Community calendar lists varied public meetings and film shows
Public meetings include Anna Grade School salary discussion at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Human Relations Committee 8 p.m. in city hall. SIU events show Brahms evening and lectures by Holloway and Bill Strode. Drive-ins feature multiple films with dusk showings. theaters host Restless Ones and Bonnie and Clyde screenings.
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Anna
City Hall
Illinois Association of Community Action Agency
Ramada Inn
Marion
Agriculture
Greater Egypt
Robert J. Holloway
American Marketing Association
Davis
SIU Wham Education
Bill Strode
Louisville Courier- Journal
SIU Agriculture Building
Fox
Carbondale
Sebastian
Riveria Drive-In
Marion Drive-In
Katie Elder
Campus Drive-In
Joe
Herrin
Redline
Marlow’s
Murphysboro
Anna Drive-in
Orpheum Theater
Restless Ones
Varsity
Rodgers
Bonnie and Clyde
Orpheum
Power
School Board Meetings This Thursday in Various Districts
Carbondale Grade School District 95 holds a 7:30 p.m. meeting in the Lincoln Junior High conference room. Pinckneyville District 101 High School meets at 7:30 p.m. in the high school. Zeigler Royalton Community Unit 188 schedules a 7:30 p.m. meeting at Royalton Grade School. Movie listings include Varsity Carbondale showing Far From the Maddening Crowd and Blackbeard’s Ghost at Rodgers, Anna.
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Carbondale
Lincoln
Pinckneyville District
Zeigler Royalton Community Unit
Royalton
Anna
Blackbeard’s
Illinois inmates have sentences commuted by governor
Springfield AP Gov Otto Kerner commuted the minimum sentences of five Illinois inmates. Robert Hudnall 10 to eight years. Maurice Mitchell four to two to four years. Gary Dorris four to three years. Marvin Gigger eight to six years. William Bracy eight to six years. Parole eligibility dates follow each case.
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Springfield
Otto Kerner
Illinois
Robert Hudnall
St.Clair County
Me‘nard
Maurice Mitchell
Saline County
Vienna
Gary Burnel Dorris
Henderson County
Marvin Gigger
St. Clair County
William Bracy
Bracy
Cook County
Joliet
Benton theft hearing set for Mt. Vernon men
A preliminary hearing is set for 10 a.m. May 29 in Benton circuit court for two Mt. Vernon men, Billy Don Stewart aged 26 and Douglas Hefley aged 24, charged in an $18,000 burglary. They were arrested last week by Jefferson County authorities and released on $10,000 bond. Authorities say $3,000 cash and $15,000 in bonds were taken from an elderly Benton couple's home on April 8 while the couple watched television.
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Mt. Vernon
Benton
Billy Don Stewart
Douglas Hefley
Jefferson County
Fire at Lesser starts again
A brief blaze rekindled at a Main Street building in Lesser Tuesday morning heavy smoke followed hours after a weekend fire that damaged a one story wooden structure and about 10 used refrigerators two televisions.
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Ronnie Robinson
Main ‘Street
Eary
Sulcer’s
Former Carbondale police chief Floyd Lee Jones dies at 73
Floyd Lee Jones, former Carbondale police chief, died on arrival at Holden Hospital at 8 30 p m Tuesday from a heart attack He served as chief in the 1940s and left the force in 1947 A mechanic and machinist Jones was born October 31 1894 in Carbondale He survived by his wife Frances Aiken a daughter Mary Evelyn Jones a son Joe Floyd Hill and several brothers Funeral services set for Friday at Huffman Funeral Home with burial in Snider Cemetery
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Carbondale
Rt. 2
Holden Hospital
Mr. Jones
Carbondale Elks Club
Ernest Jefferson
Sarah Floyd Jones
Frances Aiken
Marshall
Mary Evelyn Jones
Forest Park
Joe Floyd Hill
Tex
Voyle E. Jones
Louisville
Willard Jones
Twenty-nine Palms
Calif
Gordon Jones
Bellflower
Marion Jones
Manhattan Beach
Huffman Funeral Home
William A. Longman
First Christian Church
Snider Cemetery
Planning studies near ready for distribution in Greater Egypt region
The Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission reported April activity with three industrial and codes reports issued, six studies moved to ready for printer, and seven more projects beyond halfway. One project Murphysboro parks and recreation remains about to start.
