Paint brush replaces picket sign in Carbondale poverty protest
In Carbondale SNCC workers focus on community service over street protests painting street signs and leading clean up, home repairs, and trash removal. They build an addition bathroom for Mrs Nannie Bradshaw and neighbors, gather donated supplies, and recruit locally.
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Helen Coombs
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
Nannie Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Birch Street
Main Street
Eagles auxiliary state meeting draws 2500 in Herrin
About 2,500 Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary members and guests converge on Herrin for the 19th annual state convention. Herrin officials Inez Miller and Victor Lapinski chair events with registration Wednesday, official activities Thursday through Sunday, and public memorial and dinner events. Tickets and schedules are available through Miller. Doctoring canned baked beans with molasses ketchup and mustard noted.
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Mlinois
Order of Eagles
Herrin
Inez Miller
Victor Lapinski
Herrin Eagles Lodge
North 16Th Street
Fred Henderson
Kenneth Gray
Paul Powell
Eagles Country
Miller
St. Mary’s Gymnasium
Club Legionnaire
Eagles
Zack Smith
Granite City Auxiliary Kitchen
Aerie
Joe Sekardi
Kitchen Band
Williamson County Homemakers Schedule and Club Activities
Wednesday brings three meetings in Marion Carterville and Herrin with the Williamson County Homemakers Extension Association and related clubs. Thursday features Catholic Women's Club at Herrin and Daughters of Isabella at St Marys gym and a Williamson County Homemakers unit gathering at Estelle Miller's Marion home.
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Marion
Williamson County Homemakers Council
Carterville
Wolfcreek Homemakers Unit
Williamson County Homemakers Extension Association
Carterville Boat Club
Herrin
Catholic Women’s
Daughters of Isabella
St. Mary’s Gymnasium
Fannie Brooks
Estelle Miller
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Welfare Rights Councils
Freedom Library
Keith Miller
Uruhu
Jackson County Young Men’s Christian Association
SIU Wesleyan Foundation
Federal Office of Economic Opportunity
Northeast
SNFC
Simon
Kiera
Julius Henry
Coats
North Park
Mardale Shopping Center
Campus Shopping
Joyce Lawson
West Walnut Close
SNL
Ea Ay
Gazette
Walnut
Murphysboro
Ill
W. Walnut St
Recite Nursery
West Frankfort
Seeap Per
Blapper
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