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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1968
Page
7
Carbondale Agency Aims to Declare Conservation Area
Carbondale's urban renewal agency moves to designate a large city area between Wall Street Oakland Street and Grand Avenue to the northern limits as a conservation area. A public hearing will be held and a 15 member committee formed from board nominees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
William Burns
Norman Elkin
Lee J. Shapiro and Associates
Chicago
Five join JCCA board in Murphysboro push
Five new members join the Jackson County Coordinating Agency board. All five are Murphysboro Community Action Committee members Lini Taylor Ella Avant Leota Brown Reverend Willy Mack and Reverend Lyle Sucher from the Murphysboro area. The move fills depleted rolls after about six inactive members were dismissed in October. A recreation program planning committee will be formed and a federal grant for recreation may be pursued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Kenneth J. Gray
West
Frankfort
Central Business District
Burns
Vietnam
Conservation Area Committee
Jackson County Coordinating Agency
JCCA
Ed Adams
Murphysboro
Bert Shemwell
Shemwell
Clara McClure
Adams
Court orders man freed after appellate reversal
Paul Abney, 41, released from Menard State Prison after the Appellate Court of Mt. Vernon reversed his 1962 conviction for being a sexually dangerous person. The case is remanded for a new trial. prosecutors seek psychiatric records before deciding on further action. Abney had served five years for a 1954 molesting conviction, and his 1967 petition was upheld as cured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Menard State
Mt. Vernon
H. L. Zimmerman
Paul Abney
Abney
Robert Neely
Williamson County
Neely
Menard
Zimmerman
Schedule changes mix class periods and meals at Carterville High
High School Principal Ivan Swan proposes seven 55 minute periods and two 35 minute lunches with three minute breaks, replacing six 60 minute periods and a longer lunch. Band and chorus would be scheduled, board to vote next meeting. Carterville district also allocates 26702.27 dollars in federal funds in lieu of taxes from the Fish and Wildlife Dept. Custodians switch to a 42 hour week starting Feb 1. Republican fundraiser set in Milwaukee March 4 to aid 1968 senatorial campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivan Swan
Carterville Unit District Board
Baker
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Dept
Hammond
Hammonds
Carterville
Carbondale
Holst to speak at Marion chamber dinner
Arthur J. Holst of Peoria will address the Marion Chamber of Commerce annual dinner at 6 30 p m Tuesday at the Southern Illinois Golf and Country Club. Holst is Forest Park Foundation administrator, Knox College alumnus, and longtime Peoria community volunteer. New officers will be installed with C Leo Cox as president and Oscar Schafale to present the Man of the Year Award.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur J. Holst
Peoria
Marion Chamber of Commerce
Southern Illinois Golf and Country Club
Holst
Forest Park Foundation of
Galesburg
Knox College
University of Illinois
The
Foundation
Europe
Peoria’s
Peoria Community Chest
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Economic Security Committee
National Football League
L. C. Cavaness
C. Leo Cox
Harry Beneke
J. W. Childers
Gilbert Smart
Oscar Schafale
Misnomer Eskimo Term Highlighted by National Geographic
National Geographic notes that the term Eskimo is a misnomer though northern peoples favor cooked meat. It states they bear an Indian name meaning eater of raw flesh and discusses language and cultural naming differences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic
Police Briefs From Carbondale And Murphysboro
Carbondale reports Eugene Scott fined 15 dollars for speeding. Murphysboro records Elta M. Imhoff fined 20 dollars for a traffic offense. Carbondale notes Lee H. Kasper fined 20 dollars for speeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbondale
Eugene Scott
Murphysboro
Elta M. Imhoff
Lee H. Kasper
Peace Corps tests set for Carbondale office
Placement tests for Peace Corps will be given at 1 30 p.m. Saturday in the Carbondale post office. The exam determines applicants fitness for overseas service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peace Corps
Carbondale
Williamson County Economic report update planned for year
Williamson County Area Economic Development Council steering committee met in Marion to review the 1965 report and set a March 1 deadline to update committee parts. The plan calls for consolidating into one report and deciding on printing a new edition or revising the 145 page document.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamson County
Brown
Robert Carlock
Greater Egypt
Marion man held for theft of copper wire
Earl Nicholson, 50, Marion, was jailed in Williamson County on a theft charge after about $100 worth of copper wire disappeared from a bridge site at Nielsen Crossing on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. Police observed the wire in Nicholson’s car rear and he was arrested after the report on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Nicholson
Marion
Williamson County
Sbridge
Nielson Crossing
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Nicholson
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North Carolina
Urban Renewal Agency
Elkin
Northeast
Jackson County Housing Authority
Eldon Gosnell
Southeast
Jcca Board
Centralia
Midwest
Molded Fiber Glass Co
Sen. Dirksen
Madison, Wis
Senate
Everett Dirksen
Milwaukee
Ody Fish
Lowell Ledford
Illinois Public Aid Commission
Delbert Magers
Harrisburg
Farmers Home Administration
Julius Steinmarch
Herrin
County Housing Authority
Victor Smith
University of Illinois Extension Service
Robert Nelson
Federal Forester
Velma Burns
Extension Service
Allen McCabe
Harry Deck
Steinmarch
Economic Development Administration
Smith
McCabe
Victor Reback
Allen Industries
Richard Darby
John Leslie Golliher
John L. Golliher
Rt. 1
U.S
Golliher
Ft. Hood
Texas
Rhodes-Burford
North
Illinois
Atk
Eaton & Brown Television
S. Illinois
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