Southern Illinoisan from Carbondale, Illinois • Page 3

arhondale Herrln Mgrphysbsro SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1938 Pat Turn Testing Boat Engine tmmt Prop i try lj! J- I 1 "1 HIDING PLACE Carbondalc market mvner Fwi day shows how he was getting into his car after closing Bandit Hid In Car FATAL BLADE Reporter examines propeller whici killed Douolas Wavne Parola, 19, of Herrin, in an ac- i Carbondale Market Owner Robbed Of S674 4 the market Sundav niht.when he saw something move in the hack seat. Gray slammed the door and ran, hut a tohher leap- him a few minutes and walked between the station and market when he left. The robber told Lence he had been visiting his father who works on a farm near Carbondale and was returning to his home in the South. I think he said he was going back to Alabama," Lence said. He told Lence someone "over there" was pumping up a car tire and had promised to take him to Cairo, pointing toward northeast Carbondale.

He said he was roinc He Was Campaigning Halloween Event Oct. 20 Herrin Carnival Set Lots Of Cars, But No Major Mishaps Sunday Southern Illinois motorists were out on the highways in brge numbers in Sunday's excellent late summer weather, but no major traffic accidents were reported. District 13 State Police headquarters at Du Quoin said no accident reports were turned in from Saturday afternoon through Sunday, even though reports of heavy traffic were received from several sections of the District. First Goose Flight Arrives Early risers over the weekend probably heard and saw the' firs: substantial Canada Goose arrowing their way south. flights Whatev er automatic calendars the ese have in their heads starts them on their way every year at exactly the same time.

Friday's count of geese at Crab Orchard Lake was 1,600. No of ficial count has been made this week, but U. S. Fish and Wild life officials report a substantial ad dition to the flock this morning. Last year a peak population of 91,000 Canada Geese was reported! at Crab Orchard Lake in mid- November.

Seven Pieces Of Property Sold For Taxes Seven pieces of property were sold at auction for delinquent taxes todav in Williamson Countv. The sales were for Blairsville, Carterville and Grassy Townships by Deputy Collector Carl Schroe-der. Purchasers of property on which 1958 taxes were delinquent: Robert Childers, lots 5 to 8, block 4, original survey of Grain- ville, $48.20 Ethel B. Vaughn, Sec. 16, block 8, range 1 Carterville, 10 acres, $180.44 Vernie Nicols, T.

P. Russell's First Addition, Blairsville, $8.19 Don Morgan, Farris' Additon, Carterville, $23.40 Three lots on which taxes were delinquent for 10 years were sold. Louis Ottolini Jr. bought lots 4 and 5 in block 16, Blairsville for $12.85 each. Norman A.

Jones bought lot 8 in the same block and township for $12.85. Ottolini and Jones outbid the county by SI on each lot. Schroeder said about 80 remaining lots on which taxes are delinquent over 10 years are automatically bid on by the county for 50 per cet of taxes, interest and penalties. SUNKEN COAL BARGE STILL IN OHIO RIVER A fully loaded coal barge which was sunk in a collision involving 27 barges near Cave-in Rock on the Ohio River, is still submerged pending action by the barge lines and insurance companies. The sunk barge was one of eight coal barges owned by the Union Barce Lines which were beinn i pushed down stream bv the steamer Cornell.

The other 19 bar ges involved were empties headed upstream behind the steamer Sam K. Steamer. The U. S. Army Engineers at Louisville reported the owners of the sunken barce are responsible for its salvaging and only upon complete abandonment of the ves sel would be the job of the engineers.

BREAK-IN REPORTED AT SERVICE STATION About $40 worth of merchandise was stolen in a break-in a Bud and Gene's Phillips 66 service starion, 910 W. Main dr. bondale, Saturday nioht. Four cases of motor oil valued at $30, four flashlights and a hammer were taken by someone who broke a window to enter after 10 p. m.

Saturday. WOMEN ON RADIO Mrs. Ernest Sorgen, President of the Carbondale Federated Worn-ens Club, announced the organi zation has been invited to the WC1L Breakfast Club at 9 a. m. Tuesday at the radio studio.

MINE REPORT Mines Working Tuesday Old Ben 9 Old Ben Old Ben 22 Old Ben Briquet Plant Orient 2 Orient 3 Buckhorn Freeman 4 Zeigler 3 Zeilex ashex Donkey That wandering donkey found in Herrin last week wasn't lost he was just restless and wanted to start campaigning. At least that was the explana tion given todav by Uvvavne "Bump" Linton of Herrin, Who identiiicd the donkey as Thomas Voters Flock To Complete Registration A steady stream of Jackson Countv voters appeared at the Mur- physboro courthouse today to reg ister with a new county clerk. Mrs. Mary Thorp, named Sat urday to complete the term of her father-in-law, veteran clerk Bovd Thorp, served her first full day in office today. County business, including registration, was suspended after Thorp's death at 2:10 p.

m. Thursday. rrsnmrd of 91 m. Saturday, when Mrs. Thorn Douglas Wayne Parola, 19, Her.

rin, was killed instantly, at '12; 50 p. m. Sunday wben the propcll or of a four-cylinder airplane engine sliced through his head, partially decapitating him. Parola, son of and Mrs. Clifford Parola, 800 S.

