Southern Illinoisan from Carbondale, Illinois • Page 3

Carbondale Herrin Morphysbor SOUTHERN ILLINOISANONDAY, APRIL 20, 1959 Ftn Tbrte Herrin Also Has Hospital Issue Vote CO0 I V. y' Herrin residents Tuesday will elect five aldermen and decide whether construction of a muni- cipal hospital should be further- ed with a bond issue and main- tenancetax. Major interest in the election has centered on the proposals to build an estimated $1,200,000 hospital. Questions to be decided are unemer me cirv snouia issue Scncrai ooiigtmon bonds and levy a .08333 per Interest Strong In Frankfort west rrankrort voters will elect a mayor and four city com misMoners Tuesdav, in a finale' to a campaign that has cooled since the city's unit school board election April 11. city ecction was closeiv' tied to the bitter campaign in which two members were elected' to the unit board.

i Phone Service Disrupted By Area Storm Heavy rain and thunderstorms Sunday night disrupted some toll telephone service and brought the Murphvsboro Civil Defense unit into action. i A total of .53 inch of rain was recorded in Carbondale from Sunday through 7 a. m. today. Tt u.

TI 1 re orted a totalof 187-inches Saturday and Sunday nights. Several limbs fell into telephone lines between Carbondale and Murphvsboro, but Louis Neilson, General Telephone Co. district superintendent, said the damage was not serious and crews should have it repaired today. Murphvsboro CD Director Harrv Browdy said the unit was called out about 8 p. m.

He said a supplemental bulletin from the U. S. Weather Bureau at Cai ro calling for thunderstorms and nossible heaw hail was received Mayor John Heaton, who ran cent maintenan-c ax- The bond second in the primary retiremcnt tax is estimatC( at 2- had said earlier the high school icen.ts for each asseiSed val- teachers supported his opponent uation- i wmv ivui v.ujucii die iuiuv- i. iui me ocour in the election of five alder-! bin at 101 S. 16th and the men from eight candidates.

Vofers To Decide Doctors Make Statement On Herrin Hospital Plan about 11 n. m. and the CDitnrown around the cars of teach DIRECT HIT Fred surveys damare to a large oak tree on his farm which was struck by lightning about 10:15 p. m. For Johnson County, Workers Tax Problem Possible Due To Missing Records Contests are in Ward 1 where both Oval Stone and Paul Capps seek the office, and in Ward 2, with incumbent Liston Carev I opposed by Louis Rolando.

V.ard 5 candicl.jte Le-tcr Wool- sev is unopposed, as is Lloyd Belt, candidate term in Ward 4. ior a iour- eat In Ward 4, James Thames'; name appears on ballots in oppo-; sition to jam-s Kirk tor the; iwo-ycar term. rioweer, names recently moved to Ward 1 and was automatically disqualified, open from 6 a. m. to 6 p.

are at the city hall fire station, Collard's Tin Shop at South Side School music room. Tuesday viction that the proposed method of building a new hospital is the best solution to the problem of providing adequate hospital care for the people of Herrin and the turrounding communities that look to Herrin for hospital facilities. "This matter has been discussed at ever ystaff meeting, and we have never indicated any attitude other than support of this plan. On other occasions, every Herrin doctor has publicly stated approval of the proposition. In further assurance to you, each of us, with the exception of Dr.

Miller, who is out of the state attending a professional meeting, is signing this statement." A public meeting on the hos pital issue is scheduled for 7:30 m. todav at the Herrin Town ship High School gymnasium. Mayor Fred Henderson and the hospital building committeep mailed postcard invitations to res 0 idents to attend the meet Dr. Kane, chairman of the group said a question and answer per iod will be included. Tuesday voters will decide on a hospital maintenance tax and a $400,000 bond issue to build the hospital.

