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Carbsndale Hcrrin Murphysboro SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21. 1943 Page Thre Southern Illinois towns plan tributes mono ay Sparta woman killed, man is wounded A Sparta woman was found dead and a Ccnlreville man critically wounded in a car in front of the woman's mother's home at 4815 Lake Cen-trcville, Tuesday afternoon. St. Clair County Coroner, C. C.

Kane pronounced Miss June Rcibel, 44, Pa. 1, Sparta, dead at the scene shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday. She owned Terry's Inn in Sparta. Otis Johnston, 51, owner of Wedge 66 Service Station, 1701 Illinois East St.

Louis, had been shot in the head and was taken to a hospital in crit ical mndihnn nnlirn a i i He lived at 4313 Lake Dr. Ccn'iParadc c.arbttndalc Ircville, and owned a farm in Sparta, police said. Ccntrevillc police said a .32 automatic pistol was found in the car. According to the coroner, Miss Rcibel had been shot several times. MINE REPORT All mines idle Thursday All mines working Friday Carbondale Mayor casts deciding vote on three council issues 7 Parades, plays, graveside addresses and roll calls of departed servicemen will highlight Southern Illinois Memorial Day observances Thursday.

The Carbondale observance is one of 12 major statewide events in which the Illinois Ses-quicentennial Commission is I joining sponsorship. Carbondale was chosen because this is the 100th anniversary of Gen. John A. Logan's General Order No. 11 which officially designated May 30 as Memorial Day.

Carbondale claims to have been the site of the nation's first "Decoration at Woodlawn Cemetery. Carbondale's Memorial Day Community High School Cen tral at 9 a.m. and proceed to Woodlawn Cemetery on East Main street. Principal speaker at 10:15 a.m. cemetery services will De Rear Adm.

J. W. Kelly, chief of chaplains of the United States Navy. The Illinois Sesquicen tennial Commission will pre sent a 21-star flag to the city of Carbondale and there will be a concert by the Southern and without curbs and gutters. Construction standards set by city ordinances require a 24-foot wide road with curbs and gUters.

The frontage road would connect with Grand avenue on both ends, and run slightly south and parallel to Grand avenue. Kirk also noted that the road, a planned, would be constructed of inches of "Ml" sur facing on six inches of stone. B. J. Schwegman, public works director, said specifications call for three inches of "Ml" surfacing on eight inches of stone.

The Planning Commission, in making its recommendations, considered the road under a section of the subdivision ordinance which allows individual standards for "special streets," Norman said. Eaton aded that the original design of the development and first plat was carried before Carbondale's zoning authority extended beyond the city limits. Kirk said he also disapproved of the plat because the city would assume maintenance of the completed road. "What we are being asked to do is accept maintenance of a substandard road," he said. "The failure of any city ordinance to describe the re quirements for a frontage road is a serious gap," Nelson said.

"Any reasonable interpretation of this ordinance will define the specifications of a street," retorted City Attorney George Flccrlage. The council approved the final plat subject to submission of a performance bond by the developer. The developer must also guarantee storm drainage improvements will meet requirements, and that he wijl hire a professional engineer to inspect materials and construction. The disagreement over the Heritage Hills Subdivision final plat also concern frontage road i til i Memorial Day visitors to Tower Grove Cemetery will see this monument to deceased Murphysboro ministers King guilty of disorderly conduct charge A Carbondale man charged with obstructing firemen during the height of a series of disorders April 6, was found guilty of disorderly conduct Tuesday in circuit court in Murphysboro. James E.

King, 21, of 316 E. Oak was found guilty in a trial before Judge Everett Prosser. King had waived trial by jury. Sentencing was set for June 17. King was released under bond pending sentencing.

The charge claimed King backed his car into the path of a uarDondaie tire truck which was en route to a fire at 321 E. Oak St. Testimony by police and fire men indicated King was the driver of a car which blocked the path of a Carbondale fire truck trying to lay a hose line to the scene of the fire. Rock fall kills Marion coal miner A 52-year-old Marion man was killed in a rock fall at the Freeman Coal Mining Corp. Or-ient 4 mine near Johnston City Tuesday night.

Williamson County Coro ner James Wilson said Maurice Hodge of 601 S. Duncan St. was killed about 10:15 p.m. His body was not recovered until 1:25 a today. Wilson said Mr.

