Murphysboro Park to Boost Traffic Safety for Fourth of July
Park Board approves traffic control changes at Murphysboro Riverside Park to separate playgrounds from the main road and add a wire fence and three stop signs. Work underway with installation slated before the Fourth of July celebration attracting about 15 000 to 20 000 visitors.
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Murphysboro
Riverside Park
Park Board
Ray Crawshaw
Circle Drive
Crawshaw
24Th Street
Commercial Avenue
Joe Williams
Murphysboro Aggregates Lead in Polio Clinic Turnout
Murphysboro residents provided the strongest response to Jackson County polio vaccination clinics. Of 1 981 total shots, 852 were in Murphysboro, 828 in Carbondale, and 301 at eight outlying sites. About 86 percent of first shot recipients returning for the second, with Murphysboro at 93 percent and Carbondale at 80 percent.
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Murphysboro
Jackson County
Carbondale
Jackson County Health Dept
Camel Eye Feature Hidden Beneath Extra Eyelid in Sandstorms
Britannica notes a camel possesses a supplementary eyelid that lets it see during sandstorms. The passage appears amid a garbled OCR of Southern Illinoisian newspaper pages detailing publication data and printer notes for Carbondale and Herrin editions.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Carterville Man Injured in Vehicle Crash Near Town
Park Ervine age 66 of 220 Snyder Street Carterville sustained lacerations and a possible fractured shoulder when his car left the road and struck a concrete culvert one mile north of Carterville at 5 30 p m Friday. He was taken to Herrin Hospital and later transferred to Marion Veterans Hospital with the condition listed as satisfactory. The car suffered heavy damage.
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Park Ervine
Snyder St
Carterville
Herrin Hspital
Marion Veterans Hospital
Ervine
Murphysboro City Hall Acceptance Check Looms
Murphysboro's new city hall, in use for nearly two years, faces a final acceptance check in weeks. The council approved $3,000 payment to Oakes Construction and withheld $2,300, citing door, exhaust fan, and material issues. The panel ordered the contractor to begin work within 30 days or city will finish the tasks and deduct costs from held funds.
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City Hall
Murphysboro
Oakes Construction Co
Metropolis
Noti
Walnut
12Th Streets
Wedding postponed after groom injured in crash
Donald D. Schroeder a 21 year old Bremen man is in Chester Hospital with facial lacerations after a Saturday auto accident on Rt 150 near the Percy wye. He was to wed Wanda Davis in Bremen Saturday night but the ceremony was postponed until his release.
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Donald D. Schroeder
Bremen
Chester Hospital
District 13
Schroeder
Rt. 150
Percy Wye
Wanda Davis
Pincknerville
Former Chester man dies in East St. Louis crash
Roy Laverne Turner 31 of 1527 Natalie Ave East St Louis died after a two car collision at Washington Place and College Avenue East St Louis. Lois M Naeve 51 of East St Louis was ticketed for reckless driving. Turner a shipping clerk at Corn Belt laboratory was born April 24 1928 in Wolf Lake and survived by wife Laverne Spivery Turner son Billy Ray Turner daughter Vickie Joyce Turner and many siblings. Funeral arrangements pending at Schroeder Funeral Home with services by Rev Flood Tent at Chester Baptist Church burial in McClure Cemetery.
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Chester
East St. Louis
Roy Laverne Turner
Natalie Ave
Turner
St. Mary's Hospital
Lois M. Naeve
Washington Place
College Avenue
Naeve
Cornbelt Laboratory
Wolf Lake
Herbert Turner
Laverne Spivery Turner
Billy
Schroeder
Flood
Chester Baptist Church
McClure Cemetery
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Southern Illinoisan
Southern Ulinos Publications, Inc
Main Street
Sweet Herrin
Mmarpheshore
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Herrin
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Carbondale Pree Press
Associated Press
Exeim
United States
Ben Porter
Brad Brouilette
Chester Kessel
E. A. Bantel
Carl Fraley
South 3Rd Street
Roy McGee
Williams
Water and Sewage Commission
Locust Street
Claude Hiser
Hiser
Bae Og
Illinois
Maytag
Weinger
Craggs
Devillez
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