Shawnee Illinois School Boards Plan Semiannual Conference
The Shawnee division of the Illinois Association of School Boards will hold its semi annual conference and dinner meeting March 21 at Marion High School. Chairman Clifford Batteau will preside. An open house and facility inspection start at 5 p.m. with dinner at 6. Roye R. Bryant of Southern Illinois University will speak. Four panels run 8:15 to 9:45 p.m. on topics including teaching citizenship and solutions for smaller districts with local and regional education leaders.
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Illinois Association of School Boards
Marion High School
Clifford Batteau
Elkville
Roye R. Bryant
Southern Illinois University
Luther H. Hayden
Johnston City Unit
Harold Emme
Carbondale
Robert Ring
Richard L. Toon
Ray McCluskey
Carterville Unit
Monroe Deming
Jackson County
Ogie Ellis
Jefferson County
J. Clinton Taylor
James W. Sanders
Marion Unit
Lee Booth
Williamson County
Joseph C. Deaton
Harrisburg
New Horizons
Bonnie Lou Gladden
Edward Nelson
Ben F. Quigley
SIU docs preserve play production of The Man Who Lost the River
SIU library archivists compile the full production record of Bernard Sabath’s The Man Who Lost the River. Tape logs cover conferences rehearsals and critiques. dress rehearsal photos and finished production shots accompany set costumes lighting and prompt books deposited in the SIU Archives. British professor Herbert Marshall directed the Illinois Sesquicentennial show with Oliver Cliff as guest star.
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Herbert Marshall
Southern Illinois University
Kenneth Duckett
Bernard Sabath
Northwestern University
SIU
Marshall
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens
Huckleberry Finn
Oliver Cliff
Power outage hits several area towns Thursday
Electricity service across towns suffered a 66 minute outage in Norris City Omaha and New Haven after a 138000 volt line from Grand Tower to Muddy tripped around 9 30 a m. Cause not yet determined. Other towns lost power shorter intervals.
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Sam Carruthers
Central Illinois Public Service Company
Southern Division
Grand Tower
Muddy
Norris City
Omaha
New Haven
Harrisburg
Carbondale
Orchill
Energy
Carterville
Auto liability bills offered by Rep Choate in House
Rep Clyde Choate of Anna introduces two auto insurance bills. One would drop the future financial responsibility proof after an accident, arguing it raises premiums. The other would ban auto insurers from nonrenewal without stated reasons, extending no-cancel protections from 1967 to nonrenewals.
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House of Representatives
Clyde Choate
D-Anna
Choate
59Th
Senate
Carbondale Grade School District Okays Supplies and staff
The Carbondale Grade School board approved purchases for the 1968-69 year including furniture art supplies textbooks and equipment. It authorized hiring secretaries at 200 monthly for ten months and forming an Articulation Council with four neighboring districts to study curricula and aid high school connections.
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Carbondale Grade School
Articulation Council
Carbondale High School
Bob Hope to perform at SIU Arena on May 12
SIU Arena will host Bob Hope on Mothers Day May 12 with a 15 member band and two Acts. Manager W Dean Justice says Hope seeks a 25000 flat fee and 11000 seating using a new revolving stage. Ticket prices range 250 to 5 and sales begin April 24 at the University Center information desk.
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Bob Hope
Southern Illinois University
W. Dean Justice
Hope
Southern Illinois
Justice
Vienna School Board Incumbents Seek Re Election
Three Vienna Grade School board of education incumbents George Binson Wayne Jeffries and Walter Briggs filed petitions for re election with March 23 deadline. Election set for second Saturday in April at the school. Kemper Fisher Faust and Co of Harrisburg was hired for the annual audit and teachers will be re employed next year. Pay scales to be set later. Also noted are roughly 1400 railroad tunnels totaling about 300 miles in length nationwide.
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Vienna Grade School Board of Education
George Binson
Wayne Jeffries
Walter Briggs
Kemper, Fisher, Faust and Co
Harrisburg
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Jackson County Resource Center
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Lewis
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John Hale
Lincoln Junior High
Swick
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Robert I. Klostermann
Lincoln
Carbondale League of Wom
Thomas School
Dorothy Slaughter
Triple T Club
Lucille
Thelma Walker
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Winkle
Loretta Ott
Carbondale First Church of Christian Scientist
Carbondale Appliance and Television Mart
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Herrin—North of
Iga
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THE
Koinsmen
Open Sun
West Jackson
Buddy Rogers
Vienna
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Virginia
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Illinois Cafe
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Mase
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Charles HL Scheer
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George Shoney
John Dark
Paramount
Pear EL
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