Friday community events and screenings in Carbondale area
The schedule lists Friday crafts for adults at Carbonale Community Center with no fee, after school bowling for youths at Carbondale Bowl with instruction and shoes for 70 cents, and a Herrin Senior Citizens January birthday party at 2 p.m. The Herrin Teen Town dance charges 1.00 for members and 1.25 for non-members, running 6:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at Egyptian Drive-In. Also shown are local theater showings at Varsity and Fox in Carbondale through Saturday, plus funeral services for Mrs. Maude Bain in Murphysboro with coroner notes on burns and an inquest pending.
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Carbondale Community Center
W. Elm St
Carbondale Park District
Carbondale Bowl
Mardale
Herrin Senior Citizens
N. 14Th St
Herrin
Tony Rome
Frank Sinatra
Rodgers
Anna
Emily
Varsity
Carbondale
Cowl
Luke
Fox
Meyer- Denny
Murphysboro
Maude Bain
Gene McElroy
Murdale Gardens
Memory Cemetery
Cobden
James Coleman
Lucinda Tweedy Hawkins
Plan board hears reports on projects
West Frankfort plan commission discussed city projects and progress reports. They cited removing about 250 junk autos, cleared land for an elderly high rise, bids called, and a March 1 start target. Subdivision ordinance discussion and recertification plans were noted along with a Mark Twain Marine Industries boat plant to employ about 300. A burglary at Bradley's Gulf Service Station was also reported with $25 stolen.
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West Frankfort
Akin
Bill Frerking
Walter Collins
Illinois
Orcill
Traveler
Mark Twain
Bradley
Gulf Service Station
S. Court St
Marion
John Kelly
Cerebral palsy benefit set in Southern Illinois
An all day United Cerebral Palsy singathon benefit runs 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in Du Quoin Pinckneyville and Tamaroa. Ralph Dunn reports last year’s sixth annual show netted about $2 000 to fund handicapped equipment and Murphysboro achievement centers. Coello Carmi. An estimated 350 000 franchised businesses operate in the country handling about $70 billion in sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Cerebral Palsy
du Quoin
Pinckneyville
Tamaroa
Ralph Dunn
United Cerebral Palsy Chapter
Southern Illinois
Murphysboro
Coello Carmi
Audit cites accounting change for Greater Egypt fund gap
An audit by Clement A. Marchildon notes expenditures exceeded receipts by 1907 during the year ended May 31. Total receipts 84374. expenditures 86281. A special county contributions account held 8279, distorting year results by not counting those funds as receipts.
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Greater Egypt Commission
Clement A. Marchildon
West Frankfort Certified Public Accountant
Commission
Benton
Greater Egypt
Bend Lake
Marion
Johnston City
Murphysboro
Crea
Springs
du Quoin
Pinckneyville
Colp
Hurst
Grand Tower
Walier
Crainville
Willisville
Orient
Zeigler
Lesser
Royalton
St. Johns
Ewing
Christopher
W. Main St
Rohrbach and Associates
St. Louis
Rend Lake
Bank of DeSoto
Jefferson
Franklin
Perry
Jackson
Wiliamson County
Carbondale HR Commission marks fifth anniversary with open meeting
Carbondale's Human Relations Commission will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a public meeting and social hour Sunday at 2 p.m. in the community room, 207 N. Marion St. Edward O'Day chairs, presenting plans for a fair housing board and future activities. the board was appointed by the city council to handle fair housing ordinance complaints. attendees may ask questions. Also noted is the Claude C. Dove Lecture at New Mexico State University by George S. Counts on March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
Human Relations Commission
Marion St
Edward O’day
Fair Housing Board
Commission
George S. Counts
Southern Illinois University
Claude C. Dove
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces
Counts
Dove
William E. O’connell
Street Repairs Near Mardale Shopping Center
Carbondale street department workers Charles Brown and George Taylor repair the roadway near the east entrance of Mardale Shopping Center. Harold Hill reports cold wet weather damaged the base and says the current work is temporary while permanent improvements are planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale Street Department
Charles Brown
George Taylor
Mardale
Harold Hill
Hill
Five Chicago police wounded in beauty shop gun attack
Five Chicago police officers were wounded when a gunman fired two blasts at a West Side beauty shop. The shooter, Tommy Lee Hogan, 19, was arrested about 30 minutes later and faces three counts of attempted murder and one count of resisting arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Lee Hogan
Juan Garza
People’s Liquor Store
Aurora
Avila Rodriguez
de Kalb Packing Co
Carbondale residents form advisory council for neighborhood center
About 60 residents from Carbondale low income neighborhoods met at 104 E Jackson St to chart the JWCAA neighborhood center. Fifteen volunteers joined as advisory council members led by temporary chair Delores Albritton. The group will plan programs, recruit staff, seek funds, and inform the community about center activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
E. Jackson St
Jackson-Williamson Community Action Agency
JWCAA
Jerry Lacey
Mack Martin
Lacey
Martin
Carbondale Center
Delores Albritton
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Plan Board
Marion Station
Egypt
EDA
Renaie J. Gray
D-West Frankert
HR Commission
O’day
The
Chicago
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North
Iinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Walnut Street
IlIinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Dally Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Fore Hogan
Hogan
U of Students
Illinois Chicago Circle
Vargas Maldonado
Committee To End the
Forrest Village Board
Forrest
Glenn C. Terrell
Terregon
Terrell
Ohio
Moline
FBI
Smith
Cincinnati
U.S
Rock Island
Robert Gebhart
Springfield
Davenport
Iowa
Columbus
Wilmette
Chicago and North Western Railway
Lake Avenue
Winnetka Avenue
Willow Road
W. Jackson
Conco Inc
Mendota
Pemberton Restaurant
Galatia
Ill
Philco
General Electric
Harold Pemberton
John, John JR
Bill Endsley
Harrisburg
Advisory Council
United States
Albritton
Devin Anderson
Willy Jo Wilson
Helen Hatchett
Nettie Morgan
Mary Moore
Raymond Mason
Eugene Swangen
Michael Greer
Charles Bell
Charles Harper
Vera Moore
Charles Scott
Charles Lilly
Robert James
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Hs&m
Hs&m Sport Coats
Cricketeer Sport Coats
Plymouth
Jarman-Florsheim Shoes
N. Park Ave
Marion West
Frankfort Benton
MT. Vernon DU Quoin
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