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Cirbstidalff.Herrtn-Murphysboro-Msrlon SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, SUNDAY, SEPT. 12, 1974 Southern Illinoisan My rphysboro adult educaf foo reg isf rafioni set Monday Today ville, "The Stranger and te. ion, "The Great Scout and Cat-house Thursday" TOWN Country No. 2, Marion, "Gator" FOX, Carbondale, "Harry and Walter Go to New York" SALUKI 1, Carbondale, "Midway" ORPHEUM, Harrisburg, "Lifeguard" WEBSTER Theatre, Steele-ville, "Three Days of the Condor" EGYPTIAN Drive-In, Herrin, "Poor White Trash, Part II" ROXY Theatre, Coulterville, "Four in a Bed" UNIVERSITY 4, Carbondale, "Hie Outlaw Josey Wales," "Lifeguard," "Silent Movie" and "The Omen" CAMPUS Drive-In, Murphys boro, "The Happy Hooker" plus "My Pleasure is My Business" MARION Drive In, "The Happy Hooker" plus "My Pleasure Is My Business" m. Monday, city hall.

SESSER Community Unit District School Beard, 7:30 p. m. Monday, board of education building, 101 W. Franklin. SHAWNEE College Board of Trustees, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, board room on the Ullin campus. WEST Frankfort City Council, 7 p.m. Monday, city hall. JACKSON County Cancer Society Board, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sallie Logan Library, Walnut and 18th Streets, Murphysboro.

BENTON Consolidated High School Board of Education, 7 p.m. Monday, at the school. SOUTHERN Illinois Ostomy Association, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Southern Illinois Clinic Building, Mt. Vernon.

Open to all persons with stomas and other interested persons. For more information, call 932-6312. SPARTA City Council, 7 p.m. Monday, city hall, 132 W. Broadway.

ship Hall. SHAWNEE College Board of Trustee Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Monday, administration building on Ullin Campus. UNITY POINT Grade School District Board, 7:30 p.m. Monday, at the school.

ELKVILLE Village Board of Trustees, 7 p.m. Monday, Waterworks Building. WOMEN'S Center Board of Directors, 7:30 p.m., Monday, at the Center, 408 Freeman, Carbondale. HERRIN Board of Education, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Herrin High School.

BENTON City Council, 7:30 p.m. Monday, city hall. FRANKFORT Community Unit School Board, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Administrative Services Center, 512 E. St.

Louis West Frankfort. HERRIN City Council, 7 p.m. Monday, city hall. HURST City Council, 7:30 p. Monday Special Events LITTLE Egypt Chapter of S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A., barber shop chorus rehearsal, 8 p.m.

Monday, Carbondale East High School Art Room. Open to all interested area men. JACKSON County Legal Sec-retaries, 6:45 p.m. Monday, Patrician Restaurant, Carbondale. Guest speaker will be State's Atty.

Howard Hood, speaking Public meetings RANDOLPH County Board of Commissioners, 9 a.m. Monday, courthouse in Chester. MARION TOPS, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall. TOPS Club of West Frankfort, 7:30 p.m., Monday, Second Baptist Church Fellow "Mother, Jugs Speed" plus w.w.

ana ine uaace xungs What's Aauir mgnr aass Registration for the regular winter schedule of adult education classes sponsored by Murphysboro Unit School Dist. 186 is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday in the Carruthers Junior High School library. Class sessions will be scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays from September through Max Sappenf ield, 67, dies in Indiana Hospital notes Death hiard Janylis killed in Kinkaid Itike mishap Max M.

Sappenfield, retired professor of political science and former director of personnel at Southern Illinois Univcr-sity-Carbondale, died Friday, Sept. 10, 1976, following surgery at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Mr. Sappenfield, 67, of 60 Skyline Drive, Carbondale, retired from SIU-C in 1974 after 12 years as a full-time professor. He came to the university as director of personnel in 1954 when SIU-C was starting its boom under the presidency of Delyte W.

