Death of SIU professor Max Turner noted in Carbondale
Retired SIU Carbondale political science professor Max Wesley Turner 62 died at home near Carbondale. Funeral set for Saturday at Huffman Funeral Home. Autopsy cites natural causes a cerebral hemorrhage. Turner a 31 year SIU veteran helped found the law school case and served on multiple campus bodies. He earned degrees from Eastern Illinois University and the University of Iowa and served in World War II. He is survived by his wife Doris a SIU educator, a brother and a sister.
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Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Max Wesley Turner
Route 6
Carbondale
Huffman
Turner
U.S. 51
Jackson County
Don Ragsdale
Ragsdale
Pleasant Grove Memorial
Siuc Law School
SIU Foundation
Doris
Siu-C
New Mexico
SIUC
Western Michigan University
Delyte W. Morris
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Morris
Facts and Figures Council
SIU
Carbondale Lions Club
Charleston
Eastern Illinois University
EIU
State University of Iowa
7Th Air Force
Philippines
7Th
American Society For Public Administrators
John
Dessie Johns Turner
Doris Sewell
Murphysboro
Don Turner
Effingham
Charlis Graves
Urbana
Bank executive Dan Goodner 55 dies at Nashville home
Dan Goodner longtime Farmers and Merchants National Bank chairman died unexpectedly at his home in Nashville on June 27 1979. Born August 14 1923 in East St. Louis he served in World War II and the Korean conflict and held multiple fraternal lodge memberships. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Dan Goodner
Nashville
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
East St. Louis
Sydney
Isabelle Browning Goodner
Wanda Kreisler
Arkansas
Goodner
Nashville Bank
Washington County
Masonic Lodge No. 55
Centralia Shrine
Nuts and Bolts
Sword of
Bunker Hill
Ainald Temple
Royal Order of Jesters
Knights Templar
Elks Club of
Centralia
American Legion
Infant Henry Lavell Houston Jr Graveside Rites
Infant Henry Lavell Houston Jr died at Cardinal Glennon Hospital in St Louis. Graveside services were held at Oakland Cemetery Carbondale with family survivors including parents Dewanda Brown and Henry Houston Jr and grandparents. Jackson Funeral Home of Carbondale in charge of arrangements.
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Memorial Park Cemetery
St. Louis
Shriners Crippled Childrens Hospital
Pyatt Funeral Home
Nashville
Henry Lavell Houston Jr
Marla Jill Brown
Henry Franklin Houston Jr
Carbondale
Oakland Cemetery
Cardinal Glennon Hospital
Dewanda Brown
Pearlie Mae Hayes
Dorothy Mae Houston
W. J. Hayes
Henry Joplin
Chicago
Millie Brown
Geraldine Houston
Cairo
Jackson Funeral Home
Pittsburg Man Hurt in Bridge Crash Near Cambria
Marvin Ude, 45, of Pittsburg, was hospitalized after his car skidded off Blairsville bridge on a Williamson County road between Cambria and Hurst at about 9 15 p m. He is at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. status not released per his wife's request.
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Pittsburg
Williamson
Williamson County
Ude
Memorial Hospital
Carbondale
Ade
Cambria
Hurst
Blairsville
Burglar Steals Knife and Cash at Davis Home
Marion police report a thief entered the Erma and Carroll Davis residence at 1101 W White St via a removed screen, taking a butcher knife and about $6 from sleeping occupants around 2 a.m. The burglar left the same south side door, and Davis called police at 2:07 a.m. to report the break-in.
