Elkville IC Rail Station Closed After Three Year Dispute
The Illinois Central station at Elkville closed on Friday ending a three year fight. Trains will still stop for passengers and conductors will sell tickets. The Railway Express office closed with patrons served from Carbondale. The ICC had denied and later granted the railroad’s petition amid revenue declines.
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Railway Express Agency
Express Company
Carbondale
Thinais Commerce Commission
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Herrin High Band Chorus Concert Christmas Program
About 220 Herrin Township High School students perform a 7:30 p.m. Christmas concert in the school gym. Mixed choirs, girl chorus, and ensemble plus a 0 piece band under William R. Claida, with The Toy Shop by Carl ton Collin. Anthony Venegoni presents. No admission charge. A Band Parents Association party follows in the cafeteria. Two senior band members to be named Mr and Miss Musie.
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Herrin Township High School
William R. Claida
Anthony Venegoni
Carlton Collin
Band Parents Association
Songand
Musie
Transferred Deputy Engineer Moves To Kansas
Lt Col Russe Wilson deputy district engineer St Louis is transferred by the Corps of Engineers to Fort Leavenworth Kansas White Major John F will replace him Col A Z Darezzo said Wilson has inspected the Big Muddy River Beaucoup Creek canal region White a West Point graduate with a master's from Iowa State College and trained at Fort Belvoir previously served as engineer and logistical adviser to a military mission in Southeast Asia
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Kan
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Beaucoup Creek
White
West Point
Iowa State College
Cardinal Spellman Headed Overseas On Christmas Trip
Cardinal Spellman departed New York for his annual Christmas tour with stops in Anchorage Alaska and Thule Greenland where he will celebrate midnight mass and Christmas service at Army ice tunnel near Thule. He will also visit Labrador before continuing the voyage.
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Francis Cardinal Spellman
Anchorage
Alaska
Cardinal Spellman
Thule Afb
Greenland
Army Ice Tunnel
Thule
Labrador
Two priests dispute skull of Silent Night lyricist
In Salzburg Austria two parish priests allegedly argue over possession of the skull of Josef Mohr author of Silent Night. One priest reside s in Oberndorf where the carol first rang out in 1818 and where the skull is kept. The other guards Mohr's remains in Wagrain where the rest of his body lies.
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Salzburg
Austria
Josef Mohr
Franz Gruber
Oberndorf
Wagrain
Mohr
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