Jackson County cuts ambulance crew and director plan
Jackson County votes 9 2 to end on call and transfer ambulance crews in Carbondale and hire a full time third shift for 56000. The move funds from current budgets and reduces need for a new director while reallocating roles to cover Murphysboro and nursing home transport. County also raises agency budget cuts and notes landfill contract sublet and looming annexation tax issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinoisan
Jackson County Ambulance Service
Patrick Voorheis
Carbondale
Sharon Kowalzik
Illinois Department of Public Health
Bill Kelley
Kelley
Gene Chambers
County Extension Service
Senior Citizens Organizations
Jackson County
Raymond Graff
Eldon Bryant
Tross Pierson
Graff
Bryant
Pierson
Heard Kelley
Bob Harrell
Department of Local Government Affairs
Illinois to map subsidence prone mines in the area
Illinois plans to map all abandoned coal mines in Southern Illinois to warn residents and builders about possible subsidence damage. Lt. Gov. Dave O Neal led a tour of Williamson County sites with the Abandoned Mined Lands Reclamation Council and federal officials. The group visited Litton and Plute homes damaged by a July 11 sink and eyed funding to fill openings, remove gob piles, and improve drainage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O.R. Walley
Vernon Litton
Ronald Plute
Federal Office
Williamson County
Gene Fowlers
Crab Orchard
Federal
Palzo
O’neal
Litton
Plute
Illinois
Grants total 2.7 million for SIUC faculty in July
SIU C faculty earned 69 grants totaling over 2.7 million dollars in July for research and service projects. Federal funding led with 1.6 million across 22 projects, while state and private sources supported remaining awards. The School of Medicine secured large grants including 142,334 from NIH. Frank Horton cited rising competitiveness and a record 504 proposals in FY1979 as a driver for continued funding growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Suhadolnik
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Siu-C
SIUC
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
Siuc Rehabilitation Center
School of Medicine
National Institute of Mental Health
Illinois Bureau of Health Manpower
U.S. Office of Education
Department of Student Work
Veteran’s
Illinois Farmers Union
School of Technical Careers
Morris Library
Illinois Secretary of State
Frank Horton
Office of
Academic Affairs and Research
Horton
Herrin grandmother pursues over 60 model work
Marie Cobb Strodick of Herrin, a painter, writer, and singer in her 60s, seeks modeling work for the over 60 market. She has done prior modeling, design, and sewing, with two style show appearances and future bookings, while balancing work at stores and a dress factory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O.R. Walley
Southern Illinoisan
Marie Cobb Strodick
Herrin
Henry Strodick
Zwick’s Ladies Store
Concept II
Striking West Frankfort Workers Hold City Services
Bagged garbage piles up as four city departments remain on strike. Mayor McClatchey says talks are possible while workers demand higher pay. Water dept seeks $7 per hour with weekly paychecks. city cites a projected $51,000 deficit. Sanitary sewer and streets staff stay off until pickets depart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Frankfort
Mike McClatchey
City Water
Sanitary, Sewer and Streets
Herrin couple welcomes baby during ambulance ride
Herrin residents Larry and Lisa Timmons welcomed their first son as EMT Joey Helleny assisted during an ambulance trip from 603 S. 22nd St to Herrin Hospital. The mother and infant were reported doing well after the 3 05 p m call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry
Lisa Timmons
Herrin
Joey Helleny
Pulley
Timmons
S. 22Nd St
Carbondale Memorial Hospital
Helleny
Carbondale
Park Avenue
Herrin Hospital
John A. Logan College
Unemployment in Southern Illinois Counties Rises Above State Rates
June 1979 unemployment across six Southern Illinois counties exceeds state and national totals. All counties show increases from May to June, led by Alexander at 15.3 percent and Jackson up to 8.4 percent. Randolph near 6.1, with tiered figures for Williamson Franklin Saline Pope Johnson Massac Perry Pulaski and Union as listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Illinois Bureau of Employment Security
Murphysboro
Harrisburg
Randolph County
Alexander County
Jackson County
Williamson
Franklin
Saline
Pope
Johnson
Massac
Perry
Pulaski
Union
Shawnee firefighters aid western forest fire fight
Twenty firefighters from Southern Illinois joined about 6,000 crews battling out of control Western fires this week. The Shawnee National Forest team, based in Harrisburg, is at the Mortar Creek fire in Challis National Forest Idaho. They come from four Shawnee districts Murphysboro Elizabethtown Vienna and Jonesboro and may be recalled as weather dictates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Woolf
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois
Lowell Patterson
Shawnee National Forest
Harrisburg
Bonanza
Mortar Creek
Challis National Forst
Idaho
Patterson
Forest Service
Murphysboro
Elizabethtown
Vienna
Jonesboro
Shawnee Forest
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Jackson-Union Counties
Illinois Department of Transportation
Cora
Internal Revenue Service
Ed Imhoff
Federal Regional
Indianapolis
Sen
Gene Johns
Marion
Rep
William Harris
James Rea
Christopher
Joe Jines
Troupin
Williamson County Saddle Club
East Main Street
Tag Teak
Inllinois
Marion Streets
Marie Cobb
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