles for sections such as science and careers.
Mamie Hall, county public assistance superintendent, reports July figures for Union. Thirty blind aid recipients totaled 1,142 dollars. Aid to dependent children rose for the eleventh month, with 83 families and 231 children assisted, totaling 4,830 dollars.
A typhoon with winds up to 95 miles per hour lay about 600 miles southeast of Iwo Jima and moved toward the area at 12 miles per hour, as reported from Tokyo on August 29.
Five burglaries occurred in Anna over the weekend, all early Saturday after 1 am. Chief McIntosh says extra officers are added and hours staggered for better protection as thieves hit Goddard's Produce, Southern Bar-B-Q, Carl Miller's Motor Agency, Midway Bar-B-Q, and City Service Station within two blocks on East Vienna Street.
The Czech summer quip asks Who's the greater man Stalin or Lenin The punch line answers Yes reflecting a wry political humor of the era.
Jeff Rafters’s 19 hogs weighing 217 pounds sold at 21.25 dollars per cwt through the Stock Marketing association in National Stock Yards. Nearby bakers and farmers in Murphysboro Campbell Hill Ava Gorham and other towns reported similar price levels for hogs ranging 183 to 224 pounds and lambs at 24.50 per cwt. Prices varied by weight with several lots at 21.00 to 21.25 per cwt and one 82 pound lambs at 24.50 per cwt. Local sellers include Bernard Baker W A Glenn Norman Reichenberg Otto Arbeiter George Caraway and Ray Eilers.
Harvey Smith Woods is named instructor in agriculture at Southern Illinois University. A specialist in farm management soils and livestock he will supervise the University farm alongside teaching duties. Woods attended SIU from 1936 to 1938 taught in rural Franklin and Williamson counties and vocational agriculture in Hume for two years. He also served as a flight instructor with the Army Air Force during the war.
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