Railroad safety program warns children and parents
Illinois Central Railroad officials report 44 youths warned for trespassing while promoting a five year safety drive. White explains visits to schools, film showings, and panels across the area reaching about 25 000 students. Do and dont lists urge children to stop look and listen and not tamper with rails or equipment. Parents are asked to model safe behavior and teach proper practices.
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Tlinois Central Railroad
Bill White
Carbondale
White
eToe White
Funeral Home is Enlarged at Meyer-Denny in Murphysboro
Two additions under construction at the Meyer-Denny Funeral Home on 1418 South Street will add an embalming room organ storeroom and a Women’s Lounge. The existing embalming and storerooms become a 20 by 34 foot visitors’ room. The northeast and northwest additions measure 16 by 24 and 22 by 30 feet. Orville Denny said the new room will be paneled in natural finished wood and new equipment will be installed in the embalming room. A $4,000 building permit was issued. Work begun last month and will finish about March 2.
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Meyer-Denny Funeral Home
South St
Murphysboro
Funeral Home
Orville Denny
Denny
St Joseph Memorial Hospital honors fifteen staff members
Fifteen members of the St Joseph Memorial Hospital staff were awarded five year pins at a dinner in the hospital cafeteria last week. Sister Mary Jerome presented the pins, explaining the design featuring a replica of the golden heart worn by the Sister Adorers of the Most Precious Blood who ran the hospital. Recipients included Cora Baker Eleanor Blaise Mary Butler Mildred Hisfelder Martha Grammer William Green Hazel Hagler Grace Heape Cornelia Hubbard Anna Marie Moore Ruby Montell Hazel Sullivan Teresa Weber Irene Will Evelyn Williams.
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St. Joseph Memorial Hospital
Sister Mary Jerome
Saint Joseph Memorial Hospital
Cora Baker
Eleanor Blaise
Mary Butler
Mildred Hisfelder
Martha Grammer
William Green
Hazel Hagler
Grace Heape
Cornelia Hubbard
Anna Marie Moore
Ruby Montell
Hazel Sullivan
Theresa Weber
Irene Will
Evelyn Williams
St. Andrews Hospital
Apartment House 310S Opened on Elm Street
Two bids for a 16 unit apartment project on Elm Street in Carbondale were opened Friday. Dr Leo J Brown radiologist plans to build and an architect Thomas Graman Metropolis noted bids exceed the 125000 estimate. A contract will be awarded after talks with bidders, with a decision expected Friday. If successful, Brown also plans an 18 unit building on High Street.
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Elm Street
Carbondale
Leo J. Brown
Thomas Graman
Metropolis
Brown
High Street
Woolworth Plans Downtown Carbondale Store Closing
Woolworth Co will close its downtown Carbondale store at 116 S Illinois Ave on December 20. A stock reduction sale is under way. Five full-time employees plus part-time staff may transfer to other locations. the Murdale Shopping Center store recently earned a district sales award. Ed Harlan manages the Murdale store.
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F.“W. Woolworth Co
Carbondale
S. Iinois
Donald Light
Murdale
Tom Mofield
Woolworth
Light
Woolworth's
Ed. Harlan
Democrats Like GOP Soil Bank
The Agriculture Department, run by Democrats, endorses the soil bank land retirement program started by the prior Republican administration. A Georgia study shows the program reduced overproduction by removing cropland, aiding conservation and enabling less profitable units to exit production while increasing income on participating farms.
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Agriculture Department
Soil Bank
Department
Georgia
Tandy Homes Display Opens in Southern Illinois Cities
Crab Orchard Lake Construction Co expands Tandy Homes displays to Carbondale Vandalia Belleville and Anna areas with new homes on East Main street Carbondale also hosts a holiday house display and office near Garden's Restaurant local sales exceed 105000 monthly and payroll tops 46000 monthly Principal owner is John Talbot Boswell notes financing available for Devils Kitchen homes and cabins.
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Tandy
Crab Orchard Lake Construction Co
Ilinois
East Main Street
Carbondale
Herrin
Anna
Vandalia
Belleville
Tandy Homes
Holiday House
Ronald A. Boswell
Boswell
Crab Orchard Construction Co
Devils Kitchen
John Talbot
Dietz Named To Represent Dairy Farmers In SIU Meeting
Lawrence Dietz of De Soto will represent Southern Illinois District 11 dairy farmers on the American Dairy Association board of directors. Dietz and seven district directors were named at the annual meeting on the SIU campus Tuesday. The district covers Perry Jackson Union Alexander Pulaski Johnson Williamson True to the piece.
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Lawrence Dietz
de Soto
Southern Minois
American Dairy Association’ of
Minois
Dietz
Southern Illinois University
Ervin Eigenrach
Marion
Lawrence Hilton
Makanda
Gilbert
Bigham
Pinckneyville
Howard Pinkerton
Murphysboro
Pete Perona
Mulkeytown
P. D. Dillon
Jonesboro
William Taaker Allin
Perry
Jackson
Union
Alexander
Pulaski
Johnson
Williamson
Thanklin
Hamilton
White
Saline
Gallain
Hardin
Pepe
Massac
American Dairy Association
William Boyd
ADA
Illinois
Mayor and Wife Open Sudsy-Duddy Coin Laundry
Carbondale mayor D. Blaney Miller and his wife operate Sudsy-Duddy Coin-Operated Laundry and Dry Cleaners at University Plaza Shopping Center 606 S Illinois Ave. The Apex Material Co. set up the facility. 22 washers and seven dryers are installed with plans for six to eight dry cleaning machines. The shop is open 24 hours daily.
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Carbondale
D.1
Blaney Miller
University Plaza
S. Illinois Ave
Miller
Apex Material Co
St. Louis
Frigidaire’ Distributors
House of Millhunt
IC Conductor 54 Years Retires
G. Fred Comstock, conductor on the Illinois Central, will retire Jan 1 after 54 years of service. The 71 year old Carbondale resident will arrive on the IC from St Louis at 8:40 p.m. tonight. His sons Fred Holland Comstock of Los Angeles and Joe of Decatur will join him. He previously served as Benton yardmaster from 1928 to 1941 and worked on freight runs. He belongs to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Masons, Knights Templar and Aviad Shrine.
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G. Fred. Comstock
Ilinois Central
Comstock
W. Peean
Carbondale
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Joe
Decatur
Benton
Brotherhood of Railroad Rainmen
the Masons
Knights Templar
Aviad Shrine
Norway adopts defense budget amid parliamentary debate
Parliament today adopted a defense budget totaling 180 million dollars for 1962, a rise of 14 million from last year. The plan increases military expenditures and outlines funding priorities for national security and modernization efforts.
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Norway
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GOP Soil Bank
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Garibaldi
Paul Caldwell
Carterville
Will
Teano
Naples
Colp Methodist Church
Theresa Webber
Mary Jerome
Webber
G. F. Comstock
Bob Allen Carrier Mills
Winois
Roy Bain
Bill Brockett
Kerr St
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