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Carroll Davis
Marion
W. White St
Davis
Smoke damages house in West Frankfort fire at 611 N Gardner St
West Frankfort firefighters doused smoke seen through a roof hole at 12 12 p m Thursday on the John Woods residence 611 N Gardner St The fire department spokesman estimated smoke and water damage at 500 and attributed the blaze to faulty wiring emanating from a wall between the bathroom and living room
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West Frankfort
John Woods
N. Gardner St
Folk festival weekend events at parks and campus
A community weekend guide lists events at St Joseph Memorial Hospital Murphysboro hosting Alcoholics Anonymous and Al Anon meetings at 8 p m Saturday open to anyone with a drinking problem. Southern Illinois University Student Center Auditorium screens Straw Dogs at 7 and 9 p m with a faculty development workshop at Touch of Nature 8 11:30 a m Saturday and Sunday. Carbondale Farmers Market operates 8 a m to noon Saturdays at US 51 and Grand Ave overpass with a hat contest prizes cake walk and hourly baskets of farm products giveaways.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Alanon
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital
Murphysboro
Mittee Film
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Touch of Nature Environmental Center
Farmers Market of
Carbondale
U.S. 51
Grand Avenue
Community event weekend listings in Crab Orchard and nearby areas
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge screens the film So Little Time at 8 45 p m Saturday at Charnes town School Trail off Route 148. GIant City State Park hosts Saturday programs including a blufftop ecology hike at 10 a m, pioneer candle dipping at 2 p m in front of the log cabin, bluegrass and old time music at 3 p m and 7 p m with regional groups. refreshments offered free. For details call 549 6151. Du Quoin State Fair 1979 Farm and Folk Festival runs all day with live stock shows and carnival rides plus midget racing at 1 p m, a pie eating contest at 3 30 p m, and a Statler Brothers Barbara Mandrell concert at 6 and 9 p m. tickets 7 8 9. Immanuel Lutheran Church rummage yard and bake sale 9 a m to 4 p m Saturday at 1915 Pine St Murphysboro. Free and open to the public. Student Center Planning Com
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Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Charnesstown
Giant City State Park
Post Oak
Giant City Jug Band
DU Quoin
Statler Brothers
Barbara Mandrell
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Pine St
Murphysboro
Sunday Events at SIU Carbondale Offer Dance Recital and Festivities
Sunday schedule includes Saluki Swingers square dance 7 to 10 p.m. in Student Center Ballroom A with caller Dale Phillips of Cape Girardeau. Also a 2:30 p.m. recital by Susan Campbell and Ellen Odle at Marion First United Methodist Church, a Giant City Nature Trail hike at 2 p.m., a folk festival with cow chip contest, tractor pull championships, and a Country Music Hall of Fame Show with Minnie Pearl and others, plus a University Theater production of A Flea in Her Ear at 8 p.m. in the Communications Building with student admission.
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Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Dale. Phillips
Cape Girardeau
Susan Campbell
Ellen Odle
Marion First United Methodist Church
Giant City State Park
Giant City
DU Quoin
Communications
Forecast Sees Showers Across Midwest to Northeast
A weather forecast calls for showers from the upper Mississippi Valley to the Great Lakes and most of the Northeast through Saturday morning. The rest of the nation should see mostly sunny skies with warm temperatures. In Southern Illinois the Thursday high reached 81 degrees with a low of 68 and .02 inches of precipitation. The 9 am temperature was 78 degrees, sunset 8:24 pm, sunrise Saturday 5:25 am.
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Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Illinois
Six years of running end man sentenced
Keith McKinney of Carbondale received six years of probation and a $500 fine after pleading guilty to aggravated battery for a 1973 shooting in Herrin that left Reggie Feezer needing ambulance service. McKinney, 30, had eluded authorities for six years, turning himself in on April 16, 1979.
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Carbondale
McKinney
Herrin
Reggie Feezer
Ramada Inn
Feezer
Jackson County
Howard Hood
Murphysboro
Alaska
Hood
Richard Richman
Richman
School District 211 votes to purchase new bus
The board in rural Tamaroa District 211 voted in a special Thursday night meeting to buy a new school bus for 18465 from Ponder Equipment Co of Charleston Mo. with 7200 trade in for the old bus. Board member Joe Bronke Jr noted Ponder won the bid over leasing or service options. A new driver will be discussed at the July 11 meeting following the resignation of the previous driver.
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Board of Community Consolidated School District
Tamaroa
Joe Bronke Jr
Ponder Equipment Co
Charleston
Bronke
The Main Event and Alien Lead Carbondale Screens
A busy regional cinema calendar lists The Main Event and Alien as Varsity 1 and 2 programs at Carbondale venues. Other titles include Prophecy, Rocky II, Escape From Alcatraz, Superman and Oh God across multiple theaters in nearby towns such as Harrisburg Murphysboro Eldorado Marion and Coulterville. The bill also features family classics Moonraker 101 Dalmatians and The Love Bug alongside Butch and Sundance and The Champ among numerous campus and drive-in screenings.
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And
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Calendar submission guidelines for The Southern Illinoisan
Public calendar items open to readers should be sent to Calendar at The Southern Illinoisan 710 N Illinois Ave Carbondale NJ 62901 one week before the event. Include date time place description and admission charge if any.
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Southern Illinoisan
Illinois Ave
Carbondale
Boil water order lifted in De Soto
De Soto lifted a boil water order after water pressure returned to safe levels. Ellis Brown, the water superintendent, reported the order was first issued June 18 when pressure fell below safety standards.
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de Soto
Ellis Brown
Quincy Couple Hurt In I-57 Crash Night Incident
A Quincy husband and wife were treated at Marion Memorial Hospital in fairly good condition after a Thursday night crash on Interstate 57. State police said Alna V. Viar, 50, drove off the road at 9:40 p.m. and struck a parked car with Raymond, 54, as her passenger.
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Marion Memorial Hospital
Alna V. Viar
Raymond
Correction reveals I-57 oval track reopens near West Frankfort
Larry Gower of Mount Vernon has reopened the I-57 oval track near West Frankfort. Races occur every Sunday evening, correcting last Sunday's Special Edition report of closure.
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West Frankfort
Larry Gower
Mount Vernon
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