Revival style golf exhibition featuring Yogi Berra in Emergy
The event at Green Acres Golf Course in Emergy featured Yogi Berra in a nine hole exhibition with Glenn, and Betty Newton filling in for a missing female golfer. Berra demonstrated trick shots and delivered running patter inspired by Muhammad Ali while critics questioned PGA practices. The match ended with Don Lingle recalling wartime stories including King Neptune and a battleship fund.
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Yogi
Green Acres
Emergy
Glenn
Betty Newton
Jackson Country Club
Muhammad Ali
Ali
Minnesota Fats
Professional Golfers Association
Newton
Beverly Hills
Calif
Yogioo Val
Invita
East St. Louis weighs first Illinois city income tax
East St. Louis officials study an earnings tax to broaden city revenue. The proposal, discussed by the city council and Illinois lawmakers, would tax income of all workers in the city with up to about two percent possible.
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Carol Alexander Lindsay-Schaub
East St. Louis
Illinois
Peter Brown
Intergovernmental
Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs
East
Bush
St. Louis
Little
Administrative Sciences
School of Business
Southern Illinois University At Carbondale
David A. Lipp
Robert S. Bussom
Ronald Bishop
Department of Administrative Sciences
Bishop
Cook County to vote on coroner abolition plan
A referendum to abolish the Cook County coroner and replace it with a medical examiner system will appear on the November 7 ballot. The resolution, approved unanimously, would place a physician headed medical examiner in charge and abolish the coroner’s office effective December 1976.
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Cook County
Chicago
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Bill Searcy
Bogey
Ben Gelman
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
J. Edgar Hoover
Don Lingle
Anna
Lingle
Marion
Missouri
West Frankfort
Navy
Sherman Cole
Arthur Bonner
Herrin
California
King Neptune
Lingle Place
Union County
Clearwater
Fla
Florida
King Nep
Lipp
Bussom
U.S. Supreme Court
Senate
U. S. 51
North Carbondale
Carbondale
First National Bank
South University
FDIC
City OF
Murphysboro
Police Department
Tobias K. Berger, JR
Rice Produce Wholesale Distributors
Antique & Craft Dealers
the Bookstore
MT. Vernon
Wice Company
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