Baptists rally for ERA at SIUC Arena in Carbondale
About 250 attendees at the American Baptist Churches fourth biennial convention gathered outside SIU Arena in Carbondale to back the Equal Rights Amendment. Speakers, including Homemakers Equal Rights Association president Anne Follis, urged legal equality, citing examples of discrimination against homemakers and property rights.
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American Baptist Churches
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Anne Follis
Homemakers Equal Rights Association
United Methodist
Urbana
Home
Equal Rights Association
Housewives For Era
Alabama
South Dakota
Georgia
Hinand
American Baptist Churches Convention
Malapropisms and Ozark Talk in Local Columns
Ben Gelman collects readers malapropisms and Ozark inflections from a Sunday column. Examples include misheard phrases and distorted dialects such as “mala propism” and “Ain-Man’s tard,” illustrating how slang and mispronunciations color journalism and speech in the region.
Town Central outlines Carbondale downtown future
A joint SIU Carbondale Design Department and City Planning Division brochure titled Town Central presents sketches and descriptions of current and planned downtown developments. It invites public input via a survey available at city hall and SIUC, while downtown business leaders form a Town Central committee to push improvements and city-aligned projects, targeting visible changes by summer’s end.
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Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Department of Design
Carbondale
Town Central
SIUC
Chamber of
Commerce
Brown to announce recommendation for acting SIU-C president
Acting SIU Chancellor James Brown plans to present a recommended interim SIU Carbondale president to the SIU Board of Trustees at its Edwardsville meeting. At least five candidates were interviewed from university groups, with confidentiality on qualifications and criteria as Brown finalizes the process ahead of Warren Brandt’s June 30 resignation.
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Southern Illinois University
James Brown
SIU Board of Trustees
Siu-Carbondale
Warren Brandt
Brown
Edwardsville
SIU School of Law
Frank E. Horton
Bruce Swinburne
Hiram Lesar
Law School
John King
Department of Higher Education
William Simeone
Simeone
Administrative and Professional Staff Council
Civil Service Employees Council
Council of Deans
Faculty Senate
Graduate Council
Graduate Student Council
Horton
King
Lesar
SIUC
David Derge
Board of Trustees
William Norwood
SIU
Norwood
Howard Olson
Olson
Charles Hunt
Peter Alexander
Swinburne
George Mace
Mace
Marvin Kleinan
Les Hester
Horton, King
College of Liberal Arts and Administration
Lon Shelby
Charles Hindersman
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
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Janice Lincoln
East Bridgewater
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Joe Jines
Wes Forsline
Minneapolis, Minn
Ozark
Ben Gelman
Richard Phillips
Marion
Tom Eveslage
Tom
Harry Truman
Truman
Janet Gordon
Mabel
Reeve Norton
Harvard Sohn of
Herrin
Lester Davis
Christopher
Dale Freeman
Springfield
Leader and Press
East Central
Hill
North Carolina
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Texas Panhandle
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Daddy
Earl
LeRoy
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