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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1950
Page
7
Murphysboro Municipal Band under William Davis opens the 1950 Music Under the Stars series at 8 p m tonight in Riverside Park band shell. The program features marches overtures and popular tunes including Washington Post Spick and Span Swanee and Buttons and Bows.
Mr and Mrs Charles F Chapman of Murphysboro were passengers on an Illinois Central train to Chicago when the diner car caught fire likely from a gas leak under the floor. Clerk Louise Hodge and the Chapmans learned they were safe and notified the Rollo firm. The diner fire occurred about 20 miles from Kankakee en route to the Chicago Furniture Mart. the train arrived in Chicago at 3 pm after leaving earlier for a 9 am arrival.
A Johnston City coal miner, Pete Balog born September 6 1894 in Hungary, died this morning at Union hospital West Frankfort after illness. He lived in Johnston City 30 years worked for Old Ben Corp member of Hungarian lodge and St Pauls church. Survived by wife Elizabeth and three daughters in Chicago and three grandchildren. Funeral 9 am Saturday at St Pauls with Father Joseph Lupo, burial Johnston City cemetery. Friends may call Murman Wilson funeral home until 10 am Friday when he will be taken to the family home.
Local newspaper notice lists publication details for The Daily Independent of Murphysboro Illinois. It includes address 11th Street, publisher Eadward Lindsay, establishment date June 12 1891, and subscription rates for carrier and mail.
The Draper Furniture company presents its second annual Uregas cooking school at Marlow's theater in Murphysboro at 2 p m Friday. Rosemary Mortimer Uregas home economist conducts the school. Over 30 gifts will be presented from the stage. Admission is free.
Agatha White and William Carruthers will represent Illinois at the 88th National Education Association meeting in St Louis July 3 7. About 3300 delegates from states and territories will discuss standards for teacher preparation and media effects on children.
Members of the Murphysboro Retail Clerks Local 1595 halted picketing Woolworths on Walnut and Twelfth streets after 10 am following a telegram from Belleville ordering the stop. Negotiations for a working contract were announced between the union and the company.
Donald Mickey Mitchell a former Murphysboro resident earned the LL B from the University of Illinois College of Law and will take the Illinois Bar exam in Chicago September 5 7 before joining Fred B Herbert in Murphysboro. He is son of Carroll R Mitchell and a 1944 Murphysboro Township High School graduate who served in the Navy and earned a 1947 University of Illinois BS. He belongs to Phi Alpha Delta and the Junior Bar association.
A USDA veterinarian, Dr. C. M. Parker, released eight month findings showing 43 of 52 poultry flocks in Jackson County infected with avian tuberculosis. Swine herds also affected with 25 of 37 infected. He treated 8,355 birds and 970 were tubercular, with 177 of 1,458 pullets infected.
Farm advisers met at the Urbana Experiment Station to review current dairy research including cattle sterility linked to mineral deficiencies. The 1947 48 progress report is available from the State Extension Service and Dixon Springs Station provides pasture findings for Southern Illinois.
The Illinois Public Aid Commission urged Williamson County to repay 20 900 spent on sanatorium care for indigent TB patients. Auditors said the relief administration paid before the TB sanatorium board received tax funds, recommending anticipation warrants against anticipated revenue. The board has yet to issue them.
Lezern Saylor of 508 West Monroe street Herrin will be taken to Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis for treatment of brain nerve injuries from a football game at Herrin Township High School in 1926 or 1927. He reports a nerve numbness and pain that may stem from prior surgery in September 1949. tests at the hospital are planned to determine cause.
The annual party of the regional Department of Public Welfare will be held at Jackson Country Club Friday starting at 3 pm. Fred K. Hoeler plans to fly from Chicago for the event. Co sponsored by the Illinois Public Welfare Commission and officials. Welfare workers from 19 southern counties, county officials, and Springfield officials will attend. Golf softball and other games are planned for the afternoon. Dinner of fried chicken and catfish at 6 pm. Dancing and night entertainment planned.
Fred H. Shappard, Murphysboro Township high school principal, hosts 433 girls in a fictional Illinois state pattern at the Girls State program. Sue Willis of Percy and Trico Community high school participate, with the local school year ending next Wednesday.
An eastern state moves to legalize games of chance for non profits and churches. The piece lampoons potential excesses and notes existing bingo and lotto use in religious groups while joking about everyday gambling accessories in homes.
A Murphysboro tied anecdote recalls Charles Rolens sending a Grimsby map sketch from Oregon to Al Charles. The tale evokes Mo Pac trains at 8 p m and Grimsby cut-off fishing country with the Grimsby Belles teasing waiting fishermen.
The Affiliated Young Democrats of New York State select former Postmaster General James A. Farley as their gubernatorial choice for next November. They urge him to promise two daily mail deliveries.
Conservationists describe a single intense rain and wind storm in Natrium West Virginia creating a 320 foot long 100 foot wide and up to 60 feet deep gorge. The piece highlights widespread gun fire scenes in Chicago as youths imitate armed crime with cap pistols and machine gun replicas provoking police action and metal security concerns in shops. Police struggle to curb the dime store sale of tin six shooters while youths rehearse potential real violence amid a tense urban environment.
Transfers include Walker Schwartz to J W Morgan lot 18 University Place Carbondale 1 dollar. Atanas Shapkoff to Wesley Morgan lot 18 University Place Carbondale 515 dollars. J W Morgan to J A Barringer lot 18 University Place Carbondale 1500 dollars. many additional deeds across Carbondale Murphysboro and surroundings with amounts including 250 400 1500 4100 and 2100 dollars.
Mr and Mrs Winfred Lane 1935 Wall street Murphysboro returned Wednesday afternoon from Mt Vernon where they attended the funeral of Mr Lane's brother Eugene Eugene Lane 41 was killed Monday when struck by a train at a Mt Vernon railroad crossing He also leaves another brother Willard of Oraville
The Loyal Order of Moose announces a Murphysboro lodge and denies any plan to merge with Carbondale. The institution ceremony is set for Sunday at 1 45 p m in Logan junior high gym with over 260 charter members. STATE Director Gordon Main and others will attend from Mooseheart Illinois to witness the initiation.
Jackson County authorities send John Falkenberry of Grand Tower to Vandalia for a year after he pleaded guilty to driving Gilbert Reiman’s car without permission. Earlier efforts to hospitalize him failed. The case involved bizarre claims of swallowed faucet handles and nail clippers.
Admissions list includes Mrs Margaret Cochran maternity route 1 Murphysboro Mrs Eileen Jones maternity route 2 Murphysboro Raymond Phifer medical route 2 Murphysboro Henry Brooks surgical Cora and Mrs Verna Cripps maternity 433 North Seventh street Dismissals: Baby Marsha Rahming 2112 Elm Street
Murphysboro Centennial committee moves forward to form a non profit corporation with a five member board and plans a four night pageant for September 26 to 29 at the high school field. The group seeks state charter papers and aims to gather historical documents for a script by John B Rodgers company.
Truax-Traer Coal officials say plans for Binkley and Pyramid properties bought from Binkley and Pyramid Coal companies are not yet worked out. T. G. Gerow notes details will be revealed later. Hubert Howard announces sale of the capital stock of both firms.
Clarence Perschbacher and Lloyd Moore left by car for the Illinois Fire College sessions at the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana. Ray Prather and Charles Baxmann returned to the local fire house after two days at the school. Fire Chief Urba Hanson remained over for the last two days of the 1950 school and will return with Perschbacher and Moore Friday night. Attendance Thursday morning surpassed 500 as registrations continued. The program featured fog nozzle firefighting and the chemical wetter than water for fire control.
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