Public meetings and events listed for Monday across several towns
A long list of Monday meetings and public events including city and school board sessions in Carbondale Marion Benton Herrin West Frankfort Sparta and Pinckneyville plus public hearings community canning center organizing meeting and various club gatherings at local venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastwest
West Walnut St
Carbondale
E. College St
Williamson County Board of Commissioners
Marion
Williamson County Airport Authority
Archway Inc
Joan Martin
Hunter Woods
Marion Park District Board
Bank of Marion
Marion City Council
Benton City Council
Benton Grade School Board
E. Church St
Frankfort
Sparta City Council
City Hall
W. Broadway
Sparta
W. Main
Southern Illinois Airport Authority Board of Commissioners
Alcoholics Anonymous
St. Francis Xavier Hall
Shawnee Community Unit
School Board
Pinckneyville Board
College tennis class offers one credit course
The one credit course costs $8.50 and registration is by attending the first session in room 110 of the college gym. Call 437-5321 ext. 32 for information. Mike McClure, baseball coach, will teach. Also a book review of The Yorkshire Emigrants to Southern Illinois by Mrs. John W. Wright will be Monday at 7 p.m. in the Logan Room, Sallie Logan Library, Murphysboro with no admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ing
Illinois Department of Transportation
West Frankfort
St. John’s
Marion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Carbondale
First Baptist Church
Main
University
Tops Club of
Second Baptist Church
Shawnee College Board of Trustees
Allin
Pomona Ridge
Tamaroa Grade School District No. 5 Board of Education
Overeaters Anonymous
Sallie Logan Library
Murphysboro
Mike McClure
Southern Illinois
John W. D. Wright
Logan
Sallie Logan
Calendar of events for Southern Illinois area screenings and shows
A calendar notice lists cinemas and driveins in Carbondale Murphysboro Harrisburg Eldorado Marion Coulterville Steeleville Herrin and nearby venues showing titles such as Equus The Betsy Smokey and the Bandit The Goodbye Girl Taxi Driver The Man Who Loved Women Annie and more. Public listings invite readers to submit meetings and entertainment open to the public one week in advance to The Southern Illinoisan at 710 North Illinois Carbondale IL 62901 with date time place description and admission details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saluki
Carbondale
New Liberty
Murphysboro
Starlite
Eldorado
Cinema
Harrisburg
Marion
House Calls
Mr. Goodbar
Te Goodby Girl
Smokey and the Bandit
University
the Mouse
Webster
Steeleville
Coulterville
FOX
Marion Drive-in
Herrin
Annie
Southern Illinoisan
North Illinois
Deaths Hit West Frankfort Leaders and Local Residents
Obituaries note former West Frankfort mayor Lawrence Finazzo aged 64 died May 6 1978 at Union Hospital. Also listed are Effie Fisher 74 of Marion Carl Ward Simmons 44 of Tunnel Hill and other local residents with funeral details and surviving relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Finazzo
N. Benton Rd
West Frankfort
Union Hospital
Finazzo
Twin Mills Sum
Correction: CCHS board approves salaries on slim vote
Friday's Southern Illinoisan misstated the Carbondale Community High School administrators salary increase vote. The CCHS Board of Education approved the raises by a 6 to 0 vote. Board member Robert Brewer abstained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale Community High School
Cchs Board of Education
Robert Brewer
Wide Band of Showers Forecast National Weather Today
The National Weather Service predicts a wide band of showers today from Wyoming to the Mississippi River Valley reaching Kentucky and Tennessee and into the South. In Southern Illinois the Saturday high was 65 degrees at 5 p.m. and the low 41 degrees between 7 a.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday with no precipitation. Sunset today is 7:32 p.m. with Monday sunrise at 6:18 a.m. and sunset at 7:32 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Weather Service
Wyoming
Mississippi River Valley
Kentucky
Tennessee
Surface Mine Safety Classes Planned In May In Illinois
The Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals will offer surface mine safety courses in May at mine rescue stations in Benton Coulterville and Du Quoin. The program runs three weeks with two three hour sessions weekly morning 9 am to noon and evening 6 to 9 pm. Coulterville classes begin May 9 on Tuesdays and Thursdays while Benton and Du Quoin start May 8 on Mondays and Wednesdays. Enrollment targets miners needing certification under the state coal mining act and those seeking surface mine supervisor certification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals
Benton
Coulterville
du Quoin
Benton and
Death notices note three lives in small Illinois town
Urgen Childers 100 of Elkville dies after Spanish American War veteran born 1878 Cairo. Funeral Monday at Jackson Funeral Home with burial Sunset Lawn Harrisburg announcements list survivor granddaughter Virginia White. Also Aaron Green 70 of Marion dies May 5 1978 Cardiff born 1907 survived by wife four sons four sisters five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Arthur Priebe 78 Campbell Hill dies May 4 1978 at Chester Memorial Hospital burial St John Lutheran Post Oak. survived by wife Ruth, children, granddaughter, great granddaughter and sister.
