Youth Conservation Corps Camp Planned Near Elizabethtown
Shawnee National Forest selects a site at the Kaskaskia Experimental Forest Headquarters six miles north of Elizabethtown for a three year pilot YCC camp. The Illinois program funds two camps this year Crabon Orchard Refuge and Shawnee. Sixty four youths aged 16 to 19 will work five days a week earning 38.50 weekly with housing provided. Applications go to 15 southern Illinois high schools and to individuals via the Harrisburg office.
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Youth Conservation Corps
Shawnee National Forest
Kaskaskia Experimental Forest
Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown Ranger District
Illinois
Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuge
YCC
Richard Nixon
Crab Orchard Wildlife
Illi
Nois
East St. Louis
Wayne Nichols
Shawnee National Forest Service
Harrisburg
Ilinois
U.S. Forest Service
E. Poplar St
Marion schools praised for strong program and reforms
A two day state evaluation by a 13 member team commends Marion Unit Two School District for a strong general program and ongoing changes. The report notes renovation of McKinley School, an excellent area vocational center, and new offerings like nursing and ecology. It urges continuous problem tackling and full recognition of the district.
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Marion Unit
Office of Public Instruction
McKinley School
Area Vocational Center
Loren Eddleman
Southern
Illinois
Marion
SIU to host Common Market official talk on EU relations
The European Community official Camille Becker will speak at 8 p.m. Monday at Morris Library Auditorium on The United States and the European Community Their Common Interest. Admission is free. Becker, based in Brussels, heads the division on relations with non member countries. The event is sponsored by SIU School of Business the Dept. of Agricultural Industries and International Relations Club. Becker also heads the STU Alumni Club in Brussels.
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Camille Becker
European Economic Community
Common Market
Morris Library
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
United States
Becker
SIU
Luxembourg
Fice
Brussels
Belgium
EEC
SIU School of Business
Dept. of Agricultural Industries and International Relations Club
Frank Klingberg
STU
Taiwan
Jackson County Art Show registration times listed
April 13 artists may register from 2 to 4 30 p m and 6 30 to 8 p m with the April 14 critique open to the public 10 a m to 5 p m and April 15 1 to 5 p m April 16. Gene Elkins of Hurst is the incumbent candidate for the Herrin Unit District School Board. his name was omitted from Tuesday's story.
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Jackson County Extension Service
Ing
Gene Elkins
Hurst
Herrin Unit
Talks Set on Ordill Train Service Decision
Government officials will meet in early April to decide the future of the Ordill area train operation. Arch Mehrhoff of Crab Orchard Refuge says a three month extension will allow review. discontinuation is considered due to high operating costs and low car usage.
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Ordill
Arch Mehrhoff
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Eee
Mehrhoff
Railroad relocation near Whittington nears completion
Barter Engineering Co. of Harrisburg under a $1,429,000 federal contract for the U S Army Corps of Engineers is relocating three miles of C and E I railroad tracks about one mile north of Whittington. The bed must be raised as Rend Lake water may reach within a foot of the old roadbed when the lake fills.
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C&ei
Whittington
Barter Engineering Co
Harrisburg
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Rend Lake
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