Educator To Address SIU Graduates
President Eric A. Walker of Pennsylvania State University will speak at SIU's June 17 commencement in McAndrew Stadium. The 950 degree candidates make up SIU's largest graduating class. Walker, Harvard trained, has led Penn State since 1956 and earlier headed its College of Engineering.
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Eric A. Walker
Pennsylvania State University
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McAndrew Stadium
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Harvard University
Penn State
PSU College of Engineering
U. S
Long Eaton
England
Carbondale Park Board Moves Playground to High School Ground
The Carbondale Park Board announced junior programs will run this summer at Community High School field on Oakland Avenue. Activities including crafts sports music storytelling chess and checker tournaments were shifted from Springmore School due to ongoing construction.
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Carbondale
Oakland Avenue
Carbondale Park Board
Springmore School
Springmore
Norman Moore
Indian Dance Group at YMCA Pow Wow in Southern Illinois
Indian Guide Tribes Pow Wow brings Area Tsun-Ga-Ni Dancers and 200 guides to the Southern Illinois University camp for the handicapped, Little Grassy Lake. The two day event starts at 7 p.m. with overflow tents as capacity reaches 200. Demetri Massakis of Mt Vernon leads the camp with tribes from Mt Vernon Belleville Carbondale Herrin Centralia Robinson and West Frankfort registered.
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Southern Illinois University
Little Grassy Lake
YMCA
Frank Gumm
Demetri Massakis
Mt. Vernon
Belleville
Carbondale
Herrin
Centralia
Robinson
West Frankfort
Pianist Janice Mills to broadcast piano program
Herrin High School senior Janice Mills will perform advanced piano compositions on WJPF from 5 35 to 6 p m Sunday. The program features the pianist daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Mills of Herrin. Floods in the United States have caused over 2400 deaths in 30 years.
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Janice Mills
Kenneth Mills
Herrin
WJPF
Miss Mills
Herrin Township
Driver Training Offered This Summer at Murphysboro HS
Murphysboro Township High School will offer a single course this summer driver training. Seventy six students have signed up for the program taught by MTHS faculty Tim Bowers and Bob Hardy.
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Murphysboro Township High School
MTHS
Tim Bowers
Bob Hardy
Great Britain's World War I losses noted at 750000
The record states Great Britain's wartime toll reached 750000 killed in World War I, highlighting a severe casualty figure amid the conflict. The source emphasizes the human cost of the war.
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Great Britain
Marion Theater Remodeling Underway At 300 N Market
Remodeling of the Plaza Theater building at 300 N Market St in Marion has begun. Owner Carl Bruce of Herrin plans to convert the idle theater, closed since April 1956 due to poor business, into an office building as work proceeds.
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Plaza Theater
N. Market St
Marion
Carl Bruce, Herrin
Keratolytic T-4-L Promises Quick Foot Care at Local Stores
An advertisement touts T-4-L liquid as a keratolytic for athlete's foot and promises instant drying and skin renewal. It footnotes a 3 day satisfaction guarantee and suggests T-4-L foot powder for antiseptic protection, with store names Hewitts Carbondale Haggers Murphysboro and Karrs Herrin.
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Tt’s
Carbondale
Hager’s
Murphysboro
Karr’s
Herrin
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