Skelcher's Southern Illinois Golf Club Plans Big Expansion
Family owners Marshall and Mrs Skelcher run the 18 hole Southern Illinois Golf and Country Club near Marion. Opened 1964, it faces 1966 upgrades including sand traps, a driving range, 21 electric carts, new pro Jerry Barter, and expansion plans such as a tournament, Eight Man Team schedule, parking lot paving, and bar and dining use.
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Southern Illinois Golf and Country Club
Marion
Skelcher
Jerry Barter
Saline County
Eldorado
Southern Illinois Golf Association
SIGA
Carbondale Chamber Advances Membership Drive
Preparations are finished for Carbondale Chamber of Commerce membership drive set to start Monday. Mayor D Blaney Miller stresses a voluntary civic effort to promote community welfare and urges former members to rejoin and participate. teams led by Doug Heaton and Pete Epps compete, with the losing side treating the winner to dinner, says executive director Harry Weeks.
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Carbondale Chamber of Commerce
Carbondale
D. Blaney Miller
Chamber of Commerce
Tor
Doug Heaton
Pete Epps
Harry Weeks
Papal Audience With 6th Fleet Officers in Vatican
Pope Paul VI met officers and men from the 6th Fleet in Vatican City. He told them their work could be a work of peace and understanding among peoples.
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Pope Paul
No. 2 Hole at Marion Course Tests Big Yards
Tony Stevens notes the 425 yard No. 2 hole at Southern Illinois Golf and Country Club in Marion presents a tough test with a long uphill tee shot into a wind exposed, left dogleg. The fairway slopes to a large green built above fairway level, with embankments and subtle greenside reading challenges.
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Southern Illinois Golf
T.S
Southern Illinois Golf and Country Club
Marion
Parallel Ocean Current Named Kuroshio Stream
The Pacific Ocean current running along Japan’s southeast coast and across the Pacific toward British Columbia is called the Kuroshio Stream. In Canada this warm current is known as the Chinook Current.
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Pacific Ocean
Japan
Pacific
British Columbia
Canada
Bi-County Officials Elected to State Health Posts
Franklin Williamson Bi-County Health Department trio win offices in state health groups during annual meetings in Springfield. Dr. David P. Richerson becomes president of the Illinois Association of Medical Health Officers, Dan Bain treasurer of the Illinois Association of Sanitarians, and Marion J. Poggas elected president of the Illinois Society of Health Educators.
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Franklin Williamson
David P. Richerson
Tillinois Association of Medical Health Officers
Dan Bain
Department
Illinois Association of Sanitarians
Marion J. Poggas
Illinois Society of Health Educators
Springfield
Richerson
Christopher
Health Department
Bain
Bi-County
Poggas
Illinois Tuberculosis Association
Franklin County Mental Health Association
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Marion Club
Marshall Skelcher
Food Service
Marion Golf and Country Club
Carbondale Drive
Vatican City
Jantzen
ARROW
Haggar-Levi’s
Herrin
Carbondale West
Frankfort
Benson
Mt. Vernon
By Tony Stevens
The
Southern Illinoisan
Jerry Barte
B.T.U
Williams Store
Illinois
Kuroshio
Gamblelrooms
Eska “Golden Jet
Gamble-Skogmo, Inc
Zebflex
Cortland
Westmore
Marion, Illinois
Cee
Snapper Comet
ALL Makes & Models
Art Ross
Highway
Sorius
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