Area coal miners party amid strike at Per cy mine
David Van Ausdell and hundreds of United Mine Workers Local 1392 members attended a fall dance at the Steelerville American Legion hall as a morale event during a strike at the Southwestern Illinois Coal Co. Captain surface mine near Percy. Miners expect a long walkout and worry over health benefits while some plan to seek odd jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Schechter
Southern Illinoisan
David van Ausdell
Marsha
Steeleville American Legion Hall
Campbell Hill
United Mine Workers of America
Southwestern Illinois Coal Co
Captain Surface
Percy
Dale Rice
Captain
Toy assembly woes and safety tips for Christmas shoppers
The piece discusses adult assembly of toys like Marx Green Machine and Mattel Flying Aces Carrier, noting varying ease and free shop assembly at Penney's and Kay Bee. It quotes store staff, outlines instructions, and offers safety guidelines from Dr. Paul Q. Peterson on choosing safe toys and supervising play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Grupp
Southern Illinois
Illinois
Santa Claus
Pat Pinson
Herrin
J.C. Penney Toy Department
Marx Toys
Rick Emery
Emery
Mattel Inc
Flying Aces
American Toy and Furniture Co
Romania
Tom Grodzicki
Kay-Bee Toy and Hobby Shop
Carbondale
Grodzicki
Paul Q. Peterson
Illinois Department of Public Health
Peterson
Musgrave Elected SII President for 1978 in Southern Illinois
O L Musgrave of Marion is named president of Southern Illinois Inc. for 1978, succeeding Bill Bowlby. Rex Karnes of SIU Carbondale serves as board chairman with D Gary Butler and others filling officer roles. New directors include Kemp, Gayer, Heaton, Dyer, Falk, Riggs, and Lewis. The chiefs council appoints Brigham as chairman with Koclanes as unions co chair. SII operates in 26 Southern Illinois counties.
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Southern Illinois Inc
O. L. Musgrave
Marion
Musgrave
Bank of Marion
Bill Bowlby
Rex Karnes
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
D. Gary Butler
Herrin
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Robert L. Chaplin
Norge Corp
Bruce Burnett
Norris City State Bank
Katie Fiene
Bank of Steeleville
H. V. Kemp
Carbondale
General Telephone Co
Paul Gayer
Zeigler
Gayer Enterprises
Clyde Heaton
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Harold Dyer
Salem
Brown Shoe Co
Dee Falk
du Quoin
du Quoin Helio Services Inc
Wardell Riggs
Harrisburg
International Union of Operating Engineers
Chester Lewis
First Bank and Trust Co
Mt. Vernon
Chief Executives Council of
Southern Illinois
SII
James R. Brigham
Diagraph Bradley Industries, Ordill
Brigham
Southern Illinois Inc. Union Management Council
Chief Executives’ Council
Business Agents’ Conference of Southern Illinois
Norge union OKs 40 month contract at Norge Co Herrin
Norge workers and IAM Lodge 554 ratified a 40 month contract by 457 to 383 ending a 57 day strike era and avoiding a winter strike. The deal raises pay 8 to 47 cents hourly for incentive and 27 to 47 cents for non incentive workers, improves health and pension benefits, extends COLA, and runs to April 9 1981.
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Barbara Schechter
Southern Iindian
Norge Co
Herrin
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
IAM Lodge
Southern Illinois
Norge
Howard
Reed
IAM
Robert L. Chaplin
Chaplin
This coal mine disaster story has a happy ending
NBC will show A Christmas Coal Mine Miracle on December 26 as the tale of Orient No 2 mine disaster's aftermath gains a positive finale. Lin Bolen produced the NBC film with stars Mitchell Ryan Kurt Russell and Melissa Gilbert, noting a happier ending than the real 1951 cave-in and explosion that claimed 119 lives.
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Benton
Lin Bolen
NBC
California
Orient No. 2
Owen Bolen
Ms. Bolen
Mitchell Ryan
Kurt Russell
Andrew Prine
John Carradine
Melissa Gilbert
Laura Ingalls
Language arts defect prompts recalls and cautions
A recall recommendation emerges from a letter by Lillian Language, Associate Superintendent of the Consumer Language Arts Administration, to Illinois public school superintendents. The Woodlawn Free Press notes some districts acknowledged a problem in language arts but fear no recall is warranted. A cautionary turkey tale follows about a Christmas meal mishap with an electric stove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Language
Consumer Language Arts Administration
Illinois
Woodlawn Free Press
Brenda
Carbondale man guilty of March 7 fatal stabbing
Tal madge Staples aged 37 is found guilty after three hours of deliberation in Jackson County Circuit Court for the March 7 slaying of Carl Robison in Staples Carbondale apartment. Staples testified the stabbing occurred in self defense during a drugs and money dispute.
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Talmadge Staples
Carl Robison
Staples
Carbondale
Jackson County
Robison
Richard Richman
Murphysboro
Wilson Hall
S. Wall St
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Jacob
Korando
Sharon
Roger
Ellen Kellerman
Pinckneyville
Kellerman
UMW
van Ausdoll
van Ausdell
Kiddee Krome
Plascor Inc
O.l.musgrave
Phil Koclanes
Southern
Union OK
Ben Gelman
The
Jane Crichton
Southern [Illinois University- Carbondale
Siu-C
James Morton Smith
SIU
West Frankfort
Smith
State Historical Society of
Wisconsin
Carbondale Community High School
Imagination
Sue Howell
Margaret Crowe
Springfield
Lawrence Rippe
Rippe
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