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Independent SOUTHERN ULINOISAN, TUESDAY, IUNE 20, 1950 Tho Daily Independent mi. HPYy coflL CONVEYOR BELT RT LIDA MINE yJIiiM I mm MSSlii Mil lily tomtom Miml Woman Escapes Lightning Bolt Mrs. Oren Mitchell, Carbondale, Uninjured mcnt for some time, was standing on a damp concrete floor and was touching the electric washing machine with wet hands. She said she saw a blinding flash of light about 10:45 a.m. and felt "something which seemed to strike mc miuarc cu my rorencaa ana gojcralion costs of instruction, Name flva Man Lake Caretaker It Murphysboro Howard Cheatham, 32, Ava, has been named caretaker of Lake Murphysboro, Lloyd, Austin, Jackson county Democratic chairman, announced today.

Cheatham, a graduate of Murphysboro Township high school and former Murphysboro resident, will have full jurisdiction of the lake. He and his wife and two children will move into the former Carl Graeff home on the lake site as soon as it can be cleaned up, Austin said. The new caretaker will be required to be available 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week. During his vacations, the state department of conservation will assign a man from another of its lakes to take charge of Lake Murphysboro. Cheatham's immediate plans could not be learned today, as he could not be reaches for comment.

A former meatcutier, he has been employed recently as a bartender at Cheatham's Tavern, owned and operated by his uncle, Woodrow Cheatham, at Ava where the new caretaker is currently serving his second term as Democratic precinct committeeman. According to Austin, who ac. companied Cheatham to Springfield Monday when the appointment was confirmed by state conservation department authorities, Cheatham will have full jurisdiction of the new half-million dollar lake and its surrounding downward. Dazed and frightened, she made her way upstairs to find that her neighbors were there to sec what had happened. The Daily ''V till i 'i 1 long.

Below, are four of the employees of Raybestos-Man-hattan, Inc, which installed the belt, as one of the two splices was being vulcanized. Left to right: Frank Malinow-ski, field engineer, Passaic, N. a i The house apparently was not markrH hv ihp Mrstions and auxiliary enterprises. ok. uJ IIUl clUUUk ills.

I ashing machine. She asked a coumc. ho educational operations. 4. cw if waaThis includes a state appropriation Lightning may not strike twice in the same place, but one Carbondale housewife is not going to take any chances.

Mrs. Orcn Mitchell, 1008. South clothes in her basement this morning when she was on the receiving end of a bolt of lightning. Mrs. Mitchell, who said she did not realize that the sky w3s cloudy because she had been in the base- Return Verdict In Drowning A coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental drowning Monday in the death of Atrcll Locke, lS-year-old Murphyboro Negro.

Locke crowned in an abandoned brick plant pond north of Mur-physboro last Thursday. The youth drowned about 10 icet irom saieiy wncn nc ana me friends were swimming from a small island to the shore, a distance of about 75 feet. Atrcll was the son of Mr. and Mrs, Atrcll M. Locke.

433 North Eighth street, Murphyboro. The inquest was held in the Jackson countv court house. Hold Schools For 4-H Girls i- I c- Lack oi Warm Nights Hurts Corn In firea Jackson county farms will yield only about one-third of their normal wheat crop this year. That is the opinion of four of the county's farming experts: Claude A. Terry, chairman of the Production and Marketing administration committee; Willard Moore, Farmer's Home administration supervisor; Charles T.

Hufford, Soil Conservation Sen-ice farm planner; and Carl Robinson, Farm Bureau claims agent. THEY blamed the low anticipated yield on heavy rains during the planting season last fall. The rains cut normal planting in half, Terry said, and later unfavored weather made further inroads. About 90 per cent of the wheat was planted two to three weeks later than normal, Moore said. The Farmer's Home administration supervisor, who also works in Randolph and Perry counties, termed the heat crop in all three counties 'considerably below normal both In acreage and yield." Moore estimated that the wheat would be ready for harvesting in less than two weeks.

