Movie Listings and Showtimes Calendar
The Southern Illinoisan calendar lists film showings across multiple venues including Marlow's Murphysboro Fox Carbondale and Riviera drive ins. Titles include Sailor Beware The Gnomemobile Charlie Lonesome Cougar Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Arizona Sheep Dog Three Little Pigs Thunderball From Russia With Love and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter with various start times and continuous schedules over Christmas week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oiies Rodgers
Anna
Marlow’s
Murphysboro
Charlie Lonesome Cougar
Fox
Carbondale
Arizona
Egyptian Drive-in
Riviera Drive-in
Russia
Campus Drive-in
Devil’s Brigade
O’farrell
Varsity
Orpheum
Marion
Rodgers
Cernik resigns to form new federal regime
Premier Oldrich Cernik's government plans resignation this weekend to implement a two nation federal system giving autonomy to Czechs and Slovaks. A smaller federal cabinet will govern with regional Prague and Bratislava administrations shifting ministry functions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
Oldrich Cernik
Cernik
Czech
Bohemia and
Moravia
Bratislava
Slovakia
Johnston City Man Found Dead in Shed
Kenneth Wright 61 of 1401 Burgess St Johnston City died from an apparent self inflicted gunshot in a tool shed behind his home. Coroner James Wilson said Wright propped a 12 gauge shotgun and discharged it. An inquest is pending. Wright had been in ill health two years. Burial in Freedom Cemetery. Funeral Sunday 2 p.m. at Murman Wilson Funeral Home Johnston City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Wright
Burgess St
Johnston City
Williamson County
James Wilson
Wright
Vietman
Wilson
Fred
Mettie Morgan Wright
Delfie Davis
Technical Tape Inc
Carbondale
Church of God At
Scottsboro
Rhythm's Children to Perform at Nowhere Club
Evansville band Rhythm's Children will take the stage at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Nowhere Club in Anna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhythm’s Children
Evansville
Ind
Nowhere Club
Anna
Soviet Student Yuri Pavlov Reviews U S Life At SIU
Yuri Pavlov a 29 year old Soviet science student at Southern Illinois University says he found little unexpected in the United States and admires American people while noting both nations have problems. He is one of 25 Soviet students in the U S this year under a 10 year old exchange pact and works on catalytic oxidation of organic compounds under G V Smith at SIU.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan H. Keith Jr
Southern
U.S
America
Pavlov
Moscow
Washington
D.C
STU
Soviet Union
Two Nations
SIU
Ural Mountains
Ivan Pavlov
Moscow Chemical Technological Institute
Gray to speak at 40th Woodrow Wilson Association dinner
Rep Kenneth J Gray will headline the 40th annual memorial service and dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Association of Union County. The event starts at 6 30 p m Saturday at the American Legion Community building in Anna. Gray notes his Far East trip with color slides. Leon Whitney of Anna'll be master of ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth J. Gray
West Frankfort
Woodrow Wilson Association of
Union County
American Legion
S. Main St
Anna
Pearl Harbor
Gray
India
Hong Kong
China
Tokyo
Japan
Far East
Leon Whitney
Carbondale Postal Leader Royal Dillinger Retires After 34 Years
Royal A. Dillinger assistant postmaster in Carbondale retires after 34 years and three months with the postal service. Born 55 years ago in 1931, he began at the Carbondale post office in 1934. He rose to superintendent of mails in 1959 and was named assistant postmaster in 1966. He will work as an income tax consultant and has led local housing and civic groups including the Carbondale Home and Loan Improvement Association and Carbondale Dwellings Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal A. Dillinger
Carbondale
Dillinger
Carbondale Home and Loan Improvement Association
Carbondale Dwellings Association
Post Office Dropping Watchdog Role Over Franking
The Post Office Department says it will stop ruling on possible franking abuses and leave enforcement to Congress. Senator Griffin had accused the department of pressuring him over misuse while Fortas nomination debates raged. Percy also faces accusations of franking misuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Johnson
Michigan
Robert P. Griffin
Department
Congress
Abe Fortas
United States
Griffin
Fortas
Marvin W. Watson
