Public meetings and shows listed for Thursday in Southern Illinois
The calendar lists multiple public meetings including Kinkaid and Reed's Creek Conservancy District at 7 p.m. in Murphysboro, Williamson County Housing Authority at 7:30 p.m. in Herrin, and other committees and boards meeting in Golconda Murphysboro Carbondale and Pinckneyville. Local movie listings include The Good The Bad The Ugly and Devil's Angels at Fox Eastgate and Marlow's Theatre with showtimes through the week.
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Kinkaid and
Reed’s Creek Conservancy District Board
Conservancy
Murphysboro
Clark and Dietz
Urbana
Williamson County Housing Authority
Meadowdale
Herrin
Southern Illinois Resource Development Committee
Golconda Job Corps Center
Jackson County Board of Health
Jackson County Health Department
Murphysboro Unit
Carruthers
Carbondale Committee For Total Integration
Pinckneyville Board of Education
Energy Village Board
Herrin Roofing and Siding Co
Fox
Eastgate
Carbondale
Clint Eastwood
Lee van Cleef
Marlow’s
Cairo
Orpheum Theater
Marion
Valley of the Dolls
Varsity
Bonnie and Clyde
Fire Creek
Friday Illinois Tourism Advisory Committee meets at Ramada Til
Public notices list Friday meetings for several boards and clubs across Southern Illinois including the Illinois Tourism Advisory Committee at noon in Marion and the district board session in Murphysboro. Special events cover Rend Lake development reviews and theater showings at Anna venues. Obituary notes Kenneth W Hodges, former Herrin resident, dies in Indianapolis Veterans Hospital. funeral details follow.
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Southern Illinois Retired Railroaders Club
Herrin Senior Citizens Center
14Th St
Rend Lake Association
Christopher
Rend Lake
Steeleville Man Killed in Vietnam
Lt. Steven Gerlach 21 son of Henry Gerlach of Steeleville was killed in action in Vietnam near Dak To by shrapnel. He entered the Army in 1966 and left for Vietnam on January 9. Funeral plans await shipment of the body. he trained at Fort Belvoir and was a SIU and Steeleville High School graduate. He is survived by his father step mother sisters Barbara Allen and Mary Jo Johnson and grandfather Clarence Boyer. his mother had preceded him in death.
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Steven Gerlach
Henry Gerlach
Steeleville
Vietnam
Gerlach
Dak To
Steeleville High School
Southern Illinois University
Fort Belvoir
Barbara Allen
St. Charles
Mary Jo Johnson
Kankakee
Clarence Boyer
Gladys Boyer Gerlach
Second planning proposal heard by Kinkaid Lake board
The Kinkaid Lake and Reed's Creek Conservancy District heard a second planning and engineering proposal. Research Planning and Design Associates members John E. Mulholland Jr. and M. Roger Burns discussed private capital roles, revenue goals, and three planning pillars including feasibility economics and technical design. The board schedules meetings with Clark and Dietz of Urbana and John Blankinship and Associates of Murphysboro to proceed with interviews.
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Kinkaid Lake
Reed’s Creek Conservancy District Board
Research Planning and Design Associates
Sparta
Chester
John E. Mulholland Jr
M. Roger Burns
Conservancy District
Rt. 151
Ava
Mulholland
Holiday Shores
East St. Louis
Jack Miller
Miller
Murphysboro
Dave Fliger
Fliger
U.S. Forest Service
Forest Service
Clark and Dietz
Urbana
John Blankinship
Lorek to Speak at Jackson County GOP Meeting
Theodore Lorek, a write in candidate for state's attorney, will address the Jackson County Young Republicans at a 7:30 p.m. meeting in the Murphysboro county courthouse. The event highlights Lorek as a key guest for local GOP supporters tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Lorek
Jackson County Young Republican Organization
Murphysboro
Carbondale records spike in March fire calls
Fire department captain Bill Johnson notes 101 calls through March 27, first time over 100 in a month. Department plans 1967 total after 1966’s 704 calls, driven by windy weather and outdoor trash burning, with permits available from the fire department or Illinois Forest Division in Murphysboro.
