Courthouse Site Transfer Approved in Marion
The Williamson County Public Building Commission won approval to transfer title of the old Washington School property from Unit Two to the commission. The deal requires Unit Two Board of Education approval and a five year build deadline or revert to the school board. Plat maps detail the site slope and utilities as officials note the land’s suitability for construction.
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Marion
Washington
Williamson County Public Building Commission
Commission
Unit Two
Board of Education
K. Neil Thurmond
Thomas Haney
Herrin
Washington School
Herman Bearden
Bearden
Braddock Receives Silver Star For Vietnam Valor
Cpl Harold T Braddock Jr squad leader with Company E 2nd battalion 5th Marines awarded the Silver Star for courageous actions in Vietnam He is the son of Mr and Mrs Vince Coffey of Holden Massachusetts Coffey is installing press at the new Southern Illinois newspaper plant and has been residing in Carbonale
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Cpl
Harold T. Braddock Jr
Viet Nam
Braddock
Fifth Marines
Vince Coffey
Holden, Mass
Coffey
New
Southern Illinoisan
Carbonlale
Speculation Cited as Barrier to Federal Recreation Land
Edward C. Crafts director of the Federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation told a Senate subcommittee that rising land prices fueled by speculation threaten expansion of federal recreation acreage. He cited $732,345 from the Land and Water Conservation Funds for Shawnee National Forest in 1967 and outlined 11 possible actions to curb speculation.
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Federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Senate
Edward C. Crafts
Shawnee National Forest
Congress
Crafts
Shawnee Forest
Uge
Lake Glendale
National Park Service
Forest Service
Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife
Parks and Recreation
Committee On Interior and Insular Affairs
SIU Educator to Record Autobiography for Biographers
George S Counts, visiting professor at Southern Illinois University, plans an autobiographical sketch for study by the National Society for the Study of Education. Record will cover education, motives, career, and personal life with confidentiality until subjects’ deaths. Counts authored 29 books and was honored by Columbia University and the National Academy of Education. Also notes New Mexico's Palace of the Governors, built in 1610.
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George S. Counts
Southern Illinois University
National Society For the Study of Education
Counts
Russia
Columbia University
National Academy of Education
American Library Association
Liberty and Justice
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Oluciati
North Park
Herrin, Ill
Armory
Service and Contracting
SIU
United States
New Mexico
Palace of the Governors
Santa Fe
B.T.U
Williams Store
Carbondale
Illinois
Carbondale Community High School
C.C.H.S
Bowen
Oldsmobile Dynamic
Oldsmobile
Cadillac
Ieee
Swindell Motors
Pontiac
GMC
North
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