Hodge was drilling holes for timber bolts in the shaft when the rock fall occurred. Mr. Hodge had been employed by Freeman since 1951. He was a laborer and general handyman, company officials said. No inquest date has been set, Wilson said.

Services for Mr.Hodge will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Warder Street Baptist Church in Marion. The Rev. Jettie Vaughn will officiate. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Gardens south of Herrin.

Friends may call at the Mitchell Funeral Home of Marion after 6 p.m. Thursday. Mr. Hodge was a member of Masonic Lodge No. 89 and the Warder Street Baptist Church.

He was a church trustee and Sunday School teacher. He was born Nov. 28, 1915, a son of Finis and Vera Helts-ley Hodge. He married Ber-niece Rogers in Marion Aug. 31.

1934. Two brothers, Ralph and Leo Hodge preceded him in death. Mr. Hodge leaves his wife; children, Mrs. Judy Robinson of Marion and Finis of Jolict: sisters, Mrs.

Lorine Mathis of Plainwell, and Mrs. Esther Hoffman of Granite City; half brothers, Donscl and Bill Jones of Marion and Ralph Jones of St. Charles, and four grandchildren. hall plans square feet in new facility, 732 in present one; fire department, 3,155 and mayor's office, 450 and 280; city clerk's office, 1,545 and 495; parking meter committee, 120 and 320; water and sewer department, 1,170 and 360; building inspector, 225 and 0. Some figures have changed since Clark Altay made its last survey; for example, the building codes inspector now has an office in city hall.

Moyer said figures will be brought up to date before drawings are started. Cost figures are based oa $24.50 per square foot. Before changes requested by the commission were incorporated, Moyer estimated the total project cost at $350,000. This included $302,746 for building construction, $12,450 for site development, $15,000 for contingencies or unforeseen expenses and $19,804 for the architectural and engineering fee. Adding the Civil Defense fa-cilitiies and 1,000 feet to the meeting room will raise the cost to between $370,000 and $375,000, depending on the cost to the city of the CD unit.

The new city hall will be built at the present site on Park avenue at Madison street and will incorporate adjacent property now owned by Clyde Brewster. The project will be financed by revenue bonds, to be retired through a one-fourth of one cent increase in sales tax approved last year. T5 Illinois University concert band. Choirs from churches in Carbondale will be massed into a chorus which will present musical selections. Television and radio star Arthur Godfrey will highlight a 12:30 luncheon in the University Center.

The Illinois Scsquicentennial play "Make Her Wilderness Like Eden" will be presented in the University Theater in the Communications Building at 3:30 p.m. and 3 p-m. Murphysboro Program On Memorial Day, St. Andrew's Catholic Church will have a homecoming at Riverside Park in Murphysboro and a parade. The parade will begin at 10 a.m.

and each grade school class since 1909 will be repre sented in the parade with a float or a decorated car. The parade route will be from Sixth and Walnut streets to 19th and Walnut streets. At 2 p.m. in the park shell, "Saga of St. Andrew's," a nar rative, will be presented by the grade school students of the Catholic school.

It will note the highlights in the 100 year history of the church. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7190 and the American Legion, Paul Stout Post No. 127, of Murphysboro, will hold a Memorial Day observance at the Tower Grove Cemetery. Sherman Carr of Murphysboro, senior vice commander of World War I Veterans of the state of Illinois, will speak at the 11 a.m.

service. Members of the Murphysboro Veterans of Foreign Wars and the two American Legion Posts will have a short service at the John A. Logan Monument at Murphysboro Township High School about 11:45 a.m. Mayor Joe Williams will place a wreath at the monument. Services will begin 9 a.m.

at Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Murphysboro. Rep. Clyde Cho-ate, D-Anna, will be the principal speaker. Hubert Goforth, Carbondale postmaster, will te master of ceremonies. Over 200 flags of veterans will be flown at the cemetery.

Jackson County courthouse offices will be closed for a long Memorial Day weekend from Thursday through Sunday. County Board Chairman Roy Gilbert authorized closing of offices on Friday. Offices normally close on holidays, and are closed on Saturdays. Murphysboro city offices and most business places will be closed Thursday. City offices! will be open Friday.

