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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1956
Page
12
A-2c Jerry L Clutts son of Mr and Mrs Cleattus Clutts of Grand Tower has completed 13 months of service abroad including 10 months in Korea and was to leave Korea June 5. He recently received an airman of the month award for April 1 to May 31 and formerly served with a radio squadron in Korea. He will report to a new station in Omaha Nebraska after returning to the United States.
A Williamson County court reform effort draws state and national notice. Judge Touhy chairs a docket-setting plan adopted after Franklin's Illinois Bar Journal article. The plan speeds trial scheduling, with lawyers, clerks, and judges coordinating cases four to six per jury day and daily chancery dispositions.
Southern Illinois University faculty plan assessment activity fees to fund a $4.8 million student union. The plan, drafted by a faculty committee led by John Lonergan, will be presented to SIU President D. W. Morris within a week and voted on by a faculty referendum next fall. Details on amounts were not disclosed. The committee rejected using the secretary of the faculty office as a center due to space limits, proposing a designated area inside the union instead. The 1,000-person faculty and staff group would have access, while students could use the area too. A May referendum previously approved a $4 activity fee hike for union construction, planned in three stages with the first due by summer 1959.
Southern Illinois University's Southern Players join actors from three schools for the second annual summer play series at Shepherd of the Hills Theater Branson Missouri beginning July 4. The 16 member company will present Shepherd of the Hills and five other plays with Elizabeth Clark from Hollister Missouri Lorene Svance from Fayette Missouri a MacMurray College student Bob Koegle a Bradley University student Joseph and Betty Jean Thornton Du Quoin Township High School teachers and Georgia Winn SIU English faculty among the cast.
A Texaco station at 7th and Walnut in Murphysboro opened Saturday. Operators Bill Maes and Paul Bock, both of Murphysboro, run the station owned by Virgil W. Bowman. A grand opening is planned for later in June.
John Huss son of Mr and Mrs H X Huss of Sparta graduated from Rice Institute Houston Texas last week He also completed Sparta High School and attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale for three years He earned a bachelor of science and a bachelor of science in engineering He has accepted a job in St Louis
Firemen responded to Dr. C. C. Gillespie's dental office at 12 40 p m Monday. A blaze damaged a table and wall, apparently started by a gas burner left on during lunch. Damage was reported slight.
Caesar Bazzetta of 116 N 7th St Herrin died today. Johnson Funeral Home Herrin is in charge of arrangements which are incomplete.
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