Carbondale PTA Proposes School Zone Safety Upgrades
The Carbondale PTA led by Mrs. Roy Pickett lists 10 Winkler area safety items and seven Attucks, four Community High items with new stop signs crosswalks and reduced speed zones. City officials including Mayor Miller and Public Safety Commissioner Crawshaw will study the recommendations this summer.
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Carbondale
Winkler School
Assny Council
PTA
Winkler
Attucks
Lincoln
Springmore
Thomaschools
D. Blaney Miller
PTA Council
Roy Pickett
Miller
West Freeman
Valley Road
Freeman Street
Dixon Street
Murrie Drive
France Split Over Aid To Church Schools
Paris reports Premier Debre seeks a nonpartisan commission to study potential solutions to the school question a long standing dispute over subsidies for Catholic schools. The left demands state control while the right pushes aid, with months of debate ahead as political tensions rise. Stalactites and stalagmites noted as cave formations close the piece.
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France
Andreas Freund
Associated Press
Paris
Michel Debre
Debre
National Assembly
Assembly
Gaullist
Charles de Gaulle
Seven Children Attend Father Jerome Taylor’s Chicago PhD Convocation
Jerome Taylor, an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame, receives his PhD at the University of Chicago. His wife Carol and their seven children attend, from 9 year old Jane to 3 month old Thomas, as Carol may finish her own degree later.
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Chicago
Jerome Taylor
University of Chicago
Carol
Jane
Edward
Lucy
Marie
Peter
Stephen
Thomas
Taylor
University of Notre Dame
South Bend
Ind
Carol Duthie
Colorado Women’s College
Denver
Grand Ole Opry Stars Lead Illinois State Fair Lineup
The Grand Ole Opry acts are the first grandstand attractions for the 1959 Illinois State Fair in Springfield. The fair runs from August 14 to August 23 with Opry stars appearing on August 15. Scheduled acts include Ray Price Del Wood Margie Bowes Grandpa Jones Wilma Lee and Stony Cooper Don Gibson Billy Grammer the Jordanair es and the Stoney Mountain Cloggers.
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Nashville
Tenn
Grand Ole Opry
Ray Price
del Wood
Margie Bowes
Grandpa Jones
Wilma, Lee
Stony Cooper
Don Gibson
Billy Grammer
Jordanaires
Stoney Mountain Cloggers
Maryville Student Wins UT Summer Science Scholarship
Steve Demster from Maryville Tennessee won a scholarship to a summer science workshop at the University of Tennessee. He is the grandson of Mabel Demster of Carbondale and earned a place in a program for high school students in math and science.
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Steve Demster
Maryville, Tenn
Mabel Demster
W. College St
Carbondale
University of Tennessee
Warsaw Speakeasy Poets And Artists Stir Poland’s Arts Scene
Joseph Alsop details a Warsaw apartment speakeasy run by Myron Bialeszewski where clandestine poetry readings and avant garde performances draw youths and intellectuals. The venue blends banished but admired art with Kafkaesque stagecraft, while Polish censorship and state cultural control loom over a vibrant, fearful cultural life.
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Speakeasy
Myron Bialeszewski
Bialeszewski
Bert Brecht
Dada
Jean Cocteau
Alex and
Marious
Eisenhower
Truman
Poland
Stodola
Kafka
Joyce
Warsaw
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PTA Group
East Mainstreet
Main
Attucks High
Jackson Street
Community High
Springer Streets
Pecan
Springer
Oak
High
South Illinois Avenue
College Street
Springer and Sycamore Streets
Wall Street
Larch Street
Fisher Street
Pickett
Thomas School
Algeria
de Gaulle
Opry
Philco
Sawyer TV
Murphysboro
Marlyn Furniture
Herrin
Freeman
Southern Illinois Surgical Appliance Co
West Main
West Frankfort, Ll
Erzee
Joseph Alsop
Boguslaw
Warsaw Polytechnic
Chcinski
Stalin
Palace of Culture
Leszek Kolakowski
Kolakowski
Gomulka
Adam Wazyk
Cox’s
Ford
Ford Division
Sand Oler Company
Sater
Vogler Motor Co
North Ilinois
Brewster Motors, Inc
North Park Avenue
Morgan Motor Co
Walnut Stret
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