Late tax bills may cost Jackson County up to 90000
Jackson County may lose 40000 to 99600 in potential interest income this year due to late tax bills. Treasurer Shirley Booker says five months elapse before mailing left little to invest, with estimated losses debated by Doug Eriksen and others.
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Jackson County
Jackson
Shirley Booker
Booker
Interet
Doug Eriksen
Republican County Board
Eriksen
Sou
William
Bill” Kelley
Finance Committee
Shirley
Kelley
Louise Wolfe
Democratic Board
Anoter
Russell Marshall
Wolfe
Marshall
Ious
Retired Benton City Clerk Keeps Busy at 68
Otto Biggs age 68 sought the Benton city clerk post at 59 to sit, now works 8 to 5 and enjoys gardening, canning, and building. His nine years as clerk include handling information requests and citizen questions, while he jokes he's a sexy senior citizen and shows a large poetry past.
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Benton
Merril Perlman
Thompsonville
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Canada
North
South Dakota
Kroger
Biggs
Congressional Record
N. 8Th St
Liquor stores brace for metric bottle rollout
A shift to metric bottle sizes rolls out in liquor stores with six new volumes from miniature to party size. The change, voluntary now and mandatory by 1980, affects Jim Beam and other brands, with comparably sized metric equivalents replacing quarts and pints.
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Joe Garner
Charles W. Bryant
Distilled Spirits Council of the
United States
Rick Broznow
Ski
Eastgate Liquor Martin “Arbondale
Distilled Spirits Council
Hollywood Cowboy
Long Branch
Walgreen’s Liquors
Carbondale
Pat Monroe
Eastgate Liquor Mart
Broznowski
St. Louis
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Metric Shift Grows Across Schools and Industry
In Carbondale District 95 and SIUC efforts push metric usage through teaching kits and programs. Teachers, professors, and industry leaders cite federal funding limits while firms like General Motors adopt dual speedometers and metric tooling for future models.
Inmate stabbed to death at Marion Federal Prison
A 28 year old inmate, Ralph R. Cunningham of Washington, D. C., was fatally stabbed Christmas Eve at Marion Federal Penitentiary. The assailant was another inmate. FBI investigation launched. Cunningham had a 23 year sentence for bank robbery related offenses and related assaults.
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Marion
J. D. Riggsby
Ralph R. Cunningham
Washington, D.C
FBI
Cunningham
State police promote Athmer to sergeant in Springfield
Arthur F. Athmer 47 of Chester received promotion to sergeant at state police headquarters in Springfield. The 21 year veteran has served in District 13 at Du Quoin and will oversee shift management and personnel scheduling in his new role.
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Illinoistate
Arthur F. Athmer
Chester
Springfield
Sgt
Athmer
District 13
du Quoin
Johnston City to review Washington Elementary plans January
Johnston City officials and the Illinois Capital Development Board will meet January 12 for a final review of construction plans for a new Washington Elementary School. The delay reflects state administration changes but officials expect bidding to start if plans gain approval. The district has a 1.3 million CDB grant and 550 thousand local bond funds, and has filed a 2 million damage suit over 1974 construction after subsidence reoccurred.
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Johnston City
Illinois Capital Development Board
CDB
Washington
Remo Castrale
Daniel Walker
James Thompson
Don Norwood
Norwood
Johnston City Unit 1
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Congress
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Robert Mees
Lakeland Elementary School
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District 95
Conrad Paige
SIUC
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Honeywell
International Business Machines
Rockwell International
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Barbados
Burma
Ghana
Liberia
Muscat
Oman
Nauru
Sierra Leone
Yemen
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Ball Corp
Muncie
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Joseph Karshner
Warren, Mich
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Ben Gelman
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