Two Injured Near Tamaroa In Rural Road Crash
Perry County residents Gerald Porter and Bernie Jenins were treated at Pinckneyville Hospital after their car ran off a rural road west of Tamaroa at 9 30 p m. They were passengers in a car driven by 16 year old Phyllis Lilley. Another passenger Melvin Smith was not hurt. The wreck followed a separate collision near Murphysboro on Old Rt 13 involving Kenneth Tuthill and Thomas Coleman. Coleman and Patricia Tuthill sustained minor injuries. William Stewart escaped injury when his car left Rt 14 near Benton.
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Perry County
Tamaroa
District 13
du Quoin
Gerrald R. Porter
Pinckneyville
Bernie Jenins
Pinckneyville Hospital
Phyllis A. Lilley
jAnnother
Melvin J Smith
Kenneth &.Tuthill
Vergennes
Thomas H. Coleman
West Frankfort
Old Rt
Murphysboro
Coleman
Tuthill
Patricia Tuthill
William R. Stewart
Ben‘ton
Rt.14
Ben ‘Ton
Kane Services Planned for J Howard Kane
Services for J Howard Kane a Murphysboro native and former Dallas real estate businessman who moved to Tacoma will be held in Murphysboro. He died Friday in a Tacoma hospital and his body was cremated with arrangements at Roberts Funeral Home. He was born in Murphysboro to the Kane family and was married to Gertrude Will who died in 1980. He leaves a son in Tacoma and several grandchildren and a great granddaughter.
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J. Howard Kane
Murphysboro
Kane
Tacoma
Wash
Roberts Funeral Home
John R. ‘Kane
Gerttrude Will
Real Est ‘Tate
Dallas
Tex
Tacoma Master Builders Association
John R
Susan Bowler
Balboa Island
Caliz
John R, Jr
William
James
SIU to Commission 11 Air Force Reservists Saturday
Eleven summer graduates at Southern Illinois University will be commissioned as second lieutenants in the Air Force Reserve Saturday. Among them are Jeffrey L. Casleton Elkville John W. Cotton Harrisburg William C. Ziegler Pinckneyville and Gary A. Curtis Zeigler. The ceremony at 1 30 p m in the SIU University Center ballroom will be presided over by Lt Col James Van Ausdal AFROTC commandant at STU.
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Arta
Southern Illinois University
Air Force
Jeffrey L. Casleton
Elkville
John W. Cotton
Harrisburg
William C. Ziegler
Pinckneyville
Gary A. Curtis
Zeigler
Siu University Center
James van Ausdal
Afrotc
STU
Presidin
Peach Festival Honors Memory With Trophy Room
The Cobden Peach Festival raised 500 dollars for a Tom Crowell Memorial Trophy Room at Cobden High School. Crowell, a Cobden basketball player, drowned last year in Little Grassy Lake. The room, planned 18 by 70 feet at the front of the gym and serving as a lobby, is estimated to cost 5 thousand dollars. G Wallace Rich, president of Cobden First National Bank, reported about 1,600 dollars collected for the project. Shirley Faye Sweitzer, daughter of Mr and Mrs Marion Sweitzer, was named festival queen after a close vote with Carolyn Sue Hughey. Sweitzer will compete Friday for the Miss Anna Pair title.
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Cobden
Tom Crowell
Cobden High School
Crowell
Little Grassy Lake
G. Wallace Rich
Marion Sweitzer
Rt. 2
Miss Sweitzer
Carolyn Sue Hughy
Willard Hughey
Anna
Miss Anna
Music Volumes Donated To SIU
A collection of about 300 music scores, donated in memory of Frank Whiteside, who studied piano at Juilliard. The gift from Mrs. George W. Whiteside, Carrollton, is valued at 1500 to 2000 dollars and will be kept in the Southern Illinois University music department as a working library for students.
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Juilliard School of Music
Southern Illinois University
Robert Mueller
George W. Whiteside
Carrollton
Frank
Juilliard
Mueller
Music Department
Marion Youth Charged With Destruction
Clyde Fox, 17, of Marion, was charged with destruction of public property by Marion Police Chief Charles Edwards. He broke a hasp on a jail cell and damaged a jug in another cell, and disobeyed traffic directions during a midnight madness sale on the public Square. Fox was arrested Tuesday night and is on probation from Circuit Court for a car theft involvement.
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Clyde Fox
Marion
Charles Edwards
Fox
Edwards
Ron Odum
Odum
Circuit Court
Mart
Ian Laundry Com
Carterville Man Sues Over Back Rent and Property
Carterville resident files in Williamson County Circuit Court against Harold McNeill seeking 120 dollars for back rent and possession of property at 116 Main Street Carterville. The suit states four months rent is due.
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James H. Moore
Williamson County
Harold McNeill
Main St
Carterville
West Frankfort Plan Commission Studies City Codes
West Frankfort plan commission discussed provisions of a city electrical code at a Wednesday meeting. Chairman Robert Brown said the code is nearly completed but not yet passed due to lack of a quorum. The 18 member panel has submitted building and housing codes to the City Council and is drafting plumbing and fire prevention codes.
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West Frankfort
Murphysboro UF Budget To Be Set
Murphysboro United Fund committee expected to approve a budget smaller than last year's 22700. Reports from budget and finance committees and UF drive details in October to be presented at Logan House Carriage Room meeting. President Hugh Gilmore says this year's budget will be more realistic and two additional agencies may join the UF. The group last year raised about 13000 for agencies, roughly 1 percent of the budgeted figure.
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Murphysboro United Fund Committee
Logan House
Hugh Gilmore
Murphysboro
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Dial
North Bridge St. Carbondale
Bisa
Sirloin
Bologna
Peach Festival
SIU
Carbondale
Cash Day Club
Walnut St. Murphysboro
Jerry Goforth
Alexander-Smith
Reasonable Prices Furniture CO
Marion Fairgrounds
Krochler
Tday
South Illinois
Gillette
TAK
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