Chicago Man Owns 120000 In Bonds And District Turmoil
The Crab Orchard School District hires Steve Clark as superintendent replacing Ernest Arms amid a controversial ouster and court rulings. A Chicago investor, Jesse Slauerbaum, seeks to recover 50 percent of 120 185 in Marion bonds while city officials audit delinquent bond retirements and cash withdrawals by Clerk Burkhart.
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Crab Orchard
Board of Education
Steve Clark
Pittsburg
Marion Unit
Ernest R. Arms
Chicago
Marion
Jesse Slauerbaum
Bank of Marion
Slauerbaum
W. S. Burkhart
David Watford
Burkhart
Conference Set On Education In Williamson
A Williamson County White House education conference will meet at 7:30 pm Tuesday at Herrin Junior High to discuss six major school problems. Russell Emery will head the session with local leaders and laymen invited to share views on improving organization, building needs, hiring and retaining teachers, financing, and sustaining public interest in education.
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White House
Herrin
United States
Champaign
Illinois
William Randle
Carterville
Johnston City
Crab Orchard
Emil Feuter
Marion
Clyde Mitchell
Hurst
Williamson County
Emery
Massac Conference Names Leaders and Chairman
Mrs. Margaret Decker of Metropolis named chairman of Massac County pre little White House education meeting. The discussion is set for 7 30 p.m. Tuesday in the courthouse with leaders Mrs Elle Mosley Rich Park Leon Whitelock Mrs Corlis Miller Louis Horman and Robert Chase involved.
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Margaret Decker
Metropolis
Massac County
Murphysboro Council to Study Fluoridation
The Murphysboro City Council will discuss passage of an ordinance to fluoridate the city water supply at the regular Friday session. A resolution endorsing fluoridation as a preventive of tooth decay was presented to the Council by Murphysboro dentists and physicians at a recent meeting.
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Murphysboro
Joe Williams
Mugphysboro
Local Police Briefs Report Fines For Speeding And Violations
In Carbondale Donald E Everhart 16 of N Second Street Murphysboro was fined 9 dollars including costs by Police Magistrate Pay Hall for speeding and released upon surrender of his license. In Du Quoin Leslie James Millstadt and Edward House St Louis Mo were fined 9 dollars with costs by Police Magistrate John Ritter Sr for operating without splash guards. In Murphysboro Joe Field 1839 Division Street paid 10 dollars and costs for disturbing the peace before Police Magistrate Charles Helwig Sr. Newt Hammond of Murphysboro was arrested by city police today on a charge of being under the influence of liquor awaiting court.
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Carbondale
Donald E. Everhart
N. Second Street
Murphysboro
Pay Hall
Everhart
Lesie James
Millstads
Edward House
St. Louis
John Ritter Sr
Joe Field
Charles Helwig Sr
Ysboro
Iit Helwiig Sr
Newt Hammond
Bankers Elect Tri County Federation Officers
The Tri County Federation of Group 10 Illinois Bankers Assn named new officers to serve until June 1956. J Marvin Powers of Security Bank Mt Vernon was chosen president Wayne McCormick Herrin bank assistant cashier vice president and H L Payne Benton bank assistant cashier secretary treasurer. Payne succeeds McCormick Powers succeeds C M Presley of West Frankfort Bank. The federation, covering Jefferson Franklin and Williamson counties, holds bi monthly meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tri-County Federation
Illinois Bankers Assn
J. Marvin Powers
Security Bank of Mt. Vernon
Wayne McCormick
Bank of Herrin
H. L. Payne
Bank of Benton
Murphysboro High Names 21 Students for Special Honors
Murphysboro Township High School lists 21 students for second semester honors in 1954 55. Principal Ted Shoberg announced that honorees earned an A in major subjects and rated excellent or good in departments. High honors went to 63 students with 18 semester honor points from four top grades. Another 77 students made 16 or 17 points. Special honors include Betty Berrier and 20 others such as Betty Sue Borgsmiller Brenda Bradley Evelyn Ann Brooks Woodson Fuller Thomas Gillooly Don Gleason Maribel Harsha Mary Carol Hart Martha Heise Judith Jines Pat Krawczyk James Lawder Sharon Lawder Kate Maloney Mary Jane Michael Joan Muller Mary Jane Owen Carol Ann Pittman Robert Pittman.
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Murphysboro Township High School
Ted Shoberg
Betty Berrier
Betty Sue Borgsmiller
Brenda Bradley
Evelyn Ann Brooks Woodson Fuller
Thomas Gillooly
Don Gleason Maribel Harsha
Mary Carol Hart
Martha Heise
Judith Jines
Pat Krawczyk
James Lawder
Sharon Lawder
Kate Maloney
Mary Jane Michael
Joan Muller
Mary Jane Owen
Carol Ann Pittman
Robert Pittman
Du Quoin Firemen To Hold Street Dance Tonight
South Division Street in Du Quoin will be closed to traffic from 8 p m to 12 midnight for a benefit street dance. Funds raised will aid in purchasing equipment for volunteer firemen.
