Fairgoer Observes SI Craft Guild At Du Quoin Fair
A visitor from Chatsworth Georgia admires wares from the Southern Illinois Arts and Crafts Guild at the Southern Illinois, Inc. booth near the main grandstand. Guild members showcase woodworking rugs toys doll clothes sunbonnets and more while exhibiting for seven years at the fair. Mrs. Harry Killian notes Ava says her husband works in hardwoods and they speak on opening day.
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Fred Holweger
du Quoin
Chatsworth
Southern Illinois Arts and Crafts Guild
Southern Illinois, Inc
Harry Killian
Ava
Welfare office bids due soon
Bids will be opened Tuesday on plans to build or remodel space for the Jackson County office of the state Department of Public Aid. The department expects to need larger quarters by mid 1969 at 1331 Walnut St Murphysboro. Ground floor space would be leased to the state department. Bids are taken at the department’s Springfield headquarters and depend on biannual funding.
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Jackson County
State Department of Public Aid
Walnut St
Murphysboro
State Department
Department
Springfield
Instructional TV enters eighth year for area students
Instructional television will begin its eighth year serving K through 8 students starting Sept 16 on SIU stations WSIU TV in Carbondale and WUSI TV in Olney. About 43 000 children in 200 member districts will participate with materials provided to teachers and a per pupil cost of 1.0 dollars.
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Southern Illinois University
Wsiu-Tv
Carbondale
Wusi-Tv
Olney
SIU Broadcasting Service
Southern Illinois Instructional Television Association
SNTA
KETC
Channel 9
St. Louis
SIITA
Carl Planine
Televised Democratic Convention delivers montage of surprises
TV viewers followed a convention full of interruptions as David Hoehs wife reported his arrest and a Kennedy tribute film sparked restrained singing of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. CBS coverage focused on floor reporting while Chicago unrest drew a tear gas scene. The event concluded with Kennedy and King tributes and overall high quality TV coverage.
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Cynthia Lowry
New York
Television Observer
David C. Hoeh
New Hampshire
Robert F. Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
Richard Burton
Martin Luther King Jr
CBS
NBC
Walter Cronkie
Chicago
Porter
Nixon plans Chicago loop motorcade and Illinois TV broadcast
President hopeful Richard M. Nixon will kick off a Chicago Loop motorcade and a statewide TV program as he resumes his presidential bid. He will stay in Chicago overnight, then travel to San Francisco and campaign in Oklahoma and Texas, after a week on a Key Biscayne working vacation.
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Miami
Fla
Richard M. Nixon
Chicago
Illinois
Nixon
San Francisco
Oklahoma
Texas
Key Biscayne
Bahamas
New York
Los Angeles
Lawrence F. O’brien
Hubert H. Humphrey
Los Angeles Times
O’brien
the Times
Humphrey
Carbondale to study voter registration for city election
Carbondale officials plan a November study to determine who can vote in spring city elections. City Attorney George Fleerlage says state rules require registration and residency verification will be the key, using volunteers with County Clerk Delmar Ward to test precincts for in city residency on duplicate registration cards. If feasible, marked books will be used. if not, unmarked books may be used by city judges. Maps may help verify residency.
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Carbondale
Fleerlage
Delmar Ward
Ward
What to give the man who has everything burglar alarm
A humorous column ponders gifts for the man who has everything noting a burglar alarm as a practical tease. It riffs on liars golf income tax and midlife comforts while joking about talkative dogs and beefy burgers.
SIU seeks boy singer for Amahl role this Christmas
Robert Kingsbury of SIU asks for a boy around 10 to sing the title role in Amahl and the Night Visitors. Auditions on Sunday Sept 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. on campus. Rehearsals begin Oct 14 with Monday and Wednesday sessions. memory of full score by Nov 1 required. An understudy will be chosen. Write to Kingsbury at SIU Carbondale with nominations.
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Robert Kingsbury
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
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