Youth Focused Guard Training Expands at Camp McCoy
The 3rd Battalion 130th Infantry of the Illinois National Guard, based in Carbondale, grows to about 60 percent first timers. Col Frank Brock leads a battalion of 64 Carbondale units and six others across Salem Centralia Harrisburg Mt Vernon Cairo. Training includes rifle machine gun mortar and mine field drills with a three day bivouac upcoming. The Carbondale headquarters team already holds the regimental softball crown and aims for state Guard glory amid a three year training cycle.
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Carbondale
130Th Infantry Regiment
44Th
Adlai Stevguests
Frank Brock
Col
Brock
BOQ
Camp McCoy
Drc
Salem
Centralia
Harrisburg
Mt. Vernon
Cairo
William Albright
James Montgomery
West Sycamore Street
Upstate
Ilinois
Johnston City man seriously injured in tractor-trailer accident
Wal Gene Thomas, 24, of Barham avenue Johnston City, injures from a fall from a loaded tractor-trailer at Hartline Beach orchard near Carbondale. Four ribs broken as wheels passed over his body. He lies in Marion veterans hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wal Gene Thomas
Frank Thomas
Barham Avenue
Johnston City
Hartline Beach
Carbondale
Thomas
Veterans Hospital
Marion
Peach Season Nears End in Carbondale
Carbondale expects peach season to close by next week under manager R. S. Mc Bride. About 2,009 baskets are staged for shipment, sent to destinations nationwide. Insulated cars with ice at both ends, and fans activated at loading, prepare for the shipment run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
R. S. McBride
Ex Supervisor Gourley Dies at 71
Arthur F. Gourley 71 died in Santa Ana California on August 17. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at the First Christian Church with Rev W L Reppenhagen officiating and burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. He leaves a wife two daughters a brother three sisters and four grandchildren. He was a retired I C locomotive engineer and served as Carbondale township supervisor from 1936 to 1940. He moved to California in 1942.
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Arthur F. Gourley
Santa Ana
Calif
Huffman Funeral Home
First Christian Church
W. L. Reppenhagen
Oakland
Cemery
Alpha Bell Gourley
Virginia Crabtree
Julia Hoover
Long Beach
Henry
St. Louis
James Haley
Merle Gourley
Rebecca Walker
Nashville
Tenn
Gourley
Christian Church
Masonic Lodge
I. C
Carbondale
California
Ollar
Johnston City
James Street
Carterville
Evelyn Ogden
Myrtle Ollar
Antoinette
Mary Lynne
Karen
Sybil Chandler
Eolia
Cecil Oliar
Williamson County Lodge 802
A.F
A.M
Lions Club
First Baptist Church
Floy Jent
Riggin
Condition of Vergennes Youth Remains Fair
Billie Dean Crews an 18 year old Vergennes youth who lost a left arm in an automobile accident last week is reported in fair condition by St Andrew's hospital. Officials say he is resting well and progressing toward recovery while denying rumors he has pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billie Dean Crews
St. Andrew's Hospital
Crews
Daily Free Press Home Delivery and Subscription Details
The notice lists carrier and mail delivery rates for the Daily Free Press in Carbondale Illinois. It notes geographic limits on mail subscriptions and mentions postal handling under the 1879 act. It includes AP affiliation and rights for local news usage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Free Press
Southern Illinoisan
West Main Street
Carbondale
Ill
Illinois
Associated Press
AP News
Hospital Notes Summary of Admissions and Discharges
Admitted Saturday and Sunday across several towns including Johnston City Carbondale Carbondale Herrin Alton Cobden Elkville De Soto Carbonale and Marion. Patients include Mrs Sidney Davis Rosemary Moore Donald Russell Giles R Lipe and James Lipe among others with medical and surgical cases and multiple discharges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Davis
Surgical
Johnston City
Claude Legg
Carbondale
Rosemary Moore
Donald Russel
Herrin
Everett Barrett
Alton
Virginia L. Dodds
Claude Tucker
Cobden
Louis Beal
Raymond Packett
Thomas Paul Kell
Walker Schwartz
Giles R. Lipe
Elkville
Luella Smith
William L. Armes
Marion
Ellen Bailey
de Soto
Harvey Harry
James Lipe
Noble Sparks
Reschedule Egyptian League Game Tuesday
The Murphysboro Merchants will host the Carbondale Pirates in a regular Egyptian Baseball League game in Stag No Park north of Murphysboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphysboro Merchants
Carbondale Pirates
Stagno Park
Murphysboro
Gas tax allotments rise for Jackson county and nearby towns
Jackson County and the municipalities of Carbondale and Murphysboro received 57144 in gas tax allotments for the first six months of 1949, up from 55125 in 1948. Jackson County proper gained 1335, Carbondale 333, and Murphysboro 351.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Barns, Kindred & Company of
Chicago
Jackson County
Carbondale
Murphysboro
Barcus, Kindred & Company
Grand Tower power plant to begin steel work next week
Structural steel erection starts next week at the Central Illinois Public Service Grand Tower power station expansion. Sixty carloads of equipment for two new boilers arrive, boosting total capacity to 60 000 kilowatts and producing 325 000 pounds of steam per hour per unit. The project adds 460 horsepower capacity and will require more coal and workers as flood protection walls and caissons advance on site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Illinois Public Service Company
Grand Tower
Traveling exhibit man’s 169000 mile road tour through 1940s America
Fred Sheldon 55 a World War I veteran from Spencer Nebraska travels with a rear truck house exhibit since 1943. He has journeyed about 169000 miles visiting all states except Maine Vermont Rhode Island and Connecticut en route to California for winter. His son Bennie 21 Navy veteran joined in Louisville Kentucky. The display includes historic items guns shells pipes and a 500 year old Belgian pistol.
