Wayne County Press
Fairfield, Illinois
Thursday, Sept. 14, 1995
Sec 2 Pg 6

Photo
     This picture was taken at the Carter Grade School, southeast of Fairfield in 1938. The sixth graders posed for the pictures in June. Pictured are, front, from left, Mary Linne Vaughan, Noel Vaughan, Wanda Vaughan, Anna Mae Cline, Nolan Gill, Kelzie Stopher and Glen Stopher. Back, Nellie Cline, June Vaughan, Mildred
Wright, Teacher Glen Miller, Dale Vaughan, Delmont Felix and Lyman Brock.
 
 

     Marriage licenses: Delbert Clevenger and Mary June Irwin, Allen E. Michels and Imogene Hallock . . . The Fairfield High School enrollment includes 118 freshmen, 137 sophomores, 96 juniors and 101 seniors . . . Ralph Fritz is the new manager of the Chefford Master salvage department . . . F. P. Scott, of Golden Gate, fractures a knee in a fall from a wagon load of hay . . . Harvey Burton, of Fairfield, leases the Wide's filling station on East Main. Ralph Miller, former
station manager, is now with the, Sunderland Brothers Garage . . . The Fairfield temperatures drop down to near 50 degrees . . . The long discussed contract between Chefford Master Mfg. Company and the newly organized CIO union is signed . . . O.C. Fogle, well-known Fairfield resident, dies at the Olney hospital . . . The salary of the county treasurer here is raised to $2,000 a year . . . Roy (Dutch) Overbee, of Burnt Prairie, is the substitute barber with Owens barber shop while Lawrence Owen is on vacation . . . Assets of the First National Bank of Wayne City is now over the two million dollar mark . . . A 20 room brick apartment house is under construction on West Main by Herb Bass, of the Bass Well Surveying company. It's just west of Cambridge Court . . . Wayne County has had no polio cases this summer . . . Miss Ruth Boggs enters her freshman year at the University of Illinois . . . The Press publishes another list of donors for the new Fairfield Memorial Hospital . . . Mr and Mrs. Raymond Copeland will open a restaurant in their building on West Main Street . . . Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Fifield are injured in a car wreck . . . James Forth dies at his home near Orchardville . . . Wesley E. Sons, 51, well-known Sims resident, dies.
 
 

     State and county police battle with Wayne City man holed up in his home for several hours before being subdued. An Army halftrack is called in to assist in the capture. Sheriff Bob Wilson's car is hit by the Wayne City gunman and Police
Chief Mike Day is hit in the face . . . Oil men are told by Pond Creeker Charley Harris to stay off his land, claiming he has been unfairly treated by them . .  . Heavy use of the new city parking lot on East Court is reported by the Press .  . . The city of Fairfield is directed to pay $4 a day for prisoners it puts in the county jail. Supervisors are angry over the courthouse  parking meter dispute .  . . Clifton, Kirk and Robert Merritt will work as recreation directors for winter teen use of the Fairfield community center . . . Charles Mix, of Cisne, gets the contract to build a new Geff post office . . . The Press publishes a list of beard-growers, for the Good Old Days-Oil Progress Week celebration . . .  Plans are announced for a Mrs. Oil Queen contest, with the winner to get a trip to Florida . . . Emil Vaughn, city mail carrier, is injured in a tractor  accident . . . The Jefferson Asphalt Company gets the bid for resurfacing of old Rt. 15 highway . .  . The county tax levy of $168,000 is adopted. The county appropriation came to $542,000.
 
 

     The Fairfield Mules slaughter Bridgeport, 53 to 0, in their football opener .  .  . Connie Atteberry is elected president of the FCHS Spanish class; Tom Wylie, president of the Latin Club; Rick Smith, president of the Senior Class; Dave Smith, president of the Junior Class; Scotty Lawrence, president of the Sophomore Class; and Francis Cavanaugh, president of the Freshman Class . . . Mrs. Flossie Floyd, of Mt. Erie, dies . . . Mrs. Louise Morlan is a new member of the Memorial Hospital office staff.
 
