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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1977
Page
5
Community events fill weekend with library summer programs at Holiday Inn Marion from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 12 to 6 p.m. Sunday, plus a marathon of film showings across Carbondale and nearby towns at multiple venues including CINEMA 1 Harrisburg and UNIV 4 Carbondale.
Public meetings are listed for Benton Buckner Cambria Carterville Christopher Colp Freeman Herrin Royalton Sesser Valier West Frankfort Zeigler Chester Carbondale Marion Du Quoin Pinckneyville Steeleville Willisville. Sessions cover city councils village boards commissions and advisory bodies with times from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday in various venues.
Names of patients admitted and discharged across Harrisburg Marion Williamson and surrounding towns. Entries mention numerous individuals with multiple towns and hospitals including Murphysboro Sparta Carbondale Benton Carterville and West Frankfort, plus newborns at St Joseph and Baldwin.
The National Weather Service projects rain or showers across the Great Lakes region Pacific Northwest Southwest and Florida. In Southern Illinois Saturday high reached 91 degrees and the Friday to Saturday low was 55 with no rainfall. Sunset is 7 15 p.m. today sunrise Monday 4 22 a.m. and Monday sunset 7 16 p.m.
St Peters resident Nelson R Ridenhour was driving a gasoline truck on Interstate 57 near Bonnie when a right front tire blewout. The truck overturned and caught fire at 6 45 p m Friday sending him to Good Samaritan Hospital Mt Vernon in serious condition. State police reported the accident occurred in the southbound lane.
A grease fire in the kitchen at 12:05 a.m. awakened Frau Caroleyn Valco and her children in Herrin. The blaze damaged the stove and wall but caused no injuries. A smoke detector installed about a month earlier helped alert the sleeping family.
Benton firemen were called out Friday to Grant Grade School at 1007 N McLeansboro to extinguish a classroom ceiling fire likely caused by a cutting torch. The school is under remodeling and no students were present. A second call, about 1:45 p.m., sent crews to a garage fire at 525 Lawrence St, Joe McCartey’s home, where the garage interior was gutted.
An AP photo caption on the Friday front page did not state the reason for a Berkeley demonstration. Students protested the University of California’s investments in apartheid South Africa as part of a broader campus action. The obituary mislisted surviving brothers of Howard Needham as Tom of Murphysboro Elbert of California and Bill of Valmeyer. Mr Needham died Monday May 30 1977 at Styrest Nursing Home in
An eligibility examination for Murphysboro fire or police positions is set before the Fire and Police Commission on June 9 at 1 30 p.m. in City Hall council room. Applications to the city clerk by 4 p.m. Monday. age 21 to 35. applicants must meet general health requirements.
Registration for children's summer programs at the Carbondale Public Library runs June 6 to June 11 at 304 W Walnut St. Chil dren ages three to sixth grade are invited to join. Programs start June 13 and run through August 2 with story hours and an independent reading club. Library hours are Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dr Mike Altekruse of Southern Illinois University Carbondale will lead a five day Human Potential Leadership Workshop from June 6 to June 10 on the Kaskaskia College Campus Centrali a cosponsored by the Illinois Guidance Personnel Association Registration is on the first class day at 8 am in Room T 35 For more information contact Dorothy Pedtke or Dr Mike Altekruse.
A Juvenile Diabetes workshop will be held Friday June 10 at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Touch of Nature Environmental Center with a 5 per family registration. Activities start at 9 a.m. with bring your own lunch and swimming for children. attendees should bring bathing suits. Advance registration by mail requires 5, parent and juvenile details, and two questions for the workshop. mail to Maryann Hudson RN SIU Division of Continuing Education Washington Square C Carbondale Ill 62901. Families may also register by phone at 536 7751 or at the workshop. For more information call the Division of Continuing Education.
This two year old male tiger named Morris’s friend is described as friendly with children and housebroken. He is up to date on shots and awaiting adoption at the Southern Illinois Humane Society near Carbondale. Adoption costs are ten dollars for cats and fifteen dollars for dogs.
Deaths reported in West Frankfort and surrounding towns include P Stacey 73 of 811 St Louis St, Julia Rogers 73 of Chicago, Frances Zipfel 55 of Evansville and St Petersburg, James Bowyer 26, Mary Helms 69, Ruby McDonald 78, Russell Aldrich 75, Carroll Craig 55, Covey Bailey 84, Lucille Williams 88, Stella Foster 91, Iona Appleton 70, Joseph Spencer 51 of Vienna, Pearl Wafford 86 of Pinckneyville. Funeral arrangements vary with each case and are listed with local funeral homes.
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