Six Hurt In Two Car Collisions In Southern Illinois
State Police reported six people injured in three separate two car crashes in southern Illinois. At east Murphysboro D Street a 1 a.m. Sunday collision involved Kestutis Stiklius 21 Cicero and Arthur Thomas 19 Carbondale with four passengers all from Carbondale. all injuries minor and treated at St Joseph Memorial Hospital. In Benton area Route 14 near Bend City Road Eddie Lewis 31 Lesser and Eddie Knight 32 Benton collided with three passengers treated for minor injuries. drivers not hurt. On Route 51 Elkville Brunie Marando 52 Carbondale Henry Coffer 78 Vergennes and Jerry Crews 24 Du Quoin reported no injuries.
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Murphysboro
Kestutis Stiklius
Cicero
Arthur Thomas
Carbondale
D Street
Thomas
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital
Almazine Miter
Corinne Hughlett
Bobby Hall
Willie Hughlett
Rt. 14
Bend City Road
Benton
Eddie Lewis
Lesser
Eddie Knight
Knight
Buddy Mabry
Clarence Lindsey
Johnston City
Robert Smith
Brunie Marando
Henry Coffer
Vergennes
Jerry Crews
du Quoin
Rt. 51
Elkville
Jaycees Seek Oil Referendum in Zeigler
Zeigler Junior Chamber of Commerce launches a petition drive to place an oil drilling referendum before the city council. They aim for 500 signatures to challenge the council which cut in city drilling fees from 5000 to 200. The Jaycees seek either reinstating the 5000 permit fee or an agreement binding no drilling permits under the new ordinance.
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Zeigler Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Zeigler
Shawnee Development Council seeks Youth Corps staff in five Illinois counties
Shawnee Development Council seeks staff for a proposed Neighborhood Youth Corps program covering Union Johnson Pulaski Alexander and Massac counties in southern Illinois. Positions include director secretary accountant payroll clerk and records clerk. Applications for staff are due after federal budget approval and salaries will be set by Washington offices.
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Illinois
Shawnee Development Council
Union
Johnson
Pulaski
Alexander
Massac
Edward A. Taylor Sr
Mounds
Shawnee Group
Taylor
Youth Corps
Washington, D.C
Gerald Osborne
Carbondale
Box
Brazilian Guests Stage Piano and Voice Recital at SIU
Two visiting Brazilian musicians Hel tor Alimanda pianist and Marcia Lucia Godoy singer give a piano and voice recital at 8 p m in Shr ock Auditorium Southern Illinois University The program features Franck Schumann Purcell de Falla and Villa Lobos works Admission is free The recital is sponsored by the SIU music department and the Latin American Institute and Alimanda will lecture on Brazilian music at 8 p m Tuesday in Davis Auditorium.
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Southern Illinois University
Shrock
Heltor Alimanda
Marcia Lucia Godoy
Franck
Schumann
Purcell
deFalla
Villa-Lobos
Alimanda
Davis Auditorium
SIU Music Department
Latin Americr” Insti
Grisham Heads Anna Chamber of Commerce
Duane Grisham, manager of Florsheim Shoe Company’s Anna plant, elected president of the Anna Chamber of Commerce at the annual Ladies Night Banquet. Leon Whitney introduced new officers. other officers include Richard Hase as vice president C. Robert Crain as executive secretary and Richard Neidling as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duane Grisham
Florsheim Shoe Company
Anna
Anna Chamber of Commerce
Grisham
Leon Whitney
Chamber
American Legion
Richard Hase
C. Robert Crain
Richard Neidling
Thieves Take Canned Food At Horn's Market
The front door glass was found knocked out about 6 a.m. Friday at Horn's Market in Carbondale. Thieves took several cans of food and 50 packs of cigarettes. The back door screen was torn but the door remained locked. Mrs Fred D Horn owner reported the incident to police.
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Horn’s Market
E. Hester St
Carbondale
Fred D. Horn
Trash Fire Sparks Grass Fire at Ward Ware House
A small grass fire started by burning trash at the Ward Ware House and Transfer on S 18th Street in Murphysboro Sunday the 7th, authorities said. Crews contained the blaze with no injuries reported.
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Ward
S. 18Th Street
Murphysboro
Anna Chamber Banquet Hears Humorous Dentists Prescription
Dr Charles R Jarvis of San Marcos Texas applied humor as medicine at the Anna Chamber of Commerce Ladies Night Banquet drawing 209 members and guests. He urged laughter as essential to life noting public good from money and friendship and joked about six friends needed at death.
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Texas
Anna Chamber of Commerce
Charles R. Jarvis
San Marcos
Tex
Chamber
Harry Truman
Jarvis
City Workers Plan Cleanup Atburned Herrin Warehouse
Herrin city workers will clear debris from a burned warehouse at Cherry and 16th streets before Christmas, after Mayor Fred A. Henderson obtained owner Al Bucher’s permission for city funded cleanup. The building measuring 35 by 200 feet burned on Ang 7 in the business district.
