Hold County 4 H Show Tuesday at Riverside Park
The Jackson county 4 H agricultural show heads to Riverside Park Murphysboro Tuesday at 8 30 a m with over 250 in premiums for county 4 H participants. Top prizes go to dairy swine beef colt and sheep classes and exhibitors may enter multiple exhibits with premium money paid for the two highest ratings only.
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Jackson County
Riverside Park
Murphysboro
Mildred Benz
Miss Benz
Benz
Autopsy studies death after yard fight in Carbondale
Authorities study the Rendleman autopsy in a fatal Tuesday confrontation with Herbert Sellers. Sellers, held on an open charge, admitted drinking with Rendleman before the fight and claims self defense. Funeral services for Rendleman were held today with burial in Snider cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave
Pete”’ Rendleman
Herbert ‘‘Slick
Sellers
Carbondale
Roy Huffman
Jackson County
Murphysboro
Herrin
John Gilbert
Rendleman
Beadieman
Ed Conway
Gilbert
Conway
Clifford Eaton
Snider Cemetery
Daily Free Press Carbondale rates and postal notice
The Daily Free Press lists subscription prices for carrier and mail delivery at 25 cents a week and 6 12 or 52 week mail options. Mail subscriptions are not sold where carrier service exists. The paper is a post office second class matter in Carbondale Illinois and AP content is exclusive locally.
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the Daily Free Press
Southern
I Linoisan
West Main Street
Carbondale, Ill
Carbondale
Illinois
Associated Press
Transfer of C H Line Rights Approved by ICC
The Illinois Commerce Commission approved today the transfer of operating rights among Harrisburg Elizabethtown Golconda and Anna from Carbondale Harrisburg to Hutson Coach lines. The order requires Hutson to honor Carbondale Harrisburg tickets between Anna and Carbondale.
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Harrisburg
Elizabethtown
Golconda
Anna
Hutson Coach Lines
Illinois Commerce Commission
Hutson Company
Carbondale
Industrial Agent to Visit Orchill Facilities
I C Industrial Agent Anderson Pace of Illinois Central will visit Crab Orchard area with S I I leaders. He will tour in the morning, attend a luncheon at Motel Marion, and discuss coordinated development with Carterville and Herrin officials. The visit marks renewed railroad cooperation with Southern Illinois Incorporated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson Pace
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago
Southern Illinois Incorporated
Norman Lee
Pace
Crab Orchard
Marion
Carterville
MR. Pace
Winton
Carbondale
S. C
Roy Campbell
Orchill
Arthur Hamilton
Herrin Chamber of Commerce
Bitterman
I. C
Burlington Railroad
Ss. I. I
DDT Bombing Planned Over Carbondale This Afternoon
Carbondale will be sprayed from the air at 3 PM using five per cent DDT mist by pilot Garin Ferguson of Springfield. The operation may run until dark and resume at dawn for about two days if weather cooperates. Residents advised to cover clothing and canaries. the spray may leave a film on cars.
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Carbondale
Garin Ferguson
Springfield
Stearman
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Ferguson
Canaries
Phone Building In Carbondale To Reopen Sept
An $8,000 repair and redecorating job on the Illinois Commercial Telephone company building at West Monroe street Carbondale will likely finish around September 23. Work includes brick and wall replacements, glass brick windows, interior repainting and replastering, and an air conditioning unit. Construction started July 25.
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Illinois Commercial Telephone Company
West Monroe Street
Carbondale
Murphysboro
Watch Stolen From Carbondale Home
Mrs. Fred Perry of 605 North Oakland street reported to Carbondale police that a wrist watch valued at about 125 dollars was taken from her dining room table while she was away about 10 a.m. for 15 minutes. No other items were missing.
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Fred Perry
North
Oakland Street
Carbondale
Perry
Complete Trimming Job At Carbondale Bank
A trimming job at the Carbondale National Bank on Illinois Avenue and Main Street was completed yesterday. Woodwork around the windows was painted white on the exterior.
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Carbondale Bank
Carbondale National Bank
Illinois Avenue
Main Street
Drought Grips Jackson County Crops Warns Farm Advisor
Jackson County faces dryness with crop damage feared if rain delays. W C Anderson says areas around Murphysboro Campbell Hill and Ava show drought conditions while De Soto and Carbondale risk losses next week. Grasshoppers threaten alfalfa. soybeans look good though weedy. 12 000 to 14 000 bean acres.
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W. C. Anderson
Jackson County
Anderson
Southern Illinois
Murphysboro
Campbell Hill
Ava
de Soto
Carbondale
Mississippi
SIU adopts mandatory theses for master degrees
Seventeen SIU students completed theses in 1949 with four for spring and 13 for summer terms. Beginning fall, all master’s candidates must write theses in their fields. The report lists thesis topics, supervisors, and student majors across arts sciences education and government, noting early degrees since 1945 and ongoing completions.
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Webster
Southern Illinois University
Willis G. Schwartz
Ashby
W.a. Thalman
Miss Wills
Marshall S. Hiskey
District Nurses Meet at S I U Discuss Reorganization Plan
About 75 nurses from Illinois tenth district met at 2 p m in Southern Illinois university Little Theatre. The seminar, the final in a series, reviewed a national reorganization plan likely to reduce six national groups to one or two. Elizabeth Clifton of Greenville chaired. Jessie Jones of East St Louis is district president.
