Convention center saved from snag at Carbondale
U.S. Rep. Paul Simon announced the Carbondale downtown convention center project will proceed after a late reversal by federal officials. The $20 million effort, aided by UDAG funds and a 4 percent hotel tax, is expected to create 250 direct jobs and 250 spin offs, with completion required by December 31, 1984.
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Tom Woolf
Southern
Chicago
Farmer’s Home Administration
Simon
John Block
Fmha
Charles Schumann
Illinois
Creal Springs
Southrn Illinois
Hoye
Stan Hoye
Fischer
Illinois Ozarks
Mt. St. Helens
Fry
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
UDAG
Convention Center
CCHS puts $8 million bond before voters in March
Carbondale High School District 165 board votes 7 0 to place an $8 million bond issue on the March 16 ballot. The district plans new East Campus structures and moves Central Campus and Vocational School to East Campus. The board also backs forming a Carbondale Citizen Planning Committee to provide public information ahead of the election.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale High School District 165
Robert Brewer
Carbondale
Brewer
District 165
Barbara Bennett
Hans Fischer
The
Larry Young
Reid Martin
Martin
Infant dies as trailer fire kills 5 month old sister
A rural Marion trailer fire fatally injured 5 month old Susan Ann Goins and left her 22 year old brother Daniel Lee Goins injured. Neighbors Gerald Bailey and Jack Shaner rescued the boy from smoke while Rebecca Goins returned from a neighbor's trailer to find flames engulfing their home. The fire began around 12 40 p m when a pan of hot grease overturned on a stove and the home was a total loss.
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Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinois
Marion
Williamson County
James Wilson
Ted
Rebecca Goins
Susan Ann Goins
Daniel Lee
Rebecca
Goins
James Earl
Gerald Bailey
Jack Shaner
Susan
Wilson
Shaner
Bailey
Ted Goins
South Market Street Road
Anthony Rinella
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Marion man dies from exposure in pickup truck
Royce Wayne Harris, 42, of Route 3 Marion, an independent heating, air conditioning and plumbing contractor, was found dead Thursday morning in his pickup truck. Authorities suspected exposure as the cause. The body was discovered shortly after 10 a.m. by a man.
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Marion
Royce Wayne Harris
Route 3
Harris
Williamson County
James Wilson
Wilson
Mr. Harris
Gilbert and
Mary Throgmorton Harris
Dorothy Stone
Weather and obituary notes from Marion area
National Weather Service expects clear cold tonight and a sunny Saturday with highs in the 20s. Sunday to Tuesday show warmer 30s days with 20s nights. The report also details the death of James Harris of Marion with autopsy planned, a Marion birth in 1939, and survivors. Funeral at Mitchell-Hughes & Lemasters on Sunday 2 p.m. Burial Maplewood Cemetery.
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National Weather Service
Steven Wayne Harris
Texas
Jerry Dale Harris
Marion
Destiny Dawn Harris
Kathryn Smith
Pam Cordiss
Vickie Hinkins
Joe Ellen Throgmorton
Henry
Paula Throgmorton
Orient
Sandy Schoonhower
Herrin
Jim Spitzner
Centralia
Jerry Chamness
Mitchell-Hughes & Lemasters
Maplewood Cemetery
Numbing cold lingers in Carbondale area
The morning found Carbondale in frigid conditions with a reported 5:39 a.m. temperature of 2 degrees and 8:30 a.m. readings near 3 degrees. Wind at 10 mph drove wind chill to minus 20 though no precipitation was forecast. Temperatures are expected to rise to the low 20s by the weekend.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinoisan
Johnny Carson
Steve
Piltz
Carbondale
Emergency Services and Disaster Agency
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IBM
America
Walnut Street
John McCutchen
CCHS
Carol McDermott
Daniel Lee Goins
Harris Home Service Co
Ann Landers
Bell
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