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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1973
Page
17
A compact note detailing how this page supplements Southern Illinois coverage with local happenings and ongoing regional updates from the Southern Wadsan area.
Pinckneyville moves to allocate 1000 toward remodeling the county jail officials room and to buy a police car for the city. The council also approves five acres beside the filtration plant for 10000 and sets high band radio specs.
The correction updates two obituaries. Guy Pulley 82 Rt 2 Marion wife Alice Ensminger died July 20 1971 married October 25 1919 Benton granddaughter Cheryl Ann Bascom. Louie Bryan 59 Marion death 8 30 a.m. Friday Mt Vernon hospital daughter Cinda corrected from Cindy sister Gwendolyn Dallas from St Louis Missouri. Funeral services for Pulley and Bryan held at Mitchell Funeral Home Marion. Carbondale Model Cities program funding $748000 for 18 months from Housing and Urban Development.
SIU Carbondale will disclose the HEW drafted U S Civil rights compliance review at a 3 p m news conference led by SIU president David R Derge. The report, prepared by the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare, examines minority and women employment in the university.
A long hospital notes list shows many patients including Nadine Howerd in Carbondale and Clara Norville in De Soto, along with doctors McCabe Johnston City Howerd and others across Illinois towns like Murphysboro Harrisburg Carterville and Marion. The document names numerous patients, family members and hospital staff across multiple communities.
In ALTO PASS Hickam Mr and Mrs Clifford welcome a daughter Monday at St Joseph Memorial Hospital Murphysboro In CARTERVILLE Howell Mr and Mrs Howard have a son Monday at Doctors Memorial Hospital Carbondale In MARION Griffin Mr and Mrs Danny R welcome a son Monday at Marion In MARION Cartner Mr and Mrs William birth a daughter today at Marion In PINCKNEYVILLE Lynnemann Mr and Mrs James have a daughter Monday at Pinckneyville Community Hospital In WEST FRANKFORT Woods Mr and Mrs Charles have a son Monday at Union Hospital West Frankfort
Clifton Duane White 18 and Treva Lynn Pledger 19 of Johnston v Randall Benjamin Dawes 19 Marion and Melody A Crabtree 16 Johnston City Jessie Johnson 25 Carterville and Konka Carico 22 Herrin Charlies V Burgess 21 and Peggy Lee Sprague 18 Marion seek licenses.
Carbondale issues include J. and L. Robinson Construction Co. to build a Merlin's restaurant and night club at 3114315 S. Illinois Ave for about 200000 dollars. Dan Cochran to construct a single family dwelling on West Walnut St about 22000 dollars. Floyd Cunningham and Marvin Johnson to repair a single family structure at 611 W. Elm St about 2500 dollars. R. B. Stephens Construction Co. to demolish seven structures for Southern Illinois University at 606 S. Marion St 811 S. Marion St 803 S. Washington St 801 S. Washington St 105 E. Grand Ave 803 S. Oakland St and 202 E. Pearl St. Commercial Design Inc. for repairs to Carbondale National Bank at 100 N. Illinois Ave about 75000 dollars. Marion Elizabeth Fisher on E. Clark St for a new house with fee 34.50.
Police reported Jesse Stern of 410 N Spring Sr said his coat wallet and $800 in American Express travelers checks were taken from a Spudnuts Inc booth in Campus Shopping Center after he left and returned minutes later. In a separate theft, Denny Ferrell of Schneider Hall said two rear tires wheels and wheel covers were stolen from his car in lot No 49 near the Baptist Student Center between Sunday night and 5 30 p m with loss valued at $118.
The Marion City Council approved a rate change for Marion Cab Co to 1.00 within the central city and 1.25 on the outskirts, up from 0.75. They also authorized purchase of two typewriters for 250 and one for 269, noting city pump savings of 617 on February gasoline use. The Williamson County sheriff’s office used 57.8 gallons part time.
In Murphysboro circuit court, John Underwood and Wayne Seagle face charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, sexual delinquency, battery, and unlawful restraint. Seagle also faces indecent liberties charges. Bond totals and arrest details are provided, with a 16 year old girl involved and another 14 year old girl named in a juvenile petition.
Opal Rawley of Ware faces a charge of willfully permitting her 13 year old daughter to stay out of school. A $50 bond was filed and she was to appear in circuit court in Jonesboro. Truancy officer John Highland says the girl has missed about two years of school and Rawley has been fined twice and faced a possible jail sentence if the daughter did not return to school.
A broad band of rain is forecast tonight from the upper Great Lakes through the Midwest to the Southeast with colder weather expected for most of the East. Rain graces the central and northern Pacific coast and showers are due in the northern Rockies, AP Wirephoto.
Jesse L. Fly 74 of Rt. 5 Carbondale died at 6 45 a m in Doctors Memorial Hospital Carbondale from a heart attack He had been in the hospital since February 27 Fly retired as superintendent of the Carbondale Water Filtration Plant in 1964 He served as precinct committee man secretary of the Republican County Central Committee and since 1966 as auditor for Carbondale Township He was an ordained Baptist minister and member of Walnut Street Baptist Church He also belonged to Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch Masons He was born February 2 1899 in Union County to John W V and Elzora Watson Fly He married Golda Etherton October 26 1919 in Union County Surviving are wife two daughters Mildred Kerring and Geraldine Seibert both of Carbondale a son John A Fly Danville a sister Carrie Brooks Carbondale a brother J Jackson Fly Lima Ohio Burial Thursday at 2 pm in Huffman Funeral Home Carbondale with Rev Bob Worley officiating Oakland Cemetery Carbondale.
Lavern Fisher 58 of 408 S 20th St Murphysboro died Sunday in St Joseph Memorial Hospital Murphysboro funeral set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. Friends may call after 6 p.m. Myrtle Murphy 77 of Zion formerly of Du Quoin died Monday in Victory Memorial Hospital Waukegan funeral tentatively set for Thursday at Neal Memorial Chapel Du Quoin.
High Monday expected at 59 degrees with an overnight low of 40. At 9 am Monday the temperature was 55. Precipitation totals 0.09 inches from 7 am Monday to 7 am Tuesday. Sunset today at 5:57. sunrise Wednesday at 6:25 and sunset Wednesday at 5:58.
Calendar of public meetings across Southern Illinois with times on Tuesday includes John A Logan College Carterville University groups and city councils in Anna Benton Herrin Carbondale and more. Special events feature Sweet Adelines Hillcrest Duplicate Bridge and a Collegium Chamber concert at SIU Carbondale.
Wednesday activities include the Carbondale Employment and Resource Center Board at 7 30 p m Attucks Center bids for housing in Carbondale. Jackson County Housing Authority meets earlier. Networking, talks and public programs fill SIU Carbondale with a food broker talk and multiple cultural events.
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