Murphysboro Unit School District 186 will be closed Thursday and Friday, with Friday representing the last "snow day" held in reserve on the Unit ICG calendar. County offices in both Randolph and Perry Counties will be closed Thursday, but will be open Friday. Herrin Veterans Herrin veterans will assemble at 8 a.m. Thursday at the Doughboy statue in the Herrin City Park. Members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and World WTar I Barracks in Herrin will go to cemeteries throughout the area as part of the observance.

A breakfast will be served at 7 a.m. at the VFW home. After the 8 a.m. public cere los Cemetery in Hcrrin to frrc a salute and blow taps. The organizations will split after that.

The VFW will go to Freeman Spur, Blairsville, Hinchcliff in Cambria and Hurricane in Carterville. The Legion will go to Stotlar in Hcrrin, Fergcstown and Jeffrey cemeteries. All veterans will meet again at East Lawn Cemetery south of Hcrrin and travel as a group Benton Alleys named Eight short unnamed alleys connecting with the Benton Public Square have been named for city mayors in an ordinance adopted Tuesday night by the city council. The alley running from the square to East Washington street in the northeast corner of the square will now be call ed Toler Drive, for present Mayor Charles Tolcr. Alleys clockwise around the square from Toler Drive will be Lewis, Carter, Hair, Center, Scarborough, Moore and Lampley Drives.

The mayors before Tolcr for whom the alleys were named are Howard Lewis, William Carter, Edwin Hair, Virgil Center, Joe Scarborough, Smith Moore and George Lampley. to the Herrin City Cemetery for the final services. Lunch will be served at the American Legion home after the final ceremony. Services will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Hurst City Park.

American Legion Commander Clifton Robison asked all veterans to report to the Hurst Legion Home between 8 and 8:30 a.m. Veterans will parade through downtown Hurst to the park. Mayor Virgil Coleman will speak at the services. Entertainment is planned, said Robison. Marion Observance Marion's Momorial Day observance will begin at 10:30 a.m.

at the VFW American Legion plot in the city cemetery, De Young and North Court streets. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion color guards will participate in the flag raising and lowering to half mast and a firing squad and buglers will play Taps. Sue Vietnam veterans in uniform. World War I Barracks members and Gold Star Mothers will also participate. Chairman Everett Atwood said.

Mayor Robert Butler will be the speaker. Chester Services The parade in Chester will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall and will proceed to the Evergreen Cemetery, where special services will be held at 10 a.m. Robert P. Wicther, Veterans of Foreign Wars commander of the state of Illinois, will be the principal speaker.

The service is sponsored by the Chester American Legion and the VFW Posts. Following the ceremony in Evergreen Cemet iry. a brief memorial service will be conducted at the grave of the Rev. Henry Gerecke in Lutheran cemetery. At 2 p.m., a program will be given at the Ellis Grove Cemetery.

Steeleville Parade A parade will begin 10 a.m. in Steeleville at Bracy's Park ing lot, and will proceed to the city limits, where a flora wreath will be placed in the cemetery in honor of the war dead. The parade will then proceed to th city park. William G. Ridgeway of Mur physboro will give the memoria address.

The high school band will play The veterans organizations Sparta will sponsor a program at 10 a-m. in Caledonia Ceme tery. The Rev. R. C.

Thompson minister of the Sparta Church of Christ, will deliver the prin cipal address. The graves of deceased vet erans will be marked by flags. west rranktorts services will be at 10:15 a.m. at the Dis abled American Veterans war monuments, 100 W. Main St.

Ivan Beattie, a graduate stu dent at Southern Illinois Uni versity, will be the main speak er. A flag raising ceremony will be conducted by West Frankfort's National Guard unit. The Rev. Louis Mitchcl will give the invocation and Mayor Mike Mc Clatchey will welcome residents. The pledge of allegiance will be led by DAV Commander Norman Gay.

The benediction will be given by the Rev. Thomas F. Pick ens. The National Guard unit will make a rifle salute at 11 a.m. "Taps" will be played by Byford Young.

James La Vcrn Sanders is program chairman and Don ald E. Tate is co-chairman. Fire call Buckner: 9:40 p.m. Sunday, Christopher and Buckner firemen called to shed fire; eicht-foot-souare shed was destroved; cause undctcrmin ed. for mayors The drives are to be oneway and may not be used to enter the square.