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Greater Egypt
Marion
Murphysboro
Walier
Crainville
Franklin
Perry
Williamson
Jackson
Willisville
Grand Tower
Christopher
Johnston City
Zeigler
Elkville
Herrin
Carbondale
Theft suspect fills bond in Harrisburg pharmacy break-in
A Louisville man Donald Lee Hill 31 charged with burglary and conspiracy in the April 28 Skaggs Pharmacy break in was released on 5000 bond from Saline County jail. Dennis Lee Williams 27 also faces charges and awaits action May 28, bond reduced from 12500 to 5000. Lewis Edward Williams 29 pleaded guilty to burglary and is serving 3 to 5 years at Menard State Prison after charges of conspiracy and illegal possession of needles were dismissed. The three were not related. William Rude 81 of Herrin died Tuesday at Franklin Hospital. Funeral set Friday at Van Natta Funeral Home Herrin. Burial Oakwood Cemetery Carterville. Murphysboro: Menas G. Mandis, 15, failure to yield right of way.
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Harrisburg
Saline County
Donald Lee Hill
Skaggs
Hill
Dennis Lee Williams
Wiliams
Lewis Edward Williams
Menard State Prison
Jack Morris
Williams
William Rude
12Th St
Herrin
Franklin Hospital
Benton
de Soto
Edmond
Maria Sullivan Rude
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Rude
Tresa Smith
William A
Chillicothe
Jack
Amarillo
Tex
Margaret Power
Marion
Murphysboro UF Names Officers for 1968 Drive
The Murphysboro United Fund elected Rev. William Boatman as president and Richard Powers as vice president in its annual meeting. Spike Erickson named co-chairman with Ernest Miller as treasurer and Mrs. Woodrow Lorentz as secretary. Five new board members were seated and a 1968 drive scheduled for Sept 30 to Oct 31 with an 80 percent payment of 1967 budget requests approved.
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William Boatman
First Lutheran Church of
Murphysboro
United Fund
Richard Powers
Vinson
Spike” Erickson
Ernest Miller
Woodrow Lorentz
Cecil Dunn
Vern Grissom
James Howard
Fred Renschen
Richard Strottman
Gerald Dunn
Frank Little
Dunn
McClure 12 year old drowns in flooded creek
John Liston 12 of McClure drowned while wading in a flooded creek at 3 p m. in Alexander County. Two companions aged about 12 were with him and ran for help after he went under. An unidentified man pulled Liston from the water and gave aid. One boy is son of Alexander County assistant school superintendent Jerry Johnson and the other is son of Clyde Pearce Jr owner of the Purple Crackle Night club. Funeral services were pending in Cape Girardeau Missouri.
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John Liston
McClure
Alexander County Sheriff's Office
William Liston
Young Liston
Sheriff’s Office
Liston
Alexander County
Jerry Johnson
Clyde Pearce Jr
Cape Girardeau
Herrin Woman Dies By Own Hand In Gunshot Wound
Williamson County coroner's jury ruled that 68 year old Mrs. Della Damron of rural Herrin died May 8 from a self inflicted gunshot wound. A 16 gauge single barrel shotgun was found beside her body at home, neighbors reported.
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Williamson County
Della Damron
Herrin
James Wilson
Doan's Pills Promise Relief From Nagging Backache
Nagging backache and muscular pains linked to stress may disturb sleep. Doan's Pills are promoted as a non habit forming analgesic used for over 70 years to ease nagging backache and sleepless nights, with a suggestion to buy the large size for convenience.
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Doan
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