Southern Illinois Calendar and Public Meetings Summary
A calendar listing includes a special Kinkaid and Reed's Creek Conservancy District board meeting at 7 p.m. Friday in Murphysboro to review John T. Blankinship and Associates engineering proposals. Rend Lake Association hosts its annual dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Christopher Grade School with five speakers on Rend Lake development. Local drive-in theaters show current films through the weekend, including titles at Anna, Carbondale, Murphysboro, and Marion venues. A CCHS concert is set for Sunday at the Carbondale campus. Additionally, Charles Hill, 76, of Mulkeytown, died Thursday. services are planned Sunday in Christopher with burial at Mulkeytown Cemetery.
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Kinkaid and
Reed’s Creek Conservancy District Board
Conservancy
Murphysboro
John T. Blankinship
Rend Lake Association
Christopher
Rend Lake
Marion Drive-in
Rodgers Theater
Anna
Anna Drive-in
Lee van Cleef
Marlow’s
Devil’s Angels
Cairo
Orpheum ‘Theater
Marion
Valley of the Dolls
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Illinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Dally Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Orientation set at MTHS Murphysboro
Murphysboro Township High School schedules eighth grade orientation for next year’s freshmen and parents at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the high school auditorium. Principal Wayne Perry guidance director Peter Arnott freshman counselor Miss Gwen Lofquist and department representatives will lead the program with a Q and A session to follow. About 235 pupils are expected to register as freshmen next year at MTHS.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphysboro Township
Wayne Perry
MTHS
Peter Arnott
Gwen Lofquist
Carterville Man Charged With Leaving Scene of Injury
Thomas W. Gentry 27 of 606 W Grand Ave Carterville was charged with leaving the scene of a personal injury after backing from a lot at Glass Barr Tavern Colp struck walker William Haub 46 of Herrin on the Carterville Colp road at about 10 p.m. Haub had minor injuries and refused treatment. Gentry posted 50 bond. He had been a Williamson County deputy sheriff about three weeks after Sheriff Harold Farner took office in 1966. he resigned to become an insurance agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas W. Gentry
W. Grand Ave
Carterville
Michael Derrick
Gentry
Glass Barr Tavern
Colp
William Haub
Herrin
Haub
Derrick
Williamson County
Harold Farner
Altorfer to Speak in Marion on GOP Gubernatorial Bid
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Henry Altorfer will tour Southern Illinois with a stop in Marion Saturday arriving at Williamson County Airport at 9 45 a m and meeting at the courthouse at 10 00 a m Kenneth Powless GOP vice chairman called the trip a get acquainted swing. Mrs Nora A Stull 85 of Ullin died Thursday at Hill View Nursing Home in Vienna She was born in June 1883 in Pulaski County daughter of Perry and Armilda Dillon Ledbetter She was married to Joshua A Stull on December 21 1904 He died January 1963 She leaves a son Lloyd Rhymer Mountain Home Ark daughter Pearl DuRall Mounds seven grandchildren eight great grandchildren Funeral services will be 2 p m Sunday at Stoner Funeral Home Ullin with Rev Jesse Seiber officiating Burial will be Ullin Cemetery Friends may call after 6 30 p m
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Charles Hill
Mulkeytown
Perry County
Martin
Missouri
Pauline Anheuser
Geraldine Kowzan
du Quoin
Norma Harrell
West Frankfort
Billie Castleton
Sullivan
Charles Nye
Roseburg
Ore
Grace Veranda
Marie Burtoft
Walier
Richard Hill
Ohlman
Allie Dawson
Benton
Gilbert
Christopher
McKinley Crabtree
Nora A. Stull
Ullin
Hill View Nursing Home
Vienna
Ullin Methodist Church
Pulaski County
Perry
Armilda Dillon Ledbetter
Joshua A. Stull
Lloyd Rhymer
Mountain Home
Ark
Pearl DuRall
Mounds
Stoner
Jesse Seiber
Christopher School Board approves bus and calendar changes
The Christopher Grade School board accepted a $3,801 bid from Ponder Equipment for two 60 passenger Thomas bodies and a $3,125 bid from Lenen Chevrolet for the bus chassis. They added five unused snow days to spring vacation April 8 to 15 and set three election precincts for April 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Grade School Board of Education
Ponder Equipment Co
Herrin
Lenen Chevrolet Co
Christopher
Mary Sue Tarr
Marilyn
Twitty
National Reading Council
Phillip Thompson
Coello
Buckner
Osceola Memorial Site Planned in Florida
Osceola remains may rest in Florida as a memorial site is planned by Irvin Peithmann of Southern Illinois University. The plan includes a Seminole village and educational museum with tribal relics and historic materials. Peithmann, author of The Unconquered Seminole Indians, led a Rainbow Springs visit to discuss the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osceola
Florida
Irvin M. Peithmann
Southern Illinois University Authority On
Peithmann
Rainbow Springs
St. Petersburg
South Carolina
Ft. Moultrie
S.C
Car and caboose fires reported in area
Fire calls include Marion at 8 20 p m for a car fire in the 1000 block of South Market Street with slight damage. Herrin at 11 a m for an Illinois Central Railroad caboose fire with slight damage at 28th and Walnut. Herrin at 2 p m for a weed fire on West Cherry Street. Murphysboro at 1 15 p m for trash burning igniting a garage corner with no injuries.
