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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1963
Page
3
Babson Park advice urges housewives to use discount houses and annual sales to cut costs. Focus on nonserviced items, loss leaders, and seasonal mark downs, then exploit model-change events and overstock sales to save money across years.
The Timber Lake Playhouse board re organized its Club Plan to assist groups in raising funds while attending plays at reduced rates. Officers were elected including Rev Andrew Bro as President and Rod Parsons as First Vice President. committees were named for production, publicity, and finance with plans to finalize season details by December 10.
Springfield announces the suspension by the Drivers License Division of John J Clemmons 1253rd Savannah following three violations of traffic regulations and related actions by the state.
County offices including banks and post offices will be closed on Thursday November 23 for the Thanksgiving holiday. To allow staff to mark the day the four weeklies published by Review Publications will go to press one day early next week. Your cooperation in submitting news and ad copy early is appreciated.
Twelve Carroll County residents are enrolled this quarter at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Edwardsville, part of a total SIU student body of 18 210. Named Carroll students include Terry L. Elliott Thomson James W Kent Larry G Kneiss Wayne L Wilhelm Shannon Jerry S ng William Erdmier Stephen Flickinger Carroll Marjorie Beck Helen S Hawkins Ka E Seavey Milledgeville Michael J Foltz Richard H White Savanna. Former Chadwick resident B J Verts also attends SIU.
District Director E. C. Coyle Jr announces IRS will provide state by state sales tax deduction guidelines for 1963. Tables show residents' average payments and will aid itemizers on Form 1040. Available at 22 W Madison Chicago around December 1, 1963.
Mr and Mrs John Warner of Lanark will observe their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house at their home from 2 to 5 p m Sunday December x Relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend.
A single indictment was returned Monday by the grand jury for the November term of circuit court. Authorities will not disclose the indicted person’s name until custody is taken.
West Central region court news lists licenses issued by County Clerk W M Nipe to Darrell F Ditsch and Dixie Zemke Milledgeville. Darrold Gene Miller and Paulette Jean Sheridan Lanark. Archie Charles Rose and Joan Elizabeth Sheridan Savannah. William Lee Spencer Thomson and Julia Katherine Hinsch Savanna. Two Rock Falls men fined 30 dollars each for shooting a pheasant on a public road near Milledgeville. arrest by county conservation officer Paul Hensal. Rollie Elder pleaded guilty to illegal taking of a pheasant on a public highway and Walter Creekraum pleaded guilty as an accessory.
Property deeds show multiple transfers including Hattie Greeley to Florence Ashby in French's 2nd addition Milledgeville estates to Esther Newcomer to Paul Burns, and many others across Savanna York Mt. Carroll Rock Creek and Meyers subdivisions with sections townships and ranges indicated.
Entered for probate are the Gustav E. Schmidt Estate, the Harry B. Rahn Estate, and the H. B. Shore Estate. Pw
Carroll county court certified delinquency petitions Monday for Donald Fulrath and Lynn Mathias after the two Lanark youths were indicted earlier for a fatal summer shooting. The petitions move their cases from circuit to county court. Fulrath faced involuntary manslaughter charges later nolle pressed at the state's request.
Carroll County ASC chairman Clinton R. Plock announces the final 1963 corn price support remains at 1.06 per bushel. Farmers may receive 1.06 drought loans plus 0.18 per bushel payment on normal production. Applications are being received at the county ASC office.
Savanna Lions Club heard Miss Viola Schultz explain the aging housing crisis in Carroll. She noted only one licensed nursing home in the county, Johnson Nursing Home in Shannon, with 58 beds, and one sheltered care home Maple Lawn Home in Thomson with 10 beds, all near full capacity.
The Carroll County CROP drive is planned for Thanksgiving week. Solicitors work November 25 26 and 27 from the rail road loading point in Lanark at 12 30 p m. Campaign director is Clarence Boelkins of Milledgeville and commodity manager is Richard Zuck of Lanark. Other officers include Rev. Edwin Rodabaugh chairman Rev. James Green vice chairman Herbert Brantner secretary and Judson Grove treasurer.
Circuit Judge Robert L. Bracken extended the temporary ban on mass picketing by United Packinghouse Workers at Kraft Foods cheese plant Milledgeville and whey plant Stockton. A permanent restraining order motion was heard after testimony. a prior order issued Oct. 28 expired Friday. The hearing occurred in Jo Daviess County circuit court at Galena with talks planned in Freeport Monday between company and union negotiators.
Lanark residents Mr Isadore Saidel Mr Carroll and couples Mr Mrs Arthur St Clair and Mr and Mrs Robert Carbaugh attended a 4 H leaders banquet at Chadwick High School on November 13. Earl Gilliland the County Extension Agent presented First Year Leader pins and certificates to Mr Saidel Mr St Clair Mr Carbaugh and Mrs Lower. The three gentlemen belong to Carroll County Sheriff’s Mounted Patrol, sponsors of the Caballeros.
