Southern Illinoisan from Carbondale, Illinois • Page 3

CarSondaTe Hcrrfn Mnrphysbora SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1830 Pii Thru Highway Chief Urn 'v -v Mi By Major Electric NANCY WELSHANS DIES Funeral Services Tuesday For Sparta Resident Mrs. Nancy Jane Welshans, 78, ll ket. The orchards are making up for last year's freezeout. R. C.

Moniger and his harvest crew, this morning at Etherton Switch, say this year's crop is going to make it a "better than average" year. An equally good crop is expected for later varieties apples and for peaches, Moniger said. Won't Comment On Fuel Tax Jackson County Superintendent of Highways Carl Worthen today had no comment on whether the County Highway Dept. is paying a five-cent motor fuel tax on gas it buys from the Martin Oil Co. in Carbondale.

Worthen attended a meeting with the county Road and Bridge Committee and a Southern Illinoisan reporter this morning. Worthen blasted the Southern Illinoisan for "misquoting me" and the paper's editorial page for giving "undue criticism." The Superintendent said he did not say anything about being against the bid system for buying gas. He charged the reporter with gross negligence in quoting him. The reporter maintained he did not misquote Worthen. The highway chief said he would give a full account of the issue after special meeting of the Board of Supervisors has been held.

The meeting date has not been set. The chief claimed that he has all the records of gas sales and knows how much the county is paying for.gas and how much it uses. However, he said the records in his office are not public and could not be disclosed until after they have been approved by the Board. Clyde Perschbacher, Somerset Township Supervisor from Harri son, said Sunday in an interview at his home that he believes "the county should not be paying the tax." Hie supervisor added that he did not know if the county has been paying the tax or if there have been any rebates if the county has paid the tax. Perschbacher was chairman of the Road and Bridge Committee in 1955.

Worthen would not comment on whether or not the county is paying the tax or if there have been any rebates. Perschbacher said the county should be exempt from the tax on the equipment that it uses in road work just as a farmer is exempt on gas he uses in his tractor. The Martin Co. reported recently that the county pays 27.9 cents per gallon of gas. They gave the following breakdown: The county pays a regular price of 17.9 per gallon, plus five cents state motor fuel tax, two cents federal tax and three cents sales tax.

The county gas bidding issue arose earlier this month when James Levan, Levan Township Supervisor, told the board he believed the county, could save money on gas for the County Highway Dept. if the sales were put on a bid basis. Other companies, including the Texas (Texaco) Co. in Murphys-. boro and Marion, claimed they would like to bid on the count ies gas contracts.

The Texaco Co. now furnishes the County Highway Dept. with oil. HERBERT TOWNES DIES Services Wednesday For Resident Of Carbondale Herbert L. Townes, 73, 616 N.

Allyn Carbondale, died at 6:50 a. m. Saturday at Missouri-Pacific Hospital in St. Louis, where he had been a patient since last March. He was an espress messenger for Railway Express Agency.

Townes was a member of the Elk lodge in Carbondale and of the First Christiant Church, Carbondale. He was born at Warsaw, on March 20, 1883. He leaves daughter Mrs. a r-garet Hill of Carbondale, sons Capt. Paul Townes of Ft.

Bcn-ning, Lt. Corndr. Herbert L. Townes U. S.

Navy, stationed in Italy, William W. Townes of DeKalb; nine grandchildren; brother Harvey Townes of Moberly, and sister Mrs. T. C. Shaeffer of Lander, Wyo.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Christian Church of Carbondale, The Rev. Harry B. Adams will officiate. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery.

Friends may call after 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Van Natta Funeral Home, Carbondale. MINE REPORT Mines Working Tuesday Old Ben 9 Old Ben 14 Old Ben 22 Oreint 2 Orient 3 Buckhorn 2 Zeigler 3 Freeman 4 Fidelity New Kathleen Pyramid Truax-Traer No. 2 Burning Str No.

1 Stoi Veteran Teacher Mrs. M'Laughlin Dies At 80 In Carbondale i Mrs. Nellie Weller McLaughlin, who taught two generations of Carbondale students died in Holden Hospital at Carbon dale Sunday at 11 a. m. Mrs.

Mc Laughlin, 80, was hospitalized about three weeks. Mrs. McLaughlin also taught in Decatur as a young woman and in Sesser. She retired along with Miss Alice Milligan, a Carbondale teacher for 36 years, in 1945. "She taught English to nearly all Carbondale boys and girls be fore and after her husband's death in 1926," Miss Milligan said.

