Wreck injures area woman near Murphysboro
Pinckneyville resident Dorothy Campbell 54 suffered major injuries in a nine car crash on City Route 13 just north of Murphysboro. Her husband Clifford 59 had minor injuries while Campbell’s car struck seven parked vehicles after turning into a parking area near Grandpa John store.
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Pinckneyville
Murphysboro
Dorothy Campbell
St. Joseph’s Memorial Hospital
Pinckneyville Community Hospital
Clifford
City Rt. 13
Campbell
Harvey B. Gillespie
Tilden
Gillespie
Fire department reports rise in arson and false alarms
Fire chief Almont Crawshaw reports 74 Carbondale calls in November, including 26 actual fires and 28 ambulance or emergency runs. Arson incidents and false alarms increased, with estimated building and contents losses at 2.39 million dollars and total losses of 28 thousand.
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Carbondale
Chif Almont Crawshaw
Udall Defends Crab Orchard Job Corps Transfer
Interior Secretary Stewart Udall defends moving Woodrow Austin from Crab Orchard to a Kansas City post. In a letter to Rue Starr he says the transfer was not hasty nor disruptive and reflects Austin’s long service guiding corpsmen at the center.
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Stewart Udall
Kansas City
Southern Illinois
Rue Starr
Marion
Woodrow Austin
Crab Orchard Civilian Conservation Center
Austin
Udall
Austin reassigned to Kansas City Job Corps post
Interior Secretary Udall announces Austin, longtime Crab Orchard center head since January 1965, will join a special recruitment program at the Kansas City regional Office of Economic Opportunity. The transfer follows praise for his work fostering racial harmony and directs continued cooperation with the juvenile program. Eugene Stephenson becomes Crab Orchard director on December 4 with Bub acting in the interim.
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Quiry
Austin
Starr
Crab Orchard Center
Kansas City
Office of Economic Opportunity
Udall
Interior Department
Arthur J. Ferguson
Interior
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Crab Orchard
Advisory Council
Illinois
Eugene C. Stephenson
Mingo Job Corps Center
Paxico
J. Clayton Bub
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Anna
James B. Hewette
S. Univ. Ave
Surang
McDaniels
South 20Th
St. Bridge
J. W. Dant
Bond
Usher
Gilbey’s
Glenmore
Walker
Jim Beam
Charter Oak
Charkoff
Calvert
Liquor Mart
East Gate
FOX Theatre
Budweiser
Black
Crab Orchard Job Corps
Udall Endorses
New Post
Sartorius
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
DE Soto
DE Soto, Ill
Hillyer
Benham's
Illinois Cafe
NORTH
Herrin
North 16Th
East Union
Walnut
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