Du Quoin Fair honors Grinnell woman in needlecraft
Grinnell Iowa Mrs O E Burge wins best of fair in needlecraft at the Du Quoin State Fair farm and home show for a crocheted tablecloth. It is her second blue ribbon at Du Quoin, first awarded in 1960. she notes long hours and retirement freeing time, without having attended the fair before.
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Grinnell
Iowa
du Quoin State Fair
O. E. Burge
du Quoin
Jerry Humphrey
Duquoin
James Pick
Pinckneyville
Martha Berger
Charlene Brooks
Carmel
Harley Davison
Eva Dickerson
Gene Gallmeister
Marie Gallmeister
Sally Haines
George Hammann
Leo Hilligoss
Joan Jordan
Mike Krone
Vida Kunkel
Mary Ann Provenzano
Pauline Queen
Jessie Smiley
Margaret Swinney
Wilma Walker
Alice Weinberg
City Lake weed problem prompts water flow concerns
City Lake at West Frankfort faces pressure issues as weeds clog intake pipes. Tom Arren, John Kareaker, and Bill Johnson are pictured clearing vegetation with a floating weed cutter. Officials weigh chemical herbicide as a possible remedial measure.
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West Frankfort
Tom Arren
John Kareaker
Bill Johnson
Clothing Thieves Steal Squires Shop Items in Carbondale
Dane Haege the Squire Shop manager reports a weekend break in at Mardale Shopping Center. Thieves forced a rear door and took many suits and sport coats. Police investigate the loss, with no total estimate yet.
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Squire Shop, Ltd
Carbondale
Mardale
Dane Haege
Downtown Carbondale to gain two stop sign intersections
Traffic engineer Alex Zedialis says two downtown Carbondale intersections Walnut Street Illinois Avenue and Walnut University Avenue will become three way stops on Tuesday. The city plans to replace the stops with traffic signals later.
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Carbondale
Alex Zedialis
State Highway Department
Walnut Street
Illinois Avenue
Walnut University Avenue
Illinois and
University
Zedialis
Canadians and Aussies at Hambletonian visit
A chartered DC-3 carried 32 Canadians to the Du Quoin State Fair for Sundays Hambletonian. The Toronto Star’s Robert Ahern noted the plane’s pilot and tomato remark while Bruce Skeggs of the Australian Trotting Register filed a report for Australian fans.
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du Quoin
Robert Ahearn
Toronto Star
Southern Illinois Airport
Fairgrounds
Bruce Skeggs
Australian Trotting Register
Pariah exposes summer echoes in a column
O R Walley reflects on being ostracized after a vacation piece as colleagues debate political pundits and TV conventions. He jokes about Pat Paulsen and Nixon, then shifts to office humor and a bumper repair anecdote in a light, observational tone.
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Ben Gelman
Tony Stevens
George Willhite
Pat Paulsen
Dogwalk
Williamson County
Suzi
Nixon
Agnew
Ben
Tony
Chet
David
Walter
George
Gleason Visits Carbon Dale In Private Railcar Stop
Television star Jackie Gleason rode through Southern Illinois Saturday night in his private railroad car. The actor, famed for Minnesota Fats in a film, did not appear to recognize Dowell as the hometown of another Minnesota Fats, Rudolph Wanderone. His car, bound from Los Angeles to Miami, was attached to an Illinois Central train arriving in Carbondale from St Louis at 8 30 p m. Gleason left his car hooked to the Seminole around midnight.
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Jackie Gleason
Southern Illinois
Gleason
Minnesota
Eight Southern Illinois highway bids total 8.9 million dollars
Bids on eight highway projects in Franklin Randolph Perry and Union counties exceed 8.9 million dollars. Apparent low bids include E. T. Simonds Construction J D Barter for Franklin County work on Rt. 183 and Eugene Luhr for a Kasке River bridge. Other bids cover road resurfacing bridge work and steel painting across multiple counties with several rejections and reviews pending.
