Calendar pieces show public meetings and film listings
Local calendar lists Murphysboro and Zeigler Royalton meetings at 7 30 p m and district boards in Carbondale. Special events include a Mildred Capps recital at Farr Auditorium with half proceeds to Little Grass Camp. Numerous drive in and indoor movie showings noted with titles and times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphysboro Community Action Committee
Zeigler - Royalton Community Unit
Franklin High School
Carbondale Community High School Board of Education
CCHS
Carbondale Park District Board
W. Elm St
Carbondale Grade School District Board of Education
Lincoln Junior High
Pr “Dent
Carbondale Education Association
Mildred Capps
Farr Auditorio University School
Carbordale
Little Grass
Herrin Summer Fair Opens With Street Carnival
The Herrin Summer Fair begins Friday in Ville Indiana with a street carnival in the 100 block of West Walnut Street. A concert by the 101st Airborne Division Show Band from Fort Campbell Kentucky is slated for Friday night followed by a street dance Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
101St Airborne Division
Campbell, Ky
Herrin Jaycee
David Jenkins of
Evans
Local obituaries note deaths in Marion and Chester
Mrs. Sarah Diehl 86 of 910 W Maplewood Marion died 10 20 AM in Marion Memorial Hospital Funeral arrangements incomplete Mitchell Funeral Home of Marion in charge Miss Margaret Kipp 68 of Rt 2 Chester died Wednesday after six month illness Born May 29 1899 in Chester she was member of St John Lutheran Church Chester Funeral services 2 PM Saturday at St John Lutheran with Rev Eric Cash officiating Burial Evergreen Cemetery Welge Funeral Home Chester 9 30 AM to Noon Friday prior death notices list intern Dr David A Caster son of Mr and Mrs A B Caster of 1223 W Freeman St Carbondale who will begin internship in St Louis hospital next month
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verna Newton Powell
Rt. 2
Creal Springs
Marion Memorial Hospital
Williamson County
Marion
Anna Holmes Powell
Recil Buckner
Powell
Verna Jr
Carrier Mills
Leo
Phyllis
Chicago
Eugene
Joliet
Margaret Rushing
Melvin
Harlan
Justin
Normal
Ozark
Rueben
Kankakee
Mt. Moriah Church
Drake Cemetery
Cosby Funeral Home
Sarah Diehl
Maplewood St
Mitchell Funeral Home
David A. Caster
A. B. Caster
W. Freeman St
Carbondale
St. Louis, Mo
Caster
St. Louis University School of Medicine
Margaret Kipp
Chester
She
Frederick and
Laura Hobuss Kipp
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Miss Kipp
Emma Heinks
Loretta Alms
Dorothy Zimmerman
Percy
Charles Heinks
Ralph
Eric Cash
Evergreen Cemetery
Welge Funeral Home
First Herrin pool dance set for teens
Herrin hosts the year's first teenage swim and dance at the Herrin Pool tonight from 8 30 to 10. The weekly summer event is sponsored by the Herrin Park District board of commissioners and open to teens only. The Jades of Herrin provide music for the first two sessions. Admission is 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herrin
Herrin Park
Randolph Head Start enrolls 143 pupils in seven schools
Head Start classes begin this week in Randolph County across Chester Steeleville Spain Coulterville Tilden Evansville and Red Bud. The seven week program targets deprived children four and a half to six years old who may enter kindergarten or first grade next year.
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Randolph County
Vincent Birchler
Chester
Steeleville
Spain
Coulterville
Tilden
Evansville
Red Bud
Ned Carlton
Adrian Phegley
Wayne Lacey
Geraldine Wingerter
Birchler
Fire Calls Report From Benton and Herrin
Fire dispatches record events in Benton and Herrin with multiple minor incidents. Larry Foster's home wiring issue at 803 North Maple due to air conditioner overload caused minor damage. A telephone pole fire on Main Street resulted from burning trash with minor damage. A false Payless Mart alarm cited fogging machine smoke. A weed fire near Herrin along railroad tracks caused no damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton
Larry Foster
N. Maple
E. Main St
Payless Mart
N. Main
Herrin
E. Herrin
Southern Illinoisan Publication Details
The Southern Illinoisan is a daily newspaper published in Carbondale with offices in Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro and carries second class postage. It is the successor to three local papers and uses AP for local and dispatch news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Illnois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Also Mentioned on This Page
Southern Illinois
Herrin City Library
the Arts
Mitchell Gallery
Southern Illinois University Home Economics
Anna Drive-in
Dana Andrews
Richard Harrison
Fox Eastgate
Dr. Goldfoot
Doris Day
Richard Harris
Lawrence Harvey
Varsity
Sound of Music
Julie Andrews
Campus Drive-in
Devil’s Angels
Caire
Elvis Presley
Peter Sellers
Marion Drive-in
Marlows
Riviera Drive-in
Michael Caine
Paul Newman
Strand
West Frankfort
Bullwhip Griffin
Roddy McDowell
Roger Perry
Marion Orpheum
Southern Illinois Golf Association
Sparta Country Club
Cairo
Lee J. Cobb
Anna State Hospital
Athon Cottage
Frank LaFoon
Walter Johnson
Randolph
FURY
Belvederes
Plymouth
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Porter Bros. Motor Sales, Inc
14Th & Liberty ST
Murphysboro, Ill
Karr Motor CO
N. Park
Herrin, Ill
Hamlett Motor Sales
E. Main Eason Motor Co., Inc
Carbondale, Ill
E. Main
Marion, Ill
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