Local Calendar Highlights Theater and Public Meetings
The Southern Illinoisan lists entertainment from The Varsity in Carbondale with Tony Rome Fox The President's Analyst and Matchless and Murphysboro's Marlow's showing Hillbillies in a Haunted House Hercules in the Haunted World. Public meetings include Franklin County Supervisors and Herrin committees at various times Tuesday.
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Marlow’s
Murphysboro
Franklin County Board of Supervisors
Court House
Benton
Greater Egypt
Regional Planning and Development Commission
Labor Advisory Committee
6Th St
Herrin
Sixth St
Citizens’ Advisory Committee
City Library
Jackson County
Council For Exceptional Children
Murphysboro Township
Carbondale
City Hall
Tom Edwards Wins Voice of Democracy Contest
Marion high school student Tom Edwards son of Mr and Mrs Charles Edwards of 411 S Calumet St Marion editor of the schools Student newspaper won the Voice of Democracy speech contest sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars. Nancy Powell and Melody Lang finished second and third among 140 participants.
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Tom Edwards
Charles Edwards
S. Calumet St
Marion
Marion High School
Voice of Democracy
Nancy Powell
Mode Powell
E. Thorn St
Melody Lang
William Lange
W. Hendrickson St
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Rend Lake College District Bonds and Operating Costs
Residents of the Rend Lake College district pay 25 cents per $100 assessed valuation for operating expenses and about 12 cents to retire a $3.1 million bond issue for the local share of campus construction costs. A report in Monday's Southern Illinois wrongly stated residents pay 25 cents to retire the bond.
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Rend Lake College District
Southern
Illino
Church Fights Sewage Plant Near Shrine
A temporary injunction in circuit court blocks Nauvoo officials from opening bids on a sewage treatment plant near the Joseph Smith Historical Center. Plaintiffs include W Wallace Smith and Walter N Johnson alleging the project would offend shrine visitors, which number over 50 000 annually.
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Carthage
Nauvoo
Joseph Smith Historical Center
Joseph Smith
Mormon Church
Utah
Reorganized
Latter Day Saints Church
Independence
W. Wallace Smith
Walter N. Johnson
West to seek renomination for Perry coroner post
Tamaroa's E W West, Perry County coroner since 1962, announced in Perry County he will run again in the Democratic primary in June. Appointed in 1962, he won the unexpired term in 1963 and a full term in 1964. West is vice president of the Illinois Coroners Association and sits on the state necropsy advisory board while running a Tamaroa service station.
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E. W. West
Tamaroa
Perry County
West
Illinois Coroners Association
State Advisory Board
Necropsy Service
Fire incidents reported in Marion and West Frankfort
Marion firefighters responded to a Monday 11:30 am blaze destroying a house on James Starling Route 5. In West Frankfort a 5:50 pm short in wiring damaged a 1404 E Oak St residence owned by H E Kirkpatrick and used by Junior Macoby. At 6:30 pm a fire in a clothes dryer at Freds Laundry on East Main burned a load of clothes. cause unknown.
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Marion
James Starling
Rt. 5
West Frankfort
E. Oak St
H. E. Kirkpatrick
Junior Macoby
Fred’s
East Main Street
Mount Vernon SIU Credit Programs Expand Teacher Training
Jefferson County’s Project Uplift, funded by Title III of the 1965 act, enabled 125 teachers to earn SIU course credit. Nine workshops drew 450 enrollees from Jefferson and nearby areas in its first year, with many teachers attending multiple sessions. Ogie Ellis calls the program an exemplary instructional-material initiative.
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Jefferson County
Southern Illinois University
Mount Vernon
Jefferson
Billy G. Dixon
Dixon
SIU College of Education
Ogie Ellis
Three SIU students fined in Carbondale theft cases
Three Southern Illinois University students were fined in Jackson County Circuit Court for thefts from a Carbondale store. Joyce Tharp and Diana Ross pled guilty to theft of hair products, each fined 50 dollars plus costs and placed on three months probation. Thomas Laccabue was fined 50 dollars for theft of cough drops. James A. Taylor, previously charged with theft, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined 50 dollars plus costs after their charge was reduced.
