West Frankfort extends bid deadline and approves measures
West Frankfort Unit School Board extends bid deadline for a group hospitalization program to January 4 as only three bids arrived. The board also approves park district use of the Jo iner School gym, assigns repairs at Lincoln School by Horsley Construction for about 700 dollars, and schedules tuckpointing and window caulking at Central Junior High during Christmas break.
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West Frankfort
Warren Jennings
Park
Horsley Construction Co
Lincoln School
Jennings
Central Junior High School
Carbondale Woman Killed In Rt 57 Crash
Janet Schabert a 20 year old Carbondale resident died after a one vehicle crash on Route 57 near Johnston City. She was fatally injured at 12 01 p m and died at Pinckneyville Hospital at 2 15 p m while en route for treatment in St Louis. Funeral services set for Lakeland Baptist Church with burial at Oakland Cemetery. She was a University of Illinois junior majoring in mathematics.
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Carbondale
Rt. 57
Johnston City
Janet Schabert
Rt. 3
Pinckneyville
Schabert
St. Louis
Miss Schabert
Lakeland Baptist Church
Dale Clements
Oakland Cemetery
van Natta Funeral Home
Schubert
University of Illinois
Lakeland
Fla
Glenn R. Schabert
Peggy Dudley
Madison
Ind
Barbara Schabert
Estella Schabert
Fairfield
Harvey J. Lavender
Tallahassee
Army Staff Sergeant Harold E. Stanton Arrives in Vietnam
Army Staff Sergeant Harold E. Stanton age 26 arrives in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division. He is a squad leader in Company E 2nd Battalion 506th Infantry and is the son of Mr and Mrs G C Stanton Route 1 Jonesboro Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David R. Merrell
Hosmer T. Merrell
Fourth Street
Marion
Ft. Knox
Phoebe
Peoria
Army
Harold E. Stanton
G. C. Stanton
Jonesboro, Ill
Vietnam
101St Airborne Division
Stanton
506Th Infantry
Electronic heart device saves life for 101-year-old patient
In Los Angeles AP reports surgeons implanted a pacemaker in Hugh Chambers Steward, a 101-year-old Ireland born great grandfather. The device, about the size of a compact, stimulates about 70 heartbeats per minute to maintain a normal rhythm. Steward, born September 5 1866 in Dromore Ireland, was listed in satisfactory condition.
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Hugh Chambers Steward
Steward
Dromore
Ireland
Dad Finds An Answer To Christmas Problem
Atlanta report details Harold R. Mitchell of Mableton solving a 5 year old’s wish for a own Christmas tree by suspending it from the ceiling to avoid the younger brother’s ornament-crushing. The upholsterer devised the ceiling-hanging tree after his wife grew tired of cleaning up shattered decorative pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold R. Mitchell
Mableton
Lucky bike spill yields boys two thousand dollars
In St Paul Minnesota two 14 year olds Scott Leas and Clifford O Rourke found a paper wrapped package containing between 2000 and 3000 dollars after a bike fall. With no owner found after six months the cash is turned over to the finders right before Christmas.
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Scott Leas
Clifford O’rourke
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Joseph Ragsdale
Ragsdale
McDaniel St
Marion Man
Erry
Hunter’s Texaco
Illinois
LBJ Steakhouse
N. Washington
Los Angeles
Atlanta, Ga
St. Paul, Minn
Conrad Optical
Herrin
Sawyer
Sohn's
W. Frankfort
West
Frankfort
RED Cross
Jacqueline
Connie
Jolene
Cobbies
The
Herrin Supply Co. Shoe Department
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