Word: murphysboro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...significant landmark in U.S education. To his "students," Fishback fired a fat new reading list of 35 books and pamphlets; he was also arranging four mass forums for them. To the school officials involved, the transformed boards, once of little or no help, are becoming enlightened allies. Said neighboring Murphysboro's delighted Superintendent William Carruthers: "Never . . . have I seen a school board take such an interest in finding out what schools are doing. They are actually reading books on school practices...
...Port. In Murphysboro. Ill., running from police who wanted to question him about a bad check. Sanford Burgess, 45, panted into the basement of a building which he discovered, too late, was the Jackson County courthouse...