The corn and soybean outlook in Jackson county is brighter than the wheat prospects, but still far trom rosy. Robinson and Terry predicted that the crop will be of average size, but about two weeks late, because of heavy rains this spring. Moore was not so optimistic. "The corn certainly doesn't look good," he said. "You need warm nights for good corn growth, and we hadn't had them up until last eek." LEGUME crops brighten the pic ture considerably, although alfalfa! suffered slightly from winter kill.

All legumes are doing very well this year, Hufford said. The second growth of alfalfa looks good. Robinson said, and the first growth was Moore noted that alfalfa seeded with bromc'grass survived the winter much better than alfalfa seeded alone. Terry called the red clover crop -excellent." An average crop of barley is now bcing harvested, Moore said. One farmer north of Murphysboro is doing considerably better than the average with his barley, Hufford said, with a 60-bushel per acre yield.

II 1ST and hail struck a heavy blow against the fruit crop. Tarl-cnn rniinti- Vrmlh Aistantl01- u-! nuspiuu ctl p. Sees Wide Use of Dog Caddies Predicts Jackson Golfers Will Save Fees SJ.II. Approves Three Million Dollar Budget The board of trustees of Southern Illinois university yesterday approved a budget calling for an appropriation of to cover S.I.U. expenses from July 1, 1950, through June 30, 1931.

Estimated income over the same period of time is S3.1S1.319. The difference of 5101.153 between csli- i mated income and estimated ex penses is charged against unappropriated surplus, carried over from last year. This year's appropriation is $410,566 over last year's, with most of it going to cover increased op- re-ad- scarch libraries and general ministration and general expense. THE BUDGET breaks both income and expenses into two major i ,1 i 1 It lists 52.906,319 as estimated in-J of student fees of U. S.

government contracts, and sales and services of departments, $25,300. Estimated income from auxiliary enterprises is set at $275,000. It includes as sources: bookstore, cafeteria, canteen. Chautauqua street veter ans' housing project, and residence hall, $15,150. for 1950-51 are broken down into the following allotments for educational operations: General administration and expense, instruction, research, extens- ision.

libraries, physical plant. refunds, and U. S. government contracts, $29,295. Total for educational operations appropriations is $3,010,472.

Auxiliary enterprises for 1950-51 call for an appropriation of broken down into the following allotments: Bookstore. cafeteria, canteen, Chautauqua street veterans' housing project, and residence hall, Accountants Hired For Audit at S. I. U. Southern Illinois university's trustees announced Monday that the firm of Mcrsingcr and Allison, certified public accountants ot Springfield and East St.

Louis, has been appointed to conduct the university's annual audit for the is cal year ending June 30, 1950. At its monthly meeting the boanl disclosed that an agreement made several years ago between the dc partmcnt of registration and education and the state auditor's office provides that every other year the auditor's office pay the complete cost of the audit, and in other years the office pay one-third the cost of the audit. Since the complete cost of the audit for 1949 was paid by the auditor's office, the university is expected to pay two-thirds of the cost of the 1030 audit. Wind Up Drive For Scoreboard Murphysboro's Junior Chamber of Commerce today wound up its drive for funds to purchase a basketball scoreboard for the Murphysboro township high school's new gymnasium. The Jaycees have been asked by President Jack Wright to turn in an limns collected to date at a picnic scheduled for 6 n.

m. in Riverside nark. At the latet repor approxi-l mately 5 100 of the $1,000 sought forvthe project had been collected. Mrs. Angie Brickey, 79, Ava, Dies In Hospital Mrs.

Angie Brickey, TD, of Ava died this morning St. Andrew's hospital in Murphysboro. Mrs. Brickey, a widow, leaves one son, Shirley, of Jacob. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later.

i tiff WWW 4 A. L. Hawk, assistant to district manager, Chicago; G. S. Himebaugh and J.

