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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1968
Page
2
Glendale Grade School hosts graduation events at 7 p.m. Friday with Jackson County Superintendent of Schools Monroe Deming as speaker.
Williamson County Sheriff Harold Farner said he will file criminal damage to property charges against 44 year old Iva Nell Jones of Wurst Hotel Hurst for setting five fires in her jail cell Wednesday night and Thursday. She allegedly smashed a clothing chest and pulled apart plumbing fixtures during detention after a disturbance at a tavern. Jones was arrested on intoxication and resisting arrest suspicions and earlier sentenced to a year at Dwight Reformatory in 1966 for criminal damage and jail fires.
Republican governor candidate Richard Ogilvie drew about 500 guests at a Marion Youth Baseball barbecue in Williamson with 200 300 at Williamson County Airport. He urged attention to Southern Illinois highways and praised Marion and its Little League program. James W. Sanders praised the turnout. Army Pvt James W Perrine, son of Royalton residents, reported to Fort Dix after training at Fort Gordon.
The Southern Illinois University Student Senate censured President Delyte W. Morris in its final session of the year and issued an open letter to students. A May 13 special meeting sought to reaffirm the senate as the channel for student grievances, but the resolution was vetoed by Student President Raymond Lenzi. A revised resolution urged seeking rights beyond channels when needed. Morris had not responded by May 24, and angry senators accused him of delay. In a separate obituary, Eva Perry of Marion, 82, died in Marion Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She was a Shiloh Christian Church member, survived by her husband and daughter, with services set for Sunday.
Illinois officials indicate the high speed transportation research center project may not proceed in the area. A $2 million bid was submitted to the federal Department of Transportation after late efforts by local leaders. Colorado is favored to host the 25 000 acre site amid available government lands and flat terrain.
Miss Erma Louise Zimbelman 77 was found dead Thursday in her Utopia Apartments home in Murphysboro by sister in law Mrs Clarence Zimbleman. Coroner called death natural causes. Funeral Saturday 10 a.m. at Meyer Deny Funeral Home with burial in Tower Grove Cemetery.
Lenzi warned the SIU campus will see growing unrest as the student body demands change. He said the university is run by older men out of touch with today’s youth and urged fundamental social reform within 30 to 40 years.
County commissioners heard a Kempner firm auditor explain why three months of sales tax and court fine receipts counted under accrual show a larger year end balance than cash basis. The report cites accrual timing for Sept to Nov receipts and notes modernization in tax and clerk offices. a separate entry mentions Caroline C. Bloom in Carterville facing a vehicle without registration charge.
An advertisement promotes T-4-L Powerful Germ Killer for itchy sweaty feet and foot odor claiming it stops itching and sweating by killing germs. It offers a 48 cent money back guarantee and lists Hewitt's Drug Store in Carbondale Karr's Drugs in Herrin and Hagler's in Murphysboro as locations.
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