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Page Two won won 8tS33 School Work Progresses The new addition to Unity Point School, south of Carbon Two Injured In Smashup Two persons were injured Sunday in an accident at the intersection of Main and Logan streets in West Frankfort. Charles Lingle 42, of (X3 N. Cochran, West Frankfort, was treated and released from Union Hospital, West Frankfort. 4 Jackson Fourth In Enrollment At University The 1,312 Southern Illinois University students from Jackson County place the county fourth in statewide enrollment. All 102 counties have students in SIU.

Cook County tops the list this fall with Madison is second with 2,870, and St. Calir third with 2,092. Williamson is fifth with 701 and Franklin sixth with 516 students. Among SIU's total enrollment of 13,210, there are 2,091 from out-of-state and 222 students listing foreign addresses. The actual number of foreign students is about 260.

j. J'T I 1 ffl bww Myri E. Alexander, director of the SIU Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections, listen. GOVERNOR SPEAKS Gov. Otto Kerner addresses opening session of regional conference of parole offic- ials Sunday at Giant city State Park lodge.

Southern II- linois University president Delyte W. Morris, right, and Opens Conference Governor Urges Acceptance WARDS Phone 684-3102 1 7 Nor It 1 2th ly'RPHYSBORO, i SAVE WITH SAFETY Wards New AUTO SERVICE CENTER Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday Only TIRE -WHEEL BALANCING Regular s700 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday SAVE TIRE WEAR AVOID VIBRATION 1 I 71 Get Riverside GUARANTEED AUTO PARTS BONDED BRAK1 MIIE GUAR. Installed S24.54 Set of 4 Wheel! 70 mor useful lining. Smooth, qufck stops. Mori wear.

FORD CHEV. PLYMOUTH Other Cars SI'ghtly Higher Gef Riverside GUARANTEED AUTO PARTS RIVERSIDE MUFFLERS -COATED STEEL Cocted insidt Kvd ot with corrosion I elioy for longe FORD CHI-V. PLYMOUTH Other Modi Is Slightly Higher TAIL PIPES Installed SR50 up Experienced Mechanic! FULL GUAPANTEED Ail Instillations by Qualihtj mm SPECIALS 5 dale, will be completed in about 60 days. The gymnasium will be usedj for physical education and music. Meals will be served from a new kitchen.

A new library is included in the addition. "There will be some competitive sports, but probably not until next year," District 140 Supt. George Boyd said. Work started Aug. 1.

SPARTA MAN DIES Funeral Services Set Tuesday For Harold Stough Harold M. Stough, 73, Sparta, died Sunday in Chester Memorial Hospital after an illness of three months. Mr. Stough was born Aug. 5 1893, at Monmouth, the son of Urias and Ella Mae Chipman Stough.

He was married April 12, 1916, in Brooklyn, to Garnie D. Burton. He was a member of First Methodist Church, Sparta, and of the Masonic Lodge, Brooklyn. Mr. Stough was a retired postal clerk.

He leaves his wife, a daughter, Mrs. George A. Locpfe of Milwaukee, a brother, John of Downers Grove; sisters, Helen Stough and Margaret Stough, both of Evans-ton; and three grandchildren. Services will be at 7 p.m Tuesday at the Walker Colonial Funeral Home, Sparta. v.

Oscar Maerker will officiate. Burial will be in Clarendon Hills, Downers Grove. Friends may call after 10 a.m. Tuesday. MRS.

CHRISTOPH OF JACOB DIES Mrs. Ethel Z. Christoph, 71, Jacob, formerly of Carbondale, died Saturday in Holden Hospital, Carbondale, of cerebral hemorrhage. She was employed at Wolf Plumbing in Carbondale several years. She was a mem-j ber of the American Legion Aux- iliary and the First Baptist! Church, Carbondale.

She was born Jan. 31, 1892, in Makanda, the daughter of Charles and Eva Halstead Zimmer-( man. She was married to El-1 mer Christoph. He proceeded) her in death. She leaves a daughter, Mrs.

Myrna Meisner of Jacob, and a grandchild, Jean Greenhaw of! Jacob. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Huffman: Funeral Home, Carbondale, with Rev. W. O.

Petzoldt, pastor of, the Christ Lutheran Church, Jacob, officiating. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at the funeral home. SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN Published Sunday and daily except Saturdays and bon-days by Southern Illinois Publications.

227 West Main Street, Carbondale; 212 North 16th Street. Herrin; 9-11 Soith 12th Street. Murphysboro. Second-class postage paid at CarDonaale, Illinois, and at additional mailing offices. The Southern Ulinoisan Is the successor Newspaper to the Carbondale Free Press, Herrin Daily Journal and Murphysboro Independent.

