Coed Reports Assault on Campus Drive
A Southern Illinois University coed says she was assaulted Tuesday night on Campus Drive between Morningside and South Wall. She was struck on the forehead and dragged into bushes, then freed by a bystander and taken to the Wall Street Quad by a resident fellow. She was treated for a bruised forehead and released. SIU Security Police are investigating.
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Southern Illinois University
Coed
SIU
Carbondale
Campus
Morningside Drive
South Wall Street
Wall Street
SIU Police
Carterville eighth grade promotion set for Thursday
Eighth grade promotion exercises at Carterville Grade School begin at 7 30 p m in the school gymnasium. Diplomas will be presented to 66 graduates by Don W Kilpatrick the principal and William C Bleyer board president.
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Carterville
Don W. Kilpatrick
William C. Bleyer
Board of Education
Train delivers blaze to West Frankfort firemen at crossing
West Frankfort firemen extinguished a flaming caboose being cut up at the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rail Road crossing on South Cleveland Street. A spark ignited the wrecked car while salvage torches burned the frame and coal car floor. Fire Chief Fred Harkins called it the first time they waited for a fire to come to them.
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West Frankfort
South Cleveland Street
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Fred Harkins
Encephalitis Mosquito Fears Rise Near Herrin Swamp
Water tests show first mosquito generation hatched in a 200acre swamp behind northwest Herrin. Health officials warn of possible encephalitis risk due to polluted drainage and sewer flows. Local officials urge drainage as the permanent fix while considering expert help.
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Herrin
Dan Bain
Franklin-Williamson
Bain
Fred A. Henderson
Big Muddy
Quito
McLeansboro
Chittyville
Bash
Charles G. Sadler
Health Department
Carbondale Councilman Urges Water Conservation
Councilman Joseph Ragsdale urged residents to conserve water at a City Council meeting. He cited peak-day use of 3.7 million gallons, with a 4 million gallon daily treatment capacity. He noted concerns about higher demand as dryer months approach and referenced a South Wall Street plant expansion to reach eight million gallons daily after completion in 1967.
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Carbondale
Joseph Ragsdale
Ragsdale
South Wall Street
Johnston City Man Found Shot In Apparent Self Inflicted Wound
Carl Rankin, 56, of Route 1 Johnston City, died at 9:20 AM from a gunshot above the left ear in an apparent self inflicted death. Police recovered a .38 revolver with one round fired. His wife found him in a metal shed behind their home on Jeffery Road. Coroner Paul Litton ordered an inquest. Funeral arrangements are being finalized at George Van Natta Funeral Home in Herrin. Rankin had returned home from a month in hospital and was described as low in spirits by his son.
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Carl Rankin
Rt. 1
Johnston City
Williamson County
Paul Litton
George van Natta
Herrin
Rankin
Mr. Rankin
New Jeffrey Road
Stiritz Man Sentenced in Aggravated Assault Case
Louis Wilson, 33, of Stiritz, was sentenced to one to two years in prison for aggravated assault in the April stabbing of his wife Patricia Wilson. He pleaded guilty before Judge Lan Haney after psychiatrists found he understood the charges and could assist his defense. Wilson previously spent 23 months in a state mental institution.
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Louis Wilson
Stiritz
Wilson
Lan Haney
Williamson County
Haney
Patricia Wilson
Wilsons
The Light Touch and Modern Marriage Advert
The excerpt satirizes relationships and work stress with quips about cold coffee, honeymoons before new bosses, undertaker pay now go later, and desires for foreign sports cars. It ends with an invitation to EPPS VOLKS WAGEN in Carbondale for VW or used cars.
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Epps
Volkswagen
Hwy. 13
East
Carbondale
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William C. Orthwein
William E. Ripley
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State Division of Waterways
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Hartline’s Nursery
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