Colp Men Are Quizzed TM About Robbery
Two Colp men, Eddie Williams and Earl Clark Jr., failed lie detector tests after arrest in Colp for a Carterville service station robbery. They were questioned by State Investigator William Abernathie in Murphysboro and charged later claimed. Arthur Williams, 89, was robbed of 190 dollars cash and 150 dollars in checks while leaving his Colp station with wife and granddaughter. Police search not successful.
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Colp
Williamson County
Eddie Williams
Earl Clark Jr
William Abernathie
Murphysboro
Arthur Williams
Rt 1
Carterville
Cac
Opal
Pamela
Williams
Sneed
15 CARS DERAILED Illinois Terminal Train Wrecks v Tazewell County
Auto death rate lower while traffic tolls rise. In 11 months, 34,540 lives lost nationwide, despite a 2 percent travel increase. The mileage death rate reached 8.9 per 100 million miles, the lowest on record since record-keeping began. November toll dropped 2 percent to 3,420, the safest November since 1994.
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Illinois Terminal
Tazewell County
Chicago
National Safety Council
Hopedale
Ill
Illinois
Minier
Taze
William Ridgeway
Carlj
Dorris
Wynn
Southern Illinois
Howard Pyle
Council
Peoria
St. Louis
Iinois
Springfield
Mississippi trucker inquest links dozing to fatal Rt 3 wreck
Jackson County Coroner jury finds Edward Wynn likely dozed before the December 3 crash near Grand Tower that killed one and injured a passenger. Wynn faces reckless homicide charges after the truck overturned striking a car in snowy conditions on Rt 3. Witnesses testified Wynn, 32, of Starkville, was driving from East St. Louis with hogs when the wreck occurred.
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Mississippi
Murphysboro
Jackson County
Grand Tower
Edward Wynn
Starkville
Miss
Kenneth Griffin
Cupo
White Rose
Rt 3
Griffin
Margaret Judy
Kenneth Ray
Wynn
East St. Louis
Johnnie Dorris
Bill Qualls
Fount Baltzell
Hase+meyer
Baltzell
F/B. Hopkins
Cafe Tavern
Paul Novack
Crawshaw
James Wilson
Jackson
Floyd Crawshaw
Berdel Hasemeyer
Dorris
Hasemeyer
Doris
Carbondale Christmas Tree to Be Removed After Wind Damage
Carbondale officials say the 25 foot community Christmas tree fell during stormy weather on December 20 due to a broken guy wire and wind. The tree, erected by the Chamber of Commerce decoration committee with 10 workers, will be removed December 24 after an inspection found the wire failed under wind pressure.
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Carbordale
Walker
Ilinois
Carbondale Chamber of Commerce
Glenn Walker
Vane Up
Two Indicted After Airline Bomb Prank
A federal grand jury indicted Alfred F. Schwinsberg and Thaddeus F. Tomaszklewitz on charges of making a false bomb report involving an airline. Schwinsberg, seized at O’Hare with a box reading Time bomb Set to go off at 2 59 pm, says a coworker prankster wrote it. both men worked for a Chicago firm and were later arrested. Each faces up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
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Chicago
Alfred F. Schwinsberg WI
Thaddeus F. Tomaszklewitz
Schwinsberg
O'Hare International
Minneapolis
Tomaszkiewits
Train Jumps Tracks En Route to Rose Bowl
A Northern Pacific passenger train carrying about 500 football fans bound for the Rose Bowl derailled near Puyallup Washington spilling the engine and nine cars. Two passengers and three railroad workers were hospitalized. thirteen others treated and released. the rest continued to Pasadena on a special train. A separate truck crash in Cucamonga injured no one.
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Rose Bowl Puyallup
Wash
Northern Pacific
Pasadena
Calif
Washington
Seattte
Minnesota
Rose Bow
Cucamonga
Three Williamson County offices post midyear profits
Williamson County reports show three offices ending the half year with profits. County clerk Charles E. Harris tallied receipts of 43,480 and expenditures 16,876, leaving 73,040 on hand as of May 11, with detailed fee and tax records. Burt Turner and Adolph Fluck, retired from circuit clerk and coroner posts, report balances and itemized receipts and disbursements for their departments.
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Williamson
Charles, E. Harris
Harris
Burt Turner
Chancery
Adolph Fluck
Correction corrects survivor in Fozard obituary
A Carterville man 67 who died Thursday is William Fozard. The obituary misnamed a survivor and now lists his daughter Mrs Lloyd Noakes of Carterville. He was married to the former Nola McMillan.
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William Fozard
Carterville
Fozard
Lloyd Noakes
Nola McMillan
Nannie Parks Dies In Marion County Historian and Librarian
Mrs. Nannie Parks, 80, of Marion, longtime Williamson County historian and former Marion Carnegie Library librarian, died at 11 10 a.m. Thursday in Marion Memorial Hospital. She retired in 1958 after 37 years as librarian and served on the library board six years. Parks compiled county family histories, mapped courthouse records in 1937, and acted as archivist for the Williamson County Historical Society. Born May 24, 1880, she was married to Roscoe A. Parks and leaves husband Milo and grandsons Jerry Wesley and Tommy Joe Parks. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Wilson Funeral Home with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. Preceding arrangements indicate visitation after 5 p.m. today.
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Nannie Parks
Marion
Williamson County
Marion Memorial Hospital
Marion Carnegie Library
Library Board of Directors
Jas
Parks
E. College St
Williamson County Historical Society
Barbara Burr Hubbs
Paul Angle
Williamson
County
Henry and
Mary Goodall Gray
West Virginia
Tennessee
Weaver to Head U S Housing Agency in Kennedy Era
Dr Robert C Weaver reportedly will become administrator of the U S Housing and Home Finance Agency, the subcabinet post in the Kennedy administration, signaling a historic federal appointment for a Black leader.
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Housing Post
New York
Robert C. Weaver
Hulan Jack
Manhattan
New York Post
Weaver
U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency
Kennedy
Southern Illiroisan
Southern
Kinola Publications
West Main Street
Carbondale
Norio Sth
Berring
Murphystoro
Seeond
Herrit. W
Murphyabaro
Tiiala
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphyscore Independent
Associated Press
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