Derailment spills combustibles near Murphysboro
A Missouri Pacific freight train derailed three miles east of Murphysboro injuring no crew. Two tank cars released combustibles but no explosion danger. but residents within one mile evacuated. Butyl methacrylate and a low grade petroleum product leaked while other cars carried sodium hydroxide powder and butyl acrylate not leaking. Clean-up crews battled leaks, state police closed the area, and investigators will study the derailment which followed a week of another MP incident near Gorham.
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Rick Rockwell
Karen Rothe
Southern Ilinoisan Railroad
de Soto
Murphysboro
Illinois
Byron Marks
Marks
Highway Department
Illinois 149
Missouri-Pacific
Highland
Robert Schoultz
Chicago
Houston
Texas
Poplar Bluff
Salem
Schoultz
Friends of Morris Library honor Delta Award winners
At a roof garden party and annual meeting SIU Carbonale honored three writers with Delta Awards for Southern Illinois related writings and awarded the first Friend of the Friends Award to Wayman Presley. James Martin Smith Paul Simon and John W D Wright were named Delta Award recipients with Smith as principal speaker. A separate note announced Richard Menges as winner of the fifth SIU C international playwriting competition with a $2000 prize for Dynamite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Gelman
Southern Illinois
Friends of Morris Library
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Delta
Paul Simon
D-Carbondale
James Martin Smith
Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum
Wilmington
Del
John W. D. Wright
Carbondale
Wayman Presley
Alto Pass
Morris Library
Simon
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Alton
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Smith
Wright
International Harvester Co
Jackson County Historical Society
SIU Press
Richard Menges
Oak Park
Clarence Darrow
Los Angeles
Menges
Siuc Theater Department
Darrow
World leaders to be sculpted by renowned artist in Kentucky
Byline B G reports that Gandhi and Nehru will be honored with bronze busts of Kentucky Governor Julian Carroll and late Vice President Alben Barkley. The artworks, funded by private donations, debut at Paducah’s Lawter Gallery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gandhi
Pandit Nehru
Kentucky
Julian Carroll
Alben Barkley
City Hall
Paducah
Lawter
London
Ms. Brilliant
Charlie Chaplin
Hurst Bush campaign to withdraw from Herrin District continues
Hurst Bush residents led by SPACE spokesman Mildred Jacobs vow to press petitions to form a separate district. About 600 signatories seek a grade school and possibly a high school, but errors in petitions and lack of funding or high school plan stall the move. They may join Carterville or Zeigler-Royalton or send high school students to Carbondale. approval rests with the Williamson County board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hurst-Bush
Herrin Community Unit
Mildred Jacobs
John Womick
Herrin
Les McCollum
Williamson County
McCollum
Carterville
Zeigler-Royalton
Carbondale
Williamson County Board of School Trustees
Hurst- Bush
Wisely Electric Shop Auction Heads Into Week Sale
Siblings Frances Green and Mary Lou Banter stage a disposal sale of their father Clyde Wisely's Murphysboro shop items from 1916 era through decades of repairs and Indian relics. The auction at 220 N 11th St runs Monday and Tuesday with possible continuation. Wisely, 87, a long‑time collector, recounts near fatal 1971 injuries and his lifelong habit of saving everything that might be used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Green
Mary Lou Banter
Wisely Electric
Murphysboro
Clyde Wisely
Walnut St
Wisely
Jackson County
Mexico
Mary Lou
Frances
N. 11Th St
Lloyd Sitter
Illinois
St. Louis
Calieh
Marlin Perkins
Jand
Texas
Vienday
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Pat Patterson
Poplar Bluff, Mo
Dave Mathis
Pinckneyville
Mike Dagner
Dupo
M. D. Houghland
Swanwick
Patterson
Tim Hogan
Gorham
Cotton Belt Railroad
Cotton Belt
Dick Carter
Friends of Library
SIUC
Christian Moe
SJUC
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Juther King Jr
Forest Fund of
Libertyville
Martin Gottfried
New York Post
John Patrick
Douglas Wager
Arena Theater
Joseph Talarowski
Fredda Brilliant
Byline
B.G
Herbert Marshall
Siuc Center For
British Broadcasting Corporation
Paul Robeson
Marshall
England
Bush
Clyde
Tony Stevens
The
Southern Illinois’n
Thomas Logan
Murphysboro Area
John A. Logan
Murphysboro Township High School
Butch Nevious
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