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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1950
Page
3
Carbondale auto workers approve a general seven cent an hour raise under a one year contract bringing journeyman pay to 1.35 an hour and foremen to 1.45. Three paid holidays and vacation after one and five years, with a five day week and time and a half after Friday. Strike ended with NRLB approval pending.
Loren Verbarg named new manager of the Producers Locker association plant in Carbondale replacing Milburn Taylor. Verbarg arrives from Metropolis where he ran a locker plant. The Carbondale facility has about 800 lockers with roughly 300 available to rent.
The Carbondale Community High School P T A will host a potluck supper during its monthly meeting Monday in the cafeteria at 6 30 p m. Mrs Amos Walker president and new officers will be installed. Eighth grade parents from Lincoln junior high are invited. Mrs Walker will report on the state convention in Chicago. Gene Biggs will sing. Members should bring table service.
Carbondale Illinois newspaper lists carrier and mail subscription prices including 25 cents weekly and six to twelve week and annual options. It notes mail subscriptions not sold where carrier service exists and mentions Associated Press news rights.
Williamson circuit court jury awarded $15 000 damages to Hugh Mighell of Goreville after his nine year old son Samuel Joseph Mighell died from injuries when struck by an auto after getting off a school bus. Defendants were Pascal Weaks of Johnston City and Louis Bryan of Pittsburg who drove the car on Route 37 in November 1948. He died last October.
Three Jackson county PMA leaders attended a Southern Illinois district meeting in Vienna to set 1951 wheat allotments. Construction of grain storage bins at De Soto, Jones Ridge, and Jacob is underway with 20, 40, and 40 bins respectively. first shipments to the sites are expected soon, though open market prices may limit fill.
A Bureau of Mines inspection at the Tregoning Coal No. 5 mine near Carbondale recommends safer blasting with permissible devices and cap lamps, smoking ban, automatic fan stoppage alarms, and positive ID for workers. It notes adequate ventilation, guarded belts, and travelable escapeways, with timbering and fireproof stoppings improved.
Two German visitors, Mrs. Marie Huechting and Miss Lieschotte Handt, toured Jackson county as part of the International Visitors project by the Illinois Home Bureau federation. They met with local Home Bureau members, visited Southern Illinois University, toured Carbondale, and planned further stops in Indiana and other states before returning to Germany.
Julia Jean Tucker Beverly Baine and Charles Dickerman win Student Christian Foundation posts for 1950 51. Tucker elected student president, Baine as secretary and Dickerman as commissioner of outreach and public relations.
Jackson county Democratic leaders announce a 7:30 p m meeting at Murphysboro city hall to form the Jackson county Young Democrats chapter. Lloyd Austin urges party members ages 18 to 35 to attend as officers are elected and a charter drawn. Delegates will be chosen for the state convention in Springfield June 24, based on past vote totals.
Twelve Southern Illinois University students join two SIU faculty members and one Carbondale resident as charter members of the Epsilon Kappa chapter of Phi Mu Epsilon. Installation ceremonies unfold this weekend with pledging Friday at the First Methodist church and a Saturday tea, banquet, and formal initiation.
Eugene Hinchcliff and others transfer property in rusher's add Carbondale to Ellis G. Albert for a stated bond of $1. The record is brief and notes the deed transfer action and the involved parties.
Carbondale to observe Armed Forces Day with reveille at 6 30 a m and a 5 45 p m retreat at the flagpole. National Guard unit 60 men will march in the Murphysboro parade under Capt Townes. Poppy sales by American Legion and VFW auxiliaries raise funds for rehabilitation and the Eaton Rapids home.
Admitted Thursday are Emory Russell medical and Cheryl Sweet surgical both in Marion. Mrs Charles B Willard surgical in Carterville. Discharged Thursday Terry Moake surgical Herrin. Jerry Hindman surgical Marion. Robert Bierer surgical Carbondale. Addison Arnold medical Carbondale. Mrs Neil Simmons surgical Carbondale. Dr W B Welch medical Carbondale. Mrs Luther Asbell surgical and Mrs William Singler and son Marion. Pamela Jo Gill medical Marion.
Don Presley a lineman for the Illinois Commercial Telephone company in Murphysboro suffered a minor hand injury yesterday after sliding on a pole being placed for a phone line near Murphysboro. A Murphysboro physician removed several splinters from his hands and he returned to work.
R. E. Favreau of Carbondale led a panel on Southern Illinois water problems at the Spring conference of area water plant operators in Du Quoin. Attendees included Jesse Fly and F Eldridge Corbit of Carbondale and others from Du Quoin Nashville Mount Carmel West Frankfort and Eldorado. The Illinois Department of Public Health officials led talks on chlorination filters coagulation and plant maintenance with a question answer session. Lunch followed at the Coca Cola Bottling Company plant.
Robert and Herbert Sellers of Carbondale are jailed in Murphysboro awaiting charges after police arrested them about 1 30 a m off Main Street Carbondale Two pints and a quart of wine found in their car He will face drunk driving. his brother vagrancy Herbert previously involved in a 1949 fight with David Rendleman and a no true bill outcome
Triangle Construction Co. of Kankakee and Carbondale was declared the apparent low bidder for site preparation of the new SIU library. Bid opened May 16 in Springfield. Project total about 250000 dollars. Site at Thompson and Chautauqua behind the existing University cafeteria.
Operators toured the Du Quoin state fair grounds the bottling company and the Du Quoin waterworks during a local business meeting.
Levi O Neal of Carbondale pleaded guilty in county court to drunken driving and received 36 days in jail and a 10 cent fine plus costs. Patrolman Jack O Daniel observed him on Route 13 driving before a stop on a dangerous curve. The license was issued in Missouri and Illinois deriving license was not carried. O Neal had prior reckless driving record from 1946.
On Thursday at 5:50 p.m. at South Illinois and East Grand streets two cars sustained slight damage. J. E. Brooks of Carbon Dale was turning left from Illinois Avenue onto East Grand Street, while William Whittenberg of 708 South Marion Street traveled west on Grand. Whittenberg’s car struck Brooks on the left rear fender.
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