Public Meetings and Arts Events in Southern Illinois
Calendar listings show public meetings for Carterville Unit 5 School District Carbondale Board of Fire and Police Commissioners Murphysboro Unit School District 186 and Benton area boards plus a Middle Fork Creek Watershed committee. Special events include a tax information meeting and a large Arts lineup at Marion Southern Illinois University and local theaters with multiple plays and performances. Also listed are movies at Liberty Orpheum Rodgers Fox and Varsity theaters and a Friday city council meeting in Murphysboro with university performances and tax assistance sessions.
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Carterville
Carbondale Board of Fire and Police Commissioners
Murphysboro
Drn
Walnut
9Th Streets
Benton High School
Board of Education
Energy Vilage Board
Middle Fork Creek
Federal Building
Benton
Marion High School
Mudes
Southern Dancers
Southern Illinois University
Liberty
Southern Illinois Police and Fire Association Set Meeting
A Benton meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday December 17 discusses forming a Southern Illinois Police and Fire Association. Benton Fire Chief Pat O'Keefe chairs the effort aiming to address salary increases overtime hours working conditions equipment and personnel changes. The letter asks area chiefs to send representatives, with members proposed as paid full time personnel only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern
Ilinois Police and Fire Association
Benton Fire Department
Benton Fire
Pat O'Keefe
O'Keefe
Charge filed in shootings in Murphysboro case
Charges of reckless conduct and violation of the state firearm registration law were filed in circuit court in Murphysboro against Mrs. J Blanton of Carterville. State's Atty. Richard Richman said charges followed Mr Blanton declining to press charges. Both Blantons remain hospitalized in Carbondale. Mrs Blanton to be taken into custody on release. Police say she shot her husband and herself Saturday at 209 W Willow St Carbondale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphysboro
J. Blanton
Carterville
Atty
Richard Richman
Blanton
Saturday SIU Board of Trustees Meeting Notice
Saturday at 9 30 a m the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees will meet in Ballroom C University Center Carbondale campus. The session is open to the public and invites community attendance.
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Carbondale Community Center
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees
University Center
Carbondale
Fire calls report across multiple incidents
At 10 am Wednesday a dryer fire at Charles Todd Uniform Rental caused clothes damage and roof scorch. At 7:20 pm Wednesday a gas line rupture in a storm sewer near Carbon and Maplewood sparked a fire. At 7:25 pm Wednesday an electric furnace shorted at 202 E Allen Ave. In Carbondale a false alarm sounded at Pyramids Dormitory 516 S Rawlings St at 7:25 pm. A second false alarm occurred at 600 W Freeman St girls dormitory at 2:40 am Thursday.
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Ferrin
14Th St
Charles Todd Uniform Rental Service
Marion
Alen Ave
Carbondale
Pyramids
S. Rawlings St
W. Freeman St
Air survey tour surveys mining pollution in four counties
Keener. Robert Gates. Walt Reeves head a Thursday to Friday air and ground tour from Carbondale to inspect mining sites in Franklin Jackson Saline and Williamson counties. The trip aimed to show officials the pollution scope and to demonstrate strengthened state cooperation against mining pollution with local operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dim BD. Keener
Air and Water Pollution Control
Belleville
Robert Gates
State Health Department
Carbondale
Walt Reeves
Department of Conservation
Springfield
Carbendale
Koehner
State Sanitary Board
Attorney General
Franklin
Jackson
Saline
Williamson
Two Injured in Three Car Crash Near Carbondale
Two people suffered minor injuries when a three vehicle collision occurred on Br. 51 south of Carbondale at about 6 30 p m Wednesday state police reported. Drivers were Lynn P Hoffman 25 Carbon Cole J Leslie Golliner 29 Carbondale and Michael P Murphy 2 Park Ridge. Hoffman veered to left said police. all three cars were heavily damaged and Hoffman and passenger Cynthia A Murphy 23 Park Ridge were treated at the Southern Illinois University Health Center. Carbondale police also investigated an attempted burglary at the Universal CIT Credit Co 912 W Main St noting door lock pried but entry not gained and nothing reported missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Br. 51
Carbondale
Lynn P. Hoffman
J. Leslie Golliner
Michael P. ’Murphy
Park Ridge
Hoffman
Cynthia A. Murphy
Michael Murphy
Southern Illinois University Health Center
Chamber reports treated Kinkaid water by 1973
The Murphysboro Chamber of Commerce was told that treated water from Kinkaid Lake would be available to Murphysboro by 1973 or by 1974 at the latest. David Fliger outlined progress and feasibility studies showing the water could be sold even if Murphysboro were the district’s only customer. Marion Nash reported on the Apple Festival finances and plans for a possible golf tournament next year. Harold Grob was named to study five proposed freeway corridors between East St. Louis and Carbondale. Richard Anderson of Colp, 82, died Tuesday in Herrin Hospital. services set for Saturday at Schaffer AME Chapel, Colp.
