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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1961
Page
14
Historic photo caption notes AP wireimage from the Rockies and Great Plains region. Photo shows landscape scene with distant mountains and flat prairie. Caption highlights regional features and weather context.
The forecast covers Crab Orchard Lake spillway and nearby lakes with a five day outlook. Temperatures will average 5 to 10 degrees below normal Saturday through Wednesday, with a slow warming trend later. Normal highs reach the upper 30s to low 40s and lows in the 20s. Snow is likely over the weekend but light, generally under a quarter inch.
H. H. Johnson 68 a Union County native died last Friday at Ball Hospital after a short illness. He lived in Muncie 24 years was a building contractor and a member of North Side Assembly of God Church. Survived by wife Hattie sons Russell Dennis Ray Carl Sherman Robert Noel Harold Goreville Lyle and daughters Grace Burlison Ruth Shock Mary Mull sisters 27 grandchildren 13 great grandchildren. Funeral 10 a.m. Tuesday Parson Mortuary with Rev Lonnie Calloway officiating. Burial Elm Ridge Cemetery.
Elmer Lindsey 71 of Rt Mulkeytown died Thursday at Miners Hospital Christopher a retired coal miner and foreman a World War I veteran and member of American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars He leaves wife Bessie sister Eva Swisher of Mulkeytown brothers Claude Christopher Glen Tamarta Dennis Washington Island Wis Clyde Mulkeytown Funeral services will be at 2 am Sunday at Gilbert Funeral Home Christopher Rev Charles Holloway will officiate burial in Greenwood Cemetery near Christopher Friends may call after 7 pm day of the funeral home
The Menard Penitentiary inmate count rose during November to 2,597, up from the same month in 1966. State official Roseh E. Ragen, director of the State Dept. of Public Safety, notes the total across five penal institutions is 8,?56, with the year over year rise.
In a brief rural ceremony the infant rites were observed in Raihoe town on Wednesday. Attendees included local families and residents as the community gathered for the somber event.
In a damaged OCR fragment a set of names appears: Mr and Mrs Boyd Griggs of West Frankfort and MysiEd Kempert of Lena with unclear relations, suggesting a family or social notice fragment amid other unreadable lines.
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