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I sj MfuIJIl 1 Mrs. Ransome Rapp of 505 34th Cairo, was in fair condition today in Union Hospital. Patrolman Bill Willis said Rapp, 48, was driving south on Rt. 37 and Lingle was going west on Main street when they collided. Lingle was tickeied for failure to yield right of way.

Lingle was alone. Rapp was with his wife and their son, Terry, 9. Willis said the right front of Lingle's car and the front of Rapp's car were both badly damaged. LUELLA LANE DIES Services Set Wednesday For Murphysboro Woman Mrs. Luella Reeves Lane, 70, of 1935 Wall Murphysboro, died Sunday in St.

Joseph Me morial Hospital in Murphysboro, after a long illness. She was born July 24, 1893 in Jackson County, the daughter of Alfred and Lou Hagler Reeves. She was married May 27, 1911, to Winfred Lane who died Oct. 5, 1963. Mrs.

Lane was a member of the First Baptist Church, and the War Mothers. She leaves daughters, Mrs. Walter Sweatland of Davenport Iowa, Mrs. W7esley R. Elms of Auburn, and Mrs.

Frank J. Fligel of Berwyn; a son Winfred Lane Jr. of Murphysboro; 17 grandchildren and three great grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Lu Vennie Koch of St. Louis.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Meyer Denny Funeral Home in Murphysboro, with Rev. Harry R. Chasteen officiating. Burial will be in Crab Orchard Cemetery.

EDNAGERLACH DIES Funeral Services Set Wednesday For Chester Woman Miss Edna A. Gerlach, 55, of Chester, died in the Randolph County Nursing Home at Sparta Sunday after a long illness. She had been a patient at the home 13 years. She was born in Chester Jan. 17, 1908, the daughter of William F.

and Wilhelmina Beck-man Gerlach. Miss Gerlach was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Chester. She leaves sisters, Mrs. Edward H.

Wolter and Miss Gerlach, both of Chester, and Mrs. Harry Lindwedel of Coul-sa, Calif. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Chester, with Rev.

Eric Cash officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Schroeder Funeral Home in Chester after 5 p.m. today. FORMER CHRISTOPHER MAN DIES; RITES SET Hiley Bill Furlow, 60, of Mor- risonville, formerly of Christop-I her, died at 9:40 a.m.

Saturday in St. Vincent's Hospital, Tay-lorville. where he had been a patient a week. He was a miner at Pawnee, 9, near Morriscnville. and aj member of United Mine Work ers Local 9819.

He was born May 29, 1903, in West Frankfort, the son of Edward and Amanda Campbell Furlow. He leaves his wife, the former Beulah Campbell; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Zalloni of Christopher; granddaughters, Sandra Zalloni of Christopher and Mrs. John Miller Jr. of Valier; and a sister, Mrs.

Dora Whitnel of Terre Haute, Ind. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Russell Funeral Home, Christopher. Rev. W.

D. Berry will officiate. Bur-; ial will be in Harrison Ceme-i tery. Friends may call at the! funeral home. 1 Rev.

and Mrs. Guy Walsh i jit ft- Henry G. Hileman Former Union Sheriff Dies Henry Hileman, 84, of Anna, a former Union County sheriff and coroner, died Sunday evening at his home after a long illness. He also was a retired state policeman. He was a member of the Jonesboro Masonic Lodge, and the First Baptist Church, Jonesboro.

i xur. lineman was Dorn Marcn 1 28, 1879, in Union County, the Ison of Mr. and Mrs. John Hile man. He leaves his wife, Zetta; two step-sons, William Horrell, an associate professor of printing and photography at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Paul Horrell of Ft.

Lauderdale, one step-daughter, Mrs. Stella Brock of Car bondale and several nieces. Funeral services will bo at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Norris and Son Funeral Home, Jonesboro, with Rev. H.

P. Benear officiating. Burial will be in Jonesboro Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. Junk Yard Shed Burns Murphysboro firemen Saturday fought a junk yard fire for three hours at 1800 Gartside St.

Cause of the blaze was undetermined. A storago shed and its contents were lost. The junk yard is owned by Harry Green-berg. The fire was reported at 2 p.m. Firemen answered two calls to douse a fire in a sawdust pile.

The first call to Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad property on North 19th street was at 5 p.m. Saturday. The second call was at 5 p.m. Sunday. Cause of the fire is undeter mined.

There was no loss. The pile is from an abandoned barrel manufacturing company. Firemen extinguished a grass fire at 1:20 a.m. Sunday on the Illinois Central Railroad right of way at Hall and North 13th streets. FUNERAL FOR FORMER HERRIN MAN HELD Funeral services for Paul Helms of Hillsboro, formerly of Herrin, were at 2:30 p.m.

today at Bass Funeral Home, Hillsboro. Mr. Helms, 43, died Saturday in the Hillsboro Hospital. He was agriculture teacher at Hillsboro High School. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Hillsboro Kiwanis Club.