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Carl Ward Simmons
Tunnel Hill
Whitwell
Vienna
Webb Cemetery
Mr. Simmons
Memorial Hospital
Carbondale
Benton
Carl S
Georgia Ward Simmons
Simpson Hill
Simmons
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
United States Army
Carl Lenny
New Burnside
Della
Darla Kreid
Elkville
Thomas Bennett
Jacksonville
Fla
Phillip Bennett
Gail H. Bennett
Aliene Glenn
Allie Lowery
Peoria
Edna Taylor
Elgin
Zedna Kimball
Everett Vincent
Chillicothe
Ber Corp
West Frankfort
First Community Bank of
Trinity United Methodist Church of
St. Louis
Frank
Lena Feldman Finazzo
Thelma Lawrence
Columbus
Ohio
Tony
Bennie Finazzo
Trinity United Methodist Church
Finazzo
Ann Warren
W. Lindell St
American Beauty
St. John's Church
Dewey Dallas Sr
Fairfax Drive
Harrisburg
Satuday
Gaskins Funeral Home
Sunset Lawn Cemetery
Dallas
Harrisburg Doctors Hospital
Gaynelle
William
Griffith
Ind
Dewey Jr
Gary
Connie Newlin
Fountain Valley
Calif
Rolene Fulkerson
Everett
Carrier Mills
Juanita Hiser
Murphysboro
Denny and Pettett
First Baptist Church of
Illinois Association of Retired Teachers
National Association of Retired Teachers
St. Joseph Memorial
Evelyn D. Christian
Edwardsville
Good Samaritan Hospital
Mt. Vernon
Roy Christian
Elmer Dodson
Myers-Bari
West Salem
Dora Belcher
Anna
Union County
Willis L
Harry
Goreville
Roy Boyd
Bement
Carroll
Irene Johnson
Tamms
Anna Navin
Ruth Hess
Charles Boyce
Sikeston
Lutz
Rendleman Funeral Home
Jonesboro
Anna United Methodist Church
Josephine Lauder
W. Stotlar
Herrin
Memorial Medical Center
Springfield
Lauder
Royal Neighbors Lodge
Carterville
George
Laura Hurst Walker
William H. Lauder
Bonnie Deming
Jean Taylor
Laura Kenner
Margaret Serena
Lo Lee
Pittsburg
Johnson Funeral Home
Herrin City
Urgen Childers
Jackson Funeral Home
Sunset Lawn
Mr. Childers
Pierce Hospital
Eldgrado
Cairo
Aaron Green
Route 6
Marion
Carbondale Memorial Hospital
Cardiff
Arthur
Mary Ann Crofts Green
Nellie McClanahan
Green
Hod Carriers Union
Bill
Don
Westminster
Tommy
Bob
Newport News
Effie Shanks
Hazel Moore
Alma McCombs
Virginia Browning
Wilson Funeral Home
Maplewood Cemetery
Arthur Priebe
Campbell Hill
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Post Qak
Church
Priebe
Chester Memorial Hospital
Post Oak
Lena Weberling Priebe
Ruth Knop
Barbara
Allegra Rubach
Deborah Smith
Willisville
Christine Sue Smith
Flora Richelman
Bush woman dies of gunshot wound in apparent homicide
Gladys Wilson, 43, of Bush, was found dead at home Saturday May 6 1978 by her husband Harry Wilson and son Daniel Wilson. Coroner James Wilson said the death was from an apparently personal safety related gunshot wound. An inquest is planned. Funeral services are pending at Walker Funeral Home in Hurst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Wilson
Bush
Harry Wilson
Daniel Wilson
Williamson County
James Wilson
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Loren Eiseley
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Southern Illinois Society For
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Southern Illinois Col. Common Marketing
Rend Lake College
Effie Fisher
W. Hendrickson St
Wilda McClellan
Golconda
Fisher
Pulaski County
Samuel
Dorothy Little Riley
David 0. Fisher
Metropolis
Arvel Riley
Frealin Riley
Karnak
James Ray Riley
Ohio Chapel
Grand Chain
Ella Mae Hightower
7Th St
St. Joseph Hospital
Rags
Humane Society Ofuthern
Illinois
Illinois 13
Joe Jines
NOAA
US Dept of Commerce
Department of Mines
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