Lewis Park Meadows project reviewed by Carbondale plans
The Lewis Park Meadows Planned Development gains new direction with an architect, after earlier criticism calling it a hodge podge. Commission agrees on original plans while approving a $16,000 traffic survey and development program, finalizing Wedgewood Terrace West and rejecting a land sale extension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Park Meadows
Carbondale Plan Commission
Commission
Glen Zilmer
Susan Casey
Lewis Park
Casey
Zilmer
Carbondale
Crawford, Bunte, Roden, Inc
Springfield
Carbondale Park
Alicia Schneider
John Quinn
Quinn
Alan Randall
Wedgewood Terrace West
West Freeman Street
Anna Fair cancels Eldon Daniel Auto Thrill Show
More than 5,000 fairgoers in Anna Wednesday night learned the Eldon Daniel Auto Thrill Show was canceled due to equipment trouble near Cleveland. Johnny King Jr. of Chicago takes over Friday duties, with a moved queen’s contest to 7 p.m. and the King show at 8:45 p.m. Tex Ritter and the Boll Weevils join the Friday lineup in Anna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldon Daniel
Daniel
Cleveland
Ohio
Fair
Johnny King Jr
Lentz
Chicago
Anna
Tex Ritter and the Boll Weevils
Benton to get new $500000 state mine rescue station
Bids for a new one story 13000 square foot mine rescue station in Benton expected within a month. The project funded by the Illinois Building Authority will replace the 503 E Main St facility and also house the Department of Mines and Minerals analytical laboratory now in West Frankfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton
E. Main St
The
Illinois Building Authority
Department of Mines and Minerals Analytical Laboratory
West Frankfort
Herrin
Freeman Spur Marine Wounded in Vietnam Amputated Foot
Pfc. William Stutz, 20, son of local Herrin residents, suffered left ankle amputation after contact with an enemy device in Quang Nam Province. He also sustained shrapnel wounds to both arms and legs while clearing roads for mines. Assigned to the 2nd Battalion 27th Marines near Da Nang, he was treated at Da Nang hospital and expected transfer to a U.S. military hospital within a week. He had been in Vietnam less than a week after training at Camp Pendleton and a Herrin High School graduate previously worked as a cook.
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Freeman Spur
Vietnam
Pfc
William Stutz
Lawrence Stutz
Stutz
Quang Nam
Benton Marine
Marines
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Herrin High School
Herrin
Du Quoin Fair Opens With Hambletonian Sunday
The 1968 Du Quoin State Fair launches Saturday with the Hambletonian Classic moved to Sunday drawing expectant crowds. Attendance around 20 000 is possible to sell out. International guests include 16 Australian racing owners led by Bruce Skeggs. Parking fees apply weekends. admission remains free.
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du Quoin
United States
Bruce Skeggs
Australian Trotting Register
Housing trip set Wednesday to discuss Carbondale units
Mayor Keene says city and county officials will meet in Chicago with a Department of Housing and Urban Development representative to review plans for 80 scattered site public housing units in the Northeast Urban Renewal Area. Also noted are prior suspensions of 70 additional units and accompanying officials from Jackson County Housing Authority and the Community Conservation Board.
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Carbondale
Chicago
David Keene
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Keene
Jackson County Housing Authority
The
Community Conservation Board
Confusion Over New Municipal Election Registration Law
Illinois Municipal League officials and city leaders wrestle with revised state law on voter registration for municipalities. Cities like Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro and Du Quoin plan elections in 1969 with debates on whether to create election boards or use county registration.
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Illinois Municipal League
League
Carbondale
Herrin
Murphysboro
du Quoin
Marion
A. L. Sargent
Municipal League
Springfield
Board of Election Commissioners
Smith-Hurd
Boards of Election Commissioners
Sargent
Herrin City
Snyder Herrin
Election Commissioners Board
William Wolff
Hambletonian Scholarship Award Announced at Du Quoin Fair
The Du Quoin State Fair will fund a $5,000 four year veterinary medicine scholarship. James A. Milligan of Salem Ohio is the recipient, to begin at Purdue University in September. The award is part of a five year program tied to the Hambletonian contract. Purdue was designated by horse owners Speedy Streak’s heirs. In Murphysboro four minors were fined in circuit court for underage liquor offenses, including Eugene L. Pyron, fined $50 plus costs. The others, Charles Naegele, Philip Judy, and Fredericke Larson, were fined $250 plus costs.
