Youth Fatally Hurt In Wreck Near Modoc
A 19 year old Walmeyer youth, Clarence W Hursey, was killed when his car struck a concrete culvert early Saturday about a mile south of Modoc on a rural road. He died at 2 45 a m in St Clement’s Hospital Red Bud. The crash and its details are reported by Stephen Tatarsky of The Southern Indiana.
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Walmeyer
Clarence W. Hursey
St. Clement's Hospital
Red Bud
Modoc
District 13
du Quoin
Hursey
George Trevorrow
Andlerator’s Association
Ion
Waterloo
Arson Case To Be Tried In Jackson
Gov Kerner will sign a 1 million bond for Rend Lake arson prosecutions Monday. Indicted defendants Yates and Gladden, Carbondale residents, face arson charges linked to Wagon Drive-In. Docket includes 62 cases. term opens Sept 9 with 13 non jury trials and 20 civil trials.
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Jackson
Otto Kerner
Carterville
Rend Lake
Jackson County
New Rt. State
Murphysboro
Franklin
Jefferson County
Pelit
Yates
Gladden
Joseph Hugene Rider
Lindell Tate
Carbondale
Bill Pat Kelley
Chester
Joe Warfield
Cape Butler
Rider
Tate
de Soto
Kelley
Murphysboro ‘Township
Las Vegas
Nev
Warfield
Butler
Southern Milnais University
Probation Given in Arrangement of Lake Project Funds
The article outlines the funding mix for a $35.5 million lake project with $6.1 million local share and state and conservancy district support. It notes signatures and attendance by officials, including Paul Gayer and John Douglas, and reports related court actions involving Clyde Heiple and Alvin Greenwood tied to theft cases and prior burglaries. It mentions a Navy Corps requirement for local cost coverage and a tax levy authorization of .375 cents per $100.
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Conservancy District
Paul Gayer
John Douglas
District Board of Trustes
Howard Mendenhall
Bert Baker
D-Benton
Wayne Fitzgerrell
R-Lesser
Helping Hand Cup Of Water Put Out Fire
Charles Halley of Herrin found a good neighbor and a quick cup of water is worth a whole fire hydrant. His 1957 model car caught fire at 12 40 p m while he was driving at 27th and West Cherry Street. He stopped at a house ten calls the fire department borrowed water and saved the fire before firemen arrived. Assistant Fire Chief John Strodick said the car back fired through the carburetor.
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Charles Halley
Herrin
West Cherry SL
John Strodick
SIU Student Seeks Missing Handcarved Indian Statue
Edmund Zielinski of Carbondale, a Southern Illinois University student, reports a five foot six inch hand carved wooden Indian statue stolen from in front of his apartment at 703 S Oakland Ave. The theft occurred last week and the statue valued at $40. Police were informed on Friday.
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Edmund Zielinski
Carbondale
Oakland Ave
Zielinski
Southern Ilinois University
Williamson County approves four mile Little Grassy Road project
The Williamson County Board approves a four mile Little Grassy Road project with four miles of bituminous surface on a gravel base. Federal pays 50 percent, state 20 percent, county 30 percent. County share funded by motor fuel tax and bid openings expected for about 450,000 dollars. An extra 22,000 dollars was approved for related county road improvements.
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Williamson County Board
son-Williamson County
Coun
Mines Working Monday Old Ben Report
A terse note indicates mines were working on Monday with references to Old Ben at 9 and 21 indicating working or status markers. The fragmentary text suggests activity at the Old Ben mine sites and numbered notes, but specifics are unclear.
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AEA Qugiuuno Gana
Congress
Tregoning Seeks Drop Of Indictment In Conspiracy Case
Tom Tregoning of Carterville files a motion in Williamson County Circuit Court to quash a conspiracy to burglary indictment. He was acquitted of burglary on June 20 by a circuit court jury and argues double jeopardy if retried.Co-defendants include Bobby Leonard Carpenter Fred Foster Paul Yates Jesse Glidden and others.
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Williamson County
Tom Tregoning
Carterville
Tregoning
Bobby Leonard Carpenter
Fred Foster
Paul Yates
Jesse Gladiden
Carpenter
Foster
Tregoning l
James A.J
Carpenterjies
Robbery Foiled by Scream in Murphysboro Parking Lot
A hooded gunman was scared away by a woman's scream and a barking dog in the Buck’s IGA Market lot in Murphysboro Friday night. The man fled after Mrs. Buck screamed as she approached their car around 10 p.m. Officers found no trace of him.
