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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1967
Page
2
The Southern Illinois University exhibit of Indian and Persian miniatures runs daily in the University Center through June 4 with free admission. Also on view and listed are local sports, film showings, drive-ins, and high school commencements on various dates and venues across Carbondale and surrounding towns.
The Carbondale zone advisory council on mental retardation, sponsored by the Department of Mental Health, will meet Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Davis Auditorium of Southern Illinois University.
Sunday events include William Taylor baritone recital at 4 p.m. Shryock Auditorium with free admission and performances at Carbondale Community High School 8 p.m. gymnasium Du Quoin High School 4 p.m. First Baptist Church Murphysboro Township High School 8 p.m. school auditorium Strand West Frankfort. Film lineups feature For Tune Cookie with Jack Lemmon and The Russians Are Coming with Alan Arkin plus Road to Nashville and Indian Paint at Riviera Drive-in Herrin. Continuous showings begin Sunday 2 p.m. Ends Tuesday. Marlows Murphysboro Khar toum continuous from 2:30 p.m. Sunday 7:30 p.m. week days. Campus Drive-in. A Countess from Hong Kong.
Carbondale Grade School teachers received a second salary increase in six weeks for the 1967 68 year to meet new state laws. The board adopted Dr Norman Geyers revised plan starting at a 5600 base with 25 as the per year raise for experience up to eight years for bachelors degree holders.
West Frankfort hosts the fourth annual homecoming with carnival contests concessions and a beauty pageant through June 10. The Downtown Southern Illinois Arts and Crafts Guild Fair invites entries both competitive and non competitive with a 25 cent per entry fee. Entries must be original and submitted by noon June 10 via Gertrude Bennett in Royalton. The fair runs June 10 11 at West Franklin High School Rt 148 south of Christopher.
Carbondale banking executive Glenn W. Storme and Cincinnati recreation chief Bret J. McGinnis will be honored at Alumni Day for outstanding university service and professional achievement. Storme, SIU alumnus 1929, has held multiple Alumni Association roles. McGinnis earned SIU 1949 and advanced degrees from Indiana University.
Two SIU officers Maj. Robert Probst and Capt. Joseph Johnson attached to the Air Force ROTC program depart for Southeast Asia duties. Probst will report to Saigon as operations officer, while Johnson will serve as a C-130 navigator in the region. Johnson and his family will relocate to Mount Vernon for a period, and Probst’s family will live in Edmonds, Washington. Johnson is a SIU alumnus who captained the Saluki basketball team in 1955-56.
The Carbondale Grade School District board approved a pilot special education program for 40 grade school children this summer. Two teachers will run 20 pupils each five days a week for six weeks, paid 750 dollars total plus prep and evaluation days.
The Kaskaskia Industrial Development Corp plans a 7:30 p.m. Saturday dinner at the Belle Clair fairgrounds hall in Belleville to fund navigation and industrialization efforts. Rep. Jim Wright will be guest of honor with Col. Edwin R. Decker to present a slide program on Corps of Engineers work on the Kaskaskia. Also attending are Reps. Melvin Price and Kenneth J. Gray at the 1500 plate event.
Rep Kenneth J Gray announces the Air Force will award Olin Mathieson Corp a $5,246,250 contract to provide engine starter cartridges. Work to be performed at the Orcill plant near Marion. This brings Olin’s government contracts to nearly $10 million in two months.
The Girl Scout Camp Cedar Point adds the Mariner Unit with waterfront programs and new shelter house boat dock wash house and tent platforms ready for use when camp opens June 19. Cadettes and seniors will use the new unit and a Herrin office work day is scheduled June 10 to prepare the camp with volunteers invited. Funeral services for Harry Edward Stafford Jr. of St. Louis formerly of Carbondale are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Huffman Funeral Home with burial at Oakland Cemetery.
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