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DU Quoin
George Gobel to headline Du Quoin State Fair grandstand
Television star George Gobel will perform Labor Day night at the Du Quoin State Fair grandstand as part of a revue. His manager says this marks Gobel’s first fair grandstand appearance after a career starting as a boy soprano and later radio, theater, and television work including a B-26 flight instructor stint in the Air Force.
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George Gobel
du Quoin
Gobel
Dave O
Air Force
O'Malley
George
Frankfort Merchants to Be Inspected
West Frankfort merchants will face an exterior premises inspection before July 4. Police Chief John Karnes and the merchants committee will conduct the check as part of the clean-up campaign. Those meeting standards will receive a cooperation sticker. A cleanup meeting is set for Monday at city hall to plan a Tuesday city-wide survey.
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North Street
White Way
Burkhart
Thomas School
West Frankfort
John Karnes
Merchants Committee
City Hall
Rain Storms Drench Southern Illinois Summer 1955
Wet start to summer as rain on Tuesday and Wednesday totaled nearly one inch. A hail and rain shower Tuesday afternoon lasted about 25 minutes, and two storms on Wednesday night produced 0.4 inch in Murphysboro and 0.31 inch in West Frankfort. Lightning tripped an oil switch cutting power to about 150 Elkville homes 10:30 to 11:15 p.m.
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Murphysboro
Marion
West Frankfort
Central Illinois Public Service Company
Elkville
Second Car Finishes Derby Entries Grow in Southern Illinois
Second car finished by 13 year old Bill Schoolcraft of Carbondale as preparations for the Southern Illinois Soap Box Derby advance. Derby directors announce 31 entrants for Murphysboro race on July 16 with inspections set for July 2 in Murphysboro and Carbondale and prizes for all completing a car. The winner advances to the National race in Akron with a newspaper representative attending.
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Southern Illinois
Bill Schoolcraft
Carbondale
Murphysboro
Grob Motor Sales
Gene Grob
Chester Kessel
Don Fiennigan
Schroeder St
Chester
Kessel
Orlene Wallace
Akron
Daniel Stores Still Picketted
No new developments in the strike by the Butchers and Meat Cutters union against Daniel Food Stores. The company waits for Joe Daniel to return, with brother Ben Daniel running the chain. Pickets remain outside Daniel stores in Murphysboro.
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Butchers and Meatcutters Union
Daniel Food Stores
Joe Daniel
Ben Daniel
Daniel
Murphysboro
Daniel Stores
Bert Hall
Southern Illinois Division
The
Meat Cutters and Butchers Union
Marion Man Dies at 49 in Marion Memorial Hospital
Lloyd Adams 49 of 400 North Madison Street Marion died at 7 05 am today in Marion Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. He operated Adams Shoe Shop 418 North Market Street and served on the St Josephs Church board. He leaves wife Rosie daughters Marie Constance Rosemary two brothers Charlie Marion and Joe New Orleans funeral arrangements incomplete Mitchell Funeral Home in charge
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Lloyd Adams
Madison St
Marion
Marion Memorial Hospital
Rosie
Marie Constance
Rosemary
Tampa
Fla
Adams
N. Market St
St. Joseph’s Church
Charlie
Joe
New Orleans
Mitchell Funeral Home
Services Saturday for Zeigler Woman Rose Repsis
Funeral services for Rose Repsis 66 of Zeigler will be held at 10 a m Saturday at Sacred Heart Church in Zeigler with Rev Louis Sellner officiating. She died Tuesday at Miners Hospital in Christopher. She leaves four cousins, step-sons John and Stanley, and step-daughters Edna Albas and Frances Gill all of Chicago. The Rosary will be said 7 30 p m Friday at Vantrease Funeral Home Zeigler. Burial will be in Royalton Catholic Cemetery.
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Rose Repsis
Zeigler
Royalton
Retired Ava Farmer Dies in Murphysboro Hospital
E. J. Kuhlman, 72, a retired Ava farmer, died this morning at St. Andrew's Hospital in Murphysboro. Funeral arrangements are being completed at the Wilson Funeral Home in Ava.
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E. J. Kuhlman
Ava
St. Andrew's Hospital
Murphysboro
Wilson Funeral Home
Herrin Street Project May Be Let In August
Herrin Park Avenue widening and resurfacing may miss the June contract letting and be placed in the next group on August 8 or 9. Mayor Dave H. Miller noted a state funding letter citing insufficient funds but promising earliest possible contracting. work inside Herrin totals over 400000 dollars with 75 percent state and 25 percent city share from motor fuel tax receipts.
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Herrin Park Avenue
Dave H. Miller
W. D. Macleod
Carbondale
Herrin
Miller
John E. Miller
Tamms
Correction on Stop Sign Fine Report In Southern Illinois News
Larry Haege was fined $9 for running a stop sign on June 17, not George Haege as previously reported. Police had listed George Haege as the car owner, not the driver.
