Southern Illinois film listings and public meetings
Movie showings wrap across Carbondale Murphysboro Marion and Anna with Half a Sixpence Pink Jungle Thunderball From Russia With Love and more plus local government meetings Carbondale Village Board Union County Hospital Board housing authority and bridge clubs scheduled this week Monday through Friday in various venues including Orpheum Fox and Marlow's venues and drive ins
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Varsity
Carbondale
Hammerhead
Assignment
Marlow’s
Murphysboro
Fox
Arizona
Riviera Drive-in
Russia
Campus Drive-in
Devil’s Brigade
Sgt. O’farrell
Orpheum
Marion
Rodgers
Anna
Energy Village Board
Village Hall
Carbondale Citizens Advisory Committee
City Hall
Union County Hospital Board
Union County Housing Authority
Anna Housing Development Office
Sounds of shoppers 11th hour on Christmas Eve
Carbondale shoppers rush stores on December 24 1968 in a candid scene of last minute buying. Parents and youngsters bargain for gifts while noting prices from 59 to 77 cents as they seek mom and kids items in Jackson County Illinois.
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Bonita Troutt
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Mark
Randy
Jackson County Nursing Home
Illinois
U.S.A
Murphysboro Men Injured In Street Collision
A Murphysboro man Clyde Webb and his son were treated and released at St Joseph Hospital after a Saturday night crash at North 16th and Pine Streets. The other driver Bill Banks Jr. received a ticket for failure to yield the right of way.
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Murphysboro
St. Joseph Hosital
Clyde Webb
Walnut St
Bill Banks Jr
Candy Lane
North 16Th
Pine Sts
Webb
Clyde Webb Jr
Banks
Carbondale Center Faces Toy and Food Shortfall for Needy
Neighborhood Resource Center staff in Carbondale works to wrap gifts and assemble food baskets for 30 to 40 families on the list. Three large boxes of wrapping paper and tape from Technical Tape Corp help, but staff must pare the list and still seek donations of food toys clothing or money for distribution today and Wednesday at 104 E. Jackson St.
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Carbondale
Neighborhood Resource Center
Technical Tape Corp
E. Jackson St
Seven youths fined for underage drinking at Club Trocadero
Seven youths pled guilty in Murphysboro circuit court to underage drinking after a raid by State Police and local officials at Club Trocadero also known as Speedy’s Club. Each was fined 50 dollars plus 5 dollars costs. A bartender faced a potential charge of illegal sales to minors, and action to revoke or suspend the club’s county liquor license was filed with the Jackson County liquor control commissioner.
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Murphysboro
Jackson County
State’s Attorney’s Office
Club Trocadero, Inc
Speedy’s Club
Ronald Spytek
Dowell
George R. Patterson
Carbondale
Charles W. Ellet
Carterville
Delbert R. Bandy
de Soto
Lilly Robinson
Cobden
Nora J. Knapp
du Quoin
Assault charge filed against Pomona man in parking lot
Dick G. Hawk of Pomona faced an assault and property damage charge after a fight at the Golden Bear Restaurant on South Wall street. The incident occurred about 12:30 a.m. and involved conflicting statements from Hawk and Tony J. Spatero of Wall Street Quadrangles, Carbondale. Hawk, a Marion prison corrections officer, was released on notice to appear in Jackson County Circuit Court in Carbondale.
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Dick G. Hawk
Pomona
Golden Bear
South Wall Street
Carbondale
Hawk
Tony J. Spatero
Wall Street Quadrangles
Spatero
Jackson County
Marion
Southern Illinoisan Publication Details and Mail Info
The Southern Illinoisan is a daily except Saturdays and holidays paper published in Carbondale with offices in Herrin and Murphysboro. It notes second class postage and AP news use, claiming succession from earlier local papers.
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Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois Inc
North Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Illinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Early Christmas Phone Call From Vietnam Reaches Illinois Wife
Margaret Dawson in Zeigler received a three minute call from Army Spec. 4 Jack Dawson in Da Nang. The connection used a ham radio link through California and satellite to Vietnam. She paid Illinois to California long distance. radio link Vietnam to California free. Dawson, with the 452nd General Supply Co., waited in line for his turn.
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Zeigler
Army Spec
Jack Dawson
Vietnam
Margaret Dawson
California
California Radio
Dawson
452Nd General Supply Co
da Nang
Family loses possessions in Marion house fire
A Marion family lost all belongings in a Monday night blaze at 1314 North Van Buren Street. Virgil Morgan and three children escaped unhurt. Mrs. Morgan was treated for shock at Marion Memorial Hospital. Firefighters suspect a blocked flue linked to recent earthquake damage caused the explosion. Clothing drives are organized for the family via fire station or by calling 993-6305 or 993-4730.
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Marion
Virgil Morgan
N. van Buren St
Morgan
Herrin Man Faces Charges In Early Morning Incident
Howard L. Sampson age 19 of Rt. 1 Herrin was charged with driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest after being picked up at 3 30 a m in the 300 block of South Park Avenue by Patrolmen Richard Earl and Jack Engram Engram injured his elbow against a jail door while placing Sampson in a cell Two people were injured in a two car Herrin accident around 10 a m Monday Reatha Robbs 48 and Virginia Mezo 36 were treated for minor injuries after Robbs vehicle collided with Radene Jeralds 31 at Cherry and 22nd streets causing a spin and 75 foot skid before stopping
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Howard L. Sampson
Rt. 1
Herrin
Sampson
South Park Avenue
Richard Earl
Jack Engram
Engram
Reatha Robbs
Virginia Mezo
Monroe St
Cherry and
22Nd Streets
Radene Jeralds
W. Maple St
Shooting death in Christopher youth under investigation
Franklin County Sheriff Robert Ice said the preliminary inquiry into the Sunday death of 15 year old James Williams found the wound was not self inflicted. Williams died after a shotgun blast in an upstairs room of a Mulkeytown house with 16 year old Steven Migielicz present. Coroner Kirby Webb has not set an inquest date and no charges have been filed.
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Christopher
Franklin County
Robert Ice
Ice
James W. Williams
Chestnut St
Kirby Webb
Williams
Steven Migielicz
Rt. 2
Mulkeytown
Louis Vaughn
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Franklin Country Club
West Frankfort
Lucille
Southern Illinois
Joyce Franklin
Mary
Elmer Hill
Joseph
Mickey Chaney
Jean Franklin
Ronda "Noble
Angels
Brad Etherton
Steven Etherton
Bill Krump
Ing
Nita Ebersons
Bob Bantel
David Pugh
Norman Varner
Dorothy McCormick
Elma Swaar
Jim Hatton
The
Ralph Parrish
Old Maine
Trotter
Jacqueline Delisa
Debs Florsheim
Stride Rite
Robin Hood
Taylor Made
Pedwin
Dexter
ST. Illinois
Breading’s
S. Illinois
Bobbie Brooks
Culottes
Waltz
GROUP
Owen Johnson
Country
Aire
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