Two old downtown buildings are getting a new clean look. In photograph above, the Old Courthouse is being painted as part of $50,000 renovation project. In photo at left, the new look contrasts with the old as the Old Post Office exterior is being cleaned.
Mrs. Dolores (Challey) Singler, account executive at R. Rowland & Co., Inc., pins an Old Newsboys Day badge on firm President Robert R. Rust. Board chairman and Chief Executive officer Raymond E. Rowland Jr. looks on. Mrs. Singler is a 20-year veteran of Old Newsboy days.
Donald A. Pecsok, left, director of the St. Louis County air pollution control division, gives “OK” Tuesday to National Lead Company’s new manufacturing process. With him are Harry A. Moon, center, plant manager, and Edward A. Rudulph, chief engineer of the air pollution control division.
Bank of Belleville employees will don Pilgrim costumes Wednesday to help with Old Newsboys Day by selling the Globe-Democrat special edition at 47th and West Main from 7 to 9 a.m. and North Belt West and Illinois 161 from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Old Newsboys Day begin in 1957 and has collected and turned over more than $1.8 million to area children’s agencies/ The Globe-Democrat pays the entire cost of producing and delivering the edition.