Wayne County Press
Fairfield Illinois
Thursday, August 31, 1995
Sect. 2 Page 6

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     They're former employees at the West End Phillips 66 Station.  Pictured are front from left, Homer Smith and the late Kenny Wood. Top, J. R. Dalton, the late Jack Musgrave and Bob Rosenberger.

     All ware contracts are cancelled at Airtex but the firm still has 1,000 employees on the payroll. The union situation is still unsettled . . . Rev. and Mrs. W.O. Terhune observe their golden wedding anniversary here. He is the Ellen Moore Methodist pastor . . . New fee rates are upped at the office of the county clerk and circuit court, under a new state law provision . . . Word is received here by Mr. and Mrs. Chester Butler, of Fairfield, that their son, Lt. Hal Butler, 22, died from wounds received while testing small arms fire at Regen, Germany . . . Mr. and Mrs. Orville Rose have a new son . . . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Milt Iddings, of Geff, observe their golden wedding anniversary . . . Fairfield has very chilly weather, with the temperature getting down to a very cool 49 degrees . . . Prof. A. Lyman Talbert announces plans for a one day teachers institute . . . George E. Ellis, of Springerton, dies . . . Mr. and Mrs. George Xanders, near Fairfield, had a new daughter . . . 595 old age pensioners in Wayne County got $16,084 in assistance for July . . . Mr. and Mrs. Glenn McDowell have a new daughter . . . Marriage licenses: Virl Kesler and Rollin Kimmel; Richard Koukola and Vera Perrigo; James Russell and Mary Layman . . . James Hodges, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hodges, Sr., graduates from the University of Missouri . . . Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Branson, of Johnsonville, are wed fifty years . . . Herschel Boze undergoes a bladder operation in the Mt. Vernon hospital . . . Miss Mollie Musgrave resigns as a stenographer in the public aid office and will enter a Chicago hospital for nurse's training . . . Mrs. Doris Rawlings-Schmidt, former Fairfield girl, now of St. Louis, is reported seriously ill with a goiter complication . . . Henry Bleakley, former Mt. Erie resident, dies at Mattoon . . . Owen Chaney, of Rinard, is new superintendent of the Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative.

     A negro infant dies in a car wreck near Fairfield, with seven persons injured .  .  . An enrollment of 687 is reported at Fairfield High School, a new record .  .  .  The FCHS board affirms that a 14-year-old girl must attend high school; she wanted to stay out and help support her family .... Two hundred persons, many from Wayne County, attend a meeting at Clay City on a proposed southward extension of Rt. 160A, from Clay City to Fairfield . . . Miss Betty Jean Spain, 32, dies at her home here . . . Marriage license: Billy Garrison and Judy Simpson . . .  Weldon Kendrick and Jerry Wilson are new members of the Fairfield Rotary club . .  . Mrs.  Nick Scott, wife of a former Wayne County resident, dies at Tonica . . .  Fairfield's new East Court parking lot is opened . . . W.A.  Leach, former well-known Fairfield resident dies at Marion . . . Gene York announces plans for a new subdivision in west Fairfield . . . Mrs. May Keith, of Rinard, dies . . . The new Rotary playcourt at Lakeside Park is now in use . . . Bob Robinson, a member of the Press advertising staff, resigns and goes to Albion, Mich.... Major Ralph Farrese, with the Army Reserve Center here, has been a patient at the Scott Air Force Base hospital for 17 days . . . The dam for the new state lake at Johnsonville is under construction.

     Charles E. Williams, carpenter living east of Fairfield, dies at Memorial Hospital . . . Fairfield's new Armory will be dedicated this week . . . The price for Illinois crude oil is restored to $3, good news for area independent oil producers . . .  Over 14,000 voter registration cards are mailed out in Wayne County. . . The Fairfield Grade School enrollment is put at 1183 . . . Mrs. Vernon Cable wins a first place in canned goods competition at the DuQuoin State Fair . . . The Fairfield IGA Store is getting a new front.

     A 20 barrels an hour oil well is hit on the Dr. Morlan farm in Big Mound Township.
    The city light plant's 5,000 kw turbine is back on the line and doing well after a bearing burnout.
    County Clerk Harry Austin says there are no immediate plans here to register 18-year olds to vote.
    Curtis (Sonny) Anderson, wife and children are moving back to Fairfield from Detroit, Mich.  He will be director of maintenance at Airtex Products.
   The 1970 FCHS school yearbooks are a here and ready for distribution. A signing party will be held at the Kon-Tiki.
    Fairfield Memorial Hospital raises room rates to $30 for semi-private rooms.
    David Rush, 2 1/2, son of the Ron Rushes, is in Memorial Hospital with a B-B gun shot wound in the leg.
    David Perry Musgrave, son of Clifton Musgrave, now of Phoenix, Ariz., will be playing steel guitar for Jeanne C. Riley, the Harper Valley P.T.A.  country music star, when she appears at the DuQuoin  State Fair.
    Fairfield school teachers are guests of honor at the First United Methodist Church.
    Operation Mainstream workers are busy on a number of Fairfield sidewalk projects.
   Fairfield temperatures range from 53 to 88.
    Marriage license: William Kent Vinson and Linda Darlene Spencer.
    The current corn blight problem will be examined in a meeting at the Clyde Robbins farm near Fairfield.
    Ten more of the 14 band instruments stolen at the Fairfield grade school are found in the Skillet Fork river.

