Elkville Reading Center Project Moves Ahead
Elkville Reading Center efforts advance with Elverado Education Association members Teft Ray Shannon Diane Whitting ton Mary Gibson Bess Shannon and Judy Halstead collecting card and code books for cataloging at Irene Halliday's Elkville house. A July 8 door-to-door fund drive aims to renovate the old Kopp building on Main Street for a center serving children teenagers and adults with continued book donations being welcomed.
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Elverado Education Association
Teft
Ray Shannon
Diane Whittington
Mary Gibson
Bess Shannon
Judy Halstead
Elkville
Dowell
Hallidayboro
Vergenes
Irene Halliday
Kopp
Main Street
Whitington
Association
Gibson
Two Men Cleared In Little Grassy Sailboat Case
U S Magistrate W Kent Brandon ruled June 10 that the regulation barring sailboats on Little Grassy Lake is invalid and found two defendants innocent. Jim J Grainger and Robert J Slagter were arrested by National Wildlife officials near the Presbyterian Youth Camp.
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Little Grassy Lake
U.S
W. Kent Brandon
Carbondale
Jim J. Grainger
Centraliz
Robert J. Slagter
National Wildlife
Presbyterian
Brandon
SIU Rehab Institute gets $70,281 grant for workshops
A $70,281 federal grant to Southern Illinois University Rehabilitation Institute funds two workshops aimed at improving cooperation between state rehabilitation and correction departments. John Grenfell says sessions in Chicago will include two representatives from each state. first workshop is in October, with a May follow-up. Brockman Schumacher will co-lead the program.
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Southern Ilinois University
Kenneth J. Gray
D-West Frankfort
Social and
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
SIU
John Grenfell
Chicago
Grenfell
Grenfell and Brockman Schumacher
Judge Clayton to preside in Chicago this July
John Clayton of Marion will sit in the Cook County circuit court in Chicago in July as part of a statewide effort to clear backlogged dockets. He previously presided in more than 30,000 Chicago cases as Johnston City judge and last served as a Chicago visiting judge in 1959.
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John Clayton
Marion
First Judicial District
Jude
Cook County
Chicago
Johnston City
Clayton
Richard Richman
Carbondale
First District
Mike O’shea
Cairo
Gerald Trampe
Golconda
Robert Porter
Vienna
Paul Reese
Anna
Explosion hits Sandoval Zinc Co plant in New Mexico town
An explosion at Sandoval Zinc Co damaged the plant in the south central town of about 1,300. Ten people were injured. The blast was felt as far as Mount Vernon, 35 miles away. Firefighters from Centralia, Salem and Odin battled the blaze as investigators sought the cause.
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Sandoval
Sandoval Zinc Co
Corral Thinais
Mount Vernon
Centralia
Salem
Odin
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Ed Nichols
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Little Grassy
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Grassy
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Rehabilitation Institute
Jim
Artin
Dena Standard Supply
Zeigler
Bargain Center
Harrisburg
Home D’s Farm
Ilinois
Paint P& Shack
Murphysboro, Illinois
Jim Scarlett
Herrin
Wingis
Cagle Supply
Marion,Ilinois
Degenhardt
Jim “Martin
West Frankfort
Illinois
Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles
Daniel
Kwik Shop
Daniel Kwik Shop
Danial Kwik Shop
Folger
Dante! Kwik Shop
Col Ahidar
JPON
Dante
Cougen
Inut Cremeries
Hyde Park Soda
Hyde Park
Rend Lake Weiners
Monthru
Libby Lemon- Gox
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Pride of Illinois
Pines Braunschweiger
Jcpenney
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