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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1950
Page
3
Carbondale Community Chest leaders appeal for volunteers to join a final house to house canvass from 6 30 to 8 30 p m Thursday aimed at topping the 1950 drive near 7200 dollars. Bill Freeberg drive chairman says about 50 workers needed. The money supports Teen Town Hogan Center Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Springfield Tablet Manufacturing files a $1700 damage suit in Jackson County Circuit Court against E-Bee Business Systems of Carbondale. Plaintiff says Springfield supplied merchandise totaling $2227.26 through Aug and Sep 1950. payments of about $444 reduce the balance to $1782.73. Bills of lading accompany the complaint.
Southern Illinois Society of X Ray Technicians calls all technicians and medical doctors to a dinner meeting at Du Quoin Saturday night. Contact president Carl Vinson at Herrin hospital. Vinson, a registered X ray technician, will host the event.
The bulletin lists admissions on Monday including Mrs William Sauter Carterville medical Mrs James Shafter Marion and Mrs Lawrence Eddings Carbon dale medical and Christ opher medical Dock Lambert Makanda surgical and Mrs W W McCamish Carbon Miss Virginia Lee Howard Carbondale medical Miss Lucille Anderson Carbondale surgical Miss Jane Travelstead Carbondale and Robert Caplan Philadelphia pa Discharges include Mrs Ella Cagle Herrin surgical and Mrs Davie Wilson Cairo surgical.
The Daily Free Press publication from Carbondale Illinois lists edition timing evenings except Sundays and holidays, with Southern Illinois Publications Inc as the issuer. It notes second class matter status and AP republication rights, plus old subscription rates and service areas.
Attucks high school teachers will hear reports at their Thursday faculty meeting. Principal J. Q. Clark will summarize a recent University of Illinois advisory committee meeting, and Mrs. L. M. Davis will present the curriculum report.
Fern Brewer reports 2,610 books and magazines checked out in November. 1,150 were by children. Fifty-seven new library cards issued. Make Friends With Books during Book Week Nov 13 18. Local grade schools visited a book exhibition in the basement reading room. Marie Campbell, former Southern Illinoisan and SIU alumna, released A House With Stairs. New fiction titles include The Story of Andrea Fields Women and Doctor and more by Seifert Kane Keyes Stuart Gardner Palmer Emory. Non fiction includes The Art of Teaching Burns Mantle Best Plays of 1949 50 Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book.
Herbert Vow is elected Noble Grand of Carbondale Lodge 233 of the I O O F Hallie Lence retires as Noble Grand. Other officers include Harold Hill vice grand F E Corbit secretary and George Dangbar re elected. Trustees are W O Leonard John Wooten R M Ragland Don Crabtree and A B Crawshaw. John Wooten elected degree captain. Installations set after year’s start.
The Southern Illinois University board in Carbondale canceled its December meeting and will meet again on Monday, January 22. A special session on November 27 approved a $5 million building expansion, eliminating the December session.
The Bureau of Mines reinspection at the C and C Coal Co 225 ton a day No 1 mine near Marion calls for safer operations. Inspector J R Summary urges permissible explosives or blasting devices smoking ban adequate firefighting gear timbering system heavy rock dusting coal dust control unobstructed clearance shelter holes cutter chain locks fan stoppage signal safety toe footwear protective hats and permissible electric cap lamps. The mine employed 40 men when examined in October.
Virgil Brown Carbondale post master today advised residents to select Christmas and New Year cards this week and prepare them for mailing. He urged revising address lists, bundling cards with addresses facing the same way and stamps in the right corner to ease cancellation. He recommends three cent stamps for first class mail and warns two cent stamps may be treated as third class or be returned if addresses are wrong. Local cards should go out a week before Christmas.
Southern Illinois counties received 71 440 in November tax allotments up from 57 188 in 1949 with Franklin Jackson Williamson leading and Hardin Pope at the bottom. State total allotments reached 1 672 616 for November with a gross of 1 794 189 and a 121 573 reserve for a 30 million emergency relief bond issue.
Jackson county farmers may apply at the PMA office in Murphysboro for corn loans. Applicants must stay within their 1950 allotments and file by March 31.Loans offer up to 1.50 dollars per bushel of stored corn as security.
Sparks from a stove ignited the roof at Herman Littlefair 1401 Davis Street Johnston City around 11 30 this morning. The fire department used a booster pump to extinguish the blaze in 15 minutes with small damage. A four foot square hole was burned around the chimney Fireman John Elko said.
