Local Public Meetings Schedule and Memorial Notices
Calendar lists public meetings for Unity Point Grade School District 149 Shawnee Junior College District 531 Benton city council Frankfort Community Unit School Board Williamson County Airport Board Authority Herrin Hurst Johnston City Kinkaid Lake Conservancy District Pinckneyville District 50 Murphysboro Taxi Cab Commission Du Quoin Unit District 300 and a series of obituaries for Scott Ward and Addie Farner with funeral details. Also notes SIU exhibit Pulaski County Fair chorus rehearsal and campus film showings plus drive-in listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unity Point Grade School
Shawnee Junior College District
Shawnee Development Council
Karnak
Benton City Council
Frankfort
Herrin
Hurst
Johnston City
Kinkaid Lake
Reed’s Creek
Murphysboro Taxi Cab Commission
du Quoin
John R. Ward
Local government and community meeting schedule updates
Tuesday agendas cover the Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission Jefferson County Courthouse Mt Vernon Carbondale City Council Grant City School District 130 Murphysboro Chamber of Commerce Shawnee Resource Conservation and Development Herrin Public Building Commission and county budget talks at Benton Franklin County Courthouse Also community events include Murphysboro Apple Festival tryouts Pulaski County Fair and for Clark campaign train stops in Du Quoin and Carbondale
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater Egypt
Servation and Development
USDA
Marion
Herrin Public Building Commission
W. Cherry St
County Capital Improvements
Franklin County
Benton
Murphysboro
Murphysboro City National Bank
Pulaski County
Rt. 51
Pulaski
Herrin Senior Citizens Center
N. 14Th St
Grand Tower man gun victim in personal safety case
A Grand Tower man Walter Ray Dillon 52 was found dead at his home from a single gunshot wound described as a personal safety related incident. A .32 caliber pistol was found beside him. inquest pending. Dillon was active in multiple fraternal and veterans groups and had worked as an engineer at Central Illinois Public Service Co. plant in Grand Tower. Funeral details announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Tower
Walter Ray Dillon
Raymond Dillinger
Cape Girardeau
Dillinger
Mr. Dillow
Anna
Herman C
Maude Gunn Dillow
Cobden
Freda Norton
Dillon
Af&am LaFayette Lodge
Scottish Rite
Ainad Shrine Temple
East St. Louis
Elks Lodge
American Legion Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Murphysboro
Operating Engineers Local Union 886
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Herman
Metropolis
Dale
Alton
Fay Anderson
Elizabeth Keith
Lillian Fisher
Orland Park
Wilma Tate
Memphis
Tenn
Presbyterian Church
Dale Clements
Mr. Buffet
Walker Hill Cemetery
Crawshaw Mortuary
Ainad
Herrin plans 100 car parking lot downtown
Workmen supervised by John Vander of Herrin demolish several downtown buildings to clear space for a 100 car off street parking lot on North 14th Street between Madison and Monroe. Mitchell Construction Co. of Herrin will build the lot as part of a $275,000 project planned to open in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Vander
Herrin
North 14Th Street
Madison and
Monroe Streets
Mitchell Construction Co
Illinois Central Railroad
Park Avenue
Harrisburg Couple to Teach on Pacific Island Kusaie
Phillip Foster and Marideil Foster, a Harrisburg pair, depart Aug. 26 for Kusaie in the Caroline Islands under U.S. trusteeship. They will supervise English teachers in four elementary schools and one high school, while Marideil teaches math and physics at the high school. They bring 200 pounds of air freight and 3,000 pounds by ship, plus an electric refrigerator and generator for island use. The Fosters, SIU graduates married in 1961, will live without electricity, rely on a pharmacist for medicines, and grow vegetables from seeds on the island, which has about 3,000 residents and 1,200 students in its schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pacific
Kusaie
Caroline Islands
Phillip Foster
Marideil
Foster
Fosters
Southern Illinois University
South Vietnam
Maridell
Fred Armistead
An Siu
Saigon
Verba Foster
Muddy
Guam
U.S
Cairo Doctor Fay S Comer Dies at 62
Cairo physician and surgeon Dr. Fay S Comer 62 died at 11 30 p m Saturday in St Marys Hospital Cairo He practiced medicine in Cairo after serving in World War I and returned to his Cairo practice following military and surgical training at Barnes Hospital DePaul Hospital and Washington University Medical School He was born January 21 1906 in Carlinville and leaves a wife two sons Flint and Christopher and three grandchildren The funeral is set for Cairo Baptist Church with burial in Charity Cemetery near Carlinville
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Fay S. Comer
St. Mary's Hospital
Comer
Elm St
Blackburn College
University of Illinois
Washington University Medical School
St. Louis
Barnes Hospital
Depaul Hospital
U.S. Army Medical Corps
South Pacific
American College of Surgeons
American College of Physicians
American Medical Association
The
Illinois Medical Association
St. Mary’s Hospital
Phi Beta Kappa
Elks Lodge
Amid Shrine
Temple of
Cairo Baptist Church
Lary Potts
Elsworth B. Stone
