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Newspaper
Sterling Script
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1958
Page
2
As the 1958 football season begins SHS debates Homecoming parade plans with the Student Council backing the project. About two hundred students are eager, while seven hundred ninety others remain skeptical about participation and the parade’s ultimate success.
Roving Reporter collects student responses to the question What’s your opinion with varied, sometimes witty remarks. Susan Hawkins calls for a party while others offer optimism or humor about football, pearl hunting, or daily events.
Two members Jim Beggeron and Neil Moore head a blood drive at Sterling Coliseum on September 7 with Leroy Pizarro Chuck Herbon and Louie Zambrano in attendance. The Bloodmobile will return November 11 at the same venue. The club president urges all eighteen year olds to donate before membership.
A land judging contest will be held in Erie on September 25 with FFA chapters from Whiteside Lee and Carroll Counties eligible along with 18 other chapters. Sears Roebuck and Co offers a wall plaque as first prize. judging rests on soil texture permeability depth and related factors. On September 16 a safety campaign began and all Sterling FFA members must give short speeches.
A humor piece summarizes campus notices with absurd rules and events. It notes a mass rally against the Declaration of Independence, odd injury insurance claims, Egypt nationalizing the Agriculture Department, a Big Sister banquet, and a scholarship cue in room 230 for saf e cracking.
Mr Carl Hunkins leads Blackhawk Little Theatre in Harvey the story of Elwood Dowds invisible six and a half foot rabbit. Hunkins a former professional actor has appeared at Oguaquit Theatre Rome New York Civic Theatre and the American National Theatre and Academy. Harvey runs October 9 10 at 8 00 pm in Rock Falls High School Auditorium.
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