Southern Illinoisan The Daily Independent (Newspaper) - June 20, 1949, Murphysboro, Illinois 57 A COPY MONDAY JUNE 20 1949 MURPHYSBORO ILLINOIS Crab Orchard Recreation Survey Set This Summer Tourist Housing To Be Studied Herrin Murphy Men In State Eagles Offices Waukegan June 20 AP New developments that promise The Illinois Fraternal order of in Crab Orchard lake yesterday installed Dr and industrial expansion Watson as president have occurred recently They in clude 1 Announcement of a survey to be made this summer by the officers are Vice presidents E j Korba East St Louis Frank Hogan Mo line Thomas Hale Lincoln Stan National Park service looking Cicero William Lang ward a recreational Herrin Chaplain Carl Anderson Ber wyn treasurer Joseph F Breen DeKalb conductor Frank John son guard Wil liam E end outside Spangler Freeport ward a plan for the area 2 An aerial tour of Crab Or chard Little Grassy and Devils Kitchen lake areas by U S Sena tor Paul Douglas with President D W Morris of Southern Illinois university 3 and distribution of a leaflet describing industrial facilities available at the Crab 0r chard lake Industrial area William E Warne assistant sec of the interior announced he has ordered the recreational survey timed to begin as soon as the National Park and the Fish and Wildlife services can make the necessary arrangements I ALSO TAKE cognizance of the shortage rf general hotel ac in the entire Crab Or chard lake said Mr vj Warne It is my understanding iRt not only are tourists and recreationists lack ing but also there is even a short age of facilities to take care of normal business and commercial News Volume Sets Record in Todays Paper Todays paper carries more news in number of items and number of columns than has ever appeared in the regular edition of any Illinois newspaper brought out in a than popu ition The news content beginning with this issue will compare favor ably with such papers as those published in Springfield Decatur East St Louis Quincy Cham travelers Our Crab Orchard lake and project should not be expected to meet this latter need and any thing done there in the future for should be confined strictly to the recreational field Here again because of the possi ble effects of such hotel erection on both the refuge and recreation al aspects of the project the lo cation of such a hotel must be studied carefully and planned to detract as little as possible from these features of the THE mentioned a proposal to build a motor hotel on the lake requested lie of one or est and most important IN ADDITION to more local news than has ever appeared be fore a number of new features are added will Will 06 a page OJ T and page 4 a shutdown ordered bj John market page Including a grain Lewis to stabilize the industry table cash grain livestock and DISTINGUISHED VISITORS SEE EGYPT FROM AIR Truman Seeks Department Of Welfare Cabinet Rank fsw Two men from Washington They were piloted by a Car recently took an aerial look at some points of interest in the Carbondale area especial ly uncompleted Little Grassy and Devils Kitchen lakes south west of Crab Orchard lake bondale pilot and given a tour lecture Southern Illinois president Flying in the Carbondale airport CesT sna were left to Pilot H R Peebles U S SEnator Paul Douglas of Illinois President D W Morris and Health Specialist F Kilander from the office of education of the federal security agency Varsity photo Miners Return To Work After Weeks Layoff Pittsburgh June 20 CAP Carbondale Youth Drowns Sunday Perry Hoyle Is Lake Swimming Victim P e r r y 20 Carbondale morning while swim ming on the southwest side of the lake The drowning was the ninth The nations hard and soft at the lake the past three 25th District Of Legion Picks Ed Driemeyer Ed Driemeyer 40 retiring com mander of Herrin Prairie Post American was elected commander of the Le gion district at Sundays annual convention in the post 127 home in The born in Pinckneyville woh over Scort Courier of Chester by 41 to the 47 posts in the district 23 were represented Driemeyer has lived in Herrin for the past 36 years He is the first district commander to be elected from the Herrn post Three served as commander of the Fifth Division which embraces four Southern Illinois districts The new district commander spent two of his three and a half years of Army service overseas He was 36th Infantry in the Northern France and Rhine campaigns He received two bronze battle stars emd also won the French Croix de Guerre DRIEMEYER told the Legion naires that the to accomplish aims of obtaining maximum benefits for veterans a number of new are t ai ine 3 on a regular basis There coal miners trooped back into the summers be a full page of editorials today a A by William son Coroner Sam Simmons at the lake returned a verdict of acci laKe a UL Absenteeism was reported at a dental by drowning this first dippers en f tuju 51 denial vy produce markets and short items minimum as the first diggers en on stocks and page tered the mines for midnight camping at 7 a m shifts youths had gone camping Satur I day night Hoyle was drowned at I day was at The miners will be working only am yesterday when he at ti AV jti fl inn journalism est most T las jutting into the lake the a new experiment in American of the proposed Veterans Haven south of the Cambria wye Mr the peninsula is one of the most popular sites at the