ICC Denies Utility Plea In Co-Op Case
The Illinois Commerce Commission denied a utilities request to force three area cooperatives to answer charges they act as unregulated public utilities. A pre-trial conference with examiner Lawrence Glenn is planned for January to settle undisputed facts. The case involves Illinois Power Company, Central Illinois Public Service, Egyptian Electric Cooperative, Southeastern Electric, and Southern Illinois Electric over rate disputes and territorial service rights.
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Ilinois Commerce Commission
ICC
Lawrence Glenn
Glenn
Illinois Power Company
Central Hindis Public Service Company, Utilities
Egyptian Electric Cooperative
Steeleville
Southeastern Electric
Eldorado
Southern Illinois Electric
Dongola
Marlow
Plan Commission To Get Report Tonight at City Hall
The Carbondale Plan Commission will hear a report on the city's public housing project at 7:30 this evening in City Hall. Officers for 1961 will be elected, and Chairman Albert Shafter's proposal to add a parliamentarian to the list may be acted on. A committee will report on current term lengths of commission members. No injuries were reported after a two car collision Tuesday in Murphysboro at 16th and Liberty. Jim Needham and Eugene Hagler were involved. Needham cited for failing to yield. A count shows 18,237 tree farms enrolled in the American Tree Farm System.
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Carbondale Plan Commission
City Hall
Albert Shafter
Commission
Murphysdro
Jim Needham
Commercial St
Murphysboro
Eugene Hagler
Janson St
16Th
Liberty Streets
Needham
Mrs Calcaterra Dies Former Herrin Resident in Detroit
Mrs. Sean Comi Calcaterra, 69, of Detroit, a former Herrin resident, died Tuesday in Detroit. Her husband Abe Calcaterra died a week earlier. Funeral services will be held Friday morning, with calling at Frank Calcaterra Funeral Home. She was born in 1891 in Gallup New Mexico and leaves sons Charles and Joe in Detroit, siblings in Detroit and Herrin, and three grandchildren in Detroit. One brother predeceased her in Pana.
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Sean Comi Calcaterra
LeMay
Detroit
Mich
Herrin
Abe
Calcaterra
Gallup
N. M
Charles
Funeral rites set for Murphysboro man Elmus Norris Sr
Funeral services for Elmus Norris Sr. 78 of Murphysboro will be Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Tower Grove Cemetery with Rev. P J Rogers officiating. Burial follows at Tower Grove Cemetery under Jackson Funeral Home arrangements. Norris died Tuesday of natural causes. born 1882 in Georgia. Survived by wife Bertha Mae Norris, sons William of San Francisco and Elmus Jr. of Chicago, four grandchildren. He belonged to Shiloh Baptist Church. Flowers declined.
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Mr. Norris
Murphysboro
Jackson
Floyd Crawshaw
Georgia
Bertha Mae Norris
William
San Francisco
Calif
Elmus, Jr
Chicago
Shiloh Baptist Church
Weather stalls Murphysboro storm cleanup plan
Weather delays the start of the storm damage cleanup in Murphysboro. Street Superintendent Claude Hisler said the project to raze storm damaged houses, ordered by the city council in October, will begin when weather permits.
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Murphysboro
Claude His
Gray on Highway Probe Committee Leaves for Washington
Representative Kenneth J. Gray of West Frankfort travels to Washington to join a House subcommittee probing irregularities in the defense highway program. He expects about 10 days in sessions as the defense road project controversy widens to include fight buildings on Plum Mulberry and 4th Streets. A 30 day razing notice was posted for the properties as weather permits.
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Kenneth J. Gray
D-West Frankfort
Washington, D. C
House
Gray
Washington
Plum
Mul’berry
Arc
4Th Streets
Hiser Sait
Herrin Woman Struck By Car Near Park Avenue
A Herrin woman Laura Darizkewicz, 1490 North Park Avenue, was struck by a car driven by Lindell Trout of Johnston City as she crossed near her home at the 400 block of North Park. She sustained an elbow injury and a bruised knee and was treated at Herrin Hospital after the 6 16 p.m. incident. Trout reportedly swerved into a ditch to avoid the collision.
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Toyearoki Herrin
North Park Avenue
Laura Darizkewicz
Park Ave
Herrin Hospital
Herrin
Herbert ‘Cotton
Long
Lindell Trout
Jefferson St
Johnston City
Trout Pearly
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Plan Commission
David
Falke
Doan
Srowx Nils
Shearling
Leslie
Illinois
Garbondale
Wallace, Inc
Carbondale
West Frankfort
Newberry
Motorola
Drexel and Heritage
Drexel
T Couraine
Dutchess County
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