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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1956
Page
8
Brewster Motors in Herrin Carbondale Auto Sales in Carbondale and Jackson County Mo tors Murphysboro listed as area auto dealers in county notices.
A busy week at the Jackson County Circuit Clerk and recorder's office saw 230 documents filed, led by 68 chattel mortgages for Commodity Credit Corp. corn loans totaling 86,365.55. The report also notes 22 mortgages for Murphysboro lenders, 40 property transfers, mortgage releases, and two divorce actions, with a five and a half page transaction list.
Marion City Council voted to pay half of the $443 dog tax to Dogcatcher Ab Curry. The monthly distribution would raise his annual earnings to about $1,400, in addition to $1 per dog picked up and $1.50 per dog reclaimed by owners. Curry has served 13 years and also earns scavenger pay for animal pickups.
About 4.1 million babies were born in the United States in 1955, according to life insurance statistics.
Frances Blankenship, 37, gave birth to three sons weighing 19 pounds 6 ounces total at Jackson Park Hospital in seven minutes on Monday night. Her husband William, 35, works in Illinois Central Railroad shops. Their first triplet set arrived May 1, 1952, with one dying at birth. the survivors are Joanne and Michael Jean. A spokesman for the American Medical Association says two triplet sets from one mother are about a one in a million occurrence.
The article notes that the Richmond Virginia market is the only sun cured tobacco market in the world, highlighting its unique growing and curing method.
The Marion Navy recruiting office announced Paul E. Fizer has reported for duty replacing Chief Petty Officer Robert Pease. Pease served in Marion about two years and has now gone to sea duty with the USS Talooscha t ie LST 1124 in Norfolk Virginia. Fizer, boatswain's mate first class, was with the Carmi Navy recruiting office for the past four months.
Richard L. Gower of Carbondale and Anti-Submarine Squadron 32 arrived at Piraeus Athens Greece on November 23 as part of the Hunter Killer Group. He is a aviation or dinanceman second class in the US Navy and son of Mr and Mrs Edgar O Gower.
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