Traffic safety group urges action beyond talk in Chicago
About 1,600 delegates from 14 Midwestern states attended a two day President’s Committee for Traffic Safety conference in Chicago. They heard highway death tolls of 38 300 in 1955 and 1 350 000 injuries while urging local and state groups to move from discussion to real programs and public education.
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Rere
Committee For Traffic Safety
Chicago
Oe Tee Enntane
Genel Bone
Champaign
Bloomington
Cleveland
Philadelphia
National Safety Council
President’s Committee For Traffic Safety
White House
Atlantic City
Miami
San Francisco
United States
A. H. Motley
New York
Illinois
Chicago Motor Club
Division of
State Department of Safety
Junior College Plan Studied By Commission
The state Higher Education Commission will recommend to Governor Stratton on junior colleges and college scholarships. Reports on studies of these subjects should be completed in about two months. The commission discussed Southern Illinois needs in higher education during an all morning meeting at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dr. D W Morris SIU president hosted the tour of the campus.
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State Higher Education Commission
Stratton
D. MacMaster
Chicago
Carbondale
MacMaster
Southern Illinois
Nois University
Holden Writ Decision Due Over Carbondale Hospital
Illinois Attorney General Latham Castle faces a decision on continuing Holden Hospital in Carbondale. A Jackson County Medical Society committee seeks state intervention to prevent July 1 closure. The Mist Church plans to repurpose the building as a girls dormitory, citing long running losses and hospital status as a charitable trust. Delegates from Carbondale and Murphysboro traveled to Springfield for the talks.
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Illinois
Latham Castle
Ible
Carbondale
Jackson County Medical Society
Springfield
The
Mist Church
Bers
de J. A Wey
Is R
T. Felts
W. D. Mohlenbrock
Murphysboro
Men Mistaken for Game in Ceties Accidents
In about ten percent of ceties accidents men are mistaken for game, highlighting a recurring misidentification risk.
New Modoc Site Chosen for 1956 Archaeology Work
The Illinois State Museum shifts excavation from the Modoc rock shelter to a new site named Brevenue rock shelter near Prairie du Rocher Randolph county along the Mississippi. Dr Thorne Deuel says tests will probe a 40 by 40 foot pit to about 30 32 feet deep while preserving the old location buried under earth for protection.
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Modoc
Bievenue Rock
Mississippine
Prairie du Rocher
Randolph County
Melvin L. Fowler
Museum
Brevenue Rock
Harold Vievenne
Deuel
McBride Rites Set for Former Ava Resident
Funeral services for Nettie Mc Bride, a former Ava resident, will be Sunday at 2 30 p m at the First Baptist Church Ava with Rev H T Knaub officiating. Burial will be in the Bower Cemetery. Calling hours are at Wilson Funeral Home Ava. She died in Springfield Missouri after an extended illness.
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McBride Rites
Ava
Nettie McBride
First Baptist Church
H. T. Knaub
Bower Cemetery
Wilson Funeral Home
Two Transferred to Vandalia Penal Farm
Floyd Smith 18 of Murphysboro jailed for burglary after pleading guilty with Roger Camden 16 and Kenneth Murray 15 also charged in a Riverside Park grocery break in Murphysboro Camden sent to Illinois Youth Commission Murray probated one year. Leon Johnson 41 of Carbondale also sent to Vandalia after guilty plea to vagrancy and a 90 day sentence by Judge Peyton Kunce.
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Vandalia
Floyd Smith
Murphysboro
Jackson County
Smith
Rodger Camden
Kenneth Murray
Riverside Park
Camden
Illinois Youth Commission
Murray
Leon Johnson
Carbondale
Peyton Kunce
Johnson
Chester Summer Concert Set Tuesday
The Chester Municipal Band opens its first summer concert Tuesday at 8 p m on the parking lot opposite the Chester post office. Plans call for 12 concerts on Tuesday nights throughout the summer.
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Chester
Chester Municipal Band
Chester Post Office
To Graduate at Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Wesley E. Dickey machinist mate first class USN is set to graduate June 1 from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. He is the son of Mr and Mrs H E Dickey of Lesser.
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Great Lakes
Murphysboro Student Earns PhD at Colorado Commencement
Joseph Carl Daniel Jr. son of Mr and Mrs J C Daniel Murphysboro received a doctor of philosophy degree at the 110th commencement program at the University of Colorado in Boulder Friday. Daniel completed a course of graduate study at the university.
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Joseph Carl Daniel, Jr
J. C. Daniel
Murphysboro
University of Colorado In
Boulder
Daniel
University
Bicycle stolen from Carbondale youth near Oakland Park
Police report a stolen bicycle belonging to 11 year old Robert Hastings of 717 S Forest St Carbondale. The theft occurred Thursday evening at Oakland Park and was reported Friday night.
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Carbondale
Robert Hastings
S. Forest St
Oakland Park
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