Carbondale boy forecasts weather using home setup
A %-year-old Carbondale youth joins Oak Grove Heights resident Chuck Crinnian in publishing daily weather forecasts from a homemade station. He uses thermometers, a barometer, wind vane, cloud chart, and nephoscope to predict rain or sun within 12 to 24 hours, sharing updates with neighbors. Jane Tanner, a Pinckneyville sophomore, won first in the state organ contest in Springfield and received the Governor Kerner Trophy.
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Chuck Crinnian
Oak Grove Heights
Crinnian
Oak Grove
George Crinnian
Carbondale
Chuck
Jane Tanner
Pinckneyville High School
Springfield
Otto Kerner
Mrs
Nelson
Tanner
Pinckneyville
School To Try Classroom TV In Local Grades
Zeigler Royalton Grade School will use educational television in grades one through five this year. Carl Planine of Southern Illinois University explains its operation at a teachers workshop at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Royalton building. Registration starts 8:30 a.m. Friday at all buildings with fees of 5 for kindergarten through sixth grade, 7 for seven and eight grades, and 9 in high school.
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Zeigler «Royalton High School
Zeigler
Jackson County 4-H Members Enter State Fair Exhibits
Several Jackson County 4-H clubs entered the Illinois State Fair in DeSoto with participants in seven areas. Winners included B and A ratings for demonstrations on sandwich fillings first aid bandages and selecting vegetables. Ebersohl placed seventh in an electricity contest with an outdoor lamp he designed. Unity Point Falcons earned a participation award in Share Our Fun. Mary Downen and others received B ratings in room improvement exhibits.
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Jackson County
Betty
Plegate
Rt. 2
Carbondale
Joyce Wolfe
DeSoto
Brenda Lehnert
Rt. 4
Herbert McMean
Sammy Cox
Rt. 1
Jerry Hagler
Murphysboro
Unity Point Falcons
Jewel Moeller
Charlotte Jones
la Dona
Vergennes
Mary Downen
Girl's 32-Inch Pigtails Earn State Trophy
Lucinda Guard 11 won first place in the Spring Field State Fair pigtail contest earning a trophy and blue ribbon. Her hair has grown two inches since last year, now 32 inches, and she plans to enter the pony tail contest. Her mother braids it into one or two tails.
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Johnston City
Lucinda Guard
Springfield
Lucinda
Boy Finds Civil War Era Cannonball by Maumee River
Maumee Ohio AP reports 15 year old Ricky Galvas stubs a toe along the Maumee River and discovers a half buried cannonball. Locals note the spot lies across from Fort Meigs and historians consider the shot could date from a siege about 150 years ago.
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Maumee, Ohio
Ricky _Galvas
Maumee River
Fort Meigs
Maumee
A JCHS Students Swim Physical Education Starts With A Splash
Four enterprising men transform a flood ruin into a swimming program at Anna-Jonesboro High School. Girls and boys train on alternating days in city facilities funded by Agricultural 4-H clubs and the Farm Bureau building in Jonesboro. The four week program, led by qualified lifeguards from A-ICHS, aims to teach water safety and basic techniques while water treatment costs are covered.
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Prestonspurg
Ity
Farm Bureau
Jonesboro
Jerry Lacy
Ing
Hodges
Ptouis
A-Ichs
Harlan.c. Hodges
Ralph Davison
John Lipe
Shari Marvin
Margaret Smith
Davison
Lipe
Lacy Nhen
Southernllinois University
Marvin
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Lucinda Gyurc
JCHS
Bob Bittle
Mickleberry
Wishbone
Lipton Instant
Dole
Welchade
Heinz
Purina
Reyneld
Miracle
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