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Post Office
Illinois
Charles Percy
Senate
Obituary: Mrs Martha Ann Maddox 82 of Benton dies
Martha Ann Maddox 82 of 215 Brinley Street Benton died at 9 p m Thursday in Franklin Hospital Benton She was a Franklin County resident daughter of Benjamin and Nancy Witty widow of Claude Burton Maddox member of First Christian Church charter member of West Frankfort Woman's Club Survived by daughter Mrs Harry Burkett Benton grandson Sidney Gordon Burkett Minneapolis five great grandchildren Services 2 p m Sunday Poulson Freeman Funeral Home Benton with Rev Roy Kale officiating Burial in Masonic and Odd Fellows Cemetery Friends may call after 6 p m Saturday
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Charles Painter
Carterville
S. Division St
Herrin Hospital
United Mine Workers of America
John
Emma Felts
Daisy Bennett
Lena Painter
Mamie Krueger
Kankakee
Kathleen Wiggins
Margaret Long
Herrin
Lloyd
Barney
Sutherlin
Ore
Charles
Erie
Dora
Johnson’s Funeral Home
Merle Melton
Oakwood Cemetery
Beulah K. Strachan
ST. Louis
Ava
Deaconess
Campbell Hill
Harmon S
Belle Dawson Knauer
Urbana
Ben W. Strachan
Order of the Eastern Star
Strachan
Eola A. Lindae
Ava Evergreen Cemetery
Albert Schellingburger
Dongola
Union County Hospital
Anna
First Baptist Church
Alton
Henry Schellingburger
Harry
East St. Louis
Carl
Mound City
Gracie Rye
Parsons
Kan
Dora Thompson
Cedar City
Minnie Everett
Evansville
Ind
Ford Funeral Home
Lucien Bozart
Dongola First Baptist Church
St. John’s Cemetery
Martha Ann Maddox
Brinley St
Benton
Franklin Hospital
Franklin County
Benjamin and
Nancy McGinnis Witty
Claude Burton Maddox
Maddox
First Christian Church
West Frankfort Woman’s Club
Harry Burkett
Sidney Gordon Burkett
Minneapolis, Minn
Poulson-Freeman
Roy Kale
Masonic and
Odd Fellows Cemetery
George Carter
George William Carter
Rt. 1
Floating cities eyed by HUD in Fuller plan for offshore communities
The U S Department of Housing and Urban Development endorses R Buckminster Fuller and Triton Foundation ideas for floating megastructures offshore near major cities. Prefab neighborhoods on four acre platforms would house up to 5000 people with schools shops and services, spreading to multi-town cities with a total population of 90 600 to 125 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Department of Housand Urban Development
HUD
R. Buckminster Fuller
Fuller
Triton Foundation
Peter Floyd
Shoji Sadao
Crab Orchards Lake
Carbondale
Tion
Terrace Gardens
U.S
Virgil F Clardy Rites Held for Local Resident
Virgil Fred Clardy 50 of Anna Jonesboro died December 11 at Cochran Veterans Hospital St Louis. Born July 6 1918 in Carterville he married Freda Lindsey January 4 1940. He worked 18 years as a psychiatric aide at Jacksonville State Hospital. Funeral December 15 at Gillham Buchanan Jacksonville with burial in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. Survivors include wife two sons three daughters and several relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Jonesboro
Virgil Fred Clardy
Cochran Veterans Hospital
St. Louis
Mr. Clardy
Carterville
James P. S
Laura M. Hooker Clardy
Freda Lindsey
Jackson, Mo
Betty Ferguson
Jonesboro
June Fergusan
Bluford
Goldie Woods
Bradley
Ruby Allen
Lawry
Fla
Gillham - Buchanan
Jacksonville
Gerald Peterson
Memorial Lawn Cemetery
Crash victim Mary Louise Kuehne rites set for Saturday
Funeral services for Mary Louise Kuehne 19 of Chester are at 2 p.m. Saturday at McDaniel Funeral Home Sparta. She died from injuries sustained in a Christmas Eve crash involving Albert J. Kuehne 29 and Joseph I. Renne 27 of Chester. Survived by husband Diane Marie Kuehne, parents John and Viola Reynolds Chismer, sisters Cecilia Branson Joan Chism, brothers John H. and James. Rev John Welch to officiate burial Caledonia Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Louise Kuehne
Chester
McDaniel
Sparta
Albert J. Kuehne
Joseph I. Renne
Miss
The
Baptist Church
Diane Marie Kuehne
Cecilia Branson
Joan Chism
John H
du Quoin
James
John Welch
Caledonia Cemetery
Fire calls Carbondale and Creal Spring incidents list
Fire crews responded to a false alarm at the Holiday Inn on East Main Street in Carbondale at 5 35 AM. A grass fire near Giant City blacktop was reported at 10 50 AM Thursday. Citations include Du Quoin Nicholas A Skidmore 20 and Creal Spring John Sullivan 26 with fines. Carbondale offenders include Robert S Young 26 Charles E Owen Jr 41 and Charles E Owen Jr 41 with $15 fines for traffic violations.
