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Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 9

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I. UA7.Y r-3. Tire daily mattcon Illinois -4 4 i 4. it The Business Beat 7 mm mm ft Hall Transfer Company of Charleston and Mattoon has been JuunedaJEopQuaUty. North.

American Van agency, accord It Higher Education Goes Higher as work proceeds on the 28- story office building and the library, right foreground. On New Barber System Installed ing to James D. Edgett, president. The Hall company was selected for the honor from among several hundred agencies in the Midwest on the basis of estimating of full value protection on shipments and a performance efficiency of 90 per cent or more in packing, storage, hauling and making destination calls on incoming customers. "Chris A.

Wunnenberg, Atwood, who for the past four years has been general superintendent of plant utilities at the U. S. Industrial Chemicals plant, Tuscola, has been named chief of a special engineering group in Cincinnati, Ohio. Wunnenberg will head a 30-man staff that works on all types of engineering projects throughout the National Distillers and Chemical USI's parent firm. New life insurance sold by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.

reached an all-time high of nearly $1.5 billion, according to Leland J. Kalmbach, chairman of the board of directors. The record sales represented an increase of 11.1 per cent over 1963. tudents ry Phillips, barber; Harry Gardner, owner of the shop; and Robert McCollum, Charleston. Gardner described the system as the "biggest invention since they invented electric clippers." He said the three "vacuum clipper" units now installed in his shop cost $600.

Gardner said his shop is the first in hicago Construction materials Utter area of i the new University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus at the University of Illinois will go to class Feb. 22 in a new, centralized complex of brick, glass and concrete. It is the Chicago Circle campus on the near West Side, successor to the rickety "temporary" Navy Pier facilities that served commuting students for years. Mflvtnt WodnoeHau will twsnin transferring books and Bunsen Burners irom wavy ner to Chicago Circle. Norman A.

Parker, vice pres- FOR RENT Now Completed feKghtfutlyNaw Relaxed living 1 Bedroom Apartment as low as $95.00 CATIEUHH APT1 Phone AD 5-5641 After 5:30 p.m. AD 5-1195 of I. Using Kalmbach said it was the largest gain in a single year in the company's history. Robert F. Hargraves has been appointed manufacturing manager of the Wallace Barnes Steel Division of Associated Spring Corp.

He is responsible for all manufacturing operations and will report to David L. McAllister, works manager. Hargraves assisted in the construction of manufacturing facilities at the Associated Spring plant here. O. Virgil Raderj of near Charleston, has earned membership in the exclusive President's Club of the All American Life Casualty Company.

Bader earned the honor by meeting strict qualifications and producing a specified volume of sales for a one-year period. Only 46 of the company's more than 1,000 agents have qualified for the President's Club. National Cash Register Co. has announced a new series of computers designed to perform electronic data processing for small and medium-size businesses. The monthly rental of the new series of computers, known as NCR Series 500.

runs from $765 to $2,500. According to Barry S. Phelps, Mattoon NCR representative, the modular design of the system permits growth from different types of supplementary a moaest nrst system. Twenty equipment, including devices to wye, magneue usugers ana opucai type torn, are available. A new hair vacuum system has been installed at Harry's Barber Shop, .2421 Marshall.

With the new system, clippings are drawn up through a hose as the hair is being cut. By using this method, hair cannot fall down the person's neck or fall on his shirt. Shown in the picture are Dick Grissom, Mattoon; Lar Becker Joins Kent Lumber Salespept. Phil Becker recently joined the sales department of Kent Lumber and Coal 209 S. 21st.

Becker is a graduate of Mattoon High School and Michigan Phil Becker State University, where he ma jored in lumber building and merchandising. He previously served as a first lieutenant in the Army avi ation field. He took missile and advanced helicopter training and was stationed for a time in Korea. Barron Named To Legal Post CLEVELAND William J. Barron has been appointed counsel for the lamp division of General Electric Co.

The announcement was made by Donald D. Scarff, vice president and general manager of the division. Barron succeeds Douglas S. Moore, who has been division counsel since 1954. Moore has joined the legal staff at GE headquarters in New York.

Barron, who joined the company in 1948, has been a trade relations counsel for GE in New York since 1960. 1 1 i A tw a lllfffrENGINEERlil process punched cards, paper home has a three-quarter size basement. A one-car detached garage is located on the lot. McCrocklm is a partner in the Monson Smith McCrocklin insurance agency. Davidson is an engineer, for the New York Central Railroad The transaction was handled by John W.

