Marion union workers accept 50 cent wage increase without strike
Marion city employees vote 24 to 9 to accept a 50 cent hourly raise in a one year contract ending Friday. Firefighters and police get raises and hours reduced to 40 per week after hiring three more officers. The agreement adds a third radio dispatcher and raises clothing allowances to 350. Local 577 members include 35 to 40 workers in streets water sewer and related departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cathy A. Monroe
Southern Illinoisan
Marion City
Public
George A. Williams
Police
Fire Department
Williams
Carbondale
Rick Wells
Police Department
H.L. Pulley
Tom Litton
Jack Samples
Samples
Illinois
Laborers International Union Local 577
Butler
Area man’s $710 million plan faces local skepticism
Don Rip Smith promotes a Murphysboro based project by TMS Builders to bring 1000 jobs with a Bahamas based firm, modular homes for export, a barge port, and plant operations in Murphysboro and Chester, but officials and partners dispute the deal’s progress and financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinois and
Murphysboro
Southern Illinois
Don ‘‘Rip” Smith
TMS Builders Inc
TMS International, Inc
Smith
Bahamas
Illinois
Brown Shoe Co
Turco Manufacturing
Brown
Chester
Carbondale
Jackson Union Counties
Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
Brown-Turco
James Scuras
Port District Board
Turco
Scuras
Stanley Maciejski
Chester Mental Health Center
PCI Inc
Jackson County
Haresh Thakkar
PCI
Thakkar
Boatman’s Bank of St. Louis
TMS
John Womick
Womick
TMS Builders
TMS International
Florida
TMS Inc
TMS Corporation
Handicapped-Access Law Carries Half Million Price
Murphysboro Unit School District 186 faces about 500000 dollars in expenditures to meet a new federal barrier free access rule and update life-safety facilities. An architect's report breaks costs into barrier free access 365344 dollars, life-safety 174000 dollars, and energy conservation 500955 dollars. The junior high dominates totals, with 132301 dollars for the former high school site and 186840 dollars for energy work. Action will be considered after further study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Stevens
Southern Illinoisan
Murphysboro Unit
Henry Grob
Paul Whitney
Simon Rettberg, Garrison and Flom
Unit 186
Charles Garrison
Garrison
McElwain
Murphysboro
Bozarth
Apple Festival Committee
Murphysboro approves 2.397 million city budget
The Murphysboro City Council approved a 2.397 million dollar budget for 1981-82, a projected rise of about 400 thousand in expenses with revenues up about 450 thousand. A public hearing preceded the vote, which passed unanimously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinois
Murphysboro
Marion teen drives new car into locomotive collision
An 18 year old Marion girl, Jennifer A. Rhodes, was southbound on Carbon Street Tuesday afternoon when she struck the left side of an eastbound steam locomotive on the Crab Orchard and Egyptian Rail road tracks. Engineer Charles A. Boehm, 25, Marion, reported minor injuries to Rhodes. no ticket was issued.
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Marion
North Carbon Street
Jennifer A. Rhodes
Bon
Crab Orchard
Songs honoring Mcintosh feature Bottje arranged works
Ben Gelman reports on Bottje arranging portions of David S. McIntosh folk music collection for choir and orchestra to honor the late SIU Carbondale professor and former department chair. The program May 7 at Shryock Auditorium includes multiple university ensembles, admission free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Gelman
Will Gay Bottie
David S. Mcintosh
SIUC
McIntosh
Southern Illinois
Illinois Ozarks
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C
McAndrew Stadium
Eve
Bottje
SIU
Old Pike
Ozark
Bottie
Cairo
Lonesome Grove
Shryock
University Chorus
University Choir
University Male Glee Club
University Orchestra
Southern Illinois Choral Society
Robert Kingsbury
Robert H. Mohlenbrock
Illinois
Mohlenbrock
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
SIU Press
Flora of
Division of Forestry
Illinois Department of Conservation
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jerry Lower
James Mueller
Dowell
Don
Rip’ Smith
Dorothy Douglas
Key Club
Murphysboro Kiwanis
Murphysboro Council
Briarwood
Michael Bowers
Louis Siefert
Siefert
Bowers
Louis Wides
Wides
Murphysboro Chamber of Commerce
John Tippy
J.T. Blankinship and Associates
Charles A. Boehm
Mark Muhlenbrock
North
Grand Avenue
Springfield, Ill
International Explorers Club
Richard E. Byrd
Sir Edmund Hillary
Everest
Charles Lindbergh
Thor Heyerdahl
Pacific
Neil Armstrong
Club
New York
Lowell Thomas
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B.G
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