Calendar notices and open meetings listed for area theaters
The Southern Illinoisan prints a calendar of public events and movie listings. The notice invites readers to submit open to the public meetings and provides theater showings at Strand West Frankfort Marion Drive-in RoXY Coulterville FOX Carbondale VARSITY Carbondale SALUKI Carbondale LIBERTY Murphysboro with titles Camelot The Sound of Music Emperor of the North Cahill Do Me Do Me The Legend of Boggy Creek Cougar Country and Tom Sawyer through the coming days.
Community Listings From Perry County and Nearby
Public meetings set 6 30 p m Friday Perry County Housing Authority Board at the Perfection Club Du Quoin Special events Elks Duplicate Bridge Friday 7 30 p m Elks Club De Soto Third Annual Barbecue Friday 5 p m city park gospel singing 8 p m 4 p m Saturday baseball De Soto versus Murphysboro dinner 5 p m 8 p m country western Lions Club sponsor Arts theater notes The Tavern Summer Playhouse 73 8 p m Friday Saturday Sunday University Theater SIU Carbondale Confess film 8 p m Friday Saturday SIU Carbondale Franklin County Fair schedule derby night horse racing Friday Saturday 8 a m all day quarter horse show Movies Webster Steeleville Tom Sawyer Grand Du Quoin Sounder through Tuesday Drive ins High Plains Drifter Ulzana's Raid through Tuesday Egyptian Drive-In When the Legends Die Battle for the Planet of the Apes through Tuesday Campus Drive-In The Legend of Boggy Creek Cougar Country Riviera Drive-In The Last of Sheila Wild Bunch through Tuesday
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Herrin Elks Duplicate Bridge Club
Elks Club
DE Soto
Murphysboro
de Soto Lions Club
Franklin Fair
Franklin County Fair
Webster
Steeleville
GRAND
Sounder
Sheila
Wild Bunch
Bush Village Board moves meeting to Tuesdays
Village board in Bush changes meeting day to the first and third Tuesdays each month. Next meeting at 7 p.m. in Bush Village Hall. Community notices include local recycling in Carterville and Carbondale, a women's center auto clinic, a silent peace vigil, and a Moose Lodge chicken and dumpling dinner with a white elephant sale in Murphysboro.
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Bush Village Board
Bush Village
Women’s Center
Walnut St
Carbondale
Illinois Avenue
Main Street
Carbondale Friends Meeting
Moose Lodge
Murphysboro
Sunday Women's Center Seminar on Money Management
A seminar titled Money Management will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Sunday Women’s Center located at 404 West Walnut Street in Carbondale. The event invites attendees to explore financial planning and budgeting strategies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carterville Glass Recycling Collection
Civic Teen Center
South Division Street
Eagles
Carbondale Glass
Westown
Murdale Shopping Center
Winky’s
Lewis Park Mall
Women’s Center
Walnut St
Carbondale
Hearings set on alleged abuses of wards by black Illinois lawmakers
Fourteen black Illinois legislators will hold hearings August 27 and 28 to probe alleged mistreatment of state wards in Texas child care facilities. Rep. Corneal Davis announced the inquiry formed after reports of a 14 year old sterilization. The group will also examine out of state placements and facilities run by the Department of Mental Health.
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Corneal Davis
Dchicago
Illinois
Texas
Department of Children and Family Services
Department of Mental Health
Davis
Six youths nabbed after Giant City camp escape
Six juveniles aged 16 or younger were picked up in Carbondale after fleeing Giant City Youth Camp and were to be returned to state custody for prosecution. Authorities identified the youths as Buck Haynes Kenneth Miller Jeffrey Haggins Tyrone Briggs Leroy Brown and Mark Joseph. Maryland named for Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Dept. of Corrections
Carbondale
Jackson County
Buck Haynes
Kenneth Miller
Jeffrey Haggins
Tyrone Briggs
Leroy Brown
Mark Joseph
Howard Hood
Hood
Franklin County
Richard Allen
Man charged with cruelty in child left in car dies
In Marion circuit court Walter K. Garrett pleaded guilty to cruelty to a child after originally facing involuntary manslaughter. He admitted leaving his 18 month old stepson Brian Berry in a parked car for five hours. the child died July 3. Garrett received a sentence of one to three years at Menard Penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Walter K. Garrett
Garrett
Brian Keith Berry
Menard
Chester
Campbell Hill Picnic and Homecoming Fete Schedule
Campbell Hill plans its annual picnic and homecoming with a Saturday night concert by the Blue Country Boys at 6 p.m. and a platform dance at 8:30 p.m. Jim Beattie and the Country Men provide the music. A Sunday parade at 2 p.m. features several school bands and a post parade concert. Two more dances, rides, and concessions will fill the park under American Legion Post 1096 and the Community Fire Protection Association.