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Southern Illinois University
Jackson County
Carbondale
Richard Richman
S. Illinois Ave
Joyce Faye Tharp
Woody Hall
Diana Ross
Thomas E. Laccabue
James A. Taylor
SIU
Chicago
Illinois Ave
Congress faces new debate on bombing of Vietnam
As the 90th Congress opens its second session, a Citizens Committee for Peace and Freedom in Vietnam panel led by Eisenhower and Bradley questions bombing as a decisive tool. A Capitol Hill march by about 3000 antiwar women draws attention to U.S. policy while Secretary Rusk vows consultative peace talks with South Vietnam before any coalition decision.
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Washington
Congress
U. S
North Vietnam
90Th Congress
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
Capitol Hill
Vietnam
Citizens Committee For Peace and Freedom
Eisenhower
Bradley
Illinois
Paul H. Douglas
Harvard
James B. Conant
America
Dean Rusk
South Vietnam
United States
Saigon
Rusk
State Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Nguyen van Thieu
Cancer expert to lecture at Southern Illinois University
A leading cancer researcher, Alex B. Novikoff of Albert Einstein College of Medicine Yeshiva University, will speak January 22 in Morris Library Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Organelles of Animal Cells Structure and Function as part of the Signals series. The public is invited. Novikoff serves on the American Association for Cancer Research board of directors and a tumor is named after him. Mrs Grace Mae Turner, 65, of Murphysboro died Sunday at 7 p.m. Funeral is Thursday at 1 p.m. at AME Church Murphysboro.
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Southern Illinois University
Alex B. Novikoff
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University
Morris Library
Novikoff
American Association For Cancer Research
Grace Mae Turner
S. 8Th St
Murphysboro
Murphys
SIU offers summer work in geography
Southern Illinois University announces an eight week Summer Institute for Advanced Study in Geography for junior and senior high school teachers. The program runs June 24 to August 16 with three weeks in Washington DC and New York, three weeks on the Carbondale campus, and two weeks of mid Atlantic to Midwest field study. Up to 30 teachers may enroll, preference given to Midwest and Mid Atlantic applicants. Participants may earn up to 12 graduate quarter hours.
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Southern
SIU
US. Office of Education
Schmudde
University of Maryland
Washington, D C
New York
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Mid- Atlantic
Midwest
mid-Atlantic
Southern Illinoisan Publication Details and History
The Southern Illinoisan is a daily except Saturdays and holidays paper based in Carbondale with bureaus in Herrin and Murphysboro, successor to several local papers, and uses Associated Press news for local and dispatch reports.
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Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois
North Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Illinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Dally Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Herrin Eagles Park Burglary Reported
An estimated 350 to 400 dollars was taken in a weekend burglary at the Herrin Eagles park lodge north of Herrin. Thieves gained entry by breaking a back window and took the cash from a register, according to club manager Carl Miller. The club building sits in an Eagles Lodge park.
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Herrin
Eagles Park Lodge
Carl Miller
Eagles Lodge
Du Quoin Rejects Sewer Plant Bids. Rebidding Planned
Du Quoin City Council in a special session rejected all Dec 15 bids for renovating the sewerage treatment plant and called for rebidding under changed specifications. City Engineer John Blankinship reported possible cuts without harming capacity and said federal and state agencies approved the changes orally. The council will open a second bid set Jan 30 at 7 pm. total project cost is about 895000 with 438000 federal funds, 56650 cash, and 400000 in bonds.
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du Quoin
John T. Blankinship
Blankinship
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
State Sanitary Water Board
Blaikinship
Sanitary Water Board
Hoel-Steffan Construction Co
St. Louis
Don Johnson
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Anna
DeSoto
Anna - Jonesboro Community
Bar-San Hall
Alto Pass
Agriculture Advisory Committee
E. South St
Pinckneyville
N. 14Th St
Rend
Perry
John
Winter Wonderland
Art Reid
Herrin Eagles Park
E. Jackson
Carters
Witte Pills
Lamson Bros. «Co
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
W. Main St
Chevrolet
Murphysboro, Illinois
Hays Chevrolet Co
Herrin, Illinois
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