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Current Magazine Story Features Galesburg Many facts about Galesburg and also some extravagant fancies make up a highly diverting magazine story appearing in the next issue of McCall's, an advance copy of which has been received here. "I Love Galesburg In The Springtime" is the newest product of Jack Finney, who has published a number of short stories and four novels Jack Finney Author Admits 'Fond of Knox College 9 Local residents and former Knox College students often discover with pleased surprise that a book of short stories, "The Third Level," among the paperbound booklets sold at drug stores, groceries and gift shops contains two clever tales about this community. If they lived here or went to Knox in the early 1930s, they may recognize the name of the author, Jack Finney, as familiar, and may even realize he is the same Walter Braden Finney (Knox '34) who attended college here, coming from Forest Park, the Chicago suburb. Films Made of Novels Finney is one of Knox's most successful journalists. Actress Kim Novak starred in a movie made by Columbia Pictures from one of his novels, "Five Against the House." published by Doubleday and by Pocketbooks, also as a serial by Good House-, keeping magazine.

Jack Palance starred in an MGM movie of Finney's novel "The House of Numbers," published by Dell, and published as a condensed novel by Cosmopolitan magazine. Allied Artists filmed his story, "The Bodysnatchers," published by Dell and published as a serial by Collier's. His novel, "Assault on a Queen," was published by Simon Schuster, and by Dell, also as a serial by The Saturday Evening Post. in Foreign Lands Finney reprints are popular abroad, in England, Japan, Franco, Italy, Germany and Scandinavian countries. Finney worked 12 years in advertising agencies in Chicago and New York after finishing Knox, then moved to Mill Valley, where he now lives and writes at 223 Ricardo Road.

"As my bit in furthering good- neighbor policy," he writes, "I am married to a beautiful Canadian. Have daughter, nine, named Marguerite after mother; son Kennecn, six, named after Secretary Agriculture in Millard Fillmore's cabinet; dog, Duke, named after English sea hero; have hamster, named Harry, after Light-Horse Harry Lee; plus five guppies, unnamed. Very fond of Knox College." since his Knox College graduation in 1934. This one exemplifies again his fine flair for phantasy, notable in several earlier stories. In the April issue of McCalls, going on newsstands and to mail subscribers this week, Galesburg's name will come to the attention of hundreds of thousands of readers, internationally.

Huge Picture Used One of the largest illustrations ever used for a magazine fiction story is employed to key off "I Love Galesburg in the Springtime." Occupying nearly all of two entire pages, the color sketch represents a Gaksburg residential street and features one of streetcars in use a haK-century ago. TV presence of an automobile of fairly recent vintage in the sarne picture is a clue to the way Finney's curious story bridges across the years of time. Earlier in the winter Finney spent a few days in Galesburg on a special mission. He had draft-, ed his new story, injecting a number of location references to this community, and came here to refresh his memory on street names and other pertinent facts. As a result, the local references are quite accurate in a geographical and pictorial sense, though varied from actuality by the exigencies of his fantastic narrative.

Description Nostalgic The reader will wonder if it is Cherry, Prairie, Kellogg, Seminary, and all the others are beautiful. It happened completely, love at first sight, just north of Main Street, when I first saw the thick old trees that line the streets of Galesburg, arching and meeting high overhead "So there's my trouble, if trouble it is: I'm in Jove with a town, in love with the handful of Main Street buildings that were built in the last century and that don't look much different, except for the modernized store fronts, from the way they do in the old photographs. Brings in Celebrities "Look at their upper stories, as I always do walking along Main, at the tall, slim windows with the rounded tops, and maybe, just maybe, you're seeing at least one of the buildings Abraham Lincoln saw when he 'was in Galesburg. Yes: he debated Douglas on a wooden platform built over the east steps of Old Main at Knox, something the college never seems to get tired of reminding the world. And Old Main, too, stands very little changed, on the outside, anyway, from the day Lincoln stood there, grasping his coat lapels and smiling down at Douglas." And although the story brings in some slightly critical references to other features of the community, incidental to the narrative action, Finney refers again before he winds up the yarn, to "what 1 and so many others ey hi sel speaking, when he Carl Sandburg, for one, who was love about Galesburg.

causes one of his characters to say, "All those streets Broad, born here Illinois." ARBOREAL ARCHWAYS over Galesburg residential streets are a common sight familiar to residents, and, as Jack Finney's story implies, a thrill to new visitors in spring, summer or fall when the trees are in foliage. Prisoners in Concentration tamp Stage First Reunion Census Forms To Be Mailed This Week WASHINGTON (AP)-The postman gives a lift to the census taker this week, delivering advance questionnaires for the 1960 census to every occupied dwelling fn the land. Sixty million copies of the four- page form havej)een delivered to 35,000 post offices. The Census Bureau is paying the Post Office Department about 2 cents to handle each piece, a total of $1,200,000. Due Monday The forms are to go into the mail next Friday and Saturday.

