Private firm chosen to plan Cedar Lake relocation
Carbondale council hires David Sullivan Land Services Inc to prepare a relocation plan for Cedar Lake area residents. The CCB had been designated as relocation agency, but staff resignations delayed progress. Costs capped to match existing contract. HUD deadline looms with September 1 deemed reasonable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonita Troutt
Southern Illinois
Carbondale
Cedar Lake
Community Conservation Board
CCB
Public Works Department
David Sullivan Land Services Inc
Springfield
William Schmidt
Bill Burns
Schmidt
Hans Fisher
Fischer
Sullivan
Public Works
Bill Schwegman
Council
Schwegman
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
City Atty
Ron Briggs
Briggs
Williamson courthouse dilemma puzzles Marion leaders
Williamson County officials debate the old two story Marion courthouse fate after 89 years on the square. Residents weigh renovation preservation as a museum option versus tearing down for a mall or traffic redesign. A public meeting drew about 65 of 49 000 residents with petitions urged to place the issue on November ballot. The board aims to decide in December after offices move to a new building four blocks away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanda Barras
Trindisan
Williamson County
Marion
Marion Square
William Sinks
Sinks
Seven Chester Girls Die In Mississippi River Crash
A coroner's jury ruled the drowning deaths of seven Chester girls accidental with brake failure as a contributing factor. The station wagon plunged into the Mississippi River at Chester on June 11, killing seven of nine children aboard. Survivors include Fern Clark and others. witnesses described the rescue and investigation details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Mississippi River
Fern Clark
Tamorah Canady
Leonard Canady
Donna Phillips
Darwin
Mike” Roberts
Fern
Charles Clark
Becky
Norma
Cindy
Tammy
Robin Phillips
Rebecca Roberts
Phillips
Deborah Canady
Vernon Dashner
Randolph County
F. H. Deppe
St. Louis Testing Laboratories Inc
Leek
Citizens Voice Complaints At Springmore Neighborhood Meeting
About 150 to 200 residents from northwest Carbondale attended Tuesday’s city council session at Springmore School. They raised issues on street conditions, deteriorating buildings, weak code enforcement, and limited dog catcher staff. City officials promised to forward concerns to departments. next meeting set for Aug. 17 at Winkler School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
Carbondale
Springmore School
George Everingham
William Schmidt
Neal Eckert
Eckert
Winkler School
Doctors claim hospital profits threaten ethics in Mt. Vernon
Benton meeting on a proposed 500 bed, $40 million Southern Illinois Medical Center drew doctors who warned profit motives could bias care. Dr. Morris Zelman attacked the plan as a “people’s hospital” but urged study of costs, need, and effects on existing hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Alexander
Mt. Vernon
Benton
Southern Illinois Medical Center, Inc
Morris Zelman
Mt. Vernon Regional Hospital
Future Regional Planning Committee of
Greater Egypt
Dr. Alexander
Dr. Zelman
Zelman
Miners Welfare
Blue Cross Insurance
Alexander
Jerry Miller
Miller
Chicago
Illinois
Greater Egypt Committee
Commission
Franklyn Moreno
Frank Kirk
Kirk
Carbondale
People’s Hospital
Earl Jamison
Southern Illinois
Jackson County Medical Society
House of Delegates
Illinois State Medical Society
Franklin County Medical Society
Board of
Illinois Hospital Association
Southern Illinois, Inc
Williamson County Board of Commissioners
Jefferson County Board of Supervisors
James Durham
Fred Schlosser
Good Samaritan Hospital
Schlosser
Illinois Hospital Licensing Board
White County seeks to block higher tax equalization multiplier
The White County Board of Supervisors urged the state to avoid raising the tax equalization multiplier from 1.26 to 1.63 percent next year. They cited heavy financial burdens from personal property taxes, state income taxes, county real estate taxes, and adverse weather damaging agriculture, calling the increase “irrevocable damage” to the local economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White County Board of Supervisors
Electrician Injured Falling at SIU Student Center
An Anna man, John Yates, an electrician for Cunningham Electric Co., fell about 20 feet from a scaffold in the new ballroom of SIU Student Center. He was taken to Doctors Hospital Carbondale with injuries whose extent is not known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna
Southern Illinois University
John Yates
Cunningham Electric Co
SIU
Yates
Doctors Hospital
Carbondale
Senate Lloyds for veto power over campus chief administrator
The Southern Illinois University Board may oppose a governance plan for the Carbondale campus that would let the University Senate override the campus chief administrator’s veto with a two thirds vote. The proposal, tied to an Aug 23 senate vote, would move the plan toward the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern
Senate
Board of Trustees
Robert G. Layer
Parrish Says Brown House Should Not Be Taxed
Carbondale official John Parrish argues the SIU Foundation owned home of Chief of Board Staff James M. Brown should not be taxed. SIU Foundation properties are debated for tax exempt status. Parrish cites prior guidance and notes university and taxpayer costs in pursuing such taxation. The Foundation owns multiple Carbondale properties including Evergreen Terrace apartments with about 8.3 million in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michelle S. Klaus
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
John R. Parrish
Southern Illinois University
James M. Brown
Brown
S. Oakland Ave
SIU
SIU Foundation
Jackson County
Richard Richman
Parrish
Richman
Maurice Scott
Illinois Taxpayer’s Association
Evergreen Terrace
Foundation
Marion inmate stabbed in federal prison yard incident
Warren Arthur Sims, 42 year old inmate from New York City, was stabbed in the recreation yard of Marion federal penitentiary. He is in the penitentiary hospital in 'fine' condition after superficial chest wounds. FBI investigation ongoing. Sims serves a 42 year bank robbery sentence. All mines reported working.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Federal Penitentiary
G. W. Pickett
Warren Arthur Sims
New York
N.Y
Penitentiary Hospital
Federal Bureau of Invesgation
Sims
Morris Honored in Congressional Record by Rep Price
Delyte W. Morris, retiring SIU president emeritus at 64, is praised in the Congressional Record by Rep. Melvin Price. Morris will retire Aug 31 after 23 years at SIU, turning a teachers college into a large university with two campuses and enrollment rising from 3013 in 196? to over 35000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinois University
Delyte W. Morris
Melvin Price
East
St. Louis
Morris
SIU
United States
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Jerry Osborne
Usu
Williamson Beard
Deppe
Clark
Darwin Roberts
Earl Miller
Park Street
Ned Carlton
Park Boulevard
Water Street
Cole’s Mill
Robert Littick
Cole Milling Co
Edward Witbracht
Percy
Ralph Bollinger
Clarence Alms
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
David Knoll
SIU School of Medicine
Impact
White County
University Senate
By Michelle S. Klaus
Layer
US Senate
William Simeone
George Camille
Harold Fischer
Granite City
Carbondale Federation of University Teachers
CFUT
Robert Gallegly
Congress
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