Southern Illinois Calendar Highlights Tuesday Meetings
Carbondale Human Relations Commission and City Council meet at 7 30 p m in City Hall. Murphysboro Planning Commission holds 7 30 p m public hearing at Murphysboro City Hall. Du Quoin City Council adjourned meeting at 12 30 p m in City Hall. Christopher Grade School Board 7 30 p m Grade School Building. Herrin Senior Citizens host pinochle and bridge at 1 30 p m at Center 301 N 14th St.
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Carbondale Human Relations Commission
Carbondale
Herrin
N. 14Th St
Southern Illinois Recreation Council
Lake Glendale
Goose Bay
E. Jackson St
N. 8Th St
Murphysboro
Soldier receives Gallantry Cross in Vietnam
Army Second Lieutenant William B. Agosti 23 son of Mr and Mrs Tony M Agosti 603 Bay Ave Christopher recently earned the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with bronze star at Camp Blackhorse Vietnam for gallantry in action during the Tet offensive He led a platoon in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment 919th Engineer Company after active duty begun in 1966 following Ft Hood basic training and Ft Belvoir prior to his Vietnam arrival a 1962 Christopher Community High School graduate he later attended the University of Missouri at Rolla.
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Army
William B. Agosti
Tony M. Agosti
Bay Ave
Christopher
Camp Blackhorse
Vietnam
Agosti
11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Ft. Hood
Tex
Ft. Belvoir
Christopher Community High School
University of Missouri At
Rolla
Area exhibit at fair invites local makers for free display
Southern Illinois industrial and craft growth exhibits offered at the Du Quoin State Fair from August 24 to September 2. Space in a Southern Illinois Inc. tent is free, with supervision by day and police protection at night. Reserve via SII Car Treville office at 985 4851. Choir concert set for University Center Ballrooms at 8 p.m. Wednesday features the First United Methodist Church and Summer University Orchestra directed by Charles C Taylor. They will perform ballads religious songs and Vivaldi Gloria with public attendance free.
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Herrin
Southern [Illinois University
First United Methodist Church
University Center
Southern Illinois
du Quoin
Southern Illinois Inc
Goffrey Hughes
SII
Charles C. Taylor
University
Gates
Booth to Attend State Education Conference
Herrin Lee Booth and William Booth Jr. will attend the Illinois conference of county superintendents and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Springfield. Main speaker M F Pearson will discuss State and Federal Relations with other speakers Ray Page and Lowell Lewis also on the program.
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Lee Booth
Herrin
Williamson County
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Illinois Association of County Superintendents of Schools
Springfield
M. F. Pearson
Council of
United States
North Dakota
Ray Page
Illinois
Lowell Lewis
Effingham County
State Association
Sign travels between SIU campuses in Christie prank
Pranksters took the sign from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and hung it in Edwardsville campus Chancellor Rendleman's office. Rendleman pledged to return the sign “like a civilized man would” while Carbondale Chancellor MacVicar welcomed the gesture and said he was pleased by the offer to send it back.
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Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Edwardsville
John S. Rendleman
Robert W. MacVicar
Rendleman
Learn-work-build program trains Job Corpsmen in carpentry
Fifty-one Job Corpsmen and five union carpenters started a year long learn work build program at Golconda Civilian Conservation Center. The project aims to teach the standard apprentice carpentry course and place graduates in jobs while constructing Shawnee National Forest facilities such as bridges, picnic tables, shelters, display boards, and ranger station buildings. The staff includes carpenters from Golconda and several Kentucky cities and is directed by Henry Mixen with oversight by Owen Jamison.
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Golconda Civilian Conservation Center
Henry B. Mixen
Anna
Mixen
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Golconda
Grantsburg
la Center
Hopkinsville
Paducah
Owen T. Jamison
Shawnee National Forest
J. Lamar Beasley
Golconda Center
City Delays Federal Neigh borhood Youth Corps Plan
Carbondale officials scrap a planned federal Neighborhood Youth Corps program for 20 disadvantaged youths due to counselor constraints. Arthur Black, the local counselor, refused to coordinate with both the city and Job Corps groups, citing time limits. He suggests future cooperation between the city and the Illinois Farmers Union to realize a joint effort.
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Carbondale
Illinois Farmers Union
Arthur Black
Black
Carbondale Community High School
Farmers Union
Carbondale Job Corps gains momentum under city plan
City Supervisor Harold Hill leads a growing Job Corps aimed at giving disadvantaged youth city work. Last week 31 youths were employed. 27 in Hill’s area and four assisting in city hall and the police department. The program, begun as Youth Corps last summer, faces budget uncertainties but has council support to stay as a major low income aid effort.
