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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1962
Page
2
Savanna voters last Thursday approved an $85,000 bond issue for the city hospital expansion by a 447 to 400 margin. The result follows a lengthy campaign among Savanna residents and local officials.
The column profiles Russ Jeckel's confinement hog-raising on a 215 acre farm with 70 pens and automated feeding aimed at cutting costs. It also offers lawn renovation advice and poultry lighting tips, noting University guidance on optimal flock sizes and hen light hours. It ends with a family outing to Stockton and Terrapin Ridge Manor.
Congressman John B Anderson reports the Army and Board of Engineers have submitted to Congress a plan for a Savanna Illinois small-boat harbor. It includes a breakwater a 1685 foot maneuvering channel and berthing for about 380 boats with local self liquidating facilities. The project forms part of a broader river improvement effort from the Missouri to Minneapolis and carries a favorable benefit cost ratio of 2.7 with federal funds of 98000 dollars and recreational and commercial fishery benefits valued at 15200 and 8400 dollars respectively.
Carroll county residents bought 52171 in Series E and H United States Savings Bonds in July. Illinois sales totaled 28851 435 down 5.4 percent from last year. Illinois accounted for 8 percent of a national total of 358 million. In seven months state sales reached 52 5 percent of the 382 million Illinois quota.
Kenneth and Louise Anderson celebrate 25 years of marriage with a silver anniversary open house at their Lanark area home. Relatives and friends may visit Sunday from 2 to 4 30 PM or 7 to 9 PM, weather permitting in Trinity Lutheran social rooms. The couple married September 4 1937 in Clinton Iowa with attendants Jeanne Smith and Glenn Anderson. They have three sons Gerald David and Alan and hold ties to the Lanark Lions Eastern Star and Trinity Lutheran church.
Driscoll and Hare wed in Savanna with Police Magistrate Wayne Hartney officiating. White and Herring ton also united in Savanna by County Judge Edward Turnbaugh. Ramos Ramos and Aurora Guin Azcuy wed in Lanark with Rev. John B. Vautrin presiding. An obituary note mentions Mrs. Anderson of Morrison and relatives, and Adolph Doden visited Morrison residents.
Joseph T. Meek president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association will be the speaker at a Whiteside and Carroll County retailers meeting on Thursday September 6. A Dutch treat dinner is set for 6 30 p m at Juls Danish Farm route 30 west of Rock Falls. The session titled The Revolution in Retailing aims to review retail concerns in the two counties with emphasis on legislation operations personnel and public relations. Local chairman Hart Wyatt reservations through Wyatt urged. Frank Zahn of Forreston visited the Behrens home Sunday night.
Dr. E. M. Colli and his family moved Friday from Mt. Carroll to Columbus Ohio where he will engage in general practice. He practiced in Mt. Carroll for years. His Mt. Carroll office in the Acker building remains open briefly to finish records with Mrs. Wayne Harmon in charge.
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