Every household should get a copy by next Monday. Each postman will get a stack of the unad- dressed forms, enough to leave one at every dwelling on his route. Each family is to fill out the form before the arrival of the taker. The census begins April 1, and will continue through the month. Most families will be visited during the first two weeks of April.

The census taker will copy on forms of his own the information given on the advance form. The idea behind the advance questionnaire is to give everyone time to ponder the questions and provide accurate information. Gotesburg Register-Moil, Golesburg, Monday, March 21, I960 3 Mitchell's Campaign Guns Fire at Kerner-Daley Link United Press International Stephen A. Mitchell, candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, charged today that Chicago lost the lPfiO Democratic national convmfion because of "the ugly shadow of boss politics." Mitchell, in a speech prepared for delivery at the Logan County Mitchell for governor committee meeting at Lincoln, placed responsibility for the loss of the convention squarely on Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley's "attempt to dictate his terms to the national committee." Mitchell is on a three-day downstate tour.

State Treasurer Joseph D. Lohman lashed out Sunday at his other opponent for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Otto Kerner, the choice of Democratic slatemakers. At State Capital Lohman charged at a Springfield meeting that a "veneer of appeal and respectability" which Kerner may have had at first now has been peeled off "in front of voters throughout the state." He said that Kerner first Adm. Rickover Is 1st to Receive Willkie Award BLOOMINGTON. Ind.

(API- Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, the Navy's nuclear submarine chief, received the first annual Wendell L. Willkie Award Sunday in ceremonies at Indiana University. The award, named in honor of the 1940 Republican presidential nominee, is for research in liberal arts.

It is presented by the Willkie Foundation. Talks on Brain Drugs Two talks on the effects of medication used for the human brain will be given by Dr. Amedeo Marrazzi of Pittsburgh in Galesburg Thursday. Dr. Marrazzi, who is director of the Veterans Administration Laboratories in Neuropsychiatry, will address the Research Hospital staff at 3:30 p.m.

in the medical library on "Neurophysiological Mechanisms as Related to rotropic Products." Visitors will be welcome to attend an evening meeting at 8 o'clock in the Knox College Science Hall, under auspices of the R.E.S.A. organization of scientists of Galesburg and Monmouth. At that time Dr. Marrazzi will present a talk similar to that of the afternoon, with nontechnical terminology. The subject covers recent findings concerning tranquilizing drugs and others in the same field of research.

Two Paintings Presented to Knox College Knox College has received two paintings as gifts from Mrs. Grace Hyde Trine or Claremont, Calif. Mrs. Trine is the widow.of the late Ralph Waldo Trine, author of "In Tune with the Infinite" and other books. One of the gift paintings is a portrait of Trine himself, done in the early 1930s by artist Kath- syn W.

Leighton. Trine was a graduate of Knox in the Class of 1891. The other portrait given to Knox by Mrs. Trine is a rare study of George Washington. Painted in Boston by Charles Henry Skinner in 1834, the portrait was presented to the Volunteer Firemen's Assn.

of New York. Trine, a collector of early American art, later acquired the Washington painting, and it was still in his possession at the time of his death in 1958. IOWA'S GOVERNOR HERSCHEL LOVELESS will speak at a dinner in Galesburg: Sunday, March 27 Moost Lodge 6:30 P.M. (Gov. Loveless is frequently mentioned as a Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate in 1960.

Governor Lovtitss Mrs. Loveless will accompany her husband to Galesburg directly from Detroit, where he will be a principal speaker at meetings of the Democratic Midwest Conference. For dinner reservations, call Mrs. G. S.

Eik, 170 Walnut DI 2-0460 or Mrs. Roland Harvey, 709 Lincoln, DI 2-2303. Sponsored by Knox County Democratic Women's Division -Pol. Adv. Council to View Main St.

