This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 7 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1968
Page
5
The forecast calls for rain on the north Pacific coast with snow flurries inland and in the Great Lakes to the northern Appalachians and New England. Temperatures rise over the southern Plateaus Plains and Rockies while the east remains cold toward the Atlantic.
Forecast shows a high of 44 and a low near 20 with an 19 degree overnight. Daytime high reached 31 at 10 am and no precipitation expected from 7 am Friday to 7 am Saturday. Sunset today 4 18 pm sunrise Monday 7 26 am. Crab Orchard Lake 16 inches below spillway Little Grassy Lake 3 inches below spillway Devil's Kitchen Lake 4 inches above spillway.
Rend Lake College Community Orchestra and Chorus join with the Salem Community Chorus for a Christmas concert at 8 p.m. in the Mt. Vernon Township High School auditorium. The program features Sleigh Ride A Christmas Festival Gesu Bambino and so on. Vocal solos Kenneth Burzynski and Nancy Schutte are highlighted with Yevonne Gieselmann at the piano. The Rend Lake College Band debuts with March of the Three Kings and joins carol singing. Finales include Handel Messiah selections.
Five Southern Illinois University educators participated as speakers at a Copy Editors Workshop held this week at Pere Marquette State Park in Grafton. The event was the second in the Mid-America Press Institute, headquartered in SIU's journalism department. Speakers included David T. Kenney, George Arnold, Clifton O. Lawhorne, John M. Matheson, and Leonard Granato.
Lee Littlefield, art instructor at Southern Illinois University, receives a 500 purchase award for his 48 by 72 inch acrylic painting Contained in the 21st Mid-States Art Exhibition in Evansville Indiana. The work will be shown at the Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences through December 29. Police Brief Benton Floyd Davis 26 cited for speeding 15 dollars.
William Turner reports two men attempted to steal a car stereo from his vehicle in the parking lot north of Woody Hall on the Southern Illinois University campus. They fled when approached, leaving a screwdriver and flashlight behind near the scene.
A U S District Court in Danville issued a wage and hour injunction against William D Link doing business as Benton Roofing Co Benton for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act The suit says about 3472 dollars is owed to 14 workers and alleges failure to pay the legal minimum wage since February 1968 plus overtime and inadequate records The firm operates in construction repair and improvement of buildings used in interstate commerce
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.