Her husband was E. E. McLaughlin, superintendent of Carbondale Public Schools until 1912. Born in the Younestown, area June 3, 1876, she moved to Carbondale with her parents in the lebOs and entered the fourth grade at Southern Illinois Normal College elementary School. At Southern Illinois University com mencement exercises June 18, Mrs.

McLaughlin was cited as one of the school graduates of more than 50 years ago. Before teaching in Carbondale. Mrs. McLaughlin was a Decatur school pnnapal for two vears. She taught under her future husband at Lincoln School until 1912.

They were married shortlv aft erwards and taught together in Sesser for several years. During World War Mrs. McLaughlin worked tor the government in Washington, D. C. After the war, the McLaughlins returned to Southern Illinois where McLaughlin continued working for the Anti-Saloon League.

Mrs. McLaughlin stopped teach ing while her husband was in nooi health. She resumed teaching, at Lincoln Junior High School, fol lowing her husband death. We needed teachers very bad ly and Mrs. McLaughlin gladly accepted a position, Miss Milli gan said.

They taught together un til their retirement. Mrs. McLaughlin moved to Indianapolis after her retirement. There she lived with a relative. Her home was at 312 West Walnut Carbondale, at the time of her death.

She was preceded in death by her husband and two step-sons, William and Allen McLaughlin. She leaves great-nephews William and James Gibson, both of Indianapolis, one niece and one nephew. Services will be held 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Huffman Funeral Home, 210 West Oak Carbondale.

The Rev. C.E.F. Howe, pastor of the Carbondale First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Oakland Cemetery, Carbondale. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.

m. today. Novice Bartender Takes Customer's Order Literally Harry Ralston, Murphys-boro Moose Lodge governor, pitched in to help bartenders Sunday as the lodge marked its sixth birthday, and tried to serve just what the customers ordered. One customer asked for a "screwdriver," a new and popular drink made with vodka. That one stumped the novice bartender a few seconds, before he walked to a storage drawer and produced a small screwdriver.

When informed what the customer wanted was something to drink, Ralston said, 4 'Oh! I thought he wTas having trouble with his car, and needed a screwdriver. Pastor's Wife Found Shot A Cairo pastor's wife was found shot to death in her home Sunday shortly after her husband had completed his morning sermon. Coroner Paul Baur termed the death of Mrs. Annette Newcomer Sivey, 46, a suicide. She was the wife of Rev.

George Sivey, pastor of the First Christian Church. Baur said the woman had been ill and that she recently was released from a Cairo hospital. Area residents had to use cand-bs and flashlights twice Sunday in what is described the worst electrical storm since January. Lightning bolts, wind and rain knocked out 15 pieces of Central Illinois Public Sendee Co. equipment during the storm which flared up intermittently from 6 p.

m. Sunday to early this morning. Heaviest damage was in Carbon-dale, where six heavy primary power lines were downed and four street circuits were put out of commission. Fuses in five area transformers were blown a result of lightning strikes. Major blackouts occurred at 6:05 p.

m. and at 9:30 p. m. Sunday. Other reported power failures Sunday were: Johnston City, 6 to 9:55 p.

Carterville, 6:25 to 6:45 p. Zdegler from 5:25 to 6:28 and 11:55 to 12:20 a. Royalton, 5:15 to 10:35 p. Marion 6:30 to 10 p. Goreville 9:10 to 11:52 p.

end West Frankfort from 6 until midnight. Eight Marion power lines were broken when wind snapped a tree in the 900 block of South Mon roe street shortly after 6 p. Firemen stood by at the scene but no fire broke out. Television pictures end lights died at 6:05 in Carbondale, Ma-kanda and south on Rt. 51 when lightning struck down a main line which feeds a transformer station at Southern Illinois University.

Alto knocked out was a feed switch which was responsible for the Carbondale failure. Power returned at 7:28. The second power failure was caused by wires breaks in east Carbondale. Breaks occurred at East Chestnut and North Barnes and North Marion and East Willow streets. Elkville Hit Elkville was darkned from 8:30 to 1 1 p.

m. Sunday by lighting-hit transformers. Another failure early this morning was little noticed. Weary CTPS line crews did not cease repair efforts until 3 a. m.

today and were back out at 6:20. I A Bghtning strike created one fire in Carbondale. A TV antenna M118 Walkup home of Robert Valentine, was hit and the lightning broke through insulation on a ground wire. Fire Chief Monk Crawshaw taid there was little damage. Some iheeting material on the inside of an attic was burned.

The house was hit at 5:55 p. m. 2 More Calls Firemen were called out twice more when the CIPS wires in east Carbondale were downed. A standby gasoline pump was switched on at the Carbondale water plant to keep stand pipes full and pressure up in case of fire. The generator at Doctors Hos pital kept emergency rooms lighted.

