Public Meetings and Film Showings in Southern Illinois
Public calendar lists meetings for Perry County planning at 7 30 p m in Pinckneyville Franklin County Supervisors Rend Lake Conservancy District Herrin Library Board and Marion Unit Two Education Board all 7 30 p m Tuesday Special events include SIU Summer Orchestra at 8 p m in University Center Ballrooms with free admission. Film showings at Egyptian Anna Fox Campus Drive-Ins in various towns run through Tuesday with titles such as Rosemarys Baby The Thomas Crown Affair and How Sweet It Is.
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Perry County
Pinckneyville
Greater
Library Board
Marion Unit Two Board of Education
Henderickson Street
Southern
Illinois University Summer Orchestra
Herbert Levinson
Mozart
Haydn
University Center
Rt. 148
Herrin
She
Anna Drive-In
Rosemary
Fox
Carbondale
Thomas Crown
Murphysboro
Local Theater and Craft Center Events This Week
The Herrin senior citizens sewing and handicraft group meets Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center located at 301 North 14th Street. In Murphysboro Marlow's Theater shows Carpetbagger and Nevada Smith from Wednesday through Saturday with 7 30 weekday showings and continuous 2 30 Saturday matinees.
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Herrin
N. 14Th St
Marlow's Theater
Murphysboro
Nevada Smith
Funeral service set for Mrs. Mary Aschieris of West Frankfort
Funeral services for Mary Aschieris 53 of West Frankfort will be at 9 a m Wednesday at St John Catholic Church West Frankfort conducted by Rt Rev Msgr Michael Klimas with burial in Tower Heights Cemetery West Frankfort Friends may call at Union Funeral Home The Rosary will be said at 8 p m today She leaves Eugene her husband a Carterville son a sister Mrs Tony Eninas West Frankfort and three grandchildren She worked at Allen Industries Herrin and belonged to St John Catholic Church the Altar Society and S N P J Lodge of West Frankfort
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Mary Aschieris
West Frankfort
St. John’s Catholic Church
Michael Klimas
Tower Heights Cemetery
Union Funeral Home
Navigation Study Begun on Wabash River Reach
U S Army Corps of Engineers in Louisville initiated a navigation study on the Wabash River. Rep Kenneth J Gray says the project will extend from the Ohio River upstream into Lakes Erie and Michigan. The study is sponsored by the House Public Works Committee Riv ers and Harbors subcommittee. Congress appropriated 50000 dollars for the study this year. Gray says the valley requires a navigational project to support barge traffic amid already authorized Wabash reservoirs development. He pledges support if the study finds feasibility.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Louisville
Wabash River
Kenneth J. Gray
West
Frankfort
Gray
Ohio
Lakes Erie
Michigan
House Committee On Public Works
Subcommittee On
Congress
Ilinois
Wabashin
Herrin to Hold Meeting on Landfill Operation Issues
The Herrin City Council landfill committee will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday with officials from the state health department Franklin Williamson Bi County Health Department and local industries to discuss disposal problems. The state has notified Herrin that the landfill violates the Illinois Refuse Disposal and Air Pollution Control laws and must stop open burning. Roger Gorham and Dale Davis of Marion may operate the site as a private contractor and report costs next month. The panel may revisit dumping fees for industrial users. Nearby obituary notes John Wesley Dunlap Jr., 67, of West Frankfort, died Monday night in Union Hospital after two days there. He leaves a wife and several siblings. services are set for Thursday in West Frankfort.
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Herrin
State Department of Public Health
Franklin-Williamson
Roger Gorham
Dale Davis
Marion
John Wesley Dunlap Jr
Rt. 2
West Frankfort
Union Hospital
Murphysboro
John W
Ada Dunlap
Dunlap
Mary Raymond
Benjamin
Peoria
Leo
Cicero
Mary Nicholson
Ida Sexton
Energy
Reedy Funeral Home
Denning Cemetery
Chicago plans assembly line justice for DNC arrests
More than 100 Circuit Court magistrates would form a round the clock judicial assembly line to process at least 300 mass arrests if the Democratic National Convention triggers mass arrests in Chicago. Over 10 000 complaint forms cover 17 offenses, aimed at quick prima facie charging.
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Chicago
Near West Side
Soldier Chosen as Enlisted Aide in Vietnam
Army Sp4 Martin T. Piper son of Jesse Piper of DeSoto chosen by a board of senior noncommissioned officers to serve one week as enlisted aide to Major General Charles P. Stone commander of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. The 1965 Carbondale High School graduate and former Illinois Highways engineer clerk is 20. His mother Mrs. Joe Christerson lives in Harrodsburg Kentucky.
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Army
Martin T. Piper
Jesse Piper
DeSoto
Charles P. Stone
4Th Infantry
Vietnam
Carbondale Community
Officials mum on extremists plot report
Security officials declined to comment on a Chicago Tribune report alleging a plot to assassinate Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Senator Eugene McCarthy at the Convention opening on August 26. The Tribune said the plan involved 100 Negro extremists and South Side gang members, including attacks on police stations with explosives and rifles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Hubert H. Humphrey
Eugene J. McCarthy
The
Chicago Tribune
Secret Service
FBI
Student Hurt In Auto Crash Near West Frankfort
A 20 year old Southern Illinois University student Douglas Robertson Jr. of North Park Ridge was treated for major injuries after his car left Interstate 57 and struck a road sign one mile north of West Frankfort at 12 10 a m today. He was treated at Union Hospital in West Frankfort and later transferred to St Luke's Hospital in St Louis.