     Miss Trudy Pennington is pictured as the new Miss Cisne Reunion.
     Kim Tolliver wins first in a Cisne Reunion talent competition for grade schoolers.
    Bro. Sheldon Thomas resigns as pastor of Fairfield First Christian Church and has accepted a pastorate at Dodge City, Kans.
    Five slot machines seized by state police in a raid on the Fairfield Elks Lodge are axed here.
    Free fried chicken will be a highlight of the upcoming Fairfield Fall Fun Fest celebration.
    Rev. Denny Shepard, president of the Fairfield Ministerial Alliance, will name his committees this week.
    Larry Roberts, former beauty salon operator here, is killed in a wreck in the Vandalia area.
    The Southern Railway is presenting a South caboose as a gift to the Wayne
County Association for Retarded Children.
    Charles L. Feller is honored by SIU for 39 years service as a teacher.
    Fairfield temperatures range from 57 to 91.
     Donna Riggs, 16, is injured in a car-motorcycle mishap. She was a passenger on the motorcycle...   Mrs. Andrew Tyler undergoes lung surgery at the Olney hospital.
    Cisne firemen win a second place trophy at the Xenia fish fry water fight competition.
    King City Federal of Mt. Vernon buys the Holiday Ranch Motel here for $39.000..
    John W. Spence is hospitalized with pneumonia and kidney complications.
    Construction is set to begin on the new Boyleston Water works system.

     The state of Illinois has threatened to sue Wayne County over its present county jail. County Board Chairman Lee Harper says the county should plan and build a new jail.
    The state will meet with a Colorado energy company over gas line leaks in the Geff area.
    The Fairfield B & PW will again operate a telephone pledge bank for the Jerry Lewis MD telethon weekend.
    The Press reports races in every district in the county for fall school board elections. Eight candidates file at Wayne City, seven at Cisne, six at Fairfield Grade and five for the FCHS board.
    Marriage license: Steven Christopher Mitchell and Connie Lee Gregory.
    The Press publishes a 16-page fall sports section and the Press football contest will start next week.
    Fairfield Memorial Hospital is stepping up its doctor recruitment efforts.
    Wayne Countians have paid 12 percent of their $7 million county tax bill.
    An estimated 2,000 persons are expected to attend the Elm River Chowder in northern Wayne.
    Leslie Shewmake, former Sims mayor, dies at age 88.
    Mrs. Jeanetta Russell, 59, former Airtex guard, dies at the Olney Care Center.
    The Wayne County Ambulance Service will elect seven board members.
     Wayne County's jobless rate is down to 16.3 percent.
    A young Indiana driver backs into a gas pump at Huck's here.
    The Steve Wards of Albion have a new baby boy.

     Oil drilling has slowed in Wayne County. Only one location has been announced.
    The Carnaby Square ladies softball team will compete in a national tournament in Michigan.
    Because of a lack of players, the Fairfield High Mules jayvee football schedule has been cancelled
   Bob Bergland former US Secretary of Agriculture, will speak at the county grain and livestock outlook meeting.
    The terms of Jerry Wylie, Wayne Smith and Jack Fearn are expiring on the Wayne County Fair Board.
    Fairfield temperatures range from 61 to 89.
    Around 2,000 people jam the Elm River Chowder grounds in northern Wayne for that big chowder.
    Tickets for Fall Fun Fest rides go on sale.
    A Wayne County group will go by bus to that big "farm aid" concert at Champaign. Up to 90,000 are expected to attend.
    The Press details plans for the tenth annual Geff Frontier Days celebration.
     Willard (Bill) Heidinger suffers a heart attack.
    A number of sororities here push projects for funds to buy a blood testing machine in memory of Nichole McCullough, 7, who died from cystic fibrosis.
    Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Clevenger are wed forty years. Also married forty years are Mr. and Mrs. Luther Otto Windland.
    Plans for the 15 annual Fairfield Coin Club show are printed.
    The 103rd annual meeting of the Greater Wabash Baptist Association will be held at Mt. Carmel.