P. Chilcote, Chicago, sales erigin-eers. (Staff photos) I He attributed our monkey-like ways to uncertainty, anxiety and what have you. But "ie gave formula for a cure. Today the source of our provocation is the upped tax bill.

Tomorrow the problem of keeping our business off the rocks. Next day the fear of war and the next the high cost of living, or another salvo from Herbert Hoover how to cut expenses and keep a few dollars in the U. S. Treasury. INTO THE minds of men sometimes in doubt of a Divine being come wondrous things that exalt believers and leave unbelievers terrorized, and repentant.

One such thing now is the reported showers of rose petals falling periodically over a Philippine convent, with trie image of the Blessed Virgin Mary imprinted on them. Five such petals have been brought to America by Miss Juliet Hughes, 28, the 1948 Philippine woman golf champion. She is $iere to lecture. One marked the plaint by the Virgin figure is enclosed in a glass case. The Blessed Virgin's picture, seemingly mounted on the delicate petal, is so plain that every bead in the tiny rosary by her side is precep-tible.

Whence come these miracle petals? At the Carmelite convent at Pipa where these petal showers occcur, to breathe the suggestion that thcy are some well-planned hoax is considered a sacrilige. Now we've seen everything. We had heard of "dancing all night with a hole in the stocking," the jittery tune the banjo pickers pounce upon. But there wasn a single hole in a single stocking of this quartette that breezed into a rural tavern Sunday 'night. In fact there was not a stocking among them.

The men and their ladies were barefoot. They didn't seem to mind it at all and the crowd went for them when they danced unconcernedly along with the crowd. The party had been fish-' ing. RIVERSIDE park attendance Sunday was tops for the year. Groups from at least 13 surrounding villages and towns were identified by the names and owners and business places appearing on cars and trucks.

More than once during the day every dining table in the park was taken. Crowds flocked to Crab Orchard lake, too. One group abroad and seeking relief the heat, with thermometers registering 96 degrees at 3:30 p. saia tney ianea 10 una a cooi spot even on the heights of the Pine Hills south from Grand Tower. When Fire Chief Urban Hanson and firemen Ray Prather and Charles Baxmann left by car this morning for the Illinois Firemen's State School at.

Champaign-Ur- bana. they left two experienced substitute firemen at the fire house alorg with regular firemen Clar ence Perschbacher and Loyd Moore. They were James Parker, a fireman in the U. S. Navy in War II, and William McElrov.

who lias often server, as extra nreman here, J' In the top picture above is the new coal conveyor belt at the Lida mine of the Franklin County Coal corporation. The picture was made looking up towards the top of the head pulley. The belts is 1.900 lect Belt Raises 300 Tons an Hour By means of a coal, conveyor belt recently installed at the Franklin County Coal corporation's Lida slope mine south of Royalton, at least 300 tons of coal an hour can be brought to the surface. The rubber rayon-cord enforced belt, manufactured by Kaybestos-Manhattan, Inc. Passaic, N.

is feet long, 3G inches wide and five-eights of an inch thick. 1SLFOKE the belt was used to bring the coal to the top, it helped in the development of the new mine by carrying tons of rock to the surtace. The belt has -a 2i7-toot lilt from the tail pully at the bottom of the shaft to the head pulley located outside the mine. The belt has two vulcanized splices, each about six leet long. The 'belt cost about $20,000 and was installed in three lull days of work.

Wins Master Of Science Degree Joseph Panicl. son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Daniel. 202S Edith street, Murphysboro, is home for a visit after receiving a Master of Science degree from the University of Michigan last week-end.

The recent graduate will leave this week-end for a summer teaching job at Charlevoix, summer camp. Former Murphysboro and Anna Resident Dies Word was received in Murphys- boro todav of the death of Mrs. Genevieve Hammond, 50, at her home in Marysville, Monday. Born in Murphysboro May 1, 1900, and later a resident of Anna, she moved to California. about seven en years ao.

