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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1969
Page
9
Mrs. Carol Monlux flew to Paris last September to seek news on Capt. Harod Mannix missing since November 1986. She received a six sentence note from him this weekend saying he is alive and in good health. The couple has a five year old daughter.
Governor Ogilvie named Clarence B. Anderson of Gurnee as commissioner of the Illinois Civil Service Commission to fill the vacancy from Beatrice K. Rieckhoff�s resignation. His term runs until March 1971. The same announcement lists Thomas A. Reynolds Jr. of Chicago for a seven year term on the Illinois Building Authority. Reynolds is a 41-year-old lawyer. An obituary for Elizabeth Smith in Southern Illinois incorrectly stated her husband D A Smith�s death date as Sept 14, 1943.
Josef von Sternberg, the director who helped launch Marlene Dietrich to stardom with The Blue Angel, died of a heart ailment at Midway Hospital at age 78. He guided Dietrich in seven films including Morocco and Shanghai Express and lived in Los Angeles writing Life in 2 Chinese Laundry. He is survived by his widow Meri and two children.
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