Morris. He was born Sept. 12, 1908, in Bickell, to James Marion and Myrtle Pollard Sappenfield. He received an A.B. de gree in 1930 and an M.A.

de- gree 1932, both from Indiana nalional college and University University, and earned a Ph. PersonneI Association. He be- D. in political science in 1935 longed to Carbondale Ro- from the University of Illinois. tarv Mr Sappenfield was married Mr sappenfield a mem-March 12, 193b, in alia WaUa, of me christian Church to Elizabeth King, who in Bloomington, Ind.

survives. Other survivors include a From 1936 to 1W3, Mr. Sap- son, James Allen of MUwau- penfield worked for the Indiana kee; a sister, Mrs. J.M. Hall Dept.

of Public Welfare. He of Palm Bay, a cousin, was director of personnel at Ralph S. of Blowing Rock, N. Indiana Medical and two granddaughters. Center from 1943 until joining Funeral services wiil be at SIU-C in 1954.

3 p.m. Tuesday at Day Mor- He was a president of the tuary in Bloomington, Ind. Bu- S1U Annuitants Association, rial will be in Rose Hill Ceme- and he served on the advisory tery in Bloomington. committee of the Illinois State Friends may call from 4 to Universities Retirement Sys- 8 p.m. Monday at Huffman Fu- tem.

He was a board member neral Home in Carbondale. of Memorial Hospital in Car- In lieu of flowers, contribu- bondale and Herrin Hospital, tions may be made to the SIU and was past president of the Foundation. PINCKNEYVILLE Grade School Dist. 50 Board cf Education, 8 p.m. Monday, at the school.

TAMAROA Grade School District 5, 7 p.m. Monday at the school. WILLIAMSON County A i r-port Authority, 7:30 p.m. Monday, in the airport off ice MARION Park Board, 7 p.m. Monday, in the installment office of the Bank cf Marion.

WILLIAMSON County Board of Commissioners, 9:30 a.m. Monday, in the county courthouse, Marion. ANNA-JONESBORO Water Commission, 7 p.m. Monday, Jonesboro City Hall. MARION City Council, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, in city hall. DONGOLA Village Board, 7 p.m. Monday, in village hall. UNION County Board of Commissioners, 9 a.m. Monday, in the county courthouse, Jonesboro.

Max Sappenfield the union for the custodians earlier this year. Of the 20 union members, 11 are bus driver custodian combination workers and nine work only as custodians. WALTER DECKER Funeral services for Walter Decker, 74, of Nashville will be at 2 p.m. today at the Pyatt Funeral Home in Nashville. Mr.

Decker died Friday, Sept. 10, 1976, in Friendship Manor Nursing Home in Nashville. He was a retired farmer. He was born in Washington County on Aug. 13, 1902, to John and Rosine Vogel Decker.

Survivors include sons, Leroy and Floyd of St. Louis, Elmer and Lloyd, of Nashville: daughters, Irma Maxwell, of Newburgh, Evelyn Piat-rowski, lone Towcll and Ber-nice Norton, all of St. Louis, a brother, Oscar, of Nashville; 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One son, one daughter and one brother preceded him in death. Friends may call at the Pyatt Funeral Home until the hour of service.

Burial will be in Masonic Cemetery in Nashville. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made 0 the Washington County Hospital in Nashville. THERESA GEHM Theresa Gehm, 82, of 209 Circle Drive, Herrin, died at 5:05 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, 1976, at Mattingly Health Care Center in Energy.

