Southern Illinois cattlemen plan new association formation
About 30 farmers from 10 counties gathered at the Southern Illinois Beef Cattle Workshop in Du Quoin to discuss forming a regional cattlemen's association. Speakers Assess confinement barns, costs, and potential EPA belt requirements while noting industry uncertainty from fuel shortages and beef price freezes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Ilinois Cattleman’s Association
Southern Illinois Beef Cattle Workshop
du Quoin
Vic Smith
Williamson County Farm Extension
Ership
Gypsy Hill Farms
Illinois
Don Jedele
University of Illinois Agricultural
Abcust
Jedele
Jacob B. Naumer
du Quoin Packing Co
Robert J. Williams
Illinois Department of Agriculture
University of Illinois Cooperative Extension _ service
Animal Industries Department of
Southern Ilinois University
Ralston Purina Co
Murder charges filed against Charles Wagoner in Carterville
A preliminary hearing for 25 year old Charles Wagoner of Carterville is set for 9 a.m. August 14 in Marion circuit court. Wagoner faces two counts of murder plus involuntary manslaughter and aggravated battery over the death of 64 year old Felix Bridis. Bridis was found dead at his home on East First Street with fatal injuries. Wagoner reported finding Bridis dead and was appointed Public Defender Kenneth Hubler. He is jailed in Williamson County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Wagoner
Carterville
William Lewis
Marion
Wagoner
Felix C. Bridis
Bridis
First St
Biidis
Lewis
Kenneth Hubler
Williamson County
Cement workers sign pacts in Southern Illinois plants
Ready mixed cement plant workers in about 17 Southern Illinois plants ratified new three year contracts. West Frankfort Local 347 president Lester Harris said wage provisions stay within guidelines, not exceeding a 5.5 percent hike. Workers earned $5.45 an hour under the expired agreement. VA announces two new veterans funeral benefits under the National Cemetery Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinois
Lester Harris
West Frankfort
Teamsters Union
Harris
Veterans Administration
Donald E. Johnson
Johnson
Carbondale balks at parking rent increase proposal
Carbondale City Council rejects paying $125 more monthly for east public works parking space proposed by owner Dan Lurie. They consider alternatives across the street, west lot, or city farm lot expansion and other sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
Public Works
Dan Lurie
Bank of Carbondale
City Hall
Bill Schwegman
Lurie
Schwegman
Public Works Department
City Farm
Voyageurs Revisit Marquette Joliet Route in Illinois Run
Eight voyageurs in two birchbark canoes retrace the Marquette Joliet route across Southern Illinois. After a brief layover at Grand Tower they proceed toward Grafton and the Illinois River mouth with stops planned at Red Rock Landing Claryville Ste. Genevieve Crystal City Cahokia East St. Louis and Alton before Illinois State Fair appearances.
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Grand Tower
Marquette
Jolliet
Illinois River
Trail of Tears
Cape Girardeau
Grafton
St. Ignace
Mich
Red Rock Landing
Claryville
Ste. Genevieve
Crystal City
Cahokia
East St. Louis
Alton
Death on Highway Under Question in Shawneetown Case
Sheriff Bailey Miller of Gallatin County questions whether Joseph M. Sales was killed before being run over on Illinois Route 13 west of Shawneetown. Sales, 25, of Equality, died after a Ridgway police car struck him twice while he lay on the roadway. Police found his car in Shawneetown two miles away. fresh blood and autopsy results were inconclusive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawneetown
Bailey Miller
Gallatin County
Illinois Rt. 13
Joseph M. Sales
Equality
Cobden approves land purchase for sewer plant project
Cobden Village Board bought about 20 acres from Charles Wilkins for 10000 dollars to expand the sewer plant. The parcel excludes Wilkins home and yard and lies beside current facilities. A federal grant of 280000 dollars supports the project and a dog pound is planned later on the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobden
Charles Wilkins
Wilkins
Willisville Man, 20, Drowns In Private Lake
Willisville man Lester Lee Gerlach aged 20 drowned Monday while swimming at a private lake on the Everett Bollman farm, 14 miles southeast of Chester. Two unidentified men in a shore boat tried to reach him but he went under and was found dead at 10:30 p.m. No inquest date set. He was born September 16, 1952, and survived by his parents, a brother, a sister, and two grandparents. funeral services pending at Hill and Son Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Lee Gerlach
Willisville
Everett Bollman
Chester
Marla Ehlers
Sparta
Mr. Gerlach
Gary McClure
Randolph County
McClure
Gerlach
Murphysboro
Lester
Mary Bigham Gerlach
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
Campbell Hill
Eastern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Douglas
Brenda L. Steiner
Hilda Gerlach
Louis Behnken
Hill and Son Funeral Home
Salem native Haney named ex officio SIU board member
Richard Haney a Salem native and assistant superintendent of public instruction for the Mt. Vernon office is named to rep resent Supt Michael Bakalis as ex officio member of the SIU Board of Trustees. He will be a voting Bakalis representative and attends his first meeting in Edwardsville Friday.
