Training Shortage of Doctors Harms Southern Illinois Area
A Southern Illinois University study reports 31 counties with 1,054,996 residents have only 731 of Illinois 22,677 licensed physicians. Wakeley notes 21 doctors are inactive, lifting the active ratio to 1,507 people per doctor and urging rapid physician training to avert public health risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Gelman
Urigisan
Ilnois
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois
SIU
Raymond W. Wakeley
Ce, Lively
Bert J. Kellerman
Winois
Ilinois
SIU Area Services Division
Illinois
Natonal
Iuinois
War Manpower Commission
Illnois
Wakeley
Cook County
Peoria County
Richland
Jackson Jackson County
Williamson County
Johnson
Johnson County
Pulaski County
Perry
Franklin
Union
Randolph
Five Injured In Collision Near Ware
On Christmas morning a three vehicle crash on Rt 4 a mile south of Ware injured five, one seriously. Drivers were Nola Vogt 39 Kansas City Mo Lula B Gayfield 40 East St. Louis and Gene A Rencher 20 East St. Louis. Obie Rencher 44 and James B Rencher 7 also present. James Rencher serious, Obie Rencher fair. Vogt and two passengers Clarence Osborne 42 and Annie Osborne 38 Kansas City Mo treated for injuries.
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Ware
Nola Vogt
Kansas City
Lula B. Gayfield
Gene A. Rencher
East St. Louis
Gayfield
Rencher
Obie Rencher
James B. Rencher
Vogt
James Rencher
Union County Hospital
Miss Vogt
Clarence Osborne
Annie Osborne
Kansas City, Mo
Final Tax Distribution Checks Issued in Jackson County
Jackson County sent final 1964 tax distribution checks totaling 1.5 million to tax supported agencies. Treasurer Raymond Mileur reported the total 1964 tax funds disbursed reached 4,207,046 with delays blamed on late electronic tax machine billing and postponed payments. Agencies including Carbondale Grade School District 95 protested the timing while several districts issued warrants to cover interim needs.
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Jackson County
Raymond Mileur
Mileur
Board of Education of
Carbondale
Herrin Judges To Hear Cases In Traffic Court
Olen Ballard and Earl May will sit in Williamson County traffic court in Marion Monday to gain experience. Circuit Court Presiding Judge John Clayton cited supervision by Associate Judge Stewart Cluster and said sessions will resume weekly in Herrin City Hall starting January. May serves as a circuit court magistrate and Ballard as a former justice of the peace and police magistrate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olen Ballard
Earl May
Herrin
Williamson County
Marion
John Clayton
Ballard
May
Clayton
Stewart Cluster
Herrinn
Cluster
Olive Branch Man Killed In Rt 127 Collision
An Olive Branch man died in a Christmas Eve crash on Route 127 south of Jonesboro. Welter Russell Lipe Sr. 44 was killed at 2 50 pm near Elea. His wife Laverne Gertrude and son Walter Russell Lipe Jr. 11 were in fair condition at Union County Hospital in Anna. The truck driver Richard Ray Irvin 34 of Dennison Texas was treated and released. passenger Jay Jentry 42 of Ashdown Ark. was in fair condition. A second crash on Old Route 18 near Carbondale injured Porter and Holder with minor injuries to Holder. Police cited John H. Jerdon 37 Cahokia for following too closely after a stop sign incident at Marion and Main. A separate parking lot collision involving Raymond A. Fox and Donald B. Claunch produced no tickets.
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Rt. 127
Jonesboro
Welter Russell Lipe Sr
Elea
Lipe
Laverne Gertrude
Walter Russell Lipe Jr
Union County Hospital
Anna
Richard Ray Irvin
Dennison
Tex
Irvin
Jay Jentry
Ashdown
Ark
Roscoe Holdler
Makanda
Sylvester L. Porter
Murphysboro
Old Rt
Carbondale
Porter
Holder
Donald B. Claunch
St. Louis
Marion Water Project Nears Completion at 99 Percent
Mayor Robert Butler reports Marion’s million dollar water works upgrade is 99 percent complete. Oil and chip streets torn up during construction remain, with half repaired before winter and the rest expected in about three days. Contractor E A Sullivan seeks a late spring extension from the Housing and Home Finance Agency. A 590,000 gallon storage tower is in use, with pressure rising from 28 to 73 psi once full.
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Marion
Robert Butler
Butler
E. A. Sulivan
Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency
Sulivan
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Health Department
Civil Defense
Kinkaid Lake
Vergennes
Bradley Township
Ava
Campbell Hill
City of
de Soto Township
de Soto
Degognia ‘Township
Sand Ridge
Gorham
Pomona
Grand Tower
Degognia
Ft. Bluff
Big Lake
Jones Pond
Boone's Pond
Ronald G. Alfig
Greenview
Morris Library
Southern Ilinais University
Alfig
Olive Branch
Herrin Hospital
Corzily
Rocky Layne Carpenter
Virgil Carpenter
Royalton
Maggie Robertson
Lambda Delta Chapter
Delta Theta Tau Sorority
Marion Water Project
Paul Powell
Rt. 13
Crab Orchard Lake Road
Robert Naylor
Christopher
Eugene Naylor
Buckner
Doctors Hospital
Naylor
Aussia Catlett, 3
Catlett
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