Calendar notices announce public meetings and events
Public meetings and events listed include Carbondale Police Review Board at city hall, Christopher High School Board, Franklin County Zoning Commission, Murphysboro Unit School District 186, and numerous graduation, lecture, and cinema listings with times, locations, and participating groups such as Robin Morgan, R. Buckminster Fuller, and the Southern Illinois University Wind Ensemble. Multiple high school and community graduations set for Thursday evenings across local districts.
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Carbondale
Sparta High School
Gorham High School
Murphysboro
City Hall
Menard Penitentiary Art Show Totals $5663
The Bi annual show at Menard Penitentiary near Chester drew 759 visitors who bought items totaling 5663. More than 1200 pieces were displayed by inmates including paintings rugs leather goods and ceramics. Paintings brought 4630. rugs and leather 705. ceramics 327.
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Menard Penitentiary
Chester
Southern Illinoisan publication information and offices
The Southern Illinoisan is a daily except Saturdays and holidays published by Southern Illinoisan Inc. It lists multiple office addresses in Carbondale Herrin and Murphysboro and notes second class mailing status and AP republication rights. It also identifies predecessor newspapers the Carbondale Free Press Herrin Daily Journal and Murphysboro Independent.
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Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Wanut Street
Murphysboro
Illinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Buckminster Fuller to Speak at SIU Convocation
Architect, engineer, author and poet Buckminster Fuller will discuss The Future is Now at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Southern Illinois University Arena. The lecture is free and open to the public. Fuller holds the title of distinguished university professor.
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Robin Morgan
Sisterhood Is
Lawson
Southern Illinois University
James Ngugi
Kenya
R. Buckminster Fuller
Y. Buckminster Fuller
Fuller
SIU
University Center
Buckyto Picnic With Fuller Draws Carbondale Kids
R Buckminster Fuller, renowned architect and geodesic dome designer, will speak to area children at 6 p m Friday on the Carbondale campus as part of Southern Illinois University's Alternative 71 program. Families bring their own food and drink to the lawn east of the Arena by the big tree where the event will be held.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Carbondale
Fuller
Bucky
James Sullivan
Alternative 71
De Soto Homecoming Weekend Plans Highlight Civic Events
De Soto hosts a Memorial Day weekend with a downtown park dance at 8 p.m. Friday featuring The Country Sound. A Saturday float parade, 5 p.m. ice cream social, teen dance with Joe Sawicki, and a kindergarten to eighth grade king and queen coronation accompany a new pavilion setup. Memorial Day services Sunday at 12:30 p.m. in the city cemetery precede a 1 p.m. fried chicken dinner at the park. Also open Friday to June 2, thesis exhibits by Heidi Oberheide and Paul White at Southern Illinois University Mitchell Gallery with a 6 to 9 p.m. reception.
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de Soto
Country Sound
de Soto Park
Joe Sawicki
de Soto City
Heidi Oberheide
Paul White
Southern Illinois University
Mitchell
Grapefruit Diet Ad Promises Rapid Weight Loss
An advertisement touts a grapefruit based diet claiming 10 pounds lost in 10 days with no hunger. It promises dramatic results by allowing plentiful foods and uses testimonials. Readers are urged to send $2 to Citrus Diet Plan in Fairless Hills Pennsylvania for a copy.
Revenue sharing plans rejected by Model Cities workshop
A Model Cities Region 5 workshop in Carbondale unanimously rejected proposed federal revenue sharing as eroding Model Cities programs. Delegates urged continued funding for Model Cities for its five year term while opposing both special and general revenue sharing.
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Carol Alexander
Carbondale
Two Injured as Truck Overturns Near Old Du Quoin
State police report two Perry county men Floyd B. Young and James E. Baumann sustained major injuries when their pickup hit a utility pole and overturned on Route 14 at the east edge of Old Du Quoin at 4:30 a.m. Young, 20, of Cutler, was driver. Baumann, 21, of Pinckneyville, passenger, were admitted to Marshall Browning Hospital in Du Quoin. Also hurt Tuesday were motorcyclist David C. Dick, 19, of Jonesboro struck on Route 13 east of Carbondale, and Margaret Kolter, 49, of Lawrenceville, in a single-vehicle crash four miles south of the Route 1 and 13 junction. Kolter treated at Pearce Hospital in Eldorado and transferred to Olney. Norman E. Camden, 22, of Murphysboro, cited for illegal transport of alcohol.
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Perry County
Rt. 14
Old du Quoin
Marshall Browning Hospital
du Quoin
Floyd B. Young
Cutler
James E. Baumann
Pinckneyville
David C. Dick
Jonesboro
Rt. 13
Carbondale
Robert N. Zetter
Margaret Kolter
Lawrenceville
Rt. 1
Pearce
Eldorado
Olney
Bloodmobile schedules 371 donors in Carbondale area
Mrs. John McDermott of Carbondale has scheduled 371 persons to give blood at the Red Cross Bloodmobile on Thursday at First United Methodist Church. The unit will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Three more Carbondale churches have joined, totaling 10 sites, and 43 Carbondale Community High School students signed up last week.
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Red Cross
Carbondale
First United Methodist Church
W. Main St
Jackson County
Young Republican Club
Rt. 3
Murphysboro
Carbondale City
Ron Briggs
John McDermott
Lee Moorehead
Carbondale Community High School
Pinckneyville awards sewer extension contract
The Pinckneyville City Council awarded a $57 918 contract to Powell and Beltz Inc of Centralia for the sanitary sewer extension to the new junior high school. County officials planned a county property inventory in about two weeks and approved buying a courthouse water cooler for about $250.
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Pinckneyville
Powell and Beltz Inc
Centralia
Perry County
Don Johnson
County Board of Commissioners
Winton Bigham
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