Job At Meet Tonight City Council will hold an in' formal meeting at 7:30 p. m. today with Downtown Galesburg, Unlimited a businessmen's group interested in the development of the downtown area. Under discussion will be the resurfacing of Main street from the east side of Public Square to Lincoln street. Councilmen have indicated they would like to see the street improved this year.

However, the businessmen have opposed resurfacing with state controlled funds since this would necessitate changing parking on the street from diagonal to parallel. The result would be a loss of some 100 parking spaces on the thoroughfare. The downtown Galesburg group has said it would study the possibility of resurfacing with funds from a special assessment on property owners. Part of the money could be provided by the city through levying a special benefit tax, they have said. Tonight the businessmen are expected to inform the Council on whether or not property owners on the street are interested in the special assessment-public benefit method of financing the improvement.

Have You Heard That Grand Opening Of Elevator On Wednesday Grand opening of the Gilson Elevator Grain Bank by the Gilson Elevator Co. and the Geerling Feed Mills has been postponed till Wednesday, March 23, due to the adverse weather conditions of last Wednesday. Prizes have been announced in connection with the opening event and refreshments will be served during the day from 8 a. m. till 5 p.m.

READ THE CLASSIFIEDS! Mr. and Mrs. Dale Hund of Tucson, are the parents of a boy born Saturday. The maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

Gilbert Maxwell, 178 Sumner St. The paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Hund, 350 W. First St.

Mr. and Mrs. Hund are currently visiting in Tucson. GHS Graduate Wins Degree At Milwaukee James L. Anderson, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Lawrence Anderson, 1115 N. Farnham will be a candidate for an associate in applied science degree in electronics communications technology at the Milwaukee School of Engineering winter quarter commencement ceremonies Thursday. Anderson was graduated from Galesburg High School in 1953. He is a 45-month Air Force veteran.

Bachelor of Science and Associate in Applied Science degrees are to be presented to 58 candidates. Dr. Hunsicker Again Heads Astronomers Dr. A. L.

Hunsicker of the Galesburg State Research Hospital staff was reelected president of Galesburg Amateur Astronomers at the organization's meeting held Friday evening at the George Davis Science Hail of Knox College. Robert Neveln was named vice president, succeeding George B. Nelson. Also reelected were Harlowe L. Horein as secretary-treasurer and Jimmie Turner, recording secretay.

Following the election, Dr. Hunsicker gave a lecture pertaining to the "Bright Stars of the Winter Sky." The meeting was held in the physics lecture room. NEW YORK (AP)-On the surface, the gathering Sunday night in a Bronx hotel looked like any other of men in a smoke-clouded room shouting happy greetings, slapping one another on the back, and drinking toasts. Inside their sleeves, each of the men wore the mark of their bond number tattooed in blue on the left forearm. The numbers were burned there more than 15 years ago when the men were prisoners at Auschwitz- Buna in Poland, one of the most horrible Nazi concentration camps.

Didn't Know Names "They didn't know our names," recalled Leon Kerstein, who now owns a butcher shop in Brooklyn. "They called us by numbers." Kerstein's mother, father, six brothers and two sisters were exterminated in Nazi concentration camps. The gathering was the first and probably the of the former prisoners. Some of them carried photo showing young cadaverously thin men with shaven heads in blue and white striped uniforms. The pictures were of themselves as slave laborers in 1945.

Most of the men were in their 30s and 40s. Many had entered the concentration camp as teenagers "Those who survived had to be young," said Ernest W. Michael, chairman of the dinner. "If you were old, you didn't stand a chance." The group almost 1,000 men and their to start a drive for a scholarship fund for children of former inmates. A court-directed settlement resulted in payment of more than seven million dollars to the former prisoners by the I.

G. Farben Co. which made artificial rubber at Auschwitz-Buna during World War II. "We would like to enable as many children as possible to have the education we were denied in the Hitler era," Michel said. Queen Farah Expecting TEHERAN, Iran (UPI) A court spokesman officially confirmed reports Sunday that Queen Farah of Iran is expecting a baby.

The Shah and 21-year-old Farah were married in a glittering ceremony here Dec. 21. It was his third marriage. Cosmopolitan Club Marks Thirty Years Thirty years since the founding of the Galesburg Cosmopolitan Club was noted last week. It was on March 18, 1930, that the club was formed with Dr.

