Southern Illinois on Calendar Highlights Local Events
Du Quoin Lions Club hosts its 26th carnival with a free midway and Saturday matinee for children at Keyes City Park. Egyptian Music Camp hosts a public concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds grandstand. Movie listings include multiple venues such as Marion and Riviera drive-ins with films like Dr Zhivago and A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die. Public meetings list local authorities and school boards meeting Monday. CWO Gale Blessing promoted at Fort Wolters Texas with family listed in Carbondale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Drive-In
Riviera Drive-in
Campus Drive-in
Fox Eastgate
Orpheum
Iady
Phyllis Diller
Africa
Varsity
Carbondale
Josie
Anna
Joe
Marlows
Murphysboro
Southern Illinois Airport Authority
Century High School District Board
Dongola Unit School Board
Jonesboro
Kaskaskia
University Center
Southern Ilinois University
Pinckneyville
Elverado Unit
Elverado High School
du Quoin
Ward School
Gale Edward Blessing
Fort Wolters
Tex
Blessing
Clarence
Chestnut St
CWO
Sherry Lee
Mineral Wells
Gell-Mann Receives Honorary Degree at Illinois
Murray Gell-Mann, Millikan professor at Caltech and a leading nuclear physicist, was awarded an honorary degree at the University of Illinois commencement. He helped formulate the eightfold way and predicted the omega minus particle later seen at Brookhaven in 1964. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Mohiuddin Nanawar of SIU will present a paper in Madison on dense algae in shallow waters with Jacob Verduin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Gell-Mann
Millikan
California Institute of Technology
University of Illinois
Gell-Mann
Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan University
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton
N. Y
Institute For Advanced Study
Princeton
N. J
Mohiuddin Nanawar
Southern Ilinois University
Madison
Wis
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Jacob Verduin
SIU
Fire department reports May alarms and fires in Carbondale
Fire Department reports 44 alarms in May with 16 actual city fires and 20 false alarms. Loss estimated at 27,200 on property valued at 11,195,300. Ambulance calls totaled 28 and eight emergency runs.
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Carbondale
Almont Crawshaw
Crawshaw
Legality questioned on Job Corps help for camp convention
A council approved a resolution urging Job Corps aid for the July NCHA convention at Du Quoin to arrange trailer camping sites and sanitation facilities. The regional office questions NCHA's eligibility, while supporters call it a gesture of goodwill and assistance.
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National Campers and Hikers Association
NCHA
du Quoin
Citizens Advisory Council
Crab Orchard Civilian Conservation Center
du Quoin State Fairgrounds
Job Corps
Neil Thurmond
Thurmond
Alfred Noakes
Seven Associates VISTA workers to serve Jackson Williamson
Seven Associate VISTA workers are due in Jackson and Williamson counties for eight weeks of work and training in Carbondale Murphysboro Marion and Colp. Eight regular VISTA workers are delayed until fall. Names and details of the summer associates are listed with their hometowns.
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VISTA
Jackson
Williamson
Carbondale
Murphysboro
Marion
Colp
Mary Helen Gasser
Jackson - Williamson
Father and sons hospitalized after Rt 14 collision near Benton
A West Frankfort father Albert J. Gordon 45 and his three sons Edward 12 Roy 9 and Richard 4 were seriously injured Friday in a two truck crash on Rt 14 three miles west of Benton near the Big Muddy River bridge. Gordon and his sons were treated at Franklin County Hospital and Franklin Memorial Hospital in Benton while driver Orville L. Grant 34 of Marion escaped injury.
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West Frankfort
Rt. 14
Benton
Albert J. Gordon
Rt. 3
Franklin County Hospital
Franklin Hospital
Edward
Roy
Richard
Gordon
Orville L. Grant
Rt. 1
Marion
Grant
Big Muddy River Bridge
Rt. 13
Rt. 148
Claron R. Phelps
Carbondale
Marion Memorial Hospital
Clarence E. Greeney
Johnston City
Wanda Greeney
Write-in presidential option appears on Illinois Union County ballots
In Union County primary June 11 the presidential office was printed with a write-in space while state certification omitted the office. Clerk Fred Blaylock added the president line for Democrats and Republicans. 521 Democratic write-ins were cast in Union County, plus 821 Republican write-ins for Nixon. Humphrey 305 and McCarthy 133 on Democratic ballots. Voters elsewhere lacked the write-in option due to missing office on ballots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union County
The
United States
Illinois Association of County Clerks and Recorders
Don Ed
Index Dept
Secretary of State’s
Fred Blaylock
Blaylock
Richard Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
Nominations Open for Sub-district 7 UMWA Board
Nominations for Sub-district 7 United Mine Workers board members are due within two months as area locals in Williamson Franklin Jefferson and Saline counties prepare for elections in December. Current member Chester Gossett of West Frankfort has held the post since September 1963.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Mine Workers of America
Williamson
Franklin
Jefferson
Saline
Illinois
Chester Gossett
West Frankfort
International Union
George Morris
Freeman Coal Mining Corp
Orient 4
Johnston City
Gene Mitchell
Lloyd Robinson
Freeman
Orient 3
Waltonville
Old Ben Coal Corp
No. 9
Shawnee获Head Start联邦资助103842美元
Shawnee发展理事会获批103,842美元联邦资金用于夏季Head Start项目，覆盖Alexander Massac Johnson Union四县。Union县75名儿童在Cobden Anna Jonesboro Wolf Lake Dongola等中心就读。Johnson县90名儿童在Goreville Simpson Tunnel Hill Cypress Vienna中心就读。Massac县135名儿童在Joppa Brookport Metropolis中心，Alexander县 Cairo设一中心30名儿童。 Pulaski与Alexander两县全年项目在Mounds Grand Chain Cairo设中心。
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Shawnee Development Council
Alexander
Massac
Johnson
Union Counties
Union County
Cobden
Anna
Jonesboro
Wolf Lake
Dongola
Johnson County
Goreville
Simpson
Tunnel Hill
Cypress
Vienna
Massac County
Joppa
Brookport
Metropolis
Alexander County
Cairo
Pulaski
Alexander Counties
Mounds
Grand Chain
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Heart of Egypt Coin Club
Herrin City Hall
West Frankfort City
Herrin
14Th St. Herrin
Little Egypt
S.P.E.B.S.Q.S
Herrin High School
Margo Hoff
David Slivka
Jeff Hoare
Mitchell Gallery
Chicago
Robert Gonzalez
Florentia Varacis
Charlie Graves
Bob Quayle
Kent
Ohio
Mary Colleen Newton
Watertown
Minn
Gary Smithson
Glencoe
Susan Walsh
Galesburg
Mardale Center
Lookout Point
Crab Orchard Lake
Ingrid Mussard
Richard Mussard
Car
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Walnut Street
Ilinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Associated Press
AP News
Campos & Murdele Shopping
Billy Branch
Farnham
Ihinois
Carbondale Loan
North Illinois
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