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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
15
A detailed list of broadcast schedules for WSIL TV 22 KWKS KFWS and KWE TV across Thursday and Friday, noting time slots for shows such as Dragnet Rin Tin Tin and The Guiding Light, along with news, weather, and special programs for Harrisburg Cape Girardeau and St. Louis markets.
The Pinckneyville quartet The Flattoppers present Rigoletto Travesty a spoof on the opera. The group splits includes Jerry and Larry Stone twins Ronnie Johnson and David Nelson with the show airing Sunday.
Pope County resumes census of residents as a first step in a county wide development program. Ralph Aly of Eddyville and co chairman Millard lead the effort with completion anticipated this weekend.
Farmer of Golconda were elected to head the program at the first county wide meeting last week. Other officers named were Phil lip Schottle as vice chairman and Mrs. William Killingsworth secretary. The Southern Illinois University Department of Community Development is aiding the group. The department's consultants are assisting a similar program launched two years ago in Hardin County.
Christmas vacation for the Chester Community Schools will start Friday. All schools in the Chester system will resume classes Wednesday, January 2.
The Flattoppers, Pinckneyville teens Jerry and Larry Stone, David Nelson, and Ronnie Johnson, will appear on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour in New York after a Kiel Auditorium audition. They rehearse Sunday and plan a “Rigoletto Travesty” comedy number, with two members as tenors, one baritone, and one bass.
Three Sparta and Steeleville area drivers escaped serious injury Wednesday in minor accidents. A K Patrick of Steeleville was unhurt when his car skidded on an icy Rt 43 stretch near the St Marys River bridge and overturned. Louis Junge of Sparta, a miner at the Percy strip pit, turned over his car at the same location but escaped serious injury. Walter Melzer of Steeleville was involved in a car truck mishap near Steeleville, but was not hurt.
The Pinckneyville Lion Club and a local band raise funds to send their quartet to a national show. This area’s second representative on the program is Shirley Ann Crouch, Herrin acrobatic dancer, who won the nationwide finals in 1950.
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