Crash Kills Six on Rt 45 North of Stonefort
A single car on Rt 45, one mile north of Stonefort, struck a bridge abutment on an Illinois Central overpass and caught fire. State Trooper Guthrie Alexander said the driver, a woman, fell asleep. The dead include Rev. Billy Gene Moody and family members Ruth, Jeffrey, and Chary Ann Moody. others were injured.
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Rt. 45
Stonefort
Guthrie Alexander
Illinois Central Railroad
Billy Gene Moody
Ruth
Jeffrey
Chary] Ann
Plans to close denied Sale of Herrin taxicab firm discussed
The Serv-U Cab Co in Herrin denies rumors it will fold as its president, William L. Grindle, who is bankrupt, notes his son William Nicky Grindle is on active Navy duty and will handle finances. Local businessmen Morris Hays and John Robbs discuss potential acquisition or new cab service but no decisions have been made.
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Serv-A Cab Co
Herrin
William L. Grindle
William Nicky Grindle
U.S. Navy
Grindle
Treasure Island
Calif
Morris Hays
John Robbs
Serv-U
Robbs
Cab
Southern Illinoisan
LaSalle National Insurance Co
Chicago
Secretary of State
Lincoln Casualty Co
Springfield
Fuller earns SIU university professor title
Designer philosopher R Buckminster Fuller is named university professor by the SIU Board of Trustees joining a small group of distinguished faculty. He is a long time SIU research professor in design science known for geodesic domes and other innovations. Meanwhile Mrs Mary Aschieris of West Frankfort dies after a long illness at 53 with services set at St John’s Catholic Church and burial at Tower Heights Cemetery.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees
Fuller
SIU
Eli G. Lentz
Stu
Charles C. Colby
Southern
Illinois
Montreal
Canada
U. S
Mary Aschieris
W. Jones St
West Frankfort
St. John’s Catholic Church
Michael Klimas
Tower Heights Cemetery
Union Funeral Home
Watershed work set to start in Little Creek September
Construction on the first impoundment in the Little Creek watershed of Union and Pulaski counties is planned to begin in September. The project marks Southern Illinois’s second watershed with active construction, following two structures under way in the Little Cache watershed near Vienna.
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Little Creek
Union
Pulaski
Illinois
Vienna
Little Cache
Johnson County
Glenn Paulsgrove
Carbondale
Soil Conservation Service
Washington, D. C
Bay Creek
Pope
Johnson and Massac
Crab Orchard
Cache River
Big Muddy
Middle Fork
Franklin
Hamilton and
Jeffer
Farmers Home Administration
New Ruhr Enterprises
Eldorado
James C. Gillooly
Shawnee
Dongola
Union and
Pulaski-Alexander Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Harre Construction Co
Brownstown
Frank Nutte
From where I sit on conventions and TV coverage
A columnist criticizes political conventions as wasteful with endless talks and foregone outcomes. He notes Nixon’s likely first ballot votes, TV networks’ coverage styles, and predicts lasting dull weeks from Chicago and television overkill. He suggests rethinking convention spending and coverage.
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Nixon
NBC
CBS
ABC
Delinquency charge filed in beating of 3 year old
A 9-year-old Carbondale boy is charged with juvenile delinquency after allegedly beating Timmy Glasford, 3, of 309 E Elm St Carbondale. Glasford was treated for about 50 bruises at Doctors Hospital. The case was heard in Murphysboro circuit court with public defender William Ridgeway appointed.
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Murphysboro
Carbondale
Richard Richman
Jackson County
William Ridgeway
William Muhlenbrock
Circuit Court
Richman
Timmy Glasford
E. Elm St
Glasford
Doctors Hospital
Lincoln School
Allen Industries completes purchase of Star Textiles
Allen Industries Inc has completed the purchase of Star Textiles and Research Inc Hoees New York per Wall Street Journal report The deal also involves Star Fibers Inc Edgefield South Carolina a subsidiary of Star Textile Detroit officials say the move will add about 10 million annually in Allen sales volume Allen also disclosed an agreement in principle with Dayce Corp Dayton Ohio for Dayco to purchase Allen debentures valued around 46.9 million
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Detroit
Allen
Herrin
Dayce Corp
Dayton
Ohio
Dayco
Vista volunteer killed in Ohio auto crash
Barbara Quayle a 20 year old Lakewood Ohio VISTA worker died in a one car crash at 851 p m Sunday at the Rt 460 Rt 13 intersection. Her auto reportedly westbound struck the Rt 13 overpass and was demolished. She died at St Elizabeths Hospital Belleville. Survived by her parents and a brother James. Gardner Funeral Home Belleville arranging.
