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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1975
Page
13
The holiday music concert by vocal students of Murphysboro Township High School moves from the high school auditorium to Carruthers Junior High School auditorium. The free concert starts at 4 p.m. Sunday with more than 100 vocal students performing holiday music and other choral selections.
Judy Haney won both poetry and prose in a Herrin Library and Library Board of Directors contest held for the Diamond Jubilee and U.S. Bicentennial. Her poem The High School and essay The Popcorn Man topped the field, with second place going to Richard Owen for Reflections and Mary Camarato for What It Means to be a Herrinite. The board president said the winning selections are bound and available at the library free of charge.
Fire destroyed an old smokehouse style storage shed one mile north of New Burnside at 3 30 p m Wednesday. Creal Springs Fire Chief Walter Bruce said the shed owned by Roy Wilkins suffered about 1500 to 2000 dollars in damage and the cause has been determined.
Bradford Joseph of Carterville has been named an Illinois State Scholar. His name appeared incorrectly in a list of state scholars from Southern Illinois in Tuesday's Southern Illinoisian.
Herrin firefighters set a weekday record Wednesday with seven men responding to a call. An engine and a special set unit rode to Payneville Road and the Johnston City Blacktop, but found only a blazing industrial refuse, trimming and recycling materials. the crew reported no injuries and returned.
Edward Betts 24 of Creal Springs was arrested at his mother’s home on a drug warrant from a six month Metropolitan Enforcement Group investigation that covered Jackson and Williamson counties. He faced charges from a Sept. 18 delivery of more than 20 grams of marijuana with a $10 000 bond and a Sept. 10 disturbance in a rural Creal Springs home. A probation revocation petition and a $5 000 bond accompanied the arrest. Betts had been on two year probation since Nov. 11 1973 for unlawful possession of marijuana.
Edward A. Spicer 25 of Chicago was arrested on a federal fugitive warrant in Grand Rapids and ordered held on a 200000 bond ahead of a December 12 extradition hearing. He is linked to two double homicides during robberies in Chicago and East Authorities also arrested Earl Good 28 as Spicer's believed partner and both men will be questioned about additional Chicago killings.
Three men and a juvenile were arrested after a chain saw theft from Kopper’s Saw Mill west of Jonesboro and a burglary at an Anna bowling alley. Gary D. Smith 24 of Jonesboro Henry Pulliam 46 of Alto Pass and Robert E. Pulliam 19 of Alto Pass plus the juvenile fled in a car at high speed before arrest.
An 83 year old Tamms resident died in a Marion hospital from injuries suffered in an accident. A 51 year old Marion woman, Betty J Barber, was found dead in her mobile home on November 10 in a presumed suicide due to a personal crisis involving tranquilizers and pain killers. John English of the Tamms Shelter Care Home died November 4 at Marion Veterans Hospital from a skull fracture sustained in a fall at the shelter care home.
A 1969 car stolen from Leon Webb Auto Sales in Marion was found stripped along a road two miles north of Old Shawneetown in Gallatin County before the dealer realized the theft. The deputy traced the vehicle to the Marion dealer and noted the theft had not yet been detected.
A dated catalog style listing shows prices for electrical and plumbing items including heaters, receptacles, breaker boxes, lights, tub and shower stalls, vanity units, plastic pipe, PVC and copper piping. Entries note per foot or per unit prices with several price points and sale mentions such as 20 percent off on selected vanities.
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