Funeral arrangements are pending at Johnson Funeral Home in Herrin. 1 wt aV 1 1 I Movies REND Lake Drive-in, "Buf-falo Bill and the Indians" CINEMA 1, Harrisburg "The Man Who Would be King" CINEMA 2, Harrisburg, "The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday" STARLITE Drive-In, Eldorado, "Gator" plus "Break-heart Pass" VARSITY 1, Carbondale, "The Man Who Fell to Earth" NEW Liberty, Murphysboro, "The Other Side of the Mountain" TOLER Cinema, Benton, "Gumball Rally" VARSITY 2, Carbondale, "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" SALUKI 2, Carbondale, "The Bad News Bears" TOWN Country No. 1, Mar MARION E.WHITE Funeral services for Marion E. White, 61, 19 Sunset Drive, ML Vernon, will be at 3 p.m. today at the Hughey-Pulley Funeral Home in Mt.

Vernon. Mr. White died Thursday, Sept. 9, 1976, in the Veteran's Hospital at Marion. He had owned and operated White Sales, in Minneapolis, before he retired and moved to Mt.

Vernon. He was a member of the Trinity Nazarene Church in Mt. Vernon and was a veteran of World War II. Mr. White was born in West Frankfort on July 26, 1915, to R.D.

and Monell Moore White. He was married to Frances Spencer in Mayfield, on Dec. 4, 1W7. Survivors include his wife, Frances; a son, Sammy, Highland; daughters, Lynn Williams, Mt. Vernon, and Char-lene Jacobson, Minneapolis, sisters, Opal Hedges, Beatrice Austin, Cora Dell Camber, Beryl Webb and Dora Mabry, ail of West Frankfort; brothers, Joe, Olney, and R.D., Mt.

Vernon. Friends may call at the funeral home today until the hour of service. Burial will be in the Tower Heights Cemetery in West Frankfort EDNA F. CARTER Edna Fern Carter, 75, 109 S. Division Du Quoin, died Thursday, Sept.

9. 1976, in Belleville Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Carter was born in Walton ville June 9, 1901, to William and Ida Elliston Place. She married Roy Carter in Cutler in 1918.

He died in 1924. She was a member of the St. Francis Xavier Church in St. Louis, Mo. Survivors include sons, William Place, Tamaroa, and Samuel Carter, Bonne Terre, a sister, Marjorie Cleora Ticer, Pinckneyville; five grandchildren, two stepgrand-children and 14 great-grandchildren.

Three brothers and three sisters also preceded her in death. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Bruno Catholic Church in Pinckneyville. Burial will be in Mueller Hill Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Doerr-Schwebel Funeral Home from 6 to 9 p.m. today. Recitation of rosary will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday. LOUIS SMITH Funeral services for Louis Smith, 63, of Marissa will be at 2 p.m.

today at the United Methodist Church in Marissa. Mr. Smith died Thursday, Sept. 9, 1976, in Sparta Community Hospital. He was born in Willisville on June 7, 1903, to Louis and Mary Darrough Smith.

He married Betsy Kohl, who died in 1930. He later married Opal McDaniel on July 26, 1961. Survivors include sons, Raymond, of Cadillac, and Arlie, of Marissa; daughters, Eloa Dopson, of Marissa, and Deiores Skinner, of Sparta; brothers. Arlie, of Marissa, and Wilnea Keitz, of St. Louis, sisters, Opal Williams, of Ca-hokia, Ella Fillbright and Mabel Benson, both of St.

Louis, Mo. Friends may call at the Hill and Son Funeral Home in Sparta today until the hour of service. Burial will be in Swan-wick Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sparta Community Hospital Auxiliary. Coming registration Classes to be offered, will include reading, niattenij-tics, English, social studies Jsd science.

A course will beZof-fered on the Constitution, also on review for a General Education Development testis Further information may rte obtained from Leland Lockard, supervisor of the adult educa tion program, at the Logan Grade School.1 Robinson suffered ft broken ankfo, lacerations acd a possible concussion, was transfer red 0 xa Memorial Hospital in Car-" bondale to St. Josephs Hospital in Murphysboro where Jse was reported in good condition. Ragsdale said an inquest into Mr. Janulis death is pending. Mr.