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Campbell Hill
American Legion Post 1096
Community Fire Protection Association
Blue Country Boys
Jim Beattie
Country Men
Waterloo
Trico
Marissa
Prime rate hits record high as banks boost lending costs
New York's First National City Bank announces a rise to 8.4 percent, the highest ever, with Marine Midland of New York and Girard National of Philadelphia following. The move, effective Monday, signals broader borrowing costs despite ongoing consumer demand and bank reforms since a 1969-70 peak.
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New York
First National City Bank
Marine Midland
Girard National
Philadelphia
Skylab 2 crew prepares for 59 day space voyage
Skylab 2 astronauts Alan Bean Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma undergo finalphysical exams and preparations at Cape Kennedy before a Saturday launch. They plan six engine firings to reach the Skylab laboratory 270 miles up after an 81 hour pursuit with Saturn 1B booster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Kennedy
Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garriott
Jack R. Lousma
Space Agency
Bean
Skylab Laboratory
Conferees Forge Minimum Wage Bill For 8 Million Workers
A $2.20 minimum wage compromise was reached after a three day conference between Senate and House members. The plan raises the standard from $1.60 to $2.00 in 60 days then to $2.20 by July 1 of the following year, with phased increases for new coverage and farm workers. Domestic servants gain overtime but live-in domestics are excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate House
Nixon
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
House OKs foreign aid bill after rejecting Cambodia cut
The House passed a 2.8 billion dollar foreign aid bill by a narrow margin 188 to 183 after defeating an attempt to end all U S military aid to Cambodia. The package shifts 650 million to food and aid for poor nations while funding 1 8 billion for military aid and 1 billion for economic development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Adams
Washington
House
U.S
Cambodia
Nixon
Indochina
Senate
Bella S. Abzug
D-N.y
Congress
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Thomas E. Morgan
D-Pa
North Vietnam
Morgan
Kissinger Puts Peking Trip On Hold Until August 15
Henry Kissinger delays his trip to Peking for talks on Cambodia until after the August 15 bombing cutoff. Officials say Cambodian insurgents refuse to negotiate and that no major diplomatic progress is expected before bombing ends.
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Henry A. Kissinger
Peking
Cambodia
Lon Nol
Phnom Penh
Nixon
Bigamy charges filed against Larry Cooley in Union County
Larry Cooley 28 of Dongola was charged in circuit court with bigamy and five counts of deceptive practice. He allegedly married two women in Dongola and Robinson and wrote bad checks totaling 100 dollars. Cooley was arraigned Thursday with bonds of 5000 and 1000 respectively. He wed first in December 1970 and second in June.
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Larry Cooley
Dongola
Jonesboro
Cooley
Robinson
Union County
Rotary Chief Visits Carbondale Club
Ira J. Hudson III of Mound City, governor of the local Rotary District with 45 clubs, addressed the Carbondale Rotary July 25 calling Rotary the pioneer of service clubs. He conferred with Carbondale officers on administration and future plans.
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Ira J. Hudson III
Rotary
Rotary Club of
Carbondale
Hudson
Mound City
Allende aide slain in Santiago
Marxist President Salvador Allende's principal military aide, navy Capt. Arturo Araya, 45, was assassinated at his home in Santiago. Police blamed a right wing radical movement tied to a past abortive insurrection. Naval intelligence aided the search as arrests were made. It marked the third major assassination since Allende took office in 1970.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvador Allende
Navy
Arturo Araya
Naval
Araya
Allende
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Perry County Housing Authority Board
Perfection Club
Summer Playhouse
University Theater
Southern Illinois University At Carbondale
Public Services
Orthwein
William C. Orthwein
Engineering Mechanics and Materials
Illinois Society of of Professional Engineers
ISPE
Maryland
Henrietta Maria
Charles I of England
Skylab 2
Harrison A. Williams Jr
D-N.j
Mittee
William S. Broomfield
R-Mich
Kissinger
China
Chou Enlai
Norodom Sihanouk
Prince Sihanouk
Sunset Ridge Subdivision
Alto Pass
And
Cobden
Cobden Road
Missouri
Bald Knob Cross
City Water
NEAR
Rotary Chief
Santiago
Santiago, Chile
Weller
Cool Comfort
W. Main
Yadro
East Main West
Frankfort
Yyadro Auto Parts
ROBCO
Rane
Herrin
Robco Homes
Herrin, Ill
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