Besides her husband. Joe Hammond, she leaves a sister, Mrs. Kathryn Moulton, Herrin, and a brother, Sam Hodgson, of Los Angeles. Funeral services will be held Saturday in Anna, according to word to relatives in Murphysboro. jg'HM 1 Jf -j, "-XV ml I I.

.) -J I rf ti--i--ir i i v- Frost cut the peach crop to 13jeijHDic for this honor receive cer- not been near it since. She suffered no ill effects from the electrical charge except nervousness after the momentary blindness had passed, she said. Tommy Sill and Malcolm Winkler, jwhq weie standing by a meter box on the house acorss the street, said thcy both got a -jolt which seemed to 'nii us from our fcct from lhc same flash, was hurt. Neither of the boys lruck Driver Wins Title of Father For '50 The stork finnllv got around St. m- Monday, and the Retail Interest committee of the Murphysboro Chamber of Commerce had its Father of Fifty" 46-hour wait.

The venerable bird presented Mr. and Mrs. Joe Calandro. 1109 North Eleventh street, Murphysboro, with their first child, a girl, weighing seven pounds and six ounces. ASKED HOW it felt to be a father, the truck driver replied, "I haven't been one long enough to know, but I imagine it will be all right." The Retail Interest committee members were to present Calandro ith 55 gifts at noon today jit the hospital.

The gifts were donated by Murphysboro merchants for the annual award to the father of the first baby born at St. Andrew's hospital after 12:01 a. m. on Father's Day. Here is the complete list of gifts won by the "Father for Baby foods, groceries, two two-dollar savings accounts for the baby, cleaning and pressing for one suit, a free washing for his car, two pairs of socks, a flashlight, a case of root beer, a case of pork and beans, flowers from three florists for the.

mother, birth announcc- hccIs 'for th(? falh a dgarcttc lighter, five gift certificates worth two dollars each, a fishing rod. cologne, four baby dresses, three sport shirts, pair of slippers, a tobacco set, a belt, two boxes of dgars, a tic bar, a steak dinner for father and mother, another dinner, a card table, a diaper pail, three cartons of cigarettes, a crib baby i-ct and three other baby sets, a bottle holder, a billfold, two ties, a fountain pen. and a flashlight. Leaders Going To Conference Four women from Southern Illinois will attend a four-day summer education conference of the Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers next week in Urbana. Mrs.

Mclvin Lockard, Cobdcn. parent education chairman of the congress, will lead a oiscussion TOup Mrs. ioy jcarbondalc, dirccto V. Idc, tor of district IS, Mrs. Arthur Bell, Johnston City, director of district 17, and Mrs.

II. B. Bauman, Harrisburg, member of the state board for art, also will attend the conference which opens June 27. Till' ITKPOSK of the confer prospective teachers and schools administrators with the philosophy and achievements of parcnt-tcachcr work and to establish a close working relationship between the state congress and teacher-education institutions. Dr.

J. Lloyd Trump, Urbana, vice-president of the department of education, is the coordin ator of the conference for the Uni-i vcrsity of Illinois. Speakers who will discuss topics of the conference theme, "Education for Freedom What Are We Doing?" at the general sessions in- elude Robert M. Hutchins, Untver sity of Chicago; T. V.

Smith, Syracuse university; Dan W. Dobson, New York university; Henry H. Howard R. Bowcn, University of Illinois. By Bill Pi got Patty, one-time German shepherd pup, is the hit of the Greensburg, golf links.

Patty is a caddy "and his golf-playing owner, Barney McArdel wouldn't take a farm for him. When a shortage of caddies interferred with McArdel's golf, he bought Patty and trained him. The dog trods the links with his owner, pulling his golf bag and clubs on a carriage. He unfailingly spots his master's golf ball after a long drive, pulls up and stands aside while the master makes another shot. At the green Patty brings the flag poles to his master after he p.utts, then goes with him to the next tee.