Janulis operated a sterto service business in Carbondale. Crawshaw Mortuary in Murphysboro handled funeral Arrangements locally. The body was then shipped to Reidnjan Funeral Home, 3319 S. Littia-nica Chicago, a spokesman said. JULIA C.JENKINS Julia Jenkins, S3, efSthe Eastern Star Home, Mapn, formerly of Murphysboro, tfied Friday, Sept 10, 1976, athe home.

Mrs. Jenkins was borate March 26, 1878, to John rnd Anna Keeiler Rausch. She was married to Tom Jenkins Murphysboro. He died in 1942. She was a member ofthe United Methodist Church in Murphysboro, American Lesion Auxiliary and was a charitr member of the Eastern Star- Survivors include a Henry; and sisters, Ida MiHer and Freida Bookstaver, cth of Belleville.

One son preceded herein death. Graveside services wilQe at 1 p.m. Monday in Toer Grove Cemetery in JMurhys-boro. Denny-Pettett Funeral Hghe in Murphysboro is in charge of arrangements. ANNA JANZ Anna Janz, 60, of 1501 Sice-maker Murphysboro, jjd Thursday, Sept.

9, Jackson County Nursing Hesie. She was born in Hlinolson Oct 19, 1915, to Albert 5cnd Lucille Bueckenberg. Bulger. Funeral services will btat 10 a.m. Monday at the Denay-Pettett Funeral Home.

Biirial will be in Tower Grove Cere-tery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 pip. today and until the hourof service Monday. JESSIE DARNELL Jessie Darnell, 71, of Pidu-cah, formerly of U12n, died Friday, Sept 10, 197rln Western Baptist hospital inPa-ducah. Mrs.

Darnell was a member of the Cache Chapel United Methodist Church. Survivors include her husband, William, Paducah; sons, William, Cedar Lake, Jack, Portage, James, Necedah, Wise, Rev. Carl, Fair Oaks, Mariea East Moline, Chsrfcs, Braidwood; a daughter, Delo-ros Collier, Paducah, a sister, Pauline Robinson, Springfield, a brother, Edward Braken, Baker, 21 grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will ba at 2 p.m. Monday at the Cachia Chapel United Methodist Church.

Burial will be in ths church cemetery. Friends may call at the Sto-ner Funeral Home in Ullin tf-ter 4:30 p.m. today. Herrin schools get injunction MINERS, Christopher ADMITTED: Bryant, Charles, Whittington Eldridge, Irene Brown, Hazel. Valier DISCHARGED: Jones, Debbie, Valier Eldridge, Irene PINCKNEYVILLE COMMUNITY Names of persons admitted not available DISCHARGED: Wolfe, Rodney.

Du Guoin Cierwinskl, Michael. Scheiler Kilpatrick, Roger, Ava Rednour, Nelson, Ava Restoff. Henry, Ta maroa Kellerman, Pearl Selby, James, Tamaroa Basso, Victoria, Sesser Toibert, Bryan ST. JOSEPHS HOSPITAL, Murphysboro ADMITTED: Brothers, Ryburn, De Soo Brothers. Mrs.

Ryburn, De Soto Harris, Mrs. David Hotley, Sharon Hadfield. George, Carterville DISCHARGED: Cady, George, Grand Toer Hartiein, Mrs. James, Alto Pass Lucas. Michael, Ava Brewer, Loren, Vergennes Parker, Mrs.

Homer, Hurst Parson, Mrs. Sam. Cluster, Naomi Musiat. Mrs. Laurence McGowen, Rooert Sykes, Raipn SPARTA CO.SWUNITY ADMITTED: Thompson, Julian.

Oekdale Treece, Janet and baby, Marissa Cox. Shoi by, Cahokie Triesenbach. James. Marissa Sieburg, Victor Keiiey. Elmer Co.

Baby boy. Cahokla DISCHARGED: Davis. Angela Re ner. Rsbet wues. McGesn, LHiian, Varissa Rod.

