Southern Illinois schedule highlights and meetings
The calendar lists showings at The Varsity Carbondale and Marlow’s Murphysboro through Tuesday with matinees and weekday evenings. Numerous local government and school board meetings are posted across Benton Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro Mt. Vernon and nearby towns with times from 7 30 p m to 8 p m on Monday Tuesday or Wednesday. Dick Gregory set for 9 p m Monday at Southern Illinois University Carbondale campus with admission of 1.
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Benton
Lincoln
Benton City Council
Carbondale Liquor Advisory Board
City Hall
Century High
Christopher City
Dongola
du Quoin
Franklin County Board of Supervisors
Court House
Greater Egypt
Regional Planning and Development Commission
Labor Advisory Committee
N. 6Th St
Herrin
N. Sixth St
Herrin Citizens’ Advisory Committee
City Library
Herrin City
Mental Health Dept
W. Main St
Carbondale
Pinckneyville
Rend Lake College Board of Governors
S. 7Th St
Mt. Vernon
Sparta City Council
West Frankfort
Zeigler
Herrin High School
N. 14Th St
Dick Gregory
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Anna City Council
DeSoto
Anna Jonesboro Community
Southern Illinois University Center
Fatal Iowa crash claims eight lives in Ottumwa area
Eight people die in a snow packed rural road collision on a Sunday night near Ottumwa. Victims include Rich ard E. Baber 37 and his wife Janet 30 and their five children Deb bie 12 Richard Jr. 9 Michael 8 Lauri 1 Nicki 5 months. The other driver Terry Lee Chidest er 23 of Blakesburg survived in the two car wreck.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Richard E. Baker
Terry Lee Chidester
Blakesburg
Highway Patrol
Baber
Chidhester
Fire calls and fines reported in multiple towns
Marion records show several calls for smoke with no fire and a destroyed carpentry shop. damages undetermined. A house in Johnston City burned, cause undetermined. Evanston fined William D. Morrison for drag racing. Royalton fines Gary King for reckless driving and leaving the scene.
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Evanston
William D. Morrison
Royalton
Gary King
Aged draft board members weeded out
More than 1,500 longtime draft board members retired under a new rule forcing retirement at age 75. Across 4,087 local boards and 96 appeal boards, many in their 80s and 90s left, with replacements expected to be younger.
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Hal Cooper
Associated Press
New York
Vietnam
Hot Springs
S. D
Joe C. Weyl
Armed Services
Archer A. Page
Richmond
Selective Service
Dunning
Illinois hires advertising agency to boost tourism and industry
The Illinois Department of Business and Economic Development selected The Biddle Company of Bloomington to plan tourism campaigns and an industrial development and export promotion program. Director Gene Graves stressed a strong ad program as key to growing tourism, noting Illinois visitors spent more than two billion dollars last year and the industry remains a major growth sector.
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Illinois Dept. of Business and Economic Development
Illinois
Biddle Company
Bloomington
Gene Graves
State Department
Baker
Greater Egypt
Biddle
Graves
Midwest
Chicago
Appearances Do Count Help Pushed For New City Hall
Carbondale Councilman Randall Nelson urged a long range plan to build a new city government complex. He said four to five years for planning financing and construction if started now versus up to ten years if delayed. He argued the current facility harms the city image and downtown business, and that the new complex should stay in the area to boost real estate values.
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Carbondale
Randall Nelson
Nelson
Carbondale Public Library reports higher circulation in 1967
The library board announced 92 193 items circulated in 1967 up from 87 247 in 1966 and 84 475 in 1965. The collection grew to 24 919 items, up 4 690 from last year. A new board member, Mrs Vernon Sternburg, fills the unexpired Tuegel term and seven day fiction fees were removed. The AARP Carbondale chapter will not meet tonight due to weather. next meeting February 19.
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Carbondale Public Library Board
Zella Rath
Vernon Sternburg
W. Cherry St
Carbondale
E. G. Tuegel
American Association of Retired Persons
Carbondale Park District
Colp boy 11 struck by car in Colp incident
An 11 year old Colp youth Jimmy Burdett was injured Sunday when hit by a car driven by William Tomlinson at 1 45 p m near his home. He was treated for minor injuries at Herrin Hospital. Police say he ran in front of the car. A separate collision on Route 460 two miles west of Nashville involved Jackie Mae Thompson and Malachi Melvin with minor injuries to Melvin’s wife Atha lien.
