Sportsmen to Decide on Fire House Headquarters Dance Event
Crab Orchard area sportsmen plan a Saturday open house at fire house No. 1 to gauge support for taking over the building as a headquarters for their club. Entertainment includes Hillbilly Hank Wright, Johnny Haynes and Melody Wranglers, and Tony Bello. The event features dancing, refreshments, outdoor meetings, and aims to spur a permanent Crab Orchard refuge HQ with kennels, living quarters for trainers and dogs, and a clubroom. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provides quarters and some gear, with nominal maintenance fees and administration by the sportsmen's association.
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Crab Orchard Lake Area
Crab Orchard Sportsmen’s Association
Sones
Meas
Hank Wright
Johnny Haynes
Melody Wranglers
Tony Bello
Jimmy Harper
Sportsmen’s Association
Bishop Is Jack of all Trades Runt Handy With Needle And Thread
Washington report profiles Congress member C W Bishop nicknamed Runt from Carterville. A former tailor, he mends clothes on trips with committees and keeps a sewing kit handy. Once a shop tailor for about 100 Congressmen, he recalls clashes with Clare Hoffman over pockets and notes his athletic past before four terms in Congress.
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Bishop
Carterville
Capitol Hill
C. W
Runt
Michigan
Clare Hoffman
Hoffman
Clare
Staley
Chicago Bears
New York Yankees
Congress
Learns It Can't Be Done So He Does It Mushroom Pioneer Near Denver
Denver AP recounts Charles W Savery who defied experts by growing mushrooms in Colorado. After facing protests over fertilizer transport, he moved to a hilltop farm near Denver and, with his son, studied the trade in Pennsylvania. The venture grew into one of the west's three largest producers, yielding about 2,700 pounds daily.
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Charles W. Savery
Colorado
Savery
Lavery
Denver
Robert
Chester County
Pennsylvania
S I U Acquires Last Federal Housing Units
Southern Illinois University received 27 more federal housing units for married veterans and faculty from the Public Housing Administration. President Chester F Lay announced the Illinois Ordnance Plant site near Carbondale will provide immediate occupancy, bringing SIU’s total student veteran housing to 200 units, including 105 on West Chautauqua Street and 95 at the ordnance plant.
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Southern Illinois University
Public Housing Administration
University
Chester F. Lay
Illinois Ordnance Plant
Carbondale
Southern
West Chautauqua Street
Former Makanda Man Earns Honorary Doctorate at Kalamazoo
Dr Taco Norris, Makanda born educator and Southern Illinois University graduate 1928, received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Western Michigan College. A longtime Kalamazoo public schools superintendent since 1931, Norris also earned a 1941 University of Chicago doctorate. Mrs Norris Grace Edwards Norris City, a Southern graduate 1924, and their two children are noted in the item.
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Taco Norris
Southern Timois University
Western Michigan College
Norris
Kalamazoo
S. I. N. VII
Anna
Carbondale College
Makanda
University of Chicago
Grace Edwards
Norris City
Southern
New Zealand Scientists Debate Future of Volcanoes
Thirty New Zealand scientists meet in Rotorua to discuss the long term fate of thermal regions and possible eruptions. They weigh whether Rotorua may vanish in a violent eruption, geysers could dry up, Raupehu activity could shift south, and if New Zealand’s north island is truly safe, noting it will take a century for clearer answers.
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New Zealand
Rotorua
Raupehu
North Island
M. Ongley
Geological Survey Department
Colander Gadget Boosts Apple Sauce and More Usage
Day By Day Colander notes a fine mesh colander that fits in a frame speeds apple sauce prep by pushing through fruit with a mallet, saves peeling effort, and yields more sauce. Also discusses economical meal ideas using pre cooked picnic ham, a spaghetti dinner recipe, and nostalgic family memories from a French Southern grandmother.
Never Saw a Bible Report Warns of Lost Bible Teaching
An Edinburgh report quoted by AP laments that some children have never seen a Bible yet know much about movies. It notes a recent shift from homes providing at least minimal Christian instruction to such teaching becoming the exception.
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Church of Scotland
Waitress Fights Salacious Kiss in Karlskrona Court
A young waitress in Karlskrona sued a man after he forcibly kissed her one spring evening. She alleged bruises and a cold from the incident. The court fined him 75 crowns for disorderly conduct and ordered 100 crowns in damages.
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Karlskrona
Sweden
Home Made Iowa Tractor Works Fine
Des Moines AP reports two Manchester farmers Carl Antons and Jester Childs built a self made tractor after visiting junk yards and dealers. They created a light fast hay baling machine for about 600 dollars with a two speed reverse, a five speed forward transmission, and a two speed rest axle yielding ten forward speeds from 1 to 25 mph.
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Southern Illinois
M. W. Finney
Crab Orchard
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Service
BY Harman W. Nichols
United Press
Washington
Yank
S. 8Th
Johnston City
Herrin, Dl
Auckland
Reis
United States Brewing CO
Chicago
Illinois
Humboldt
Herrin and Carbondale Distributing CO
Herrin, Ill
Saeed
South
Edinburgh
Iowa Tractor Works
Des Moines
Manchester
Carl Antons
Jester Childs
St.Joseph Pot Dd
Raa
St.joseph Aspirin
Ainad
Mt. Vernon
Vernon Ball Park
Boswell’s Drug Store
Mt. Verno
Hub Cafe
Thos. N. Pa
i—Hewitt
Ili
Ford
Vogler Motor Company
Illinois Avenue
Carbondale, Ilinois
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