Mobile X-ray Units Begin County TB Drive This Week
Mobile X-ray units start in Carbondale Murphysboro and Vergennes this week to screen Jackson County residents aged 18 and older for tuberculosis symptoms. Facilities will operate 10 am to 5 pm, with free X-rays and permanent file retention for future reference.
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Carbondale
Murphysboro
Jackson County
Main Street
Illinois Avenue
Brown Shoe Company
Eleventh
Walnut Streets
Logan Hotel
R. F. Sondag
Susan Wright Dies Today in Murphysboro at 88
Mrs Susan A Wright 88 of Murphysboro died at home after several months illness. Born Union County 1862 she married Edward Wright in 1890. he died in April this year. Survived by three daughters Mrs Walter Wright Mrs Urbane Hanson and Mrs Sarah Kelly and three sons Thomas John and Melvin Wright plus 15 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm Crawshaw Mortuary chapel Rev Clyde Funkhouser officiating. burial in Tower Grove cemetery.
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Susan A. Wright
Murphysboro
Union County
Edward Wright
Walter Wright
Urba Hanson
Sarah Kelly
Paducah
Thomas
John Wright
Melvin Wright
Elgin
First Methodist Church of
Crawshaw Mortuary
Clyde Funkhouser
Tower Grove Cemetery
Nancy Anglin Dies at 87 in Murphysboro
Mrs Nancy Fisher Anglin aged 87 died at her daughter’s home in Murphysboro after months of illness. Born in Shelbyville Illinois in 1863 she lived four years in Murphysboro. She married John E Anglin in 1880. he died in 1916. Survivors include son Roy Anglin daughter Mrs Paul Allen 21 grandchildren eight great grandchildren and sister Ella Warner. Funeral in Shelbyville with burial at Glenwood.
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Nancy Fisher Anglin
Murphysboro
Anglin
Shelbyville
Ill
John E. Anglin
Roy Anglin
Flint Mich
Paul Allen
Ella Warner
Columbus
Ohio
Southern Illinoisan The Daily Free Press notice
The Southern Illinoisan The Daily Free Press lists publication details for Carbondale Illinois with printing rights for AP local news and dispatches. It includes pricing for carrier and mail subscriptions, and notes mailing limitations in areas without carrier service.
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Southern Illinoisan
Daily Free Press
Southern Illinois Publications, Inc
West Main Street
Carbondale
Ilinois
Uinois
Associated Press
Plan Mammoth Towers Across Mississippi for 30-Inch Gas Pipe
The Texas-Illinois Natural Gas Pipe Line Company plans a 30 inch line across the Mississippi bluff to bluff near Grand Tower. Attorney L R Stewart reports to Jackson County officials as engineers determine tower heights and right of way terms. County Board to meet August 30 to review crossings, road use, and rail permits with the company paying meeting costs. Landowners have largely signed for a 1.00 rod fee, and the county expects steady tax revenue from the line while the company handles maintenance access and land restoration.
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Texas-Illinois Natural Gas Pipe Line Company
Mississippi
Bluff
L. R. Stewart
Murphysboro
Jackson County
Missouri
Illinois Bluffs
Red Town
Grand Tower
Korando Dies at Sunset Haven in Jackson County
Joseph R. Korando 90 lifelong Jackson County resident and retired farmer died Saturday at Sunset Haven near Carbondale. He leaves son Raymond Korando Carterville daughter Hilda Benson Granite City and brother Mark Korando. Funeral at 2 p m at Glenn Cemetery Ava officiated by Rev Marion Barringer. Burial in Glenn Cemetery. Roberts Funeral Home Murphysboro in charge.
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Joseph R. Korando
Jackson County
Sunset Haven
Carbondale
Raymond Korando
Carterville
Hilda Benson
Granite City
Mark Korando
Glenn Cemetery
Ava
Marion Barringer
Workers Back At The Koppers Plant In Carbondale
Wood preserving division workers at the Koppers plant in Carbondale returned to work at midnight Sunday under a new two year contract. Details emerged after Saturday meetings led by federal conciliator A M Thompson. The pact provides six cent raises for laborers and five cents for other craftsmen, higher than the previous 89 cent hourly rate. One worker received an 11 cent jump under the agreement. Local 12176 of the UMWA sought 15 cent across the board and a District 50 pension plan.
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Koppers Company
Carbondale
A. M. Thompson
The
UMWA
Free makeup lessons at Cline-Vick Drug store
Miss Thelma Trimble of Richard Hudnut offers free 45 minute makeup lessons at Cline-Vick Drug store in Carbondale. The event includes facial and skin analysis behind a screen by appointment, with tips on current styles and basic skin care routines for women and occasional guidance for men.