Cairo Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
Crain Funeral
Charity Cemetery
Carlinville
Imene Fund
Paul R. Kennedy
S. Buchanan St
Marion
Mitchell Funeral Home
Herbert Ridlen
Spring Grove Cemetery
Kennedy
Marion Veterans Hospital
Sangamo Electric Co
Marion Church of God
Saline County
Joseph N
Essie Harris Kennedy
Jessie Mae Henson
Ormal Kennedy
Kenneth
David
Robert
Carrier Mills
Ada Clayton
Crab Orchard Board Shifts Seven Thousand Funds
The Crab Orchard Board of Education transfers $7,000 from education to transportation to pay for a newly delivered school bus. The district has a vacancy for a bus driver and invites applicants at the high unit office. The board also approves a Title I remedial reading project and sets next meeting for September 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crab Orchard Board of Education
Education Fund
Transportation Fund
Gene Stettler
Elementiety and Secondary Education Ct
Marion Woman Hurt in Collision Near John J Washer
Mrs. Lawanda Powell 34 of 1113 North Monroe Marion injured in a two car crash at 8 20 p m Sunday when bright lights blinded Washer who pulled into the Powell car causing a broadside strike. Both cars badly damaged. Mrs Minnie Cooke Michaels 82 of 302 East Heacock Jonesboro died at Union County Hospital. Funeral services set for 2 p m Tuesday Norris and Son Funeral Home Jonesboro with Rev Ewell Gulley officiating. Burial in Jonesboro Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott R. Ward
Dowell
Centralia
Ward
Scott
Ohio
John Ward
Irene Cobb
St. Louis
Edna Newsome
Cambria
Louis Warden
van Natt
Carbondale
Carl R. Watkins
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Carterville City Cemetery
Addie Farner
Oakland Ave
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Thurman
Ada Branon Foster
Fred Farner
Murphysboro
Fred
Genevieve Farner
Imogene Blomberg
Eva J. Potter
E. Keyes St
du Quoin
St. John’s Mercy Hospital
Franklin County
Commodore
Ida Mae Doolin Hicks
Frank Porter
Catholic Ladies Sewing Circle
Joan Grady
Hazlewood
Donald
Jennings, Mo
Griffie Hall
Godfrey Schleper
Ramos Hicks
Omer Hicks
Gary
Ind
Sacred Heart Church
Joseph A .Deuhren
Mary Plute
W. Adams St
Herrin
Thorn
Austria
Joseph and
Kathryn Kremser Wirtitsch
Our Lady of
Orient
John
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Bernard P. Mongan
Johnson Funeral Home
Denning
Lawanda Powell
N. Monroe St
Marion
John J. Washer
S. Court St
Zane W. Powell
Powell
Minnie Cooke Michaels
E. Heacock St
Jonesboro
Union County Hospital
Anna
Michaels
Union County
William
Marinda Beaver Lanham
Harry Aldridge
Phoenix
Ariz
George Glaus
Belleville
Dave Courtright
Thomas Fielder
Lake Worth
Fla
Robert Axen
Elmhurst
Lawrence Cooke
Charles L. Cooke
Leonard Cooke
Herrin considers 10 percent water rate hike for out-of-town users
The Herrin City Council may approve a 10 percent water rate increase for out-of-town users at 7 p.m. in city hall. The move follows discussions by the water and sewer committee, with Energy Corp and Freeman Spur water rates rising toward 50 cents per 1000 gallons and bi monthly minimum up to 5.06 dollars. Also on the agenda are landfill operation state law compliance and a court date for Mayor Henderson and Alderman Shoemake charged with aggravated assault and unlawful weapon use, appearing in Marion circuit court Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Fred Henderson
Tom Shoemake
Marion
Herrin
Energy, Corp
Freeman Spur
Two prison escapees captured in Illinois
Eugene E. Burns and Bobby Burden, two Kentucky escapees from Eddyville State Prison Farm, were captured near Tuscola and charged with kidnapping an elderly Kentucky couple during their escape. A third fugitive, Willie Adams, remains at large. The couple, Jesse C. Martin and Virdie Ellen Martin, were found unharmed near Vienna, Illinois. The men were captured after the stolen car they rode in crashed in a ditch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscola
Kentucky
Eugene E. Burns
Bobby Burden
Eddyville
Willie Adams
FBI
Troy Coleman
Springfield
Braden
Burns
Jesse C. Martin
Virdie Ellen
Burna
Vienna
Burden
Also Mentioned on This Page
Scott R. Ward Dowell
Roger Dade
Cyril Rennels
Mitchell
SIU
Little Egypt
Herrin High School
Susan and
William Heald
Bach
Mozart
Brahms
Milhaud
Home Economics
Varsity
Riveria
Ivy
Tom Jones
Egyptian Drive-In
Tiger and
Anna Drive-in
Kona Coast
Cobden Man
Ira Wilson
Wilson
Elgin State Hospital
Larkin St
Elgin
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Chicago
St. Thomas Moore Catholic Church
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
L. A. Drone
St. Joseph’s Church
Richard E. Taylor
Herrin Demolition
Douglas County
Gene Miller
Birns
Left
Burdon
Dr. Fay
Paul Kennedy
Mrs. Michaels
State Department of Public Health
Albert Marsiglio
Albert M. Marsiglio
Menard Penitentiary
Cook County
Cleveland
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois
North Illinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Walnut Street
Ulino
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
du Quoin State Fair
Buster
Carbondale East Gate Shopping Center
Wallut Walnut
Murdale Shopping Center
C'dale
Buster Earnest
Mardale Shopping Center
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