Record spin set July 4 at Rend Lake in Southern Illinois
A new outdoor event called the spin debuts July 4 at Rend Lake near Pharoah's Gardens marina. Sponsored by the Southern Illinois Youth Association and WQRX, the free program runs 8 30 p m to 11 30 p m with live radio personalities broadcasting from the shoreline.
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Southern Illinois
Rend Lake
Southern Illinois Youth Association
SITYA
Benton
WQRX
Ted Stotlar II
SIVA
Pharoah
Ned Mitchell
Mitchell
Teen Town openings in Herrin and West Frankfort issue
The Herrin Teen Town will be open Friday and Saturday from 7 to 11 45 p.m. and the West Frankfort Youth Center welcomes seventh and eighth grade students Tuesday from 7 30 to 9 30 p.m.
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Herrin
West Frankfort
United Airlines settles Hunt death suit for 300000
United Airlines agrees to pay 300000 to the estate of Dorothy Hunt widow of Watergate burglar E Howard Hunt. The settlement approved by Circuit Judge David A Canel ends a 1973 suit by William F Buckley Jr executor seeking 2 million. The crash near Midway Airport on December 8 1972 killed 45 people including Mrs Hunt amid hush money rumors.
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Chicago
United Airlines
E. Howard Hunt
David A. Canel
Dorothy Hunt
Midway Airport
William F. Buckley Jr
Buckley
Hunt
Saxe pleads innocent in 1970 patrolman murder case
Susan Saxe, once on the FBI most wanted list, pleads innocent to first degree murder and two armed robbery counts tied to the 1970 patrolman killing. Walter McLaughlin orders she be held without bail at Worcester County Jail pending trial, not until September. President Ford and Nelson Rockefeller attend Met picnic at Wolf Trap Farm Park before the La Bohème opening.
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Boston
FBI
Susan Saxe
Walter McLaughlin
Suffolk Superior Court
Worcester County House of Correction
Fords
Rockefellers
Met
Washington
Ford
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Metropolitan Opera
Wolf Trap Farm Park
Virginia
Publisher Eugene Pulliam Dies at 86 in Phoenix
Eugene Pulliam, noted conservative publisher of Arizona and Indiana papers, died Monday at his Phoenix home at age 86. He led 46 newspapers and radio stations during 63 years, served as AP director, and shaped Republican politics. Born May 3, 1889 in Kansas, he helped found DePauw Daily and Sigma Delta Chi.
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New York
Eugene Collins Pulliam
Arizona
Indiana
Phoenix
Pulliam
Arizona Republic
Indianapolis Star
Muncie
Ind
Star and Muncie Press
Vincennes, Ind
Sun-Commercial
The
Associated Press
Grand County
Kansas
DePauw University
DePauw Daily
Sigma Delta Chi
Society of Professional Journalists
Former U.S. Treasurer Ivy Baker Priest dies at 69
Ivy Baker Priest, who rose from poverty to become the second woman to serve as U.S. Treasurer, died of cancer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953, she later became California's first woman state treasurer in 1966 and was re-elected in 1970 before declining another term due to health.
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Ivy Baker Priest
United States
California
Barbra Whitley Crowned Miss Du Quoin
Barbra Whitley, 16, was crowned Miss Du Quoin at the Du Quoin Lions Club carnival. She succeeds Della Falk. Runners up were Allyce Cucchi Kimberlee Miller and Lyla Purcell, all daughters of local residents.
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Barbra Whitley
du Quoin
Miss Whitley
Herschel Whitley
Della Falk
Allyce Cucchi
Joe Cucchi
Kimberlee Miller
Robbert D. Miller
Lyla Purcell
George Purcell
Lifeguards Say It Is the Best Job on Campus
lifeguards in southern illinois describe their work as exciting outdoor sun soaked and rewarding. the job offers 30 to 40 hours weekly and involves teaching swimming giving lessons and guarding pools in herrin carbon dale pinckneyville and crab orchard lake. many guards began after red cross or ymca training and remark on the instinct to act during a save.
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Jim Sackett
Southern Illinois
Chuck Kimzey
Pinckneyville
Kimzey
Red Cross
YMCA
Larry Hennessy
Campus Lake
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Pat Salmo
Herrin
Mike Murphy
Murphy
Hennessy
Sevon
Patty Allen
Crab Orchard Lake
We Want You To Know booklet from Blue Cross and Blue Shield
An advertising notice promotes a free booklet titled We Want You To Know from Blue Cross and Blue Shield. It describes the company’s dedication to protecting health and interests and invites readers to write Jim Strong in Chicago for a copy.
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Jim Strong
Dept. O
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
North
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Illinois
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Lake
Anwar Sadat
Miami
Mexico
State Department
Mexico City
Eugene Pulliam
Cies
New York Times
Santa Monica, Calif
George Holton
Wrigley Field Cubs
Reds
Polly
Springfield
Vail, Colorado
Blue Cross Association
National Association of Blue Shield Plans
Donnally’s
Old Smokey
Hospital Service Corporation
Illinois Medical Service
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