Arts and Film and Music Calendar Southern Illinois
Art exhibit featuring Margo Hoff David Slivka and others runs June 17 to July 3 at Mitchell Gallery SIU free admission. Egyptian Music Camp concert 8 p.m. Friday at Du Quoin Grandstand. Harpsichord recital 8 p.m. Friday Home Economics Auditorium free admission. Summer Music Theater stage production A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Forum 8 p.m. Friday Saturday Sunday Muckelroy Auditorium with student price 1 50 adults 2 25. Multiple drive-ins list current features including The Private Navy of Sgt OFarrell and The Odd Couple with showtimes beginning 7:30 p.m. plus weekend matinees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margo Hoff
David Slivka
Jeff Hoare
Mitchell
Southern Illinois University
du Quoin State Fairgrounds Grandstand
the Arts Southern
Illinois
University
Frances Bedford
Sara Benson
Myron Kartman
Home Economics
Southern
Muckelroy
Anna Drive-in
Riviera Drive-in
O’farrell
Former Ava woman dies after intruder scuffle
Helen L. Whisler 59 of Jerseyville died at St Mary's Hospital East St. Louis from injuries after a Sunday night confrontation with an intruder in her apartment. Police said she grappled with the man as he fled with her purse, was knocked down a flight of steps, and died Wednesday morning. She was a WWII Waves veteran. Funeral services were set for Ava.
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Ava
St. Mary’s Hospital
East St. Louis
Helen L. Whisler
Miss Whisler
Jerseyville
Internal Revenue Service
Edward and
Effie Thompson Whisler
Job Corps reception set at Crab Orchard center
A third annual open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday will be held at the Crab Orchard Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center. Woodrow Austin says visitors can see corpsmen projects learn about the education program and tour facilities with governmental and civic leaders expected to attend. The center on Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge is administered by the U.S. Interior Department and Office of Economic Opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Egypt
Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of
Barber Shop Quartet
Singing In America, Inc
Herrin High School
du Quoin State Fairgrounds
Job Corps
Crab Orchard Civilian Conservation Center
Orcill
Colp
Chautauqua Road
Carbondale
West Frankfort Park
West Frankfort City Park
Crab Orchard Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center
Woodrow Austin
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Rt. 148
U.S. Interior Department
Office of Economic Opportunity
Southern Illinoisan Newspaper Filing and Address Notes
The Southern Illinoisan is published daily except Saturdays and holidays by Southern Illinoisan Inc with multiple offices in Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro and Carbondale postal services. The paper is the successor to the Carbondale Free Press Herrin Daily Journal and Murphysboro Independent with AP republication rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North
Ilinois Avenue
Carbondale
16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Illnois
Southern Iindian
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Associated Press
Gasoline fumes report at Bailey's Service Station
At 11:25 p m on Wednesday firefighters responded to Bailey's Service Station 300 S Park Ave for gasoline fumes leaking from an underground tank with no damage reported. Ronald Holder of Carbondale Mobile Home Park reported a tape recorder and eight tapes stolen from his car at Italian Village 405 S Washington Ave valued around $80.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herrin
Bailey’s
S. Park Ave
Ronald Holder
Carbondale Mobile Home Park
S. Washington Ave
Holder
Du Quoin recall vote set for Saturday on two propositions
Du Quoin residents vote Saturday on two recall propositions for City Commissioner Tom Moss and City Commissioner Jerome Roznowski. Polls open 6 am to 6 pm at five precincts with cross marks required. observers will watch precincts as recalls stem from adopted building, plumbing and electrical codes and three councilmen appealed.
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du Quoin
Illinois
Tom Moss
Jerome Roznowski
Theobald
City Hall
Elizabeth Siebert
S. Walnut St
Anderson Memorial
N. Maple St
Scout House
N. Division St
R. A. Wheatley
E. Franklin St
Moss
Roznowski
Anna-Jonesboro School Board Awards 1968-69 Contracts
The Anna-Jonesboro High School board awarded contracts for coal milk bread and gasoline for 1968-69. West Brothers coal at 9 dollars per ton Kelleys Farm Fresh milk at 6.5 cents a pint homogenized 7 cents a pint chocolate 4 14? No 7 cents for half pints of chocolate milk Bunny Bread 17 and 21 cents a loaf 14 cents for hamburger buns 18 cents for hot dog buns 10 per package Petty Oil Co gasoline at 19.8 cents per gallon The board also designated the First National Bank as district funds depository for the next fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna-Jonesboro High School
West Brothers
Kelley’s Farm Fresh
Bunny Bread
Petty Oil Co
First National Bank
City to Hire New Policeman
The Carbondale Police and Fire Merit Board recommended three men to Police Chief Jack Hazel to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Patrolman Elijah Wayne Thames. Board chair Robert Brooks said they also interviewed two new applicants and sent condolences to Thames widow. Hazel expects a selection in about ten days after background medical and agility tests.