William H. Maley as president during the days of depression. In 1931, a woman's organization was formed designated as the Cosmo-Pals. The Cosmopolitan Club now has fifty members with C. E.

Vandeveer as president, Don Norton as secretary and William Schroeder as treasurer. With service as a basic principle, the Galesburg Cosmopolitan Club has sponsored a number of projects in the community interest as follows: List Projects The club's distinguished service award medal to a citizen of Galesburg each year; sponsoring one nurse each year in the nurses training program at the Galesburg Cottage Hospital; a plastic surgery project providing free plastic surgery to any deserving citizen of this community; cosponsors of Camp Shaubena; sponsoring of nine underprivileged children at summer camp; sending of one or two boys annually to the Boys' State sponsored by the American Legion, and contributions to other civic projects as finances permit. In connection with the 30th anniversary observance, there will be recognition programs this evening at 5:30 and 10:30 on WHBF-TV, Channel 4. Congressmen Feud Publicly Over 'Mothball' Charges WASHINGTON (UPI) House payola investigators feuded publicly today over a charge their inquiry into network television star Dick Clark had been put "in mothballs." Reps. Peter F.

Mack Jr. (D- lll.i and John E. Moss D-Calif) branded false the charge by Rep. John B. Bennett They accused Bennett in turn of "obstructionist tactics." The two Democrats said the TV disc jockey has not been summoned for public hearings because "due process of law, common decency and fair play demand tlie careful gathering and sifting of evidence rather than the broadcasting of irresponsible charges." Calls Excuses Phony Bennett, ranking Republican on the nine-man subcommittee, retorted that Mack and Moss offered only "weak and phony" excuses.

He said the case has been "under wraps" since November, when the subcommittee got a copy (ji an atiidawi Clark signed fur the ABC network. The teud started 10 days when Bennett stated that Clark in the aiiiddvu had said he plejfd 'L-, records in which he had a financial stake and accepted gifts worth $3,400 from a record distributor. Bennett said the subcommittee should summon Clark instead of spending all its time on "rinky dink" disc jockeys. Mack and Moss said in a joint statement Sunday night that this was an attempt to "stampede the subcommittee into sensational hearings (which) violates the American concepts of common cency and fair play." Make Memorandum Public They made public a memorandum on the case from subcommittee counsel Robert W. Lishman to Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) which they said was sent to all subcommittee members.

It was dated last Wednesday. Lishman said "long painstaking work" was required in the investigation of Clark and the 17 record and music firms in which the disc jockey reported he gave up his financial interests last November. BEAUTIFUL DIGNIFIED CONVENIENT First Puckett funeral directors are experienced and qualified to conduct services according to any denomination. Sixty years of combined experience in both Protestant and Catholic funeral service. 4 JPu chill FUNERAL HOME, INC.

"ALL WHITE FLEET" Phone 01 2-4101 COMPLETE AMBULANCE SERVICE Radio Dispatched Two Galesburg Men Added to Who's Who List Names of two Galesburg men are among 8,149 in the world who have been added to the listings in Who's Who this year. They are Harold L. Bourdon, 375 Fair Acres and Thomas W. Williams, 951 N. Academy St.

Bourdon is manager of the Gale Products Division of Outboard Marine Corp. and a vice president of the parent concern. is professor of music at Knox College. The 31st biennial edition of Who's Who is now being published and contains a total of 54,146 notables in the U. S.

and aboad. Approximately three in 10,000 Americans are listed. Circulation of the new volume will be about 40,000 copies, the publishers said. Toulon Court Lists Trucker Violations R. Sarnes, truck driver for the Burlington and Chicago Cartage was arrested Tuesday east of Toulon on 111.

17 by State Trooper Rollin Pugh on charge of not having identification markings on truck. Five additional charges were levied for having no safety test, no turn signals, no stop light, no registration card and no flags or flares. Sarnes and his attorney, James B. Fulton of Kewanee, appeared before Justice of the Peace William A. Lambert.

After posting bonds, the case was continued till Tuesday at 10 a. m. Order New Coats The Toulon volunteer firemen held their monthly meeting Tuesday night at the City Hall. They ordered new raincoats and received new helmets, both bought from proceeds of their annual dance. Refreshments were served by Hayden Heaton and Ben Parker.