A Marion Veterans Hospital rain guage recorded 1.1 inches of rain. The General Telephone Co. office in Carbondale reported little damage to phone equipment or wires. Herrin Woman Is Charged Mrs. Eunice Mays, 35, of 2002 E.

Tyler St. Herrin, was held Williamson County jail, Marion, today on a charge of obtaining transportation under false pretens es. Aauilla Sandusky, Herrin taxi driver, one of two forced to drive Mrs. Mavs at the point of a gun Saturday, filed the charge itorej 1 I Justice of the Peace Oorge Wood, Herrin. Robert Butler, assistant state's attorney, said slie would be arraigned today.

Mrs. Mays entered Sandusky's cab early Saturday and told him to drive her to Marion. There she drew a .22 caliber pistol and told him to keep driving through town. At Harrisburg she left his cab and took another driven by Wayne Bridges. The cab was stopped at Benton by Franklin County authorities.

Bridges refused to press any charge after he received fare payment from $66 Mrs. Mays had in her possession. She did not take money from either driver. Butler said she told him today she wanted to see the new bridge at Shawneetown but did not know her directions in Harrisburg and told the driver to go the wrong way. died in the Krcsby Nursing Home in Sparta Saturday night.

She was born in the Sparta rural area in 1878, and was a lifelong Sparta area resident. She was married to Charles A. Welshans. who survives. She al so leaves sons Russell and Charles, both of Sparta, and brothers Charles Reed of Billings, and Joseph Reed of Sullivan, Mo.

Mrs. Welshans was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Sparta. Friends may call at the Walker-Paul Funeral Home in Sparta until services Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. (CDT) at the funeral home.

The Rev. Chester Armentrout will officiate. Burial will be in the Caledonia Cemetery. Paschen Starts 4-Day Area Tour Tonight Herbert C. Paschen, Democrat candidate for governor and other state candidates, will begin a tour through Southern Illinois tonight.

The tour will end Thursday with a chicken fry in McLeansboro. Paschen will speak tonight at 7:30 at the Williamson County courthouse in Marion before the Women's organization headed by Mrs. Milo Cardwell. Omer Sanders, Democratic County chairman, and other county officials will also attend. Tuesday, Paschen will tour Har-risburg and Saline County accompanied by Leroy Barham, delegate to the Democratic national convention.

He will join state candidates at the Soldiers and Sailors Democratic Day reunion at Salem for a picnic luncheon Tuesday afternoon. The Democratic meeting is slated Tuesday night. Paschen and stale candidates will speak at the regular monthly meeting of the Egyptian Democratic Club in Herrin Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. the Gold Room oi the Ly-Mar Hotel.

More than 500 Democratic precinct committeemen and commit-teewomen from 20 Southern Illinois counties will attend the chicken fry at the McLeansboro city park at noon Thursday. Jackson Board Session Opens Jackson County Board of Review members went into official session this morning for regular summer work on 1956 tax assess ments. The Board will spend most of July and August in spot checks of tax assessment books including mathematical checks on assessments made by township assessors. A schedule of hearings for formal protests wall be set up during August, after all township assessments are published. Objections may be filed with the Board after assessments are published.

In most cases, objections are worked out in informal hearings between the objector and the Re view Board. The Board includes members A. R. Carter of Elkville and J. A.

Patterson of Carbondale. Jackson County Supervisor of Assess ments James Lawder is clerk of die Board, and County Board of Supervisors Chairman James Gill- more is cnairman ot ine neview Board. .1 Board members attended a conference in Mt. Vernon last week to study 1956 tax assessment pro cedures. Clerk Lawder said most of the discussion at the Mt.

Vernon meet-in? involved assessments on oil property, and said only a few min or changes were discussed relative to assessments in Jackson County. STEELEVILLE FACTORY TO CLOSE ONE WEEK The International Shoe Co. plant at Steeleville will close for one week July 2. Full scale operations are to resume July 9. The notice of closure was posted last week in the Steeleville plant.

The plant was closed May 28 through June 11 for regular two week vacation periods for all MISQUOTED Carl Worthen, Jackson County highway superintendent, said today that he was "misquoted" in a Sunday story about county gasoline purchases. A Southern Illinoisan reporter denied Worthen had been misquoted. Judge Juergens To Take Office Friday U. S. District Judge William G.

Juergens, 51, of Chester, wall be sworn in as successor to Judge Fred L. Wham at brief ceremonies in East St. Louis at 11:30 a. m. Friday.