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Dave Butler
Southern
Carbondale
Siu-Edwardsville
Donald Fouts
Bakalis
Haney
SIU
Edwardsville
USPI
Springfield
Mt. Vernon
Congressman Gray Improves After Rough Hospital Stay
Rep. Kenneth J. Gray of West Frankfort reports from Bethesda Naval Hospital that a blood pressure flare up kept him in intensive care briefly but he is now improving. He entered July 31 and plans rest then a return to Southern Illinois around Labor Day while pursuing a Carbondale railroad relocation project and a new federal office building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth J. Gray
D-West Frankfort
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Gray
Congressional
Sesson
Washington
Carbondale
Congress
Southern Illinois
Margaret Bergin
Tower 16
Union County appoints two to boards and sets junkyard rules
Dr. Marshall Burrell joins the Union County Planning and Zoning Commission replacing a deputy sheriff appointee. James P. Miles named to the Hospital Board of Directors. A junkyard regulation enforcing screening and a $50 daily fine was adopted. Dedication of the remodeled jail set for Saturday with open house 2 to 6 pm. An allotment of 1500 from revenue sharing funds approved for a heliport project. J T Blankinship and Associates named engineers for Lick Creek Road project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Burrell
Dongola
Union County Planning and Zoning Commission
County Board of Commissioners
Jack Kiel
Anna
Burrell
James P. Miles
Union County Hospital Board of Directors
Roger Gray Cobden
Miles
Union County Hospital Board
J. T. Blankinship and Associates
Murphysboro
Second murder trial begins for Alfonso Sonny Hall
Testimony began in Murphysboro circuit court as Wayman Abbage of Intrigue's Kitchen Carbondale described Hall allegedly shooting Robert Shoffner Sr. during an argument at 224 North Washington Street on January 28. A prior April trial ended with a hung jury and indictments remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfonso
Sonny”’ Hall
Carbondale
Wayman Abbage
Intrigue
Hall
Robert Shoffner, Sr
Abbage
Shoffner
Murphysboro
Washington St
Carbonale
Jackson County
Howard Hood
Anderson to join park board in Marion district
LeRoy Anderson, assistant high school principal, was appointed to the Marion Park District Board to replace the resigning John McAnelly. He will serve a four year term. The board also approved installing basketball back boards at all parks and blacktopping courts at John W. Jones Park and Herbert Ashley Park. The note about jet propulsion credits Hero of Alexandria with the 100 B.C. discovery and links it to 2 000 years later use in jet planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRoy Anderson
Marion Park District
Anderson
John McAnelly
John W. Jones Park
Herbert Ashley Park
Hero
Alexandria
Mehrhoff defends Crab Orchard rules and plan
Crab Orchard refuge manager L Arch Mehrhoff told Herrin Rotary Club that public property requires regulations set by the people and enforced. He addressed camping complaints near Pirates Cove Marina and rejected claims of possible state takeover, noting law requires Congress to change management. He discussed water quality at beaches, deer hunts, goose flocks, and revenue from industry and beach concessions, as the refuge operates with a $700,000 annual budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Trimble
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
L. Arch Mehrhoff
Mehrhoff
Herrin
Lester Schneider
Columbia
Schneider
Congress
Crab Orchard
Southern Illinois
Southern
Illinois
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Southern Illinois Meeting
Area Cattlemen Plan New Association
High Plains
Environmental Protection Agency
Carbondale Council
University City
Booker T. O’neal
Mary Ann Cannon
Lakeland
O'Neal
Stearns
Gilbert Stearns
Hans Fischer
Animal Control Department
Rat and Pest Control Department
Voyageurs
Richard Haney
Salem
Kaskaskia College
Charleston
Var
Iety
Ways
Ilinois
Illinois Optometric Association
Daniel Walker
Margaret Blackshere Madison
Union County
Dr. Burrell
Zoning Commission
India
Park Board
Mississippi Valley
Canada
United States
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