Calendar Today Shows Public Meetings and Movie Lineup
City council at 6 30 p m in Vienna city hall. Carterville Zone Commission at 8 p m in grade school library. Carbondale Plan Commission at 7 30 p m at city hall court room. West Frankfort Fourth annual homecoming ends Saturday with carnival contests concessions and beauty pageant. Murphysboro Township High School graduation at 8 p m weather permitting. Movie listings include multiple drive ins with titles such as Caprice A Spy With a Cold Nose Hombre Sound of Music Road to Nashville Indian Paint Dimension 5 Cyborg 2087 A Countess From Hong Kong Torn Curtain How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Nashville Rebels Finders Keepers Alfie Waco In Like Flint and more. Continuous showings begin afternoons and vary by location.
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Herrin
Doris Day
Richard Harris
Lawrence Harvey
Fox
Carbondale
Campus Drive-in
Nashville
Marion Drive-In
Dimension 5
Jeffrey Hunter
Michael Rennie
Riviera Drive-in
Derrin
Irom
Hong Kong
Marion Brando
Sophia Loren
Alfie
Waco
Strand
West Frankfort
Flint
James Coburn
Southern Illinois Arts and Crafts Guild Fair Entries
Entries accepted for competitive and non competitive items with a 25 cent entry fee. All entries must be original and submitted by noon June 10. Contact Gertrude Bennett Royalton. Fair runs June 10 11 at West Franklin High School Rt 148 south of Christopher.
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Arts Southern Illinois Arts and Crafts Guild Fair
Gertrude Bennett
Royalton
West Franklin High School
Rt. 148
Christopher
Local school district meetings and town notices listed
Thursday schedule shows multiple Jackson County meetings including Carbondale City Hall district boards at 7 30 p m and Murphysboro Unit School District 186 board at 7 30 p m Carruthers Junior High and Anna Grade School Districts also listed with 7 30 p m times Mont Blanc highway tunnel length noted and newspaper masthead details for The Southern Illinoisan with addresses and AP republication rights.
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Jackson County Coordinating Agency
Carbondale
Lick Creek
Anna
Lincoln
Carterville
Jackson County Housing Authority
Bridge Street
Murphysboro
Carruthers Junior High
West Frankfort Homecoming queen judging set for tonight
Preliminary queen judging at 8 p.m. headlines West Frankfort Homecoming activities as the two day event opens with a 1 p.m. midway on West Main Street. Ten queen candidates are named with attendants and the queen to be chosen by Miss America Beauty Pageant rules.
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West Frankfort
West Main Street
Retail Merchants Division
Chamber of Commerce
Bob Bowen
West Frankfort union man Jack W Knowles dies
West Frankfort resident Jack W Knowles died Tuesday afternoon from a heart attack. He had a long career with the Retail Clerks Union and earlier worked for Orient Coal Co and the United Mine Workers Sub District 12. Funeral services are set for Friday at Reedy Funeral Home with burial in Oaklawn Cemetery Carterville. He left a wife Gladys Elder and a brother George of Lincoln.
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Jack W. Knowles
West Frankfort
First Baptist Church of
Gladys Elder
George of Lincoln
Reedy Funeral Home
LaVerne Butler
Oaklawn Cemetery
Carterville
Union County Hospital opens extended care unit in Anna
A 19 bed extended care unit begins at Union County Hospital Anna with Medicare coverage for up to 20 days per illness. After 20 days to 80 days Medicare pays all but five dollars daily. total extended care limit is 100 days. Admission requires doctor referral and a three day hospital stay.
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Union County Hospital
Anna
Eugene Powell
Medicare
Powell
Carterville approves budget increase and city expenditures
The Carterville City Council, Tuesday night, approved appropriations up to 139,500 a 26,800 rise. Of this 7,500 funds land purchase expansion 7,000 salaries for police 5,000 street maintenance. Other increases include fire department salaries 1,000 equipment 500 cemetery maintenance 2,500 dump operations 1,500 park upkeep 500 parking meter repairs 300 police insurance and supplies 2,500 with a 1,500 cut for new parking meter equipment. The council also enacts a dog tax rebate rate 50 percent. mayor confirms no change in dog tax assessments or collection.
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Carterville
Bud Cross
Finance Commission
Frank Samuel
Marion High names LeRoy Anderson assistant principal
Marion Unit Two Board of Education appointed LeRoy Anderson of 1203 S Dun can St as assistant principal at Marion High School in a special meeting on Tuesday. Anderson succeeds Gene Stettler who resigned to become superintendent of Crab Orchard Unit Three. Anderson will not coach baseball. The board named Jack Fletcher as baseball coach. Charles P. Cotton of Ridgeway was named physical location and driver training instructor replacing Gale Dawson on the faculty. Robert George of Carbondale reported his tachometer was stolen from his car between 2:45 and 3:15 a.m. today. entry was gained with a wire while the car was locked.
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LeRoy Anderson
S. Duncan St
Marion High School
Unit Two Board of Education
Anderson
Gene Stettler
W. Maplewood St
Crab Orchard
Jack Fletcher
Charles P. Cotton
Ridgeway
Gale Dawson
Robert George
Carbondale
Juveniles held after car thefts in Perry County
Two 15 year old youths from Du Quoin and St John were arrested after allegedly stealing four cars in the Pinckneyville Du Quoin area and a car in Du Quoin followed by a night escape. They were found near the Chester Dairy with a cash box and about 240 dollars. They await a June 16 hearing. In Olmsted a cafe lost food stamp eligibility for accepting ineligible items and loose coupons. An oak tree may produce up to a million acorns in its lifetime.
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Perry County
Pinckneyville-Du Quoin
du Quoin
Benton
Chester City
Robert Blondi
Williamson County
Robert Ice
Voigt Cafe of
Olmsted
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of Consumer and Marketing Service
George Savko
Carbondale Consumer Food Programs’ Office
Carbondale Man Earns Westminster College BA
David A. Boyd son of Dr and Mrs C E Boyd of 813 West Main Street Carbondale received a bachelor of arts degree from Westminster College Fulton Missouri on Sunday He is a Marion High School graduate.
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David A. Boyd
C. E. Boyd
W. Main St
Carbondale
Westminster College
Fulton, Mo
Marion High School
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Carbondale Plan
Murphysboro Township
Crab Orchard Job Corps Center Advisory Council
Job Corps Center
Mount Blanc
Mont Blanc
France
Italy
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Walnut Street
Illinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Zwick
Burton Zwick
S. 16Th St
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Jeanie
Nf Nance
Chester Razer
Sandy Butler
Bernard Ulrich
N. Parkhill
Janice Podbevsek
Stanley Podbevsek
Washington Blvd
Marilyn Lewis
R. V. Lewis
N. Monroe St
Elaine Arview
Carroll J. Arview
East St. Louis St
Barbara Bowyer
Lebron Bowyer
Shawnee Circle
Vicky Hill
Richard L. Hill
North Horrell Ave
Deana Ramsey
Olen Ramsey
E. Main Street
Linda May
Burl May
W. 5Th St
Becky Roe
Howard C. Roe
E. Main St
Frankfort Community High School
Marilou Griffin
Nancy Salis
Debbie Hogan
Polly Miner
Andrea Sparks
Sue Donahue
Janice Podbeusek
National Canners Association
Washington
Linda Lou Ulrich
Valerie Shelton
Carterville Council
Mardale Shopping Center
Marion
Boyd Graduates
Rip van Winkle
Doan
Frederick’s Outlet Shoes
West
Walnut
Corner of
Walnut and University
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