Herrin Unit to Open 550000 Expansion for High School
Herrin Unit will relocate Hurst Bush pupils to Herrin High School this fall as a 550000 expansion adds 28 000 square feet with a cafeteria eight classrooms and music storage. Sunnyside Grade School closes and its facility becomes a materials center funded by a federal grant led by Urey Robertson.
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Herrin
Hurst-Bush
Sunnyside
Urey Robertson
Hurst-Bush High School
Herrin High School
Group Backs Revenue Article In Murphysboro Meeting
The Jackson County Citizens Committee for the new revenue article met in Murphysboro. Mike Bowers was named chairman to drive advocacy. Bernell Howard will direct a speakers bureau with Ruth Blackwelder and Barney Williams assisting in outreach. Relative to November ballot.
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Jackson County
Citizens Committee For
Murphysboro
Mike Bowers
Bernell Howard
Ruth Blackwelder
Carbondale
Barney Williams
Citizens Committee
Lavern Dietz
State Revenue
Marion Unit Schools Plans Lincoln Addition and Bus Garage
Marion Unit Two School District announces a 40 by 60 foot Lincoln School addition including a recreation room cafe teria and new kitchen facilities and restrooms at a cost of about 53000. A new bus garage at Ola Mission Ridge will house four buses, with a parts room and offices, costing about 48800 and slated to finish by Sept 30.
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Marion Unit
Lincoln
Ola
Mission Ridge
New West Franklin High School Opens Near Zeigler
About 250 Zeigler-Roy alton area pupils will attend classes this fall in the new West Franklin High School a 500000 brick, one story building two miles north of Zeigler It contains ten classrooms a science room a lab home economics drafting music kitchen library office gymnasium and a large study hall that doubles as a lunchroom The district will buy water from Zeigler and the school has its own sewage lagoon.
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Zeigler-Royalton High School
West Franklin High School
Zeigler
Murphysboro Unit 186 shifts vocational layout near opening
Murphysboro Unit School District 186 plans moving some vocational classes to a new site and abandoning Douglas School as a grade center. About 90 students from Douglas will shift to Washington and Logan grade centers, raising crowding needs to be managed by reassignment after registration figures. Douglas had served mainly Negro pupils and closure had been discussed for years.
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Douglas School
Murphysboro
Douglas
Blackwood
Washington School
Logan School
North 17Th Street
Unit 186 Board of Education
Unit 186
Carruthers
Door Project Shifts Vocational Classes to Douglas School
The door at Douglas School will serve as an entrance for a new auto repair and maintenance course. Superintendent Blackwood says a survey of the current Unit 186 vocational program and future needs could move additional vocational classes to the Douglas building this year.
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Douglas School
Blackwood
Douglas
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June Gray
Carbondale Community High School
William McBride
Community High
George Kuhn
Gerald Cuendet
McBride
Kuhn
Laurence Martin
Lincoln, Lewis and Winkler
Carbondale University
Roger Robinson
Nova School
Fort Lauderdale
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New Lewis School
Marion Unit Schools
South Court Street
Marion
Lincoln School
Jim Wright
McMahon and Wright Construction Co
Alvin Endress
Elkville
the High
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