SIU wins support for probationary period for academic staff
Two Supreme Court rulings uphold SIU and similar universities on probationary periods for academic staff. The Roth decision found no need to justify tenure denial in term appointments, while Sindermann requires lower courts to reexamine cases involving free speech when tenure is absent. SIU filed an amicus brief and notes the cost was about $700.
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University
Mager
Allen
SIU Board of Trustees
SIU Exe
Roth
Wisconsin State University
Oshkosh
Supreme Court
Mayer
SIU
Board of Trustees
C. Richard Grung
Gruny
University of Illinois
Prief
Perry Vs. Sindermann
Odessa College
Texas
Benton City Council Rejects Move to Dismiss Merit Board Chief
The Benton City Council unanimously refused to remove Dr. Deane Gulley from the Police and Fire Merit Board after Frank Thomas requested his dismissal. Thomas alleged unfair conduct in a hearing over a speeding ticket case from June 9 1971 and presented a 105 minute tape. Commissioner Earl Seeber and City Clerk Otto Biggs indicated the evidence did not justify removal. Thomas plans to take the case to a state attorney reviewing merit-board complaints.
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Benton City Council
Deane Gulley
Police and Fire Merit Board
Frank Thomas
Benton
Gulley
Thomas
Earl Seeber
Police and Fire ‘Merit Board
Otto
Arthur Dobrzynski
Merit Board
Muldoon Seeks 24th District House Seat as Independent
Hugh Muldoon of Carbondale files about 5800 signatures to appear on the November ballot as an independent candidate challenging Rep. Kenneth Gray in Illinois 24th District. With no Republican candidate, Muldoon cites ending the Vietnam War and issues like environmental quality and tax reform as his platform.
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Hugh Muldoon
Carbondale
U. S
House of Representatives
Muldoon
Kenneth J. Gray
West Frankfort
James W. Sanders
Marion
Southern Illinois University
Marion awards 22954 dollar contract for public toilets
The Marion City Council awarded a 22954 dollar contract to P and K Construction Co for building public toilet facilities in the off street parking area north of city hall. Work will begin soon and finish within 90 days. The move follows the closure of Williamson courthouse in November, leaving no public restrooms in town.
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Marion
P and K Construction Co
Williamson
Paul and
Angeline Barrale
Highland St
Barrales
Zoning Board of Appeals
J.W. Durham
Ironworkers strike stalls Southern Illinois construction
Representatives of Ironworkers Local 392 plan a Thursday meeting with Southern Illinois Builders Association after an unproductive two hour session with federal mediators in St. Louis. The week-old strike halts work in 20 southern Illinois counties including Franklin Randolph and Jefferson. Union president John OConnor says contractors want to tear up the contract. the builders deny this and seek revisions to the show-up time clause and productivity. Local 392 seeks a 50 cent hourly raise for health and welfare. contractors offered 20 cents.
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Bridge and Structural Ironworkers Union Local 392
Southern Illinois Builders Association
St. Louis
Southern Illinois
Franklin, Randolph and
Jefferson
John O’connor
Wayne Barber
Carbondale Wins State Grant for Rat and Pest Control
Carbondale’s rat and pest control department received a $13,554 state public health grant to fund the program through June 30, 1973. Director Tom Bevirt said the grant, though half the requested amount, allows all current staff and services to stay. The team includes an environmental inspector and a pest control technician. The city also added $17,000 in the last fiscal year and received $5,000 from Model Cities, bringing the total budget to $34,200.
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Carbondale
State Department of Public Health
Tom Bevitt
Bevirt
Man survives after touching 7200-volt line near Steeleville
A 29 year old Cutler man escaped serious injury after touching a 7200 volt line following a one car wreck on Route 150 two miles west of Route 4 Monday. The crash knocked a pole and disrupted power to about 25 Egyptian Electric Cooperative members while a replacement pole was erected. The driver Russell L Throop was listed in good condition at Memorial Hospital Chester.
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Steeleville
Egyptian Electric Coopertive Association
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Russell L. Throop
Throop
Memorial Hospital
Chester
Rt. 150
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Sesser rebuilds city records and plans for youth help
Illinois intern Keith Kirkpatrick reviewed Sesser ordinances from 1920 to 1950 found in a city hall corner and recommended new record procedures. He urged hiring two student aides, notes low information levels among councilors, and suggested updates on spitting bans and Sunday amusements. The council praised the effort but took no action.
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City Hall
Water Department
Water and Sewer Commission
Kirkpatrick
Lesser
Illinois State University
Normal
Fitzgerrell name urged for park
The Lesser City Council plans to petition Governor Richard Ogilvie and the state Legislature to name a 200 acre park near Bend Lake the Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park in memory of former state representative Wayne W. Fitzgerrell of Sesser. The petition, approved at a Monday meeting, will be open for signatures at City Hall for about a month before being sent to Springfield. Fitzgerrell, a Republican, served eight years in the state Legislature and died in a May 1965 car truck crash. He was born in Lesser, and worked as a cattle and grain farmer and in coal mines for 15 years.
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Richard Ogilvie
Bend Lake
Wayne Fitzgerrell
Sesser
Willie Stubblefield
Springfield
Wayne W. Fitzgerrell
Book price fixing suit refunds Illinois schools
More than twelve thousand dollars has been returned to six southern Illinois counties after a class action suit charged price fixing by eighteen publishers. The attorney general's office reports overpayments, price rollbacks, and a deterrent effect, with a third disbursement of about twenty‑five thousand dollars expected.
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Illinois
Atty. General
William Scott
Chicago
Public Information Division
Attorney General’s Office
Schaub
Jackson County
Williamson
Franklin
Perry
Johnson
Union
Attorney General
Jefferson County
Marion
New Pumper to Be First in 26 Years at Cobden
Cobden village board to invite bids for a new fire truck capable of pumping 750 gallons per minute. No new pumper since 1946, bids to be returned under attorney prepared specifications. Mayor G Wallace Rich announced plans during Monday night session.
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Cobden
G. Wallace Rich
Fires and vandalism plague Lesser city arson probe widens
Seser police probe a spate of arson and vandalism in Lesser with sugar in gasoline tanks. City vehicles and private cars were tampered as officials investigate a possible grudge against the city. Authorities questioned several youths amid reports of sugar-doped equipment and a threatened bank bombing.
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Seser
John Trimble
Southern
Bowers
Frank Shelton
Shelton
Bowers Ace Motor
Lesser Bank
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