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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1973
Page
9
Chance of rain affects central area tonight with a cooler East and Midwest. Very warm weather planned for the Southwest, according to AP Wiraphoto.
High Tuesday 82 with overnight low 58. Temperature at 9 am today. Precipitation from 7 am Tuesday to 7 am Wednesday none. Sunset today 7:47 sunrise Thursday 6:19 sunset Thursday 7:46.
Jerseyville man Barron Fonner, 26, has the trial moved from Jacksonville to Decatur. Circuit Judge John B. Wright granted the change due to undue publicity. Fonner faces murder charges in the slaying of Illinois Bureau of Investigation agent Peter Lackey on November 27. Lackey was found with a slit throat in his car on U.S. 46 east of Jacksonville. Fonner was arrested hours after Lackey’s body was found for failing to appear on a narcotics charge. Sheriff Harold Wright of Morgan County is not related to the judge.
Patrick H Hoy, 59, former vice president of General Dynamics and former president of Material Service Corp, died Tuesday of cancer in Chicago. He pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1970 and served nine months in prison while he was a vice president at Penn Dixie Cement Co.
Two outdoor concerts planned for Bull Island in the Wabash River were struck down by Circuit Judge Henry Lewis. The temporary injunctions were granted at White County authorities request citing potential violation of the Illinois Mass Gathering Law. A permanent injunction hearing was set for August 28. Defendants named are Sounds Inc. of Carmel Indiana and its officers.
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