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GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Day in history for December 18, 2001

1851 -- 150 years ago: A Whig state convention has been called to meet at Springfield on the fourth Monday of December.
1876 -- 125 years ago: Our Mr. Mansill's almanac for 1877 is now ready for sale.
1901 -- 100 years ago: Deputies from 33 states attended the third annual school of instruction of the Modern Woodmen of America.
1926 -- 75 years ago: Mathias G. Welch was appointed to the office of Rock Island electrical inspector.
1951 -- 50 years ago: Dick Sargent, former Moline resident, has attained the height which is the goal of most artists of today. He's done a cover for the Saturday Evening Post. The central figure is a wide-eyed little boy, beside an attic trunk in which he finds garments which obviously belong to Santa Claus. In one hand he holds a beautiful white beard. What has happened to Santa Claus is the question his eyes ask.
1976 -- 25 years ago: Moline and Rock Island school officials today began laying the groundwork for possibly lengthy court battles against state desegregation orders. A unanimous Moline Board of Education, which has vowed since March that it would not comply with state orders, hired two law firms to advise whether the district has legal grounds to resist the desegregation order. The board opposes the integration of Ericsson Elementary School because of the ``uniqueness'' of its bilingual program.

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1863 -- 150 years ago: A large variety of children's wagons and gigs have arrived in thecity and are being sold at war prices.
1888 -- 125 years ago: All Rock Island retail houses, with the exception of a clothingstore and a jewelry store, have agreed to early closing hours during the summer months.The store will be closed at 8 p.m.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Baseball enthusiasts in Rock Island are attempting to raise$20,000 to keep the Island City Park open, despite the fact that the city has no franchise inorganized baseball this year.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The organization of a third rural young people's unit will beundertaken tomorrow night at the Milan Presbyterian Church, with Mrs. Mildred K.Wellman, home advisor, and Robert Smith, county farm adviser in charge.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere & Co. will begin a "big switch" on its telephone systemMonday morning. The extension numbers of all 1,600 telephones on the firm's EastMoline and Moline exchanges will be changed Monday morning.
1988 -- 25 years ago: East Moline's June Jamboree VI -- Nostalgia Days, will seemlike a '60s revival with the appearance of stars like Bobby Vee, Freddie Cannon, PeterNoone, Turtles, The Grass Roots and Lou Christie. This year's festival has beenexpanded to five days, June 22-26, at the Northeast Park complex.

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