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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1981
Page
17
Obituaries detail Mary M. Davison 88 of Du Quoin and Elsie Hudgens 83 of Johnston City with service plans at Sacred Heart and Murman and Wilson Funeral Homes. Bernice Morris 77 of New Burnside, John Sims Jr. 57 of Elco, and others noted with birth dates, family survivors, church affiliations, and burial plans across Williamson and Union counties.
Edward Kolenda 64 of Beloit wis former Simpson resident died Sunday July 12 1981 at Beloit Memorial Hospital He was a retired Oak Lawn city bus driver and owner of Kolenda Food Store in Lombard He born March 12 1917 in Chicago married Margaret Shelton June 17 1939 Survived by wife two sons Dr John Kolenda Beloit and Robert Encino Calif two daughters Marianne Brizendine Huntington Beach Calif and Margaret Helen Topel Lombard two sisters Helen Manczarek Wofford Heights Calif and Anna Czuprinski San Francisco Calif and six grandchildren Funeral services 10 am Wednesday at Gilead Cumberland Presbyterian Church Burial Gilead Cemetery Memorials to Gilead Cemetery Aly Funeral Home Vienna in charge of arrangements.
Gertrude L Askew 72 of Brookport died July 11 1981 at home a homemaker and Bethel AME Church member born February 17 1909 in Survivors include granddaughter Linda Lee of Milwaukee WI Funeral services set for 11 am Friday at Bethel AME Brookport burial Bethel Cemetery Jackson Funeral Home Metropolis. Florence E Taticek 75 of Milwaukee died July 12 1981 born August 9 1905 in Milwaukee survivors include sons Frank Spokane WA Edward Murphysboro and daughters Eleanor Frohn Rosie Gilbert. Florence Dorsey Burgess 3 of Kirkwood MO formerly Nashville died July 12 1981 born August 26 1886 to Joseph W and Estinault Mansfield Burgess funeral set 10 am Wednesday Bopp Chapel Kirkwood graveside 12 noon Greenwood Nashville. Pyatt Funeral Home Nashville in charge of local arrangements.
Grace Pate, 79, of Park Forest and formerly Murphysboro, died July 14 1981 in Park Forest with arrangements pending at En Mortuary in Murphysboro. F Stevens, 90, of Marion died July 14 1981 at Marion Memorial Hospital with funeral arrangements at Wilson Funeral Home in Marion. Camille Roe, 51, of Route 2 West Frankfort died July 14 1981 at the American Beauty Nursing Home West Frankfort with complete arrangements at Union Funeral Home in West Frankfort.
Elkville moves toward building a regional sewage plant for Elkville and Dowell after finalizing land acquisitions from Consolidation Coal Co. and lining up a $250 000 FmHA loan. EPA approval backs revised plans. Dowell shares a $500 000 loan for a fiber collection system feeding the plant. Police will crack down on underage trail bike riders without licenses or safety gear.
Four youths from Murphysboro and Carbondale were arrested in a 2 a.m. fight outside a 7-Eleven on East Grand Avenue. Donald White Barry Threlkeld and a 16-year-old were charged with disorderly conduct with varying additional counts. David Paul faced reckless driving. Paul was released on bail with a July 27 court date.
Two Carterville residents, Jean Arp and Sue K Powell, remained hospitalized after a head-on collision south of Vergennes. Powell, 28, was in serious but stable condition in the ICU at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, while Arp, in her mid-50s, was stable. The other driver, James Cox, 23, of Carterville, had minor injuries and was ticketed for improper lane usage.
Community schedule lists ongoing sessions across several towns. In Carbondale the second session runs 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Emma C. Hayes Center with Loxely Edmonson leading on Black Political Protest and Struggle. Admission is free and refreshments are provided.
A Monday correction notes Carbondale's Nursing Home has enough bed space to house 240 residents.
AP dispatch notes hogs 3,500 head with price gains for barrows and gilts across weights, sow and boar ranges also higher. Cattle and calves 1,000 head, trade slow with multiple price declines across slaughter steers heifers cows and bulls. Holsteins and feeders show mixed quotes. sheep markets inactive.
Tamaroa Grade School District 5 hires two teachers as a third resigns. Robert Pierson of Flora will teach seventh grade and coach. Ceola Lee of Tamaroa becomes district reading program teacher replacing Monica Owens of Carbondale. Board plans to apply for funding independently after withdrawing from Title I Cooperative. Lighting renovation bids sought. Special meeting set for July 23 at 7 p.m. to discuss teacher negotiations.
The Carbondale FOX theater hosts a patchwork program featuring Superman SALUKI 1, The Cannonball Run, Stripes, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and S.O.B. VARSITY. Community film night highlights playful double features and vintage cinema.
Local listing shows multiple theaters in Illinois screening a mix of action comedies dramas and classics. Notable titles include History of the World Part I Cheech and Chongs Nice Dreams The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia Superman II The Can nonball Run Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Fox and the Hound among others at venues in Murphysboro Benton Harrisburg Eldorado Marion Carbondale Coulterville and Sparta with venues like New Liberty Cinema Cine 1 Cine 2 Cine 3 Cine 4 and Starlite Star Drive-ins.
The Southern Illinoisan invites free submissions of public meetings and entertainments. Send details to Calendar, 710 N Illinois Ave, Carbondale, IL 62901 a week in advance, including date time place description and any admission charge.
Palestinian Activities Week at Southern Illinois University Carbondale features Fawz Turki as the speaker over two days. A noon Thursday cultural exhibit presents native arts and dresses, followed by a 7:30 p.m. lecture on the Meaning of the Palestinian struggle. Friday offers a 5 p.m. poetry reading and discussion. The events are organized by the Committee for Justice in Palestine and the Palestine Student Association.
The Jackson County Historical Society will meet at Olga's Gallery in Murphysboro at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Guest speaker Michael Marlake of SIU Carbondale will describe working with neglected sources of genealogy and local history. The depository resources are open to the public.
The Covenant Christian School in Carbondale will hold registration and pre enrollment for grades K through Showers are forecast for Wednesday across several states. Temperatures will be hot nationwide with Southern Illinois reaching 99 degrees Monday. The 9 am temperature was 88 degrees and sunset today is 8 19 pm.
Pinckneyville School District 50 board grants a 9.5 percent raise to non certified employees for the coming year. The meeting also hires four new staff: Marsha Wagner speech therapist Pinckneyville Shirley Robertson junior high music director Bondale Michael Spradling sixth grade Reduct and Gina Brown Elkville teacher’s aide in the reading program. The board sets 7:30 p.m. August 10 for the next meeting.
John Rose reports theft from his parked car in an alley behind 700 W Division St with items valued at 300 including 14 8 track tapes 20 cassette tapes two wrist watches 24 beers and a plastic cooler. Betty Jobe and Mabel Cowan report lawnmowers stolen from their homes next door with mower values over 150 each.
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