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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1956
Page
8
A collection of cryptic style clues with wordplay on SAFE REFUGE CAST COST OIL GAUGE and other terms. Includes hints about INJURY PEN INSURE MINERS DINERS DOPED ICELAND SHAME SHAVE and SWEET SHEET music, suggesting themes of safety value and production terms.
An airman at Chanute Air Force base reconciled with his estranged wife who had accused him of abducting their two daughters from a church service. Mrs. William L. Melton withdraws a threat charge and the couple live together in Bloomington with Nancy 4 and Linda 3.
A reader is urged to subscribe to the Southern Illinoisan and check a square to start delivery immediately. The notice uses a playful card phrase and directs readers to act now for service.
Contest in Southern Illinoisan invites all residents except employees and families of certain papers. Solve weekly puzzle, mail by Friday 9 am for a $50 prize, with 10 percent bonus for postcard entries. Judges' decision final.
April 30 balance for the city shows 65 714 total with about 48 000 in reserve funds leaving a limited amount for operation. Finance chairman William E Drake and City Treasurer Ferrell Starnes presented the report to the Herrin City Council as Jack Archer of Franklin Asphalt Co. quoted costs for non arterial street repairs including road oil at 13.25 cents per gallon and chips at about 5 dollars per ton.
Southern Illinois University will offer a four week summer workshop in Spanish French and German for children who have completed the fourth grade and have had no foreign language training. Classes run 10 15 to 10 45 a m at the Foreign Language Building in Carbondale with no charge.
John Bragdon of Marion has been appointed to the post of assistant district sales manager for Goodman Mfg Co in the Terre Haute Indiana sales territory. Bragdon will continue to live in Marion.
A compilation of cryptic hints and prompts covering money timing dangers blood color rest furniture item and more. It hints at wordplay clues with references to accidents cleanliness moisture skin of orange darkness and public caution phrases.
More than 250 Illinois county farm advisers and extension specialists from the University of Illinois College of Agriculture will hold their summer conference at the Dixon Springs Experiment Station in Pope County. Registration begins 8:30 a.m. Wednesday with tours at 9:30 a.m. The event ends Friday noon, with tours recessing 3 p.m. Thursday for a meeting of the Illinois Farm Advisers Assn.
Earl Attlee former Labour leader argues Britain should end conscription claiming large land battles are outdated. He told Socialist Commentary that armies of millions are unnecessary and a draft is no longer justified.
Five members of the Murphysboro Prudential office in Mt. Vernon District were invited to a regional business conference July 8 13 in Toronto Canada. The invitations recognized outstanding sales services in 1955 and include over 1 300 top district agency men from Illinois and Indiana. The Murphysboro group includes Staff Manager Donald Howard Edwin Arbeiter Graves Gipson Harry Althoff and Charles Morgan.
Illinois counties have announced 1957 wheat acreage allotments via the state Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Committee. County committees will distribute county totals to individual farms, using 1954 data for area comparisons and 1956 figures in parentheses. Major counties listed include Randolph 33 104 acres and Williamson 4 938 acres, with others such as Franklin 15 980 and Jackson 16 760 noted.
Agronomy field day at the Carbondale Cooperative Agronomy Research Center will display experimental work on forage crops small grains fertility treatments and wild garlic control. SIU and University of Illinois agronomists will guide visiting farmers advisers teachers and farm-related business people. Activities begin at 1 30 p m one mile west of Route 51 on City Lake road south of Carbondale.
Ned Trovillion opens a grocery at 201 N Washington Ave, replacing Kroger which closed last Tuesday after 30 years. Trovillion, a former Kroger employee of 22 years, will affiliate with Malone and Hyde, with distribution in Memphis and Skieston, Mo, and is son of Will Trovillion, Carbondale Justice of the Peace.
The Jordan River travels about 200 miles to cover the 65 mile span between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea.
T Sgt Jim C Brown Air Force recruiting officer Herrin said today that basic training is shortened to four weeks for enlistees proceeding to specialized training. The change aims to get airmen into schools and then into specific jobs sooner.
The Egypt Cafe at 420 Market Street Marion has changed hands effective Monday. Mary Jane Rinella and Lucille Atwood from Clay Grace acquired the business from previous owner.
Secretary Benson announced a soil bank program under a new farm law allowing payments up to 1.2 billion dollars annually through 1959 to plow under immature crops of wheat cotton corn rice peanuts and tobacco. Rates vary by crop and some details will come later.
Alex H Peak of Herrin who ran an insurance agency since 1932 will relocate to 110 W Cherry St on Friday June 1. He forms a partnership with son in law Tom Reagan and the business becomes Peak Reagan Insurance Agency. Reagan timed his career from Orcill to Herrin after WWII and studied at SIU.
SIU Illinois dairy center construction advances with a 26 by 78 foot hay feeder a 40 by 120 foot loafing barn and a 14 by 37 foot silo slated for 100 tons of silage. A 44 by 92 foot concrete block building will house a cattle arena milking parlor and living quarters for two student assistants.
Illinois farm prices gained in the month ended May 15 under state and federal agriculture reports. The all commodity index reached 233 percent of the 1910-14 base, up 11 points from April and 2 points above May last year, with corn at 1.41 per bushel, soybeans 3.06, wheat 1.98, beef cattle 17 per hundredweight, and hogs 15.70.
The Springfield Art Assn announces a month long exhibit featuring Southern Illinois University advanced art students and their teachers. The show runs in March with Harris W. Jones as exhibit chair. Robert McIl(l)an notes the exhibit will likely travel from Carbondale campus to a Midwestern itinerary after Springfield.
A new Small Business Administration leaflet argues diversification benefits for small businesses. The pamphlet titled Diversification Pointers for Small Marketers is available from SBA Room 924 New Federal Building 1114 Market St. St. Louis Missouri.
The Small Business Administration released a leaf let titled Sales Training for Small Wholesalers. It will be sent on request by writing to the SBA area office in Room 924 at the New Federal Building, 1114 Market Street, St. Louis.
Five youths from Marion and area enlist in the Navy at the Marion station. The group includes Robert Dale Black Doyle Jerome Bayles Bobbie Dean Hanks Robert Wendell Ray and Robert Clell May. They enter Navy trade schools after recruit training under the high school program. The Marion station exceeded its May quota by 44 percent per Chief Robert Pease.
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