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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 2004
Page
1
Marion column notes Ray Hancock will lead the local college foundation as part of a broader Page 9A feature. The item fits a community update tone with brief biographical emphasis and no further details.
Jeff Smyth reports on how assessed values are prepared in Southern Illinois counties. Supervisors of assessments vary in appointment and authority across Williamson Union Franklin Jackson Randolph Perry Johnson counties, yet all seek close alignment to the 33.3 percent state guideline amid controversy and taxpayer confusion.
Phil Coleman, a 1950s Carbondale resident and later an English professor in West Brownsville, Pa., represented the United States in the steeplechase at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. He began the event after Army induction, noting the race’s 3000 meters with 28 barriers and seven water jumps requires constant concentration to avoid a barrier.
Illinois State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, speaking in Southern Illinois, defends the Republican field for the U.S. Senate seat and notes the lengthy process to replace Jack Ryan. She emphasizes the statewide interest in who will be the party’s nominee while attending a fund raiser for Ron Summers in Marion.
In Benton and surrounding counties the push to consolidate 911 dispatching centers grows amid a Benton city council move to eliminate city dispatchers and contract to Franklin County. Commissioner J R Moore argues the change could save over 250000 annually and prefers reallocation of resources to consolidation, noting national trends toward centralizing emergency dispatch.
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