Williamson board amends bridge cost
The Williamson County Board of Commissioners increased the motor fuel tax appropriation to 110000 for a bridge over Saline Creek on South Market street near Marion. An 80000 appropriation was set Aug 17, with a 94000 contract to Superior Structures Co. of Marion, about one third complete and due to finish in August.
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Williamson County Board of Commissioners
Saline Creek
South Market Street
Marion
Superior Structures Co
James Basler
Barney Boren
Basler
Boren
Carbondale CCHS honors top seniors at graduation
About 400 parents and community members fill the Carbondale Community High School gym as 10 top seniors select their commencement speaker Mark Dare. Dare urges peers to keep an open mind humble and youth while recalling Churchill Hamlet and local sports upsets in a lively 1967 era ceremony.
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John C. Taylor
Southern
Ilinois
Mark Dare
Carbondale Community
Dave
Carbondale
Shakespeare
Denmark
Dare
Winston Churchill
Royal Air Force
Churchill
Benton
Collinsville
Rockford
West
Calcaterra seeks clemency from the Illinois board
John Calcaterra of Herrin asks executive clemency from Gov. Otto Kerner at the July meeting of the Parole and Clemency Board after a 3 to 10 year sentence for offering to sell a narcotic and delivering a non narcotic. He appealed to state and US high courts, stayed free until November 19, 1966, when the appeals were denied.
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John Calcaterra
Herrin
Otto Kerner
Parole and Pardons Board
Calcaterra
Illinois Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Morris rapped for delaying registrant at SIU
The Carbondale AAUP chapter criticized SIU President Delyte W. Morris for delaying registration of three students who wrote for KA. Morris halted registration for about a week. Johnson and Harris later registered while Wilson did not. Two sections of AAUP standards say attendance must not be suspended during charges and conduct actions require predefined standards. A separate obituary notes Herman Ganson, 91, of Murphysboro, formerly Mt. Vernon, died Friday night.
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Carbondale
American Association of University Professors
SIU
Delyte W. Morris
Morris
Steve Wilson
L. E. Johnson
Michael Harris
Johnson
Harris
Wilson
Daily
Egyptian
AAUP
Herman Ganson
Rt. 3
Murphysboro
Mt. Vernon
St. Joseph’s Memorial Hospital
Manito
William Marion
Mary Rowalt Ganson
Florence Purdy
Pekin
Pleasant Hill
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Dix
Youth Arrested in Carbondale Garage Burglary
A 14-year-old Carbondale youth broke into the Bloodworth Garage at 603 North Illinois Avenue Friday evening. An officer stationed at the door arrested him on burglary charges. he is to appear in court Monday.
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Carbondale
Bloodworth
Illinois Ave
Southern Illinois events calendar and film showings
The Jackson Invitational Golf Tournament at Jackson County Club runs Friday Pro-Am 12 30 p m with 36 hole medal play Saturday and Sunday ending Sunday. Art and crafts fair at West Franklin High School Rt 148 ends today. Multiple drive in theaters list films and showtimes through Tuesday, with venues in Carbondale Benton Herrin Murphysboro and Marion.
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Jackson County Club
Southern Illinois Arts and Crafts Guild
West Franklin High School
Christopher
Midway Drive-In
Rt. 37
Benton
West Frankfort
Varsity
Carbondale
Sound of Music
Julie Andrews
Strand
Flint
James Coburn
Capitol
Africa
Texas
Rodgers
Anna
Clint Eastwood
Lee van Cleef
Campus Drive-in
Rt. 2
Murphysboro
Sionals
Burt Lancaster
Alvarez Kelly
William Holden
Riviera Drive-in
Herrin
Dean Martin
Marlows
Doctor Goldfoot
Monday Public Meetings Across Local Governments
Herrin City Council meets at 7 p.m. City Hall. Hurst City Council 7:30 p.m. City Hall. Johnston City Council 7 p.m. Benton City Council 7:30 p.m. Frankfort Community Unit School Board 7:30 p.m. Administrative services center 512 E St Louis St West Frankfort. Williamson County Airport Authority 7 p.m. Airport office. Kinkaid and Reed’s Creek Conservancy District Board 7 p.m. Conservancy district office.