Graveside rites will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Herrin i Cemetery. The Rev. William Laughlin, pastor of the Hillsboro First Methodist Church, will officiate. Friends may call after 7 p.m.

today at Johnson's Funeral Home, Herrin. 55)60 ir Looking for a bricklayer? You vill find them advertising frequently in Clarified along with many other servires all lifted Serire. Check Classified lien you need help. SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN Palsy Board Re-Elects Two Two Du Quoin men were reelected to posts with United Cerebral Palsy of Illinois at Peoria Saturday. Ralph Dunn was re-elected president and R.

C. Todd was re-elected treasurer. Others elected from Southern Illinois to the state board of directors are Sen. John Gilbert, Don Smith, both of Carbondale, Allen Bootcn of Marion and Mrs. Loretta Capps of Harris-burg.

VERNON HALLWORTH DIES Funeral Services Set Tuesday For Murphysboro Man Funeral services for Vernon G. Hallworth, 77, who died Friday, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Meyer-Denny Funeral Home in Murphysboro. Rev. William J.

Boatman will officiate. Burial will be in Tow er Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home alter 6 p.m. today. Mr.

Hallworth, of 2035 Edith Murphysboro, died in the Missouri-Pacific Hospital in St. Louis after an illness of year. He was a retired locomotive engineer for the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. He was born Dec. 13, 1883, in Campbell Hill, the son of Cyrus and Mary Williams Hallworth.

He was married April 9, 1920, to Ruby Blackwood. Mr. Hallworth leaves his wife. One brother and one sister preceded him in death. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, and the American Legion and the World War I Barracks, both in Murphysboro.

ORA E. DILLOW OF ANNA DIES Ora E. Dillow, 79, of Anna, died at 9 a.m. Sunday at home. He had been ill several months.

He was born in Union County, July 25, 1884, the son of Monroe and Grabilla Dillow. Mr. Dillow was a member of the First Baptist Church of Anna and the International Order of Odd Fellows, Jonesboro. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Edna McGill, Alto Pass, and Mrs.

Electa Hayes, Anna; two sons, Paul Dillcw, Anna, and Fount Dillow, Mt. Vernon; three sisters, Mrs. Maude Shepnard and Mrs. Vica Coppel, both of Anna, and Mrs. Cassie Hendricks, Elgin; two brothers, Lawrence Dillow, Anna, and Curtis Dillow, Chicago; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church, Anna. Rev. Walter Bartles will officiate. Burial will be in Casper Cemetery, Casper.

Friends may cat after 2 p.m. today at the Crain-Norris Funeral Home, Anna. TRASH FIRE Murphysboro firemen extinguished a grass and rubbish fire at 2:05 a.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of Hamilton Street. There was no damage.

REVIVAL AT Gospel Tabernacle IN FLAT RIVER, Missouri R. A. SHERRILL Pastor HEAR REV. GUY WALSH NIGHTLY 7:30 p. Continuous to November 24th 11 states at Giant City a lodge.

"It is extremely important that the public understand the rehabilitation concept," Kerner said. 'The parolee cannot prove his ELKVILLE MAN DIES Funeral Services Set Tuesday For Frank Harris Frank Harris, 70, Elkville, died Sunday morning at his home. He was a retired coal miner, farmer and carpenter. Mr. Harris was born in Royal-ton in 1893.

He was married in 1915 to Lola Farmer. He leaves his wife; sons, Roy of Vergennes and Franklin of Elkville; a sister, Mrs. Jesse Lunsford of Cambria; and seven grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Schroeder Funeral Home in Du Quoin, with Rev.

Earl Myers officiating. Bur ial will be in Old Du Quoin Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p. m. today.

FORMER AREA WOMAN DIES IN FLORIDA Mrs. Lilly G. Lcnce, 87, formerly of Makanda, died Saturday in Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Fla. She was a charter member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Makanda, and a member of the Moore Haven, Eastern Star, and the Hi Haven Baptist Church near Moore Haven. Se was born April 18, 1876, in Makanda, the daughter of Ernest and Mary M.

Gothart. She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Norma Tatum and Mrs. Mabel Doud of Miami; one son, Lowell, of Lake Worth, three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Etherton and Mrs.

W. L. Bellamey of Moore Haven, Mrs. Olive G. Bradley of Carbondale; and six grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at the Pattison Funeral Home, Cleiviston, Fla. Burial will be in the Arcadia, Cemetery. HENDERSON RITES SET IN JONESBORO Funeral services for Gus "Red" Henderson, 54, of Jonesboro, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Crain-Norris Funeral Home, Anna. Rev.