 

     Vandals damage the Fairfield High School and facilities at the Fairfield city park.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 57 to 85.
     Boys and girls can still enter the Fairfield Jaycee Soapbox Derby, the Press reports.
     The Wayne-Prairie DAR chapter will host the state DAR meeting. Over 200 are expected to attend.
     A $374,000 tax levy is approved for the county, up $14,000 from a year ago.
     Marriage license: Louis Barton Kinney and Paula Rae Wooldridge.
     Tom Land announces a deadline for ordering your Rotary Travelog series season tickets.
     Miss Beth Tickner is a new employee for the Wayne County Association for Retarded Children. She is a recent Illinois Wesleyan graduate.
     The deadline passes for payment of the county tax bills and County Treasurer Bernard Berg will publish names of delinquent tax payers soon.
     A new restaurant, Hank's Dog House, is opening at East Main and Sixth, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry.
     Lt. Gov. Paul Simon pays a visit to Fairfield.
     Bryant's Furniture Store at 108 West Main, has been closed. Richard Bryant, the owner, has not announced his future plans.
     Fairfield park swimming pool attendance for the year is put at 24,768, around 1,000 less than for the year before.
     Invitations are being mailed out for the sixth annual FCHS Oldtimers dinner.
 

     Charley Simmons, 74, retired Fairfield rural mail carrier. dies.
     Clyde Robbins is re-elected chairman of the Wayne County Ag Extension Concil.
     Charles Mitchell, Mt. Erie principal, is elected president of the Wayne Elementary Athletic Association.
     Dean Jackson and Linda Thraub are, new teachers at Orchardville School. Their pictures appear in the Press.
     A piece of the Apollo 12 moon rock will be shown at the Fairfield Fall Fun Fest the committee announces.
     The FCHS board cuts the number of free athletic passes it will issue.
     A young expectant Fairfield mother is attacked at a skating rink here.
     Wayne County Democrats will hold a fund-raising dinner here on Oct. 8.
     Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Carter, longtime Elm River Township couple, are moving to Fairfield.
     Mr. and Mrs. Gene Belt are leaving Fairfield to make their home in Battle Creek, Mich.
     A $278,000 Fairfield Grade tax levy is approved.
     A five million dollar drop in assessed evaluation will reduce the county's tax income by $300,000.
     Lot-O-Savings, at First and Main, is set to hold its grand opening.
     Fairfield temperatures range from 47 to 91.
     The Curtis Andersons are purchasing the Jere Borders home at 614 North First.
     Fairfield High has a telephone bomb threat scare.
     Stephens & Weaver Motors are showing the new Dodges.
 

     Fifty-nine candidates are in the running for the Fairfield Fall Fun Fest Prince and Princess pageant.
     Rev. Dick Sullins, president of the Fairfield Ministerial Alliance, names his committees. Ruby McDowell, Ed Falcomata, Ron Mills, Burl Shaw, Gary Gelsinger and Richard Sullins will serve on the Christmas basket committee.
     Melvin Maricle, Dale Felix, Jesse Rush Estil Siefert and Walt Townsend are elected to the Wayne County Ambulance Service board.
     Airtex Products gets a low interest $300,000 state loan for construction of a new 60,000 square foot shipping facility here.
     County Treasurer Dorothy McKelvy reports 27 per cent of a county tax bill extension of $7,051,000 has been paid.
     Plans for a local bus trip to the Farm Aid concert at the University of Illinois stadium falls through.
     Mayor Russell Wilson says Fairfield Airport use is heavy, with 38,000 takeoffs and landings in the past year.
     Ground will be broken Sunday for a home for the handicapped here, out on Enterprise Road. Mrs. Bessie Dyball has led a long fight for this home.
     The state will hold a meeting with Wayne County officials on current jail deficiencies.
     First corn harvest yields are in and it appears over 100 bushel per acre yields are likely in Wayne County.
     The Fairfield Grade School approves a $1.5 million budget.
     Wats-New Western Wear is moving to 113 East Main from N.E. Second.
     Henry Mathews remains in a serious condition at an Evansville hospital following surgery.
     The city park lake is being drained with deepening work to come this fall.
     Mrs. John W. Spence, 86, for years known as "Mrs.  Republican" here, dies at her home near Geff.
     Mrs. Irene Griffith, 75, longtime Fairfield resident, dies at her home.
     Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kimbrell, of Ellery, are observing their golden wedding anniversary.
 

     The New Life Word Church here is setting up a Christian school operation
     Roxanne Rahn is elected Senior Class president at Cisne High School.
     A large quantity of drugs is taken by burglars entering the medical office of Dr. D.A. Gershenson.
     A picture of the ground-breaking ceremony for a new home for the handicapped appears on page one.
     Cash and prizes worth $750 will be awarded to winning Fall Fun Fest button numbers.
     Lt. Gov. George Ryan will attend the Fairfield Fall Fun Fest chicken dinner festivities.
     Lewis' Cabinets holds its grand opening.
     Lagging interest and funds are hurting the Wayne County Humane Society operation.
     Mrs. Lena Allen, 82, of Fairfield, dies at Memorial Hospital.
     Mr. and Mrs.  Rick Lewis, Fairfield have a new baby girl.
     The Prairie Trunk Railway takes Chapter 11 bankruptcy.