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Suzi
Illinois Avenue
Carbondale
Fred Sheldon
Spencer
Nebr
Maine
Vermont
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Bennie
Louisville
California
Seldon
Suzi Oc
Sheldon
Flyer Escapes Burning Plane Near Centralia
A Michigan flyer, Charles Graham of Midland, escaped a fire after his Taylor Craft plane hit a power line and burned near Centralia on Saturday night. Graham, 31, suffered burns but was said to be doing nicely at St. Marys hospital. Dwayne Linton, state aeronautics inspector, noted the crash occurred about half a mile east of the former Sandoval airport and that Graham climbed free and fell about 20 feet to safety. The incident clock read 7 28 p.m. as clocks stopped due to the power outage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
St. Mary’s Hospital
Centralia
Charles Graham
Saginaw Street
Midland
Mich
Dwayne Linton
Herrin
Southern Illinois
Graham
Sandoval
Linton
Bitterman to Address Carbondale Rotarians
Norman Bitterman executive secretary of Southern Illinois Incorporated will speak to the Carbondale Rotary club in the Hotel Roberts tomorrow according to program chairman Paul McRoy. He will discuss the progress and function of SI I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Bitterman
Southern Illinois J Incorporated
Carbondale Rotary Club
Hotel Roberts
Paul McRoy
Bitterman
Grants to Blind Down in July in SouthernIllinois
The Illinois public aid commission reported July blind assistance to 4 566 recipients in 16 Southern Illinois counties costing 222 921 with an average grant of 48 82. The federal share was 118 455 and Illinois paid 104 466. County breakdown lists sums for Alexander Franklin Hamilton Hardin Jackson Johnson Massac Perry Pope Pulaski Randolph Sevier Union White Williamson and others. The federal government funded 53 percent of totals. The piece notes Mrs. D Leigh Colvin of Evanston was mentioned in Philadelphia as part of the report.
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Illinois
Carl K. Schmidt, Jr
Illinois Public Aid Commission
Schmidt
Alexander
Franklin
Hamilton
Hardin
Jackson
Johnson
Massac
Perry
Pope
Pulaski
Randolph
Sealine
Union
White
Williamson
Rites for Mrs Bailey Set Tomorrow at Hurst
Mrs Mary Porter Bailey 79 died 11 p m Saturday at her Hurst home. Friends may call at Parker funeral chapel in Hurst until funeral 9 30 a m Tuesday at First Pentecostal church of Bush Rev Vance Walker of Roy alton will officiate burial in Beechwood cemetery Mounds She is survived by husband Dan Dailey granddaughter Lois Walch Cairo and brothers Jim Salyer Princeton KY Charles Salyer Bush and Luther Salyer Princeton KY
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Mary Porter Bailey
Hurst
Parker Funeral
First Pentecostal Church of
Bush
Vance Walker
Royalton
Beechwood Cemetery
Mounds
Dan Dailey
Lois Walch
Cairo
Jim Salyer
Princeton
Drawing of New Grand Tower CIPS Plant
An architect's drawing shows the new power station at Grand Tower. Construction will be completed next year to supplement existing facilities and provide power for Southern Illinois. The plant will have 60,000 kilowatt capacity and 80,460 horsepower for users in the region, using about 205,000 tons of coal annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Tower
Hudsonville
Illinois
West Frankfort
Meredosia
CIPS
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Southern Illinois
Two Die When Train Strikes Car Near Johnston City
A man and a woman were killed when their car was hit by the Missouri Pacific dinky passenger train at a crossing one mile south of Johnston City. Phillip Udell Ollar, 36, of Carterville and Mrs. Loudene Mayer Winkleman, 26, of Creal Springs died at the scene. The crash occurred about 10:40 p.m. as the car traveled south on Route 37 and the train neared the end of its St. Louis to Marion run. Funeral services with Masonic rites are planned in Carterville for Ollar.
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Missouri- Pacific Railroad
Johnston City
Phillip Udell Ollar
St. Louis
Peach Cleanup Ends in Centralia Area Harvest
The peach harvest is mostly finished in Southern Illinois orchards with few stragglers around Centralia. Elbertas from Centralia area sold for 1 to 1 65 dollars, most 1 40 for number ones, while orchard run peaches priced 1 to 1 25, mostly 1 15. Illinois Central reports 35 train cars loaded Saturday and 16 Sunday, with Centralia and Cobden the main loading points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Centralia
Carbondale
Elbertas
Illinois Central Railroad
Richview
Irvington
Ozark
Cobden
Illinois Central
Faculty Appointments At S I U Announced
The Southern Illinois University president's office announced three new appointments for 1949 50. John James Gunderson becomes instructor in industrial education. John F Plummer is appointed instructor in University high school and part time in the College of Vocations and Professions. John David Parsons of Chicago is named half time faculty assistant in zoology for the 1949 50 session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College of Vocations and Professions
University High School
Southern Illinois University
John James Gunderson
Stout Institute
Ohio State University
Hermantown
Minn
Superior
Wisc
State Teachers College
Winona
John F. Plummer
Ball State Teachers College
Indiana
John David Parsons
Chicago
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Fred Bennett
National Guard of
Paul Townes
Ross Priddy
Chester L. Peterson
Townes
James D. Lowden
Joseph Shane
Earl Frischkorn
135Th Engineers Battalion
Orchard
Egypt
Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange
N. B. Curtner
Everett Hill
Vergennes
The
Mur
Physboro
Flyer
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