Wayne County Press
Fairfield Illinois
Thursday, August 17, 1995
Sect 2, Page 6

Photos
    The Scott Bros. racing team (Fairfield) of Harlow and Phillip Scott ran this
in the Nashville (IL) Speedway events in 1964. They were involved in drag
racing for a number of years as a team, then later as individuals. Both were
familiar faces on the drag racing scene.

     The Japanese officially surrender and World War II is ended. The Press uses a banner headline across the top of the front page. President Truman proclaims a two day holiday . . . In Fairfield? , the light plant siren, tolling of church bells and bulletins in the Press window set off a celebration here . . . The U.S. has suffered over 290,000 boys killed and over one million wounded in the war . . . G.W. Pitcher, former Fairfield resident, dies in Idaho . . . Alexander Walker,retired Mill Shoals farmer, dies . . . All gasoline rationing ends as the war ends . . . Mrs. Bert Grove former Fairfield resident, dies in Arizona . . . Elmer Pennington, well-known Cisne farmer, dies . . . Mrs. J.O. Keiger dies at her home near Mt. Erie . . . Imogene Merritt, Alice Zimmerman, Nancy Brockett, Pat Brockett Norma Bruce, Pat Pietzner, Bernadine Rose, Richard Martin, Charles Werner, Max Sayers, Jack Walton, Bill Johnson, Joe Fearn, Frank Lofton, Carroll Vogel, Charles Steiner, Fed Ackerman, Richard McCoy, Pay Voylas and Johnny Nieher attend the Methodist youth fellowship at McKendree College . . . Dr. Donald B. Frankel wins a $2,000 cash prize from a medical journal for an article he wrote on a new treatment for sinus he has developed . . . Construction continues on 15 new brick dwellings in the Cheffield Addition in west Fairfield . . . George Winzenburger, of near Burnt Prairie, dies . . . Floyd A. Tannahill, superintendent of the Wayne-White Counties Electric Coop, dies following a heart attack . . . The Press reports Wayne County still leads the state in oil drilling activity . . . The 11th annual Wayne County Fair Closes.  Over 10,000 attended the fair-on Thursday, a record attendance for one day . . .  Rev and Mrs. R.J. Ellis move from Fairfield to Mt. Carmel.

     Father John Walsh, pastor of St. Edwards Catholic Church since 1946, is leaving Fairfield, going to Cahokia, near East St. Louis . . . Nineteen girls seek Miss Wayne-White Coop queen crown . . . David Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Clark, is injured in a power mower accident . . . The Airtex committee is granted strike power by the Local 543 membership . . . Mrs. Maggie Lee mother of Edmund and Lawrence Lee here, dies at the Carmi nursing home . . . Dr. Clyde Stroup is elected president of the Dale Carnegie alumni group here . . . Thirty-six swimmers take part in a fine water show . . . A 4-H barrow sale held by the 4-H at Albion is a big success . . . Mrs. Clayt Barritt, former Fairfield girl, is injured in a wreck as she was en route to her home in Maryland . . . There is a whisker growing contest for Fairfield's upcoming Good Old Days celebration . .
.  The village of Cisne may get a swimming pool,.

     The Press publishes a picture of Echo, the new space satellite, as it-passes over Fairfield . . . The new city owned parking lot on East Court Street is opened . .  . The Fairfield city clerk, city treasurer and police magistrate will get higher pay. Suggested pay hikes for the mayor and aldermen fail to pass . . .  Mrs.  Harvey Henson of the Zenith vicinity, dies . . . Marriage licenses: Charles E.  Booth and Marilyn Pottorff . . . Miss Betty Joe Robertson, a Fairfield teacher, accepts a teaching position at the Charleston Grade School  … . . Lowell Fansler joins the Skiles Oil firm accounting department . . . The new factory outlet store in Cisne, opens.

     Airtex reports the work force presently at a whopping 1011 workers. This is believed the, largest payroll in ten years. Employment at Airtex did rise to 1200-1300 during World War II and the Korean Conflict.
     A two plane mid-air crash southwest of Xenia leaves an Oklahoma pilot dead.  The other plane managed to make it on to the Mt. Vernon airport. Two State of Illinois engineers were on that plane.
     Dean Simpson is opening a new Fairfield taxi service.
     Jim Brock, 7, son of the Carlsen Brocks, breaks his arm in a fall from playground equipment at the park here.
     Rev. and Mrs. Paul Hardy, soon to return to their home in England, are made Fairfield honorary citizens by City Clerk Charles McCoy.
     One hundred fifty persons are called for possible jury duty in the upcoming Clarence Eugene Wilson murder trial.
     A U.S. Senate committee appropriates $75,000 for the proposed Helm reservoir.
     The Beehive senior citizens center is planning an open house for its first anniversary.
     A deep oil test is being drilled on the Dr. Halford Morlan estate land in Big Mound township.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 62 to 87.
     Mr. and Mrs. Bill Zimmerman and Mrs. Elmer Kello return from a western trip to Colorado.
     Judge C. Deneen Matthews has been holding court in Chicago for three weeks.
     Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dollerhide return from a four-month stay with their son, Floyd, in Anchorage, Alaska.