The ordinance provides for a fine of not less than $10 ror more than $100 for violation of the one-way restriction. Street Commissioner Leland Brown was authorized to purchase signs for the newly named alleys. In other action the council: Authorized the transfer of lakeshore leases; one from D. Dwight Sullian to Fred Hunter and Dr. E.

W. Barkdull, Rt. 1, West Frankfort, to Le-Roy F. Ramsey, Benton. Instructed Street Commissioner Leland Brown to have weeds cut from all right-of-ways within the city.

hofi" said initial employment is expected to be 85 to 100 employes. The company specialty is expected to be the production of window envelopes. Buildings to be occupied were formerly used as a medical supply depot of the General Services Administration. Gene Johns praised his staff at the SII meeting in Carbondale for its "close work with not only Humitube, but also National Tape Co. and local development groups in helping to convince the firms they need to be in Southern Illinois.

"He heads the Herrin office of the state Department of Business and Lconomic Development. By Jim Hatton Of The Southern Illinoisan Carbondale Mayor David Kecne cast the deciding vote on three issues Tuesday night us councilmcn split on approving subdivision plats and hiring a city financial consultant. The council approved final plats of the Lewis Park Meadows and Heritage Hills Subdivisions, subject to requirements recommended by City Manager William Xorman. Approval of the Lewis Park Meadows plat came shortly after the council defeated a motion by Councilman Frank Kirk to require curbs and gutters on the subdivision's frontage road. The voting on Kirk's notion was: Kirk and Councilman Randall Nelson, Keene and Councilmen William Eaton and Joseph Ragsdale, "no." The voting to approve the Lewis Park Meadows plat was the same.

Only Councilman Nelson voted against the motion to approve the Heritage Hills plat. Later in the meeting the council again split on Norman's recommendation to hire Paul D. Spcer and Associates. as the city's new financial consultant. The Spcer firm's bid of $15, 000 was the highest of four bids.

Keene, Kirk and Nelson voted "yes" on this motion while Ragsdale and Eaton cast negative votes. The council's first disagreement came on the Lewis Park Meadows request. In his letter of recommendation to the council, Norman contended that "deviations from construction standards" occur in the developer's request. Kirk said the frontage road planned will be 18 feet wide Court orders canines 'get out of town1 Two dogs with a long history of attacks on school bound children in Murphys-Ivro literally were "ordered out of town" today in circuit court. An agreement between the City of Murphysboro and owners of the dogs, Gilbert and Gcraldine Stewart, of 220 N.

41 was entered in court today in a hearing on a permanent injunction request by the city. Under the agreement, the owners agree to remove tnc dogs from the city limits, and keep them out of the city. The agreement provides authority for the city to seize and destroy the dogs if they are returned inside the city limits. After the agreement was accepted in court, the city dropped its action for a permanent injunction. The city obtained a temporary injunction against the Stewarts last week, after Tamara Holt, 8.

of 334 Murphy received a minor injury when one of the dogs jumped on her, clawed her clothing, and inflicted a claw mark on her back. City Atty. Earl Hendricks said city police and County Rabies Warden Henry Ful-ford had compiled a list of prior complaints on the dogs biting children walking to the Washington School, about a block from the Stewart home. $370,000 estimate Herrin commission reviews city 4 Merchants oppose permit A petition opposing a liquor license application raised a few eyebrows at the Carbondale City Council meeting Tuesday night. The petition, signed by 20 area merchants, opposed granting an alcoholic beverage license to an establishment at 409 S.

Illinois Ave. The application was submitted by Donna Gray, Rt. 4, Carbondale, and Thomas Nudd, 606 E. Park Carbondale, for a specialty restaurant and cocktail lounge. The petitioners objected to granting the license because of the "noise, revelry and general cabaret atmosphere it would create." "I wonder how many of those places would be open when all this is going on," quipped Coun- cilman Frank Kirk.

in the present city hall. The commission decided 3,000 would be a better figure for the meeting room. Several of Moycr's recommendations were modified by the commission. The architect had allowed 300 square feet for a city attorney's office and 500 for a city engineer's office; neither of these offices has an office in the present city hall. Commissioner Denzil Walker suggested that instead of a city attorney's office.

