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Newspaper

Southern Illinoisan

Location

Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Aug 13, 1968

Page

6

Bicycling Gains Popularity Across the United States

A growing nationwide interest in cycling spreads from small towns to big cities. Health groups praise exercise benefits while warning about traffic dangers. Cities create bike paths and clinics. notable projects include Manhattan Central Park lanes and Cape Cod Seashore paths.

United States The Health Insurance Institute Tan Central Park Broadway New York U.S. Department of the Interior Cape Cod National Seashore Massachusetts Ohio Wisconsin Homestead Florida

What Women Should Know About Bargain Car Buying

A guide on avoiding shady auto dealer tricks in the summer bargain season. The Better Business Bureau warns against misleading ads that misrepresent used cars as new. It advises checking reputations through trusted sources, visiting local dealers, and insistence on written terms and mutual signing.

Elizabeth M. Fowler NY Times Better Business Bureau New York Ing B.B.B Louis Troise Troise

Local club and group meeting notices across towns

Community notices list events this week in Marion Prosperity Carbondale Benton and Murphysboro. Meetings include Williamson County Legal Secretaries at Up towner Restaurant Prosperity Home makers Extension Unit at Little Egypt Smorgasbord and an American Legion Auxiliary potluck. A retirement preparation talk by Dorothy Goss is part of Benton events. The Murphysboro War Mothers plan a Riverside Park picnic.

Marion Williamson County Uptowner Prosperity Homemakers Extension Unit Little Egypt Smorgasbord New Rt. 13 West Carbondale American Legion Auxiliary Benton Franklin County Benton Community Bank Dorothy Goss Murphysboro Riverside Park

Engagements announced for Schulz and Cutler couples

Dr and Mrs Norman E Schulz of Beltsville announce the engagement of daughter Sheryl Lynn to Corporal Robert Joseph Posluszny USMC He is the son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Posluszny of Murphysboro The wedding is planned for Sept 21 at St Joseph Parish Beltsville Marilyn Cutler is engaged to Richard Hisgen son of Mr and Mrs George A Hisgen of Burlingame Calif They plan to marry Oct 5 at First Christian Church Carbondale.

Norman E. Schulz Beltsville Murphysboro Sheryl Lynn Robert Joseph Posluszny U.S. Marine Corps Joseph Posluszny 20Th St Miss Schulz High Point High School C and P Telephone Co Washington, D.C Southern Illinois University Cherry Point N.C St. Joseph Parish Homer C. Cutler Rt. 3 Carbondale Marilyn Richard Hisgen George A. Hisgen Burlingame Calif

Jefferson Introduces Tomatoes to the United States in 1781

The text notes tomatoes were eaten in Europe by the mid 1700s but were not known in the United States until Thomas Jefferson introduced them in 1781.

United States Thomas Jefferson

Herrin BSP Flea Market Set Monday

Beta Sigma Phi sorority chapters sponsor a flea market Monday in the Herrin Jaycee Building. Readily available old furniture books clothing and miscellaneous articles will be sold to raise funds for the Heart Fund American Cancer Society and United Fund. The sorority kickoff on Sept 9 features hostess Mrs Richard Pisoni.

Herrin Beta Sigma Phi Sorority Herrin Jaycee N. 16Th St Heart Fund American Cancer Society United Fund Campaign Richard Pisoni

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