William Lirely will officiate. Mr. Henderson died at 9:30 p.m. Saturday in Union County Hospital, where he had been a patient for five days. He was born in Anna, Sept.

13, 1909, the son of Walter and Lucille Henderson. Mr. Henderson naa worsea; a uu rAtc for Gilmore Asphalt Products of Anna. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Kathryn Mixen, Jonesboro, and Mrs.

Pearl Lincoln, Marble Hill. and one aunt, Mrs. Eva Whorrell, Baton Rouge, La. I Burial will be in Jonesboro Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

1 i Gov. Otto Kerner urged public acceptance of paroled prisoners in society and a continued professional approach to parole and rehabilitation Sunday. He opened a week-long conference of parole officials from Crash Injures Girl, Student An Anna girl and a Southern Illinois University student were injured in a two-car crash Saturday night in the 700 block of East Main street in Carbondale. Warren Kcpp, 21, 516 S. Poplar Carbondale, is in good condition in Doctors Hospital today after receiving lacerations on his head.

Barbara Walter, 17, Anna, was treated and released, a hospital spokesman said. Police said Kepp's car collided with the rear of one driven by Larry Johnson, 22, 608 S. Marion Carbondale, also an SIU student. Johnson had stopped and was going to turn left into a restaurant's parking lot, police said. Miss Walter was a passenger in Johnson's car.

Patrolman Donald Johnson said Kepp was ticketed for reckless driving. LELA JOHNSON OF ANNA DIES Mrs. Lela Ann Johnson, 78, Anna, died at 4:45 a.m. today in Union County Hospital. She leaves four daughters, Mrs.

Earl Galbraith and Mrs. George Scivally, both of Anna, Mrs. Loc Galbraith of Herrin, Mrs. Willie Dixon of Johnston City; three sons, Edgar of Chicago, Lester of Herrin and Rev. Walter of Mt.

Carmel; one brother, Tom Bullock of Brownsville, and 32 grandchildren. Funeral services will be hfild at 10 a. m. Wednesdaay at the Norris and Son Funeral Home, Jonesboro. Burial will be in Royalton Cemetery.

Friends mal call after 7 p. m. today at the funeral home. BOY, 11, DIES Randy Lee Meacham, 11, son Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Meacham, of Logan, died at 10:15 a.m. Sunday in Franklin Hospital, Benton. He had been admitted at 2 a.m. Sunday. Hospital officials said an autopsy was performed and they were waiting for a report.

No inquest was planned. Randy was in the sixth grade in Logan Grade School, he was born Nov. 4, 1952, in Christopher. Besides his parents, he leaves a brother, Raleigh of Logan, and a grandmother, Mrs. Iva Sanders of Logan.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the a Church of God. Rev. John Curry will officiate. Burial will be in Logan Cemetery.

Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at Drake-Hobbs Funeral Home, Benton. Of Parolees rehabilitation is effective if he is branded an ex-convict, finding all doors closed to him." Kerner said "there can be no doubt the most important phase of rehabilitation takes place after the release from prison. "The future of the ex-con v'ct can be ruined if he is not given wise counsel and guidance after his release from prison. Through the intelligent discharge of your duties, men and women formerly ostracized can now find their places in society," the governor told the parole officials.

Professional He added that a professional approach to parole can provide society with thousands of useful, rehabilitated citizens, in spite of the fact that we are faced with an increase in crime and prison population. Attending the opening session were 65 parole board members from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina and Wisconsin. The conference is sponsored by the SIU Center for the Study i of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections and the National Parole Institute under a grant from the President's Committee on Delinquency and Youth Crime. Gov. Kerner is a former president of the John Howard Association, a private organization concerned with problems in the field of corrections.

Staff Members Staff members for the institute include Walter Menninger, psychiatric consultant to the Peace Corps; Sol Rubin, legal adviser to the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and Prof. Dan Glaser, University of Illinois sociologist who has just completed a major national crime study for the Ford Foundation. Others include Ben Meeker, chief probation officer of the federal District Court in Chicago and a member of the National Parole Institutes advisory board; Eugene Zemans, executive secretary of the John Howard Association; Paul Kalin, regional representative of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency; and John Troike, chairman of the Illinois Youth Commission. Vincent O'Leary, National Parole Institutes director, said the institute was planned as a result of meetings in which parole (officials expressed concern for better methods of exchanging information about parole administration and studying mod ern scientific knowledge appli- cable to the parole setting, Advertisement Burial Insurance Sold by Mail You may be qualified for $1,000 life insurance so you will not burden your loved ones with funeral and other expenses. i This NEW policy is especially 1 helpful to those between 40 and 90.

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