Willard House to be razed unless society acts now
The Anna Jonesboro High School site faces demolition of its Willard House unless Union County Historical Society acts. The school board appointed architect Gordon Flom to design a new high school around Union Hall after the society failed to confirm relocation or funding. The house, a Bicentennial project, has estimated preservation costs of 10 000 to 20 000 dollars and is leased to the society for 10 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanda Harris
Willard
Anna-Jonesboro High School
Union County Historical Society
Gordon Flom
Carbondale
The
Historical Society
Illinois Bicentennial Commission
Illinois Capital Development Board
CDB
Heney Tweedy
R. Corydon Finch
Union County
Finch
Union Hall
Benton man questions intentional overdose in Evrard death
Ivan Walker, a 42 year old Benton gas station attendant who befriended Carol Jennings Evrard for two years, doubts she deliberately overdosed. He recalls their Nov 25 day trip to Oakland Illinois to locate her children and says she hoped for Thanksgiving with his family while seeking to end drugs. Evrard’s death was ruled an overdose as her mother found her body early Nov 26 after Walker left her West Frankfort trailer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Jennings Evrard
Ivan Walker
Benton
Mt. Vernon
Walker
Carol
Oakland
Mattoon
Illinois
Rick Evrard
Menard Prison
Union Hospital
Franklin County
William “Bill” Willis
West Frankfort
Gladys Moore
Willis
Charles Seagle
Frederick Kiechle
Anna OKs taxi liquor licenses and park lease
The Anna City Council renewed the James O. Mixon taxi license for one year at 120 dollars and eight liquor licenses for six months, approved a state park lease at Illinois 146 and U.S. 51 for one dollar yearly, and set water service deposits while renewing cemetery care contract with Clyde Moore for eight thousand eight hundred fifty five dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna City Council
State Department of Conservation
James O. Mixon
Yellow Cab Co
Illinois 146
U.S. 51
Mary Whitney
Clyde Moore
Anna
Moore
Sale of park delayed Johnston City moves on alternate school site
Johnston City Board of Education seeks an option on a 40 acre alternate site east of Johnston City for a new elementary school. The city council asks the attorney general to rule on potential park land sale to the district and possible conflict of interest. A referendum must be held by March 1. The Capital Development Board extends a $1.2 million grant deadline. The alternate site lies on the Johnston City Corinth road four miles east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnston City
State Capital Development Board
CDB
Johnston City-Corinth Road
Johns
Subdivision Park Site Favored Over Undermined Land
The district favors a park site for a new elementary school after mine subsidence damaged Washington Elementary and its replacement under construction. The Illinois Central Gulf Railroad owns the current site, and soil borings will determine how much land is undermined while the district’s architect coordinates the assessments.
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Ton City
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
Castrale
Washington
Rend Lake College plans campus signs and landscaping
Rend Lake College board of trustees hires SIU Carbondale faculty to design campus signs and landscape plans. A. B. Mifflin to design signs for 500 dollars. John Lonergan to oversee landscaping for 500 dollars plus 8 percent of project value if used. Also hires mining technology instructor Jack Musgrave and approves five new two year study programs pending state approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rend Lake College Board of Trustees
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Rend College
Illinois Community College Board
Illinois Board of Higher Education
A. B. Mifflin
University Graphics
SIUC
John Lonergan
Siu-C
Mifflin
University
Lonergan
Jack Musgrave
Mt. Vernon
Musgrave
Freeman United Coal Mining Co
Raise Drilling Co
Steve Korris
Ilinois Community College Board
Korris
Mt. Vernon Register-News
SIU to House Federal Coal Research Station in Carbondale
The Illinois Division of Energy announced that a federal coal research station will be located at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, with funding of 1.5 million dollars for the first year. The center will conduct field research in Illinois coal fields and focus on extraction, mine safety, land reclamation, and health research, in cooperation with SIUC’s Coal Extraction and Utilization Research Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Bureau of Mines
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Siu-C
Division of Energy
Illinois Dept. of Business and Economic Development
Congressional Conference Committee
Washington, D. C
Dept. of the Interior
Illinois
SIUC
Energy Division
Zoning clash at Southern Illinois Airport prompts land sale offer
Rural property owners near the Carbondale airport press for a hazard zoning ordinance amid plans for runway improvements. Rollin Blythe proposes selling his 140 acre farm deemed useless under new rules, while residents debate the ordinance’s reach and clarity at the DOA hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Arimond
Southern Illinoisand
Southern Illinois Airport
State Division of Aeronautics
DOA
Rollin R. Blythe
Route 7
Carbondale
Blythe
Valjean Smith
Carbondale Welcomes New Doctors Memorial Administrator
George Maroney 32 a St. Louisan will become administrator of Doctors Memorial Hospital Carbondale January 26 replacing retiring Jack Edmundson Maroney a Syracuse native with a master degree from St Louis University and a long St Louis City Hospital background He has served as physician program lecturer and Air Force medical officer with ties to University of Texas Galveston Southern Illinois Hospital Services owns the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louisan
Doctors Hospital
Carbondale
George Maroney
St. Louis City Hospital
Doctors Memorial Hospital
St. Louis
Maroney
Syracuse
N. Y
St. Louis Hospital
Jack B. Edmundson
St. Louis University
le Moyne College
University of Texas Medical Center
Galveston
St. Louis Municipal School
George Air Force Base
California
Southern Illinois Uni
Edmundson
Siamese cat found and lost in Southern Illinois column
Virginia Thomas of Glenview reported her chocolate point Siamese Monkeyface went missing near Carterville after a vacation. Patricia Poindexter and Joanne Schuepfer swapped leads until the cat was reunified. contact Poindexter at 985 4047 or Schuepfer at 549 1926. The column notes a revived interest in circus performances from 1918 Carbondale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Gelman
Illnoisan
Virginia Thomas
Wagner Road
Glenview
Patti Poindexter
Mark St
Carterville
Monkeyface
University Heights
Carbondale
Poin
Karl King remembered in new biography from The Instrumentalist
A new biography of Karl King, long time Fort Dodge Municipal Band director and prolific composer, is published by The Instrumentalist Co. The work by Thomas J. Hatton draws on King's life, including his 1960 massed bands and Barnum and Bailey favorites. Hatton, Fort Dodge native and SIU Carbondale professor, developed the project during sabbatical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Barnum and Bailey and Ringling Brothers
Carbondale
Karl L. King
Iowa
King
Fort Dodge
University of Michigan
Duke
Barnum and Bailey
Woodrow Wilson
Washington, D.C
The
Instrumentalist Co
Evanston
Thomas J. Hatton
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Jim Hatton
Southern Illinoisan
Cincinnati Inquirer
Thomas Hatton
Municipal
Karl King
Hatton
Siu-C
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Santa Claus
Travis
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Judy Feezer
Butch Nevious
Ron Bittle
Bittle
Evrard
Noreen Marcus and
Merrill Perlman
Anna Oks Taxi
Johnston City Board
Rend Lake College
SIU
Jerry Breite
Horner and Shifrin, Inc
Sara Nickell
Murphysboro
Williamson County
Nickell
William Wolff
William Wrarseeste
Murphysro
Doctors Memorial Hospital Is Owned By
Southern Illinois Hospital Services
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