After the game Patty gets a treat of ice cream for his day's work, and likes it. So it will be less cause for wonder when some lazybones of the Jackson Country Club appears with a dog caddy and saves 50 cents a round in caddy fees. And another thing about Patty the caddy. There are no lost balls, meaning Patty saves his master many a penny in the run of the season. It remained for Governor Stevenson of Illinois to tell a graduating class frankly that we Americans are acting like a group of 'nuts." HOSPITAL NOTES Admissions June 19 Mrs.

Myra Hardin, surgical, 413 Murphy street. Mrs. Anna Lchmberg, surgical, Campbell Hill. Mrs. Lucille Davis, maternity 1602 Gartside street.

Mrs. Jane Calandio. maternity, 1109 North Eleventh street. Miss Alice Phillips, surgical, Twentieth street and Illinois avenue. Mrs.

Ethel Snyder, medical, 815 South Twenty-third street. Dismissals Mrs. Tennie Crain, 631 North Fourteenth street. Mrs. Flossie Varnum, 202S Elm street.

Mrs. Minnie Smith and baby, 2121 Alexander street. Mrs. Vera Smith and baby, Mildred Benz ihooled advanced 4-H home economics club members in the keeping of their individual achievement records Monday at the Southern Illinois University Little Theater. The meeting was the first of three to be held in the county.

The second will be atthe Elkville town hall on Wednesday. The final gathering will be held in Murphysboro in the Masonic Temple basement. Both meetings will start at 1:30 p. m. THE PURPOSE of the school sessions is to enable members to present accurate records of their work in competition to earn county and state honor certificates and medals.

After one year of membership, a girl may earn an "achievement member" certificate, if she has attended two-thirds of her club's meetings, exhibited a project, conducted one demonstration, and turned in a record Members in their second or third years of club work may become project" honor members" by piling up the necessary project points and handing in completed records. About 15 per cent of the members tificatcs from their county organ- izations. The top 10 per cent earn gold medals from the state CLUB members with three years of membership and a fine record in all 4-H activities, with the accent on evidence of leadership, are eligible for the highest honors, county and state "outstanding club member" certificates and gold medals. 'Die "outstanding club members" arc usually in line for special state and national honors, such as ap- 4 tional 4-H camp. Wins Four-Day.

Trip To Atlantic City Meeting L. A. Cook, Morgan's Trading Post salesman, left Murphysboro Sunday on an all-cxpense-paid trip to Atlantic City to attend the mid-June convention of the Philco Corporation as a guest of the Philco and Artofhonc distributors of Philco products in the St. Louis area. Cook, who lives at 2111 Hortcnsc street in Murphysboro, was selected to represent Morgan's Trading Post winners with 51 other of the buu St.

Louis dealers in a June sales contest, on the bais of his top selling record of Philco products this month. During his four days in Atlantic City, Cook will see a preview r.resentation of the new Philco area. His duties will include building and marking trails, setting up picnic areas and tables, and keeping the area clean at all times. He also will be responsible for the establishment of a fire prevention program at the lake site. "The number one aim of the department of conservation is to prevent any uncontrolled fires at the lake," Austin said.

Austin said the state conservation department also planned to set up boat facilities which could be rented by fishermen at the lake after stocking next year and that Cheatham would, have full charge of these facilities also. "He'll have to be on the job at 3:30 in the morning for some of the early bird fishermen," Austin said. Cheatham's jurisdiction will extend over property on which the state of Illinois has spent more than a half-million dollars. A recapitulation of the expenditures on Murphysboro Lake through February of this year showed the following expenses: Land, $59,209. Engineering, $43,807.

Development and Maintenance, $436,050. Total, $539,067. The Murphysboro Lake dam is 660 feet long, 56 feet high and is designed to impound 166 acres of water. The lake is trictly a recreational lake adapted to modern fish management, according to the state department of conservation. Treats Second Snake Bite Case Clyde Rush.

