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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1972
Page
10
Gov Richard B Ogilvie oversees 83 896 state jobs while paying patronage costs totaling 966 936 annually. He keeps 32 Republican county chairmen on his payroll as he appoints field inspectors in the Agriculture Department and Michael J Bakalis heads the public schools appointed after polls.
A Dallas federal records reveal shifting payroll share from about 40 percent to 3 percent as officials defend patronage in state hiring amid a sweeping purge. The governor’s office faced questions over patronage as three Republican county chairs and other workers were classified under personnel codes, while shredded documents outside Ogilvie’s patronage office underscored the scale of the system. Three Democrats ousted from the secretary of state’s office join a suit aiming to strip 1,900 Republican workers of personnel status.
Earline Clark aged 34 was found guilty in November on a charge related to a 3 year old boy suffocated in an icebox she left in her yard. A circuit court judge gave two years probation and said he would erase her record if she located and reported at least 10 illegally abandoned refrigerators.
Five armed men who fled a Chattanooga robbery with three hostages surrendered early today in Georgia. One suspect identified as Felix Bernard 21 released after a police stop near U.S. 41 about 35 miles north of Atlanta. The others surrendered once their car was towed to Fulton County jail with hostages still inside.
In 1971 campaign tourWalker visits Pecatonica meeting Leo Kraut and others. He recalls hospitality of small towns and notes a local man questioned his honesty, a test Walker says each person must answer themselves. Roberta Walker joins the stop amid about 150 residents.
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