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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
17
Agriculture Department reports total value of farm crops at 18.973 billion dollars for 1956, up from 1955, with livestock excluded. California leads with 1.770 billion and Illinois second at 1.461 billion, reflecting higher prices and production.
The Carbondale First Baptist Sea Scouts and the Presbyterian Church Explorer Scouts agree to alternate monthly paper drives. Sea Scouts will collect waste paper on a Saturday while Explorer Scouts plan a January collection.
Vancouver British Columbia December 20 AP the province will send about 100 children to Oakalla prison for a Christmas party with 106 specially selected inmates, approved by the provincial attorney general. Families may mingle with convicts in the prison gymnasium.
Chicago December 20 AP a bid by the University of Illinois to buy a 300 acre tract near Miller Meadows for an undergraduate campus was rejected by Charles G Sayers Cook County Forest Preserve District The area lies along the Des Plaines River at Roosevelt Road The university sought a joint use agreement farmland use or a land exchange option
Firemen rushed to Russell and Cherry streets at 2 30 a m after an electric wire broke in a short that touched a tree. No damage was reported.
Sayers described Miller Meadows as a strategic location for recreational use on the growing west side of the county. He argued that any substitute tract 20 miles away would not serve the purpose.
Adolphe Menjou, a staple on best dressed lists, released his California list of sartorial standouts. It includes Charles Thomas of Los Angeles, Gary Cooper, Robert Gross, Jacques Bergerac, Sidney Franklin, Fred Astaire, Robert E. Petersen, Clark Gable, Leigh Batson, and William Keck. Each is praised as an oasis of elegance amid fading style.
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