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Marion
Bill Deaton
South Market Street
Herrin
Walnut
Illinois Central Railroad
Cherry St
Murphysboro
Spruce St
Police meeting draws about 200 in Southern district
About 200 men attended the Southern district meeting of the Illinois Police Association in Marion Ellis Lodge. President Walter Lowe named youth camp golf and picnic committees and announced Camp Sherwood near Victoria opens June 17 to 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Police Association
Marion Ellis Lodge
Walter Lowe
Marion
John Donahue
Murphysboro
William Maurizio
Carbondale
Wayne Pyle
du Quoin
Ova Greer
Herrin
Camp Sherwood
Victoria
Lowe
Clyde West
Eiza Brantley
Gus LeMarchal
Jackson Country Club
George Foster
Robert Butler
Public Safety
Rex Presson
Harrisburg
SIU leaders to join global education conference at Chicago
President Delyte Morris and SIU officials from Carbondale and Edwardsville will attend a five day world education conference April 5 11 at the University of Chicago. Dean Oliver Caldwell and Herbert Marshall will represent Carbondale with Edwardsville delegates Dean Kenneth Myers and Francis T Villemain. The meeting titled What Man Should Know about Humankind is sponsored by the Bridge Foundation and by the Society for Study of Mankind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delyte W. Morris
Southern Ilinois University
University of Chicago
Oliver Caldwell
SIU Division of International Services
Herbert Marshall
England
SIU
Carbondale
Edwardsville
Kenneth Myers
Francis T. Villemain
Bridge Foundation
Center For Advancement of Intercultural Studies
Society For Study of Mankind
W. Clement Stone
Chicago
Dean Caldwell
Foundation
Caldwell
Mahatma Ghandi
Dalai Lama
Tibet
Tron Curtain
Inner Mongolia
Africa
Crainville Plan Commission weighs comprehensive plan
Crainville Plan Commission discussed its comprehensive plan with Jim Rayfield of the Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission. They expect a vote at the April meeting on whether to accept or reject the plan while citing urgent needs for a sewer line and improved water supply.
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Crainville Plan Commission
Jim Rayfield
Greater
Rayfield
Carterville
Crainville
Main Street
Grand Avenue
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Bonnie and Clyde
Fire Creek
Carbondale Community High School
Cchs-Central Auditorium
Altorfer
John Henry Altorfer
Kenneth Powless
GOP
Nora Stull
Paul E. Meacham Jr
Rt. 3
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Linda S. Barrick
Elkville
Ilinois Avenue
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Ala
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Los Ro
America
East Jackson
Anna and
Carterville State & Savings Bank
Manu
Debtors Lane
Security
Alderton Credit Vici Rew
Suk
Terazo
Geo Grane Ano Savines Paar Artervisle
Terewons
FDIC
Schiffli
Zwick’s Ladies’ Store
Pres. Morris, Others
Crainville Group
Lewis
Farah
Sohus
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