Callahan, real es tate broker. SMART SHOPPERS READ WANT ADS NO TOOLS 01 HUT NEEDED MIL jfiH ident in charge of the installation, said 5,200 students and 750 faculty members will begin school work Feb. 22 despite continued' construction work. Designed to eventually accommodate 20,000 students, the projects first phase will cost some $62 million when it is completed. Gone is the old Harrison-Hal-sted area of street markets and ramshackle buildings.

Hull House, the famed tum-of-the-century settlement house stands out as a reminder of the old era to motorists traveling the Dan Ryan Expressway on the east. Halsted Street itself, once a narrow business street, has been made Into a wide boulevard. Buildings and walks on the lOfr-acre layout all lead to the heart of the campus the "Great Court" lecture center. The lecture center is built around an amphitheater which is the core of the campus layout. It has a common roof for six buildings housing 21 lecture halls.

One hall has 500 terraced desk chairs. Seventy-five seminar rooms surround the large BOOM MODERN KITCHEN tittle thing around your to maka yow living mora enjoyable if it ill i onirn. I i it i -mA tLftvifevJ ii REDECORATE jkk I Feb. 22 classes will begin for 5,200 students despite continued construction work on the $62 million campus. (AP Wirephoto) to lecture room for use by small discussion groups.

Ralph Youngren, architect with Skidmore, Owings and Mer rill, designers of the project, said 24 per cent of wall area on the campus is glass. The library and student union building are on opposite sides of the lecture center. Concrete and piping for. utilities are exposed on all ceilings. In addition to the lower cost in construction, the method permits easy access for maintenance.

All the buildings except the service areas are air-condi tioned and heated by a centrally controlled system. University spokesmen Jiave urged the public to wait before visiting the campus because construction still is under way. "We have so much to do in such a short time," said C. S. Havens, director of physical plants.

"We won't have an open house until the landscaping is in. We want the campus completely open by fall." MATIcHEAJCal AIR CONDITION V. 2100 BfiOAOWAY MATTOON. ILL. TO CALL: FOR THE BEST BUY ON YOUR INSURANCE Frank Royteli Jr.

2921 Phone Richmond AD 4-2611 ESTATE FARM Inawanaa Cempanlaa I Home OfHcaai Btoomlngton, llliwla Daily Nwpapers rlovt) Merchandise Begin Circle Site III HOMES II SILS I in 1 14 "A- tatty is 'J I Coles County to have the new -system, which he feels will be in widespread use in all of the country in a few years. The system is manufactured by Bar-Air-Vac Division of NASCO, Springfield Tenn. Gardner; has been a barber in for the last 15 years and has owned his own shop for the past i 12 years. George Tankey Promoted lo Blaw-Knox Post PITTSBURGH George M. 7 Tankey has been promoted to the newly created position of executive assistant to the chair man and chief executive offk" cer of Blaw-Knox Co.

Tankey. who joined the firm in 1955 as an industrial en-gineer on the executive staff; held the position of assistant to the executive vice president or to his new appointment. Purchase S. 18 th Street Residence: jut. ana ivirs.

james have purchased the frame dwel ling at 916 S. 18th from Mr. and. Mrs. Joe E.

Lawler. 1 The three-bedroom home has two-car garage and is located on a 75-foot lot. The structure recently was completely renova tea. i The transaction was handled 1 by John w. Callahan and Fred rate, real esute DroKers.

Myers Acquires Sullivan Agencyjf Oliver F. Myers, 202 Drive, has opened the Myers Motor Co. in Sullivan. The Mattoon man purchased' the Chrysler, Plymouth, VabV ant and Rammer agency from EdKessler. Myers formerly operated Myers Motor a used car 12th and DeWitt here Gordon Buys DeWitt House "Larry' Gordon" has purchased" the three-bedroom home at 3203 DeWitt from Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Domzalski. The house features gas basement, hardwood floors, an attached garage and is situ-, ated on a 75 by 150-foot lot Gordon and his wife have" taken possession. The transaction was bandied by Tate Real Estate. 5-1221 aluminum ni Mtw Mill jiWy 1 I FURNACES I Mfw I I a saies and i Anaconda Income Up During 1964 Charles M.

