Retiring Giant City educator recalls 23 years of service
Claude Ross of Giant City retires after 23 years overseeing the district. He managed all grades solo in a one room school, led consolidation, and built a broad program while noting changes in student effort, home life, and salaries. He plans travel after retirement with wife Mrs. Ross. Their daughters live in Minnesota and Carbondale.
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Ross
Hamilton
Claude
Bill Reichrath II
Mankato
Minn
Charles Taylor
Carbondale
Drug theft case leads to airport arrests in St Louis area
Two Carbondale men, Stephen Tillman and William Johns, were jailed in St Louis County on 10 000 bond each after police say they tried to transport about 60 pounds of marijuana found in a foot locker flown in from Mexico via Phoenix. A third man, Jeffrey Sowers, faced multiple charges after a separate arrest near SIU. A juvenile was later apprehended after five people were seen on the Eastgate Liquor Store roof. Other incidents include purse snatching, unpaid meals, a DWI arrest, thefts from a cemetery shed and a campus internship program announced for SIU junior James D. Martin.
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Carbondale
St. Louis County
Stephen L. Tillman
William Allen Johns
Lambert St. Louis Municipal Airport
Mexico
Phoenix
Ariz
Eastgate
Dorothy Lautz
Frank
Aurora
Oakland Avenue
Oakland Cemetery
Police briefs report life preserver fines and driving offenses
Carbondale police cite Richard Walker 29 for insufficent life preservers with a $15 fine. West Frankfort police cite John T Pickering 74 for intoxication and $15 for failure to yield the right of way.
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Carbondale
Richard Walker
West Frankfort
John T. Pickering
Mrs. Wham Elected SIU Foundation President in Carbondale
Mrs. Wham also known as J Faye McCall presented a $1,000 gift to the J Faye McCall scholarship fund at the meeting. New board members include Roland Burris Omar Winter and Gilbert Trimble. Dr Earl E Walker was named to a full three year term to replace Melvin Lockard.
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John Page Wham
Centralia
Southern Illinois University Foundation Board of Directors
Wham
V. Dale Cozad
Champaign
John Koopman
Joppa
Carbondale
SIU
J. Faye McCall
SIU Board of Trustees
Koopman
Electric Energy Inc
Robert Gallegly
Ed S. Daniel
Edwardsville
Lois Nelson
Charles B. Schweizer
Kenneth Miller
Roland Burris
Chicago
Continental Illinois National Bank
Ernest Tosovsky
Omar Winter
Miami
Fla
Eastern Airlines
Gil
Bert Trimble
East St. Louis
Winter and
Burris
Earl E. Walker
Harrisburg
Melvin Lockard
Walker
Southern Illinois University Foundation
Regina Shelton
John Allen White
Glenarm
W. Dale Cozad
Aubrey Holmes
Springfield
John Lester Buford
Mt. Vernon
Claude Vick
Warren Gladders
Ladue
Everett Prosser
Donald Bryant
New York City
St. Louis
Charles Mayfield
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Claude Ross
Giant City
Giant
City Consolidated School
Hastings School
Hastings
Baskeydell
Blacktop
Boskeydell Road
Mt. Tabor
New Hope
Oak
East Rendleman
West Rendle
Man
Zion
Phelps
East
West Rendleman
Giant City School
Skokie
Jeffery L. Sowers
Southern Illinois University
Sowers
Jackson County
Wall Street
Quadrangles
Area Police
Paul Minkus
S. Rawlings St
Phillip L. Redich
David Keene
Keene
Garden Park
Redich
Marion Line
Joe Schardein
N. Court St
Marion
Martin
James D. Martin
Oakland Ave
Dept. of Public Works
Richard Ogilvie
Ryder
Ter. S
Greek Technical Instituirc
A Ryder School
East Main St
Carbondale, Ill
Home Office
Veterans Education
SIU Foundation
Mrs. Wham
Carbondale Community High School District
Herrin Rexall Drug
North Park
Herrin
Noreloo
North American Philips Corporation
East 42Nd Street
New York
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