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Herrin
Cherry
16Th Streets
Fred A. Henderson
Henderson
al Bucher
Bucher
Happiness Is A Happy Happening Near Carbondale
A local happening on the Nicholas Vergette farm near Carbondale featured about 20 Southern Illinois University art students under Ronald Tatro. Impromptu art, drama and music filled the event as they beat makeshift instruments, danced by a pond, and paraded with abstract signs on farm grounds. Vergette, an SIU art department staff member, helped stage the performance.
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Carbondale
Southern Illinois
New York
Allan Kaprow
Nicholas Vergette Farm
Southern Illinois University
Ronald Tatro
Vergette
SIU Art Department
Guy Ice Dies at 75 in Marion Home
Guy Chamness Ice 75 of 405 S Duncan St Marion died at 1010 a m today at his home Funeral arrangements are incomplete The Mitchell Funeral Home Marion is in charge Ice was a retired miner and janitor at the Marion city sal[oon ends]
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Guy Chamness Ice
S. Duncan St
Marion
Mitchell Funeral Home
Mr. Ice
Marion City Sal
Holiday Hours Spur Post Offices To Extended Service
Post offices across the Yale Rush area will extend hours during the Christmas season to speed card and package delivery. Carbondale Marion Murphysboro Herrin West Frankfort Johnston City Benton Christopher and other offices adjust window times with added Saturday hours and special parcel post delivery as needed.
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Carbondale
Ervin Sullivan
Sullivan
Marion
J. P. Smothers
Smothers
Murphysboro
Herrin
West Frankfort
Johnston City
K. Neil Thurmond
Benton
Christopher
Youth Corps Budget Set for Herrin Area
A $32,000 budget is prepared to run a 33 week Youth Corps program in Herrin with 63 jobs. W. Ed Perrin says average weekly salaries will be about $950. final approval depends on Williamson County War on Poverty signature and then the U.S. Labor Department under the Manpower Development Act. About 80 to 100 youths are eligible, Perrin notes.
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W. Ed Perrin
Williamson County Committee
U.S. Department of Labor
Perrin
Police Briefs from Herrin and Brookport
Herrin Archie Williams fined 15 dollars for no registration. Brookport Edward Ferrill fined 20 dollars for speeding.
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Herrin
Archie Williams
Brookport
Edward Ferrill
Forest Fires Burn 500 Acres in Shawnee National Forest
State and federal crews fought Sunday to contain a blaze in Shawnee National Forest four miles south of Stonefort. Charles Moleski of the state Division of Forestry in Benton said a firefighting crew two planes a tractor and three trucks aided the U.S. Forest Service as more than 20 fires erupted in the district over the weekend. The fire’s start was undetermined and total acreage lost remained to be reported.
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Shawnee National Forest
Stonefort
Charles Moleski
State Div. of Forestry
Benton
U.S. Forest Service
Moleski
Orient
Bush
Texas City
Spillertown
Freeman Spur
Mt. Vernon
Salem
Nasan
Jordan
Sacramento
Herald
Carrier Mills
Round Lake
Waltonville
Township tax assessor salary dispute leaves status unresolved
The Carbondale Township Board of Auditors adjourned without voting on a proposed raise for the township tax assessor effective Jan 1. The plan sought raising to 6600 a year with a 200 monthly clerk hire and higher mileage and expense allowances. State law requires action 30 days before officials take office.
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John Taylor
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Mitchell
Brown
Robert L. Price
Harry Marberry
William Anderson
Anderson
W. S. Brandon
Brandon
Jackson County
Richard Richmond
Southern Illinoisan Newspaper Name and Addresses
The Southern Illinoisan is published daily except Saturdays and holidays by 710 North Illinois Corporation with offices at Carbondale Herrin and Murphysboro. The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to local news republication in this paper and news dispatches.
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Southern Illinoisan
North Illinois Corporation
West Main Street
Carbondale
North 16Th Street
Herrin
South 12Th Street
Murphysboro
Illinois
Southern
Linoisan
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Associated Press
Light Hearted Snippets From Everyday Life In Town
A humorous note on vanity and quirks, noting a peacock turkey joke and a hair obsessed woman with a convertible top. A bar sign about paying when served for drinks to forget is shown, plus a gag about conscience as an inner warning. An ad for Volkswagen service at Epps Motors in Carbondale accompanies the piece.
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Volkswagen
Epps Motors
Hwy. 13
East
Carbondale
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Youth Corps Council
George Cassidy
Pam Andrews
Rich Steele
Gary Behrstock
Grisham Heads
American Medical Association
Guy Ice
Yale
Shawnee
Biesporia
State Farm Mutual Car Finance Plan
Gall Ti
Charles Pautier
Murphysbore
Dosa Smith
STATE
Fane
Dwight B. Buse
Robert Bahr
State Farm Insurance Compa
Bloomington, Kineig
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