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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1961
Page
2
The Shakespeare comedy in commedia dell arte style with exaggerated makeup and gesture opens Friday at the Southern Illinois University Playhouse and runs Tuesday through Saturday after a 65 performance Illinois tour.
SIU Design Department students began cutting lumber for a 4000 square foot tensegrity dome project. The four story sphere will be 72 feet wide, built with two by four lumber to cut costs. R Buckminster Fuller influenced the design and calculations.
A two car collision at West Ash and South 17th streets in Herrin near 7 45 p m Saturday caused no serious injuries. Vehicles were driven by Mrs Howard Wiggins 49 908 W Maple St Herrin and George Capps 1421 S 22nd St Herrin.
The Southern Illinoisan explains its lineage and post office classifications. It notes publication in Carbondale Herrin and Murphysboro, class matter status, and AP news republication rights.
The Saline River Conservancy District will hold a December 16 election across six counties. Judges Trafton Dennis Sa line Charles Jones Hamilton Max Endicott Joseph Hale James Hosick Jr and John Clayton set boundaries for flood control and water impounding. Polls open 8 am to 6 pm at sites including McLeansboro Eldorado Harrisburg Carrier Mills and Rock Creek voting house.
Two Civil Air Patrol representatives Lt. Col A. E. Ramsay and Maj. Kenneth Parrish flew to Springfield to collect Christmas Seals and a friendship tree from Mrs. James L. Cowen. They delivered them to tuberculosis sanitarium officials in Jefferson and Alexander counties for Mt. Vernon and Cairo patients. Residents are urged to send Christmas cards to tuberculosis patients to decorate the friendship tree.
A community event featuring dances at a clinic in Carbon Dale took place Saturday with the program and classes sponsored by the Southern Illinois Professional.
A public hearing on a proposed Franklin County unit school district will be held December 14 at 2 p.m. in H. L. Browning's office in Benton. Petitions with 536 signers from Royalton, Zeigler Grade and High School districts were filed.
Funeral services for Mrs Stella Orlandini 69 of Royalton were at 2 p.m. at the family residence officiated by Rev Louis Fellner of St. Aloysius Church. Burial followed in the Royalton Miners Cemetery. She died at 8 a.m. Saturday at her home.
A Franklin County coroner's jury ruled Ronald Ozbourn 21 of Logan died in an accidental death after being struck by a southbound Illinois Central freight train near the Thompsonville crossing. Train crew testified Ozbourn appeared to back into the train as it approached while his hunting companion warned him.
Dr Martin V Brown of Carbon Dale was elected secretary of the St. Louis Dermatological Society. The society gathers skin specialists from the St. Louis area and parts of Southern Illinois and southern Indiana.
Eight undergraduates were initiated into the SIU chapter of Sigma Delta Chi at a dinner Sunday night at Giant City State Park Lodge. Initiated were Bernie Brown Jack Maddigan Ernie Heltsley Kirby Lindsey Bruce Richardson William Ballee and John Soper. Albert Scroggins visiting journalism professor at SIU was initiated into the professional chapter.
Zeigler police reported a Sunday night burglary at Walker's Cafe with entry through a pried rear door. A second break-in attempt at the Zeigler Eagles Club was stopped by a barred inner door while thieves took an estimated $35 from a cigarette machine and juke box.
JR Collard touts Lennox Comfort Curtain as a complete air system for classrooms and homes. He argues temperature control alone is obsolete and stresses fresh air filtration and circulation for health and productivity, with installation by a local Lennox craftsman.
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