Carbondale Sunday morning became one of the main characters in a drug store drama which involved a snake bite and a search for medicine, for the second time in a week. Leonard Williamson, 27, route 3, LCarterville, snagged a snake a net while seining at a Forsythe (mine strip pit Friday night. He was not sure that the snake had bitten him until he woke up the next morning with his hand swollen. Williamson did not seek medical aid until about midnight Saturday, after he had fainted five times. i A Marion doctor gave him first aid and rushed him to the Herrin "hospital.

The hospital did not have any serum for snake bite, but one of the staff physicians remembered a Southern Ulinoisan story about a similar case in Carbondale iast Sunday. Last week the Southern Illinois university health center had just bought the last supply of the snake bite medicine from the drug store, when an appeal came from a Harrisburg doctor for snake bite serum. Rush, manager cf the Cline-Vick Drug store, was able to get the medicine back in time to meet the doctor at his drug store. So Sunday morning the Hcr-rni doctor called the health center. Mrs.

Harry Goetz, S. I. U. nurse, called Rush about 12:43 a.vm. Sunday.

Rush had replaced the Anti-vencm used last week on Cecil Gibbs, 9, Harrisburg. The Herrin physician, who asked that his name be withheld, drove to the drug store and picked up the medicine about 1:30 a.m. Williamson, who was bitten on the inside of his light wrist, was released from the Herrin hospital todav at noon. I he Herrin doctor j.cr cent of normal, Robinson said, pnd hail added to the damage. Apples have also been hurt by the hail, he said.

Insect infestation "hasn't been' bad" in Jackson county this year, Moore said. Army worms have caused some harm, he said and cut worms have slightly damaged the corn. Moore advised farmers to be w-ary of the first signs of grasshopper infestation along their hrto thev hatch. Grasshoppcrs they firat appear and before thcy ere" fully-grown, he said Second Showing of Free Movies at Washington The second in a scries of free movie programs will be shown tonight at 7:30 o'clock on the north Fide of Washington school in Murphysboro. The films cartoons and comedies will be shown every Tuesday night until Aug.

22, with the exception of July 4, under the auspices of the parents of the Washington school students. The Daily Independent. Southacn Ulinoisan t-n Host Ittfc Srwt III. Pub11hS livening, Kfpi Sunfl and Holidiv '-2. 1191 (Ueklv ll'l) Cdward Llndty rnteiert a Second Cir Malr al Tct Offift a' Murphytt.oro.

IHI t.ola. ucitr Act of March I. tnfcaerlptlaa Hate CAHKICrt: City n5 Surrounding Town lie a week BT BT week 11 Cu 14 weeKi 12 week 6: week? $7 h-Mit tdbseript'ons will not te accepted where carrlef delivery erv lea is offered AM maH iubcripMot mus. be paid 1" a1vnce Teleaaaaea 34 ai tS Member of Aortatil "re The Afoclate4 Press 1 entitled exclusively to the use for repuM! cation of ali the new nrtnted fn ttil! newspaper, as well aa all ap physboro. ON TOUR IN AREA THIS WEEK iinc for this fall, stav in oneiCnce is to acquaint ''I A mi.

i I k- of Atlantic City's best hotels on the Boardwalk, and see a star-studded show presented by New York stage, radio and television stars as well as an aquatic show featuring famous Olympic divers and swimmers. Cook will return to his duties at Morgan June' 25th. Trading Post about Former Local Woman's Husband Wins Degree Charles Sargent, the husband of Eileen Sargent, the former Eileen! Williams of Murphysboro, has received his bachelor of science degree in Business Administration Hi nr HI- I 'ill i li.ilf R.WBrrH-Ja 2S-29. from Babson Institute, Babson'Hill, George Peabody college, and Firemen Perschbacher and Moore! asked that Rush send him a supply will join the school Thursday morn-i of the medicine for use at the hosing when the. first contingent ofjpital.

Rush sent it, special dcliv-fiiemen returns. lery, Sunday. Ainad circus clowns and their linois will appear with the decorated car and calliope, on I Shrine circus at S. I. U.

sta-tour this week in Southern II- dium in Carbondale June 27- Park, Mass. Commencement exercises were held June 17.