Memory of life in France helps boy win contest. Mark Willingham, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Willingham, O'Fallon, Ill., became a winner in the "What Is It" contest because he once lived in France. Mark could identify the object in the contest as a barber bowl because while living in a small French village he used to notice them at the barber shop. Mark's essay on the bowl, which
Finalists in Saturday's Spelling Bee, front row from left: Maureen Corbett, Janice Chrum and Linda Fennewald; back row from left: Scott Rubin, Robbie Stagner, Kirk Shipley and Carl Power. Standing in back is Nico Garcia-Otero. Maureen Corbett, 14, became the local spelling bee champion in the final round of The Globe-Democrat Spelling Bee competition Saturday afternoon.
Those who have been honored as Women of Achievement in other years included, from left: Elizabeth Golterman (!957), Beatrice Adams (1956), Dr. Cylvia A. Sorkin (1955) and Dr. Mildred Trotter (1955).
K. Leslie Gillam, 10 years old, wanted to know from his mother (Dorris Gillam) when his father S.F.C. Kermit Gillam was getting his award. The Family is from Potosi, MO.
Bettendorf-Rapp Display at the Globe-Democrat Modern Living Show attracts considerable attention from the thousands of visitors attending the fifth annual show at Kiel Auditorium. The show, open from noon to 10:15 p.m., ends Saturday.
Lynda Graham of Piedmont Airlines, presents two roundtrip tickets to Charleston, S.C., to Ivan N. Aubuchon. At left is Darwin Wiess, marketing director of The Globe Democrat
This map of September 23, 1911, which covers construction of the Nevada - California - Oregon Railway (NCO) between Alturas and Davis Creek, California (a distance of about 32 miles), has been shared by the Shasta Division Archives. The Alturas, California to Lakeview, Oregon portion of the NCO was purchased by Southern Pacific on April 30, 1925, and would become its Lakeview Branch. At the
Working in Another Medium, more than 1,000 students from fourth grade through senior high school contributed poetry and essays to a contest sponsored by the Globe-Democrat.
First place winners were Donna Schweiger of Freeburg, Ill., senior division; Brook A. Reinhold of St. Louis, junior division; and John Alldredge of Caseyville, Ill, intermediate division. Second-place winners were Denise Ann