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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 2003
Page
1
Column highlights include a $1 Million Bonus Buck in Sundays Southern Inside Marion, a federal prison inmate case in Missouri, and Pinckneyville protest at Shirk's Lounge. Also a Harvard grad in Carbondale applying home values to a new business.
Noble Threewitt, 92, California horse trainer and Franklin County Fair alumnus, recalls learning to gallop horses at the defunct Franklin County Fair in Benton. He says watching Seabiscuit the movie brings back real racetrack feel from races he attended and rode as a youth.
Southern Illinois remains relatively stable in unemployment as national trends show declines in weekly unemployment claims. Dennis Hoffman of the Illinois Department of Employment Security notes growth near Marion and Carbondale and a broad area from Mattoon to Cairo with steady conditions overall despite a higher June rate.
Stephen Moss, a 49 year old SIUC digital computer operator, joins a stress workshop after receiving a mid July layoff notice along with 81 other SIUC employees. He previously worked in coal mines and factories and now looks to Spartan Light Metals in Sparta for work.
Anne Howell, 65, was targeted by two youths outside Magnolia Manor in Cairo as they tried to grab her backpack. She sustained bruises and a black eye after her purse strap broke, while Brandon Childs and Lenard Duncan were charged with attempted robbery and aggravated battery. Howell, visiting from Half Moon Bay, Calif., said she hopes to visit Cairo again.
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