Lur, Tilden Braun, Gasl. Sesser Wilson. Stanley, Sparta Morris. Deora, Cakda UNION COUNTY, Anna ADMITTEO: Hmes. Daisy.

Mounds City DISCHARGED: Raddiff. David. Donaoia Bowen, Bill. Jonesboro Roach, Kevin, Dongola Wocsewrishf, Jean. Vienna Summons.

Daryl, Buncombe Womick, Heien, Carbondale UNION. West Frankfort ADMITTED: Lee. Christeprer, Benton Tute. Brand Bide't. Villa DISCHARGED: Griffith, Marilyn Robinson, Diann Gosneil, Geneva Hayes, Jack, ThompsonvHIe Hanjmans, William Mings, Emerson Manion, Jean Appleton, Ira.

Johnston City Wearrnoueh, Daralyn Davis, Sandra WASHINGTON COUNTY, Nashville Names of persons admitted net available DISCHARGED: Denton, Steve. Bardwell, Ky. Harris. Marilyn, Schemer Birschkus, Margie. Venedy Sfofferahn, Esther, Okarville Ponmskt, Mary Keller, Juanita Young, Ella, OkawviHe Roper, Setta Births CARTERVILLE: CULP.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry, a son born Friday In Herrin Hospital. JOHNSTON CITY: WALLACE. Mr.

and Mrs. Robert, a daughter born Friday in Herrin Hospital. MURPHYSBORO: Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, a daughter born Friday in St.

Joseph Hospital. Corrections The name of Margaret Warner, a sister-in-law of James L. Warner, was left out of his obituary in Thursday's newspaper. NATIONAL WtATHft SftVlCt. NO.

Ut 0t ween 7 a.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday was 42. There was no precipitation during the same period. Sunest today Is 7:13 p.m.

Sunrise Monday Is 6:39 a.m. Sunset Monday Is 7:12 pjn. (AP Wirephoto Map) 70 FRANKLIN. Benton ADMITTED: Grahtm, Jams. Sejser Cwenget.

Dorothy Treece. Buelah Rishop. Mary Williams. Ezra Hailey, Shelby, Christopher Eskovich, Julius, Eldrkige, Irene, Christopher Fleming, Sarah Tasky, Mildred towers, Ooel, Christopher DISCHARGED: Stevens. Pearl KuykeodaM.

Edward Hancock, Calvin Johnston. Loyd Stuart. Edith. Granite City Even. Cheryl Rusher, Dianna, West Frankfort Smith, Gladys Rice.

Maude Taylor, Val'er Pryer, Paul 4e, Scharader, Sesser Lang, Edna, Christopher HERRIN HOSPITAL Na-nes cf persons admitted net available DISCHARGED: Sheemake, Shanna JaccDSon, Norman Ducan, Paul McGann, Carol, Marion Smith, Linda MAdcitn, Edna, Alto Pas Leertr, Deiores, Crterviile Granam, Rose Antorunt. Mary Ctive. Bertha, Dcrfvem, Kay, Johnston City MARSHALL BROWNING, Oil Quoin Fircw, Beatrice. Valier Hes'and. Stanley Rieta, Patricia DISCHARGED: Overton, Emma Downs.

jaJ, Ethel MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Carboncjale ADMITTED: Edards. Va-y. McLeaboro jecooson, Morman, Herrin Bacan. Lyie, Mgikeyton McG Chahes l3, Na'fta-. De Sco Staorites, Sarah, Dvipo McCormack.

Cray DISCHARGED: Dorris. Verbal, Jonnston City Cochran, Marilyn, Sato Magnerti. Tresse, Htrrtn Daniel Eart, Soto Lois, Enerfy Roserta Eckiss. Ray. Murphysboro Earner son, Micky, Herrin Whte, Marvin Gardner, Anna Rectcr, Hilda, Marion Cin'cra, Dessie and daugte'.

