Murdale Airport Set for Sunday Dedication at Carbondale
The two year old Murdale airport, expanding from the original 40 acres, will be dedicated with about 500 Flying Farmers from Illinois and Indiana attending. Marion F. Cole will perform aerobatics, Joe Phillips and a dog will do parachute jumps. The ceremony runs 1 to 2 30 pm with a flyover and exhibitions.
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Carbondale
Midwestern Aero Service
Midwestern
Mardale
Murphysboro
Illinois
Indiana
Marion F. Cole
Joe Phillips
Salem
Pinocchio
Gene Seibert
Murdale
DeSoto
Southern Illinois
Airport Authority Commission
Authority Commission
Robert W. Davis
O. B. Young
Phillip Kimmel
Fred Wills
Floyd Hart
J. Edward Helton
Washington, D. C
Ingfield
Chicago
Weather Seibert
Rocky Peebles
Eliot Ket
Murdale Airport Seen as Future Regional Hub
Murdale manager Gene Seibert shows a new progress sign as the airport expands with rent a car service and lighting plus a weather station costing over 50 000 dollars. A statewide aviation traffic study by Ray and Ray Associates investigates Murdale as a potential feeder for commercial flights and may shape a bright future with AFROT C training consideration.
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Murdale
Gene Seibert
Afrotc
Ray and Ray Associates
Washington, D. C
Illinois
CAA
Samuel Minton Dies at 73 in Pinckneyville
Samuel T. Minton 73 a retired Illinois Central railroad supervisor died at 1 30 p m Friday at his Pinckneyville home Born in Makanda he lived previously in Carbondale He worked for the I C from 1903 to 1944 He leaves his wife Luella two sons Lamont Carbondale and William Centralia two daughters Mrs George Stewart and Mrs Ralph Truitt Pinckneyville and eight grandchildren Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 30 p m in the First Baptist church Pinckneyville Burial in Memorial Cemetery Du Quoin Doerr Funeral Home Pinckneyville in charge
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Samuel T. Minton
Pinckneyville
Illinois Central Railroad
Makanda
Carbondale
Luella
Lamont
William
Centralia
George Stewart
Ralph Truitt
First Baptist Church
Pynckneyville
du Quoin
Doerr Funeral Home
SIU Art Judge Ball on Good Design Show Panel
Ball F Carlton Ball associate professor of art at Southern Illinois University serves on the selections committee for the Good Design ’52 show. The exhibit in the Merchandise Mart Chicago is sponsored by the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Mart. It will open to the public by the end of June and run for one year.
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SIU
Seikert
Airways
Vandalia
Illinois
Midwestern Aero Service
Midwestern
Seibert
Peebles
Lloyd Cox
Kerring
Willard Benz
Addie Crowell
Mardale
Muscle Shoals
Ala
J. G. Taylor Spink
Everett Dirksen
Paul Douglas
Gov
Adlai Stevenson
Rexs
Boston
Civil Aeronautics Commission
Indiana
Fisk
Wabash River
Merchandise Mart
Chicago
New York Museum of Modern Art
Chicago Merchandise Mart
Mart
New DeMolay Officers Installed in Murphysboro Ceremony
A Tuesday night installation at the Masonic Temple Murphysboro crowned new officers for the DeMolay chapter. In the front row the officers included Ronnie Hanson Dick Carter Earl Cottonaro William Neal Johnny Cummings Edward Burton Paul Miller and Benton Berry with Master Councilor Samuel Berry Junior Councilor James Wright and Charles Fleming among others.
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Murphysboro
Masonic Temple
Cummings
Edward Burton
Paul’ Miller
Benton Berry
Murphysboro Pig Turns Homeward After A Misadventure
In the Announcements column two adjacent notices tell of a small white pig missing near Tower Grove and later found in Murphysboro. Chris Pieron reported feeling the pig and Jack Eaton lost it, with the owner to reclaim by paying for the ad. The notices confirm it is the same pig.
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Southern Illinoisan
Murphysboro
Tower’ Grove
Chris Pieron
Jack Eaton
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St. Louis
Murdale Airport
Air
Weather Bureau
HERTZ
Tion
Samuel Minton
The
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Chief Charter
Kenneth Hall
Federal Communications Commission
Robert Pulling
University of Toledo
H. A
Hazilton
University of Illinois
Willard
Benz
Murdale Cargo
Addie. Crowell
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