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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1959
Page
3
Police report additional loot recovered from a large break in tied to Carl E. Grammer of Mahomet. The latest finds include guns and telescope sights totaling new recovered values in Jackson County as authorities chase further loot tied to the June 3 Farmers City Doctor home burglary.
Herrin Library Board will elect officers on July 6. President Anthony Venegoni and secretary Mrs. Arthur Lenzini head a slate including Mrs. Guy Strickland A. T. Brown John Hutchison Lan Haney Mrs. Jo M. Walker Mrs. Snyder Herrin and Mrs. George Crichton. Librarian Maude Owen has a $5 000 appropriation to order new books starting Tuesday night focusing on children and reference works.
Alva Underwood, 58, Mt. Carbon, held in Jackson County jail to face possible revocation of probation. He was arrested at 2 15 p m Wednesday by Murphysboro patrolmen for being under the influence of liquor on city streets. Underwood is on one year probation for a vagrancy conviction dated Oct 23 1958 in Jackson County Court. He was fined 25 dollars and costs for fighting and ee age by Police Magistrate Char Helwig Sr early in the week.
Henry Holmes 58 of Marion pleads not guilty to manslaughter in the death of George Brown 54. Judge Reynolds grants continuance to September term. Brown died Jan 3 at Herschel Gibbs home in Marion. Gibbs signed a statement alleging Holmes beat Brown and tried to throw the body down a well.
Irvin Albert Jones a 49 year old Carbondale man was found shot near his home five miles south of Carbondale on Rt 51 at 3 15 pm Wednesday His body lay beside a bolt action 20 gauge shotgun five shells fired and shot through the mouth Coroner reports an inquest set for 8 pm Tuesday at Carbondale city hall Jones had left for work early Wednesday and his family found the vehicle in the garage He was a carpenter employed at the Murdale Shopping Center project and a member of the Carpenters Union and Woodmen o World He leaves a wife three sons a daughter brothers and a sister Funeral services are set for 2 pm Saturday at Van Natta Funeral Home with burial at Oakwood Cemetery Carterville.
Express Offices to be closed in Du Quoin and Pinckneyville as Express agency begins truck pickup and delivery from Carbondale to Elkville and De Soto with free phone service. Longtime agents replaced. consolidation aims to save costs and improve service for four towns. Truck routes schedule and return times detailed, authorized under ICC order for regional service within 75 miles.
Elkville resident Elza Beans a 33 year old man is jailed on an assault with a deadly weapon charge after allegedly striking his brother in law Emery Messer 39 with a shotgun butt at Beans home. Messer was hospitalized in poor condition at Marshall Browning in Du Quoin. A closer investigation may bring additional charges. Beans surrendered at the Jackson County jail after authorities could not locate him the previous night.
Mines operating Friday at Burning Star No 1 Truax Tract No 2 Old Ben 9 Old Ben 22 Washer Orient 2 Orient 3 Freeman 4 Zeigler 3 Buckhorn Not Working Old Ben 14 Old Ben 22 Old Ben Briquet Plant Fidelity.
Delegates from Williamson Franklin and Jackson counties will meet in Murphysboro on Sunday for the first planning session of the Tri County Labor Day Celebration. Murphysboro hosts the 1959 event on Sept 7 with a 2 p.m. meeting at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post. Lt Ralph Norman is general chairman and notes ongoing summer meetings will shape the parade and Riverside Park program.
Carbondale Chamber of Commerce seeks lodging help for a three day firemen convention in October. About 600 firemen from across the state expected. only 88 rooms appear available in Carbondale. Additional housing may be found in nearby cities. organizers seek options.
Two Jackson County high school graduates earned four year scholarships to the University of Illinois. Sheriff Lee Wohlwend of Elkville and Richard H. Rohlfing of Gorham were named winners from the county. Wohlwend won the general scholarship and Rohlfing the child of a World War II veteran award.
Carbondale resident Earl Twerver was fined $19 including costs by Police Magistrate Robert Schwartz after a ticket issued by Sgt. Wayne Booker for intoxication.
Gerard A. Lyons 30 of Decatur sustained critical injuries after his car ran off Rt. 13 west of the Herrin Wye smashing into a tree. He was alone, driving toward Carbondale, and was pulled from the wreck by two truck drivers. Lyons, a Quaker State refinery sales rep, is hospitalized with possible fractured skull and head neck leg cuts.
Rep. Kenneth J. Gray of West Frankfort expects to testify in Washington today on a two million dollar appropriation for a federal maximum security institution in Southern Illinois. He will appear before the Senate subcommittee on appropriations and anticipates action June 19 with passage to the Senate floor by month end.
Television comic Joey Bishop will headline the 1959 Murphysboro Apple Festival entertainment program. Singer Kathy Linden joins, with Bishop and Linden set for the grand parade queen final, judging, and coronation on Saturday. Festival runs September 17 to 19. Murphysboro Chamber of Commerce backs the Mur-Maids dance group. Theme is Fantasy in Music with float prizes.
Five activities kick off the Carbondale Park District summer recreation program on Monday. Children in Lincoln playground start with a daycamp, bus at 9 30 a m, bring permission slip and a sack lunch. Winkler area swim classes at Crab Orchard Lake begin 12 45 p m with permission slip and 10 cent beach fee for eight year olds. Oakland pool classes start 3 p m with four instructors and a lifeguard. Oakland field sports include baseball morning instruction, tennis and basketball in the afternoon with no fee. Arts and crafts begin 9 a m at the Community Center in multiple crafts. Beginning sewing runs 8 30 10 and 10 30 to noon for advanced. Attucks playground activities start 9 a m and run through August 17.
Houghton Robinson of Murphysboro was jailed in Jackson County on a vagrancy charge after arrest by Murphysboro City Police at 11 35 a m Thursday.
Two Lincoln Junior High graduates Curtis Stotlar and Frances Morton won first prizes in the junior division of the Southern Illinois Association of English Teachers contest. Their work was entered by Lincoln English instructor Alma D. Hall. the event drew 50 to 60 entries from 15 area schools.
Carbondale Chamber of Commerce backed a regional effort to place a school for mentally retarded men tally inhibited youth within about 10 miles of Southern Illinois University. five cities Carterville Herrin Marion Carbondale and Murphysboro would be affected. the group tasked President Carl Birkholz to meet with Lions clubs and city chambers to pick a site based on welfare inspectors report.
A General Telephone Co. rate case hearing in Springfield was continued to 10 a m July 7 to allow filing of the Illinois Commerce Commission report. Five witnesses appeared, with three requesting phones and two complaining about service. Earlier hearings focused on a $3.6 million rate increase.
Mayor Fred Henderson announced a new garbage collector appointed Monday night faces issues as residents fail to separate garbage from tin cans into two barrels. Burned trash must be kept apart and is not collected. Penalties for poor housekeeping will be enforced and collectors may leave refuse stored improperly. Harold Atterbury is the garbage collector and his bilan George is the can collector.
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