Murphysboro High School Diploma Night Honors 112 Seniors
Graduation exercises for 112 Murphysboro Township High School seniors were held this evening in the new gymnasium after a Sunday baccalaureate. Valedictorian Kathryn Maloney and salutatorian Evelyn Brooks led the student speakers as diplomas and awards were presented by School Board President Willard Collins Jr. to a list of graduates across many academic and home economic fields.
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Murphysboro Township High School
Uches
Evelyn Ann Brooks
Kathryn Ann Maloney
Willard Collins Jr
Davy Crockett Election Schemed by Coonskin Braggart
The Tennessee tale recounts how Davy Crockett outwitted a boastful rival at a rally by trading raccoon pelts for liquor to sway voters. Crockett’s clever ruse, aided by supporters, led to a congressional win as he paid the post-election price to the swindler.
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Coonskin
Tennessee
Davy Crockett
Davy
Betsy
Crockett
Congress
Bulganin Receives Highest Honor On 60th Birthday
The Soviet Union awarded Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin its Order of Lenin in Moscow on his 60th birthday, marking the nation’s top decoration for his service.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Nikolai A. Bulganin
Order of Lenin
Volunteer Fire Groups Cut Timber Losses in Illinois District
The Illinois Forestry District 2 saw over 10 000 acres burned by 21 large fires across 12 southeastern counties. Wayne County led with seven large fires, followed by Hamilton and Jefferson with five each, Franklin three, and Marion two.
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Illinois Forestry District 2
Wayne County
Hamilton and
Jefferson
Franklin
Marion County
Martin Anderson
Federal Forest Service
Anderson
Division of Forestry
Chester Board Plans Sale of Ebenezer School
Chester Community Unit District 139 votes to close Ebenezer School after enrollment falls to 13. Children will be bused to Rockwood School and teacher Betty Andrews will transfer there. The board also hires Robert Clendenin as chemistry and mathematics teacher at Scott Air Base area.
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Ebenezer Schoo
Rockwood
Chester Community Unit
Dan Colbert
Ebenezer
Rockwood School
Colbert
Betty Andrews
Robert Clendenin
Chester
Scott Amy Air Base
Belleville
Intruders Strip Singer Champagne Lady Relates Night of Terror
Police search for three masked men after intruders invaded singer Alice Lon's home in Pasadena. Lon reported being bound and photographed nude while her husband Robert Waterman and mother in law were tied and threatened during a six hour ordeal. The couple's three children slept through the night as Lon freed herself and others before daybreak.
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Alice Lon
Sal
Miss Lon
Lawrence Welk
Robert W. Waterman
Pasadena
Waterman
Frank Lynch
Don Sheldon
Mary Wyche
Alice
Massive grain elevator collapses in Fargo
A 20-tank grain elevator, 122 feet high, collapsed Sunday in Fargo after being completed last August. The structure burst with a ground-shaking noise described as an explosion as debris and grain spilled. No injuries noted in early reports.
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Fargo
N. D
Fargo grain terminal collapse leaves pile of debris
The 390000 dollar Fargo grain terminal, once the largest privately owned storage facility in North Dakota, collapsed leaving shattered concrete and twisted steel. Eichinger, owner of the 800000 bushed terminal, suspects a combustion cause as 600000 bushels of grain spilled, valued around 1200000 dollars, with about half deemed damaged beyond repair.
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Fargo
North Dakota
Eichinger
Southern Illinois Publications Inc. newspaper listings
The Souther n Illinois Publications Inc. announces postal details for Carbondale and Murphysboro editions. It notes post office service, office addresses including 227 West Main Carbondale and 212 North 16th Street Carbondale, with legal notice regarding second class matter designation and related city publication lineage.
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Southern
Southern Illinois Publications Inc
West
Main Street
Cabondale
North
16Th Street
Berri
112Th Street
Murphysbor
Carbondale
Tlade
Herrin
Olan Murphysboro
Mrossan
Gnucessor
Carbonds’ Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro ‘Independent
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Dorthy Allard
Viola Anderson
Dorothea Arbeiter
Betty Berrier
Ruth Bitner
Evelyn Brooks
Patricia Burke
Donna Cardwell
Delores Carter
Camilla Clough
Shirley Creason Delores Daniel Mary Doerr
Norma Eastman
Theda Hamilton
Carole Hart
Martha Hesse
Yvonne Hutcherson Fannie Jackson
Loretta Joiner
James Jones
Patricia Koenig
Patricia Krawczyk
Phyllis Laughman
Annette Lautner
Kay Layne
Bonnie McGee
Carole McGregor Joy Pierson
Kathryn Maloney
Marilyn One
Amelia Murphy
Mary Owen
Judy Paulus
Janice Prather
Mary Rawson Myrma Rentfro
Wanda Rhine
Dolly Rodman
Rachel Sill
Sharon Sims
Barbara Smith
Elizabeth Sorrels
Louis Sterns
Shirley Stewart Carolin Thomas
Patricia VanCloester
Janice Weathers
Linda Will
Nancy Winn
Alma Wolff
Alice Wyatt
Robert Allison
David Arbeiter
Freddie Barnwell
Raymond Baskin Jr
Harold Berger
Robert Bizzell
Frederick Bergsmiller
Robert Brantley
Ronald Briggs
Clarence Burh
Richard Carter
Robert Casleton
Gary Christenson
James Connor
Jackie Cook
Donald Cornell Randal Curry
James Doody
Dale Downen
Edward Eastern
Frerette Eaton
Troy Elmore
Lewis Etherton
Dennis Gale Joseph Genovese
Robert Green Norman Greer Lowell Grissom Albert Harsha Curtis Hubbard
Randall Hudson
Richard Ingram Elmer Jones
Richard Keller
Larry Lavender
James Lawder Jr
Clifford Lindsey
Ronald McGee
John Martell
Richard Maynor
Tack Nelson
Bert Ozburn
Clarence Palish Troy Raines
Merrill Ripley
Gary Roberts
James Smith
James Speith
Dale Stamp
George Swafford
Johnie Taylor
Glenn Tucker
Norman Warner
James Waite Vergil Watson
Wester Watson
James Weather
Robert Williford
David Winters
Harry Zeigler
Safea! Times
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Bulganin
Chester Board
Esa Hiy
Sterling
Evansville
Indiana
North Hollywood, Calif
Bobby
Clint
Larry
Noice
United
United Accumulative Fund
Waddell & Reed, Inc
William T. Dugger
Prospectus
Ajilliamson Or
John N. Stearns
Oak Grove Heights
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North Park
Phelan’s
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Marion-Herrin
Nashville
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Cane
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Louis Degasperi
Lnocslops Mutual Lhocsloas Stock Fund
Lrocslops Selective Fund Investors Syndicate OF America
K. R. Cannon
Ownrone
Monager
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Chrysler
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