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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1972
Page
2
The Carbondale Lions organize a glasses drive sending 4500 used pairs to aid vision needs. Dr Wayman Presley sent over 1500 glasses and seeks more donations for Pres- Club and other recipients. Robert Presley was a donor mentioned in the report.
The Ag Department will resume buying ground meat for four months of the 1972-73 school year. Officials plan to issue bids next July to federally inspected packers and processors, with shipments across state lines and compliance with the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958. Bids must be in units of 38,500 pounds.
ColorTV and efforts to help Gary Stidd bring him home for the holidays. A hospital fund at Bank of Herrin helps cover 20 percent of medical costs after Jan 8 1968. Stidd has spent about three years in hospitals with surgeries totaling about 150000 dollars and a nonhealing skin issue. A circa electric bed and a wheelchair are part of the assistance, but he remains unable to return home fully. He intends to hunt and fish from his wheelchair.
A man was released on a $1000 cash bond Thursday in circuit court in Marion on possession charges. He was arrested the prior night in Carterville by agents from the Williamson County sheriff's office Illinois Bureau of University security police and state police. They confiscated five pounds.
Carbondale police report counterfeit twenty dollar bills in circulation in the city. Eight bills noted with authentic bill features resembling Kilquist. The F-series counterfeit bills are printed in Atlanta and the E-series in Richmond, Virginia.
Two armed men robbed the Re New Auto Center in Mardale Shopping Center Carbondale Thursday night taking about 800 dollars in cash and coins. Police described the suspects as one with an afro hair style and thick sideburns about 5 foot 11 inches wearing a blue denim jacket and dark clothing.
SIU Vocational Technical Institute launches Jail Administration for Law Enforcement and a Seminar in Rural Non-Metropolitan Policing taught by Robert Alexander. Courses run 6 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the VTI Campus near Carterville, each granting four university quarter hours. Registration closes Friday January 5.
A Florida first grader narrowly avoids a close encounter with a chimpanzee near a residential area in Boca Raton, prompting warnings from local authorities.
EPA study of 2000 cars finds air conditioning and heavier cars, not emission controls, cut fuel economy. Emission controls add about 7 percent fuel use. air conditioning and heat increase consumption 4 to 9 percent to over 20 percent on hot days. Weight gain lowers mileage by about 14 percent per 1000 pounds further reducing fuel economy by roughly 30 percent.
Joel W. Jennings of Metropolis has been elected chairman of the advisory council for the Southern Illinois Health Manpower Consortium. The education dean at Shawnee College Ullin will lead monthly meetings and coordinate cooperative health education programs across hospitals nursing homes and schools in eight southern Illinois junior colleges and SIU Carbondale. The consortium is funded by part of a $67 035 federal grant through the Bi State Regional Medical Program in St Louis Missouri.
The Southern Illinoisan publishes daily except Saturdays and holidays from its Illinois locations in Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro and Carbondale. It notes its succession from the Carbondale Free Press Herrin Daily Journal and Murphysboro Independent as their predecessor newspapers.
The article outlines common medical guidance for patients experiencing pain. It notes that doctors may suggest a range of options from nonprescription pain relievers to prescription medications and non drug therapies, depending on the pain source and patient health.
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