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Looking Back... A look back from the pages of The Normalite 25 Years Ago January 29, 1987 Oressa McQueen of 804 W. College Ave., Normal, has won the Normalite Newshound Contest for the month of January. She has her choice of one night’s stay at the Inn at Grand Glaize at Osage Beach, Missouri, Lake of the Ozarks or accommodations at the Kirkwood Civic Center in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The Normalite will also buy her dinner the first night. Two area students, Michael Garman and Dan Wyman, are presently in El Salvador as part of a U. S. delegation to the University of El Salvador. This national delegation is sponsored by the U. S. Campaign for the University of El Salvador (USCUES). Dan Wyman, son of Mark Wyman in ISU’s history dept., is a freshman at Western Illinois University in Macomb this year. Hal Frye II of 106 Dorothy Lane will assume the position of Town Engineer,city manager David Anderson announced. Mr. Frye is a graduate of the University of Illinois, and has been associated with Farnsworth & Wylie for the past 26 years. He is a life-long resident of the Town of Normal, and currently is serving as the Normal appointee on the Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System Trustees. Frye has worked on numerous Town of Normal projects over the past years. 50 Years Ago Friday, Jan. 26, 1962 Carol Channing, often called the funniest woman of the American stage, will appear in a program at Illinois State Normal university as an Entertainment Series extra at 8:15 p.m. Monday, February 5. Miss Channing will share the stage with French singer Erik Silyo and a jazz trio composed of Larry Callahan, Joe Dumas and Bill Smith. Lee Evans will direct the orchestra which is billed as the “12 gentlemen who prefer blondes.” On January 28, Miss Channing will leave her night club engagement at the Waldorf-Astoria’s Empire Room in New York City to open an extended concert tour. She is now making plans to combine talents with George Burns and play the World’s Fair in Seattle and Las Vegas this summer. The annual all-church party and potluck supper for the married couples organizations of Sunday Schools in all Normal churches will be held at the First Presbyterian church at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 30. A program will follow the supper. The Bloomington-Normal Barbershop Singers will present a program of music following the supper, which will be served at 6:30 p.m. The program will open at 7:30 p.m. with Lyle Dungan as Master of Ceremonies. Married couples organizations of the First Presbyterian, First Methodist, University Christian, First Mennonite and American Baptist churches unite at this time for a supper and fellowship. The annual event, which features a potluck supper, is one of the traditional January events in the church calendar. Mr. and Mrs. Craig Wurmle of the First Presbyterian church are serving as chairmen. The Linden Lead ‘Em 4-H club held an organizational meeting on Monday evening at the home of Mrs. William Preno, 319 Margaret street. Sue Allen was named president for the next year. 75 Years ago Jan. 29, 1937 Gordon Cushman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cushman of North School Street road, a technical student at Selfridge Air Field at Mt. Clemons, Mich., has been selected to accompany the first pursuit group in their maneuvers at Oscoda, Mich. From a personnel of 850 at Selfridge Field, he was one of six chosen for this duty. Lander Van Gundy, June Van Gundy, Charles Burroughs and Lloyd Morgan drove two trucks for the Davis post of the American Legion into the flood area of southern Illinois Tuesday. Both trucks were sent to American Legion headquarters for flood relief at Herrin, from where one truck was sent to Harrisburg and the other to Cairo. On arriving at Herrin the truck Lander Van Gundy drove was sent to Harrisburg. Besides bedding and clothing the truck carried 5000 sandwiches. Mr. Van Gundy reported that he was forced to stop at the outskirts of Harrisburg. At that place water was even with the top of the gasoline tanks at the filling stations. He was told that in the business section, water was level with the cross bars on the telephone poles. Water was rising at the rate of 18 inches a day. June Van Gundy’s truck was dispatched to Cairo. It was necessary to go to Anna, and then follow the Mississippi into Cairo, as U. S. 51 was closed. Besides clothing and bedding Mr. Van Gundy had 5,000 sandwiches and 50 loaves of bread. He reports that Cairo was entirely evacuated except for engineers, Army men, C.C.C. and WPA men who were working on the levies. He says that there was no water in Cairo, although outside the levies the river was tearing by at a height of 58 feet above the street level where he stood. It was an unforgettable sight to see boats pass 58 feet above his head, he reports. Normal has been sending supplies to the flood areas of Southern Illinois since Tuesday. Incomplete returns show that the following have been donated to date: -Money sent by Red Cross—$437.50 -Clothing, bedding—thousands of pieces. -Canned goods—Hundreds of cans -Mattresses, beds, stove Normal business men have donated many cases of food, blankets and clothing for the flood victims. Relief donations will be received all day Saturday at the Legion rooms, and the City Hall. Money is being received by the Red Cross at the First National Bank. The Carl S. Martin post of the American Legion met Thursday evening in Legion Hall. Reports of the actual situation in the flood area on Tuesday were given by William Werner, who drove the first truck of supplies into Harrisburg. Commander William F. Springborn reports an unusually large attendance. Calvin LeNever reported Junior Legion activities. He reported that the post had made arrangements for the Sons of the Legion basketball team to practice in the Central school gymnasium during the next month. Mr. Werner, member of the local post, who drove the Salvation Army-Normal Legion truck of bedding, clothing and food into Harrisburg on Tuesday, gave a report of conditions in the flood area. The truck was the first to bring relief supplies into Harrisburg. |
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