Crab Orchard lake plan spurs recreation survey
A National Park Service survey will map a long range plan for Crab Orchard area recreation. An aerial tour by Senator Paul Douglas and SIU President Morris precedes the effort. Warne outlined hotel limits and three project zones, stressing recreation priority and careful site selection to protect the refuge and natural features.
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Crab Orchard Lake
National Park Service
Crab Orchard
Little Grassy
Devil’s Kitchen Lake
U. S
Paul Douglas
D. W. Morris
Southern Illinois University
William E. Warne
National Park and
Fish and Wildlife Services
Veterans Haven
Cambria Wye
Warne
Illinois
Fish and Wildlife Service
Devil's Kitchen Lake
Interior Department
Citiens
News Volume Sets Record in Today's Paper
The issue proclaims an unprecedented news volume for a town under 40 000, with enhanced features, editorials, market pages, and more local and regional reporting. Centralized printing from Carbondale Herrin and Murphysboro boosts page counts and wire content from Associated Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
United Press
Carbondale
Associated Press
Springfield
Southern Illinois
Bobby Sox
Marty Links
Roland Coe
Ilinois
Herrin
Murphysboro
Miners Return To Work After Week's Layoff
Pittsburgh June 20 AP The nations 480000 coal miners return to work after a week shutdown ordered by John L Lewis to stabilize the industry Absenteeism low as early shifts report for duty The Coverdale mine near Castle Shannon announces it will not reopen affecting about 550 miners Railroad workers facing furloughs numbered around 30000 due to the stoppage The idle period reduces above ground coal stocks from 70 million to about 60 million tons, a 40 day supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Lewis
Coverdale
Castle Shannon Coal Corp
Castle Shannon
Railroaders and Mines Return to Normal Operations in Southern Illinois
Railroad crews back to normal in Southern Illinois with 275 furloughed last week due to mine shutdown. Mines like Old Ben 8 and 14 idle while For sythe strip near Cambria idled by Sunday fire. Illinois Central and Missouri Pacific report ample coal cars and readiness to meet weeklong demand. St Louis division extends from Centralia to Fulton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Old Ben
Forsythe
Cambria
Missouri-Pacific
C. B. and
Herrin
Illinois Central Line
Mike Foley
Carbondale
Illinois Central St. Louis
St. Louis
Centralia
Fulton
Pinckneyville
du Quoin
Benton
West Frankfort
Carbondale Youth Drowns at Crab Orchard Lake
Perry Monroe Hoyle, 20, of Carbondale drowned Sunday morning while swimming at a neck of Crab Orchard Lake known as Piney’s Point. Four companions, all 17, saw him disappear about 40 feet from shore. recovery aided by Williamson County deputies and local fire crews. An inquest returned accidental drowning. Hoyle, a World War II veteran, had attended Southern Illinois University and leaves a mother and two sisters. Services set for Tuesday at Walnut Street Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Hoyle
Carbondale
Crab Orchard Lake
Hoyle
Piney’s Point
Williamson County
Charles Edwards
Virgie Yewill
Vern Carter
Buncombe
Lynn Reynolds
Carterville
Herrin Fire Department
Kenneth Bailey
E. R. Carman
Carman
Edwards
Perry Monroe Hoyle
East Grand Street
Walnut Street Baptist Church
C. H. Warren
Alto Pass
Southern Illinois University
Emma Hoyle
Barbara
Burley
Idaho
Pauline
Perry M. Hoyle
Carbondale Youth Ninth Lake Victim In Past Three Years
Drowning at Crab Orchard Lake yesterday marks the ninth fatality in three years. Listed victims include Louis Alexander 30 Bush July 9, 1947. Hugh Hewerdine 24 DeSoto Aug 4, 1947. James Cochran 35 Murphysboro Aug 11, 1947. Ronald Ward 21 Bush and Charles Allen 15 Carterville Apr 2, 1948. Frank Hadfield 52 Carterville Jul 30, 1948. Freeman Anderson 38 Marion. and an unidentified youth last summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Hewerdine
DeSoto
Crab Orchard Boat Club
James O. Cochran
Murphysboro
Cochran
Ronald Ward
Bush
Charles Allen
Carterville
Frank Hadfield
Freeman Anderson
Marion
Illinois Eagles install new state officers led by Watson
Waukegan June 20 AP The Illinois Fraternal Order of Eagles yesterday installed Dr. T W Watson Bloomington as president Other officers included Vice presidents E J Korba East St Louis Frank Hogan Moline Thomas Hale Lincoln Stanley Hines Cicero William Lang Herrin Chaplain Carl Anderson Berwyn treasurer Joseph F Breen DeKalb conductor Frank Johnson Canton outside guard Edward Spangler Freeport
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukegan
Illinois Fraternal Order of Eagles
T.W. Watson
Bloomington
E. J. Korba
East St. Louis
Frank Hogan
Moline
Thomas Hale
Lincoln
Stanley Hines
Cicero
William Lang
Herrin
Carl Anderson
Berwyn
Joseph F. Breen
DeKalb
Frank Johnson
Canton
William E. Sulliven
Murphysboro
Edward Spangler
Freeport
Flying enthusiast and WWII veteran dies in Mt. Vernon
Arthur Warren aged 59, longtime Mt. Vernon automobile dealer since 1922, died at his home Sunday. A previous Air Force veteran of both World Wars, he learned to fly before driving and served as a World War I lieutenant and a captain with the 20th Air Force in India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Warren
Air Force
Mt. Vernon
Warren
Edly
20Th Air Force
India
Admiralty German talks fail to unite on Germany
Paris June 20 AP The Big Four foreign ministers failed to agree on economic or political unity for Germany while agreeing in principle on an Austrian independence treaty Their session started May 23 and ended with a modus vivendi live-and-let-live plan for Germany A communique announced further talks in September at the United Nations Assembly on Germany arrangements and dates for a new session under the UN council efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
United States
Soviet Union
France
Britain
United Nations Assembly
Council On
Weather Outlook Warm Through Tuesday With Heat Peak
The forecast calls for fair and warm conditions tonight and Tuesday with mid 90s highs. Lows around 68 to 74 tonight, with Tuesday’s high reaching 96 degrees.
