Labor's heritage in schools sparks a broader history debate
Don Oakley reports that the Kanawha County textbook clash over sex and religion has eased, yet coal regions worry that labor history is missing from curricula. A United Mine Workers Journal survey finds few texts cover miners, unions, or coal’s history, with teachers undertrained and boards possibly coal-influenced. The call grows to teach workers’ economic and cultural legacy.
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Kanawha County
W. Va
United Mine Workers Journal
Cedar Grove High School
West Virginia
Alabama
UMW
Kentucky
West
Saunemin Board Considers Police Pay and Park Upgrades
Saunemin village board raises policeman Gerry Bull's pay to 240 dollars a month based on a 64 hour month, reviewing tickets and warning procedures. Park work includes mowing, pruning plans, equipment repairs, and bench mends. Water well acidizing approved. Meadowview Drive road work set with gravel ahead of grading. Community planning includes North Street clearances, lot size rules, and a cleanup day billing. Budget talks ahead of July 7 meeting at 7:30 p.m.
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Saunemin
Gerry Bull
Meadowview Drive
North Street
Harry Cantrall
May
Cullom
Eugene Haag
GOSH Girls of Saunemin End Year With Trips and Secret Party
GOSH members from Saunemin High capped the year with May trips to Chicago and Mooseheart, an overnight in La Grange, and a Monday secret pass party at Janet Roche's Dwight home. Velma Cramer attended as guest. Juli Green officiated as outgoing president. Cindy Thomas to lead 1975 76 with Debbie Bassett Diane Donovan Dottie Cagley Dee Dee Basset and others as officers. gifts were exchanged after Snoopy games and secret pals revealed.
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Saunemin
Saunemin High
GOSH
Chicago
United Airlines
O'Hare
Rustic Barn
Mooseheart
Aurora
Yorktown
William Tellman
la Grange
Janet Roche
Dwight
Velma Cramer
Juli Green
Cindy Thomas
Debbie Bassett
Diane Donovan
Dottie Cagley
Dee Dee Basset
Debbie Rich
Lynn Central
Snoopy
Rita Pennington
Carol Rieck
Linda Donovan
Pem Cole
Clarene McCaughey
Saunemin High School
Martha Hilts
Alice Schulz
Nancy Witetham
Saunermin High School
Henry Gordon
Lisa
Roger
Susie Lambert
William Muir
Woodstock
Ontario
Canada
Richard Spafford
Muir
Spafford
Joe Bane
Robert Lambert
Odell
Bane
Dana Civic Center
Dana
John Bane
Saunemin Brownie Busters 4-H
Pontiac
Jan Wyllie
Emington
Lisa Lambert
Lois Bane
Doug Eggenberger
Jack Hoerner
Tony Kash
Tim Maubach
Maureen Morgan
Bicentennial ice cream social planned in Pontiac
Final plans for a county Bicentennial ice cream social were announced by Mrs. C David Vogel at the Livingston County Bicentennial Commission meeting in Fairbury. The event Saturday June 7 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the courthouse square in Pontiac offers pie or cake and ice cream with beverages, tied to a boat display and the Canoe Race preview. Proceeds fund future county events, with co chairs and committee members named and a next meeting set for June 23 in Pontiac.
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C. David Vogel
Pontiac
Livingston County
Dorming Public Library
Fairbury
Courthouse Square
Dorothea K. Green
Dale Jury
Dwight
Livingston County Bicentennial Commission
Paul Wilson
Lucille Haberkern
Chatsworth
Erna Winslow
Fairubry
Brandt Hardy
Richard DeMoss
Cochairman
Reid Tornbaugh
Cochairmen
Ted Bonkowski
Mary Orth
Commission
Flanagan Sets Dumping Ground Hours And Village Actions
Flanagan Village Board adopts new dumping ground hours from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday and a Saturday morning slot from 8 a.m. to ? p.m. A $6,208.46 bid from Trico Paving Co. for resealing village streets was approved. The annual appropriation ordinance for year ending April 30 1976 totaling $78 450 was approved. April motor fuel tax totaled $635.37 and $4,281 was transferred from the revenue sharing savings to the general account.