Ceoden M'sra, Satya Claiper. Dante, Herrin Broaday, James. Jonesboro Creafam, Doraid Hope, James, Johnston City McNeill, Loran, Herrin Lonnie, Johnston City Cempsey, Jack, Poplar Bluff, Mo. MARION MEMORIAL ADMITTED: Jerngs, Wilson Nichols, Opal. Creal Springs Mtai.

Reoecca Mays. Betty Fe'rel, Rutl Philips, Haro'd DISCHARGED: Nelson. Jeanne Acioct, Geneve, Carbondale McAiptn. Nahmon Wilson. Steven Rice.

Mary Anderson, Coy Henderson, James Springs. Ira Parks. Carolyn Bunting. Daisy Rd3in, Pearl Sullivan, Paul Aikman, E. J.

Totsch, Cuyler Vioiett, Bonme, Creal Springs Smith, Scott MEMORIAL, Chester ADMITTED: Rathmacher, Ruby. Ellis Grove MiUigen, Clinton, Cutler Simpson, Roy, Evaniville Hoffman, Phillip Ellis Grove $hicer, Oscar, EvansvUie Shicker, Edward, Evansville BtechJe, William Mcrfeer, William, Gorham DISCHARGED: Becker, Janet, Percy DeLa, Mkhele Elliott, Janette Coiimeyer, Wayne Hammei. Otis Percy I O'" Clear in Midwest Shower are forecast today In the Rocky Mountain states mi well as northern sections of New England, according to the National Weather Service. Celar skies are predicted for the rest of the nation. In Southern Illinois, the high Saturday was 78.

The low bet IwffSb yC Ja may have occurred. Janulis and two other men, Jerry Robinson, 29, of Route 4, Murphysboro, and William Wltherspoon, 52, of 805 W. Freeman Carbondale, were not found by authorities until about 5 a.m. Saturday about a mile away from the marina at the southeast end of the lake. Witherspoon, who suffered a fractured ankle, severe facial and scalp lacerations and oiher head injuries, was transferred to Firmin Desloge Hospital in St.

Louis late Saturday morning. No condition report was available. ACNES P. PARR ISH Agnes Pauline Parrish, 66, Route 1, Vergennes, died Friday, Sept. 10, 1976, in Jackson County Nursing Home in Murphysboro.

Mrs. Parrish was a member of the Wesley Methodist Church and the Senior Citizens of Vergennes. She was born in Vergennes Township July 20, 1910, to Frank and Bertha Oliver Tut-hill. She was married to Charles B. Parrish in Vergennes March 29, 1929.

Survivors include her husband, Charles; daughters, Mrs. Harold Sickler, Elkville, Mrs. A.L. Kirkpatrick, Florissant Mrs. Bill Hanna, Du Quoin, Mrs.

Darrel Tripp, Edwardsville; brothers, Ernest Tuthill, Hillsboro, Harry Tut-hill. Culvert City, sisters, Anna Bush, Bossier City, Emma Sommenille, Oscoda, Marie David, Campbell Hill, Charlotte Kramer, Broomfield, Lilliam Ingram, Murphysboro; 13 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Vergennes. Burial will be Parrish Cemetery in Vergennes.

Friends may call at the Crawshaw Mortuary in Murphysboro after 5 p.m. today until noon Monday. NORMA MARTIN Norma Rae Martin, 43, Route 3, Thompsonville, died Saturday, Sept. 12, 1976, in Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. Mrs.

Martin was a secretary at Bud Cremeen's Chrysler Garage for several years. She was a member of the Eastern Star. She was born in Franklin County on Dec. 5, 1927, to Roy and Ruth Harvey Ing. She was married to Jimmy Martin who died in 1972.