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Herrin
Hurst City Council
Johnston City Council
Benton City Council
Frankfort
Conservancy District
University High School grants top honors at commencement
University High School honored its 1987 graduates Pamela Philipp valedictorian and Ellen Potter salutatorian as 87 seniors received diplomas in the University School Auditorium. Scholarships totaled across multiple institutions including CIPS 4000 to Bruce Leasure, James Scholars at Illinois, Yale and MIT awards, plus others to Earlham College and SIU. The band played pre ceremony music and James Clemmons delivered the address on Happiness is self and service.
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University High School
Pamela Philipp
Ellen Potter
Yale University
Ronald Recchi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Earlham College
Dorothy Anita Jones
Stephen Ramp
Southern Illinois University
University of Chicago
Illinois State University
University
James Clemmons
William J. McKeefery
Elmer J. Clark
College of Education
Women injured in Herrin crash near Eagles Auxiliary event
Two women visiting Herrin for the state Eagles Auxiliary convention were treated at Herrin Hospital after a Friday afternoon crash at Adams and North 16th. Ruth E. Duran of Peoria and Lillian Beard of Loves Park were released after treatment. A Duran vehicle struck the home at 400 North 16th, damaging a corner, with no damage estimates available.
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Herrin
State Eagles
Herrin Hospital
Ruth E. Duran
Peoria
Lillian Beard
Loves Park
Duran
Terry E. Lively
N. 17Th St
Adams
N. 16Th
Josephine Rancillo
Carbondale Man Sentenced After Route 127 Crash
Thomas E. Boswell, 43, was sentenced Thursday to one year at Vandalia State Penal Farm after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated driving without a license and wrong lane usage. The two vehicle collision on Route 127 near Alto Pass injured three people and Boswell appeared before Judge Paul D. Reese in Union County Circuit Court per Hewitt Lamer union county sheriff.
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Carbondale
Vandalia
Thomas E. Boswell
Rt. 127
Alto Pass
Boswell
Paul D. Reese
Union County
Hewitt Lamer
Chester man pleads innocent in slaying
Jerome Miller 22 indicted for murder and armed robbery in the slaying of Joseph Gagnepain 55 at the Chester Bridge toll gate. Miller pleaded not guilty in Randolph County Circuit Court and requested time for motions including bond and witness lists. He is jailed without bond. Separate report: James Whiteside 32 injured in a motorcycle car crash in Herrin, listed in critical condition at Herrin Hospital after collision with Carla Jarvis 20 of Johnston City.
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Chester
Chester Bridge
Randolph County
Jerome Miller
Robert Rice
East St. Louis
Rice
Miller
Carl Becker
Joseph Gagnepain
Gagnepain
James H. Whiteside
Herrin
Herrin Hospital
Whiteside
Carla J. Jarvis
Johnston City
South Park
Maple
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Meyer-Denny Funeral
Billie Gene Fielding
Greenville
Harold Bedinger
Tower Grove Cemetery
Fielding
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Louis
Mr. Fielding
William
Laura Farley Fielding
Bernice Lilly
Nazarene Church
Laborer’s Union
U. S. Naval Service
Pete Reiman Construction Co
Janet Marie
Cynthia Jean
Sherry Lynn
Harrisburg
Pamela Dale
W. M. Fielding
Everett
U.S
Maine
Florida
Jacksonville
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illnoisan Inc
North Illnois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Herri N
Walnut Street
Murphysberg
Illinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
AP News
Mike Dare
CCHS
Paula Crow
Janis Dreyer
Greg Fozard
Patricia Jane Huffman
Phillip Lenzini
Paul Morrill Jr
Laura Moss
James Peterson
Don Prosser
Supt
William McBride
Gerald Cuendet
Supt. McBride
Barbara Benes
Bonnie Blass
Clemency
MR. Ganson
Southern Illinois
Today Sports
the Arts
Mitchell Gallery
Southern Illinois University Home Economics
Doris Day
Richard Harris
Lawrence Harvey
Fox
University High
Percy
Josephine E. Wydeck
Memorial Hospital
Wydeck
Arch Luther Wydeck
Baptist Church of
Andrew Lyle
Chicago
Lucille Marjorie Jakubowski
Connie Maxwell
Claudine McDermott
Springfield
Ogle Conner
Walker Funeral Home
Clyde Spangler
IOOF
McDaniel
Grocery & Standard Service
20Th St. Bridge
Cac
Sohn’s
Coats
Carlee Sport Coats
Sohus
Goy
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