Southern Trustees Name Hand Executive Assistant at SIU
George H Hand formerly president of Fairmont State College and later at the University of Montana joined Southern Illinois University as professor of economics and executive assistant to President D W Morris. His title may change. Hand, 49, has a noted record including accrediting by the North Central Association, salary gains, and campus improvements. His Fairmont dismissal sparked nationwide attention and editorials praising his defense of academic freedom.
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George H. Hand
Fairmont
W. Va
State College
D. W. Morris
Southern Illinois University
Hand
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
West Virginia State Board of Education
the Moines Register
Cour
the Register
Herrin High School Graduates 1500 Attend Commencement
About 1500 parents relatives and well wishers attended Herrin Township High School graduation in the new gym. 108 seniors received diplomas with awards across athletics academics and arts. Top scholastic honors went to Joan Rogers and Keith Bennett tied with Robert Noe. Noe also won Lions Club award for combining athletics with high scholastic average.
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Herrin Township High School
Joan Rogers
Keith Bennett
Robert Noe
Noe
Lions Club
Elaine Bender
Anita Catani
Joyce Childini
Barbara Clark
Barbara Furst
Arlene Gooden
Sandra Herrin
Louise Horn
Marilyn Melvin
Anna Merl Propes
Lois Rushing
Ellis’ Lodge
Paul Sexton
Bill Donahue
Miriam Sawyer
Eileen McMurray
Euhiach
Beta Omicron
Beta Sigma Phi
Herrin
Marilyn Burks
Thomas Dale
Gary Holt
Tom Jones
Allen Moore
Shirley Pierce
Phyllis Restivo
Joe Stutsman
Jo Ann Yates
Charles Helleny
Sandra Serio
Shirley Lemons
Carolyn Liddell
Betty Stephens
Jo Ann Turnage
Beverly Zook
Beverly Dawson
Gayle Hood
Jerry McCormick
Sandra McGhee
Richard Pisoni
Sondra McGee
Marvin Owen
Charles Jack
Ruth Sullivan
Myrtle Carey
William F. Wetherington
Blanche Weaver
Mary Dowell
Ronnie Mitchell
Join Tidwell
Dolores Bione
Phyllis Carnago
Mary Anne Chiodini
Terry Cline
Juliann Cro
Etherton Rites set for Friday in Murphysboro
Funeral services for Wallie J. Etherton 55 of Murphysboro Route 2 will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Crawshaw Mortuary chapel Murphysboro with Rev Blaise officiating. Burial in Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery. He was killed in Carbondale Tuesday when a machine at Sumner One Stop Service exploded. He leaves wife Mabel Tuttle and three sons Charles Jack Clarence, a daughter Mrs Seth McClure, three brothers and two sisters, plus his mother Mrs Mattie Etherton. He was a World War I veteran and member of Dutch Ridge Church and Murphysboro Eagles Aerie 670.
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Wallie J. Etherton
Murphysboro
Carbondale
Crawshaw Mortuary
Blaise
Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery
Crawshaw Funeral Home
Etherton
Sumner
Jackson County
Mabel Tuttle
Tie
Charles
Jack
Clarence Beberton Tuttle
Seth McClure
Metropolis
George
Peoria
Eugene
Brownell Named Acting Director of Area Services at Southern Illinois
Northwestern professor Baker Brownell is appointed acting director of area services at Southern Illinois University, effective June 30. He will oversee Information Placement and Alumni services, campus outreach, and public relations while directing a new division. Brownell, born in St Charles and educated at Northwestern Washington Harvard Cambridge and Tubingen, joined Northwestern in 1920 and has written eight volumes and edited works with Harper and Brothers.
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Baker Brownell
Northwestern University
Southern Illinois University
Harper and Brothers
William J. Tudor
Southern
Brownell
St. Charles
Washington
Northwestern
Harvard
Cambridge
Tuebingen
Chicago
Daily News and Tribune
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Frank Lloyd Wright
Montana
George Santayana
Siu Board Names Trump New Business Admin Chief
Guy Winston Trump of Stephen F. Austin State College will become chairman of the Southern Illinois University department of business administration on Sept. 8, succeeding Prof. John W. Scott who retires. He studied at Tulane and Iowa, earning a doctorate, and hails from Columbus Indiana with background in accounting economics and statistics.
