Community Calendar Highlights Carbondale Murphysboro and Herrin
Carbondale City Council and Human Relations Commission meet at 7 30 p m in city hall while Murphysboro planning commission convenes at 8 p m Tuesday The Red Cross reports Williamson County blood program at Herrin Hospital cafeteria A Herrin School Board meeting follows Wednesday evening.
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Carbondale City Council
Carbondale Human Relations Commission
Murphysboro Planning Commission
Red Cross Blood Program
Williamson County
Herrin Hospital
Herrin School Board
Christopher High School
Murphysboro Water and Sewer Commission
Yale Chaplain Coffin to Speak at SIU Lecture Series
The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., Yale University chaplain and outspoken anti draft advocate, will speak at SIU Shryock Auditorium at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. during Religion in Life Week. Coffin, under U.S. Justice Department indictment for conspiring to counsel draft evaders, has been active in civil rights and was a 1961 Freedom Rider. A coffee hour follows in the River Rooms University Center.
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William Sloane Coffin Jr
Yale University
Southern Illinois University
Shryock
Church of Christ
SIU
Coffin
United States Justice Department
Girl's Yule and Get-Well Gift Missing
A 12-year-old Murphysboro girl Theresa Nash is heartbroken after her three-color beagle puppy Tony vanished from home on Sunday afternoon. The four month old dog, worn a red collar, was a Christmas and get-well gift from her parents Mrs. Marion Nash of 925 North 7th Street. Theresa was hospitalized after a September car wreck and recently returned to school. Information can be given to Mrs. Nash.
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Marion Nash
North 7Th St
Murphysboro
Theresa Nash
Tony
Southern Illinoisan Newspaper Publishing Notice
The Southern Illinoisan publishes Sunday and daily except Saturdays and holidays from multiple Illinois addresses. It is successor to local papers and reserves AP republication rights for focal news and AP dispatches.
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Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Illinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Focal
SIU Receives $1.77 Million for Campus Improvements
Gov Otto Kerner releases 1,768,000 for Southern Illinois University capital upgrades at Carbondale. Funds from the 1967 General Assembly cover sewer and sidewalks work, lab facilities at the Physical Sciences Building, and extensive renovations to Communications and Home Economics Buildings, Parkinson Laboratory, and Anthony Hall which will house the president and vice presidents offices plus a new Board of Trustees conference room.
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Otto Kerner
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale Cam
Physical Sciences
Parkinson Laboratory
Anthony Hall
Board of Trustees
Woman injured in Herrin two car collision
Imogene Cole of Hurst was injured in a two car crash at Madison and 18th streets in Herrin at 2 15 a m. She was taken to Herrin Hospital for treatment of apparently minor injuries. Bruno A. Presa of Zeigler drove the other car involved.
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Imogene Cole
Hurst
Herrin
Bruno A. Presa
Zeigler
Madison
18Th Streets
Herrin Hospital
Church Starts Knight Fund for Local Fire Victim
The First Presbyterian Church of Murphysboro launched a Relief Fund for Robert Knight of D Street after a December fire destroyed his home and belongings. The fund is overseen by Pastor Rev. Lee Pope Ward.
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First Presbyterian Church In
Murphysboro
Robert Knight
Knight
Lee Pope Ward
Shemwell Named Chairman RETAP Unit Leader
Bert Shemwell of Ava elected chairman of the 31 county Regional Economic Technical Assistance Program executive committee. The group meets with SIU Bureau of Business Research staff to review 44 requests outlined by Arthur Prell and Robert Ellis. RETAP, funded by the Economic Development Administration, aims to guide regional projects and industrial development.
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Bert Shemwell
Ava
Bureau of Business Research
Southern Illinois University
Shemywell
Ava Chamber of Commerce
Jackson County Coordinating Agency
Jackson-Williamson Community Action Agency
Arthur Prell
Robert Ellis
Prell
SIU Bureau of Business Research
Ellis
Bureau
Economic Development Administration
SIU
Robert W. MacVicar
West Frankfort weighs hiring fireman as junk car rules pass
West Frankfort City Council tabled a fire and police board recommendation to hire James E Ledbetter as a fireman citing no funds and no emergency. A junk car ordinance bans abandoned vehicles on streets with penalties up to 500 dollars. The council OK’d a 15 cent raise for Hod Carriers workers, approved a street sweeper bid, and authorized settling a personal injury suit for 300 dollars.
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West Frankfort
Fire and Police Board
James E. Ledbetter
Public Safety
Burl Andy May
Mike McClatchey
May
Joe McCann
McClatchey
Hod Carriers and Common Laborers Union
O. B. Avery Co
St. Louis
Don Lucas
Margie Kelley
Lucas
GOP hopeful Altorfer sees opportunity in 1968 elections
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Henry Altorfer spoke to about 70 at the Holiday Inn in Carbondale on Monday night. He urged developing party programs and nominating officials who embody GOP philosophy while stressing conservation highway construction and pollution control as key issues.
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John Henry Altorfer
Carbondale
Holiday Inn
Altorfer
Illinois
Nation
Springfield
Washington
GOP
New Hair Growth Claim From Houston Lab Firm
A Houston laboratory consultants firm advertises a 32 day no risk trial to stop hair loss and grow new hair for men and women. They claim most baldness cases are early stage and offer the trial to prove effectiveness, urging those with any hair to inquire confidentially by mail.
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Houston
Texas
Loesch Laboratory Consultants, Inc
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