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...Gain. In Effingham, Ill., Mayor Paul Taylor (salary: $800 a year) advised future office seekers to "start at the top and run for dog catcher" (1958 earnings...
...worship God and to translate brotherhood into Socialist terms. His grandfather Jacob was a German Social Democrat who emigrated to the U.S. in 1892 to save his sons from military service. Jacob Reuther, a white-bearded Lutheran patriarch, often conducted Sunday services for his family at his farmhouse near Effingham, Ill. He felt that some churches "do too much for God and not enough for man"; he believed: "To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of God are alike impossible." Walter Reuther's pattern of life was molded by his father, Jacob...
Trial Balance. In Effingham, Ill., residents were trying to figure out the new U.S. Census figures, which said Effingham had 1,735 married women, 1,728 married...
...such problems of identification: the place is plainly Augusta, with its Broad Street, its Confederate Monument and its levee against the Savannah River. But this will be no news to Augustans; many of them have grown casehardened to their fellow citizen's revelations in thin fictional disguise (Colonel Effingham's Raid, The Lightwood. Tree) of their community's seamy side and shoddy behavior...
Last week at Effingham, ground was broken for a new six-story, 150-bed St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital. During the ceremonies, the results of Protestant Everhart's helping hand were announced: more than $550,000 from over 35,000 people-some of them from as far away as the Philippines and England. When the new building is finished, Effingham will have a hospital that is also a symbol of human brotherhood...