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Illinois
Castelton Farm
Gentle Ben
Inspector Hedley
Buck Owens
Red Foley
Lynn Anderson
Sonny James
Tex Ritter
Hank Snow
Roy Clark
Phil Harris
Robbie Gentry
Kids Next Door
Don Rice
Lou Breese
Lawrence Welk
Olson
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois
SIU
Frank Samuel
Fair
Phil Marris
Bobby Gentry
William R. Hayes
du Quoin
Hambletonian
Purdue University
K. D. Owen
C. F
John Gaines
Speedy Streak
Murphysboro
Eugene L. Pyron
Charles Naegele
Philip O. Judy
Fredericke Larson
Park Forest
Carbondale Council Sets Dog Hearing
Carbondale council schedules a public hearing Tuesday on a proposed dog control ordinance. The plan would license dogs and require owners to keep their dogs under control, following recommendations from the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Dog Control. The committee chair indicated a preference not to hold the hearing.
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Carbondale
Two Carbondale Men Bonded After Tuesday Fight
Rolla Coulter and Gary McVey, both Carbondale residents, were released on $1,000 bonds each in Murphysboro circuit court. They face charges from a Plaza Lounge brawl, with Coulter charged with dis orderly conduct and resisting an officer, McVey with obstructing a peace officer. Hearing set for Sept. 10.
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Carbondale
Murphysboro
Rolla Coulter
Gary McVey
Coulter
McVey
Metropolis girl crowned queen at Illinois electric cooperatives event
Pamela Sue Williamson, 17, of Metropolis, was chosen queen of the Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives at the annual convention. Sherry Chastain of Springfield was first runnerup and Nancy Herter of Golden Eagle second runnerup. Local fines included speeding and no valid license in towns Carbondale, Freeman Spur, Marion, Benton and Carterville.
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Springfield
Pamela Sue Williamson
Metropolis
Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives
Sherry Chastain
Nancy Herter
Golden Eagle
Carbondale
Charles Morrill
Freeman
Sylvester L. Evans
Marion
Carol S. Thompson
Benton
Margaret A. McClerren
Carterville
James M. Hanson
Benton Man Killed in Head-On Rt 37 Collision
A Benton man, Ralph Spears, 528 Smith St., Benton, died after a head-on crash with a lumber truck one mile north of West Frankfort on Rt. 37 at about 8 am. John K. Joplin, 22, of Benton, the truck driver, was not harmed. An inquest is pending.
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Benton
West Frankfort
Rt. 37
Franklin County
Eugene Dorris
Ralph Spears
Smith St
Union Hospital
Dorris
Spears
John K. Joplin
S. MacLeansboro St
Robert Ice
Audit shows funds source for Marion Unit Two District
An audit for the year ending June 30 shows the districts tax receipts were only 22 percent of the educational fund. Local taxes, state aid, and federal funds supported a total revenue of 2.98 million with expenditures of 2.86 million leaving a 115 thousand surplus. Also listed are modest traffic fines in Makanda Carterville and Carbondale.
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Marion Unit
Board of Education
Gray, Hunter, Stern and Co
Marion
Three accidents injure four in southern Illinois on Rt 51
Two Chicago area youths, Larry Casico and Richard Ellison, were treated for major injuries after a rollover on Rt 51 north of Carbondale. John Husted, 25, of Centralia, sustained major head injuries when his car skidded off Rt 51 near Tamarra and hit utility poles. In a third crash on Rt 460 near Ashley, Alex Rybacki received minor injuries while Hurley Payne was uninjured.
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Chicago
John Husted
Centralia
Marshall Browning
du Quoin
Rt. 51
Tamarra
Husted
Alex Rybacki
du Bois
Hurley L. Payne
Mt. Vernon
Rt. 460
Ashley
Rybacki
Payne
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Lewis Park Meadows Project
City Public Works
Maurice Webb
Sycamore Street
Illinois Avenue
Sycamore
Streets and Traffic Committee
Webb
Jacob
Gorham
Vanetta Middendorf
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Belleville
Marie Rathjen
Norma Rathjen
Fountain Bluff
Herb Rathjen
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Louis
Richard Lawson
Southern Illiinois University
New York
National Foundation On the Arts and
the Hill
Barbara Dale
Pappy Wilson
Nashville
Ritter
Boll Weavils
Freeman Spurman
Budapest
Hungary
James Riddle
Jacqueline Reichert
A W. Tate
Carbondale Council
Plaza
Metropolis Girl
Makanda
Robert E. Brewer
Alberta
D. Hicks
Charles Davis
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