Weather and river summary for Grand Tower area
Weather figures show low Sunday 64 at 7 am and high 87 at noon with 83 expected later. Precipitation from yesterday 7 am to today 7 am recorded at 0. Mississippi River level at Grand Tower is 20.4 inches, down 2.4 inches in the last 24 hours. Sunrise was 4:23 and sunset 7:40.
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Mississippi River
Grand Tower
Ed Driemeyer elected Twenty-fifth Legion district commander
Ed Driemeyer 40, retiring Herrin Prairie Post commander, won the Twenty-fifth Legion district post at Murphysboro by 41 to 22 over Scott Courier of Chester. He is the first Herrin post member elected district commander. The convention debated hospital expansion and cemetery space, with resolutions urging a larger Marion Veterans Hospital and the Cairo National Cemetery. The gathering also announced the Fifth Division Convention set for July 9-10 at Mt. Carmel and noted membership hits with a June 15 target.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Driemeyer
Herrin Prairie
American Legion
Twenty-fifth Legion
Paul Stout
Murphysboro
Bachelor Baker
Pinckneyville
Scott Courier
Chester
Driemeyer
Herrin
Illinois
36Th Infantry
France
Rhine
Legionnaires
Kenneth Gray
West Frankfort
Ezra Bailey
Benton
John Karnes
West Frankfor
Williamson County
Herrin Post
Marion Veterans Hospital
Winifred Fairfax Warder
Cairo
National Cemetery
Jefferson Barracks
Kentucky
Missouri
U. S
John Maxwell
Robinson
Legion
Maxwell
Mt. Carmel
National Legion
Perry Brown
Illinois Department
C. F. Ruth
L. V. Perkins
William Loy
Perkins
Southern Illinois University At
Carbondale
William Wolff
Paul Stoutpost
Ross Anderson
Olney
Charles Gollihur
McLeansboro
Gollihur
Shelton Kin's Cafe Bombed After Raid in Fairfield
Fairfield June 20 AP A roadside drive in restaurant two miles south of town was damaged by a bomb an hour after county officials raided it. Four arrested for liquor sales at the roadhouse and home of Guy Pennington and Ogie Penninton. No injuries reported. walls blown out and part of a neighboring structure damaged. Bond set at 2000 for each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Earl Shelton
Guy Pennington
Wayne County
Hal Bradshaw
Guy
Ogie Penninton
Ogie
Sheiff Bradshaw
Edith Watkins
Mt. Vernon
Seva Belle Meredith
Andrew Carter
Emerald Cates
Belleville
George O’brien
Big Earl
Pennington
Shelton Brothers
Carl
Hern Eaders
Illinois
Bradshaw
Gerald Mayberry
Fairfield City
Truman Proposes 7 Reorganization Plans After Hoover Report
President Truman asks Congress to create a Department of Welfare, put public roads under the Commerce Department, and transfer the Bureau of Employment Security to Labor. The seven plans implement Hoover Commission recommendations to reform and streamline government, with a 60 day effective window subject to veto. Proposals include post office reorganization, expanding the president’s executive office, Civil Service streamlining, and maritime authority strengthening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Congress
Department of Welfare
Commerce Department
Capitol Hill
Bureau of Employment Security
Labor Department
Post Office Department
Civil Service Commission
Maritime Commis
White House
Hoover Commission
House of Congress
Senate
House
Office of Federal Security Administrator
F.S.A
Department of Labor
Nauman Studio Set for July Completion
Nauman plans a five room brick studio at 703 South Illinois Avenue. It will have about 1000 square feet floor space and knotty pine interiors with a reception shooting and dressing rooms plus two equipment rooms. Heating by gas furnace and air conditioning, with wall mounted speakers for intermittent music broadcasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nauman
South
Illinois Avenue
Don Nauman
West
Walnut Street
Arnold
Ralph Arnold
West Walnut
Plane Crash Sprayer Hurt Near Willisville
George Behl 26 of Springfield remains in critical condition at St Andrew's hospital Murphysboro after his light airplane crashed near Willisville Saturday while spraying fields in the Steeleville Willisville area. Witnesses say propeller stopped while engine ran. Behl pulled from burning wreckage as plane demolished. Meadowlark farm six and a half miles southeast of Willisville owned by Southwestern Illinois Coal Corp is cited in report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Behl
Springfield
St. Andrew’s Hospital
Murphysboro
Willisville
Behl
Béhl
Capital Aviation Company
Steeleville
Southwestern
Ilinois Coal Corporation
Meadowlark
Meadowlark Farm
Willisvile
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Champaign-Urbana
Danville
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
The
Murphysboro Independent
Southern Illinois Publications, Inc
Rotary Press
Pittsburgh, Pa
Williamson
Sam Simmons
Charles Pritchett
Jack Turner
Joe Linton
Bob Campbell
Ninth Lake
Louis Alexander
Carbondale-Cambria Road
Herrin, Murphy
Egypt
Washington
Devil's Kitchen Lakes
Carbondale Airport
H. R. Peebles
S.I.U
H. F. Eilander
Office of Education
Federal Security Agency
Paris
Cabinet Bank
District of Legion
Shelton Kin
Fairfield
Hoover
Federal Security
Oscar Ewing
Ewing
Welfare
ED Driemeyver
Nauman Studio
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