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Carbondale
Cline-Vick
Trimble
Miss Trimble
Property Transfers in Dowell and Carbondale
Robert R. Cruse transfers lots 6 and 8 block 8 original add Dowell to Roy Hick man for $1. Charles Fitzhugh transfers lot 9 John Venerables SD of OL 133 Carbondale to W E Chandler for $1.
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Robert R. Cruse
Roy Hickman
Dowell
Charles Fitzhugh
W. E. Chandler
John Venerables SD
Carbondale
Company official cites no pension clause in Koppers contract
An official stated the contract lacks a pension clause and the Koppers plan will be used. The union can begin wage talks only after May 1, 1951.
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Koppers
Area Doctors Study in Special Fields in Herrin
Southern Illinois doctors will begin a 40 week course in advanced specialized fields in Herrin next month. The program, sponsored by the Illinois chapter of the American Academy of General Practice, aims to keep non specialized physicians current with modern medicine and improve patient care.
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Southern Illinois
Herrin
Illinois
American Academy of General Practice
Chicago
Downstate
J. W. Tidwell
Tidwell
West Frankfort
Tilphois
Mount Vernon
Pinckneyville
Belleville
University of Chicago
University of Illinois
Chicago Medical School
Northwestern University
Loyola University
A.A.G.P
A. I. Doktorsky
Girl Lands Biggest Fish At Murphysboro Derby
Shirley Ann Baskin, 15, won the girls division with a half pound goggle-eye perch at Riverside park. Danny Shappard, 9, took the boys title with a quarter pound goggle-eye. Each winner received a red reel and casting accessories from sponsor Better Fishing Inc. Mayor C. A. Hart oversaw the event with about 50 contestants.
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Murphysboro
Riverside Park
Shirley Ann Baskin
Alfred Baskin
Danny Shappard
Fred Shappard
Logan Street
Better Fishing, Inc
C. A. Hart
Typical Farm Family enjoys four day Chicago trip
The Harold Connor family of Murphysboro won the Southern Illinois Typical Farm Family contest and spent four days in Chicago as guests of sponsors. They toured museums and exhibits, received gifts, dined with Sears Roebuck officials, stayed at Hotel Sherman, and praised finest hotel service before returning to farming duties.
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Jackson County
Chicago
Connors
Farr
Southern
Illinois
Murphysboro
Connor
Harold Connor
Southern Illinoisan
Robert
James
Carbondale
International Harvester Co
Musem of Science and Industry
International Harvester
Chicago Air
National Food Stores Co
Fair Grounds
Hotel
Sherman
Southern Illinois
Sears, Roebuck Co
LaSalle Hotel
Sears’ Asistant
Ed Con
Don
Carsiello
la Salle Hotel
Westinghouse Company
Atom
Galesburg Jaycee Leader Visits Three Chapters Tonight
L. C. McGlothlen state president of the Junior Chambers of Commerce will visit three Jaycee groups in Jackson County. Carbondale hosts with Murphysboro and Herrin members attending. Dinner at 6 30 p m followed by a business meeting and his talk. McGlothlen is a former Galesburg Jaycees president and national Jaycee director.
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L. C
Firemen Save De Soto House In Morning Blaze
Carbondale fire department answered at 6 30 a m to Orville Fred s De Soto home in the west part of town. Most damage confined to one bedroom of the four room house three blocks west of De Soto s main intersection on Murphysboro black top.
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Carbondale
de Soto
Orville Fred
Murphysboro
Carbondale Guardsmen Return From Training Camp
Carbondale National Guardsmen returned home Saturday from a two weeks training stint at Camp McCay Wisconsin. Officers and men of Headquarters company 130th Infantry Regiment participated in the annual field maneuvers with other elements of Illinois 44th division.
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Carbondale
Carbondale National Guardsmen
Camp McCay
Wis
130Th Infantry Regiment
Illinois
Southern Illinois University hires nine former students for fall teaching posts
Eight alumni from Carbondale will join area schools this fall. Robert Curtis will teach in Decatur high school after earning a master's degree. Joanna Duncan will teach near here, and Frank Groves, Ivanell Henderson, Donald McQueen, Harold Patterson, Grace Pittman, Robert Pulliam and others take posts in Metropolis, West Frankfort, Vergennes, Taylorville, and nearby districts.
