Circulation up 20 percent as Carbondale Library reports
Carbondale Public Library saw 33 276 loans in the year ending May 31 up 20 percent from five years ago. Children’s books accounted for much of the rise. Librarian Fern Brewer told the City Council the library needs more books and noted 925 borrowed from state and regional libraries to meet demand.
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Carbondale
State Library
Region 6
Southern Illinois Regional Library
Brewer
Friends of the Library
E. S. Tuegel
Lucy P. Barrow
Library Board
Murphysboro Band Picked for Illinois State Fair
The Murphysboro Federation Band is selected to perform at the Illinois State Fair for the 32nd year in a row. State Sen. R. G. Crisenberry announced the selection this week. The band will play August 14 and 15 with section details to be announced later.
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Murphysboro Federation
R. G. Crisenberry
Murphysboro
Fred Sharp Dies at 69 in Zeigler
Fred Sharp 69 of 113 North Pine Zeigler died 5 45 PM Wednesday at Herrin Hospital after long illness. He was a retired miner and UMWA Local 9018 member. Survived by wife Laura, brother Charles of West Frankfort, stepchildren Mrs George Kolar Zeigler and Leon Fetgatter Hampton VA. Funeral 2 PM Friday at Zeigler First Baptist Church Rev Albert Moore officiating burial Zeigler Cemetery. Friends may call Vantrease Funeral Home Zeigler after 7 PM today.
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Fred Sharp
Pine St
Zeigler
Herrin Hospital
UMWA
Laura
Charles
West Frankfort
George Kolar
Leon Fetgatter
Hampton
Zeigler First Baptist Church
Albert Moore
Zeigler Cemetery
Friends May Eall
Vantrease
Special recipes for the Fourth of July weekend
A reader notes upcoming long weekend meals and offers several make ahead recipes to simplify cooking during the Fourth of July holiday. Readers are invited to try the suggested dishes for easy entertaining and seasonal flavors.
Modern Sporty Outfit Aims For Older Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts plan a high school program starting in November that lets older youths swap the traditional uniform for a blue sport coat white shirt maroon tie and gray slacks. It targets 14 to 17 year olds and offers specialties like atomic energy and radio posts with topics from hi fi to zoology. The explorer uniform remains for official duties.
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Emmett Cockrum
Boy Scout Council
Col. Cockrum
Terest
Waltonville Man Fined $200 in Herrin for DWI and Leaving Scene
Hollis Dees, 28, was fined $200 and $7.90 costs by Herrin Police Magistrate Earl May for driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of two accidents. He faces six months in Williamson County jail if the fine and costs are not paid. Dees was arrested after sightings by Zeigler police. license number reported to Herrin police following incidents near Monroe street and South Park avenue.
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Waltonville
Herrin
Earl May
Hollis Dees
Williamson County
Dees
Zeigler
Monroe Street
South Park Ave
Summer Band Concerts Open in Murphysboro Riverside Park
The Murphysboro Municipal Band opens a summer series at Riverside Park Shell tonight at 8 pm with a varied program of popular and classical music and marches. The series will run Thursday nights through the summer at the Green Lantern tavern.
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Murphysboro
Riverside Park Shell
Joe Williams
Herrin Plans Bloodmobile Visit At Elks Lodge
Plans are set for a Bloodmobile visit in Herrin from noon to 6 p m Saturday. Donors go to the Elks Lodge basement at their convenience. Herrin’s goal is 175 pints to continue the program after 248 pints were donated at the last visit.
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Herrin
Frank Ballone
Elks Lodge
Edmundson Named to Hospital Assn Board
Jack B. Edmundson, Carbondale Doctors Hospital administrator, has been named to the Illinois Hospital Association Board of Trustees. He is a past president of the Association's 10th district and vice president of the Illinois chapter of the American Association of Hospital Accountants.
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Jack B. Edmundson
Carbondale Doctors
Illinois Hospital Assn
Edmundson
Association
Illinois
The
American Assn. of Hospital Accountants
Veteran CIPS employee retires at Anna after 37 years
Harry W. Clancy of Villa Ridge Illinois will retire Monday from Central Illinois Public Service Co after nearly 37 years of continuous service. He joined CIPS in 1921 as a groundman at Anna and has spent his entire career there as apprentice lineman and patrolman.
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Harry W. Clancy
Villa Ridge
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Anna
Clancey
CIPS
Radio Check Set Hams To Test Net In Murphysboro
Murphysboro amteur radio club plans a 24 hour emergency drill starting 3 p m Saturday with about 10 000 hams nationwide. Civil defense officer Don Cornell leads the effort around Kiwanis Ground Observer Corps station near Lake Murphysboro.
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Murphysboro
Cornell
Southern Illinois Press asserts exclusive metal negation claim
Fragmentary newspaper notice from Carbondale Murphysboro Herrin and surrounding towns states the Southern Illinois Press prints an exclusive claim. Limited readable text hints at a legal or business notice regarding publication rights and matter distribution.
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Southern
Southern Illinois
Prowler Reported Near Carbondale Home
A prowler was reported at 506 S Poplar St Carbondale around 2 40 a m today. Police found no one.
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S. Poplar St
Carbondale
Boy Hit By Car Unhurt In Carbondale Incident
A five year old Carbondale boy Ricky Petty escaped serious harm after being struck by a slowly moving car driven by Thomas L. Cox 28 of Carterville at about 310 p m on South Washington Avenue He was treated at Holden Hospital for cuts and bruises and had no broken bones His mother said the child ran into the street nearby his home at 416 South Washington Avenue His brother Terry 7 was present but not struck and the car collided with the bumper. In a separate Wednesday crash Leah McClain 16 and James L Kovar 42 were involved in a second collision nearby.
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Carbondale
South Washington Avenue
Ricky Petty
B. J. Petty
Thomas L. Cox
Rt. 2
Carterville
S. Washington Ave
Holden Hospital
Collision on North Washington Ave In Carbondale
Miss McClain backed from a parking place in the 100 block on North Washington Avenue. Kovar drove along Washington Avenue and the two collided.
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Carbondale
Washington Avenue
Miss McClain
Kovar
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Benefit of
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