Colony Club Owner Charged A charge of possession of gambling equipment was filed in Alexander County Court this morning against John Wilson, owner of the Colony Club. The club, located at the junc tion of Rt. 3 and Rt. 146, was the scene of a state police gamb Light Vote Seen In Carbondale Gloomy weather and an un- eventful campaign are expected to combine to oroduce a livmt ii vote in roonaaie citv elec- tion Tuesday. Forecasts of the vote rane from about 1,800 up to about 2,300 both well below the record vote oi more than 3,000 in the primary.

The primary vote was spurred by interest in a city manager proposition, which was defeated by 190 votes. The weather is expected to be cloudy and cool, but with no rain. The heaviest vote is expected on the east side, which traditionally turns out a larger percentage of the eligible voters than the west side. Blaney Miller is unopposed for mayor. Commissioner Vir- POLLS THE SAME Polls for Carbondale's city election Tuesday will be the same as for the March 3 primary election.

Voting will be in 1 1 precincts. gil Barringer, Floyd Crawshaw William Eaton, C. E. Fehren-baker, John T. AMars.

Albert Shafter Philip Stiles and John C. "Jock" Williams are seeking four commissioner posts. Incumbent Roy Hall is op posed by attorney Robert Schwartz for police magistrate. A Citizens Committee which worked for the city manager proposal and backed Eaton, Stiles, Shafter and Mars in the primary has been less active in the cur rent campaign. An informal a.

group which opposed the city manager and gave support to the other four candidates in the primary has Continued fairly active. Marked ballots supporting Barringer, Crawshaw, Fehrenbaker and Williams have been distri buted. Some of these ballots have been displayed at the city hall, but they are not being marked or distributed by city employes. Hnmmarked sample ballots art available without charge at the city clerk's office. Free Transportation, Baby-Sitting Offered Women Voters will provide free transportation, baby-sitting or voting information for the city's election Tuesday.

Persons seeking any of services mav phone 1285-X or 2163 or 719. Herrin Strike In 2nd Week? Hearing Due A strike at the Container Stap- no contract negotiations in sight. Plant employes represented by the Congress of Independent Unions walked out last Monday after union members voted to reject a company contract proposal. About 85 employes are affected bv the strike at the plant at 100 S. 27th St.

William Greene, union president, said today the company has not proposed any new contract talks. Truman Davis, CIU business manager, Alton, was expected to arrive in Herrin today to await a hearing at 10 a. m. Tuesday on unfair labor practices charges filed against the company. The company is named in an NLRB complaint as having unfairly discharged a worker involved in passing an election petition.

The CIU was later selected as bargaining agent in the election. The hearing will be in the Herrin citv hall. In Hospital south of Yerennw. The new Mrs. Sullivan suffered broken ribs and a head injury in the crash.

Young Sullivan, stationed at Ft. Benn ing, was given special permission bv the countv clerk to marry before his 18rh birthday. He will be transferred to Germany in May, three months before he becomes 18. Sullivan is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

William Sullivan Sr. of Yergennes and the bride is the daughter of Mrs. Ida Miller of Murphysboro. By Jim Killpatrick Of The Southern Illinoisan Some Johnson County employes and the count)' itself may be in trouble with the income tax authorities this year. Count' Clerk Clinton Jobe says records missing from his office prevented him from making a complete report on income taxes.

He said he issued withholding tax statements to employes "as best I could" but has not paid the holding id the eovernment the with- ig tax for the final quarter of 1958. Jobe has been conducting ficht to regain records he says ffi are missing trom the otnee. He filed a suit against three former clerks State Rep. C. L.

Mc-Cormick (R-Robbs), Enna Turner, now Mrs. McCormick, and Cecil Harper but the suit was dismissed on technical grounds. A taxpayers suit is now being planned and runds are being raised in a public drive to back Jobe in his fight. Jobe displayed a $700 check given him by Harper the day he took office. Harper said it cov ered withholding tax for October and November, 1958.