Officers Elected At a recent meeting of the BY chapter PEO, election of officers was held. Named were: President, lone Richards; vice president, Dean Ebert, recording secretary; corresponding secretary, Bertha Cover; treasurer, Marie Blair; chaplain, Anna Murray; guard, Helen Wrigley, and pianist Bertha Cover. Annual convention will be held in April at Faust Hotel in Rockford. Mrs. Richards is delegate with Ruth Rennick, alternate.

Cancel Meetings The Friendly Circle Class of Methodist Church canceled its March 18 meeting. The Stark County Navy Mothers Club meeting has been and the next meeting will be in April. The meeting had been set for the home of Mrs. Titlow in LaFayette, March 17. News Items Jan Miller has been confined to her home for several days by illness.

Mrs. Earl Gingrich has been ill at her home in Toulon. Four Die in Car Crashes Over Weekend United Press International At least four persons lost their lives in traffic crashes during the weekend in Illinois, three in the Chicago area. Thomas Steinboch, 23, Chicago, was killed Saturday night when his car rammed into the rear of a city snow plow on Lake Shore Drive. Maxim Marasco 15, Chicago, was "walking his bicycle near his home Saturday when he was struck by a car.

A five-car pileiip on the Calumet Expressway near Lansing Saturday resulted in the death of Miss Dixie Hokanson, 21; Authorities said she had stopped to clean her windshield and another motorist stopped to help her. A third car came along and struck the two that were parked, and two more piled into the wreckage. Ralph Turpin, Henry, was killed Sunday near Henry. Authorities said Turpin had stopped at the scene of a minor traffic crash. They said two cars, coming from opposite directions, both went out of control near the scene of the accident and one of them struck Turpin.

Heart Fund Has Chairman For Memorials Mrs. Vincent Mooney, 1296 Harrison has been appointed memorial chairman by the Knox County Heart Committee. Mrs. Mooney will be responsible for receiving memorial gifts made to the Heart Assn. of Knox County and will be responsible for notifying the family of the deceased that a gift has been received.

Memorial gifts to the Heart Association may be sent directly to Mrs. Mooney. Chou En-lai to Reach New Delhi In Mid-April NEW DELHI (AP) Premier Chou En-lai of Communist China will arrive in New Delhi April 19 for talks with Prime Minister Nehru on the border dispute between India and Red China. Nehru told the lower house of Parliament Chou would remain in New Delhi until April 25. Nehru had suggested April 20 as a suitable date to begin the talks on the 51,000 square miles of disputed territory in the Himalayas.

Nehru has already said he doubts that the conference will produce any immediate solution of the border dispute. claimed he was "unbossed and independent, yet admitted on television Jan. 10 he'll recognize his boss as supreme even if he's elected governor." "The Daley candidate," Lohman said, "has proved on examination to be quite transparent." State Sen. Hayes Robertson (R-Flossmoor), who is opposing Governor Stralton in the Republican gubernatorial primary April 12, charged Sunday in Wheeling that hard-core GOP voters consider Stratton a weak candidate. Robertson said that he found in a survey he made that 83 of every 100 GOP voters in Cook County and downstate think Stratton weak.

He said Stratton's renomi- nation would mean a GOP disaster in November. Conservatism Gets Boost William H. Rentschler, a candidate for the GOP senatorial nomination, said Sunday al Glen Ellyn that, "only under conservatism, which I define as a mighty dynamic and youthful concept, will America move to meet the glorious opportunities of the years to come." Rentschler charged that the so-called liberal Democrats have their eyes glued to a rearview mirror which reflects depression." Conservatives, he said, look forward to a bright future for America with confidence. Samuel W. Witwer, one of five other GOP senatorial aspirants, said in Chicago that compulsory arbitration was "a real threat to our free enterprise system," which "constitutes governmental interference of the most serious character." Witwer said "legislation (in labor disputes) should be resorted to only in cases of national emergency." Judge Doesn 't Agree LONDON (UPI) Edward G.

Carter, 39, was denied a divorce when he claimed his wife slapped his face in front of his stepmother, had a temper tantrum in the presence of his brothers, hid the tea and sugar from him and threw a plant pot at him during their first 12 months of marriage. "This is just the ordinary wear and tear of married life," said the judge. READ THE CLASSIFIEDS! WONDER FAX GIANT OCEAN WAVES MmtHmM reach 80 in htight. highest Kitntificolly was 80 high. But mott fy th mountalnoui WOVM lire about 30 to 40 feet tot.

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