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Illinois
Little
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois
American Nurses’ Organization
United States
Elizabeth Clifton
Green- Ville
Jessie Jones
East St. Louis
Alton
Centralia
Southern Illinois University to Open New Halls and Programs
Southern Illinois University outlines a major expansion opening nearly a dozen new houses this fall to ease crowding, add elbow room for classes and labs, and support curricular growth in social work fish and wildlife geology photography guidance and special education. The plan includes a new $1 383 000 power plant and a proposed service shops building to improve operations and stock centralized supplies.
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Southern Illinois University
Edward V. Miles, Jr
State Division of Architecture and Engineering
General Assembly
Southern
D. W. Morris
Mabel Pulliam
Illinois Cuts Draft Board Offices to Two in Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois will have only two Selective Service board offices Harrisburg in the east and Anna in the west. The shift reduces Illinois offices from 118 to 30 as Col. Paul G. Armstrong state director of Selective Service announced. The Anna office serves Alexander Jackson Johnson Massac Pulaski and Union counties while Harrisburg serves Gallatin Hamilton Hardin Pope Saline White and Williamson counties. The consolidation aims to cut costs and assign clerks from current staff via Civil Service ranking. Armstrong said county officials veterans groups and schools will be asked to help register draftees to shorten travel for signups. No inductions have occurred through Williamson and Jackson county boards since January.
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Southern Illinois
Selective Service Board
Illinois
Paul G. Armstrong
Selective Service
Harrisburg
Anna
Alexander
Jackson, Johnson
Massac
Pulaski
Union
Gallatin
Hamilton
Hardin
Pope
Saline
White
Williamson
Armstrong
Cook County
Civil Service Point
Veterans
Jackson
Urbana—Champaign
Ford
Pratt
Danville
Iroquois
Vermilion
Charleston
Clark
Coles
Cumberland
Douglas
Edgar
Moultrie
Shelby
Decatur
Christian
Dewitt
Macon
Anna—Alexander
Johnson, Massac
Hardin, Pope
White and Williamson
Road Contract Lettings for Bridge Painting and Aggregate
Jackson County Road and Bridge committee approved lettings for painting the Big Muddy river bridge on Twentieth Street and furnishing surfacing materials and seal coat aggregate for multiple road sections. Names listed include Elmer Evans James Gilmore Park Jarrett and contractors A F Roedding Jr Kenneth Lingle and Mac Stone Products with section numbers and bids cited.
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Jackson County Board of Supervisors
One River
Elmer Evans
Murphysboro
RFD
James Gilmore
de Soto
Park Jarrett
Cora
A. F. Roedding, Jr
St. Louis
Twentieth Street Road
Big Muddy River
Kenneth Lingle
Carbondale
Mac Stone
Dr Bicknell Speaks to Carbonale Lions Club Tomorrow
Dr W C Bicknell chairman of the department of industrial education at Southern Illinois University will address the Carbonale Lions Club at their Hotel Roberts meeting tomorrow.
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W. C. Bicknell
Department of Industrial Education
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale Lions Club
Hotel Roberts
Jackson County Sheriff May Get Salary Boost
Jackson county sheriff D L McGregor could receive a raise if Senate Bill No 208 passes and is signed by Governor Adlai Stevenson. The bill ties sheriff pay to county population with Jackson counted in a 30 000 to 50 000 range and proposes a 2500 annual salary from office fees if enacted.
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Jackson County
D. L. McGregor
Assembly
Adlai Stevenson
Senate
Crisenberry and Pribley
McGregor
Boyd Thorp
Illinois Taxpayers League
League
Thorp
County Board of Supervisors
Stevenson
Sheriff's Office
Illinois
Wells Drops Meter Appeal After Supreme Court Ruling
Carbondale resident L A Wells faced arrest for overparking after receiving a July 26 meter ticket. Attorney Fletcher Lewis said Wells planned a Supreme Court challenge, but a recent ruling led to paying the $5 fine and costs. Wells maintained streets and sidewalks are the people's property.
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Carbondale
Supreme Court
P. P. Cooper
L. A. Wells
Wells
Cooper
Welles
Fletcher Lewis
Murphysboro
Richard Ragland
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Juanita Troutman
Margaret McKinney
Jane Kopp
Elkville
Joan Raines
Diane Burns
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Nina Belle Brayshaw
Sue Ann Elston
Boskydell
Robert C. Ashby
Child Guidance Clinic
Lorene Kerley Wills
Carl B. Ferrell
Carl C. Lindegren
Franklin W. Hamilton
Robert D. Faner
Julius R. Swayne
W. M. Gersbacher
Doris C. Sewell
Southern, Illinois University
Charles B. Ablett
W. C. McDaniel
William T. Holder
Frank L. Klingberg
Frank B. Moake
Thomas Wolfe
E. C. Coleman
Gus E. Paris
The
American Legion
William A. Pitkin
WILLIAM F._ PRICE
Max. W. Turner
Albert Jene Shafter
Old Town
New Town
Joseph K. Johnson
William Carl Wimberly
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Naomi LaFern Wise
Walt Whitman
Hayward Lowden Wood
U. S. Supreme Court
Nathan Nagle
Joseph S. Rafalko
Nagle
Illinois State Health Laboratories
Ramon §. Swisher
Norman Buckner
Harold E. Briggs
Bruce Hardesty
Saline County
S. I. U. Wbtary
I. U
Morris
Anthony
University Home Economics
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Tional Educational Accrediting Association
Association of American Colleges
American Association of Colleges For Teacher Education
National Association of Schools of Music
American Association of University Women
Sigma Pi Sigma
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Dr. Bicknell
Lions
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