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Roger Stafford
Southern Illinoisan
Harold Hill
Carbondale Street
Hill
City Hall
Elbert Simon
C. William Norman
Public Works
B J. Schwegman
Two Teens Die In Route 51 Crash In Union County
An Union County coroner's jury ruled the July 13 collision on Route 51 north of Dongola accidental. Phillip Casey 18 and Ann Jeanette Wiedlocher 15 died when Casey's northbound car struck a car driven by James McElrath 34 of Rock Island Pulaski. Ralph Johns 21 and Anita Davidson 15 were injured and Davidson later died in Barnes Hospital St. Louis. An inquest was not held for Davidson.
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Dongola
Union County
Phillip Casey
Rt. 1
Ann Jeanette Wiedlocher
Anna
Casey
James McElrath
Rock Island
Pulaski
McElrath
Perry
Johns
Head Start parent involvement grows in JWCAA program
More than 100 parents are involved in JWCAA Head Start summer program across 11 teaching centers. The eight week program ends August 2 with plans for end-of-summer picnics and open houses. Parents seek to recruit children early next year and form a bi-county advisory council to plan for 1969 and beyond.
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Jackson-Williamson
Richmond
Office of Economic Opportunity
JWCAA
Neighborhood Congress
Carbondale
Murphysboro
Herrin
Marion, Cambria
Elkville
Johnston City
Carterville
Grand Tower
Creal Springs
Pomona-Alto Pass
Neighborhood center opens extra hours for Carbondale residents
The Carbondale neighborhood center at 104 E. Jackson St. adds Saturday 1-5 p.m. and Tuesday Thursday 6-10 p.m. to weekday service. Mack Martin staffs the extra hours as the center serves the northeast area.
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Carbondale
Jackson-Williamson Community Action Agency
Neigh
E. Jackson St
Mack Martin
Shawnee Development Council to Meet in August National
Shawnee Development Council board meets August 7 at Karnak offices to consider accepting director Ed Taylor's resignation submitted July 11. Taylor recently had surgery and faces medical conditions preventing full-time work. The meeting will include audit reports from a GAO review and a routine OEO inspection.
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Shawnee Development Council
Anti-Poverty Agency
Karnak
Alexander
Ooes
Reback Named Council President
Vic Reback of Herrin, longtime Allen Industries executive, elected president of the Council for the Analysis of Organizational Structure. The group studies Glacier concepts of industrial management and promotes U S Brunel University exchanges, with officers Shull and Bedwell also elected.
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Vic Reback
Allen Industries Inc
Herrin
England
Elliott Jaques
Lord Wilfred Brown
John J. McCarty
Fremont Shull
University of Wisconsin
Ralph Bedwell
Southern Illinois University Small Business Institute
United States
Brunel University
Reback
Allen
Rahway, N. J. Plant
Illinois State Chamber of Commerce
Three Hurt In One Car Crash West Of Jonesboro
Elvis Cameron of Anna along with two female passengers Peggy Skelton and Mary Green were hospitalized after a high speed collision on a road near a bridge. The car skidded 80 feet past the bridge into a field at about 2:30 p.m. Monday. All three were listed in fair condition at Union County Hospital Anna as state police continue their investigation. Marjorie Lawrence SIU music professor will spend August vacationing in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands visiting alumni and studying island musical activities.
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Anna
Jonesboro
Elvis Cameron
High St
Peggy Skelton
Mary Green
Dongola
Cameron
Skelton
Marjorie Lawrence
Southern Illinois University
Metropolitan Opera
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
SIU
Islands
Peace march in Carbondale protests war and atomic bomb anniversary
The Southern Illinois Peace Committee plans a noon parade from Morris Library in Carbondale to protest the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons, with a 1 p.m. speech program at Browne Auditorium and about 300 participants expected. City permit approved after route adjustments. Also noted: a Marion court fined Richard A. Treece 100 dollars plus costs for reckless driving and drag racing, and SIU announces Joe L. Streckfuss as assistant member at the University of Texas Dental Science Research Institute.
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Southern Illinois Peace Committee
Carbondale
Southern Illinois Uniersity
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Japan
SIPC
Morris Library
Illinois Avenue
University Avenue
Browne Auditorium
Jim Hanson
Johnston City
Marion
Richard A. Treece
Williamson County
A. RB. Cagle
Treece
North Park Avenue
Herrin
Joe L. Streckfuss
Southern Illinois University
National Institute For Dental Research
University of Texas Dental Science Research Institute
Houston
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Union Local 160
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Anthony Hall
Williard Hart
SIU Board of Trustees
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Southern Illinoisan Inc
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