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Southern Ilinois University
West Frankfort
Douglas Robertson Jr
North Park Ridge
Union Hospital
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Louis
West Frankfort adopts levy for 1968 69
West Frankfort City Council adopted a levy ordinance for 1968 69 totaling 44644250 with major department allocations for public affairs 35600 accounts and finances 13270 streets and public improvements 106420 public property 11820 miscellaneous 24300 and health and safety 157820. The council also studied selling water to Thompsonville approved traffic control ordinances issued building permits and reported local obituaries and minor citations.
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West Frankfort
Thompsonville
Fourth Street
Illinois Avenue
Adams and
Summers Streets
Horsley Construction Co
Frankfort Drive
Bill Young
N. Gardner St
Jess Wilder
E. Charles St
Carl Russell
Tobe Newbold
S. Monroe St
Eddie Razer
Westbrook Addition
Anna Fair draws 3000 attendees including SIU troupe
About 3,000 people attended the Anna fair on Monday with a Southern Illinois University touring group performing the Sesquicentennial Pageant Make Her Wilderness Like Eden for over 500 in the grandstands. Officials reported a record number of entries with $40,977 in prizes across arts crafts and agricultural divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinois University
Ant
Eden
Barney Lence
Wreck Victims Improve After Fatal Illinois Crash
Two California teens from Lodi, Denese Moody 15 and Gary Wayne Moody 15, were reported much improved at Doctors Hospital in Harrisburg after a one car wreck on Rt. 45 near Stonefort that killed six family members including Rev. Billy Gene Moody 35 Ruth Moody 40 Jeffrey 3 and Charyl Ann 7 and Viola May Moody 16 and her daughter Karen Diane Moody 16. The car struck a bridge abutment near an Illinois Central Railroad overpass after the driver apparently fell asleep while traveling to Sidney Ohio for a church meeting in Texas.
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California
Doctors Hospital
Harrisburg
Carl England
Denese Moody
Gary Wayne
Lodi
Calif
Rt. 45
Stonefort
Billy
Benton School Board Hikes Lunch Prices
The Benton Grade School board hires Catherine Barnfield as elementary teacher at 5600 salary and accepts the resignation of fifth grade teacher Joe Bierbaum. Lunch prices rise five cents with children 35 cents and adults 40 cents.
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Benton
Catherine Barnfield
Grant School
Joe Bierbaum
Stolen gun found in alley near Marion home
Wayland Sims reports a .22 caliber pistol stolen last week was found Monday by an unidentified boy in an alley near his residence. The intruder fled after being surprised by a group of teenaged girls during a burglary at the home on Thorn Street. Marcia Ledbetter broke an ankle and Nancy Rue bruised from stairs panic during the incident.
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Wayland Sims
E. Thorn St
Marion
Sims
Vicki Holmes
Marcia Ledbetter
Nancy Rue
Johnston City approves new salary schedule for staff
Johnston City Unit School Board hired personnel to fill all vacancies for the coming year and adopted a new salary schedule. New hires include Chris Elkins West Frankfort Anita Cronk New Jersey and Linda Burns Spearfish S D. The base pay for starting teachers remains 5600 with increments up to 13 years and a maximum 875. The master's level allows 200 increments to 8600. Other staff receive raises including bus drivers cooks secretaries and custodians. A separate police report notes a red Ford vehicle window break at Clark Service Station.
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Johnston City Unit
Chris Elkins
West Frankfort
Anita Cronk
New Jersey
Linda Burns
Spearfish
S. D
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Southern Illinoisan
Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Walnut Street
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Dalry Journal
Associated Press
John Wesley Dunlap
William Martin
RPA
William J. Lynch
U.S. District Court
Coalition For
Soldier Field
Lynch
Park
Chicago Park Board
Coalition
Democratic National Committee
National Mobilization Committee
Johnson
Kremlin
Robert Dahlke
Systems Council
T-4
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Dahlke
Doug
Las Robertson
Michigan Ave
Carterville
Frank Burwell
Wall St
Crawshaw Mortuary
de Soto
Dorothy E. Fetzer
Cobden
Louise E. Ballance
Mt. Vernon
Sam Mateer
PRG Ceaos At
Stars OF Grand Ole Opry
Buck Owens
Lynn Anderson
Red Foley
Homesteaders
Sonny James
Connie Smith
Roy Clark
Tex Ritter
Hank Snow
Hambletonian
Phil Harris
Bobbie Gentry
Gentle Ben
Inspector Mattingly
Don Rice
Lawrence Welk
Teen Center
Cha
Usac National Mp
du Quoin State Fair
du Quoin
Illinois
A/C
Bill Jack
Herrin Lumber CO
South Park Avenue
Buby Jack
Bill
Gretchen
Rebecca
Johnston City
Jack Tubbs
Clark
North Court Street
Hagan
CIPS
Bill G. Allen, Inc
E. Main
Benton, Ill
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