Brinckerhoff, chief executive officer of The Anaconda Company, reported today that consolidated net in come for 1964 amounted to subject to year-end audit and adjustments. The income equals $5.28 a share, compared to $4.15 per share earned by the company in 1963. Brinckerhoff said the 1964 in crease came almost entirely from domestic brass and wire' mill operations. Profits from prime metal production were only slightly better than in 1963, even though volume and prices were somewhat higher, Brinckerhoff said. The executive said the favor able factors were largely offset by increased costs resulting from extended strikes and work stoppages in Chilean, Canadian and domestic operations.

Brinckerhoff said the present strong and increasing demand for the company's productive capacity, justifies an optimistic outlook for 1965. The Anaconda Company oper ates the Anaconda American Brass Company plant here. Starwalts Buy Randolph Farm Mr. and Mrs. Charles Star- wait, formerly of Rural Route 2, have purchased a home and 40 acres of land Ideated 12 miles south of Mattoon, near Zike's Corner, from Mr.

and Mrs Lloyd Randolph. The three-bedroom has a breezeway, basement and Iwck car attached garage. A fishing pond is located -on -the whicti is about one-half tillable. Mr. and Mrs.

Randolph have moved to Wisconsin, where they have purchased a larger dairy farm. John W. Callahan, real estate broker, handled the transaction SMART SHOPPERS READ WANT ADS Mattoon, Illinois Phona a 1 Now is 9 flood time I do all If SERVICE I 11 the 1 homo I AlTTf) I I A II if EASY BUDGET TERMS AVAILABLE NO MONEY DOWN ON REMODELING B. LMcCrocklins Purchase House At6Noyes Court Mr. and Mrs.

B. L. Mc- Crocklin have taken possession of the one-story brick home at 6 Noyes Court whicn they have purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Frank L.

Davidson. The two-bedroom home fea tures, a fireplace in the living room, wall-to-wall carpeting in the living room and dining room and an enclosed sunporch on the west side of the home. The REALTY VIEWS Keith D. Branson "Trying to sell my own property was like a ricte on a merry-go-rouna joc uwner explained. "I got dizzy with the whirl of useless activity, but I never did get anywhere!" We listened as Mr.

Owner continued. "That's why I decided to call on your office. I've learned from experience there's more to selling real estate than lust tacking up a sign and waiting for a buyer." "Every now and then," I re plied, "we list property which an owner has tried to sell first, Most of them feel the same way you do." "I don't doubt It," Mr. Own er said. "One day after four separate parties had stopped by.

I had to take a tranquilizer to calm down. I didn't realize I would be under such strain," "Most -people-reemotion- ally Involved wiUi thtags toey own, I said. "That's one rea son it's better to have a pro fesslonal salesman represent you." "I ean see that." Mr. Owner admitted. "Also, I felt out of place in checking on people's credit and loan possibilities.

Vou- can have your job. Ill stick to mine!" Every property and every owner's circumstance is dif ferent. Each deserves PER SONALIZED treatment. May we have the opportunity' to represent YOU In the sale or exchange of your property? J. Logan Govcr Realty, Inc.

Keltb D. Branson, Mgr. W'W i t. 'Ci-i IhlalaVKIIildialaltaaW ifHB lv! BitfrYOD! aHW at ttt oi fllva yw a apaca. Build 'raa tlmata on a room.

Sat naw. modarn kitchen Avar- for your homt. Avar-agt a tew aga kitchen a tow mo. at CEILING TILE FAMILY Good calling rt ttntltl In ny decorating dwmt. Beautify, with calling tilt.

A low as 12c m. MOULDINGS. Replace old, tcarrad FLOOE The proper Utlll vat baaament a family us for dttalli. room Want A SHELL HOUSE ERECTED? You Can Finish Yourself TILE PANELING' type fof Nothing form! as kajMrHmiiHfl Mill. Wlftemt Ana Bwu ajTVi wniaiwi'f rr-- (JOIiajflllilf 10e tilt ft.

tUAMjf tMltlHlHll tow at le lln. ft. HOME'S EXPERT CRAFTSMEN WILL Build the Plan of Your Choice And Get Attractive Figures on the Material and Subcontractors to Finish Your Home Don't Settle for Lessl Home Construction Co. Bob Stoltzfus OTHER ITEMS IN STOCK, f- Oak Flooring low as 16c tq. Plywood 4 8 as low as $2.88 Pegboard 4' 8' as low as 14.80 wmimwwimi- 7f ra 2921 Shelby 51.

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