Southern Illinois Calendar Movie Listings and Voter Registration
The Southern Illinois Calendar lists cinema at multiple venues including Orpheum Marion showing Corrution The Mad Room and Payment in Blood starting Wednesday. Fox Carbondale features Medium Co0 and Ventures. Voter registration reopens for Jackson County with 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday in 49 precincts. Special event: Carbondale Post Office Christmas hours 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
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Orpheum
Marion
Fox
Carbondale
Varsity
Hells Angels
Liberty
Murphysboro
Jackson County
Carbondale Post Office
CCHS Board OKs varied expenditures and inservice plan
Carbondale Community High School District 165 approved 5448 dollars for supplies and repairs including a rebuilt dry cleaning washer at the vocational center and roof work at the old building and the girls gym. Chair replacements were funded as a separate 60 dollars. The board authorized submitting an inservice training proposal to upgrade curriculum with tentative dates.
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Bonita Troute
Carbondale Community
Board of Education
Paul Karber
Karber
Carbondale Central
William Holder
Els
Charles Lerner
Holder
Holder Per
County Superintendent of Schools
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Chamber bids farewell as director departs Carbonale
At a meeting focused on a rock festival the Carbonale Chamber of Commerce praised Harry Wesks after 6b years as executive director since 1983 and announced his year end departure. He has not named future plans and a successor is not yet chosen.
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Carbondale
Chamber of Commerce
Harry Wesks
Chamber
Eq Rosen
Weeks
State Advisory Council
Small Business Administration
John Williams
Dave Emerson
University Bank
Williams
Haruki Dycus
The
First National Bank
Emerson
Feasurer
Precarious painter uses new rig on Tamaroa farm
Harry Long of Tamaroa a 69 year old veteran painter describes using a three sided cage on a telescopic arm to reach an elevator on Frank Brooks farm near Tamaroa. He notes the device is far safer than his previous mining era methods though the setup remains risky.
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Harry Long
Tamaroa
Calvin Sbendahl
Frank Brooks
Long
Principals Assess School Reorganization At Carbondale
Principals praise district wide school reorganization amid fall integration push. Larry Drake of Winkler notes new teachers and students create recess and drill challenges but cites gains from specialized reading and language arts programs. George Mendenall of Lewis reports progress under continuous progress plan with measurable pupil gains and broad support from parents.
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Carbondale
Membraey
Fhs
Larry Drake
Winkler School
Winkler
Mece
Drake
George Mendenall
Lewis School
Mendenail
Lewis Twnder
Mendenall
Infant Hurt in Car Crash Near Carbondale
Seven week old Davia Langdon was a passenger in a car driven by his mother Marilyn Langdon of Carbondale. The infant was treated and released at Doctors Hospital after a four-vehicle chain collision at West Main and Iris Streets about 5:00 pm Thursday. Richard Thomas of Carbondale stopped at a red light when Thomas Hunt of Murphysboro struck from behind, causing the chain crash. Hunt was charged with failing to slow to avoid an accident.
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Davia C. Langdon
Marilyn
Langdon
Almond St
Carbondale
Doctors Hospital
Richard ‘Thomas
Rt 1
West Main
Iris Streets
Thomas
Thomas M. Hunt
Rat Lane
Hunt
Carbondael
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Aminals Ave
Ilingls Avenue
Herrin
Walnut
Carbondale grade board approves lunch price hike
The Carbondale school board votes to raise elementary lunch prices to 35 cents starting Jan 6, up from 3 cents. Four members support the measure, with three opposing. Administration cites a $4,000 deficit and $10,000 in extra labor costs as drivers and discusses centralized buying and a potential $250,000 central kitchen plan. A letter from the state allows meal reimbursement for special education pupils at University School. The board also accepts the resignation of Doris Vickers as a cook.
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Alma Todd
Todd
Chambhe
Southern Ilinois University
Stu Arena
Carbondale
Carbondale Business and Industrial Development Association
Industrial Fund
Tom Bevitt
SIU
William S. Nall
Avis Rent-A-Car
L. W. McNair
Gannon Manufacturing Co
BIDA
Norman Geyer
Fred Nolan
Clifford Neill
Douglas Diedrick
Charles Hines
Tenry Thalman
Jerry Lacey
Arlie Smith
Laurence Martin
Springmore
Hazel Lackmans
Carbondale Extrension Association
Simon Rettberg and Garrison, Inc
Lakeland, Thomas and Winkler
Weeh
Martin
Firemen aided in search for missing Murphysboro youths
State police and Jackson County deputies found two Murphysboro boys by 9 15 a m Sunday after a Carbondale Fire Department crew put a boat in the water. Earlier that morning two Carbondale firefighters scouted the Big Muddy River area, then notified officials. The search was conducted the next day by state police and sheriffs deputies.
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Carbondale Fire Department
Murphysboro
Big Muddy
Wayne Brooks
Charles MecCaughan
Jackson County
Grade board to hear views on discipline meeting set
Carbondale grade school board votes five to two to hold a special meeting January 22 to hear residents’ views on discipline. Chair Charles Hines and Douglas Diedrick opposed. The plan followed ongoing petitions and debates over district discipline policy.
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Cipline
Charles Hines
Douglas Diedrick
Clifford Neill
Neill
Neil
Terry Thalman
Jerry Lacey
Timing
Hines
Norman Geyer
Geyer
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Rodgers
Anna
Boston Su'angler
Marlowe
Riviera Drive-In
Cchs Board
Murphysbers A
Campus
Charlen Hines
Carbondale Grade Board
Earl F. McQuaid
Pinckneyville
Pinckneyville Community Hospital
McQuaid
Beaucoup Baptist Church
Vernon Wasson
Pyatt Funeral Home
Jackson County Board of Supervisors
Illinois
Carbondale Township
Court House
Minis
George Wilhite
Southern
Peat District
Ote Arenas Diedrick
Thalman
Gever
Lacey
Pen
Fred Nolen
Diedrick
Raceway
Southern Illinois
GO GO Raceway Hobby Center
Waurdale
Groovy Fashions
Grandpa John
Santa Claus
Santa
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