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Kinkaid Lake
Murphysboro
Marion Nash
Nash
Chamber
Ray Burroughs
Harold Grob
East St. Louis
Carbondale
Richard Anderson
Colp
Herrin Hospital
Mr. Anderson
Puwaski
Charles
Cora Spence Anderson
Mounds
Treacy Gregory
Schaffer Ame Chapel
R. L. Buchanan
Mounds Cemetery
Jackson Funeral Home
War opposition at SIU December moratorium begins Friday
Southern Illinois University faces Vietnam War protest activity as the Southern Illinois Peace Committee SIPC plans to canvass the Carbondale campus and community with educational materials about the Center for Vietnamese Studies and Programs. The group opposes university support of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and will circulate peticions denouncing the center. The moratorium events include a statewide antiwar rally in Springfield with a Bill of Rights and constitution proposals, and a December 4 Christmas Eve peace outreach with educational packets and Peace on Earth materials. The Center, funded by a $1 million U.S. Agency for International Development grant, aims to develop a national hub for information and scholarship on Vietnam.
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Margaret Ann Niceley
Southern Tinoisan
Southern Ilinois University
Center For
Southern Timors Peace Committee
Carbondale
U.S
Vietnam
SIPC
SIU
U.S. Agency For Univernational Development
North
South
Springfield
First Presbyterian Church
7Th Street
Capitol Avenue
An Siu
Douglas Allen
Allen
Williamson seeks attorney opinion on double entry system
Williamson County Board of Commissioners plans to ask the state attorney general whether the tax collector and treasurer offices must adopt a double entry bookkeeping system by December 1. Treasurer Vansaghi, already using a double entry system for eight years, says auditors will need explanation if his system is not double entry. Crew also discusses courthouse cleaning starting Saturday with bid of 430 dollars from Baggett Cleaning Service 3 Marion, plus roof leak repair over the board’s office after holiday decorations.
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Williamson County Board of Commissioners
Jack Hampton
Hampton
Charles Vansaghi
Vansaghi
Ient
Binks
Baggett Cleaning
Marion
Brard
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Farm Bureau
Franklin County Agriculture Extension Office
Duplicate Bridge Club
City Hall
Illinois String Quartet
Southern Dinois University
Old Baptist Foundation
Stu
Bronx
Israel Horovitz
University Theater
Communications
Internal Revenue Service Office
Post Office
Herrin
Area Police
Roy A. Byrd
Southern Ilungisan
Souttern
North Ilinsis Avenue
Nam Téth Street
Walnut Street
Illiness
Southern Illindsan
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Cal News
Arena Ticket Office
Showtime
Orea
Bob Samuel
Thomas G. McSwiggen
Richard Nelle
State Sanitary Water Board
Fred Hopper
Sanitary Water Board
Universal Cit Credit Co
Main St
Kinkaid
Home Raceway
Southern Illinois
Hobby Center
Mardale
Eer
Jim Pearl
Eldorado
Corvette
OLDS
DELTA
Illinois
Hunter Boys
U. S. 51 —North
Phelan’s
W. Monroe
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