SIU Educators Guide Students to Use Leisure Time
SIU Carbondale researchers Douglas McEwen and Beverly Wickersham lead the Leisure Exploration Program to help students map and enjoy leisure opportunities as a growing share of waking hours. The initiative, funded by Student Life, offers a 35 page guide, personal guidance, and follow through to connect learners with cultural sports and religious activities in Southern Illinois.
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Henry de Fiebre
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Douglas N. McEwen
McEwen
Beverly M. Wickersham
Siu-C
Stu
Siuc
Illinois
T-40
Morris Library
Fred Hoover Carterville helper known funeral director
Fred Hoover of Carterville, 80, spent 50 years as a funeral director, retiring in 1974 after a hip fracture. He stayed active at Riggin-Piliatsch Funeral Home and earlier worked 35 years at Hill Funeral Home. Known for helping neighbors, he has long tended his garden and flowers while assisting townspeople in need.
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Merrill Perlman
Southern Illinoisan
Fred Hoover
Carterville
Hoover
Riggin-Piliatsch
the Hill Funeral Home
Wolf Creek
Fannie
Richard Hall
Retired miners in Southern Illinois receive January pension checks
About 2,700 retired Southern Illinois coal miners are mailed January pension checks despite a nearly empty 1950 pension trust. Funds rely on coal royalties and threaten February payments if no coal is produced in the strike's continuation.
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Southern Illinois
United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds
Pension Trust
UMW
Farmers seek parity law as Bergland meet planned
Anna Meneese of Illinois says striking farmers want 100 percent parity written into law and direct representation to inform Congress. AAM delegates discuss price supports, parity formulas, and trade controls as they prepare for Friday talks with U S Agriculture Secretary Bergland in Omaha.
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Joseph Arimond
Southern
Bergland
Meneese
Congress
AAM
Illinois
James Thompson
John Block
Illinois Department of Agriculture
Richard Sterling
Block
Sterling
President Carter
United Staes
Parity aims explained by Illinois farmers and costs gap
Farmers seek parity to align farm revenues with costs. From 1910 to 1914 base, last adjusted in 1967. Illinois costs rose faster than crop prices. corn often sold below parity, while soybeans and some livestock offered relief. Farmers store crops hoping for higher spring prices as supplies shrink.
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Sen
Illinois
Pinckneyville
Automatic door kills 17 month old in Chicago garage
An automatic garage door closed unexpectedly in a Chicago home, crushing the neck of 17 month old Carolyn Burke and killing her. The child, daughter of local auto dealer Jerome Burke, was with two older brothers and a neighbor when the door began to lower, triggered by a malfunction or child action. A babysitter watched the kids while the parents were away skiing in Aspen.
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Chicago
Carolyn Burke
South Side
Carolyn
Jerome Burke
Aspen
Colo
City National plans expansion after half block purchase in Murphysboro
City National Bank of Murphysboro bought western half of the 1200 block Walnut Street for about 92000 with no immediate use. The trio of properties includes former Bowers Hardware and Gibson store buildings, Christian Science Church reading room, Berkbeigler Jewelry, and Dixie Donut shop. Other half of the block remains with Murphysboro Printing Co and a former city hall parking area.
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The
City National Bank of
Murphysboro
Central Business District
Bank
Raymond Burroughs
Walnut St
Walnut
Burroughs
Bowers Hardware
Gibson Discount
Christian Science Church
Berkbeigler Jewelry
Dixie Cream Donut
Daniel Grocer Co
Leon C
Beulah
Gilbert Ebersohl
Murphysboro Prcenting Co
James Robinson
Phase-two federal building contract eyed for Carbondale
The U S General Services Administration prepares to award the second phase of Carbondale's 2.2 million federal building on South University Avenue. Bids from G L Tarlton Construction Co Wil Freds Inc and J L Simmons Co are under review in Chicago. The 35000 square foot site will feature solar collectors on the roof to heat water and power an air system. First office buildings in the Midwest to use solar energy.
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Carbondale
South University Avenue
Kirk Kekatos
U.S. General Services Administration
G. L. Tarlton Construction Co
St. Louis
Wil Freds Inc
Aurora
J. L. Simmons Co
Decatur
GSA
Chicago
Federal
Elm and
Cherry Streets
Midwest
Kekatos
Lee to Join Williamson County Detective Unit
Ronald Lee aged 46 of 100 Kane Drive Herrin has been named temporarily to the Williamson County detective unit replacing Jerald Kobler of Marion who resigned to run in the March 21 Republican sheriff primary. Lee once worked as an IRS investigator and will take merit board exams with other applicants for permanent appointment.
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Ronald Lee
Kane Drive
Herrin
Williamson County
Lee
Jerald Kobler
Marion
Federal Internal Revenue Service
Kobler
Southern Illinois health plan readied for five year outlay
Comprehensive Health Planning in Southern Illinois Inc. aims to guide area health care for 1983 and beyond across 30 counties. The five year plan calls for more doctors, expanded screening, long term care beds, women and children’s services, education, and transportation with funding to come from state and federal sources. The CHPSI board debates adoption at 6 30 p.m. January 19 at the Mt Vernon Ramada Inn in Carbondale area.
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Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois Inc
Chpsi Board of Directors
Mt. Vernon Ramada Inn
CHPSI
Illinois
Randolph
Perry
Franklin
Williamson
Union
Southern
Cullinane
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Ing
Canada
Meneesse
United States
City National
By Tony Stevens
Chapman-Rollo Furniture
Gibson
Alice Bowers
Detective
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