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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1943
Page
2
The 67th year issue of The Village Echo notes weekly publication every Thursday. It lists Saunders A G as stage publisher and Kenneth Whitney as reporter. The paper is entered as second class matter in Thomson Illinois under March 1 1879 act. Annual price is $1.60.
List of local residents with birthdays over the week in Carroll County. Names span Chadwick Lanark Thomson Morrison Milledgeville Ames Ia Seaton Fulton Rockford Detroit and includes military service and multiple Mrs. titles.
The article notes that limestone and dolomite kilns produced over 246000 tons of lime valued at about 1724000 dollars in 1941. It highlights uses from plaster and masonry mortars to furnace linings, soil treatment, sugar refining, and chemical lime production, with Adams and St Clair counties key in mining high quality calcium carbonate limestone for chemical lime.
The University of Illinois began on March 2, 1868 with a faculty of three and 50 students. It has grown to become the nation’s third largest university by full time enrollment.
German born American Henry Hartman and family near Thomson in Carroll County commit to wartime production. He grows soybeans potatoes cane alfalfa sweet clover and maintains a garden while Mrs Hartman plans 800 chickens and 800 to 1000 quarts of canned fruits and vegetables. They support war bonds and have several sons serving or training for the U S forces.
A year earlier a German raider freed 647 British prisoners on Emirau in the South Pacific. Two survivors found singing Jesus loves me near a hut led by a Solomon Islander minister. A white trader later rescued everyone. The piece notes rising religious fervor in Britain during WWII and calls for cooperative global peace beyond isolationism. It quotes Rev. Harold A. Cockburn and Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, with Bishop Francis J. McConnell praising social progress toward work rights and public necessity of faith-based effort.
Notices inform farmers of war crop goals with 90 percent meeting threshold for 15-dollar per acre deductions and 75 pounds copper wire eligibility. production payments apply regardless. Appeals must be filed within 15 days. County USDA war board details and permits for equipment purchases issued. Second War Loan Bonds urged as step toward victory and peace.
The International Missionary Council warns that soaring prices for food, medicines, and school supplies threaten Christian missions in Asia Africa and Latin America. War costs drive up rice prices in China, and living costs climb up to fiftyfold, risking pastors teachers clinics schools and refugee aid.
University students in all China this vormester, making the total enrollment in colleges and universities upwards of 50,000. The high schools which prepare these boys and girls for college enroll two-thirds of a million students. They are coming, says a missionary educator, because a college degree offers almost certain employment and because China desperately needs trained men and women. The government does not conscript college students and discourages them from volunteering for military service.
The article notes a war era need for bolstered raw materials and highlights zinc as a critical target. Federal and state scientists are intensifying exploration in Illinois, focusing on Hardin and Davis counties where zinc sulfide ore is known but not quantified.
The text notes growing conviction about unworked deposits in two arenas and their potential to supply zinc for national war production. It suggests these resources could aid victory and shape industrial progress beyond a century ago. It ends with a classroom exchange about modern gains and a student’s witty reply.
The Car roll County Illinois Board of Supervisors will meet in special session at the Court House Mt Carroll Tuesday April 27 1943 at 10 oclock A M No claims acted upon at this session W R Watson Clerk
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