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Colp
Jimmy Burdett
Herrin Hospital
William A. Tomlinson
Christopher
Jackie Mae Thompson
Farmington
N. M
Malachi Melvin
Freeburg
Rt. 460
Nashville
Melvin
Athalien
Fire destroys family's home in Johnston City
A Sunday night fire of undetermined origin gutted a frame house north of the high school in Johnston City destroying the home and belongings of Mr and Mrs Delmar Rogers and their six children. They escaped injury and had no insurance. Firemen arriving at 9:25 p m found the roof collapsed and the attic origin is under investigation. The house owned by Vernon Mandrell of Mt Vernon.
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Johnston City
Delmar Rogers
Vernon Mandrell
Mt. Vernon
Fire destroys carpentry shop in Marion blaze
Fire destroyed a house used as a carpentry shop by Fred Powell at 1301 E Boulevard Marion Sunday. Firemen were called at 6 40 p m the house was a fire all over when they arrived and it burned to the ground in about 45 minutes Powell 334 S Second St had carpentry tools and paints in the two story structure Cause of the fire and amount of damages not determined
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Marion
Clarence Larson
S. Future St
Jean Shadowens
Midway Court
Fred Powell
E. Boulevard
Johnston City
Vernon Mandrell
Delmar Rogers
Powell
S. Second St
Reverend Samuel Reeves 77 dies in Dongola
The Rev Samuel F Reeves a Union County Baptist minister and former county official died Saturday at 10 p m in an Anna Illinois hospital He served 12 rural churches in Union and Johnson counties over 50 years He was born November 20 1890 in Hinkleville Kentucky He leaves a daughter Mrs Julia Peeler and sons Thomas and Wayne five grandchildren and five great grandchildren Funeral services set for 2 pm Tuesday at Ford Funeral Home Dongola with Rev W Clayton Humphrey and Rev Lucien Bozarth officiating Burial in Dongola American Legion Cemetery May call at the funeral home
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Union County
Samuel F. Reeves
Reeves
Dongola
Anna
Union
Johnson Counties
First Baptist Church
Hinkleville
Richard
Mollie Grimes Reeves
Cairo
Kathryn Denton
Julia Peeler
Thomas
Wayne
Exton
Ford Funeral Home
W. Clayton Humphrey
Missouri
Lucien Bozarth
Dongola First Baptist Church
Humphrey
Woman Fined for Theft in Jackson County Case
Carbondale woman Georgia Brown Yarbro 28 pleaded guilty to theft of household goods from Jo Halliday’s Carbonale home on Sept 26 1967. She received a three year probation and a 100 dollar fine plus costs.
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Carbondale
Jackson County
Georgia Brown Yarbro
N. Wall St
Jo Halliday
Orchard Dr
Carbondale Audit Shows Small General Fund Surplus
Carbondale's year ending April 30 1967 audit reports a general fund surplus of 5047 with revenues 764011 and expenditures 758964. Horwath & Horwath prepared the report noting six months under city manager government and a waterworks sewerage system net income of 164296.
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Carbondale
Horwath & Horwath
General Fund
C. William Norman
SIU library bid opening set Feb. 20
The Illinois Building Authority will open bids February 20 for interior completion of the upper four floors of Southern Illinois University's Morris Library. Two and a half million dollars are allocated, including a 590000 grant from the U S Office of Education. Bids are set for 2 p m in the IBA Chicago office.
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The
Illinois Building Authority
Southern Illinois University
Morris
U. S. Office of Education
IBA
Chicago
Southern Illinoisan Publication Notice Summary
The Southern Illinoisan, a daily newspaper based in Carbondale Illinois, outlines its mailing offices and post classification. It notes its lineage from the Carbondale Free Press Herrin Daily Journal and Murphysboro Independent and credits the Associated Press for local and dispatch content.
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Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois At Inc
North Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Ilinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Dally Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
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the Varsity
Tony Rome
Fox
Matchless
Little Egypt
S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. Chorus
Southern Illinois
Allen Y. Baker
State Commission For Economic Development
Whitt
Rt. 37
Johnson City
John
City & State
Ell Brizes
1.A
SIU Arena
Arvel
Colp Boy
FDIC
Samuel Reeves
Waterworks System
SIU Library
Charles D. Renfro
First National Bank
Renfro
Harold L. Dycus
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