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Carbondale
Bill Johnson
Johnson
Fire Department
Illinois Forest Division
Murphysboro
Tractor overturns and kills Cobden farmer
A 72 year old Cobden man, Carl Rendleman, was killed at 11 30 a m Wednesday when a tractor overturned on him as he graded the road to his farm. He was a World War I veteran and American Legion Cobden Post 259 member. Funeral services will be held at 2 p m Friday at Broadway McCarty Funeral Home Cobden with burial in Cobden Cemetery and military honors.
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Kenneth W. Hodges
Indianapolis
Ind
Herrin Area
Veterans Hospital
Mr. Hodges
William
Sarah Willis Hodges
Marceden Cobb
Eldorado
Sarah Beth Lockhart
Oklahoma
Carl
Arlington Heights
Johnny
Pekin
Hazel Samuels
Los Angeles
Calif
George van Natta
Herrin
Cobden
Co. R.carl Rendleman
Rt. 3
Union County Hospital
Anna
Rendleman
American Legion Cobden Post
Union County
Crittenden
Elizabeth Rich Rendleman
Corinth
Miss
Theresa Campbell
Betty Gray
Centralia
Margaret Bauer
Ft. Wayne
Vesta Abernathy
Broadway
Teacher Named to Who's Who in Education
Ronald Bowden a foreign language teacher at Sesser High School has been elected to Who's Who in Education Bowden who lives in Hurst has taught Spanish Russian and Portuguese in Tower Hill Gary Ind and Sesser schools
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Ronald Bowden
Sesser High School
Bowden
Hurst
Tower Hill
Gary
Ind
Sesser
Herrin Miss Southern Illinois Pageant deadline extended
The Miss Southern Illinois Beauty Pageant deadline extends from April 6 to April 15. The sixth annual event runs May 9 to 11 at Herrin High School and serves as a Miss America pre liminary. Unmarried women aged 18 to 28 may enter. winner advances to Miss Illinois in Aurora. Rebecca Hindman, last year’s winner, placed tenth at the state pageant.
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Herrin High School
The
Herrin Jaycees
Aurora
Miss Southern Illinois
Rebecca Hindman
Anna
Jerry Fiorina
Don Hock
Herrin
Early jonquils Bloom in Hurst as Spring Arrives
Early jonquils and forsythia brighten Southern Illinois yards as the first breath of spring arrives. The daffodils and dandelions along area lawns welcome the season with sunny blooms in a glimpse of warm days.
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Illinois
Hurst
Norge Plant to Add 200 Workers in Herrin Expansion
The Norge plant in Herrin will hire about 200 more employees to boost output of a product already made there. Production should rise from 1200 to 1500 units daily, with new roles in assembly welding and pressroom machining. Applications are sought at Herrin Murphysboro and West Frankfort employment offices. Norge is a Borg-Warner division employing around 1200 locally.
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Herrin Norge
Lawrence Eichler
Eichler
Norge
State Employment Service
Herrin
Murphysboro
West Frankfort
Borg- Warner Corp
Delayed Out-of-town Papers Hit Carbondale Route
Charles Reno of Reno News Service reports three truck break downs caused delays for St. Louis Evansville and New York editions reaching Carbondale. By 10:30 a.m. the driver was seeking a rental trailer in Freeburg as three vehicles failed en route from St. Louis after midnight. Papers to be delivered when arrivals occur.
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Carbondale
Charles Reno
Reno News Service
St. Louis
Evansville
Ind
New York
Reno
Freeburg
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John T. Blankinship
Rodgers Theater
Anna Drive-In
Thunder Alley
Hangman’s Tree
Southern Illinoisan
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North Illinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Walnut Street
Iliinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Mark
Conservation Board
Lorek
GOP Meet
America
U.S
Williamson County Ministerial Alliance
Regina Electrikbroom
Rubbermaid Small
Melror
Aga
Ag Tae
Melnor
ZEBCO
YALE
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Walters XL Hardware
S. Main
Heckel
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