Judge Casper Piatt of Danville, Chief Justice of the Eastern District of Illinois, and Douglas Reed, Benton, clerk of the Court, will officiate. Judge Juergens nomination was confirmed by the U. S. Senate last week. An unusually short time, only 14 days, elapsed between the nomination and the confirmation.

A luncheon sponsored by the East St. Louis Bar Assn. will be held at the Broadview Hotel after the ceremonies. The president of each bar association in the count ies comprising the Eastern District have been invited, according to Stanford Meyer, East St. Louis BarAssn.

president. Judge Juergens has been a judge in the Third Judical Circuit since 1951. He was Randolph Coun ty judge from 1938 to 1951. A Republican, he was recommended to the President bv U. S.

Sen. Everett Dirksen A graduate of the Carthage Col lege, Carthage, 111., and the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Harbor, Judge Juergens was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1928. CLARENCE SANDERS DIES Funeral Services Tuesday For Rt. 2, Mulkeytown Man Clarence A. Sanders, 73, of Rt.

2, Mulkeytown, died Sunday at 3:30 p. m. in Marshall Browning Hospital, Du Quoin. A retired farmer, he had lived in Franklin County all his life. He was a member of the Christian Church.

He leaves his wife Bertha, son Dawson Sanders, daughters Mrs. Helen Mitchell and Mrs. Iva Fur lough of Mulkeytown, and Mrs. Elthel McKenie of Jefferson City, brother Omer of Christopher; sisters Mrs. Jennie Dawson Herrin.

and Mrs. Blanche Arant of St. Louis, Mo. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at the Christian Church in Christopher. The time has not been set.

The Rev. M. E. Frank will officiate. Burial will be in Harrison Cemetery, Christopher.

Friends may call at the Gilbert funeral Home, Christopher. Marion Man Dies Wayne C. Pulley, 62, was found dead at 12:15 p. m. today in his room in the Hotel State, Marion.

He died of apparent natural causes sometime Sunday night, authorities said. He was a brother of Mrs. Roland Wilson, Marion. miles, finally catching him three miles north of Brookport' Chester said the siren was sounding and the red light wras flashing on the sheriff's car for about a mile before Kynion stopped. At one point, Chester said, it appeared Kynion tried to pass another car on the right while traveling about 100 miles per hour.

"He didn't make it and vve caught him and charged him with driving while intoxicated' Chester said. How fast did Kynion claim he was going? "Oh, he told us he was 'doing about 60'," Chester said. Kynion was jailed until the hearing. Sesser Driver Dies fit Wheel-Car In Crash A 70-year-old Sesser man suffered a heart attack and died at the wheel of his car Sunday. The car knocked over a gasoline pump and rammed a tractor and combine at Hude's Garage in Sesser.

W. E. White apparently suffered the attack as he made a stop at an intersection and started across the street. The car stalled when it hit the tractor and combine. White leaves his wife, Phoebe; sons, Willard and Lloyd of Sesser and Aaron and Amon of Herrin; daughter, Mrs.

Violet Harris of Sesser; stepsons, Waldo i 1-liams of St. Louis, step-daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Fitzgerald of Jacksonville and Mrs. Oleva Galek of Zeig-ler; brother, Ross of Christopher, and sisters, Mrs. Stella Piper of Sesser and Mrs.

Nova Bennett of Maywood. Funeral services wall be Tuesday at 2 p. m. in the Brayfield Funeral Home Chapel, Sesser, wrhere friends may call. The Rev.

Rose will officiate. Burial will be in Maplehill Cemetery. Marion Girl In State Post Ann Morgan, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Morgan, 1225 S.

Court Marion, was installed as Governor of Illinois Girls State at Jacksonville Sunday. She was elected by 470 dele gates from throughout the state Saturday. Miss Morgan headed th5 "Federalist Party" ticket in opposition to the "Nationalists." Girls State is sponsored by the American Legion auxiliaries to acquaint girls writh processes of government. Miss Morgan was inaugurated at a swearing-in ceremony conducted by Mrs. Earle Searcy, Illinois Supreme Court Clerk.

She will reign until a successor is elected next year. TREES LOADED Every Transparent or Lodi apple tree in Southern Illinois seems loaded with both fruit and pickers this week as the area's early harvest starts to mar Apple Harvest Outlook Good The midsummer apple harvest in Southern Illinois really is a har vest this year. Growers, now busy supervising crews of pickers, have reported variously "This is at least an average It IIT1T .11 1.. crop, vve will get a little better than normal yield," and This year's harvest is going to be better than average by a long shot. The U.