150 square feet should be reserved for Civil Defense facilities and the other 150 left for extra office space. The cingineer's space should be cut from 500 to 150 leaving room for extra office space, he said. The commission agreed on both suggestions, and Moyer will incorporate them into his plans. Civil Jjetense equipment is now being housed at the old Bandy ville School building, leas ed from the Herrin Unit School District. The commission and district are checking the possibility of relocating the Red-men's Lodge at the school.

The ledge is on the third floor of the city hall. McVey said the Southeast Il linois Mutual Aid Area CD of fice will pay 50 per cent of the cost of new facilities if its specifications are met. Other proposed space allot ments in the rew city hall, com pared with space available in the present city hall, are as fol lows: Police department, 1,292 ThC. veterans will qo to St. Carl May employ 100 iMew ror The Humitube Co.

has leas ed 41,000 square feet of space at the Ordill industrial area of the Crab Orchard National Wild life Refuge to manufacture pa per products, Southern Illinois Inc. members were told at a Monday meeting. Project Manager Arch Mehr- Murphysboro boy burned A 9-year-old Murphysboro youth was critically burned Tuesday afternoon when a can of anti-freeze exploded. In Cardinal Glennon Hospital in St. Louis, with burns over about 70 per cent of his body, is Paul Calandro son of Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Calandro 413 Lucier St. The youth was treated at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital, and transferred to the burn care center at Cardinal Glennon. The youth's mother was treat ed for burns on the hands, arms and legs sustained in her efforts to cxtinquish flames which enveloped the youth's clothing.

Murphysboro police and fire men were called shortly before 3 p.m. to 439 North where Mrs. Calandro and the son were doing cleanup work at a property owTncd by the Calandros. Police said the son was burn ing tree limbs and other deb ris in a trash fire at the rear of he property. The boy appar ently was using an alcohol-base anti-freeze to get the fire going on damp tree limbs, police said.

The youth is a fourth grade pupil at St. Andrew's School. Men plead not guilty Two Art. Vernon men pleaded innocent in circuit court in Benton today to burg lary charges. Billy Don Stewart, 26 and Douglas Hefley, 24, are charg ed with burglary in connection with an $13,000 theft April 3.

A preliminary hearirg was set for June 19 at 10 a.m. The pair are charged with taking $3,000 in cash and 000 in bonds from the home of an elderly Benton couple. They have been released on $10,000 bond. Preliminary plans for a new city hall that would have about 13,000 square feet and cost between $370,000 and $375,000 were reviewed by the Hcrrin Public Building Commission Tuesday night. Tom Moyer of Clark, Altay and Associates, Urbana architects, presented figures on space needs and cost of the building.

After the commission approved most of the figures and made several changes, Moyer said his firm would bring its survey of space requirements up to date and start working on preliminary de sign drawings. The commission will meet again with Moyer at noon July 2 at the Hcrrin Elks Club to discuss progress made in the plans. One of the most notable changes tentatively planned for the new city hall is increasing the city council meeting space from 2,000 to 3,000 square feet. Much of the discussion Tuesday night centered on this meeting room. Commission chairman John McVey first said he favor ed making it a "convention center" that would hold 400 to 500 persons but he and other commissioners later decided such a facility would be too costly.

"I think this meeting room is badly needed in Herrin," Mcbey said. Moyer had allowed 2,000 square feet for the council chambers the same amount of space the council has, i louowea me same lines as those for and against the Lewis Park Meadows plat. Kirk said he changed his vote because of the "pressures of time." Nelson explained his lone negative vote by saying: "I feel we are going to be faced with this again and again. Either we will have to notify all contractors that the laws arc not in effect, or lower our standards for the mile-and-a-half area," he said, John Quinn. city planning director, told the council the ordinance may be completely rc-vised within two to three months.

Controversy occurcd again when Norman recommended the Speer firm as fin- ancial consultants. Norman said the firm's $15, 000 bid was $4,400 above the next bidder and $6,500 above the city's present consultant. Midwest Securities, Inc. He recommeded accepting Speer bid however, because of favorable reports en the firm from ether city managers. He also favored hiring an independent firm not involved in buying and selling bonds.

Kirk said he also preferred hiring an independent firm. Councilman Ragsdale said he favored rehiring Midwest Securities, because of its lower bid and because the firm "has done a good job for us in the past.".