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Larry Haege
Haege
Southern Illinoisan
George Haege
Funeral today for Du Quoin grocer Mrs Sheehan
Mrs Lottie L Sheehan 62 owner of Mid west Grocery Stores since 1939 died Monday at Marshall Brown Hospital after an extended illness. Survived by son Robert and daughters Dorothy Maxton Margaret Beardon of Du Quoin and Betty Garetta of Chicago, a brother, a sister and eleven grandchildren. Funeral at 2 pm in First Baptist Church Du Quoin burial Sunset Memorial Park.
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Lottie L. Sheehan
Midwest
Marshall-Browning
Marion Man Killed In Wreck
James Wesley Hornick twenty one of Marion died from injuries in an automobile crash near Waukegan He was an attendant at Downey Veterans Hospital He was born August 9 1934 in Marion He leaves his mother two sisters a brother and two half siblings The body will lay in at Wilson Frick Funeral Home with services at the family home officiated by Rev George Holland Burial in Maplewood Cemetery
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James Wesley Hornick
Mae Smothers Hornick
Scottsboro
Marion
Waukegan
Hornick
Downey Veterans Hospital
William Smothers
Charles
Chicago
Freda Henderson
Patty Hornick
Geraldine Bearden
Thompsonville
Shirley Willette
Trenton
Mich
Ruth Emery
Claude
John Hornick
Carbondale
Wilson-Frick Funeral
George Holland
Creal Springs
Maplewood Cemetery
Herrin Abandonment Case Set for Trial
Arthur Lukenbille 54 of Herrin posted a 1500 bond in Belleville and awaits trial in St. Clair County Circuit Court in September. He is charged with child abandonment not wife and child abandonment as Herrin police had reported.
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Arthur Lukenbille
Herrin
Belleville
St. Clair County
Clifford Flood
Lukenbille
Davy Crockett Kin in Anna Illinois Shares Legacy
Mrs. Rayburn Ice of Anna Illinois is the great great granddaughter of Davy Crockett through his first wife Polly. She recalls family stories from Memphis Tennessee and recounts her memories of the Alamo visit and the hunter’s motto Be sure you're right then go ahead.
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Illinois
Davy Crockett
Rayburn Ice
Union County Press
Anna
Tennessee Woodsman
Ice
South
North
Davy
Polly
Peytona Davis
Lizzie Puckett
Mrs. Ice
Memphis
Tenn
Davy Craggett
Grin
the Ice
John
Alamo
Herrin Woman Martha J. Lyon Dies at 84
Martha Josephine Lyon 84 of Herrin died at home after a long illness. Born October 20, 1870 in Todd County Kentucky she married James Henry Lyon February 10 1889 who died in 1919. Survived by seven sons and four daughters 24 grandchildren 20 great grandchildren and a sister. Funeral set for 2 p m Saturday at Johnson Funeral Home Herrin with burial in Riverside Hopkinsville Kentucky after services in Hopkinsville Monday.
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Martha Josephine Lyon
Lucretia Byrd
Mountain Home, Ark
Williamson County delays second polio vaccine dose
Williamson County vaccine officials decide to postpone the second Salk inoculation for first and second graders until after the school year begins. Vaccine Chairman Russell Emery National Foundation County Chairman Orland Stanley and the Williamson Medical Assn. announced the delay.
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Williamson County
Russell Emery
National Foundation
Orland Stanley
Williamson Medical Assn
Mines Working Friday Burning Star No 1 Fidelity
Friday operations show several mines active or inactive. Mines listed as working include Burning Star No 1 Fidelity New Kathlen Pyramid Freeburn Freeman 4 Buckhorn Zeigler 1 Old Ben 9 Old Ben 14 Orient 2 Orient 3 Wilkins Coal Co with Truax Traer No 2 Old Ben 22 noted as not working.
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Burning Star
Fidelity
New Kathlen
Freeburn
Freeman
Buckhorn Zeigler
Old Ben
Orient
Wilkins Coal Co
Truax- Traer
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Arms
Charles Winters
Southern Illinois University
J T. Bundren
H. L. Zimmerman
Bundren
Zimmerman
Theodore Parks
Raymond Kobler
Walter Stahlhut
Otto Legeritz
Comple
Winkler
W. Freeman Street
Lakeland School
Ter
Clyde V. Winkler
Thomas
Wall Street
Lakeland
Blacktop
Williamson
Massac
Murphysboro Council
Bankers
Murphysboro High School
George Rober
Tion
Frankfort
Cobbler
Herrin Street
Larry
Mrs. Sheehan
du Quoin Grocer
Davy Crockett Kin
Martha J. Lyon
Cee
Johnson Funeral Home
W. A. Shoopman
Woods
Fuqua and Davis Funeral Home
Hopkinsville
Riverside Cemetery
Hopkinsyville
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