On Drovers Bank The check, made out to Jobe and signed by Harper, is drawn on the Droveri State Bank of Vienna. It is tax on hind." Jobe said he has not cashed the eheck because ht does not know what employes arc included or what amount of tax should be credited to each. He said there were no V-4 forms on file. The W-4 form states number of dependents and authorizes the employer to deduct tax. Jobe said he has since obtained W-4 forms for all employes.

Jobe said officials of the bank had refused to tell him what bal- tnce remained in the countv 1 rank Russell 68. Russell and Heaton agreed today the city election campaign has quieted since the school election. The school board campaign was marked by "night letters" which attacked School Supt. L. Geobel Patton.

Nails were ers and candidates. Heaton said today, "No, can't win, because I didn't hire any cars or workers." Russell, who polled 2,528 votes to Heaton's 1,083 in the primary, said today he hopes for a large turnout at the polls Tuesday. Heaton also said a laree vote could mean victory for himself, i Both candidates said they had campaigned as individuals, not connected with any of the eight commissioner candidates. Commissioner nominees are Paul Rice, former Franklin County sheriff, who led voting in the primary; Roy Brown, Joe McCann, Andy May, Bur ton Melvin, Gus Gann, Bill Manus, and Danny McClain. During the school eelction campaign Heaton charged the high school was being "the biggest political organization" in the county.

He and other observers said teachers backed R. A. Bonifield and E. G. Mitchell, both of whom were elected April 1 1 I leaton was named as support ing Ernest Kern and Dr.

Owen Taylor, who were defeated in the record balloting. Heaton said he did not take an active part in the campaign. On April 12, after ballots were counted, about 50 students burn-ed an effigy of Patton. The next morning about 35 students boycotted the school for an hour. They claimed their purpose was to "get politics out of the high school." Veteran Marion Miner Dies A Marion man who started working at the age of 11 in one of the first coal mines in Illinois was buried todav.

George Whiting, 89, wore to his grave a United Mine Workers of America medal commemorating April 1, 1898, the first eight-hour day for miners in the United States. Mr. Whiting was working in the mines at that time. Mr. Whiting died Friday.

He first worked at the Old Tunnel Mine near Murphysboro, which dates back to 1850 or earlier and was one of the first in the state. All told Mr. WTiiting worked in Illinois and Colorado mines for 53 years. Nash, stuff folders for the organization's membership drive. The folders contain in- ing raid Friday night.

A rou etteu i watchers stayed on duty until 1 a. m. today. Browdy said the barometer fluctuated rapidly Cockrum Is Court Clerk Coy I. Cockrum, 35, Rt.

3, Benton, Republican supervisor of Barren Township, was named Franklin County Circuit Court Clerk this morning. He succeeds Paul Brayfield, a Democrat, who died Thursday af ter serving as clerk for 19 years. Cockrum was appointed by Randall S. Quindry and Caswell Krcbs, all Republicans. Cockrum has been employed by the Illinois Racing Commis sion as an official at Fairmont Race Track and Cahokia Downs in the East St.

Louis area for several years. This is his third term as township supervisor. Waldron Rites Held Today Double funeral services for Carterville area man and his wife who were found shot Saturday were to be at 2 p. m. today at Riggin Funeral Home, Carter ville.

A coroner's jury returned verdict of homicide and suicide Saturday night. Authorities said Ed Waldron apparently killed his wife and then himself. The Rev. Curt Morelock, Car terville Christian Church pastor othciated at the funeral. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery, Car terville.

Mr. Waldron was born Sept 22, 1887, in Carterville, daugh son of Israel and Eliza Waldron. He married Mildred Brandon in Marion in 1932. Mrs. Waldron was born Sept.

29, 1887, in Carterville, daughter of Lewis and Sarah Brandon. She was a member of the Carterville First Christian Church. Mr. Waldron was a World War I veteran, having served in France. He belonged to the Carterville American Legion Post.

He leaves a. sister Mrs. Richard James of Marion. Mrs. Waldron leaves sisters Mrs.

