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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1969
Page
2
Calendar items list local government and school board meetings on Tuesday evenings at multiple towns including Carterville Herrin Benton Grand Tower Carbondale Jonesboro Anna Vienna Mon ay and more. Also lectures at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and various special events and movie showings across Carbondale Murphysboro Anna and nearby towns.
Carbondale Plan Commission meets 7 30 p m in city hall and City Council at 7 p m in city hall. Jackson County Housing Authority holds its regular 4 30 p m meeting at the authority office. Herrin Public Building Commission meets 5 p m at City MRS. Mrs Georgia Cole, 64, of 621 W Cherry St Herrin, died at 12 16 a m today at Herrin Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
In Perry and Williamson counties rural families struggle to find steady work as timber and mining boom–bust cycles mix with transportation limits and new state regulations. The ongoing Rural Poverty in Southern Illinois series highlights how weather, seasonality, and policy shape hardship, with few aid options for the unemployed and displaced.
The report centers on Johnny B a 16 year old dropout resisting Job Corps while noting pride fear and lack of basic skills block vocational training in Randolph and Williamson counties. It highlights Rend Lake and regional plants Mark Twain Marine United Module and Sparta area employment, plus education level gaps driving poverty in Southern Illinois.
Two young men, James A. Brush of Marion aged 32 and Charles M. McClure of Paducah 20, collided head on at Crab Orchard Lake Road near the spillway parking lot. McClure and passenger Terry J. Gifford received minor injuries and were treated at Doctors Memorial Hospital and Southern Illinois University Health Center respectively. Annie Wright 66 of Pinckneyville was injured mildly when her car hit a truck driven by Ralph Hass 39 of Nashville on RE 127 near Pinckneyville.
Commissioner Carlyle Sms outlined a plan to plant 300 to 400 dollars worth of shade trees in Marion parks. The board discussed building a 20 by 40 foot structure at Pyramid Park, funded partly by diverting about 1000 dollars yearly from playground equipment.
At 1 32 p m Monday a weed fire at 1147 E Poplar St Herrin was caused by burning trash with no damage reported In Carbondale at 634 p m Monday smoke from a machine at Elaine Powers Figure Salon 3202 W Main was noted with no injuries indicated
The Herrin Plan Commission recommended approval of one zoning change and postponed another. Rezoning 505 S. Ath St from R-2 to R-1 was approved for a mobile home rental. The 1500 N Park Ave request to rezone from R-4 to B-1 was tabled as the applicant was absent. Final city council action expected next week on the approved change.
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