ACLU Chapter Planned in Southern Illinois
An editorial urges forming a Southern Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in Carbondale Uni tarian Meeting House Tuesday at 8 PM. The piece notes Illinois chapters growing beyond Chicago and Champaign Artes te toward DeKalb Rockford Peoria and Quad Cities and calls local citizens to join to defend civil liberties for all.
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American Civil Liberties Union
Unitarian Meeting House
Carbondale
ACLU
Communist Party
Ku Klux Klan
Illinois
Chicago
Champaign-Arteste
Downstate Illinois
DeKalb
Rockford Area
Peoria
Quad-Cities
State urged to fund more public school buildings
Dr. Benjamin Hubbard of Illinois State University argues Illinois should share more of public school costs. He notes the constitution assigns state responsibility for education, the state requires programs increasing space needs, and local taxes currently fund building costs. He urges at least 50 million dollars annually for construction and warns current tax strains threaten future education.
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Benjamin Hubbard
Department of Educational Administration
Illinois State University, Normal
Illinois
Hubbard
Dr. Hubbard
Real battles of Con-Con loom on horizon
Governor-elect Richard B. Ogilvie backs a nonpartisan delegate election for Illinois constitutional convention. While some lawmakers favored partyless races, others opposed. Key issues include whether legislators may serve, how to vote on amendments, and when and where the convention should meet. The fight for nonpartisan elections signals broader disputes ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard B. Ogilvie
Illinois
Nixon to Outline Farm Plan for 1969 Amid Criticism
The Nation notes farmers await President-elect Nixon’s farm program for 1969. It cites promises to appoint a familiar, non ultra conservative agriculture secretary, and to avoid drifting policies. It warns of rising production and idle acreage, with options to export surplus or retire land, and a costly, unresolved farm crisis.
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Richard Nixon
Nixon
Ezra Taft Benson
Eisenhower
Orville L. Freeman
Congress
Federal aid program for legal services urged
A proposed federal funded program would provide 75 to 80 percent matching funds to state welfare agencies to extend legal services to welfare recipients. Secretary Cohen argues it could help some off welfare lists and aid divorcing mothers, but notes gaps remain and uniform federal financing would ensure equal treatment and curb welfare migration to higher paying states.
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Wilbur J. Cohen
Cohen
Massachusetts
Mississippi
North
Grassroots withering Educational TV faces leadership crisis
The National Association of Educational Broadcasters meeting in Washington highlights deepening troubles for non commercial television. Key issues include New York dominance, leadership vacancies at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and uncertainty over network level programming and federal oversight.
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National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Washington
New York
N.A.E.B
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
John D. Rockefeller III
Congress
The
Hudson
ETV
Corporation
National Educational Television
Public Broadcasting Laboratory
Ford Foundation
Children’s Television Workshop, Corporation
Crisis at Columbia and Ivy Wall Chronicles
Two modern classics evaluate the 1968 Columbia crisis. Crisis at Columbia, edited by Archibald Cox, analyzes causes and university failures. Up Against the Ivy Wall, by Columbia Spectator staff, chronicles events from Hamilton Hall to Grayson Kirk’s resignation.
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Eliot Fremont - Smith
New York Times
Columbia
Jerry L. Avorn
Columbia Daily Spectator
Robert Friedman
Atheneum
Columbia University
Random House Vintage
Archibald Cox
Harvard University
the Spectator
Hamilton Hall
Grayson Kirk
Letters to the editor Against joining Logan college
A reader criticizes the Southern Trindsan editor for ignoring local economic basics while defending the Carbondale Community High School District 165 stance against affiliating with John A. Logan Junior College. The letter argues tax burdens, proposed referendums, and district boards’ duty to protect local school funding and property values amid state university influence.
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Southern Trindsan
Carbondale Community High School Board of Education
John A. Logan Junior College
Carbondale
Boards of Education
C.C.H.S
Ilinois Taxpayers Association
Educath
Mixed Faith Burial Brings Clergy Together For a Happy Union
A bereaved husband recounts his wife who lived 34 years in a mixed Jewish Christian marriage. She was buried in her mezuzah as he thanked Rev Frank Clark and Rabbi Stuart Geller for graveside rites honoring their faiths. He hopes the act seeds tolerance and reduces bigotry.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
Frank Clark
Herrin
Stuart Geller
United Hebrew Temple
Benton
Reasons to buy Herrin Roofing building for village hall
Letter to editor argues the Herrin Roofing building would place village hall centrally near the school and highway, cost under $3 yearly with 10 year ownership, provide space for maintenance and a fire truck, host scout meetings and voting, improve fire and police facilities, and fund social events, urging progress while preserving the village’s character.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
Herrin
Legal guidance on married name usage in documents
The article states a married woman should sign with her own first name and middle name or initial plus her husband’s last name on legal matters, choosing Mary J. Smith over Mrs John W. Smith unless she prefers to spell out the middle name, per Illinois bar guidance.
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John W. Smith
Mary J. Smith
John Q. Smith
Illinois State Bar Association
Springfield
Illinois
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