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Buck
Mr. Buck
Area Backers For Plant Drive Seek Cooperation
Promoters of a regional committee in Jackson Williamson and Union counties seek $60,000 to lure a folding carton and gilt wrap plant to Carbondale's Technical Tape Corp. site, employing about 200. Sam Trefts of Marion chairs the drive begun in Carbondale. AREA Redevelopment plans a $390,000 loan with the company supplying the rest. Trefts urges labor and management to join in expanding Southern Illinois industry.
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Carbondale
Jackson
Williamson
Union County
Sam Trefts
Marion
Saurday
Technical Tape Corp
Area Rede Development Administration
Trefts
Southern Illinois Business Agents Council
Southern
Ilinois
Marion Chamber of Commerce
Cobden Peach Queen Antoinette Flatrim Crowned At Festival
Antoinette Flatrim, 17, crowned queen of Cobden's 26th annual Peach Festival held Saturday night. First runner up was Judith Ann Gibbons. Festival, sponsored by Cobden Lions Club and Alto Pass Saddle Club, drew about 3,000 attendees over two days. Profits support civil projects, with the major share going to Cobden Clinic run by Community Council.
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Antoinette Flatrim
Cobden
Alto Pass
Mike Basler
Walkaway Captured From Marion Federal Prison Camp
Convict Tarrant Lott Smith, 48, was recaptured hours after fleeing the federal prison camp south of Marion. He was found along Rt. 57 near Rt. 37, five miles south, by Senior Correction Officer Daryl Williams and Acting Storekeeper George W. Sheets. Smith, from Birmingham, Ala, had been transferred from Leavenworth to Marion earlier last week and was sentenced in 1962 for mail theft and forgery. He reportedly said he wanted to go home, and officials noted it was the third walkaway at the camp this year.
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Marion
Tarrant Lott Smith
Smith
Rt. 57
Rt. 37
Daryl Williams
George W. Sheets
Leavenworth
Kan
J. T. Willingham
Birmingham
Ala
Jackson County Tax Default Judgments Decided
Default judgments were entered in Jackson County Circuit Court against 82 defendants for delinquent personal property tax bills dating to 1959. The orders cover unpaid bills, costs of court action, and discovery of assets, with detailed sums listed for Carbondale, Murphysboro, Makanda, and other townships. Costs include filing fees, state's attorney fees, and sheriff service charges.
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Jackson County
Everett Prosser
Carbondale Township
Ben Gelman
Alban Brown
Chester Williams
Almer Yancy
Robert A. Stalls
Pervin Scott
Henry Roberson
Murphysboro
Eugene Kindle
Harold Brown
Somerset
Billy Frazier
Sand Ridge
John Nelson
Jackie Cooper
Jack Sheppard
Ora
James Egbert
Pomona
Charles Moniger
Ray Tripp
Lloyd Tripp
Merle Tripp
Sumimonses
Carbondale
Alma Anderson
Mary Armstead
Theodie Appleberry
Jesse Alexander
Emma Bullington
Nannie Bradshaw
Charles Christof
Elie Ford
Avery Greer
Lizzie Carter
Loren Sanders
Jack Reed
Rex Waters
Frank Bullington
Josie Mae Horner
Irvin Reiman
Tom Jefferson
George Johnson
Booker O'Neal
Jerome Sadberry
Richard Howell
Ronnie Rodgers
Hubert Howell
Archie Kelley
Charlie Williams
Charlie L. Jones
Charlie E. Jones
Ernest Bankhead
H. D. Bedinger
Stella and Lynn Bryan
Mildred Brouilette
R. G. Burke
Lunnie May Jones
Claude M. Lee
Mad Die Little
Arlie Miller
Bill O’guinn
La‘lvern Porter
Herbert E. Snyder
Ralph Wyatt
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Stephen Tatarsky
Hindsan
Federal Bureau of Mines
Dept. of Public Health
Amidante
Caus
Mino Gofatu
Ant
Health Department
Southern Illnois
Jas
Javea
Mac Cilpiuycu
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ohio
Joseph Summary
Benton
Illinois
Ben Parton
Parton Coal Co
Crab Orchard
National Safety Council
Southern Illinois
Gomply
Fleven
Rock Falls
Kenneth J. Gray
Dwest
Gray
House
Bowman
The
Mart, Inc
Eaiet Samuel Stilley
Clarence Klassen
Department
Division of Sanitary Engineering
George Drach
Springfield
Legislative Committee On Atomic Energy and
Bill Sponsor
Iinois
Southern Illinois Inc
Gov. Kerner
Heinle
Clyde Heiple
Army Corps’ of Engineers
Alvin Greenwood
Pinckneyville
Greenwood
Ronald Willes Metzger
Perry County
Siu
Walkaway
Willingham
Pos-Young
Earl Rains Jr
Ray Tucker
Wilfred Roseberry
Orin Corzine
T. L. Smith
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