East St. Louis mayor touts self help over federal aid
East St. Louis Mayor Carl Officer told the Human Resources conference at SIU Carbondale that his city is the poorest in the nation but not a begging city. He urged self help, education, and local funding like tax increment financing to rebuild, citing a balanced budget last year, a $14 million downtown redevelopment, and efforts to clean up police and fire departments amid a rise in crime and a strict curfew for minors.
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Tom Woolf
Southern
SIUC
Officer
East St. Louis
America
Reagan
Congress
Sammy Davis Jr
Department of Defense
Department of Labor
Mississippi River
Middle America
Budget cuts threaten rural social service programs
Rural social service agencies warn staffing, funding, and resource gaps will worsen under Reagan budget cuts, risking loss of elder care, youth services, and aid to minorities. Speakers urge coordination among agencies and a rally on April 25 to press Congress to fund human needs and reduce military spending.
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Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinoisan
Reagan
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Charles Koen
United Front
Cairo
Koen
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Keen
Congress
el Salvador
Thelma Stearns
Shawnee Development Council Inc
Shawnee Council
Alexander, Johnson
Massac
Pulaski
Union
Pat Gunter
College of Human Resources At
SIUC
Gunter
Robert Warshawsky
The
College of Human Resources of
Franklin
Union Counties
Warshawsky
Thompson outlines major state budget cuts in education and local government
Governor Thompson releases details of more than half the $200 million in cuts, targeting education and aid to local governments. The plan includes $24 million reductions to both K-12 and higher education, revenue sharing lid, stamp stock reductions, and savings from equipment freezes.
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Springfield
James R. Thompson
Thompson
General Revenue Fund
General Assembly
State Revenue Department
Aoe
Illinois
Sesser Student Falls From Dormitory Window
An 18 year old Sesser woman Veronica Wilson was hospitalized after apparently plunging from a seventh floor dorm window at Eastern Illinois University. She is in serious but stable condition at Sara Bush Lincoln Health Center near Mattoon. She fell from Room 716 in Carmen Hall around 6 30 p.m. Details remain unavailable.
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Charleston
Eastern Illinois University
Veronica Wilson
Sara Bush Lincoln Health Center
Mattoon
Marilee Blair
Miss Wilson
Carmen Hall
David Kidwell
Pinckneyville Native Selected as Centralia High Superintendent
Donald Ray Stanton 47, a Pinckneyville native now living in Monmouth, was named superintendent of Centralia High School by the district board Tuesday night. He will replace retiring Don Woodard. Stanton is a graduate of Saint Louis University and Southern Illinois University Carbondale and has taught and coached at Pinckneyville, Rock Falls, LaSalle Peru, and Canton, plus LaSalle Peru Community College and Canton Community College.
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Centralia
Pinckneyville
Board of Education
Donald Ray Stanton
Monmouth
Don Woodard
Stanton
St. Louis University
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Rock Falls
LaSalle-Peru
Canton
la Salle-Peru Community College
Canton Community College
Senate panel kills librarian liability bill in Illinois
By a 92 vote the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee rejected a bill to lift librarians exemption from prosecution for giving out sex education material deemed harmful to children under 14. A House committee approved a similar measure and sent it to the full House.
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Springfield
Illinois Senate
Judiciary Committee
House
Rock throwing at Orient No. 6 mine disrupts equipment moves
In Waltonville Illinois state police halted a minor rock throwing incident by 12 to 14 pickets from the United Mine Workers at the Free man United Coal Co Orient No. 6 mine. No damage or injuries were reported as heavy equipment was being moved and calm returned by daybreak. The mine had reopened in April 1980 after a prior wildcat walkout and ongoing labor tensions.
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Freeman United Coal Co. Orient No
Waltonville
Illinois 148
Rend Lake
Jefferson County
Sheriff's Department
Illinois
United Mine Workers
UMW
Freeman
Jim Ryan
Irish Catholics and police clash after Belfast funeral
Rioters attacked police in London Derry and Belfast after funerals for two Catholic teens killed by a British army Land Rover. A mother leapt onto a grave, relatives wept, and a hunger strike for Bobby Sands drew a papal effort to end it.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Bobby Sands
IRA
Dolours Price
Sands
West Belfast
Lice
Bogside
James Gary English
Gary
Southern Illinoisan Classified Rates and Office Contacts
The Southern Illinoisan lists publication offices in Carbondale Herrin and Murphysboro. It publishes daily except Saturday and holidays with multiple mailing options and subscription rates. Office phone numbers and classified advertising lines are provided for reader services.
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Southern Illinoisan
USPS
N. Illinois
Carbondale
Ill
16Th
Herrin
Murphysboro
Illinois
Carbondale Ph Binee Ey Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Marion
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