    Bob Schmerbauch, Wayne County ag extension adviser, is honored as one of three Illinois men named top county agents in the state.
     The Bayless Shop will open at 117 East Main, with Mrs. Everett Robbins as the manager.
     Two of 14 band instrruments stolen from the Center Street School band room are recovered by authorities.
     Rev. and Mrs. Leland Hooper buy the Charles and Gladys Vaughan home on N.W. Second Street.
     The Fairfield First United Methodist Church's new parking lot at First and Main will help alleviate parking problems in downtown Fairfield.
     The county tax board approves a total of 1263 homestead exemption applications.
     Efforts are continuing to form a Skil-Bash Conservancy district here.
     Fairfield temps range from 61 to 90.
     The Cisne Reunion will open Wednesday with the traditional Church Day program.
     Rain forces a postponement of the Tom Sawyer-Becky Thatcher fishing derby at the park.
     An FHA loan for $135,000 is expected to assure construction of the Boyleston Waterworks system west of Fairfield.
     Marriage license: Gerald Frank leFeber and Jennifer Jo Jannings.
     Some thought is expressed that the new vacated Holiday Ranch Motel might be purchased as a home for the handicapped.
     Paul Cravens, of Geff, suffers a heart attack.
     Amos Jack (the first resident at the Fairfield High Rise), is also the first person to die there.

     The Carnaby Square women's softball team wins the Class B State tournament.  Kenny Meritt is coach.
     An attempt is being made to revive the struggling junior football league in Fairfield. It was inactive last year.
     The Wayne County board is considering a new tax to pay for a new Wayne County jail.
     Carroll Courtright. Fred Smith, Sherrill Staley, Dr. Marcus Brown and Ron Weedon take out petitions for the FCHS board.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 62 to 91.
     Wayne-White Coop customers face a 10 percent hike in the next year.
     Twelve girls seek the Miss Cisne Reunion title and 12 also seek the Little Miss crown.
     Jim Lear undergoes bypass surgery at an Evansville hospital but will be home this week.
     The city's old steam boiler light plant equipment is being dismantled and being sold for junk. The city oddly enough still owes $1.5 million on the equipment.
     Huck's says plans for a second store in Fairfield have been killed.
     A 15-bed care home for the handicapped will be constructed on Enterprise Road. Mrs. Bessie Dyball has led the effort.
     Lee Harper, Glen Durst and Wayne Heflin make up the Wayne County tax review board.
     Bob Bergland, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, will speak at a Wayne County grain livestock outlook meeting.
     Bill and Kathy Book have a new baby son.

    Bob Bergland, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, will speak at a Wayne County grain livestock outlook meeting.
     Bill and Kathy Book have a new baby son.
 
 

     Wayne County oil activity is going at a fast clip, with five new locations announced, along with several well completions.
     Fairfield's new sewage plant is listed as 75 percent completed.
     FCHS classes will get underway Aug. 22.
     Fairfield grade teachers get a 6 percent pay raise.
     John Legge is named to the Fairfield Memorial Hospital Home Health Advisory Committee.
     Edward Rummel is hired as new Spanish teacher at Cisne High School.
     Tammra Obrecht is crowned as the new Miss Cisne Reunion.  Roxanne Rahn is first runner-up.
     Six area homes are named for the Amicum Sorority house tour this fall.
     A turnout of 40 people shows interest in start-up of a new Christian school here by the New Word Life church.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 58 to 85.
     Marriage licenses: Johnny Travis and Terri Loy Taylor.
     The Press reports most school districts will have board races this fall.
     The main entrance to Fairfield Memorial Hospital is closed for a month, as workmen erect a new canopy for the front entrance.
     The farmers market started here a year ago is being extended to include garden produce.
     Plans for the tenth annual Geff Frontier Days celebration are announced.
     Fairfield High expects 600 students for the fall start-up of school and the Fairfield grade enrollment is estimated at 725.