Southern Illinois tourism vision for 1970s growth
A broad call for diversifying Southern Illinois economy through tourism. It urges public and private capital to fund facilities, upgrade infrastructure, protect history and ecology, and foster regional planning while embracing change and cooperation with outside help. The piece highlights Rend and Kinkaid lakes as key developments and notes the role of Southern Illinois University and new highways in shaping the future.
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Southern Illinois University
Southern
Southern Illinois
Daley urges fair trial in Hanrahan indictment case
Daley defends due process after indictments for obstructing justice against Cook County State's Attorney Hanrahan and 12 officers over the December 1968 killings of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Calls for a special prosecutor, possible resignation or leave, judge disqualification, and timely speedy trial to preserve public confidence in justice.
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Richard J. Daley
Cook County
Edward Hanrahan
Hanrahan
Black Panther
Fred Hampton
Mark Clark
Daley
Manrahan
Chicago
Barnaby Sears
Sears
Illinois System of Justice
Joseph A. Power
Judge Power
Will Swinburne Rediscovered by New Books and Memoirs
David Felts surveys Mollie Panter Downes's At the Pines about Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney and notes a Saturday Review debate on whether the young will rediscover the poet. He also recalls the Decadents on a 1920s Illinois campus and later literary echoes, plus cultural items from Nixon-era Britain and a Palisades amusement park.
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the Pines
Swinburne
Watts- Dunton
Putney
Mollie Panter Downes
New Yorker
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Saturday Review
Louis Untermyer
University of Illinois
Ernest Dawson
Baudelaire
Verlaine
Francois Villon
United States
Edgar Allen Poe
Dawson
Cynara
Dowson
Frank Sinatra
Europe
Nixon
U.S
London
McKinley
Kensington Gardens
Saturday Evening Post
Britain
Survivor
Palisades
N.Y
Marilyn Monroe
Amenity toward countryside England halts urban sprawl
American travelers see countryside erosion by development but England shows a model of preserving greenbelts and managed town planning. Laws since 1909 urged healthy homes and pleasant towns, with greenbelts surrounding cities and New Towns built to absorb growth. The Conservative reorganization created a Ministry of the Environment to balance industry and preservation, while debates in Florida and Delaware show varied US interest in selective growth and land-use policy.
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Yorick Blumenfeld
London
U.S
England
Rudyard Kipling
John Burns
House of Commons
Scotland
United States
Britain
Ministry of Transportation
New World
Florida
Delaware
U.S. Commerce and Treasury Departments
Delaware Bay
Russell W. Peterson
Congress
Senate Interior Committee
House Interior Committee
Readers praise Southern Illinoisan achievement edit ion
A letter from Mrs. Clifton Faull of Herrin commends the paper’s achievement edition published Sunday August 22. She endorses lifelong learning and calls for focus on reading math and language skills while offering opinions on elementary schooling and horoscopes.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
Clifton Faull Herrin
Reader letters praise SIU edition and call to action
John W. Crenshaw Sr signs a note commending the Sunday edition of the Southern Illinois newspaper. He praises the well researched facts and provocative editorials and urges citizens to confront the challenges of the seventies.
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John W. Crenshaw
Carbondale
Morris tribute seconded by editor tribute to Dr Delyte Morris retirement
In a recent paper C Ray Chancey of Murphysboro echoed the editor’s praise for Dr Delyte W Morris as he retires. The letter urges townsfolk to show appreciation for his work shaping the local school and the town’s character.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
Delyte W. Morris
C. Ray Chancey
Murphysboro
Dr. Morris
Carbondale loses trees to parking lot plan
A Carbondale resident laments the removal of two mature trees near Holden Hospital for a parking lot. The writer argues against prioritizing autos over urban greenery and urges preservation of natural beauty amid development.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Holden Hospital
Paradise
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