SIU student tied to string of campus burglaries
Police arrested 21 year old Don A Sturtzman of St Anne and seek a second suspect in a series of burglaries linked to loot recovered in a Carbondale house trailer. Two break ins occurred at fraternity houses and one at quarterback Dean Volkmanns apartment.
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Illinois
Southern Illinois University
Champaign
University of Illinois
Dean Volkmann
Carbondale
Sturtzman
SIU
Four youths charged in Dongola vandalism and arson
Four youths including Bobby Pollard and Charles Morrison were charged in Union County with arson and criminal damage for burning two barns and a house and vandalizing Dongola schools. Bonds set at 17000 each. preliminary hearing slated in Jonesboro.
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Dongola
Union County
Jonesboro
Bobby Pollard
Larry Stockman
Clarence Magee
East Prairie
Charles E. Morrison
Indianapolis
Ind
Pollard
Morrison
William Lewis
Giant City State Park
James Brasel
Cobden
Yates
Frank Yates
Dongola - Cypress Blacktop
Ellis Penrod
Penrod
Lewis
Cotton Norris
Piedmont
Norris
Stockman
Magee
Mary Hutchison
Cobden Residents Protest $300,000 Migrant Housing Project
In Cobden residents protested a proposed 300000 migrant labor housing project near Cobden funded by the Farmers Home Administration and Union Jackson County Farm Labor Association. Bids open July 18 with FHA covering 150000 grant and the association 150000 loan.
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Cobden
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Union
Jackson County Farm Labor Association
Farm Labor Association
Frank Bigler
Vil
Soldier earns Bronze Star for Vietnam service
Army Spec. 5 James R. Barnett of Anna, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Barnett, received the Bronze Star Medal for outstanding combat operations in Vietnam from May 1967 to April 1968. He served with the 179th Military Police Detachment near Long Binh and with the 720th Military Police Battalion.
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Army
James R. Barnett
James L. Barnett
Church St
Anna
Vietnam
Barnett
179Th Military Police
Long Binh
Ft. Lewis
Wash
720Th Military Police
Anna Jonesboro Community High School
Southern Illinois University
Draughon’s Business College
Paducah
Horwath and Horwath
Carbondale
Fire reports across Carbondale and West Frankfort
Fire crews dealt with a motor fire in a mail delivery truck owned by Bill Cremeens in Carbondale causing little damage at Baptist Book Store parking lot. In West Frankfort a dump truck fire caused $25 damage at the dump grounds owned by H L Keeper. A late night car fire on West Main Street caused $25 damage to a vehicle owned by Roy Percy of Benton.
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Carbondale
Baptist Book Store
Bill Cremeens
Rt. 3
West Frankfort
H. L. Keeper
West Main Street
Roy Percy
Benton
Rainy Night Crashes Plague Du Quoin Area
State Police report several minor accidents due to slick roads Saturday night as heavy rain pounded areas north of Du Quoin. Water covered sections of roads especially in the Baldwin region, slowing traffic and prompting road cautions.
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du Quoin
Baldwin
Energy clerk resigns ends Summers term as village clerk
Lloyd Summers has resigned as Energy village clerk after taking a postal job in Carbondale. He left because he is now a civil service employee, and the board must name a replacement to serve the remaining ten months of the unexpired term. The board also levied a 1 daily fine on five residents for violating a new trailer ordinance and will open bids for Summer Street maintenance at the June 27 meeting.
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Lloyd Summers
Energy Village
Summers
Carbondale
Civil Service
Murphysboro to study water system upgrades this summer
Improvements planned by the State Sanitary Water Board include two new sewer lines and a nearby water storage tank. Field Supt. Harold Hudson told city officials the projects may cost up to 300000 dollars and could use Housing and Urban Development funds. The city will inspect 10000 feet of service lines with underground television. Leah Wanless, 61, of Murphysboro died Saturday. arrangements are pending.
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Murphysboro
State Sanitary Water Board
Harold Hudson
Water and Sewage Department
Water and Sewage Commission
Hudson
State Water Board
7Th Street
Bridge Street
5Th Street
Rt. 13
Big Muddy River
William Wolfff
John Blankinship
Lake Murphysboro
Serviceman Rescues Youth At Lake Murphysboro Park
A Navy instructor from Memphis pulled six year old Kenneth Chaundy from 15 to 20 foot water after he fell from a main pier at Lake Murphysboro State Park Saturday. The boy was revived by artificial respiration and his father praised the rescuer for saving his son's life.
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Lake Murphysboro State Park
Kenneth Chaundy
Harvey Chaundy
Rt. 4
Murphysboro
Wayne Barringer
Memphis
Bob Smith
Barringer
U.S. Navy School
Favorite sons hold key to nomination margins in 1968 race
Washington dispatch analyzes how two thirds of delegates are yet to be chosen for both parties. It details Nixon Rockefeller dynamics for the GOP and Humphrey McCarthy Kennedy lines for the Democrats, with counts by states, uncommitted blocs, and upcoming conventions in Chicago and Miami Beach.
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Family Weekly
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Willard H. Mobley
Associated Press
Washington
Ronald Reagan
California
Miami Beach
Chicago
Robert F. Kennedy
White House
GOP
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Hubert H. Humphrey
Eugene J. McCarthy
Nixon
Rockefeller
Reagan
Walter J. Hickel
Alaska
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
Frank Carlson
Kansas
George Romney
Michigan
Cliford P. Case
New Jersey
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Dewey Bartlett
Oklahoma
Raymond P. Shafer
Pennsylvania
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
John G. Tower
Texas
Romney
Humphrey
McCarthy
Kennedy
Indiana
Roger D. Branigin
Illinois
Richard Daley
George Wallace
Alabama
George Smathers
Florida
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Richard J. Hughes
Dan K. Moore
North Carolina
Stephen M. Young
Robert E. McNair
John Connally
Connally
Smathers
Shafer backs Rockefeller as Agnew weighs Nixon shift
Pennsylvania Governor Shafer endorses Nelson Rockefeller for the Republican nomination. Maryland Governor Agnew says he has no commitments in the race. Rockefeller gains Shafer support while Agnew critiques Nixon timing. Pennsylvania will cast 64 nominating votes at the GOP convention.
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Maryland
Spiro T. Agnew
White House
Shafer
Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller
Pennsylvania
Agnew
New York
Ogilvie backs Nixon for president with Percy as mate
Richard B. Ogilvie, winner of the GOP governor nomination, says he leans toward Richard Nixon for president and that Senator Charles H. Percy would strengthen the ticket as running mate. He notes Percy would provide geographic and political balance and predicts no bloodbath, only changes in party leadership.
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Chicago
Richard B. Ogilvie
Richard M. Nixon
Charles H. Percy
R.—Ill
Ogilvie
Wmaq-Tv
Percy
Nixon
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Marion
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Conrad
R. Conrad
Herrin
Monroe
Carbondaile
South Illinois
L. H. Jatre
Metropolis
Ferry
U.S
F. Trumble
Leah Wanless
Leah L. Wanless
Meyer - Denny Funeral Home
Coats
Carbondale East Gate
Tulsa
Okla
Gov. Shafer
East Main West
Frankfort
Sawyer
Helleny
W. Frankfort
Brooks
Green’s House of Color
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