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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1973
Page
22
This page supplements Southern Illinoisan coverage with local items from Southern Illinois. It compiles ongoing news notes and fleeting items from across the region to fill out the daily record.
The Du Quoin City Council plans to open bids September 24 for sewage treatment plant improvements and intercept sewers. It passed a $198,480 tax levy. effects per taxpayer depend on county clerk rates. The council also authorized mayoral bids on alley paving between Division and Oak streets.
The Southern Illinois Calendar urges listing public meetings and notes events. It mentions recycling drives at Westown parking lot and Winky's lot near Lewis Park Mall, plus paper and glass recycling spots and requirements.
Friday schedule includes Perry County Housing Authority meeting at 6 30 p m Perfection Club Du Quoin and arts events at SIU Carbondale. Outdoor dance Riverside Park featuring Boneyard. Drive in listings show Legends and Mary Poppins runs through Tuesday with multiple venues. Spaghetti Supper Murphysboro Eagles Club and community auto clinic at Carbondale. Du Quoin State Fair Saturday shows Osmond Brothers Lynn Anderson Jerry Reed Freddie Hart.
Bird banding at 9 30 a m and an interpreter led hike at 1 30 p m are at the Visitor s Center Sunday. Southern Illinois Audubon Prairie Field Trip departs at 1 30 p m from Stollar Lumber Yard Carbondale to De Soto prairie. Inner Peace Movement speaker Renee De Riel discusses extrasensory perception at 2 30 p m in Penney s Community Room Carbondale with a 1 50 donation. Serendipity Singers perform at 1 p m followed by Charley Pride Show at 4 30 p m with rodeo events after.
Venita Jane Moss 48 Cambria died today at Doctors Hospital Carbondale after illness. Survivors include husband Henry Moss and children Shar on Morse Bruce Morse, plus siblings and three grandchildren. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Monday Riggin Funeral Home Carterville. Burial East Lawn Memorial Gardens Energy. George McCrellis 76 Brookside Manor Carbondale died today in Marion Veterans Hospital. Plasterer, WWI veteran, survived by wife Virginia, daughter Aline Blaise, brother Earl, one grandson. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday Van Natta Funeral Home. Burial Oakland Cemetery Carbondale. J Elwood Shelton 74 Johnston City died Thursday Mt. Vernon Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Burial Lakeview Johnston City. Berthal McAnelly 66 Marion Rt. 5 funeral 2 p.m. Saturday Wilson Funeral Home Marion. Irene Davis Silas 77 Carbondale died on arrival at Doctor's Hospital. Survivors include daughters Mercia Parks and Elmira Silas, grandson Sam Silas, 20 great grandchildren. Burial Evergreen Bartow Florida. Jackson Funeral Home Carbondale handling local arrangements.
SIU Carbondale will decide within 10 days whether to shut the Saluki Stables after the facility lost about 10 000 to 12 000 dollars yearly. Executive vice president Danilo Orescanin cited loss of academic funding and student activities support as the reason, while noting some students oppose the closure and stake concerns about horses and jobs. The stables, on West Chautauqua Street, were acquired in 1969 from R R Colp.
Warm humid conditions and cooler weather expected tonight in the Northwest and Northeast. Continuing hot weather is forecast for southern states with showers possible in parts of the West.
Boyd Moore 43 was charged with strangling Virginia Barbaro in Marion on Aug 16. Moore was found dead in Franklin County the next day from self inflicted gunshot wounds. State's Attorney Howerton asked for dismissal to clear court files and await a formal investigation report next week.
Richard Hildreth and his son in Carbondale reported unidentified objects seen Wednesday night that NASA later linked to Skylab debris. Norton of Marion, an IEPA worker, confirmed similar sightings and received NASA’s two week schedule noting multiple fragments and shrouds ahead of and behind Skylab.
Lynndon Guard an 18 year old Marion driver stopped and backed a van from the Central and Eastern Illinois Railroad crossing on Eagle Point Bay Road just east of Rt 37 when a freight train struck the front end at 3 05 a m. The van was pushed into a ditch but Guard and the train’s crew were not injured. Marine Cpl Terrence V Mohr son of Mr and Mrs Lowell V Mohr Rt 1 Marion was promoted at Camp Lejeune NC after joining the Marine Corps in 1971.
The notice covers the death of Clyde B Halstead 58 of Du Quoin after four months illness at Marshall Browning Hospital burial IOOF Cemetery Du Quoin services Sunday 3 p m with Rev Judson Souers. Fern F Fallon 85 of Benton formerly Du Quoin dies at Franklin County Hospital burial IOOF Cemetery Pinckneyville service Saturday Rev Earl Dickey. Mary A Collier 72 of Carterville dies in Herrin Hospital burial Hillcrest Cemetery Carterville. First Atlantic City board walk history noted completion in 1870 seven miles today.
Thirty five firefighters from Southern Illinois join three squads to battle west coast blazes with as many as twenty more to depart. The first crew of 21 left August 16 under Ranger Jerry Clutts and is now near Sand Springs Montana. A second 20 man unit works with 1,700 others near Kyburz California led by Arthur Zdzieblowski. A third crew departed Tuesday under Forester Larry Burkhart from the Vienna Ranger District.
A Southern Illinoisan correction rectifies a misquote about industrial development. The accurate remark credited the field as ninety percent preparedness and ten percent prospecting. The piece lists numerous names from Jonesboro Equality Murphysboro and nearby towns.
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