Chicago Prepares for Big Livestock Classic
The 54th International Live Stock Exposition and Horse Show opens November 28 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago Stock Yards. More than 10 000 top cattle sheep swine and horses from US states and Canada compete for over 100 000 in cash awards along with purple and blue ribbons. Farm youth lead on opening day with the Junior Livestock Feeding Contest and carload lot judging of prime market beef. The 31st Grain and Hay Show and Wool Show run alongside the event with 14 Horse Show performances announced.
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Chicago Stock Yards
Chicago
Martin Kennelly
States
Canada
Goose migration study launches at Horseshoe Lake refuge
A cooperative project among the 14 Mississippi Flyway states and the U S Fish and Wildlife Service will trap 500 juvenile Canada geese at Horseshoe Lake Wildlife Refuge near Cairo Illinois and relocate them to refuges in Tennessee Arkansas and Mississippi to study migration and flight patterns with colored neck bands for tracking.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Horseshoe Lake Wildlife
Cairo
Glen D. Palmer
State Department of Conservation
Horseshoe Lake
Tennessee
Arkansas
Mississippi
Reelfoot Lake
Game Departments
Mississippi Flyway
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Muskrat Trapping Cautions Amid Drought in Illinois
Illinois officials warn trappers to conserve muskrat breeding stock as the open season from November 15 to January 15 begins. Director Glen D. Palmer cites drought driven migration and potential over trapping that could harm future crops. Beaver season runs February 1 to 15 with a limit of 10. Governor Stratton pledges cleanup of the State Welfare Department after thefts, backing Director Roettag and promising reforms.
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Illinois
General Assembly
Glen D. Palmer
State Department of Conservation
Springfield
Conservation Department
Ill
Palmer
Black Prairie
William G. Stratton
State Department of Public Welfare
Roettag
Stratton
Bettag
Illinois Reports Public Aid Use and Coal Output Rises
The executive secretary of the Illinois Public Aid Commission reports 238 835 public aid recipients in August with expenditures of 10 614 174. State mines produced 3 649 588 tons of coal in September, up 296 817 from August. A state office building project in Springfield prompts bids opening December 15. completion is targeted in about two years. Governors Stratton appointees include Dr Howard W Trivillion Ray W Osterman and Lowell Horton to the Mississippi Scenic Parkway Commission.
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Illinois Public Aid Commission
Illinois
State Department of Mines and Minerals
Springfield
William G. Stratton
State House
William G
Ratton
Howard W. Trivillion
Godfrey
Ray W. Osterman
Rock Island
Lowell Horton
Nauvoo
Mississippi
Senate
House
Lanark grade school basketball schedule and birth notice
Lanark announces the grade school basketball schedule with dates from November to February including games against Pearl City Chadwick Center Hill Milledgeville Mt Carroll Shannon and Chestnut Park with locations here or there. A separate line notes Mr and Mrs James Carroll are the parents of a daughter.
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Pearl City
Chadwick
Center Hill
Milledgeville
Mt. Carroll
Shannon
Thomson
Chestnut Park
James Carroll
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Rod Cameron
John Agar
Gale Storm
William Holden
Don Taylor
Otto Preminger
al M. Carlson
Mgr
Calhoum
Naie Redertsay
Lote Are
Vonna Alan Hale, Jr
Ervin Elliott
Lanark
Abe Reiff
SUN
Robert Mitchum
Susan Hayward
K. W. Senneff
Donald Kearnaghan, M
Carroll
Robert Byisto
Thomson Naaman Diehl
Tel
Savanna’s Web Theatre
Yvonne DE Carlo
Rock Hudson
Savanna
Times Theatre
Africa
Sahara
Glenn Ford
Anne Vernon
Joan Crawford
Michael Wilding
Joseph Cotten
Jean Peters
Gary Merrill
Savanna Theatres
State Capitol
Uge
W. J. O'Connor
Hels
Polo
Milledgeville-Polo Blacktop Road
Sterling
Hampshire
Ames Incras
White Rock
Jamesway Oil
Ford
International
IHC
Wood Bros
New Idea
Keystone
Vietor
McCormick
Clinton
Hinman
Landis
Lutheran Church
Orville Landis
Hank & Dykema
Etnyre & Otten
Jack Gladwin
2Nd St
4Th Ave. S
Clinton, Iowa
Mania Bers
Lyons
Main Ave
Johnson
Lanark News
Fulton
Basters
Marth
Maytag
Hotpoint
Presteline
Gibson, Hotpoint
Admiral
Strating Service Company
Lincolnway
Fulton, Illinois
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