She was engaged to Guy J. Moore of West Frankfort. Survivors include daughters, Nancy Mabry, Thompsonville, and Pamela McRoy, Gardner; a sister, Loraine Archer, Benton; a brother, Amos Ing, Belleville; two grandchildren; her father, Thompsonville, and her mother, Elgin. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Union Funeral Home in West Frankfort.

Burial will be in East Fork Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today. One man was killed and two others were injured late Friday in a boating mishap on Kinkaid Lake near the Illinois 149 marina, near Murphysboro. Jackson County Coroner Don Ragsdale said Richard Arthur Janulis, 27, of 190 Dogwood Lane, Lakewood Trailer Park, Carbondale, was killed instantly when the motor boat in which he was riding slammed into a tree trunk on a shoreline point in the lake.

A witness who said he heard a crash about 11 p.m. Friday has given authorities the only indication of when the mishap BERTHA WILSON Bertha Wilson, 95, of 204 S. Line Du Quoin, died Friday, Sept. 10, 1976, in Marshall Browning Hospital in Du Quoin. Mrs.

Wilson was born in Mill Shoals on Jan, 17, 1831, to Thomas and Nancy Clark Files. She was married to James Wilson in Fairfield on Oct 30, 1901. He died in 1930. She was the oldest member cf the First United Methodist Church in Du Quoin. She is turvived by daughters- in-law Violet Wilson.

Du Quoin, and Evelyn Wilson, Mt. Vernon; and one granddaugh-ter-in-law, Helen Wilson, Du Quoin, with whom she resided. Two brothers, five sisters, five sons, one daughter and one grandson preceded her in "death. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Max-ton Funeral Chapel in Du Quoin.

Burial will be in Sh-rewsberry Cemetery in Mill Shoals. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today. Memorial contributions may be made to the Edna W. South Memorial Fund of the First United Methodist Church in Du Quoin.

LYLE V. GOOCH Funeral services for Lyle V. Gooch, 67, Route 1, Marion, will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Mitchell Funeral Home in Marion. Mr.

Gooch, a retired coal miner who last worked at Old Ben No. 21 at Sesser, died at 4:15 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, 1976, in Marion Memorial Hospital He was born Feb. 11, 1909, in Carmi to Grant and Nola Mobley Gooch.

He was married Jan. 11, 1934, in Marion to Lillian Louise Stroud, who sur-vives. Mr. Gooch was a member of United Mineworkers of America Local 1124. Other survivors include four sons, Dennis and Michael, both of Route 1, Marion, Gene of Marion and Tom of Route 1, Creal Springs; three brothers, Adrian and Burl, both of Route 1, Marion, and Max of Eaton Rapids, a sister, Mildred McKnight, Route 1, Johnston City; and 10 grandchildren.

A brother, two sisters and two grandchildren preceded him in death. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Gardens near Marion. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home. A temporary injunction forbidding custodians and bus drivers in Herrin Unit District 4 to strike was granted Friday in Williamson County Circuit Court in Marion.

Thursday was set as the date fcr a bearing on the issuance of a permanent injunction. Also on Friday, the Herrin Board of Education dropped its suit seeking $1 million in punitive damages from Laborers International Local 372. the union to which the 20 bus dri-bers and custodians are members. James Sanders, attorney for Herrin Unit 4, said he asked for the temporary injunction even though the custodians and bus drivers voted to return to work Friday in order to prevent any further strikes. "Most people do not realize it, but it is illegal to strike against a school.

That ruling has been made several times by the Illinois Supreme Court," he said. The custodians and bus drivers vctcd late Thursday to return to work, after the school district the same day filed a suit asking for the injunction and the $1 million damages. The strike began Thursday morning. Schools were closed Thursday, but reopened Friday. John Holland, president of Local 372, and Supt.

William Clarida, said a joint letter was sent Friday requesting the intervention of a federal mediator in the dispute. "We hepe we can get this contract settled quickly Clarida said. He said the workers are asking for a 23 per cent salary increase. The school board recognized.

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