Anna Centennial Queen Hopefuls Seek Votes in Anna Pageant
Thirteen candidates vie for Arma's Centennial Queen of Grace and Beauty as the field will be narrowed to sixteen Wednesday by Delta Theta Tau officers. Tickets for shows and queen events are 50 cents each, with two voting stubs per ticket. The queen receives a jeweled crown and engraved silver tray. attendants earn rhinestone sets, while other finalists receive pins. Named contestants include Peggy Brimm, Faris Lee Bishop, Jean Casper, Pamela Hindman, Irene Hartline, Jane Gore, Pat Keller, Lenora Kelley, Carol Kinder, Sharon Miller, Beverly Sams, Roberta Stewart, and Lotrell Tweedy. some have sponsors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arma
Delta Theta Tau Sorority
Peggy Brimm
Manford Brimm
Anna
Jean Casper
Jonesboro
Pamela Hindman
Ruel Hindman
Anna-Jonesboro
Louie Kelley
Near Anna
Carol Kinder
Virgil Kinder
Near Jonesboro
Sharon Miller
Pat Miller
Beverly Sams
Louis Sams
Roberta Stewart
Clyde Stewart
Lotrell Tweedy
Lee Tweedy
Steeleville Shoe Plant Extends Employee Vacations
The International Shoe Company plant in Steeleville announced two weeks of vacation for regular employees starting Monday with pay. Eligible workers receive checks for July 4 to July 18, and plant operations resume July 19. Five-year staff get two weeks. ten years or more get an additional third week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Shoe Company
Steeleville
European Red Mites Found Near Effingham
Effingham June 29 AP European Red Mites were found in two soybean fields in Elliottstown area Effingham County Illinois. Entomologist H B Petty says mites damaged soybeans before and no known spray destroys them. They thrive in hot weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Effingham
Elliottstown
Effingham County
H. B. Petty
University of Illinois
Petty
Illinois
SIU to Run Therapy and Camping Program for Crippled Children
Thirty area children with speech and hearing disabilities will join Illinois first combined therapy and camping program at Giant City State Park. SIU conducts a two week training for student clinicians and camp counselors under the State division of Services for Cripple Children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Giant City State Park
Southern Illinois University
State Division of Services
SIU
I. P. Brackett
J. O. Anderson
C. W. Garbutt
SIU Speech and Haring Clinic
Don Raines
William Freeberg
Burdette Thurman
Harrisburg
David Levine
Central Institute For the Deaf
St. Louis
Night patrols guard Menard Penitentiary grounds on horseback
Warden Ross Randolph said armed guards on horseback conduct nightly patrols of all Menard Penitentiary property, especially the area near the wire fences to the outside. The measure follows the arrest of Bernard Guetle, a former inmate, two weeks ago for trading liquor for groceries stolen by another inmate on the prison honor farm. Previously trustees patrolled the grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menard Penitentiary
Ross Randolph
Randolph
Bernard Guetle
Honor Farm
Carbondale Girl Elected to Girls State House
Carol Carman daughter of Dr and Mrs E R Carman of 306 West Oak Street Carbondale has been elected to the House of Representatives in Illini Girls State She is a resident of Allen city in Middleton County during Girls State
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Carman
E. R. Carman
West Oak St
Carbondale
Girls State
Allen City
Middleton County
Pearl Fiss Dies In Royalton at 69
Funeral services for Pearl Fiss 69 of Royalton will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Pentecostal Church with Rev. Pearl Hindke officiating. Burial in Royalton Miners Cemetery. She died Sunday at Doctors Hospital in Carbondale after three days there following eight years of ill health. Born July 16, 1884 in Saline County, she lived in Royalton 48 years and was a Pentecostal Church and Royalton Rebekah Lodge member. Survived by husband James, sons Lane, Nathan, Richard of Pontiac Michigan, Lee and Wilbert of Royalton, daughter Venita McPhail of Royalton, eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral home Rodenberg in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Fiss
Royalton
Pentecostal
Pearl Hindke
Royalton Miners Cemetery
Rodenberg Funeral
Fiss
Doctors Hospital
Carbondale
Saline County
Pentecostal Church
Farm Supervisor Resigns at Menard Penitentiary
John Whiteside of Vienna resigns from his post in charge of the dairy farm at Menard Penitentiary and returns to his 370 acre farm near Vienna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Whiteside
Vienna
Menard Penitentiary
Collision on E Walnut Street In Carbondale
Police reported a two collision incident in the 300 block of E Walnut Street Monday at about 5 pm involving Nina M. Davis 33 of 412 E Walnut St Carbondale and C H Johnson Route 3 Carbondale. Johnson backed from a driveway into Walnut Street causing a first crash. Davis westbound then Johnson backed again causing a second impact on the Davis car. No injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nina M. Davis
E. Walnut St
Carbondale
C. H. Johnson
Rt. 3
E. Walnut
Johnson
Walnut Street
High Life Keeps Him Young Decorator Clings to Ladders
Carl Sahlen age 62 keeps youth by decorating Anna storefronts and light posts. A former trapeze artist who began with Peerless Potter in 1911, he toured with his wife Bernice until her death. He now works with American Decoration Co and teaches safe ladder use while selling trapeze gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Sahlen
Anna
Bernie
Evansville
Indiana
William
Bernice
Sahlen
Boras
Sweden
Anna’s
Song by Dr. Maurits Kesnar Published by Ethel Smith
The composition Intreat Me Not by Dr. Maurits Kesnar chair of the music department at Southern Illinois University has been published by the Ethel Smith Music Corp of New York. The piece uses text from the Book of Ruth in the Bible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurits Kesnar
Southern Illinois University
Ethel Smith Music Corp
New York
Formosa Student Seeks U S Aid to Counter China
A Southern Illinois University graduate student from Formosa told Herrin Rotary Club that Nationalist China could seize the Chinese mainland in two to three years if aided. William Jing-Foo Lew arrived in the U S three months ago after leaving Formosa five years prior to the Communist victory. He urged material and spiritual support from the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinois University
Formosa
Herrin Rotary Club
Nationalist China
Free China
China Mainland
William Jing-Foo Lew
U. S
China
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Grandtower
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Vogler Motor Co., Inc
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Oe Weel Sale
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