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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1959
Page
6
Herrin VFW Auxiliary plans house to house canvass for the Cancer Crusade tonight with 12 members at the VFW post home. A rummage sale is set for Saturday at the auxiliary home with donations due by 6 30 p.m. Friday.
Elizabeth Louise Goeddel and Dale K. Jones wed June 20 at St Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church Waterloo in a candlelight ceremony. The event featured bridesmaids in aqua silk organza, organist Janine Renaud, and a reception in the Parish Hall. The bride, a Waterloo High School and Southern Illinois University graduate, welcomed guests with family support from Goeddel and Jones relatives.
Sunday CBS program Behind The News hosted by Howard K K Smith goes through atoms and radioactivity in simple terms. The writer praises the clear diagrams and engaging delivery, noting it as surprisingly stimulating for a TV audience craving digestible content.
The Sheba Shrine will hold an observance of the Priestess and Watchman of Shepherds night Friday at 8 p m in the Carbondale Masonic Lodge. Sor Vivian M. Parrish and Tom O. Cremeens are honored guests. Regular officers are to attend in formals.
In Johnston City Mr. and Mrs. Don Owsley and children Susan and Mickey of Chicago visit this week with Mrs. Eli and family. Her parents Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eli of Torrance California are also guests of the Elis.
Wilma Walker married Alex Oliz at Hurricane Memorial Baptist Church Herrin. The ceremony was by Rev Lowell Ragains to close family. The couple resides in Chicago where Oliz works as an electrician and Mrs Oliz is a typist at Stewart Warner Corp.
The Herrin United Fund board of directors will meet Tuesday at noon to name associate fund drive chairmen. Joe Coughlin is chairman of the drive. It is expected to begin Oct. 1. Conrad Moss UF president said leaders and workers will likely be named at the meeting.
Sixteen members of the High School Class of Johnston City attended a picnic dinner and swimming party at Carterville Beach after morning church services. Mrs Ben L Baiar a teacher and Mr and Mrs Lowell Houston and Mrs Stella Smith attended as guests.
Mr and Mrs Frank Thomas of Johnston City depart Tuesday for Anaheim to stay a month with their son George. Accompanied by Mrs Faye Farris of Johnston City she will visit her son Frank in Pomona until August 1.
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