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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1968
Page
3
The Advisory Board to the Good Samaritan Nursing home reports a $10,000 total in the bank as of Tuesday evening from gifts across Mt. Carroll Lanark Cherry Grove and Lima Townships. Meetings and speeches planned by community groups mark ongoing fundraising efforts.
Carroll County Board of Supervisors met in the Courthouse for their March session. They issued building permits to Sackett Smith for a $16,000 Oakville Estates home and to John Niles for a Washington town addition. Also approved the quarterly report of Schools Superintendent Gordon Hansen. Other actions included refer for highway signs and sheriff highway patrol room access, and purchase of an adding machine for the County Clerk. Liability and compensation insurance adjustment referred to the highway committee.
The Registered Nurses of Northwestern Illinois plan their monthly meeting on Tuesday March 19 at 8 p.m. in the Lutheran Church Chadwick. Dr and Mrs William Jawarek of Chadwick will discuss The Medical Aspects of Foreign Travel and reservations for the April trip to Heines Hospital in Chicago will be taken at the meeting.
A Homemakers Hoedown will be held Tuesday evening March 19 at 7 30 p m in the Extension office in Mt Carroll Demonstrations will cover sewing on stretch fabrics kitchen storage and food preparation per Carroll County Extension Advisor Dorothy Footitt
Carroll County Extension adviser notes upcoming 1968 4 H FFA Daily Judging Contest to be held March 16 at Wilmer Smith farm with 8 a m registration and 8 30 a m judging. He also reports new county road signs will be featured in this week’s papers and explains rural directory address changes.
The Palisades Amateur Radio Club will hold code and theory classes at Chestnut Park School at 7:30 p.m. on Mondays. Contact a ham in Carroll County to join. Members say learning is not difficult or expensive and many retirees find it rewarding. hams offer help in emergencies and derive satisfaction from aiding others.
Carroll County farmers must sign up by March 15 for the 1968 Feed Grain Program. Ex tension adviser Harold Brinkmeier urges reading ASCS Form 477 1 for yields base acreages payment rates and price support data. Consider price risks workloads and storage before signing up and consult the Extension Office for a worksheet and ASCS questions.
The Union Jacks are performing at Chadwick High School in a dance sponsored by the Chadwick FHA. The event runs Friday night from 8 to 11.
The Black Oak Grange met on March 7 and reported February sales of Stanley products with a nice profit. The Rock Creek Grange presented the traveling bank program on Americanism with Helen Libberton Francis Prowant Ralph Roberts Minerva Prowant and Esther Horner. Mrs John Halfman won first prize with Julie Shilling and Patricia Burkholder taking second.
Carroll County American Cancer Society unit held its March 7 meeting at Gordon's Seafood Inn Savanna with 19 members. R B Law announced plans for the April 1 through April Crusade 1968 and noted Carroll County ranking third in state public education. The meeting covered kick‑off plans for March 25 Center Hill School, an upcoming Prayer For Cancer Sunday April 21, and a portable suction pump donation for throat cancer patients kept within Carroll County.
The Emerald Hills Country Club in Sterling hosted the District One Cancer Crusade Kick-off luncheon on Tuesday March 5. District chairman Owen W. Pollard presided as district and unit leaders from 14 counties gathered including Carroll County chairwoman Mrs F J Riddle and Milton F Carr Jr of La Salle National Bank Chicago spoke on crusade plans. A Welk sing along and a reading The Embattled Call film preview and Our Second Mile address by Carr Jr followed. The meeting closed with unit readiness for the 1968 Crusade starting April 1. Carroll County units reported full readiness with chairmen and solicitors appointed. Attendees included Mrs Leroy Warehime Mrs John Newton Mrs Homer Nye Milledgeville and others.
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