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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1949
Page
3
Southern Illinois University plans a quonset style building on campus near the library with a concrete foundation to store books. President Dr. D W Morris says it will house volumes from the old science basement and other storage sites, easing delays and offering reference cards for quicker access.
Carbondale banker George Albon president of First National Bank of Carbondale said the city is the most stable town in Southern Illinois and that no immediate slump is due in the local economy despite a bleak general business outlook discussed at a bankers convention in St Louis. He noted bankers favor a five day week and suggested Carbondale should have a different closing day. Fellow bank officials and their spouses attended the event with Albon and emphasized issues such as consumer credit and state bank supervision.
Two members of the Southern Illinois university administrative staff were named by President D. W. Morris to represent the faculty administration on a five member committee to handle employer employee relations at the university. Edward V. Miles Jr and W A Howe were named to the committee. Non academic employees will meet tomorrow to choose their two representatives. A chairman and fifth member will be appointed later. The committee aims to simplify problems between employer and employee. Other state colleges are setting up similar boards to handle employee issues such as vacation schedules delineation of work and raises.
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Five Southern Illinois men drowned at Gilbertsville dam are recovered from the Tennessee River downstream. Walter Mornin of Herrin, aged 50, funeral arrangements set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Storme Funeral Home. Four West Frankfort victims are also in state at Nichols Funeral Home with services planned for St. John’s Church West Frankfort and other arrangements tentative for Wednesday.
The Egyptian baseball league chase for second place tightens with Orient leading at 6 0. Du Quoin Tamaroa and Pinckneyville or Anna share the next tier at 4 2 after recent wins. Murphysboro sits fourth at 4 3 while Carbondale remains cellar bound at 0 6. Next Sunday’s slate features Murphysboro at Pinckneyville and Orient at Du Quoin.
Night session at 7 30 p m held by Home Bureau groups from Carbondale Murphysboro and Crab Orchard Lake meeting at First Christian Church to discuss community concerns
Sherry Lynn Henn an 18 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Henn of Mt Vernon was electrocuted Sunday while playing with a frayed wire Funeral services are set for 1 30 p m tomorrow in Mt Vernon Local officials described the accident as a tragic domestic mishap and urged caregivers to check wiring and electrical outlets in homes
About 300 farmers and 105 planes from Illinois Missouri and Indiana gathered at Carbondale airport for a Flying Farmers picnic at Crab Orchard lake. After registration they attended services in the hangar led by Rev Ronald Scriven and toured local sites before returning home in the afternoon.
A man and his wife are jailed in Union County after a shooting at the Silver Dollar tavern near Cobden. Orville Grammer, 23, known as Peck, is hospitalized near death from a back wound. Chester Garrison Thomas, 34, and Dorothy Shel by Thomas, 25, claim self defense after a bar confrontation. Authorities interview Thomas and his wife as the investigation continues with no clear suspect.
Ellen Abbott daughter of Mr and Mrs T W Abbott of 1328 South Thompson street is chosen by the Carbondale American Legion Auxiliary to attend Girls State at MacMurray college Jacksonville Ill. She will leave tomorrow and register in Jacksonville. Girls State promotes nonpartisan citizenship training for high school girls and is funded by auxiliary sponsorship with most programs on college campuses during June and July.
The Business and Professional Women will install their new officers at the regular dinner meeting at the University cafeteria on Tuesday at 6:30 PM. New officers include Mrs Daisy Meininger president Mrs Esther Schubert vice president Miss Alleta Smith recording secretary Miss Judy Lanier corresponding secretary Mrs Annetta Schutte treasurer and Mrs Margaret Cimossa parliamentarian.
The Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company of Chicago opens a Carbondale branch at 2202 North Washington Avenue. W. Edward Woods will manage, returning from wartime service to resume duties in the Cairo district and oversee Carbondale, Harrisburg, Carrier Mills, Marion, Colp, Dewmaine, Fremant Spur, and Murphysboro with Du Quoin added this fall. The office will operate five afternoons and all day Saturday each week.
Lawrence Lee Rauch, son of Mr and Mrs J Lee Rauch former Carbondale residents, earned his Ph D at Princeton University last week and will join the University of Michigan faculty. He appears in American Men of Science this year and did telemetering work for the Bikini atom bomb tests. His Hollywood parents attended the ceremony. his mother, Mabel Thompson, is famed for radio plays about the area.
The Thursday session of the American Legion Auxiliary covers regular business and the election of delegates to the convention. Meeting at 7 30 p m at the American Legion Home.
Carbondale business and manufacturing firms plan staggered summer breaks from two weeks to full closures. The Good Luck Glove plant closes two weeks in July, Kopper's Tie offers one to two weeks based on tenure, Illinois Central clerical staff get two weeks, and train service workers two weeks after July 1 under a new contract. Downtown retail clerks earn one to two weeks by service length. New Era Dairy staggers vacations year round, SIU staff two weeks, faculty a nonpaid break Aug 5 to Sept 12, and American Pants pays two weeks for two weeks of actual vacation starting July 4.
Admitted Saturday and Sunday are listed for multiple patients in Marion Carbondale and nearby towns. Birth announcements include a son born to Mr and Mrs George Patterson of Carbondale and another to Mr and Mrs Roy Romans of Marion. Discharges appear for several medical and surgical patients in Carbondale and surrounding communities.
Paul Ebbs territorial representative for the Shell Petroleum Company announced plans to construct an ultra modern service station at Fifteenth and Walnut streets in Murphysboro. Williamson Construction of Carbondale holds the contract with local labor to be used. The brick building will feature polished tile inside and out. The Cape Girardeau district office aims to make the Murphysboro station a model for the Midwest and plans to copy Shell's Sikeston station as a standard of quality.
A Sunday fire at Forsythe-Williamson Coal Co mine one mile west of Cambria destroyed the screening and loading plant, with about 75 workers affected. Walter Forsythe estimated losses at 50000 dollars. Fire units from Carterville Herrin and Carbondale responded. initial pump failure hampered containment. Mine watchman Adrian Thomas first spotted the blaze, and supervisor Fred Heien called it a near-total loss with uncertain resumption date.
Irving T. Priesand of Carbondale is president of a new construction company Sandy Engineered Construction, incorporated June 15. Officers include Rosetta E. Priesand secretary treasurer and C. Lerner vice president. The firm is building additions to Dowell School near Du Quoin, a Mt. Vernon dance hall, repairs at Carbondale Community High School, and a Packard showroom in Mt. Vernon.
Walter Clark Lay of Carbondale earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago convocation in Rockefeller Memorial chapel. Frank Leroy Holloway of Murphysboro received a master’s degree as part of a 572-student graduating class. Chancellor Hutchins gave the address as 1,163 students were to graduate.
Southern Illinois university's entertainment and lectures committee opens the summer term with a 7 30 p m concert by the Mozart trio in Shryock Auditorium on Wednesday June 22. Hendrik de Boer Claire Wellman and Vierlyn Clough Duerr perform solo numbers and the program is free with public invitation.
Fred E. George former Carbondale resident died at his Elgin Illinois home from a heart attack at 2:30 a.m. today. Parker funeral home of Carbondale sent to Elgin to repatriate the body. Friends may call at Parker funeral home after 4 p.m. Tuesday. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Carbondale Rotary club to induct about 12 new members tomorrow at Hotel Roberts. District 149 Governor Mac Todd from Lawrenceville will preside. The district covers roughly 30 southern Illinois counties. Meeting time is 12 10 p.m.
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