lake for rank and file 11 THE UNITED PRESS says to day printing of three five days before a across a 100 point It is I about two miles east of the dam At least one sizable coal side of the lake day printing of three nve a lui vacation for nee single plant in Carbondale June 25 Each receives for ag jt I upO r tft 1 D f On tf tVl r HfiT today in what was believed to be those 10 days j The Carbondale Free Press the the Castle Shannon Coal Corp and Bob Campbell all Herrin Daily Journal and the nearby Castle Shannon n years old and all from Murphysboro Independent all it chut owned by Southern Illinois laKC lor ranK juc oy anci bank fishermen and will all roll off the The mine was about be reluctant to withdraw it from Its present use even for such an important facility as a Crab Orchard is essentially the same rotary press me centra printing will have to seek have been used with dailies ment elsewhere chief recreational opportunity Dfi we the average low and medium dailies come groups of Southern Illinois and very probably these groups in France but this is believed to in trance out mis is w uj be the first centralization of nations coal stored above the boys said We don t know uc o will always dominate the recrea tional usage Warne con The Fish and Wildlife ser vice has recognized this situation and back shop employes will con to operate in their respec tive The full state the Asso tne nation s t ground froman estimated 70 he was a good swimmer advertising lion tons 60 million tons or vice nas from the first and In the Press appears in this issue has planned Its facilities primarily These reports are augmented by lms stories from our own staff report to accomodate the local citizens to whom the lake means so much Warne said the general refuge and industrial area now seem well organized and function He said the second main area is the general recreation tract cen t tering about the lower half of the main lake and Including the ad ing er in Springfield and regional Southern Illinois news stories writ ten by our own staff members TWO NEW panels are appear Sox by Marty Links on the first classified page page 10 and Cross Town by Roland Coe on page 11 are in addition to eight comic strips ap woodlands on page 8 meadows This area is be ing reserved strictly for recrea tional use and no buildings or mecial interests are to be allowed fW special privileges on this por fJ F trt of the I 4farne The according to Veterans Haven Two sport pages will carry a complete report of Southern Illi sports results and comment in addition to the Associated Press reports on national sports news More local news pictures are be ing used This is in addition to pictures from the Asso Press appearing throughout the paper and in a daily picture page on the back of the paper A SOUTHERN ILLINOIS deaths column is appearing for the first today on page 11 This lists in tabular form the accounts of all the deaths in Southern Illinois In addition more complete stories about local persons who have died will appear on page 3 The larger paper is the culmin ation of plans that have been un derway for the past two years News staffs have enlarged and a good deal of new equip ment has been added The production of the larger news volume is the result of co ordinating the production of the three Southern Illinois Publications received general public ap val was the only exception to i policy TIE THIRD unit Warne said rolling wooded area sur the proposed Little assy and Devils Kitchen lake itle Grassy is already 80 per ait constructed and can be fm Sed for approximately said Devils Kitchen lake 3ly started and will be much alore expensive I The south unit surrounding the two projects is to be the site for group recreation and individual I private cottages The Interior de Warne said here plans I to locate the important social and j educational groups which do such responsible and early development I work among our young people He named the Boy and Girl Scout organizations 4H clubs Y M C AThen toti will be laid out for I longtime leasing by private Lens Cottages meeting I standards may be rds print as many 1 Warne explained the p t a time at a speed Idled railroaders were be set to prevent an hour This Du Quoin Benton Her will make it possible to do rin West Frankfort Centralia and better printing than has ever DIES Arthur Warren 59yearold fly ual plants as in the past j 0c BCU degenerating unsight ly shack M he said must be provided be tills type of development can said it was his be that the first and most import toward realization of the was to put forth a adjusted new possible In the past ol the Coverdale mine of charles Jack Turner it would not reopen after the shut Carbondale were the other youths in the camping party vaa i anyway official said About 550j THEY SAID not very The of idleness reduced We were planning this trip and he asked to go one of Hull tU uu Thats about 40 days supply for the Hoyle had started to swim industries the neck of water when About the only persons outside of he went down about 40 feet the miners themselves shore The other boys had no from the walkouts were boat and were unable to get help ployes of in time to save him Last week some The body was recovered by Wil h suffered a cram were furloughed However county Deputies Charles when railroads said have Edwards and Virgle Yewill They nf in a owned bv Vern I ilc