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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1967
Page
7
Special holiday fare dates and pecans combine in a rich confection. The Home Economics department provides a recipe for date pecan balls with butter sugar vanilla flour pecans and dates. Shape bake roll in sugar and store frozen for year round use. Alternative method uses pitted whole dates.
The Herrin Sweet Adelines chapter begins a series of sing outs for the Christmas season. The first was for Herrin unit school district employees and guests. Tuesday rehearsals are cancelled until after Christmas. Jan 2 at 7:30 p.m. invites area women to join in Herrin High School music room. A holiday fashion style show will cap the Christmas party for Graduate Wives Club of Southern Illinois University Thursday at 8 p.m. in Agriculture Building Seminar Room with a small gift exchange item requested.
The article notes 538 million pounds of nuts available to U S homemakers and stresses freshness in shell and shelled forms. It gives storage timelines from two to three months at room temp for in shell nuts to six to 12 months in a cool dark place and freezing shelled nuts. It explains shelling methods and skin removal plus quick stain treatment guidance from University of Minnesota Extension Service.
A census spokesman notes about 300,000 U S presidential hopefuls are born each month, prompting parents to craft distinctive names as election competition grows.
Members of the 54 Club of Southern Illinois Order of the Eastern Star met Sunday at Mr. and Mrs. Fred Claunch home in Herrin for a Christmas dinner and gift exchange. The towns represented included Herrin Pinckneyville Benton Makanda Johnston City Carbondale Centralia Ewing Mt. Vernon and Cairo.
The Jackson County Democratic Ladies Organization holds its Christmas Party Saturday at 7 p.m. in Campbell Hill Legion Hall. Turkey and dressings will be served with beverages for Democrats friends and families. A door prize will be awarded. Attendees should bring a covered dish and their own table service. Loretta Travellstead at 457-7318 after 4 p.m. provides more information.
The Human Resources Committee of the League of Women Voters of Carbondale will begin a national desegregation study in January. Members interested in joining should contact Mrs. J. T. Evanson in Carbondale.
Charcoal use tips include vented indoor areas only for grills, long heat reflection with heavy foil, and arranging briquets in a cone six inches high. Light fluid should penetrate briefly, avoid soaking, and spread coals for broiling. Ring a coal half for roasting, use coals not flames, and reserve briquets for fireplaces.
The Marion Junior Woman's Club hosts a Christmas party at Ra mada Inn while Daughters of Isabella and local Woman's Clubs in Herrin, Bent on Franklin County activities, plan dinners, arts, and music programs. Units in Orient Lesser Akin Ava Makanda Jacob and Johnston City hold meetings and hostesses across the county.
Mrs Wayne R Keys of Makanda was guest speaker for the Johnston City Woman's Club program on international affairs where she serves as secretary of the Southern Illinois chapter United Nations Association. The international affairs committee includes Mrs Araminta Bigelow Mrs John B Gustap and Mrs Buford Howard. Members chose a card exchange this month and several members helped wrap gifts for 150 Anna State Hospital patients.
The Herrin Woman's Club Music Department outlines a program using The three muses art poetry and music. Mrs Lucille V Howell leads with poetry with help from Mrs Phillip Fitzgerald singer and Mrs William Jack pianist as muses of music joined by Mrs Paul Maynard artist. A rummage sale netted over 100 dollars at the latest meeting chaired by Mrs Dan King who announced the next gathering will be in the First Christian Church with hostesses Mrs King and Mrs Roger Shanholtzer. The program theme is Worship Through Music.
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