Car and ambulance collide in West Frankfort
In West Frankfort a car driven by Herbert Dietz, 69, collided with an ambulance at about 4 35 p m. Dietz did not hear the siren and died on arrival at Union Hospital. The ambulance driver was Fireman Lindell Hart 29. Treece died at Union Hospital after a later pickup. No tickets were issued.
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West Frankfort
Herbert Dietz
West Poplar
North Douglas
Fred Harkins
Dietz
Harkins
Lindell Hart
Douglas Street
Poplar Street
Herbert Treece
Poplar St
Treece
Union Hospital
Individualized Learning Program Shown to Boost Math Progress
Superintendent Claude Lewis reported on the Individually Guided Education approach showing strong gains in math with classes averaging 2.7 and 2.3 years of progress and 1 year for grades two to four. Reading gains at Walters Junior High averaged 1.4 years as the district expands the program to Wilson and Washington schools.
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Claude Lewis
Walier Junior High School
Washington School
Lewis
Wilson School
Davis to speak at Carbondale ceremony
Illinois State Sen Corneal A Davis will headline the 11 am groundbreaking for the Carbondale Neighborhood Facility in Northeast Carbondale. City officials will also speak. Herrin High School schedules for 1972-73 are to be issued in late August with specific dates for each class.
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Illinois
Corneal A. Davis
New Carbondale
Carbondale
East Willow
North Barnes Street
Herrin High School
Bowen Center reports 20 admissions to emotional disturbance program
The A L Bowen Children's Center notes 20 admissions since January to its program for emotionally disturbed children ages 5 to 18 from the 27 southern Illinois counties. A 12 bed boys unit exists with girls in other units until a girls unit opens. Referrals come from churches courts schools clinics or others and admissions are screened at four sub regional offices with diagnosis and treatment plans completed within 30 days.
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A. L. Bowen Children’s Center
Jack Roberts
Illinois
Bowen Center
Housing complaint against Michael Durr dismissed
The Carbondale Fair Housing Board voted to recommend to the city council that a racial discrimination complaint against Michael Durr be dismissed. Patricia Anne James charged Durr refused to rent due to her race, but board findings showed Durr rented to Shirley Prey and then to Miss James, both Black.
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Carbondale Fair Housing Board
Michael Durr
N. Springer Sr
Jean Tleebens
Terry Caldwell
Sid Schoen
Charles Simon
Patricia Anne James
Durr
The
Fair Housing Board
Shirley Prey
Miss James
Y plans adult flag football league at YMCA
With fall approaching the Jackson County YMCA is planning an adult non contact flag football league. The league will include as many teams as possible and games will be on Sunday afternoons. YMCA membership is not required. Interested teams may contact Jerry Sider at 549-8580.
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Jackson County Ymca
YMCA
Jerry Sider
SIU student affairs offices see leadership shakeups
SIU reorganizes its student affairs division under temporary vice president George Mace. Several offices gain new titles and leaders, though board approval is pending. Changes affect the dean and associate dean roles, housing office, student life unit, and Health Service administration as a task force drafts a new command structure.
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Dave Butler
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University
George Mace
SIU Board of Trustees
Mace
SIU
Terence Buck
Emil Spees
Buck
Student Life
Edward Hammond
Hammond
Anthony Hall
Spees
T-40
E. E. Zimmerman
Housing Business Services
Zimmerman
Richard Kalina
Kalina
Larry Schaake
Schaake
Mary Alice Arnold
Samuel McVay
Vernon
Health Service
McVay
Board of Trustees
David R. Derge
Derge
Wilbur Moulton
Moulton
John Truitt
Indiana State University
Terre Haute
Truitt
Sttu
HBS
Danilo Orescanin
Will Travelstead
Thompson Point
Johnston City approves union contract for city pay hikes
The city votes a $652 monthly wage increase package for staff. Water superintendent to $615, meter reader and maintenance to $556, cemetery sexton to $590, street department to $556, police chief to $616, and fire chief to $596.
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Street Department
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Bowen
Roberts
K.B. Palandjian
Department of Mental Health
Marvin Ott
Charles Gideon
Johnson
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Mary Burnett
Cairo
Franklin
Jackson
Jefferson
Perry
Williamson
Amelia Gooch
Marion
Southern Iillinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Jefferson Humphrey
Brush Towers
University Park
William Bleyer
Vocational-Technical Institute
Johnston City
Kor Y
Food Mart
North Park
Brewster Motors
Ron
Henry
Pringles
Morton
Meernant
Ron Walker
Southern Mlihoigan Coote
Renfro
Renfro Furniture & Interiors
S. Illinois, Carbondale
MR. Wall
Blue Cross
W. Monroe Herrin
Ill
Lassie
Eldorado, Ill
John Yadro
Yadro
East Main St
West
Frankfort, IL
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