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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1968
Page
22
High temperature Wednesday 91, low 65, overnight 57. 10 am today 70. No precipitation since 7 am Wednesday. Sunset today 8 30. Sunrise Friday 5 30, sunset Friday 8 30. Crab Orchard Lake 4 inches above spillway. Little Grassy Lake at spillway. Devil's Kitchen Lake and Lake of Egypt 1 inch above spillway.
Scattered showers and thundershowers are forecast tonight for states from the northern Rockies to the Great Lakes. Thundershowers likely along coastal central and eastern Gulf areas with generally fair weather elsewhere. AP Wirephoto.
A Jackson County inquest ruled the May 17 Murphysboro hotel fire accidental. The victims were Mrs. Bess Modglin Beal, 67, and Mrs. Imogene Baseden Duffield, 38. Fire chief Chester Steele testified two women were found during the blaze and eight residents escaped.
A two car collision in the 100 block of West Herrin Street at 7 50 p m left five people with minor injuries. Alfred T Mezo and Raymond C Apple were the drivers. Also injured were Doris Apple Richard Apple and Stefanie Apple. Emergency treatment was given at Herrin Hospital Mezo was ticketed.
Arley W. Avery 51 of 1401 E St Louis St West Frankfort died on arrival at Union Hospital at 1045 pm Wednesday after a period of illness. A WWII veteran, he was a foreman at Old Ben 24 near Benton and a Calvary Baptist Church member. He leaves Betty his wife mother and siblings plus a daughter and stepson among others. Funeral 2 pm Saturday at Stone Funeral Home with burial pending.
Joshua Stoddard created the calliope to replace church bells but it entered popular culture through the circus. P T Barnum purchased an early instrument and spent ten thousand dollars to mount it on a vibrant red and gold wagon pulled by eight matched horses.
National Geographic notes begonia seeds can sell for up to $3,500 per ounce, about 100 times the price of a troy ounce of gold. It takes more than a million tiny seeds to make one ounce.
Biologist Edward Ferguson Jr., a visiting SIU professor-to-be, died at his Jefferson City Missouri residence after a coronary. At 61, he led Lincoln University Missouri biology and wrote widely in invertebrate zoology. He was slated to teach SIU summer zoology courses in entomology and freshwater invertebrates.
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