J. W. Cosgrove of Paducah; Mrs. Bert Large of Taylorville; and brother John Brandon of Pincknewille. BIG JOB Murphvsboro Chamber of Commerce President, L.

W. Ward, and Secretary Marion Sunday. The farm is on the Reed's Stat Road east of Carbondale. A six-foot long section of the trunk weighing clerk's account, although he said one bank officer later told him the $700 withholding tax check would bring the account to zero." Included in the records Jobe savs are missing are countv clerk's receipts from May 24, 1952, to Nov. 22, 1958 and disburse ments of the office from Dec.

7, 1951 to Nov. 28, 1958. Jobe also said that a number of the records in his possession are incomplete for the period be fore he took office and that an audit of the office of cannot be conducted. He pointed out blank spaces' in the lax udement. bale and Forfeiture book.

In cases where the property was purchased at a tax sale and then later redeemed, the book is complete in most cases. But in cases where the property was redeemed by the owner, the last column showing to whom final payment was made is left blank in most cases. Jobe said receipts for redeemed property were apparently kept four different books and that he does not have some numbers noted in the tax book. One receipt in the file showed only the name of the owner and the amount $192.40 with no date, legal description of the property or years for which the tax was due. Jobe showed copies of letters to the Internal Revenue Service concerning the missins with- holding tax record, but said he has received no replies.

Employes of the clerk's office, road department and a number of temporary employes are involved. Aside from its major products of vegetables and citrus fruits, Florida is becoming an increasingly important cattle -raising state. r- Human Head Pipe head caning is hollowed for a boul. Effigy pipes were common in the Hopewellian period, Smith said, but usually were of animals and rarely of human heads. I I A statement signed by Herrin physicians was presented today in support of a plan to build a municipal hospital in Herrin.

Physicians signing were Dr. W. I. Lewis, Dr. W.

L. Kane, Dr. F. O. Rupprecht of Johnston City, Dr.

Edna M. Longwell, Dr. J. W. Tidwell, Dr.

J. E. Gladson, Dr. A. J.

Raso and Dr. Herbert Fine of Carterville. The statement follows: "PUBLIC ANNOUNCE MENT TO THE PEOPLE OF HERRIN" "A proposition for building a new hospital in Herrin will be decided by you tomorrow when vou go to the polls and vote. 7 a. We feel that the proposition de serves your support.

"We are united in our con- Unpaid Taxes Listed For 2 Candidates Marion Mayor Robert Cook-sey, a candidate for re-election tomorrow, owes personal property tax bills for seven past years, a check showed today, and his opponent, Raymond McCormick, owes back taxes for two years. Cooksey's non payment of taxes was brought up in a letter to the Southern Illinoisan from Constable Jess Darnell, who said Cooksey had never paid personal taxes during his years in office. A check of countv records showed unpaid taxes of $27.15 in 1951, $32.13 in 1952, $11.49 in 1953, $11.73 in 1954 $9.67 in 1955, $28.87 in 1956 and $70.55 in 1957. A check of the records of McCormick, an incumbent city commissioner who is opposing Cooksey for mayor, showed unpaid personal property taxes of $20.43 for 1952 and $39.73 for 1953. Cooksey said today he intends to pay the taxes.

He said his car was wrongly assessed during two of the years since he was a deputy sheriff and the car was being used for county business. Cooksey said the 1957 bill of $70.55 was higher than it should have been and he talked to county officials about adjusting it. He said he deferred payment pending a decision on his tax, but had heard nothing furthr about it. McCormick said today he did not remember the unpaid taxes. formation about the group and its plans for the coming year.

The pile of material presents a big job fox the two men. about 90 pounds was thrown 400 feet and neighbors said the tree "glowed" for several minutes after the bolt hit. Offices Open For Election. Information Election results will be available Tuesday night at Southern Illinoisan offices in Carbondale and Herrin. No results are expected before about 8:30 p.

m. Carbondale and Herrin have contested elections. Herrin also is voting on a hospital proposition. In Murphvsboro, no offices are being contested. Telephone numbers are Carbondale 1600 and Herrin 315.

