Federal funds eyed for college student work programs
Adams, SIU administrator, proposes a federal student work plan to replace or supplement aid for two years. He says 120000 upperclassmen nationwide could be hired part time on campuses, performing essential tasks while gaining education value. Allocation would weigh educational benefit and student financial need.
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Colat
Loges
Adams
Scho
Frank Co. Adams
SIU
Phig
State Universitt
STU
Jhis College
Berry Harvest Under Way in Franklin County
Franklin County strawberry growers are midway through harvest with about 1,400 quarts per acre. Calving Cowsert, Farm Advisor, notes 34 acres of strawberries among 36 commercial growers. Mild dry weather aids picking. cool conditions and heavy rain may cause mold losses.
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Franklin County
Calvin Cowsett
Cowsert
Planting Advances as Corn Crop Sets in for Jackson County
County advisers report 75 to 80 percent planting progress with rain and May chill affecting sprouting. About 12,300 to 13,000 acres of corn expected to be planted in Williamson County next ten days while alfalfa is being cut and some soybeans already in.
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Jackson
Williamson
Ing Fildon Starkweather
Starkweather
C. Wayne Moelscher
Williamson County
Hoelscher
Goodyear Stores Seek Wider Display of Flags
Goodyear Tire and Rubber area stores publicize a Show Your Colors project with a ready-to-fly 50-star flag ensemble priced at 2.57. The kit features a 3 by 5 foot flag, a two-piece 6-foot staff, eagle emblem, halyard, mounting brackets and a flag etiquette manual, backed by the U S Flag Foundation founded in 1895.
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber
U. S. Flag Foundation
Band Clinic Highlights SIU Event and Scholarships
Drummer Ken Park a Murphysboro High senior taps at a stage band clinic hosted by Southern Illinois University Center with 300+ participants. Sponsored by Le Masters Music Co., Carbondale, the gathering awarded Adale Community High School’s band director a 98 scholarship for a Stan Kenton Music Camp in Bloomington. Denny Ariens of Mattoon High School won a $200 Berklee School of Music summer scholarship in Boston.
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Ken Park
Murphysboro
Southern Illinois University Center
Lemasters Music Co
Carbondale
Ee Shielel
Adale Commuunity Hig
Stan Kenton
Bloomington
Ind
Denny Ariens
Mattoon High School
Berklee School of Music
Boston
Mass
Ariens
Two Injured In Accidents In Sparta Area
Two area residents were injured in separate Saturday accidents near Miller City and four miles north of Sparta on Route 43. R L Cook of Olive Branch was treated and released from St Marys Hospital Cairo after a train car collision on the Olive Branch line. Samuel A Morrow, 47, of Sparta, was in fair condition at Sparta Hospital with cuts and broken ribs after a one car crash.
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Iow
Sparta
R. L. Cook
Olive Branch
St. Mary’s Hospital
Cairo
Olive
Branch Blacktop
Miller City
Cook
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel A. Morrow
Police Briefs Highlight Fines in Regional Court
West Frankfort and Murphysboro reports show multiple defendants cited by local justices of the peace. Joe Devault of Evansville Indiana pleads guilty and pays 13.20 in fines and costs for a cited infraction. Bruno Waller and Carl Brown disobeyed a stop sign. Edmond J. Laurence of Wappapella Missouri fined 30 dollars for disturbing the peace.
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West Frankfort
Joe Devault
Evansville
Ind
Justice of the Peace
Ed Griffin
Bruno Waller
Carl Brown
Murphysboro
Edmond J. Laurence
Wappapella
Justice of Peace
Jim Bob Kerley
Area cities honor war dead with Memorial Day services
Memorial Day services will be held across Herrin Marion and Carbondale area towns. VFW Post 1567 and American Legion Post 645 will lead ceremonies at the Doughboy Monument and cemeteries in Herrin with a 7:50 am assembly and 8:00 am service, followed by visits to Hurricane Freeman and East Lawn Gardens cemeteries. A Marion service is planned at New Rose Hill Cemetery with participation by Legion and VFW posts, a color guard, and the local band.
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Herrin Prairie
Legion Post
Baker-Ladd
Foreign Wars Post
Herrin
VFW
Madison St
Leo Bracken
Legion
Fergestown
Jeffrey
Stotlar-Herrin
Hurricane
Freeman
East Lawn Memoriial Gardens
Joint Service
St. Carlos Cemetery
Herrin Cemetery
Marion
Ha. m
New Rose Hill
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Seba Marshall
Jame Sey Ween Cee
Park Service
Harold Smith
William Grindle
D-Herrin
Thomas Gore
Albert Burrato
Post
Schubert- Viscardi
Evergreen Cemetery
Chester
Robert Nooner
Derrick Helmers
F. C. Vogt
the Legion
Chester High School
Carbondale
Donald Hudson
Heroes Lane To Be Formed At Cemetery
A Heroes Lane to honor war victims not recovered will be laid out at Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery between Carbondale and Murphysboro. Barracks 1026 of World War I Veterans, Murphysboro, will mount flags on gold-tinted poles to form a corridor. Flags to be used only on Memorial Day, says Sherman Carr, commander. The group seeks names of service members who died or were killed in World Wars I II and the Korean War and hopes to buy name plates to mark flags as memorials.
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Robert Butler
Maj. Thomas
VFW Memorial
VFW Dennis
Marion
Johnmander
Xi Army Corps
Sion
City High School
Emory D. Rutherford
Transmis
Woodsmen
VFW
John Cedilot
Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery
Carbondale
Murphysboro
William H. Childers
William H. Lehmann
Donald Mitchell
Harry Chasteen
First Baptist Church
Murphysboro Barracks
VIFW
130Th Infantry
Sinais National Guard
Southern Illinois Air Force Reserve Officers ‘Training Corps
Murphysboro ‘Township
Murphysboro American Legion Paul Stout
Ninth and Locust Streets
Pleasant Grove Memorial
Wil
Sherman Carr
Money ID cards taken from purse in Carbondale tavern
A Carbondale woman reported theft of $5 and identification cards from her purse while in the Flamingo Lounge at 211 East Main Street. Police identified the caller as Charlotte Gentz, a Southern Illinois University student residing at 125 Kellogg Hall. Kremlin is cited in the text as the Russian word for citadel.
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Carbondale
Charlotte Gentz
Southern Ilinois University
Kellogg Hall
Flamingo
E. Main St
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Jean Nurnberger
Terri Carbondale
Roy Nurnberger
Tatum Heights, Carbondale
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Area Cities Plan Memorial
MU Wuee Ty Eee
K Neil Thurmond
Walnut Street
14Th Street
Jackson Country
Johnston City
Broadway
Monroe Avenue
Brunner
Illinois’ Avenue
Office Supply Company
A. Woolworth
Kremlin
Woolworths
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