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Carbondale Police and Fire Merit Board
Jack Hazel
Ptl
Elijah Wayne Thames
Robert Brooks
Thames
Hazel
Final public concert features camp performers and band
The final concert at 8 p.m. Saturday will feature the campers and the senior high school band. The junior high band will also perform in the program, highlighting student talent.
Two Injured When Car Flips Near Ridgway Junction
Two St Louis men were seriously hurt when their car ran off the road near the Rt 1 junction with the Ridgway blacktop in Saline County. Driver Frank Knox 23 and passenger Charles Williamson 18 were treated at Pierce Hospital Eldorado after the car struck a stop sign and overturned into a ditch.
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St. Louis
Saline County
Frank Knox
Charles Williamson
Pierce Hospital
Eldorado
Carbondale Teen Center Plans Evening Dance and Youth Council
The Carbondale Teen Center will host a dance from 8 to 11 p.m. at 211 W. Jackson St. The Hixon Band performs. Admission is 50 cents for members and 75 cents for non members. Membership cards cost 1 dollar for summer or 3 dollars for year. Petitions for Teen Council available with 15 signatures required, due 11 p.m. June 28, voting June 29 July 5 and 6. Only members may petition or vote.
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Carbondale
W. Jackson St
Hixon
Teen Center
Cindy Neill
Teen Council
Miss Neill
VFW Names Sheriff as Security Officer at State Convention
Union County sheriff He witt Lamer of Jonesboro serves as security officer for the Veterans of Foreign Wars state convention in Chicago from Thursday through Saturday. He was appointed by Robert Witcher, state VFW commander. Lamer notes the Carroll P. Foster Post 3455 VFW club surpassed 1,000 memberships with 1,004 members.
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Union County
Hewitt Lamer
Jonesboro
Chicago
Robert Witcher
Carroll P. Foster
Lamer
Carbondale Parents Push Grade School Integration
About 125 Carbondale Grade School District parents presented petitions to the school board urging study and possible full integration. An advisory committee meets weekly and will report by July 18. the board will await the committee’s recommendations before acting, with a possible July 23 meeting to hear the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
William Boor
Citizens Advisory Committee
Brush Grade School approves team teaching pilot plan
Carbondale Grade School Board approved a team teaching pilot for Brush Grade School sixth grades. The 13 page proposal by Mrs Janet Lewis and William P Sundermeyer outlines two teachers planning teaching and evaluating the class in two sixth grade rooms one converted to a lecture room and the other to a group study room.
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Brush
Carbondale
Janet Lewis
William P. Sundermeyer
Sundermeyer
Mary Elizabeth Morgan
Florida State University
Parrish School
SIU
Esther Marie Westerfield
Brush School
Marsha Lane
Greenfield
Mildred Bass
Anna Marie Williams
Wutzler
Parrish
Sue Roll
Nancy L. Godke
Lenora Crowell
Springmore
Mary C. Maltais
Ann Starke
Linda Farris
Attucks
Harvell Named Civil Defense Director for Union County
Lonnie Harvell of Anna has been named Civil Defense Director for Union County to succeed Raymond Cole. Harvell was appointed by the Union County Board of Commissioners while Cole remains chief of security at Anna State Hospital and served as county Civil Defense Director for two years.
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Lonnie Harvell
Anna
Union County
Raymond Cole
Harvell
Union County Board of Commissioners
Cole
Anna State Hospital
Plan approved to group students by abilities for daylong teaching
The schedule will continue activities by grouping students with similar needs. Team teaching will give more individual time and allow more than one teacher all day. The program starts in September and uses existing facilities with no extra district costs.
Classroom rental approved with new hires at Carbondale schools
The Carbondale Grade School board agreed to rent eight Brush Grade School classrooms to St. Francis Xavier Church for religious instruction during a new building's construction. Fourteen new teachers were hired across several schools at salaries up to 6,240 dollars. The board also sought bids for insurance, painting, coal hauling, and bread and dairy contracts while approving fund transfers and anticipated building warrants.
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Riverside
Carbondale Railroad Relocation Board
Southern IT Illinois University
Marie Tetley
Wilma Buford
Mary Evelyn Gola
Union
Wilson Funeral Home
Conrad Gerloff
Ava Evergreen Cemetery
Marion
Pauline Morrison
S. Carbon St
du Quoin State Fair
Stud Sol Plant
Horstman
So. University
W. H. Beckmeyer
Mount Vernon Junior College
Fairgrounds
Ridgway
Carbondale Teen Center
VFW
Fedders
ST. Illinois
John C. Taylor
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
St. Francis Xavier Church
Poplar Street
Laurence Martin
Artie Smith
Martin
Winkler
Thomas
New Era Dairy
Freeman Coal Co
Helen Mowry
Nabers
Jackson
Tenn
Jeanne M. Coats
Denice Brown
Lewis School
Carterville Bank
Gym Sraeam Savines Bane
F.D.I.C
Ostermoor
Helleny
North 14Th St
Mardale Shopping Center
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