Printer Mal Gurley recalls a lifetime of papers and towns
M A Mal Gurley 90, Zeigler printer and former editor of the Zeigler News, recalls early wages of 130 dollars a week in 1896, work at the Chicago Daily World, the Anaconda copper mine, and 13 terms as Illinois State Checker Association president. He remembers the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair, the Herrin News, and founding Zeigler News in 1919, later moving to Oak Street shop with a worn Olver typewriter and a life in printing long after the paper shut in 1933.
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Lorin Hystop
Smithern
Chicago Daily World
Mal” Gurley
Zeigler
Makanda News
Gurley
Reigler News
Anaconda
Butte
Tilinois State Checker Association
National Checker Association
Mokanda
Guiley
St. Louis
Theodore Roosevelt
Montana
Anacorda
Ok Chicago Daily World
Southern
Tiioois
Hal ‘Travillion
Zeigler News
Turvillion
Mwe
Amie
Seighler No. 2
Oak Street
Olver
Bac
Gurey
FCC Fee Plan Under Study
FCC Chairman Newton Minow says operating costs should be borne by radio and television broadcasters not taxpayers. A feed licensing system is under study with hearings to be held by station committees, aiming to grant the FCC more flexibility and reduce centralized Washington hearings.
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Washington
Newton Minow
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
PCC
Minow
John Brademas
D-Ind
South Bend
Radio - TV
Westington
Congress
Weil
Dpe
Choral Works Slated Concert At SIU
SIU Carbondale hosts a 3:30 p m concert in Shryock Auditorium with the Southern Tinols Symphony Orchestra University Choir and Southern Tin Oratorio Society performing works by Wagner Brahms Corelli and Tschaikowsky Conducted by Carmine Ficocelli soloists John Wharton Charles Beker and Elizabeth Martine join Carl Carelli in concert with the University Choir and the Orch. Society under Robert Hines. The program includes Wagner Die Meistersinger Brahms Name, Rossini William Tell overture Capriccio italiano. Public admission is free.
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Southern Thinols Symphony Orchestra
University Choir
Soutern Tin Oratorio Society
Carbondale
Wagy Brahma
Rasaini
Corelli
Tschaikowssky
Shryock
Southern Ainess University
Wagner
Brahms
Friedrich Schiller
Rossini
Carmine Ficocelli
John Wharton
Charles Beker
Elizabeth Martine
Carelli
Great Growth Seen For Tourist Industry
Governor Kerner calls Illinois tourism conference to attract outside dollars and promote a living history of the state. Speaker urges leveraging Chicago access, landmarks like New Salem and Lincoln sites, dog shows, fishing, and lakes to draw six million Chicago area visitors and four million suburban travelers. The piece urges action, funding, and imaginative promotion to make Illinois a premier tourism state.
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Wisconsin
Illinois
North Woods
Michigan Avenue
Anis Courley
California
Old
New England
New Orleans
Rockies
Grane Canyon
Florida
South Woods
Mlingis
Iinois
Ilinois
Pest
Northwest Territory
Chicago
Titnois Miver
Mississippi
Kaskaskia
Fort Charites State Park
Ofhers' Quarters
Lincoln
New Salem State Park
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
New Salem
Kerner
Mlinois
Chicagoland
Nienois
Union County
Thinolsies
Risamiond
Virginia
Crab Orchard Lake
Altead
Dagdom
Saturday Evening Post
Michigan
Indiana
Uinwis
Iinvis
Geogia
Misouri
Coa
Thinets
U. S
Union
Gov. Kerner
United States
Illnois
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Herrin News
Charles Ingraham
Herrin
the Journal
the Promoter and News
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Johnston City News
Missi
Saltese
Mont
Rother
Tetnas
Voal
Republican Party
Tay
Mal Gurley
Siu
Ses
Life Magazne
Life Magazine
Siupity
Ilinaia Ag
Sila
Lite Nazazine
Brendam
Tex
Dee Ann McCauley
McCauley
Texas
Miami Beach
Fla
Hainois
Arned H. Matemont
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