Alumni urged to back Alma Mater at Southern Illinois
Graduates of Southern Illinois University heard a call to support the university’s growth and future expansion from commencement speaker W. W. Vandeveer, president of the Alumni Association, who spoke on “The University Twenty-Five Years Hence.” President Delyte W. Morris conferred degrees and urged graduates to seek lasting value in their education as 400 graduates received their diplomas. The ceremony featured the Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra and benediction by Rev. Will iam Janssen, with marshals and ushers listed from multiple communities.
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Southern Illinois University
W. W. Vandeveer
Vandeveer
Alumni Association
Future of
America
American Freedom
Illinois
Southern
Delyte W. Morris
Morris
Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra
Maurits Kesnar
George W. Schroeder
Baptist Brotherhood of the South
Memphis
Tenn
William Janssen
Carbondale
Marshalls
Robert K. Cagle
Metropolis
Darwin Darrell Davis
Salem
Charles Dickerman
William H. Fraley
Robert R
du Quoin
Ethel Joan Peters
Effingham
Maralee Radford
Marion
Doris Jean Schwinn
Luella Irene Seyer
Mascoutah
Nancy Jean Willis
Murphysboro
Ushers
President Morris Charge to Graduates
President Morris urges graduates to live up to their education by embracing basic virtues, openness to learning, tolerance, generosity, and truthfulness. He calls them to join educated peers in advancing knowledge and reducing prejudice, warning against shallow cleverness and urging a steadfast, inner worth.
Hotel Guests Make Guests of Guests
Denver report on hotel guests as a mixed bag of paying customers and troublemakers. It profiles A. F. Spatafora of the Hotel Monteleone and recalls his long career from bell boy to manager while noting guests’ odd demands and costly hotel upkeep.
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Denver
Colo
Hotel Greeters of America
A. F. Spatafora
Monteleone
New Orleans
Spatafora
Boy in Royal Oak Given Ten Day Sentence for Puppy Burn
Richard Bidwell aged 18 began a 10 day sentence after pouring turpentine on a puppy and setting it on fire. A Humane Society official said the act followed the puppy digging under a fence into the yard. Justice J. E. Brondige also fined him 50 dollars and ordered payment of veterinary expenses.
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Royal Oak
Mich
Richard Bidwell
Arthur Curtis
Humane Society
Bidwell
J. E. Brondige
Uncle Sam and Farmers Tangle in Federal Suits
The U S government filed judgment suits in East St. Louis federal court against five Southern Illinois farmers seeking 314.26 in unpaid Federal Crop Insurance premiums for wheat and cotton. Sidney Phillips and Evelyn Phillips sued for 3000 alleging crop damage from a 1949 soil and weed control demonstration by the U S Corps of Engineers.
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U. S
Illinois
East St. Louis
Sidney
Evelyn Phillips
McClure
Phillips
Clem Veath
Evansville
Insurance premium notes for farmers in multiple towns
Red winter wheat and cotton premium payments listed for Mose Johnson Allin Jerome Cortner rural route 3 Waterloo Charles D Phil lips Salem Otis Lowdy Miller City. Amounts include 55.19 75.60 81.33 and 642.54 for 1947 1948 1943 and 1946 premiums respectively.
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Mose Johnson
Allin
Jerome Cortner
Waterloo
Charles D. .Phillips
Salem
Otis Lowdy
Miller City
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Herrin, Ullinois
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