Herrin Youths Fined After Street Fight Four Herrin youths charged with taking part in the beating or two youngsters Saturday night were fined and placed on six month's probation bv Police M. 4 Magistrate Earl May. Jerry Sexton, 14, and Victor Foster, 15, were charged with beating Don Kinison and Char les Tippy, both 15, late Saturday as the boys walked home from Teen Town. Charles Hailey, 20, and Kenneth McNeal, 21, were charged with being accessories. The four were fined $15 plus $9.90 costs.

Kinison, 808 E. Stotlar and Tippy, 512 S. 23rd told police Sexton and Foster warned they would beat them after an incident at the Herrin Township High School last fall. Kinison received cuts in the mouth and some broken teeth, according to policemen. Tippy was not injured.

Tippy told police he and Kinison were walking on Park avenue when a car drove up and Sexton and Foster jumped out. The two started beating them, Tippy said, but he and Kinison did not fight back. THOMAS J. HILL DIES IN MARION Thomas J. Hill, 59, 208 W.

De Young Marion, died at 7:15 a. m. today in the Marion Veterans Hospital. He was born in Ewing Dec. 7, 1899.

He was a barber and veteran of World War I Naw 4 service. He worked as a barber 1 1 vears at the Durham Barber Shop, 303 W. Main before buying it with his brother, George, in 1958. Mr. Hill leaves a daughter, Mrs.

Jane Alba of Vandenberg ir rorce base, antornia, his brother and a sister, Mrs. Lillie Belle Probasco of Tampa, Fla. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The Wilson-Frick Funeral Home of Marion is in charge. Mr.

Hill was a member of the Zion Evangelical and netormed nurcn, American Legion, Herrin Elks, Carterville Eagles and Marion Barbers Un ion. THE COST HURTS, TOO Bisbee, Ariz. (AP) It costs $50 to spank your wife in Bisbee. At least that's what a Ft. Hua-chuca soldier was fined on a charge of assault for applying a belt to his wife during a family argument.

wheel, two crap table setups and a quantity of chips were seized. State's' Atty. Michael O'Shea said the charge cites gambling in a "building five feet south of the Colony Club." The Colony Club building re. centlv was sold to Wilson anrl the building in which the equip. ment was seized was sold to Thomas Hill.

Joe Dodd, MINE REPORT Mines Working Tuesday Old Ben 9 Old Ben 14 Old Ben 22 washer Orient 3 Freeman 4 Zeigler 3 Buckhorn Fidelity Pyramid Burning Star No. 1 Not Working Old Ben 22 Old Ben Briquet plant Orient 2 Truax-Traer No. 2 By Murphysboro Man Rare Indian Relic Found Accident Changed Plans s--i -v. vCy -1 v- fv-ivNvr. 1 A Murphvsboro collector of Indian relics appears to a made a valuable archaeological discovery.

Willie Smith, an amateur archaeologist for more than 30 years, has found a pipe of ths Hopcucllian period which is carved in the shape of a hu-min head. It is believed to be the first such human-head pipe of the Hopewellian era ever found in Illinois, through similar finds have been reported in Ohio. Smith found the pipe in a Jackson CV)unt field. The Hopewellian Indians are known h-ur inhabited many p-in of Jackson County. Smith said the pipe was formed from fire clay, tempered with galena and quartz crystals.

The pipe is three and a half inches long and one and half inches hih. The human Pair Wed A Murphysboro girl and a Yergcnnes youth were married today in a Du Quoin hospital room where the birde is recovering from auto accident injuries. The bride, the former Miss Gloria Jean Allard, 16, was injured in an accident Saturday night as she and her fiance, Pvt. Lilliam Sullivan were on the wav home from Marion, where they had completed arrangements for a wedding Sund-y at the First Bap tist Church. Their car ran off Rt.

13.