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Carbondale
Holiday Inn
East Main Street
Creal Spring
John Sullivan
Nicholas A. Skidmore
Robert S. Young
Charles E. Owen Jr
Two Cars Stolen In Anna Recovered Nearby
Two cars stolen in Anna Thursday were found nearby. James Vinson, an x ray tech at Union County Hospital, reported his car missing from the hospital lot at 1 15 p m and found at 4 30 p m on General Telephone Co lot. Jean Newman of Rt 1 Jonesboro reported her car stolen at 5 p m from the telephone building lot and found at 5 15 a m today behind a barn at Anna State Hospital. The Union County sheriff's office investigates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union County Hospital
James Vinson
Herrin
General Telephone Co
Jean Newman
Rt. 1
Jonesboro
Anna State Hospital
Union County Sheriff’s Office
SIU instructor to compile 100000-item Russian English science dictionary
SIU language teacher Igo Shankovsky, also a poet and former radio producer, plans a Russian English scientific dictionary with about 100000 items. He lectures in multiple languages, curates the Morris Library Russian collection, and will direct a study tour to the Soviet Union. Born in Western Ukraine, he fled WWII, studied at Penn, served in Korea, and recorded songs in Japan and Ukraine for Nippon-Columbia, selling nearly a million copies.
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Southern Illinois University
Igo
Peter Shankovsky
Shankovsky
SIU
Morris
Soviet Union
Two Carterville youths injured in early morning crash
Two 16 year olds, Danny R. Holmes and Edward OConnell, were injured when their car ran off Colp Herrin Road 2.5 miles west of Herrin at 12 15 a.m. They were in satisfactory condition at Herrin Hospital.
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Carterville
Colp - Herrin Road
Her
Herrin Hospital
Danny R. Holmes
Edward O’connell
Holmes
Nellie Farris
Marion
Rt. 13
Rt. 166
Floyd A. Sprague
Carol Forcum
Loren Anderson
Johnston City
Man charged with assault in Carbondale incident
Eugene Gelling age 26 of 1033 West Willow Street Carbondale faces aggravated assault battery and trespassing charges after allegedly entering Charles Newbury's apartment at 1 30 a m and threatening them Gelling released on a 50 cash bond and is to appear in Jackson County Circuit Court Murphysboro George Carter obituary services set for 3 p m Saturday in New Hope Baptist Church graveside at McGinis Cemetery Anna local funeral home listed
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Eugene Gelling
Willow St
Carbondale
Charles Newbury
Illinois Ave
Alan Patterson
Patrick Barry
Gelling
Newbury
Barry
Jackson County
Murphysboro
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John Watkins
Route 2
Holden Hospital
Mr. Watkins
Margaret
Chicago
Watkins
Atkins, Ga
Elizabeth Watkins
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Johnnie Watkins
Henderson Funeral Home
Glenwood Cemetery
Jackson Funeral Home
Bonnie Moore
Elgin
Juanita Winn
Rt. 4
Delonda Haslauer
Godfrey
Brenda Wright
Hugh Wright
U. S. Army
Ft. Knox
Howard
Hazel Golden
Buffalo
N. Y
Rena Walker
Vera Felts
Yuri Pavlov
Prof. Smith
S. Marion St
Pierce Street
Royal Dillinger
Citizens Board of Inquiry
City
Dennis E. Naas
Creal Springs
Glenn Marks
Munich
University of Pennsylvania
Nippon-Columbia Records
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Ilinois Inc
North Illinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Walnut Street
Ilinois
Southern Ilinoisan
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Owen Johnson
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