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Flanagan
Flanagan Village Board
Trico Paving Co
Unemployment to Stay High Despite Upturn in Indicators
Wicker analyzes the Commerce Department index showing a potential near-term upturn while warning that unemployment could stay at 7.5 percent through 1977 or 1976 end, with Black teen unemployment around 40 percent and broader policy failures limiting job growth.
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Tom Wicker
New York Times News Service
New York
Commerce Department
Ford
Congress
New Assistant Extension Adviser Terrilee Meyer Named
Miss Terrilee Meyer of Gridley is selected by the Home Economics and 4 H Youth Extension Councils as the new Assistant Extension adviser in home economics. She began duties June 1, with nine years in 4 H projects and activities and a May 196? bachelor degree in Home Economics from Illinois State University. She was active in Gridley high school activities and led the Student Home Economics Association as president and district board member.
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Terrilee Meyer
Gridley
Home Economics
Marvin Wunderlin
Miss Meyer
Illinois State University
Student Home Economics Association
Chatsworth Native Dies In Virginia Funeral Service
Chatsworth native Mrs Josephine May Bertrand 71 of Kankakee died Saturday at Southside Hospital Farmville Virginia Funeral was held at St Rose of Lima in Kankakee She had lived in Crewe Virginia with sister Tillie Sogner born May 7 1904 in Chatsworth daughter of Edward Todden married to Phillip C Bertrand on May 17 1924 He died Jan 1 1974 Survived by sister a niece and a nephew 1974 and 1975 served as vice president of Kappa Omicron Phi 1974 75 and as a member of Kappa Delta Epsilon
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Phillip C. Bertrand
Kappa Omicron Phi
Kappa Delta Epsilon
Miss Meyer
Judith Skelton
Nussbaum Family Reunion Sets 1975 Gathering
Forrest The Jacob Nussbaum family reunion for 1975 was held Sunday June 1 at Forrest Township Hall with the Fred Rieger Sr family as hosts. Eighty five attended from Champaign Gridley Peoria Williamsburg Chatsworth Morton Fairbury Bloomington Normal and Forrest. Willis Nussbaum of rural Forrest will host the 1976 reunion.
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Forrest
Jacob Nussbaum
Forrest Township
Fred Rieger Sr
Champaign
Gridley
Peoria
Williamsburg
Chatsworth
Morton
Fairbury
Bloomington
Normal
Willis Nussbaum
Wedding and engagement notice deadlines from The Leader
Information blanks for weddings engagements and anniversaries are available from The Leader. Photos used with captions if received timely by a four day window for weddings and a month before weddings for engagements. Pictures returned only with SASE and there is no charge for notices.
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Leader
Sixteen classes visit Pontiac Library
Pontianc Public Library hosted sixteen grade school classes in May. Librarian Mrs. Mary Ellen Sweitzer told the library board about library services and that second graders received library cards. Circulation rose in May with totals of 3,854, including specific fiction and non fiction counts.
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Pontiac
Corn Belt Library
Odell Board approves higher appropriation
Odell officials approve a larger appropriation as the village secures an injunction allowing the county sheriff to move a mobile home. Plans include installing a hydrant at the village end near Valley View Dirt and Gravel Co and extending the water main north to the hydrant under Route 66. Mayor Gordon Speers reports the village hall title painting will cost about 150 dollars. James McCabe has paid 200 dollars for an old water pump.
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Valley View Dirt and Gravel Co
Rt. 66
Gordon Speers
James McCabe
Pontiac High class of 25 reunion set for June 8
The Pontiac Township High School Class of 1925 will hold its 50th anniversary reunion on Sunday, June 8, at the Elks Country Club. Forty-two reservations have been made for the dinner at 1 p.m. Arrangements are led by a committee including Mrs. Clarence Farber and Mrs. W. L. Opperman among others of Pontiac. A member invited any class member to visit and reconnect.
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Pontiac Township
Elks Country Club
Clarence Farber
W. L. Opperman
A. H. Fellheimer
Louis E. Gassensmith
Harold Nelson
John Noonan
Murray Wallace
Julius Opperman
Horace Sho
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Daniel Curley
University of Illinois
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California Highway Patrol
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