Wood Products Inc. Helle Brothers Build Savanna Lumber Power
Feature on Carroll County sawmill founded by Sheldon and Walter Helle in Savanna Illinois. From a small 1940 operation to a modern 1969 plant with about seventy workers, the business survived a 1946 fire, wartime shifts, and two fatal accidents while expanding to over 750 000 dollars in annual sales and planning a new 8 000 square foot addition.
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Carroll County
Wood Products
Savanna
Minois
Sheldon
Walter Helle
Carroll CO
Helle
Cuba
Ilinois
Fulton County
Chicago
Wacker Road
Helle Brothers
General Motors Corporation
Powerama
Ben Mulane
Hanover
Mulane
Wood Products, Inc
Illinois
Walter
Sheldon Helle
Sawmill Fleet Drives Midwest Lumber Supply
Sheldon and Walter Helle run a Carroll County sawmill with a sizable fleet. Six truck tractors, twelve trailers, six straight trucks, and five pickups move timber from timberlands to the mill and out to customers across the Midwest.
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Carroll County
Sheldon
Walter Helle
Midwest
County Forester Lloyd Casey Hobbies and Farm Meeting
Lloyd Casey state forester notes a hobby collecting old barbed wire with over 500 patents. He advocates tree plantings on marginal land and fast returns from red scotch and white pines. County farm leaders will form a committee to forward ideas to Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin. A resurfacing project between Lanark and Shannon is planned after next summer at an estimated cost of 175000 for seven miles. Bus costs for the dairymen tour are 2.50 with stops near Rockford and reservations required.
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Lloyd Casey
Lloyd
Clifford B. Hardin
Lanark
Shannon
Allen
Carroll County
Woody Johnson
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Bob Schmok
Tom Speilman
Rockford
Stan Smith
Extension Dairyman
Vanishing Americans Farmers in the Population Decline
The article notes farmers now comprise about 2 percent of the population with each farmer feeding about 40 people. It highlights a looming demographic shift and the shrinking farming community as a major national issue.
Calendar of Events and Unit Meetings
March 6 through March 13 lists updates for Blackhawk Farm Business Farm Management Board Tailoring Extension Office and Dairy judging contests, plus tours, scholarships and 4-H meetings. Unit meetings include Rock Creek Northern Lights Meadowlarks Chadwick Lamp Lighters Cherry Grove Atoms and Palisades with times in the afternoon and evenings at local homes and Extension offices.
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Blackhawk Farm Business Farm Management Board
Freeport
Locke Manufacturing Co
Dorothy Footitt
FFA
Lowell Ter
Hark
Northern Illinois Land Use Council
Princeton
Rock Creek Northern Lights
Harry Lowman
Meadowlarks
Robert Thomas
Chadwick Lamplighters
William Schneider
Cherry Grove Atoms
Dennis Edler
Palisades
Walter Helle
Lowering pools won’t curb Mississippi floods say engineers
Colonel Gelini of the Rock Island District, Corps of Engineers, says lowering winter pools behind navigation dams does not reduce floods and could threaten water supplies. He notes locks and dams provide a 9 foot channel for navigation, not flood control, and storage is limited.
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Walter C. Gelini
Rock Island
Corps of Engineers
Clone Gelini
Quad- City
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Fish and Wildlife
Congress
Mississippi River
Misissippi River
Mississippi
Quad Cities
Freedom March 14 Event Time Note
The entry lists a gathering titled Freedom with Mrs William Beattie on March 14 at 1 30 p m indicating a scheduled time for the event.
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Freedom
William Beattie
Illinois Bankers State Annual Spring Meeting
Group 4 of the Illinois Bankers Association will hold its one day spring meeting on Wednesday March 12 at the Sheridan Rock Island Motor Inn Rock Island. The session begins at 3 p.m. with officer elections and a report by Robert C Schrimple executive vice president. Over 425 bankers and guests are expected.
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Illinois
Bankers State
The
Illinois Bankers Association
Sheraton
Rock Island Motor Inn
Rock Island
Robert C. Schrimple
Charles J. Wirth
Colonial Bank of Rockford
Omar C. Wilhelms
First State Bank of
Shannon
$1 600 000 Suit Names Savannans
A 1 600 000 lawsuit filed Friday in Carroll County Circuit Court names Harold Moore and Ernest Chandler doing business as Savanna Super Value and Wallace D Provant Jr of Savanna as defendants. Theesfelds of Peoria Illinois allege a March 29 1967 accident near Savanna caused paralysis from the neck down to Mr Theesfeld and request 100 000 for his wife’s loss of companionship. Provant was driving the car. Defendants have 30 days to reply.
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Carroll County
Dale P. Theesefeld
Peoria
Illinois
Harold Moore
Ernest Chandler
Savanna Super Value
Wallace D. Provant, Jr
Savanna
Ridge Road
Theesfeld
Prowant
Illinois Drivers With Records Examined First
Secretary of State Paul Powell told the Rock Island Rotary Club that Illinois will examine one ninth of licensed drivers each year under the re examination program. Those with former driver control records are prioritized, but some with no such records will be included to meet the nine year deadline as licenses renewals proceed.
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Illinois
Paul Powell
Rock Island Rotary Club
Powell
Secretary of State
Carroll County Water District Directors Meet March 12
The Carroll County Water Conservation District Directors will hold a meeting on Wednesday March 12 1969 at 8 00 p m in the USDA building Mt Carroll Illinois.
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Carroll County Water Conservation District
USDA
Mt. Carroll
Select Qualified Tax Advisors Illinois taxpayers urged to choose reputable advisors
District Director E C Coyle Jr warned taxpayers to pick qualified professionals for federal tax returns and avoid shortcuts. He cautioned against blank returns pencil prepared returns promised refunds or payments to the preparer and urged noting the preparer's name and address for future reference.
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Illinois
E. C.” Coyle
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Clinton
Iowa
Sterling, Ilinois
Lyle Helle
Aarold Brinkmeier
Lloyd Law, Jr
Nf.o
Bob McIntyre
Farm Bureau
Paul Sites
Frank Manning
Grange
Bill Beattie
KRAFT
Carrol
Ilimoes
Winnebago Counties
Savannans
Thomson Review
Thomson
Village Echo
Thomson Broadax
Twember —Sz
Eee Newspaper
Nine Aber Association
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