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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1961
Page
2
Carbondale Park District approves a $4,175 summer recreation payroll including $1,800 for swimming staff across five instructors and one extra post. The plan covers youth, crafts, sewing, and maintenance with a June 12 start and August 4 end. Thirty four students signed up for the junior life saving course.
UF Training School workers will attend a training school before the October opening of the annual fund drive. UF president William Bracy will lead the session with Robert Brewer, former drive chairman, guiding the program. The plan was announced at a meeting of past UF presidents and drive chairmen.
A public meeting Saturday morning at the fire house will discuss organizing a volunteer fire department in Grend Tower. Alderman W E Campbell notes Carbondale Assistant Fire Chief Don Crabtree will join officials and citizens at 9 am to craft a fire fighting plan and address training delays. The city owns a surplus truck and a fire station, but calls are handled by whoever is available, Campbell says. The Lions Club obtained the surplus truck from Illinois State Hospital at Anna about five years ago, and water service and pressure are adequate. The city pays department bills but has no regular appropriation. Mayor Boo Masters says funding will be sought if a viable volunteer unit forms.
The national president of the National Farmers Organization will speak at 8 p.m. Saturday at the American Legion home in Anna. Oren Lee Staley of Rea Missouri will discuss NFC growth in Southern Minors and chartering units in Jackson Union Alexander Pulaski and Franklin Counties. Businessmen and farmers are invited. the group aims to secure fair market prices and recently sponsored a hold order at the National Stockyards in East St Louis.
Dr. Ransom Varley age 43 of Benton died at the Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota after months of illness. A Franklin County resident eight years he served as surgeon at Union Hospital West Frankfort and belonged to the American Medical Association abdominal surgeons and the American College of Surgeons. He leaves wife Alice and children Martha Susan Alice Ran som. brothers Edgar and John. sister Mrs Myra Butler. Services tentatively set for Mitchell Funeral Home Benton at 4 pm Friday with burial in New Haven Connecticut. No funeral towers.
Southern Illinois University sophomore Jon C. Benrud, 19, was fined 130.20 including costs and placed on three months probation for driving while intoxicated. Judge Peyton Kunce set the terms after Benrud was picked up by state police in Carbondale. Benrud faces school suspension with potential reentry in the fall quarter as prosecutors consider charges against an unnamed tavern operator.
H Mason Parker of Centralli nois Public Service Co. is named to the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce board to fill an expired term, succeeding Glenn Walker who resigned. Parker also becomes chairman of the Christmas decorations committee and will help organize a city wide program with civic groups.
Harvey Creal aged 4 died at 2 15 pm Tuesday in Franklin County Hospital. A retired railroad worker, he was descendant of Creal Springs founders and moved to Benton eight years ago. Survived by wife Louette Gasaway Creal, children Floyd and James, and brother J E Creal Savoy. Funeral 2 pm Friday at Cosby Funeral Home Creal Springs with friends invited at the funeral home.
A West Frankfort youth, Richard Lee Bost, aged year T, was found safe and unharmed at City Park around 1 30 p.m. after a citywide search by about 75 Scouts, police, and Civil Defense. He had been missing since Tuesday night due to a diabetes condition and insulin concerns. his father died in April.
Harold Messer of Elkville and Charles Crabb of Dowell received two years probation and $500 fines after pleading guilty to grand larceny. Judge C. E. Wright ordered them to repay $860 for copper wire stolen from Truax-Tracr Coal Co. mine near Elkville in March.
In Anata at Carbondale Bellwood and Carbondale townships, individuals were fined 15 dollars including costs by Justices of the Peace Rey Hall and Boy Hall on tickets issued by State Troopers Charles Brantley Berdel Hasemeyer for passing in a no passing zone and a stop sign violation. Carbondale resident Charles H. Ellis of 401 Eason Drive was fined 15 dollars for the stop sign offense.
Carbondale will start its summer street program pending good weather. Franklin Asphalt Co. of Benton holds a $25,185.27 contract for the non arterial project. First work set for southwest areas including Chautauqua, Taylor Drive, Valley Road and Johnson. Street closures expected during oil and chip application.
Paul Roberts of 809 Lynn Street, Champaign, was fined 2151 including costs by Justice of the Peace Boy Hall after a ticket issued by State Trooper Stephen Endicott for improper passing.
Truax-Tracr Coal Co, led by vice president H M Tibbs, restarts at the Burning Star 1 slope near Elkville on a limited basis. Of 154 workers, 68 are recalled as two of five sections operate. expansion depends on market demand with no further openings planned. The mine first opened January 3 and machinery remained on site after a March closure.
An advertisement touts T4L for athlete's foot and skin healing. It promises relief from itching swelling and perspiration in joints. The text notes availability at Karr's in Serrin Hayter Murphyatore Hewe Carbondale with a casual sales pitch.
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