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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1975
Page
3
Photographer Butch Nevious captured a Great-horned Owl on the door of a vacant Energy house owned by Val Jean Gould. The sighting occurred Monday as Nevious, a nearby resident, photographed the bird.
Petitioners aim to switch Carbondale from council manager to aldermatic system with seven wards and elected aldermen. The move, backed by Norvell Haynes and CCVC, would retain a city manager and require 450 signatures to trigger a referendum. Mayor and City Manager Fry oppose, citing ward politics and risk to broad programs. Political scientist Kenney notes law requires referendum if signatures are valid. Carbondale could design its own form under home rule.
Incumbents for Jackson County state’s attorney circuit clerk and coroner seek new terms. A new circuit judge seat opened by retirement of Everett Prosser will draw filings with the clerk in Springfield. Republican Don Ragsdale and Democrats Howard Hood James Kerley lead the contested fields with several local lawyers announced for the judge vacancy.
Former Air Force S Sgt Leonard Matlovicha Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient told about 400 at Shryock Auditorium that admitting he is gay was more frightening than his three Vietnam tours. He recalled writing a 1975 letter to his commanding officer and facing discharge. He says honesty about his sexuality did not affect his job and argues service should accept him.
Edward A. Spicer, a 25 year old Illinois prison parolee, was arraigned on four murder charges tied to holdups in Chicago and East St. Louis. He was arrested in Battle Creek after surrendering to FBI agents and faces a federal fugitive warrant.
Edwin Powell, 29, of Mt. Pulaski was found guilty by a Williamson County jury of involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide in the traffic deaths of four members of a Marion family. The April 28, 1974 crash at New Illinois 13 and Illinois 148 killed Robert Black 35 Barbara Black 31 and children Jimmy 12 Tracy 3. Powell faced allegations of speeding driving through a red light and driving with a green light claim. sentencing to be determined after a pre sentencing investigation.
Incumbent coroner James R. Wilson, who said in November he would retire, will seek another term. The 64 year old cited calls from supporters as the reason for reversing his decision. Filing runs from Monday to December 15.
AP reports John I Beard, 50, died in a fire at his McLeansboro home where he lived alone. A neighbor alerted authorities to flames.
Two Republican board members, Russell Marshall and Charles Gray, say they will not file for re election next week. Marshall of Murphysboro District 3 and Gray of Carbondale District 4 cite time pressures and other duties including Grays pursuit of a higher degree. Other terms expiring in 1976 involve Louis Wolfe, Mary Meisner, Doug Eriksen, Noel Stallings, and Bill Kelley, with Democrats Wolfe Daniels Stallings and Kelley likely seeking new terms. Eriksen and Meisner undecided. party control remains Democrat 86 vote majority before 1976 primaries and November county election.
Rendleman 55 a rural Wolf Lake farmer starts a second term on the Union County Board of Commissioners after unopposed re election in November. The board will reorganize December 15 with a new chairman to be named. Herman Stokes of Buncombe remains chairman. The board also considers names from a private cemetery committee for an advisory cemetery committee.
In Carbondale Illinois a weekend seminar on The World History of the Jewish Theater highlighted the SIU Carbondale center for Soviet and East European Studies. Prof. David Lifson of Monmouth College praised the basement library as a unique Yiddish theater mine lode surpassing major holdings in New York and London. Lifson noted the collection is a small part of SIUC’s broader Soviet East European materials and suggested better housing for the Yiddish materials.
Raviv and Lisson spoke on Jewish theater in Europe and Western drama at the SIUC seminar. The SIU C Center for Soviet and Eastern European Studies gained new life with Michael Glenny joining as associate research director and translator of Solzhenitsyn. The writer recalls growing up amid Second Avenue Yiddish stars and notes the global reach of the centennial celebration in Carbondale.
Marion educator Pete Peterson announces pursuit of the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Democrat Gene Johns in the 59th Senate district. Jonesboro Republican David Barkhausen joined last summer. Peterson, 53, has long served Creal Springs School principal and Baltic area administrator with Army service in World War II. He holds degrees from Susdale and belongs to the Illinois Principals Association.
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