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Barbara Quayle
Lakewood
Ohio
Miss Quayle
Volunteers In Service To America
VISTA
Jackson-Williamson
Community Action Agency
Sinclair County Sheriff’s Office
Miss Quale
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Belleville
Robert Quayle
James
Gardner Funeral Home
10 foot tall creature sighting near Chittyville reported
Residents in the Chittyville area near Herrin report a 10 foot tall strange animal seen by Tim Bullock and Barbara Smith on Aug 11 while riding northeast of Chittyville. Barbara described a huge black hairy head like a steering wheel, and dirt was thrown at their car. Police noted previous reports that months earlier were later debunked as stray cattle.
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Chittyville
Tim Bullock
West Frankfort
Barbara Smith
Carterville
Herrin
Bullock
Barbara
Tim
Herrin Area
Rt. 148
Explosion prompts safety steps at Orient No. 5 mine
The Freeman Coal Mining Corp will install a 30 inch exhaust fan in the Orient No. 5 mine after an explosion that killed three men and burned another. State and federal investigators say inadequate ventilation contributed and other safety measures will be adopted including shutting off power during welding and washing tunnel walls to reduce coal dust.
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Freeman Coal Mining Corp
Orient No. 5
Benton
Milford Harrell
Roscoe Moore
State Department of Mines and Minerals
State Department
Federal Bureau of Mines
General Kinematics Corp
Barrington
Moore
Harrell
Missing couple from Vergennes after wedding trip
Mrs Edith Sherman of Vergennes reports that Mr Claude Skip Daniels Jr and his wife Linda Sherman left Vergennes for Great Lakes Naval Base on March 11, a day after their March 10 wedding. They have not been heard from since and police have been notified.
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Claude
Skip” Daniels, Jr
Daniels
Great Lakes Naval Base
Vergennes
Naval Base
Linda Sherman
Daniel
Edith Sherman
Pinckneyville Power Progress Steam Show draws 12,000 crowd
More than 10 000 people attended the four day Perry County fairgrounds event in Pinckneyville. The Power Progress Steam Show sponsored by the American Thresherman Association drew about 12 000 despite rain. Sunday featured a steam engine demonstration with 16 rare units, 130 gas tractors and engines, and memorial services for ADA members. Antique car show had 86 entrants led by James Kniffen with a 1926 Model T and Bea Walker with a 1929 Chevy. next year’s show returns to Pinckneyville.
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Power Progress
Perry County Fairgrounds
Pinckneyville
American Thresherman Association
Virginia Marmaduke
Illinois
James Kniffen
Brookfield
Ford
Bea Walker
Memphis
Memphis, Tenn., For Her 1929 Chevy. Ray Rickenberg
Percy
Albert Ketchum
Carbondale
Carterville man named director for Illinois Area HUD training
Bailey Williams of Carterville was named project director of the Illinois Area Human Development Corp effective Sept. 1. He resigns from the Illinois Office of Economic Opportunity to lead a six month, 54532 federal grant program training staff for eight central and southern Illinois community action agencies. Williams, 42, will be paid 13200 annually and oversee a staff of three trainers and two secretaries. The group will rent office space at 609 W. Main St in Carbondale with a monthly rent of 225. Williams is a SIU alum and former VISTA volunteer who grew up in Kinmundy and is married with three children.
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Bailey Williams
Carterville
Illinois Area Human Development Corp
Williams
Ilinois Office of Economic Opportunity
Ilinois
Corporation
Main St
Carbondale
Southern Illinois
Charlie Brown
Southern Illinois University
VISTA
Federal Oeo
Illinois Oeo
Kansas City
North Central
Kinmundy
SIU
Jeann Cole
Cole Paul
Karin Sue
Mary Cynthia
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Cleo Moody
Mr. Moody
Gary Moody
Denese Moody
Gaskins and
Gibbons
Harrisburg
Alexander
Viola Mae Moody
Carl England
Gary
Lodi
England
Frankfort
Son
Mary’s River
Rocher-Modoc
Randolph County
Cedar Creek
SCS
The
John Korando
Myers
Johnson
Kinkaid Lake
Homer
Miami
Johnny Carson
New York
Freeman
Orient 5
Direct Action Agency
Bailey Wiliams
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