A converted Army DC-3, acquired in July, lands at Murdale Airport as one of the largest planes to touch down. It has been re equipped and re furbished to meet company needs with J Hedrick as president and M V Burlingame as vice president.
Plans for a new Christopher high school building are finished and submitted for inspection. Bids will be opened December 18 at the Lincoln building. Insurance settlements total 140000. About 360000 available for the new structure if funds hold. The old building will be razed and site prepared for a modern campus around the former site.
Alma Seymore 49 died at her east Walnut street home Sunday evening. An inquest by Jackson County Coroner Edward Knowles ruled natural death probable from a heart attack. She was survived by husband Allen Seymore and children Rozele Seymore and Ernest Lee Seymore. Funeral arrangements pending at Jackson Funeral Home Carbondale.
School administrators from five Southern Illinois counties gather at Southdale campus for a Saturday session on December 9 to discuss nursing, health inspection, sanitation, lighting, safety, clinical work, recreation and medical services. Dr Warren T White of Dallas Texas delivers the general address on building construction trends.
The Franklin county court sentenced Luther Alexander and Jimmie Teffetiller of Christopher to terms at Vandalia state penal farm for vagrancy. Alexander drew a 90 day term.
Robert Caplan a Pennsylvania resident who suffered a heart attack on a Carbondale street Sunday was discharged from Doctors hospital on Monday Caplan had come to Carbondale from St Louis to visit relatives and was staying there briefly
The Carbondale area Navy reserve unit Volunteer Composite Unit 9 37 will meet on the second and fourth Thursdays at the Carbondale Armory. Meetings start at 7 30 p m with the first under the new schedule on December 14. Lt John Bragdon of Marion commands the unit and meetings are open to naval reservists in the area.
Cuban Ministry of State invites Cuban Independ ence medal recipients to apply via Henry Bailey of Carbondale by sending full biographical details. Applicants must provide name, camp, rank in the war, regiment or unit, and home address, plus an official document proving highest rank. Original documents will be returned, but photo copies may not be guaranteed for return.
Carbondale resident Tom McCauley was hurt at the Koppers tie plant Monday and admitted to Holden hospital with a broken ankle. He lives at 406 East Oak Street in Carbondale.
Carbondale Kiwanis club members will hear readings by Southern Illinois University students from the university speech department. Archibald McLeod, associate professor of speech, will direct the readings during the weekly meeting after a 6 20 p.m. dinner.
Dr. Leon Minchier silviculturist will join the Society of American Foresters 3 day meet in Washington DC December 13 to 16. He will speak on hardwood timber management improving school training and curriculum. The panel will discuss forestry education and his paper notes optimal cutting timing and small tract management to boost income and land value. Headquarters are at the Mayflower hotel.
SIU Carbondale registrar Marjorie Shank says winter term enrollments stopped at 2408 on Monday as registration closed at 4 pm The total is 82 below last year’s winter term final and registration continues through Saturday with expected gains around 400 The fall term that year reached 3100 while this year’s fall term was 3086 The census typically drops from fall to winter and uncertainty over draft status is not causing a large drop
La Blaine Maddox and Lynn Franklin testified before a federal grand jury in East St. Louis on Monday about Jake Gonoziewski and Robert Strunk. Police arrested the pair Oct. 25 at Gonoziewski’s North Park Avenue shack, where agents found a 20 gallon still and various whisky containers along with a buried 50 gallon mash barrel.
Four cars were damaged in two minor accidents reported to Carbondale police. At 901 South University Roger E. Taylor and Elizabeth Ann Young were involved when Young backed into Taylor’s parked car. At 100 East Jackson Street Thomas B. Lockerby and Bill Arterberry were in the second collision as Arterberry backed out for a parking space.
Dr. H H Rodewald Murphysboro physician named president of new Jackson County Sanitarium Board to oversee tax funded TB care. Mrs. R W Ide of Carbondale named secretary and Charles Helwig Jr of Grand Tower named member. Board to budget about 75000 with state subsidy and supervise grant approvals.
The Jackson County Board of Supervisors opened a two day December meeting in Murphysboro. They handled routine bills and general business then adjourned for committee sessions. They studied tax levies for all government units and said all levies must be presented to the December board for approval.
A series of property transfers recorded across Murphysboro and Carbondale. Transactions include William Victor Miller to Robert C. Mann for lot 10 block 37 in Clark and Logan's addition at 13 500 dollars and Gilbert C. Reiman to Lindall Bruce Richmond for lot 1 part 2 block 2 Clark and Logan's 5th add. at 1400 dollars. Other sales range from one dollar to six hundred dollars, with parcels described by townships and ranges.
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