11th was testing the engine in the alley back of his home when the accident happened. The engine. as used to drive Parola's flat-bottomed 'swamp boat." Williamson County Coroner Adolph Fluck said today a vcrdi.t of accidental death was given at an inquest Sunday night. Fluck said witnesses told the coroner's jury Parola had removed the engine from the. boat and.

was preparing it for winter storage. Charles Parola, 14, the victim's brother, and five other youths saw the tragedy. The engine was standing in the -IT A i "i auev on us uiiee-iooc nign metal vne Parola started it, Fluck said. He told his brother, "I think I'll speed it up to see how it runs," then accelerated the cigine. Fluck said the youth was reaching around to the controls on the front of the engine when the increased force of the air from the propeller tipped the motor and frame over on top of him.

The blade cut through ris head. Fluck said, throwing part of his skull 40 feet away." The propeller blade did not break, Fluck said, but halted when it slammed into the ground. Fluck said the other boys helping Parola were Steve Faughn, 13 Billy Mason, 15, Mike Wharton 15, Gregg Cornelius, 11, Deanie Jackson, 15, and his brother Charles. Winter Storage Parola's parents ere at home at the time, Fluck said. The youth had placed the boat in the garage Sunday morning and had returned to put away the engine shortly after dinner.

The engine normally vv a mounted on the boat on i four-legged frame. Air propulsion enables the boat to travel in shallow water. On April 11, Parola received a fractured pelvis in a motorcycle accident on Rt. 13. He was a pas senger on a motorcycle driven by Phillip Laffoon, 16, Herrin.

He was born Aug. 11, 1939, in Herrin, son of Clifford and Lois Shackleford Parola. He graduated from Herrin Township High School in 1957. He was a member of Eagles Lodge 1549. Fie was employed as a tnick driver for Fly-Way Lumber and was a former Southern Illinoisan carrier.

He leaves his parents, brother, Charles, a Southern Illinoisan carrier, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Orval Shackleford of Johnston City and Mrs. Katie Parola of Richmond, Calif. Funeral services will be at 2 p.

m. Wednesday in the Second Baptist Church, South 11th St. The casket will not be opened. The Rev. Wallace Curlee, church pastor, will officiate.

Burial will be in Herrin City Cemetery. Friends may call at Johnson Funeral Home. Walker Parole To Be Revoked Albert Walker, 35, Rt. 1, Johnston City, captured Saturday 53 days after his escape from the Williamson County Jail will be returned to Menard Prison for violation of parole. Asst.

State's Atty, Robert Butler said todav Walker may be tried in the next term of circuit court on an indictment returned Sept. 22 for escape while being held for burglary and larceny. Walker was arrested in July on charges of taking household articles from houses near his home while the occupants were living 1 e-where. He and Donald Rogers, 22, Rt. 2, Marion, escaped Aug.

12 when thev brushed aside a trusty who had unlocked the cell door to deliver coffee to prisoners. Rogers was caught by Marion police shortly after. Walker escaped into a field in south Marion where he said officers in a 50-man pose walked within a loot of him while he hid in weeds. lie was caught by Herrin police and Deputy Sheriff Rex Rowland on the Bandyville Road after police got a tip he was in the vicinity. Walker was sentenced to vear to life on, Feb.

22, 1941, for burglarv and larceny and was Ipaxoied Sept. 12, 1956, I w' A- I I 1 4 w- ped over and the propeller struck him on the head. The propeller lies on the ground under the engine. Douglas Parola Lost Driver Fined $100, Put On Probation Ezra Smith, 46, 302 Dobson Carterville, pleaded guilty to reckless driving and was fined SI 00 and costs today in Jackson County Court. County Judge Peyton Kunce placed Smith on 30-day probation, with the fine to be paid during the period of probation.

Smith was ticketed Friday night after he called Carbondale City Police to the Illino Central railroad track, here his car was found straddling a rail. Smith testified he became "confused and panicky" when he found his car on the tracks. He said he turned onto the tracks thinking they were Rt. 51. fault i in the Philippines, Long said.

"It is a poor contry, so poor the newspapers cannot do an even passable job of publication. They lack monev for supplies, thev can't pay their workers as they and so almost evcrv working ntws- paperman is a nirel i i ling. The situation is ev en worse in Pakistan, Long said. This nation is typical of all southeast Asian countries "where the Communists are conupting the newspapers with money and gifts." In Pakistan and the others, the Reds "spend millions a vear" to make newsprint and supplies available to desperate editors. "Then they will suggest that the editor print a story they provide thon another story, perhaps a whole series possibly, at times, a full supplement." Representatives of eight newspapers, three of them in Missouri, attended the meeting as guests of the club.