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Illinois
State Division of Highways
Springfield
Franklin
Randolph
Perry
Union Counties
Franklin County
E. T. Simonds Construction Co
J. D. Barter Construction C., Inc
Carbondale
Lesser
Eugene Luhr and Co
Columbia
Kaskaskia River
Baldwin
Vergennes
Beaucoup Creek
Edgar Stephens and Sons, Inc
Union County
Cache River
Anna
Rash of Weekend Accidents Reported by State Police
State Police logged multiple weekend crashes across districts 13 and nearby routes. Edna Love andVir ginia Hutchinson injuries minor. Hutchinson and Keller suffered major damage. Aycock in wrong lane blamed. Other incidents included a two car crash on Rt 51 injuring Reed and Goodman in De Soto, and a one car rollover near Clarks Trail Road.
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District 13
Edna Love
Hickman
Carl Hutchinson
Missouri
Charles Keller
Ray H. Aycock
Columbia
Rt. 3
Chester
Mildred Lopresti
Baltimore
Virginia Hutchinson
Betty Keller
Aycock
Hutchinson
Keller
Donald Miller
Salem
Rt. 14
James McCoy
Ashley
Judy Moore
Herrin
Herrin Hospital
Rt. 148
Clarks Trail Road
Miss Moore
Joseph Kosma
du Quoin
Kosma
Gale Hasten
Walier
Rt. 150
Cutler
Hasten
Pinckneyville Community Hospital
Jerry Schneider
Vergennes
Betty Robbins
Carbondale
Carterville - Cambria
Carterville
Perry Robbins
Robert Young
Vadine E. Goodman
Waterloo
David Reed
de Soto
Rt. 51
Reed
Robert N. Reed
Valier Set to Vote on $175000 Water Sewer Bond Issue
Valier holds a public meeting Tuesday night at 7 30 p m in Valier Junior High on a $175 000 revenue bond referendum to finance water and sewer improvements. The vote, next Saturday at the Tyrone Township polling place, follows village board approval and a citizens petition for a referendum. The project totals $201000 with $26000 from a federal grant and will raise rates to fund debt retirement.
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Valier
Valier Junior High
Midwest Securities Co
Illinois Sanitary Water Board
Davis
State Department of Public Health
Williamson County road bid tops $29,130 for Little Grassy surfacing
One bid was received for surfacing the Little Grassy road in Williamson County. Gilmore Asphalt Co. of Anna bid $29,730. Half the road from Jackson County line east to 1,972 miles will be asphalt surfaced, the other half to connect to Crab Orchard Lake road later. The board will act on the bid on recommendation of Highway Supt. Fred Thane.
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Williamson County Board of Commissioners
Little Grassy
Gilmore Asphalt Co
Anna
Jackson County
Crab Orchard Lake
Fred Thane
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Jonathan
Fred Hartline
Anna Maurice Metzger
J. F. Toler
Ava
Sylvia Brownfield
Margaret Corgan
Nancy Glatthaar
Laura Holman
Enoch Holman
Marty Lewis
Sue Stotlar
Buncombe
F. C
Cache
Pauline Carmack
Barbara Gurley
Kathie Nash
Chester Fern Huey
Christopher
Elizabeth Dudek
Fred Eldridge
Alta E
Hereford
Johnston City
George Avery
Marion
Otto Biehl
Murrphysboro
Kitty Busch
Edna Baker
Robert Fager
Evelyn Nash
Ella Evans
Dorothy Smith
David Bigham
Roy M. Bigham
Gale Hicks
Christena Hutchings
John Hutchings
Virginia Marmaduke
Homer Spencer
Olivia Spencer
Royalton Anna Sanders
Donald Wright
India
Bil Klinker
Dixie Klinker
Thelma Klinker
Arlene Green
Sparta
Billie Morrison
Steeleville
Sally Beckhorn
Carroll B. Joost
Allen Bigham
Inez Blacklock
Oveta Anderson
Thora Swafford
Pipe Cleaners
O. R. Walley
Dorothy
Jim
Frank
Bill
Richard B. Ogilvie
Northfield
Nor, Right
Ray Page
Big Creek
Little Egypt Construction Co., Inc
Harrisburg
Gus T. Handge and Son Painting Co
St. Louis
Jackson
Williamson
Union
Hardin
Denny and Simpson Stone Co., Inc
Cadiz
Harris Creek
Pulaski-Alexander
Rt. 57
Mounds
Mounds City
Gilmore Asphalt Products, Inc
Gallatiin
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Rt. 13
Junction
J. D. Barter Construction Co
Buchanan
Winyard-Givenrod Associates
Benton
Rend Lake
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