Low Water Clamps 250 Barges At Cairo Mississippi
About 250 northbound barges halt at Cairo as Cape Girardeau channel sits at eight feet. Engineers aim for 12 feet while dredging and lessening loads to pass, with river stages dipping to 5.3 feet at Cape Girardeau and weather forecasts of a brief rise.
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Mississippi River
Cairo
Army Corps of Engineers
Cape Girardeau
Robert Peedie
Peddie Bar Landing
Peddie
Uruman Dingeldein
U.S. Weather Bureau
Dingeldein
Paul Juden
Corps of Engineers
Juden
Duden
Goose Island
Cape Girarden
Mississippi
Memphis
Cape Girareau
St. Louis
Illinois River
Weather Bureau
Alton
Barringer seeks reelection as Carbondale street commissioner
Virgil E. Barringer, 53, Carbondale street commissioner, announced Saturday he will seek reelection. Barringer first won the city post in 1955 and was reelected in 1959. He ran a grocery and meat market at 808 S. Marion St from 1931 to 1951 and has lived in Carbondale since 1911. He is married to Velma Baird and they have no children. Mayor D Blaney Miller also announced he will seek reelection.
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Virgil E. Barringer
Carbondale
Barringer
Ile
S. Marion St
Velma Baird
D. Blaney Miller
Driver Is Ticketed In Severe Marion County Crash
Chamness 20 of Rt 2 Carterville was charged with reckless driving after his car left Interstate 7 traveled 1200 feet struck trees and embankment then field saplings. He suffered a head injury and was taken to Marion Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition by a Greyhound bus driver who aided him at the scene before state police arrived. State troopers filed the charge before Marion Magistrate James Johnson.
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Mearly
Chamness
Rt. 2
Carterville
Interstate Rt.7
Marion Memorial Hospital
Marion
Greyhound
James Johnson
Murphysboro eyes coal museum in old post office
City Council discussed converting Murphysboro’s surplus post office into a coal industry museum with state and private funding. Mayor Joe Williams said Gov. Kerner likes the idea but questions funding. Plans include a lobby exhibit and a basement mine replica. district 18 filed for the building.
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Murphysboro
Joe Williams
Otto Kerner
Williams
Illinois
Murphysboro Unit
N. 11Th Street
Planning Commission
Clarence Paliscl
Tom Busch
Police and Fire Commission Board
Busch
Small river dam plans push growth in Southern Illinois
Four areas in Southern Illinois move toward dam and stream- improvement projects under the Small Watershed Act of 1954. A Union Johnson Massac Pope and Pulaski County committee met in Vienna to study flood control drainage and recreation potential. Local landowners may donate right of way and transfer shoreline rights as surveys determine feasibility and the district forms.
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Ilinois
Paulsgrove
Ing
Reck
Vienna City
Dongola
Pauls
Soil Conservation Service
Union
Johnson, Massac
Pope
Pulaski
Farm Bureau
Vie
Little Cache
Cache River
Vienna
Lake U. S. Soil Conservation
Annaly Daulearnunesis
Navigation Aid Planned for Southern Illinois Airports
Rep Kenneth J Gray says FAA officials plan to install a new air navigation facility to serve the Southern Illinois area. No firm date. Gray requests installation in 1963. The beacon emits a signal guiding aircraft and could be located between Southern Illinois Airport and Williamson County Airport for use by both.
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Ilinois
Kenneth J. Gray
West
Frankfort
Gray
Federal Aviation Agency
Mines Working Monday Report
Mines listed as active on Monday include Old Ben shifted 9 and 21 units, Orient with numbers 3 5 4, Zeigler showing 3 and 4 units. The bulletin outlines output totals by mine and confirms continued operation.
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Orient
Zeigler
Murphysboro OKs $250000 Storm Drain Plan for 1963
Murphysboro lawmakers unanimously approved a $250000 storm sewer project to ease flooding in southwest residential areas in 1963 contingent on a federal grant under the public works Acceleration Act. The project totals about $250000 with a 50 percent grant and city funding from motor fuel, sales tax, and township funds. The sewer starts on Spruce Street and ends at the Big Muddy River, with laterals from Commercial Avenue and a main line sizing from 18 inches to 84 inches at the river.
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Murphysboro
John Blankinship
Blankinship
Murphysboro Township
Lake Street
Downtown Apple Festival Site Approved for 1963 Dates
City council approves 1963 Apple Festival layout on courthouse square with rides and concessions Sept 12 13 14. Life safety lane to stay cleared and police to curb irregular parking on nearby Chestnut and 11th streets during festival as aldermen vote 7 to 1 with McCormack dissent.
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Robert McCormack
Preston Jones
Ralph Norman
Tom Stevenson
Chestnut Street
12Th
11Th Street
Chestnut
Mulberry
Joe Williams
Sheriff Miller to launch delinquent tax collection drive
Williamson County Sheriff Carl Miller announced an immediate drive to collect delinquent personal property taxes. The initial targets include public officials paid from taxes and school personnel, with about $750,000 overdue over four years. Miller noted letters from school boards and farm groups urging action and said the effort will begin once he settles into the sheriff’s quarters, after renovations and moving in.
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Williamson County
Carl Miller
Miller
Farm Bureau
Marion
Sonnel
Dean West
Herrin
Inconclusive Report Could Free Suspect in Slaying
Police hold one 36 year old man in the Carbondale slaying of 76 year old Elsie White. A state crime lab said fingerprints did not match. Footprints in snow and a shoe size nine and a half link the suspect. The state Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation will release a full report soon. an inquest will follow.
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Elsie Louise White
Carbondale
James Wallace
Plan Group Meeting Set
Herrin Plan Commission will meet at 7 30 p m Monday in the city library to discuss the central business district streets and thoroughfares and community facilities including recreation and public buildings. Gerwin K Rohrbach will discuss past trends in floor space use and the condition of commercial buildings and parking and traffic issues related to streets.
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Herrin Plan Commission
Gerwin K. Rohrbach
Rohrbach
Fire Damages Staircase at Carbondale Home
Fire damaged the staircase of a five room house at 398 E Jacks on St Carbondale about 8 a m Friday. Owner Mrs Emmelyne Reid reported smoke from the stairs and contacted the fire department. Fire Chief Almont Crawshaw said faulty wiring under the stairs started the blaze. No damage estimate was turned in.
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E. Jackson St
Carbondale
Emmelyne Reid
Almont Crawshaw
House Fire Damages Johnstown Residence on Chestnut Street
A blaze at 1413 Chestnut St in Johnstown City caused an estimated $100 damage to the Raymond Colp residence. The fire occurred at 11:25 a.m on Thursday. Fire crews responded quickly to contain the flames.
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Raymond Colp
Chestnut St
Johnston City
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Normal
Joring
Gary Martyn
Rantoul
Glenda Burgard
Dixon
Bill Nowers
Steeleville
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Tren
Ton
Pat Withers
Marketing
Brenda Cousey
Granite City
Coal Museum
Council
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