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Southern Illinois -University From
Carbondale
Roye R. Bryant
Robert R. Curtis
Harry Co. Curtis
Decatur
Curtis
Southern
Hurst Bush
Jane DeLap
Joanna Mae Duncan
Gladys Duncan
Antioch
Duncan
College of Education
S Inc
Frank F. Groves
Christopher High School
Groves
Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity
Sinfonia Music Fraternity
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Ivanell Henderson
West Frankfort
Donald Clinton McQueen
Metropolis High School
McQueen
Betty L. Holliday
Harold Lee Patterson
Bill Price
Lincoln Law School
Springfield
Patterson
Sigma Beta Mu Fraternity
Kappa Phi Kappa
Virginia Ferrill Nimmo
David G. Pittman
Grace Krappe
Vergennes High School
Delta Sigma Epsilon
French Club
Camera Club
Robert Pulliam
Mabel Pulliam
Roscoe Pulliam
Taylorville
Pulliam
Sigma Tau Delta English Fraternity
Chi Delta Chi Social Fraternity
Radio Club
Jean E. Armentrout
Parkway Drive-In Burglarized and Cash Stolen
Burglars broke a rear window at 317 North Illinois Avenue and stole $35 from the cash register at the Parkway Drive-In in Carbondale after midnight Saturday night, police reported today.
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Parkway Drive-In
Carbondale
North Illinois Avenue
Giant tomato weighs four pounds at Carbonale garden
Mrs J W Rodgers of route 2 Carbon dale pulls a four pound Ponderosa tomato from an unstaked plant in her garden. She grows about 60 plants this year and found the fruit during a routine check as it ripened.
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J. W. Rodgers
Route 2
Carbondale
Rodgers
Teachers Set Preschool Start in Carbondale Workshop Underway
Community high school teachers began a four day workshop in Carbondale while high school pupils near end of freedom. Classes resume Friday at 8 30 am at Community high school with buses on regular schedule. Attucks high school freshmen register Thursday. A joint meeting of Community and Attucks staffs will discuss counseling and other problems.
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Carbondale
Community High School
N. A. Rosan
Casses
Attucks High School
Attucks
Community
Pilots view new four-jet bomber at Chanute inter-state fly-in
Eight local pilots from Carbondale and Pinckneyville joined over 400 pilots in six states at Chanute base for an inter-state fly-in. Brig Gen Byron Gates greeted attendees as visitors toured the facilities and observed two F-80 Sabers in flight and a jet engine on test stand after lunch in a mess hall.
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AAA
Chanute Force Hbase
Satur
Elliott Kerring
Haddon Davenport
Don Betts
Charles Murden
Ernest Williams
Hugh Watson
Bill Davis
Carbondale
Gene Schumaier
Pinckneyville
Mardale
Byron E. Gates
Local Flier Plan 1 500–Mile Junket
Two Carbondale pilots plan a 1 500 mile flight from Mardale airport during Labour Day weekend. Maurice Lam and Frank Miller depart Saturday morning in two planes and fly to Enid Oklahoma then Fort Worth Texas before returning home. The flights are part of a G L training course. Airports will also see planes to Detroit Michigan and Lansing Michigan over the weekend.
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Carbondale
Mardale
Maurice Lam
Frank Miller
Enid
Oklo
Fort Worth
Tex
Detroit
Mich
Lansing
Hospital Notes Reflect Local Admissions and Discharges
A list of hospital entries shows admissions and discharges across multiple towns. Mrs. Minnie Clayton and others were admitted for medical or surgical care, with several noted as accident cases. Beverly Ann Lindsey and Opal McMasters are among Sunday discharges.
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Minnie Clayton
Marion
Fulton Pastell
Waukegan
Nona Felts
Gertrude Sanfield
Raleigh
Nora Plumley
Cambria
Pearl Abbott
Grantsburg
Daisy Davis
Beverly Ann Lindsey
Benton
Gertrude Kobler
Thomas McMasters
Hillsdale
Ind
Opal McMasters
Genevieve Goss
Robert Fox
Johnston City
Marvin Lee
Pittsburg
Pauline Sudheimer
Carbondale
Clinton Cox
Charles Seifert
Charles Earl Hendrick
Lucille Kerley
George Veach
Harrisburg
Genevieve Reed
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Vergennes
Southern Illinois University
Elkville
Campbell Hill
Jones Ridge
Gorham
Pomona
Makanda
Susan Wright
Nancy Anglin
Roberts Funeral Home
Glenwood Cemetery
Tare
Janelle Reppenhagen
Janelle
W. L. Reppenhagen
Mr. Reppenhagen
First Baptist Church
Mammoth Towers
Joseph Korando
Haven
Vern Grissom
Robert Wahl
Frank Crews
Hart
J. S. Russell
West Sycamore Street
Star of the Magi
de Soto House
Holden Hospital
Doctor’s Hospital
Genevieve Farner
LaRue Blackwell
Martin Rogers
N. Oaklands Street
Paul Roberts
North Marion Street
North Washington Street
Main
Jackson Streets
Rogers
Roberts
Guy Williams
Tamaroa
Williams
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