Warden Ross Randolph of the state penitentiary at Menard represented the "Menard Time," prison newspaper, saving "It will be some years before our editor could attend in person." Hi cident Sundav. Parola was testing the airplane-type engine, used to drive a "swamp boat," when the engine and frame tip- Reclaimed Jefferson, official mascot of Williamson County Democratic organization. Jefferson has been staying at the farm of Mrs. Addie Kirk, a relative of Linton, since entering the political wars in 1956. Linton is general assistant administrator in Williamson County and secretary of the county Democratic organization.

The animal was found near the home of L. W. Frick north of Herrin. Linton denied that the disappearance was deliberately staged as a bit of political advertising. But if an elephant is found wandering around the county next week, voters may start wondcrino.

ENERGY MAN FINED Pays $45 On Intoxication Weapons Charges An Energy man picked up by Herrin PoIice at 11:30 P- m- Sat' Justice of the Peace Bob White, also paid S8.90 costs on each charge. Police said Huley was carrying a knife. Night Police Chief Calvin Hazel said Hulscy resisted arrest, wrapping his arms around a parking meter at 16th and Monroe streets in Herrin. In contrast, Long said, is situation in Japan, where a similar constitutional provision exists. But the Japanese people generally do not demand real news service from their newspapers, apparently because they do not yet understand the democratic process.

They fail to understand that democracy means, at least in large part, that public officials are "accountable to the public, through election and re-election, through courts, and through the questions reporters ask," Long said. Therefore the Japanese press, while legally free, technically practically flawless, and financilly prosperous, fails to give adequate news serv ice. On Formosa, the press is regulated. Hie Free China constitution provides a licensing reoula- hum, iu wim anu in tne tense situation of recent months, the government adopted laws specifically calling for suspension of offending publications "after warn- ings. Thus, Formosa newspapers print pretty much what the government thinks thev should.

JLConomic circumstances tie tt r-'M I A poster contest for school chil dren from the first grade through high school will be a new feature of the eighth annual Herrin Hal loween Carnival. Plans also include a barbecue, cake walk, carnival booths and games, and children's parade, ac cording to Mrs. William Fawcert, general chairman. The poster contest will replace the traditional window painting contest bv Herrin students. Post-ers ill be painted bv students from first grade through high school and placed in downtown store window s.

Eagles Lodge will furnish, prize monev for the posters. First Water Operators fill WIIIIIIWIU Carbondale and Herrin water department employes left for Springfield todav to attend the an nual Illinois Water Plant Operators' Assn. meeting. Herrin representatives are Weter Supt. Lester Jordan and Chief Op erator.

Don Childers. "Water and Sewer Supt. F. E. Corbirt repre sents Murphvsboro employes planning to attend were unable to go because of a cleaning project.

The session will be Tuesday and Wednesday at the Leland Hotel. It is sponsored by the Illinois Deprtment of Public Health. ed out and took $674 from Gray at gunpoint. The onlv light was from the service sution shown in the background. to check on the tire repairs when he left the station, Lence said.

Gray said the tin cashbox also contained his bankbook and deposit slips. The cash was in $20, $10 and $1 bills plus $1 in, pennies. Gray said he had endorsed all the checks. He asked that anvone who wrote him a check or cashed a check at the market Saturday or Sunday stop paymnt and notify him. Carbondale police were continu ing the investigation todav.

through sixth grades will be award ed two si her dollars first prize and one dollar second and third. in it.i Seventh and eighth grade prizes will be $3 and $2 and $1. High School prizes will be S5, $3, and $1. Mrs. Orval Houston is pos- ter contest chairman.

The Rotary Club will again sponsor a barbecue supper for the carnival, to be Thursday night, Oct. 30, since a football game is scheduled for Halloween night. The children's parade is scheduled for Friday afternoon. Mrs. Robert Ferrari is chairman.

The Lions Club will furnish refreshments for costumed children who take part Silver dollars will be given as registration prizes to children at the carnival. Children whose names are drawn will receive the prizes if they are home bv 9 p. m. Mrs. A.

N. Sanders is chairman. The carnival is sponsored annu ally by the I lerrin Woman Club. An organization interested in sponsoring a booth may call Mrs. Fawcett, 2-9541.

GALLON CLUB MEMBERS LISTED Three names of persons joining the "gallon dub" in the Red Cross Blood program in Herrin Friday were Omitted in the list in the Southern Illinoisan. Thev are Howard Sohn, Louis Alegnani and William Bracv. 12 Per Cent OOX 90 80 70 60" SO' at Southern Illinois University, Cherry Insurance Realty Brunner Office Supply, and Down I State Chevxclu Co, 40 was appointed at a special meeting jurday paid a $20 fine Sunday for of the Board of Supervisors. intoxication and a $25 fine for car- State's Atty. William a concealed weapon, said today a letter from Atty.