Carroll County Welfare Services Committee met at Smith's Tea Room Mt Carroll after a 12:30 luncheon. Paul Francis, counselor from the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Rockford, outlined services for the handicapped available through the division.
Grinnell Iowa man Guy Cooper 62 was fined 25 dollars and costs after his semi trailer struck and heavily damaged four cars parked on Chicago Avenue near the Catholic church. Wayne Hartney Savanna police magistrate ordered the fine.
Mt. Carroll resident Lyle Eckler was arrested by Chicago detectives on a warrant for armed robbery. He was held briefly, released after inconclusive lie tests, then later found to have been in Mt. Carroll during the Chicago tavern holdup. Police say two other men may have committed the crime.
A Riverview resident digging a septic hole uncovered a nine foot deep, badly deteriorated skull, jawbone and spine fragments. The Department of Archeology at the University of Illinois was asked to examine the remains, which Sheriff Harry Miller said likely belong to an Indian and predate white settlement.
The International Live Stock Exposition runs November 29 to December 7 at the Chicago Stock Yards International Amphitheatre. Carroll county youths Beverly Deers Milledgeville Kim Nesemeier Shannon exhibit Short horn steers. Sibley family Chadwick entries Brown Swiss cattle and Carter brothers Milledgeville enter Cheviot sheep. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride performs as a daily feature.
Washington final approval by the House of a 1.5 billion measure for military construction at home and abroad includes 562 thousand dollars for 32 family housing units at Savanna Army Depot. Rep. Anderson notified Savanna mayor that the Army Depot appropriation stays in the bill. The plan, passed 332 to 5, moves to the Senate. Army Corps says the Savanna project will house families of officers and mainly non commissioned officers.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Post of Chadwick and Mr and Mrs Carl Patterson with family of Milledgeville were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Abe Reiff in Milledgeville. The dinner honored November birthdays.
Lanark County relies on La Nar Theatre in Lanark village as the last operating movie house after Times Theater in Savanna closed. Since 1956 the venue has faced declines as Mount Carroll and Chadwick theaters shut, turning into a bowling alley and a store. George Crofton, longtime Lanark resident, runs four weekly shows with his wife Elsie and Harlan Downs handling the projectors, keeping local entertainment alive for families and youth.
Kenneth W. Michael of Mount Carroll Illinois completes an eight week communications center course at Fort Gordon Georgia and a 1963 Chadwick High School graduate. Hal W. James of Savanna Illinois serves in Tactical Air Command during Exercise Big Lift. he is a C 130 crew chief and part of a force moving 116 aircraft to France and Germany in a 72 hour global airlift. James is a savanna high school graduate who joined the Air Force in 1961.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Forth plan a wedding dance Saturday evening November 23 at Farm Bureau Hall Mt Carroll from 8 p m to 1 a m Ladies are asked to bring cake or sandwiches.
Carroll County Court faced a full docket as Judge Edward Turnbaugh heard cases including criminal damage to property by James Brown and James Doran, both 18, who pleaded guilty and were fined $200 plus costs and placed on two years probation. Other proceedings included first aid course certifications and a theft case involving Jerry Siedenburg of Mt. Carroll. Floyd Noble and Gary Collins pled guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor and received one year in Vandalia. Canavan’s liquor case continued to December 2.
Frank Poffenberger 78 of Mt. Carroll died at home November 13 after years of illness. Funeral held 2 pm Saturday at Frank Funeral Home with burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Survivors include wife Ma bel Klitz two sons Walter and Wade one daughter Frances Carbaugh five grandchildren two great grandchildren sister and brother in Mt. Carroll. Frank Miller 82 of Milledgeville died November 14 in Sterling Hospital. Funeral 2 pm Saturday at Brethren church burial in South Elkhorn cemetery. Survivors include wife and several stepchildren. Leslie W. Smith 68 of Savanna died November 14 in Savanna City Hospital after 11 days as patient. Funeral in Grand Mound Iowa with burial Evergreen cemetery. Survived by wife two daughters Virginia and Mrs Donald Panke three grandchildren and two half brothers.
Carroll County homemakers extension council meets Monday at 1 00 pm at the extension office in Mt Carroll. On Tuesday 26 the Salem unit meets with Mrs Blaine McGinty at 1 30 pm. Dorothy Footitt will teach Preventing Accidental Poisoning and the short topic How To Stay Young at Heart. Members respond to roll call with an ironing trick.
A youth and his mother are jailed in Carroll County for aiding a 17 year old Milledgeville girl to run away. Larry Craft and Julia Cronister reportedly fled to Ohio weeks ago then returned. Mrs Martha Craft is charged with contempt of court. The girl was taken to the Geneva state school for psychiatric exam by order of Judge Turnbaugh.
American Dairy Association of Illinois invites dairy farmers and interested persons to a District Annual Meeting at the Farm Bureau Morrison on December 5, 1963. The event runs 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with a noon dairy lunch, door prize, movies, and a dairy food demonstration. ADA state director Jay Bristle chairs and leads review of seven years of ADA activity and the 1964 program. A state director and seven district directors will be elected.
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