Carbondale Youth Ninth Lake Victim In Past Three Years The drowning at Crab Or chard lake yesterday was the ninth to occur there in the past three years The others were as follows July 9 Alex ander 30 Bush Drowned northeast of intersection while trying to swim out to get a which had drifted away Aug 4 1947 Helo Hugh Hewerdine 24 DeSoto Near Crab Orchard Boat club area west of point where old route 13 goes under water Drown ed while swimming Aug 11 1947 James O Cochran 35 Murphysboro Cochrans boat and another boat collided in the water Cochran was thrown out of the boat and drowned April 2 Ward 21 and Charles Allen 15 Carterville Drowned when boat capsized July 30 Had Death t o despondency over poor health Freeman Anderson 38 Mar ion drowned last summer when he suffered a cramp HEADS LEGIONS 25TH DISTRICT Shelton Kins Cafe Is Bombed Following Raid June 20 AP Hoover Report Is Adhered to In 7 Proposals Washington June 20 CAP President Truman today Congress to create a 10th cabinet rank Department of to put the department in charge of public roads The all sent to Capitol Hill within a half hour after Mr Truman signed the Reorganization biH giving him broad powers to merge and streamline government agen cies subject to congressional veto The public roads administration now is iri the Federa Works agency Welfare and social secu rity natters are handled by the Federal Security agency All the plans if permitted to take effect will carry out reform and i economy proposals of the commis on government organization headed by former President Her bert Hoover THE OTHER FIVE would a give the Bureau of Employment Security jobless pay and job place to the Labor department b reorganize the postoffice depart A restaurant ment c enlarge the scope of the earn respect by serving operated by Big Earl Sheltons executive office of the President community and nation brother was damaged by a streamline the Civil service Gray retiring early little commission and e strengthen the mander of the Vest Frankfort more than an hour after of the chairman of the post district vice raided the establishment i Maritime commission over Scott Courier by one The was operated by Guy All seven plans were described vote 3231 Bailey of Benton Pennington J by the White House as conforming was unanimously elected district Wayne County Sheriff Hal closely to the Hoover com chaplain and John Karnes of West snaw said he confiscated a large mission recommendations filed was unanimously elected Other offices will i be filled by appointments of the new commander quantity of whisky at the with Congress this spring after two and at the home of Guys brother years of research Ogie The is Under the new law the plans will new commander about two miles south of here and take effect in 60 days unless either The district adopted kindred home is a mile south of house of Congress vetoes them of the count town Wayne county within that time bya majority vote post 147 and Herrin of the full nc ing erans The ed the hospital to serve veterans was originally ayne county tudi vy wn nc the the and building House consid were blown out north wall ered separately NO ESTIMATE emergency cases must undergo a I waiting period of three to five weeks and that hospitalization needs within the area probably would be tripled the five years been furloughed anyway because of a business slump Railroaders Mines Working were in a boat owned by Vern i Carter of Buncombe who with last summer when he suffered Lynn Reynolds of j a broken neck wlule swim fishing in j THE HERRIN fire department I safety tiuck manned by Fireman Kenneth Bailey had also rushed to the scene Though recovery as miners reported for five days before period starting Saturday Two hundred seventyfive railroaders had been furloughed last week during shutdown All mines in the area which blew work reported operations nearly normal Old Ben Mines 8 and 14 were idle but not ordered to work The For sythe strip mine was idled as the result of a fire Sunday and C B and Q offices in the Herrin area reported railroad crews back to normal today Both lines said they had a good supply of coal cars and expect to be able meet the heavy demand throughout the week The Illinois also reported crews operating normal ly They too had sup ply of cars Mike Foley of chief to the Illinois Central St j i Illinois today time efforts j back to work was pronounced the by Dr E of Over Germany Paris France June 20 AP The Big Four foreign ministers of an adjoining structure was dam Congressional leaders after planned for 550 beds aged Noone was in the place ing with the President indi only 200 They declared all except when tne bombing took place Congress still will be in ses pases must Bradshaw said it was not 60 are up on known whether 19 They also predicted two glycerine was used in the bombing plans will be l A large quantity of nitroglycerine sent up by the President shortly stolen a from to creat a Wel oil well supply firm here department provides that it v warrior I Four Persons wele arrested at d u now adminis J ground for the National cemetery Atkins of Mt Vernon Seva c 5 Western Kentucky and Southeast were An undersecretary and three as revealed only 51 more spaces with selling intoxicating libe created the office of vailable for burials eight funerals without a license and the fifth securit would be have occurred since U S with being an inmate of