Queen of the Big Top Finalists Collect Awards. Queen of the Big Top Lynette Stites of Festus received airline tickets to California for herself and a chaperone from Walter T. Smith, vice president of Anheuser-Busch, as other finalists in the Queen of the Big Top contest look on. They are (from the left) Pat Shebik, Marilyn Stalcup, Marcia Hope Cole and June Enos, who received watches. In the foreground is luggage and clothing given to the queen, who will ride a St. Louis float in the Tournament of Roses parade New Year's Day.
For the thousands of people who were willing to sit for up to a half-an-hour in an enormous traffic jam outside the Checkerdome, where the rally was staged, there was at least the prospect of a great experience.
The First Unit of the Globe-Democrat Modern Presses, formerly used by the Star-Times, was removed from the KXOK building yesterday and installed in the press room. The mammoth moving operation, requiring removal and installation of eight 14-ton units, will continue next week. Foundation preparations have been under way at the Globe-Democrat for several weeks. The two Goss Multi-Color headlines
Crowd gathers at Modern Living Show around Jim Denker of the Cottage Bakery in St. Charles, as he demonstrates the art of icing a cake in the Master Retail bakers booth. Cakes were later auctioned for the benefit of the Cripples Children's Society.
H. E. Wuertenbaecker Jr., vice president, marketing, for Union Electric, presents portable color tv set to Mrs. Marguerite Bauer, 201 Dana dr., Collinsville. Mrs. Bauer, a teacher at Summit Elementary School, Collinsville, won the set in a contest conducted daily at the Union Electric booth at The Globe-Democrat's Modern Living Show.
Greenbrier's Bill Furman presenting a check for $13,500 per railcar to Norm Feren, SPRR Mechanical and Bob Yates SPRR Intermodal for the purchase of obsolete multi-level railcars and their conversion into Twin 45' trailer flatcars. Work will be performed at SPRR's RAMAC facility in Roseville, CA under a $6 million contract where SPRR Mechanical at RAMAC will perform the work and be paid by
Title to the Shell Building changed hands last weeks when Nooney Realty Company, St. Louis owner of the Thirteenth and Locust streets building since 1948, merged with a Boston real estate company known as Fifty Associates. Nooney interests acquired stock in the Eastern company in exchange for the building, will continue to manage it.