Herrin Day Camp Opens for Youngsters in June
Herrin announces a two week Young Men's Christian Association day camp starting June 15 for grades one to four aged seven by June. Transportation provided from four Herrin grade schools with camp at the Herrin reservoir area. Hours 9 am to 3 30 pm. A $10 insurance and materials fee. Registrations to Jack Murphy or Eugene Eckert, Herrin. Capacity 50 campers.
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Herrin
Young Men's Christian Association
Fune Sth
Herringeach
Herrin City
Energy
Jack Murphy
P. O. Box
Eugene Eckert
Funeral services for William R Wegener in Elmhurst
Funeral services for William Roger Wegener, 22, an Southern Illinois University student, will be held at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Elmhurst at 10 a.m. Saturday. He died in an auto crash southeast of Mur. He is survived by his parents, a sister Carolyn Joy, and a brother. Burial in Elm Lawn Cemetery. A companion, Joseph Nappi, SIU student, was seriously injured and improving.
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William Roger Wegener
Mur Be
the Epiphany Lutheran Church
Elmhurst
Wegener
Southernlinois University
Str
York
St. Elmhurst
Edward Lyle Wegener
St. Paul Minn
Carolyn Joy
Gty
Elm Lawn Cemetery
Ablgrim
Reservoir Road
Joseph Nappi
SIU
Doctors
Bids Opened For Jackson County ASCS Office Lease
Three bids were received by the Tuesday deadline for a new ASCS office in Murphysboro seeking a five year lease with renewal on a roughly 40 by 60 foot building. A committee meeting will open bids next Tuesday after previously rejecting three bids for cost or location. A note on human evolution references Homo habilis in Africa dating 1,750,000 years ago.
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ASCS
Jackson County Agricultural Statilization and Conservation
Farm Bureau
Murphysboro
Variety Show Opens Friday at Proscenium One
Southern Illinois University students under Defense Department sponsorship will present Swinging Safari a five act variety show for LU.S. servicemen in the Caribbean. The 90 minute program features musical and dramatic skits with portable colorful sets. After Carbondale performances the group tours Panama Canal Zone Guantanamo Puerto Rico and the West Indies before a Florida finale. Tickets are $1 at SIU University Center information desk and Proscenium One. Half the proceeds go to a charitable fund.
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LU. S
Caribbean
Southern Illinois University
Defense Department
Carbondale
Panama Canal Zone
Guantanamo Naval Base
Cuba
San Juan
Puerto Rico
West Indies
Florida
SIU
SIU University Center
Illinois Ave
Carebondale_ j
Cape Canaveral keeps name despite Cape Kennedy rename
At Cape Canaveral Florida residents and stamp collectors discuss the old city name remaining for the Cape. Collectors flood Postmaster Lyle Meadows with first day covers bearing the Kennedy stamp, seeking Cape Canaveral postmarks as souvenirs. City Council rejected changing the community name to match the cape. A student group tours for entertainment seeks $200 to cover costumes and sets while the Defense Department funds travel and board.
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Missile Center
Cape Kennedy
Cape Canaveral
Lyle Meadows
John F. Kennedy
Cape
Kennedy
Penses
U. S. Defense Department
Marion Man Hurt At Work In Meat Chopper Accident
Neil Hartwell twenty of 2023 St Marion suffered the loss of a thumb and three fingers of his right hand today at 1100 Railroad Street in Marion. He was operating a meat chopper when injured and listed in fair condition at Marion Memorial Hospital.
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Neil Hartwell
St. Marion
Railroad St
Marion
Hartwell
Marion Memorial Hospital
West Frankfort Woman Injured in Rt 31 Collision
A West Frankfort woman, Pearl Pultan, was hospitalized with minor injuries after a two car crash two miles south of Benton on Rt 31 Tuesday. She rode with driver Robert Levanti, 43, while Jesse Tumman, 60, of Memphis steered the other vehicle. In separate crashes, Robert Greenwood, 16, of Mulkeytown and Elmer Murray, 55, of West Frankfort escaped injury in a collision near Mulkeytown at Bowles 14 and 184, and Joseph Favir, 19, of Sparta, was not hurt in a spill west of Steeleville on Re 150.
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Pearl Pultan
West Brahe
Benton
Franklin Hospital
Robert Levanti
West Frankfort
Jesse Tutmann
Memphis
Robert J. Greenwood
Mulkeytown
Elmer Murray
Bowles
Joseph C. Favir
Sparta
Steeleville
Marion Woman Hurt While Stopping Rolling Car
Mrs. Gertrude Spiller of 508 Thomas Street Marion was admitted to Marion Memorial Hospital at 10 am with injuries from attempting to stop a rolling automobile. She started to back from the driveway, stepped back inside, and when the car rolled she fell, suffering a cut on her left arm and hand.
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Marion
Gertrude Spiller
Thomas St
Marion Memorial Hospital
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William R. Wegener
Honto Babilis
Africa
Rhodes
Burford
Museq
Ds Smith
Still
Cape Canaveral, Fla
DURAN
South Illiois
Limpus
Tarbandale
Warka
Derma Rexall
Pietura
Mina
Sang—Antist
Pei Moree Tabord
Eaton & Brown Sales and Service
G. E. Appliances
Carbondale 205 East Main
S. Illinois
Mee
Friends Trne Foods
Polk
Manhattan
Lois
Swift's
Rinso
Tom Boy
Bill and Gene's
Anhattan
Como Brand
Wieners
Bacon
Bill
Gene S
North
147Th ST
Murphy Sboro
Bittner
Grandpa John's
Gror's Country Lot
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