Herrin High alumni reunion sparks name recall trials
More than 150 Herrin High School graduates from classes 1906 to 1926 gathered at the First United Methodist Church for a weekend reunion in Herrin. Organizers, including Wilson Harland, sent invitations from far as California and Florida. Relatives and friends, faces recognized but names forgotten, milled through a reception, school tour, and banquet as old classmates reunited.
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Herrin
Herrin High School
Don Holland
First United Methodist Church
Holland
Wilson Harland
California
Florida
Michigan
New Jersey
Arizona
Sam Green
Harland
Karen Cooper
Mise Cooper
Lelle Otey
James E. Mohan
Cambria
Cambria Herrin reunion memories and war era chats
Residents recall school days in Herrin Cambria fifty years ago many wore sweaters and than shoulder pads while biking to school and using the electric railroad. Lucille Howell notes World War I era boys went to war but all returned. A reporter is challenged as the scene unfolds with familiar names and a reunion mood.
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Mohan
Cambria
Herrin
Lucille V. Howell
T’'ra
Lloyd
England charges reduced from six to three
Marion Memorial Hospital administrator Nolan England had three counts of failing to report an adverse drug reaction allowed to stand while three counts alleging handling of adulterated drugs were dismissed. Judge Dorothy Spomer ruled the dismissed counts added nothing new, and evidence remains admissible for trial.
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Karen Rothe
Marion Memorial Hospital
Nolan England
Dorothy Spomer
England
Alma Dewey Hill
Hill
Atty
Robert Howerton
Howerton
Williamson County
Illinois
Charles Winters
Winters
Michael Wiseman
Supreme Court
Shawnee College ends Vienna Correctional Center programs
Shawnee College will move all correctional center classes to its Ullin campus this fall plus extension sites in the five county area. President Loren Klaus cites grant cutbacks as a key factor while associate dean Hartzel Black laments loss of a leading program and notes ongoing efforts to maintain education for Vienna residents.
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Hartzel Black
Shawnee College
Vienna
Loren E. Klaus
Ullin
Klaus
Illinois Community College Board
Black
Onee College
Iowa
Vienna Correctional Center
Vienna Center
Illinois Dept. of Corrections
Vernon Housewright
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Siuc
Housewright
Barbers Predict Carter Edge in Southern Illinois Vote
In Southern Illinois barber shops, Louis Russell and customers discuss politics with Carter favored as the likely Democratic nominee. Some see Reagan or Ford as possible winners, while others think the 1976 race will lean Democratic despite mixed views on Carter.
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Gary Sosniecki
Southern Illinoisan
Louis Russell
Jimmy Carter
Murphysboro
Russell
Georgia
George Gallup
Louis Harris
Carter
Paul Trammel
Grand Tower
Trammel
Ilinois Central Gulf Railroad
Southern Illinois
Herrin
Cleatus Russell
Charles Morgan
Curt
Carbondale
Reagan
Morgan
Ed Watts
Ford
Watts
Hollywood
Clarence Overturf
Norge Co
Overturf
Bill Fletcher
Joanne Wood
Beauty salons buzz with Elizabeth Ray talk in Southern Illinois
Hairdressers in Herrin Marion Carbondale and Carterville discuss Elizabeth Ray and politics breaking unwritten rules from beauty school. Clients swap opinions on Washington scandals and sex allegations while shop chatter shifts to products and family health.
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Tina Davis
Herrin
Elizabeth Ray
Miss Davis
Miss Ray
Pauline Donelson
Curl and Swirl
Marion
Modernelle
Carterville
Nelle Gentry
Donna Fozzard
Marinello
Connie Bandera
Washington
Ann
Reba High
Carterville man burned by creosote at plant
A 67-year-old Carterville man, Bertie Wemmer, suffered burns and a broken arm when a compression tank exploded at the T S & F Creosoting plant west of Cambria. He was in satisfactory condition at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale after the blast occurred about 1 a.m. Wemmer was inspecting a leak he heard when the explosion hurled a steel door and drenched him in creosote.
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Carterville
T S & F Creosoting, Inc
Cambria
Bertie Wemmer
Memorial Hospital of
Carbondale
Robert George
Wemmer
George
Du Quoin Man Killed, Carbondale Couple Injured in Crash
Irwin Saunders a 34 year old Du Quoin man died after a car truck collision on the Lesser blacktop 2.5 miles west of Illinois 148. Ronald Ross 38 of Carbondale and his wife Marilyn 37 were treated for injuries at area hospitals and listed in stable condition.
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du Quoin
Carbondale
Illinois
Irwin Saunders
Good Samaritan Hospital
Mt. Vernon
Marshall Browning
Ronald J. Ross
Franklin County Hospital
Marilyn
Rubin Reconsiders Sex Pot Research After Senate Cut
Harris B. Rubin, associate professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Medicine, plans private funding for his marijuana and sexual behavior study after a Senate vote blocked federal support. He estimates needing 60 000 to 80 000 dollars more and will begin letters of inquiry to foundations while weighing book offers and an address to the American Psychological Association.
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Henry de Fiebre
Southern Illinoisan
Harris B. Rubin
Rubin
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale School of Medicine
U.S. Senate
Senate
American Psychological Association
Washington, D.C
Elizabeth Ray
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Carl Benedict
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Ilinois
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Handi Klipper
Bors
Miss High
Congress
St. Louis
Chicago
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