Woman Dies In Crash On Rural Gallatin Road
A 56 year old Equality woman, Mrs Margaret Ellen Colbert, was killed when two trucks collided on a gravel road in Eagle Creek Township Gallatin County at 9 10 a m Saturday. Roy Edward Boulds 63 Eldorado was unhurt. Colbert's body was taken to Cox Funeral Home Ridgeway. The fatality marked the ninth in Southern Illinois in 13 days.
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Equality
Gallatin
District 13
du Quoin
Roy Edward Boulds
Eldorado
Margaret Ellen Colbert
Rt. 2
Colbert
Boulds
Eagle Creek Township
Triple Fatality Inquest Set For Monday
An inquest into a three death highway crash on Route 3 near Chester is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Schroeder Funeral Home. Victims are Gerald J. Ramsey 57 Minneapolis Minn Major John Damon Garrett 47 Scott Air Force Base Belleville and Blanche E. Garrett 47 also of Scott Air Base. Randolph Coroner Lester Walker said a southbound truck driver witnessed the collision and will return to Chester Monday on a northbound trip.
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Rt. 3
Chester
Schroeder
Gerald J. Ramsey
Minneapolis
Minn
John Damon Garrett
Scott Air Force Base
Belleville
Blanche E. Garrett
Williamson Review Board Opens 1959 Session
The Williamson County Board of Review and tax equalization begins its 1959 session Monday. Members are the county Board of Commissioners Lonnie Priest Henry Wright and Cecil Martin. Lou King tax supervisor will be clerk. Thirty nine persons filed complaints on real estate assessments and will be heard by the board.
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Williamson County Board of Review and Tax Equalization
County Board of Commissioners
Lonnie Priest
Henry Wright
Cecil Martin
Lou King
Zwick Graduates With High Honors From Harvard
Jack Zwick son of Mr and Mrs Leon Zwick of Herrin earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors at Harvard University last week Members of the Zwick family attended the Cambridge commencement He is a Herrin Township High School graduate and majored in economics and will pursue Harvard graduate studies
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Jack Zwick
Leon Zwick
Herrin
Harvard University
Zwick
Cambridge
Mass
Herrin Township High School
Harvard Graduate School
Tannie Jones Named Queen at Herrin Teen Town
Miss Tannie Sue Jones, 16, will reign over Herrin Teen Town activities next year after receiving the crown from retiring queen Adelia Marlow. About 100 teenagers attended the dance as Car lene Kenerr and Karen Bryant were named maid of honor and first attendant respectively, with several attendants also chosen.
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Tannie Sue Jones
Herrin
Adelia ‘Dee Dee
Marlow
Carlene Kenerr
Karen Bryant
Kathy Lauber
Sandy Faughn
Judy Mooney
Carla Rancilio
Tannie Sue
John Jones
S. 21St St
Herrin Township
Camera Club
HTHS
Denison to Lead Journalism Program at Joliet Township HS
George R. Denison of Carbondale will assume the post of director of the journalism and publications program at Joliet Township High School and Junior College on September 3. He has served as a graduate assistant at Southern Illinois University while pursuing his master's degree and was on leave from Fort Frankfort Community High School after seven years of teaching. Denison will stay at SIU during the summer.
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George R. Denison
Carbondale
Joliet Township
Southern Illinois Journalism Department
Frankfort
Denison
SIU
Rats Ruin Crops Across Aomori Prefecture Fields
In Aomori Prefecture northern Honshu, farmers have expanded frontier land by clearing mountainsides for cultivation. However swarms of rats estimated at 500 000 to 600 000 now raid crops including beans and corn, threatening harvests.
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Aomori
Honshu
SIU NSF Programs Draw High Applicant Interest
SIU turns down at least 67 applicants for an NSF sponsored science courses program for outstanding high school seniors and juniors. The program begins June 22 with 320 students from 386 applications, covering 10 fields and travel and living allowances. An additional NSF program for high school biology teachers drew over 500 applications. 52 accepted with grants covering living expenses and travel.
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Southern Illinois University
SIU
Mark Lohman
Hillsdale
N. J
Iowa
Mississippi
Kentucky
Arkansas
Missouri
Louisiana
Ohio
Illinois
University
Special Meeting of Marion City Council and Chamber
Marion city leaders and Chamber of Commerce members scheduled a 7 30 p m meeting Monday to discuss using surplus parking meter funds to cover a 74 percent payroll rise and the possible purchase of Williamson County courthouse. Feasibility of city buying the site and chamber plans to convert the courthouse into a parking lot are on the agenda.
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Marion City Council
Chamber of Commerce
Robert Cooksey
J. W. Travelstead
Williamson County
Cooksey
State Building
Chamber
Miss Lynda Koopman Named Secretary at Allen Hall South
Miss Lynda Koopman daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Koopman of Chester has been named secretary of Allen Residence Hall South at the University of Illinois. Miss Koopman is a freshman.
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Lynda Koopman
Arthur Koopman
Chester
Allen Residence Hall
University of Illinois
Miss Koopman
SIU files condemnation suit for 40 acres land
The Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University sues Teddy and Clyde Crawshaw in Jackson County Circuit Court along with County Treasurer Bob Maloney. The case seeks to condemn 40 acres on McLafferty Road near the Chautauqua and Oakland Avenues intersection for SIU campus expansion and asks for a set price.
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Jackson Circuit
Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois
Prior Engagement Misses Baby Shower For Twins
Forty two friends gathered in Scarborough to honor Mrs Ronald P Bugenske with a surprise baby shower but she did not attend. She was in Biddeford hospital delivering twin girls a month early. The twins father, a coast guardsman, is on ice patrol in the north Atlantic and won’t return until June 25.
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Ronald P. Bugenske
Coast Guardsmen
North Atlantic
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Bob Zimmer
MFA Mutual Insurance
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Maine
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N. Wall St
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