Christopher board hikes salaries and staff changes
The Christopher Grade School Board adopted a new salary schedule and raised the superintendent's pay by 500 dollars annually. Base pay for teachers with bachelor degrees increases to 5700 dollars. Five years experience outside the district will be credited. Supt Glenn Byars' pay rises to 11500 dollars. Librarian and cook resignations followed by hires Cynthia Turner and Cora Overturf. Title I funds approval noted. In Benton, Nellie Eninas 74 died after illness. funeral set. Teamster picket line at Peoria Journal Star ends as contract talks continue. paper to resume normal schedule.
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Christopher Grade School
Glenn Byars
Mary Sue Tarr
Helen Mallory
Cynthia Turner
Cora Overturf
Viet Nam arrival and service details for Pfc Sheldon Rittenhouse
Pfc Sheldon Rittenhouse, son of Mrs Anna Rittenhouse of Chester, arrived in Viet Nam on July 27 and is stationed at Bien Hoa 20 miles north of Saigon. His address is PFC Sheldon Rittenhouse RA 16993835 HHC 86th Engineering Battalion APC San Francisco California. Roy O King dies in Ohio at 88. funeral in Du Quoin with services at Paradise Baptist Cemetery and Keeling Funeral Home. Police brief notes Carbondale speeding arrest and De Soto boat violations with fines.
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Sheldon Rittenhouse
Anna Rittenhouse
Chester
Vietnam
Bien Hoa
Saigon
86Th Engineering Battalion
APC
San Francisco
Calif
Roy O. King
Ohio
Cleveland Heights
du Quoin
Paradise Baptist Cemetery
du Quoin First Baptist Church
W. T. Branon
Paradise Baptist
Mr. King
Pavilion
Perry County
John J
Elmira Burr King
Mary Alice Lee
First Baptist Church of
H. L. Mathews
Burr King
J. W. Lantz
Long Beach
Keeling Funeral Home
Two Orient men charged in reported incident with 13 year old girl
Franklin County authorities charged Ron nie Branch 28 and Jimmy Geer 19 with a reported incident involving a 13 year old Orient girl. They are jailed in Benton with bonds set at 6000 each. The girl told deputies the incident occurred Tuesday night in a vacant Orient building and that the men picked her up while she was walking home.
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Franklin County
Orient
Robert Ice
Ronnie Branch
Jimmy Geer
Benton
Buiding
SiU Alumni winner dies and longtime Marion figure
Fred R. Cagle 52 of New Orleans died 10 55 p m Thursday. A SIU 1937 graduate he received a 1965 SIU Alumni Achievement Award and served UNESCO 1961. He taught in SIU biology 1938 47 and was married to Josephine Alexander. Surviving are wife two children two brothers and one sister. Funeral plans incomplete in New Orleans. Clemens B. Lake 80 of Walsh died in Red Bud hospital. Funeral set 9 a m Monday at St Pious Church Walsh with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Veath Welge in Evansville after 5 p.m. Saturday.
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Nellie Eninas
Washington St
Benton
Lithuania
Joseha Mikalauski
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church of
Lithuanian Alliance of America
Eninas
Anthony
John of
Tony
West Frankfort
Emil Mazjarz
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Hobbs- Johnson Funeral Home
Masonic and Odd Fellows
Fred R. Cagle
New Orleans
Marion
Tulane University
Cagle
Southern Illinois University Alumni Association
SIU
Unesco
Josephine Alexander
South America
Mary J. Cagle
Los Angeles
Calif
C. C. Cagle
J. T. Cagle
Mary Overby
Clemens B. Lake
Walsh
St. Clement’s Hospital
Red Bud
St. Pious Catholic Church
Church
Veath- Welge Funeral Home
Evansville
Corn Feast Aim Supports Charter Oak School
The Randolph County Historical Society schedules the annual Corn Feast for Saturday at Charter Oak School near Schulme. Serving starts at 4 p.m. Proceeds aid restoring the society owned Charter Oak School, whose restoration is nearly finished after its 1952 closure.
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Randolph County Historial Society
Charter Oak School
Schulme
Charter Oak
Anna grade school milk price to rise
Anna grade school pupils will pay a penny more per half pint of milk this fall. The grade school board accepted bids raising price from 2 to 3 cents per bottle with white milk at 6 percent? per half pint and chocolate at 7 cents. The board also approved tax sheltered annuity participation for employees and hired a part time secretary at 175 dollars monthly to assist the special education program.
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Anna
Marines Charged in Battlefield Slayings Near Hue
A 20 year old Marine Lance Cpl Denzil R Allen of Lebanon NL faces murder charges for the May killings of five Vietnamese civilians near a village south of Hue. Six other Marines face individual murder counts as Maj Gen Carl A Youngdale reviews possible court martial proceeding.
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da Nang
Vietnam
U.S
Lance Cpl
Denzil R. Allen
Lebanon
Hue
Carl A. Youngdale
1St Marine Division
Marine
Martin R. Alvarez Jr
Detroit
Mich
Robert J. Vickers
Dothan
Ala
Manuel Cornejo
Brooklyn, N.Y
Anthony Licciardo Jr
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