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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1963
Page
6
Four area families announce engagements. Judith Ellen Turnage of Murphysboro to Arthur W. Frazier of Sparta plan an SIU home economics education and social studies majors. no wedding date set. Sharon Lynn Thomas of Royalton to Dennis Michael Pinkerton of Hurst, a Norge Herrin employee, with Sharon a May Zeigler-Royalton graduate and SIU freshman.
Judith Kay Bass wed Richard McSmith at Peace Lutheran Church Steeleville in a candlelight ceremony with Rev Kenneth Schroeder officiating. The bride wore a gardenia white gown and carried chrysanthemums with an orchid. maid of honor Carol Howard Cutler and bridesmaid Sharon Bierman aided a church reception.
London AP reports German officers presented Britain's National Maritime Museum with a painting of the Graf Spee, the pocket battleship scuttled after the River Plate battle. Also noting holiday visitor Ethel Atwood staying with her mother in Johnston City.
Thunderstorms in Bogar Ja va occur on about 620 days annually. This highlights a high frequency of storm activity in the region and underlines the climate pattern for residents and planners.
Rev and Mrs Paul Worley announce the engagement of their daughter Linda Worley to Jim Easton son of Mr and Mrs Buster Easton Rt 3 Ava Miss Worley is a senior at Murphysboro Township High School and works part time at Western Union Murphysboro Easton is a freshman at the Pentecostal Bible Institute Tupelo Mississippi He is a 1963 graduat e
Announcement of engagement between Anita Stone daughter of Mrs Dalana Watson 311 S Oakland Ave Carbondale and Ralph Young son of Mrs Marie Young 120 E Beauregard San Angelo Tex Stone a Carbondale Community High School graduate and SIU senior Young a Cairo High School graduate now teaching at Waverly No wedding date set
Marie Volkert reflects on the rural mailbox enduring design. She notes nearly all 190 observed boxes remain the same: top openings, no lights or modern upgrades, some on plows or pump handles, preserving the classic mail receptacle style.
George Twomey, Carbondale attorney, was elected president of the Jackson Country Club at the annual meeting. Clyde Webb was named vice president. Five new directors were chosen, with Bill Green, I. Clark Davis, and Jake Gore elected to three year terms, and Joe Dingrando and C. E. Wright to one year terms. The club expects to open the new nine hole course by summer 1964 after adding a hole and expanding land west of the existing course. Also noted, the fruit and vegetable plant industry employs 172,400 in the United States with a payroll of 591 million dollars annually.
The article profiles Lynda Bird Johnson and Lucy Baines Johnson as they join the White House with their father President Lyndon B. Johnson. It notes Secret Service presence, their dating lives, Texas roots, and the girls’ public relations savvy, independence, and close bond with their mother Lady Bird Johnson. It contrasts their teenage openness with Margaret Truman’s earlier experiences in the White House.
About 90 members attended Alpha Kappa and Beta Delta Chapters Delta Kappa Gamma Society’s Christmas dinner in the River Room at SIU Carbondale. Geneva Elder led group singing. Arvell Phillips spoke on cultural change in Hawaii. Marjorie Lawrence performed vocal selections. Hostesses were Carbondale members led by Glee Carter.
The Chester Woman's Club International Relations Department held its December meeting at Mrs. Robert Grah's home with co host Mrs. Bess Carpenter. Margaret Ervin presented Mexico's political and physical background while Mrs. James Stoever shared photos from her Mexico trip last summer.
In February the State of Illinois will host three top national officers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Commander-in-Chief Joseph J. Lombardo of New York Adjutant General Julian Dickenson of Kansas City and past commander-in-chief Cooper T. Holt of Chattanooga Tenn will lead the visit.
The Lydians in Asia Minor are credited with minting the first true coins near the end of the 7th Century B.C. Their hard cash was electrum, a natural alloy of gold and silver.
Mr and Mrs Price Wilson of Grand Tower announce the engagement of Jewel to Fred Eggley son of Mr and Mrs Hayward Eggley of Olney He is SIU student and pastor of First Baptist Gorham Miss Wilson a Shawnee HS and SIU VTI graduate She will join clerical staff at the School of Home Economics Carbondale campus The couple plan to marry February 14 at First Baptist Church Grand Tower Rev Keith David to perform the ceremony.
Mr and Mrs David Samuel return to Tucson Arizona after spending the holiday with her mother Mrs Tena Reinhart and other relatives in Herrin Illinois.
A claim states Great Salt Lake's water is eight times saltier than seawater. The statement is inaccurate. measured salinity of the Great Salt Lake reaches around 5 to 28 percent, far below eight times typical ocean salinity.
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