a house of Engineers it will Bond fo each was set IQ greater two years after additional at reorganization plan is acquired to prepare it for bur THE BOMBING came about a month after Big Earl was shot and reorganization plans tbe ployment now in to the Department of Labor Continued on Page Two Sprayer Hurt As me olg Carbondale about two hours after announced today their failure thus his body was agree or politi Dr Carman said he did fm Maxwell of w at a Fifth division said He was shot in he was glad to see that no one the back by an unknown assailant in the convention was May The shot was fired use the Legion as second story window of for Insome locales the he said is going tool Authorities said they far sticking its fingers in pies Know was any connection that dont concern between Big Earls shooting and Maxwell announced the of road G of Springfield Division Convention will be July house other Shelton brothers j in fl critica ta 910 at Mt Cannel with a tne gt n Sunday afternoon a meeting that terrorized boro following tn craih the executive airplane Iale Saturday 1UI J lieve Hoyle had suffered a agreement in principle on The still an Austrian independence treaty drawn UD against his body tinit Edwards e on economic or uie for Germany and a by the Eight dis a mlB 0 he y France and Britain agree tv u J nn SERVICES FOR Perry Monroe 40 and S Saturday National Legion Commander Per ry Brown the national command er of the 40 and Illinois ofthe department officials will be pre occurred shortly before midnight sent C F Ruth Divi ment only on a modus of arrange sorj of Hoyle aged 20 of 117 East Grand j ment Jor Germany street Carbondale who died ati Crab Orchard lake Sunday morn A COMMUNIQUE winding up the ing will be heH talks said the four powers will dis in the Walnut cuss in September during the Unit with the Rev C ed Nations Assembly meeting the fnr a s sion commander will RETIRING Dis V Perkins of Benton who presided after the Burial will be in date and other arrangements for a new session n the council on the three to the Illinois 01 plants in Herrin Murphysboro and superintendent said Carbondale Type and completed that all workers had pages are produced in the to their jobs today The St Louis division covers territory THE PRINTING is done on one from Centralia on the north to 1 u 1TF nf Pinck cemetery for the problems of Germany years Army service in World War Friends may call at the Carbon dale funeral home until time for the services Hoyle June 2 1948 as a private first class June 15 for the years 1947 1948 and said of of last Fair Warm the districts membership as June 15 was 106 per cent years V Commander Perkins also report has the spring terms at Southern Illinois univer sity He leaves his mother Mrs Em ma Hoyle of Carbondale and two sisters of Builey Idaho and Pauline The young man was preceded in uiui The new paper will ing enthusiast and Air Force vet carry a larger volume of local eran ot both World Wars died at news and than has been his Mt Vernon Sunday death by his father Perry Hoyle in 1935 M edly learned to fly before he could drive a car ft He served as a lieutenant in war and ai a captain 115 1V1V v In Mt with Air India Fair anil quite warm and hu m i d tonight and Tuesday Low tonight 6874 high Tuesday 9096 TEMPERATURES Low Sunday 64 7 today 73 High Sunday 87 Noon today 83 Precipitation from 7 yes to 7 today 0 Sun rose at 423 this morning and will set at 740 tonight Mississippi river Grand Tower ed legislative action which practically assured a board of trustees for Southern Illi r South Illinois byhost Commander William Loy be ahout the middle il announced the district won the o I in during the past two near The raid Bradshaw States Attorney Gerald report from the hospital this wag that tui Bradshaw States Attorney Gerald ering severe burm Mayberry ana police Qf the occurred shortly before ternai Expect Completion of Nauman Studio in July A new Nauman studio at 703 A relative called to Murphyn boro from Springfield said an employee of the Capita Avia tion company in been in the about the July according to p Don Nauman The Nauman studio is now at 205A West Walnut street J The new studio which has been day as a measure against an siege grasshoppers Behl was reportedly unable to The new studio v J new a compete account of what knotty pine will ol trustees AUJ elude a reception room shooting university at Carbondale room and two equip which the Legion backed in a res adopted at the last previous district held m Carbondale convention e m The Legionnaires were welcomed ment rooms The studio will be heated with a gas furnace and will be air conditioned Nauman said he planned to have music recordings broadcast TtlG bv William Wolff ot Paul throughout the post Ross Anderson of commander of the district and Charles Gollihur of McLeansboro commander ol tne district were among guests Gollihur announced the convention would end in day from mounted In the walls The Arnold contractors with Ralph Arnold in charge are build ing the studio The Nauman studio has been lo on West Walnut forthe part he planned three years also directed tothe kr It needed Quoin I of Southwestern Illinois corpora tion which owns The farm being by Behl re ported they dent They the rude fait hit topi to the plane and pulled wreckage Behli clothing burning and it wai ie tear most ot his hta Behl WM given mid rushed Ujr ance