S. Dept. of Agriculture expects the total Illinois crop to be some 300,000 bushels bigger than the 1955 harvest. Most of the 000 extra bushels will come from area trees, as Southern Illinois fruit harvests last year were cut by a kil- mg frost while central and north ern orchards reported about aver age yields. The move to market centers on the Lodi and Transparent apples, which represents about four per cent of the total number of trees.

"We don't expect area growers to be using any transient workers yet," Harold Hartley of the Illinois Fruit Council said in Carbondale this morning. "The early ap ple crop isn as big as job as the late apples and peach crops which come on in late summer and fall." Some growers are shipping their fruit direct to markets, others are selling through wholesaling operations like the Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange at Carbondale and buying sheds in the Anna-Cobden area. Colony Club Hearing Reset A preliminary hearing on a gambling charge against Joe Dodd, identified as owner of the Colony Club in Alexander County, has been continued until Wednesday in the court of Alexander County Judge Dorothy Spomer. The hearing was scheduled this morning, but was continued on notice Dodd was in St. Louis for medical treatment, Judge Spomer said.

Dodd was named in state police charges filed Friday. He is charged with possession of gambling equipment. A state police raiding party led by Capt. Elza Brantley seized a dice table, a roulette wheel and four slot machines in a raid Thursday afternoon. A question of jurisdiction arose Saturday when Alexander County Sheriff Leslie Questman said the property raided was not a part of the Colony Club.

Chrestman said a small outbuilding south of the Colony Club, from which the raiders took the gambling equipment, is a separate structure, and not a part of the Colony Club property. He said the outbuilding is owned by Beatrice Winters of Christopher. Judge Spomer said no testimony was introduced today to determine any issue of jurisdiction or property ownership. State Police Capt. Elza Brantley and Lt.

Earl Pogue of the Du Quoin District 13 office were in Cairo this morning to participate in three gambling case hearings. Bumper Jack Slips, Station Attendant Is Trapped By Car A bumper jack slipped Sunday, trapping a Herrin service station attendant under a car on which he was working. Jack Ross, 19, of Rt. 1, Carterville, remained in Herrin Hospital today for observation. A service station spokesman said a first reading of X-rays showed no broken bones.

The accident happened Sunday morning at the Hazen Coleman station on South Park avenue. Coleman said Ross was trapped but not pinned under the car. Day's Hearings Clear Dockets Morning hearings in the Jackson Circuit Court in Murphysboro cleared the June term docket of The June term opened this morning, with Circuit Judge C. E. Wright presiding.

Pleadings in eight cases were scheduled. Seven pleadings were disposed of, and one was set back to June 30. The June docket lists three nonjury trials for Tuesday. One of the trials has been taken off the docket, and one continued to a later hearing. MURPHYSBORO YOUTHS UNHURT IN ACCIDENT William R.

Gill, 21, 1013 Rover Murphysboro, and five other Murphysboro youths escaped injury Sunday when Gill's car left Rt. 13 just east of Murphysboro. Gill told Jackson County Deputy Sheriff Ray Dillinger he lost control of the auto as he crossed railroad tracks near the end of the Big Muddy River bridge of Murphysboro. The youth said he appreantly had a flat tire when he put on the brakes to slow for the tracks. Gill's car struck a post on the right side of the raod.

Dillinger said the post kept the car from turning over. The other passengers in the car were not identified. RABIES VACCINATIONS SET IN JOHNSTON CITY Dr. W. G.

Bayles, Marion Williamson County, rabies inspector, will be in Johnston City Friday to vaccinate dogs. Police Chief Luther Wiseman said Dr. Bayles will be at the city hall from 1 p. m. to 6 p.

m. Cost of the rabies vaccination will be $2. In addition, the city tax for male dogs is $1 and for females $5. Wiseman said all dogs not vaccinated must be destroyed. CORRECTION Hiree Illinois egg law meetings reported to be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of this week, were held on those days last week, The notice appeared on page 8 of Sunday's Southern II-linoisan.

The meetings were I held at Anna, Vienna and Mounds. Deputy Wins Race Driver Caught After 100-Mile-An-Hour Chase A Granite City steel worker, who lost a race with a deputy was to appear this morning before Johnson County Judge Robert Porter. Deputy Sheriff Tom Qiester and an unidentified motorist chased Virgil J. Kynion, 31, at speeds over 100 miles per hour from Vienna to the outskirts of Brookport Saturday night. The chase began about five minutes after the morotist reported Kynion ran a stop sign and barely missed hitting a car at Vienna.

"He was flying low down Rt. 45 toward Metropolis when we sighted him," Chester said. "We chased him about 28.