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Guy Winston Trump
Stephen F. Austin State College
Nacogdoches
Texas
Southern Illinois University Department of Business Administration
John W. Scott
Department of Business Administration
Austin State
Trump
Tulane University
State University of Iowa
Chrmbusco
Ind
Road Worker Injured On Route 13 Project
Oliver Weberling of Murphysboro, a Triangle Construction employee, suffered an eye injury Tuesday when concrete flew into his left eye. He was part of a crew patching Route 13 from Murphysboro north to the Pyatt Wye and was taken to St. Andrew's Hospital for treatment. The full extent of the injury was not known today.
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Oliver Weberling
Murphysboro
Triangle Construction Company
Eath
Musboro
Weberling
Pyatt Wye
St. Andrew’s Hospital
Murphysboro Graduation Tonight for 109 Seniors
Commencement for 109 Murphysboro Township High School graduates will be held Thursday night in the new gymnasium next to the auditorium. Doors open at 8 p.m. with the program featuring salutatorian Elene Hanrahan and valedictorian Ellouise Schneider. Awards include Readers Digest medal, gold and silver M scholastic honors, and numerous special medals. list names many students and award categories.
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Murphysboro Township
Ted Sholberg
Edward Weltge
St. Peter’s Evangelical and Reformed Church of
Murphysboro
Theodore Shoberg
Elene Hanrahan
J. H
Miss Hanrahan
David Berrier
Edward Ebersohl
Madelyn Galway
Evelyn Gregersen
Ernestine Hopkins
Rita Martell
Phyllis Ripley
Ellouise Schneider
Margaret Ann Weber
M’s
David Comte
James Howell
Daniel Jacquot
Mary McDaniel
Blondel McKinnie
Martha Nausley
Paul Palmer
Rosemary Tule
Carole Will
K. Jo Ann Williams
David
Lois Bizzell
Robert Graeff
Heise
Lawrence Logan
Normanee Norman
Rosalie Norman
Raymond Miller
Wallace Weber
K. JoAnn Williams
Tommy Williams
Patty Wooldridge
Christina Young
Harry Eisenhauer
Shylana Buchholz
Roscoe Crossin
James Duke
Ernest Hughes
Rosetta Jackson
Ronald Larson
Marianna Meyers
Gladys Penrod
James Sherman
Richard White
Jack Wilson
Bosch
Lamb
Junior Red Cross at Herrin Gains National Mention
Herrin Township High School hosts Junior Red Cross projects praised by Ray Palmer of the National Red Cross. Photos and story in national journals will feature Herrin and Peoria efforts, including nursing home visits, TB patient care, and donations.
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Red Cross
Herrin
T. B
Palmer
National Red Cross Journal
Blanche Weaver
T.B
Louise Barton
Nts
American Cancer Society
Schoenig Nursing Home
Secon
Jeanette
Ridgway
Fay
Ridley
Bob Hutchison
Herria High School
Highest De Molay Award Presented In Murphysboro
Danny Penrod past Master Councilor of Murphysboro De Molay received the Degree of Chevalier, first such honor in a southern Illinois lodge south of Belleville, during a Murphysboro Masonic Temple investiture with Masonic officers and Carbondale escorts present. New officers Samuel Berry Master Councilor and others were installed. a pot luck supper followed in the basement quarters.
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de Molay
Danny Penrod
Murphysboro
Masonic Order
of Carbondale
Penrod
Belleville
Recipent
Murphysboro de Molay
Charles Wildy
Belleville C
Wildy
Enrod
Bert Shafter
Christopher
Shaffer
Masonic Lodge
Murphysboro de Molay Lodge
Samuel Berry
David Boyce
James Wright
James Turner
Charles Fleming
Ronald Flowers
Ronnie Hanson
Dick Carter
Earl Cottonaro
William Neal
Johnny Cummings
Edward Burton
Paul Miller
Benton Berry
and Wes
Carbondale City Hall Closed for Memorial Weekend
The Carbondale city hall offices will be closed Friday and Saturday this week due to the Memorial Day weekend, the city council announced Tuesday night.
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Carbondale City
Carbondale City Hall
Carbondale appoints Wooten as plant director
The Carbondale city council named John Wooten of 714 South Marion Street as superintendent of the sewage disposal plant, replacing Harold Hill who resigned after eight years. Wooten starts June 15. Five applicants, including Luther Bayless, Herbert L. Hall, Thomas Reeder, Harold Toler, and John F. Biggs, were filed for the post. One will succeed Jim Heern, the operator who also resigned last week.