Gen.l A f. A gunman who hid in Carbon-dale market owner Fred Grays car snatched i cashbox containing $674 from Gray as he left the market Sunday night. The armed robber fled on foot cross field behind Gray's Mar. let, 518 E. Main Carbon-dale.

He eluded Carbondale snd state police who searched the area for him. Gray said the eashbox contained $424 in cash and $250 in checks. As Gray got In his car to leave tht market with the cashbox after dosing Sunday night, he saw something move in the back seat. Gray jumped out, slammed the door and started running toward the nearby service station. The robber, who had been hiding on the back seat floor, jumped out tnd began chasing Gray.

Gray laid he slipped on some cinders an fell, cutting his knee. When Gray got up, the robber fcad caught up with him and the two men faced each other, Gray said. "Gimme 'da moner," the rob-ber warned Gray several times. The robber, who had been reach-ins inside his coat with one hand, pulled out a shiny pistol and snatched for the cashbox. When Gray saw the pistol, he rave up the cashbox and the rob ber fled across a field north of the market.

Like Football Player Gray said the robber sprinted across the field with the cashbox under his arm "like a football play er running for a touchdown. Tohn G. Lence, operator of Lence's Wides Service Station, tvest of the market, said he was filiini up a car when he rlanced over and saw the robber'. Lence said the robber was the flame man who had inquired at his station a few minutes earlier about the best spot for hitchhiking south from Carbondale. Lence described the man as a light-colored Negro in his twenties, tvearing a light gray sports coat, dark gray trousers and a dark shirt or sweater under the coat.

Lence said the robber was about six-foot or slightly taller. Lence said the man talked with Rt. 148 Is Closed For Detour Test A half-mile section of Rt. 148 south of Herrin was closed lat; this morning for an eight to 12 hour test of the detour road along tide. Rt.

14S is being prepared for a new pavement. Dips and hills in the road will be leveled to eliminate no-passing zones. After the test period, officials said, anv defects that show up in the detour road will be repaired before it is used for the longer time during repaving of the high-wav. Traffic on the detour, espe-ciallv heavy trucks, will help compact the road surface. The next.

st op will be to break up present concrete paving on tne highway just south of the Herrin City limits. Later, another detour mail ntar Energy will be opened and pavement replaced there. With good weather, officials said, much of the new pavement could be completed this year. The dite of the next closing of Rt. 14S will not be set until extent of any rcpaiis needed in the cktiui is known.

Latham Castle confirmed county followed correct procedure in halting business and naming a new clerk. Castle said ballots and other election material prepared before Thorp's death and carrying his signature mav be used in the Nov. 4 voting. Today is the last day to register for the election. After Year Abroad Carbondale UF Report U.S.

Press 'Best In World Speaker Declares Drive Tops Now over 12 per cent accomplished, going for 20 per cent, is the status of the United Fund drive in Carbondale this morning, Drive Chairman Tom Young said. Receipts so far in the drive total $6,527.36, goal is $41,214. Included in the list of contributors to date are 29 firms or organizations which have made the Drive Committee's "100 per cent" roster. Young said. To get the rating, evcrv emplove and oflicial in the firm contributes.

The 29 firms arc the Illinois Fruit Council, Feirich Feirich, ABC Liquor Store, Attucks High School, Kampus Klipper, National Cah Register Stiles Office Equipment six Illinois Cen tral iiJilroad departments trat-fic, eIaitn, enginetr-ino, sujKrrintendent's, and signal Winkler School Ross Store, Sponsler Service Station, Sobery's Tasty Pastry, Southern Barbecue, Neunlist Studio, Renfro Furniture Xcarman Cties Service Station, Entsmingcr Grocery, Gordon Jones Grocery Andv's Curb Service, Bruh School, Area Sen ices Department Tne American public's demand for service deserves major credit for the quality of American newspapers, Prof. II. R. Long of South ern Illinois University told Ches ter Elks Club members and guests Saturday night. Speaking at the club's annual National Newspaper Day dinner, Long said newspapers in foreign countries particularly the Asian nations 'fall down in one or more important respects.

Most oi the failures arise because the peo ples involved either do not demand service or do not support their press, he said. Long, head of SIU's department of journalism, and Mrs. Long returned recently from Formosa, where Long taught as an exchange professor at a Chinese unhersity. Important to the quality of the American press is its constitutional guarantee of freedom, Long said. The public's continued support of its free press makes the constitutional guarantee contained in the First Amendment a meaningful guarantee, and American newspapers are "free prosperous, and 4.