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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1968
Page
1
Cenestral Telephone Company of Illinois mails surveys to Mt Carroll Savanna and Thomson customers proposing Extended Area Service to allow direct dialing among the three communities with no tolls. Rates would rise 30 cents to 3.95 dollars monthly. Ballots due by September 10 1968.
The family thanks friends neighbors and relatives for food cards flowers and memorials. Special thanks to Father Reese St Marys Guild Organist Dr Hussey Savanna Medical Center nurses and aides pallbearers and Law Jones Funeral Home for kindness during illness and bereavement of our loved one.
Friends and relatives express gratitude for food cards flowers and kindness after the sickness and passing of George Salton. Special thanks to Rev Howard E Brooks and the staff at Moline hospital. Blessings to all.
Mrs. Merle Cate of Thomson sustained minor injuries in a four car collision at the entrance to Mississippi Palisades State Park north of Savanna. Cate stopped to enter the park to pick up her husband when her car was rear ended by Allen Williston of Savanna. Williston’s car was rear ended by Larry Burlingame of Clinton Iowa whose car was then struck by Marc McKinney of Preston Iowa. Damages were heavy with about 500 to 1500 per vehicle. Burlingame treated and released. Graunder 18 of Clinton admitted for treatment. McKinney and Graunder arrested for following toe case. Williston to face arrest.
Thomson Community Unit District No. 301 board meets in regular session with president Elmer Haas. Trustees approve fuel oil bid, hire a bus driver, contract cleaners, a third grade teacher's aide, a social studies teacher and assistant coach, and join the Ten-County Cooperative for Low Incidence Education. Enrollment notes and a Krebs matter letter are reviewed. meeting adjourns to August 19.
Thomson Community Unit School District 301 held a special 8:10 p.m. session with President Haas and members present. The board moved to executive session then returned to regular session and voted that John P. Krebs be suspended immediately and proceed to potential dismissal unless a hearing is requested. discussion followed and reference was made to prior action on Krebs for unprofessional conduct.
The Thomson Village will add black and white street name signs on every corner after Interstate Power Company underwrites the pipe cost. The Thomson Woman's Club inspired the project and Mr Cordes and Milton Kreimeier arranged funding to install about 400 feet of two inch pipe, with signs expected to be erected this fall.
Steve Smith son of Mr and Mrs Wilmer Smith Chadwick displayed the grand champion dairy female at the annual 4-H Fair and Round-up in Old Mill Park Savanna. His sister Diane exhibited the reserve grand champion dairy female and won junior showmanship in dairy competition.
The Maple Lawn event featured Allen Deets and Nancy Wagenknecht with champions in sheep judging, including the grand champion ram shown by David Hutchison. Beef judging crowned champions Jan McKean and Darlene Vajub bena, with reserve honors to Jay Cheeseman and Wayne Wubbebna. Swine winners were Kenneth Schneider and Brad Law, with reserve to Kevin Schneider.
Sherman Ashby named premier exhibitor of agricultural products at the Whiteside County fair held last week in Morrison. He received a trophy presented by J. A. Bull and Sons, Inc. of Union Grove and Morrison. Sherman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Ashby of rural Thomson.
The Illinois Building Authority bought a 122 acre farm north of Savanna for 80000 dollars. The site, formerly Theodore R. Haller’s Savanna Valley ski resort, is slated for state park expansion though official plans remain under study. Haller plans to move to Daviess County within two months.
Carroll County Board of Supervisors in special session appoints W L Huston of Joy Illinois as Superintendent of Schools to replace Gordon L Hansen. Huston to assume duties about September 1. Hansen and wife plan move to Springfield where he will head the Illinois Department of School Organization.
Ray Page state superintendent announced forty nine additional Title One programs approved for Illinois schools totaling 1,129,340 dollars. Included in this grant is 14,016 dollars for Thomson Community Unit District No. 301.
The FHA opens its year with a September 5 meeting at 7 00 pm in the Thomson Causeway public use area. The agenda includes a Wiener roast in September and plans from August 20 outline a year of activities from rallies and skits to dances and a carnival with events such as work for Dixon State School and boys serving in Vietnam and an India speaker in February.
The fall term begins with a teacher workshop on Monday and student attendance starting Tuesday. Morning sessions run 8:20 to 10:30, Wednesday offers a full day with lunchroom service, and buses begin Tuesday. Regular hours 8:20 to 3:31. Labor Day holiday on September 2.
The Control-O-Temp plant in Lanark Illinois bought the old Savanna Fabricators factory site in Savanna from Walco American Corporation. It is used as a warehouse under Lanark plant manager Warner Beyerman with renovations underway to restore the facilities.
Roy Shuck, 70, of Holman’s Addition near the Mississippi west of Thomson Illinois, tends a tall sunflowers and garden. He says the seeds feed birds in winter attracting cardinals. A Rock Island Summum native, he retired six years ago and rebuilt his home after the 1965 flood with Red Cross aid, then enjoys fishing.
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