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Carbondale
John Wooten
Marion Street
Harold Hill
Wooten
Hill
Luther Bayless
Herbert L. Hall
Thomas Reeder
Harold Toler
John F. Biggs
Jim Heern
AEC Grant Extended For Research At SIU
The U S Atomic Energy Commission extended a 10800 grant for SIU research. Dr Carl C Lindgren will continue the AEC project at the University Biological Research Laboratory. Trustees also kept Charles E Feirich as special counsel.
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AEC
SIU
Carl C. Lindegren
Biological Research Laboratory
Charles E. Feirich
DeMolay honors Danny Penrod with Chevalier degree
Danny Penrod Past Master Councilor of Murphysboro DeMolay received the De gree of Chevalier the highest DeMolay award in a ceremony Tuesday night at the Masonic Temple in Murphysboro. The award recognized his meritorial service in DeMolay activities with a ceremony featuring Amiel Pelzer and other dignitaries including H T Ratel, Freeman Whitson, Charles Wildy, Russell Siefert, and Joe Sanders.
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Danny Penrod
Murphysboro
Freeman Whitson
Charles Wildy
Belleville
Penrod
Russell Siefert
West
Joe Sanders
Marion Doctor Breaks Left Leg Mowing Lawn
Dr. W. W. Ritchey of Marion suffered a compound fracture of his left leg while mowing his lawn around 4 p.m. Tuesday. A rotary lawn mower engaged by accident struck his leg just above the ankle. He is being treated at Holden Hospital in Carbondale.
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W. W. Ritchey
Marion
Ats Agi
Holden Hospital
Carbondale
Douglas School Picnic Thursday
The annual end of term picnic for Douglas grade and junior high, Murphysboro, will be at Riverside Park. Events begin at 9:30 a.m. with a third versus fourth grade softball, 10:30 a.m. lower grade girls softball, 11:30 a.m. bicycle races, noon picnic lunch, 3 p.m. a per grade softball, and 4 p.m. a dads and sons game to close.
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Douglas
Murphysboro
Riverside Park
Mrs Neely Ill SIU Faculty Member At Home
Neely, a well known and popular teacher at the university, recently completed an opera The Charm with co author Dr Maurits. She was removed to Missouri Baptist hospital in St Louis Mo last week from her home at 112 North Poplar street Carbondale.
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Julia
Wee
Neely
Maurits
Missouri Baptist Hospital
St. Louis
North Poplar Street
Carbondale
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Lois Jane Graff
Gladys Marie Griffin
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Dorris
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Julia Mac Hibbler
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Mary Carolyn Hunziker
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Peggy Jean Kobiela
Mary Lucille McDaniel
Rita Lynnette Martell
Martha Jane Nausley
Norma Lee Norman
Rosalie Ann Norman
Gladys Janice Penrod
Nell Rose Porter Evans
Lula Mae Reese
Barbara Jean Reichrath
Joan Elizabeth Riggio
Phyllis Ann Ripley
Jayne Marie Roberts
Bettye
Joanne Rowden
Delores Marie Schaak
Frances Jean Seibel Strothmann
Audrey Alice Stearnes
Wilma Alice Tooms
Jo Ann Trigg
Mary Elizabeth Webb
Carole Eileen Will
Karen Jo- Ann Williams
Patricia Neil Wooldridge
Christina Mae Young
David Jewell Berrier
Robert James Brogsmiller
Edwin Wayne Clutts
Eugene David Vomte
Gordon Edsel Crig
Roscoe Eugene Crossin
Lewis Bernell Dobbs
James Hershel Duke, Jr
Leonard Edward Ebersohl
Harry Charles Eisenhauer
Hosea Kent Elliott
Jack Minter Etherton
Patrick Michael Grimes
Laverne Heiple
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Jack Edward Holley
James Norman Howell
Ernest Lee Hughes
Daniel Dean Jacquot
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Ronald Fulton Larson
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Harry Thomas Limbert
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Charles Allen McIntyre
Patrick Louis Melton
Charles Russell Mifflin
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Charles L. Marber
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Joe Rains
Ross Reiman
Franklin Donald Robinson
Edward William Schauerte
James Edward Sherman
Thomas Martin Stevenson, Jr
Max Dan Sullivan
Leonard Tomlinson
Geo Joseph Wanstreet Wallace Rudolph Weber
Richard Edgar White
Jack Edward Wilson
Milo Allen Wisely, Jr
Charles Paul Wood
Thomas Fricke
Ralph Curry
Elene Hanahan
Elouise Schneider
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
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