Benton Voters OK Tax Hike for Grade School District
Benton voters approve a tax increase 2 to 1 to boost the educational fund from 1.03 to 1.24 dollars per 100 assessed value. Vote totals: Logan 414 177. Washington 42 28. District reassessment lifts valuations to about 20.1 million for 1968 69, reducing state aid and raising property tax by 6.30 for a 3000 assessment.
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Benton
Logan
Washington
West City
William Auten
Auten
Johnston City Men Stabbed In Separate Incidents
Johnston City police report two stabbing incidents with Sam Knight treated at Herrin Hospital in good condition and no arrests yet. case expected to yield details Monday.
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Sam Knight
Johnston City
Herrin
Knight
Two Deaths in Separate Crashes and Snow Plow Find
Authorities recovered a traffic victim buried under four feet of snow on Rt. 13 near Coulterville after a snowplow displaced the banked drifts. Another fatal crash occurred on Rt. 37 north of Mt. Vernon. A Murphysboro woman was injured when her car struck a train in Jackson County.
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Rt. 13
Coulterville
Rt. 37
Mt. Vernon
Murphysboro
Jackson County
Kelly
Randolph County
Vernon Dashner
Howard-Wilson Funeral Home
Ford
Chicago
John H. Ford
Good Samaritan Hospital
Dorothy L. Hardin
Flora
Jamy Ford
K.C. Ford
Dorothy Ford
Parker Funeral Home
Fire sinks ship after collision on Mississippi River
Seven bodies recovered after the African Star collided with an oil barge in predawn darkness on the Mississippi River near Pointe A La Hache Louisiana. Forty four rescued to hospitals in New Orleans and 50 miles north. Coast Guard says 63 aboard including 48 crew 12 passengers and 3 cadets. Three survived.
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Pointe A la Hache
Mississippi
Coast Guard
African Star
New Orleans
Sydney
Australia
Farrell Line
Bomb accident kills seven near Hue in Vietnam
Seven American soldiers died and 29 were wounded when a U S Marine plane erroneously dropped three 500 pound bombs near an Army artillery battery about seven miles southwest of Hue. The incident occurred about 400 miles northeast of Saigon, the U S military said.
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Saigon
U.S
Moon
Hue
Marion prison warden to get new post
John A. Mayden, warden of the Marion federal penitentiary, will be transferred to the federal correctional institution in Tallahassee Florida. Announcement is expected within a week. Myrl E. Alexander, director of the Federal Bureau of Mines, made the remark in Marion during a general inspection tour. Mayden is expected to depart in late April or early May. He arrived at Marion in October 1966 from Chillicothe Ohio, where he served as warden. He began his career with the Federal Bureau in 1941 as a correctional officer at El Reno California.
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John A. Mayden
Marion Federal Penitentiary
Federal Correctional Institution
Tal-lahassee
Fla
Mayden
Myrl E. Alexander
Federal Bureau of Mines
Marion
Florida
Federal Reformatory
Chillicothe
Ohio
The
Federal Bureau
el Reno
Calif
School board petitions filed in several Illinois districts
Incumbents in Carbondale Herrin Marion and Murphysboro filed for re election ahead of April 13 elections. Five candidates seek three seats on Carbondale Community High School District 165 board. four seek two seats in Carbondale Elementary District 95. Herrin Unit 4 voters face three candidates for two seats. Murphysboro Unit 186 has three candidates for two seats with terms expiring. Marion Unit Two shows two incumbents filed for board seats.
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Carbondale
Herrin
Marion
Murphysboro
Carbondale Community
Charles C. Lerner
I.M. Simon and Co
Thomas North
State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
E. T. Simonds
E. T. Simonds Construction Co
John C. Gardner
Southern Illinois University
Simonds
CCHS
Gardner
Fred Nolen
T. A. Martinsek
Oakland Ave
Betty Crouch
W. Oak St
Douglas Diedrick
Eason Drive
Lincoln Junior High School
Laurence Martin
N. Oakland Ave
Herrin Unit 4
Dayton Franklin
Morgan Sweeney
Fred Colombo
Don McNeill
Murphysboro Unit School District
Bill Green
Harry Ray
Green
Murphysboro Township
Ray
Emil Feurer
West Marion Township
Melvin Felts
East Marion Township
Marion Unit
Board of Education
Two SIU Students Die in Foggy Interstate Crash
Two SIU students Joseph Tom Jones and Richard G. Jenkins, both 20, were killed after a pileup on a foggy stretch of Interstate 55 while returning from SIU Carbondale. A third driver, Richard Quathamer, 21, was critically injured. two others sustained minor injuries. Jones was a Saluki Patrol member and roommate of Jenkins. Police briefs list speed fines for Murphysboro and Carbondale.
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Sherry Williams
19Th St
Murphysboro
Gm&o
17Th
Gartside
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital
G. G. Carson
Edwardsville
Carbondale
Westmain Street
Esaias S. Richardson
E. Snyder St
Larry Hawse
Rt. 3
Jesse Ivy
E. Birch St
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Richardson
Joseph Ivy
Ivy
Joseph Tom Jones
Joliet
Richard G. Jenkins
Oak Park
Southern Ilinois University
James Duncan
Lemont
Duncan
Richard Quathamer
Brookfield
Illinois State University
Jones
SIU
Jenkins
Boomer Hall
University Park
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Wilda Mae Hemphill
Massac Memorial Hospital
Metropolis
Methodist Church
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Wilda Mae Halstead
Hemphill
Frank
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Carbon Cliff
Lillian Robeson
Florence Luke
Jean Schwartz
Christian Church of
Aly
Eddyville
Ervin Kelly
Rt. 1
Coahoma
Miss
Tilden
Vernon Affleman
Flora Herren
Anna
Perks
Ford Funeral Home
Dongola
Herren
Union County Hospital
Fairfax
Eliza Ann Potter Wright
Wetang
George Herren
Pentecostal
Karnak
Norman
Vermillion
S.D
Harold
Jonesboro
Geneva Provo
Madison
Leona Herren
Margaret Wilson
Vernon McClellan
Little Egypt Development Center
Southern Illinois
Donald A. Ingli
LEDC
City National Bank
John
Ron Ballantyne
Ben D. Rodman
Joseph K. Melvin
Nathan Jackson
Marlyn
Uae
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Zenith Frigidaire
Lee’s Carfet
Bassett
North Market
Rexall Drug Store
Circle Zeigler, Ill
Magnus
Chord Organ Ensemble
NYHS
Mark OF
General Motors
Leeon
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