Crain Group drainage plan stalls over sponsor issue
The Crain Community Group in Jackson County seeks annexation to Big Lake Special Drainage District to sponsor a Shawnee RC&D drainage project for 660 acres of farmland. Officials debate who pays local share and how to maintain bridges while weighing two alternative paths if annexation fails.
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Bob Hagen
Crain Community Group
Shawnee Resource Conservation
Crain Group
Murphysboro
Jacob
Big Lake Special Drainage District
Shawnee Rc&d
Jackson County
Drain Group
Drainage District
Alvin Behnken
E. L. Eastman
Don Whistle
Gillooly
James Gillooly
Mississippi River
Boon Pond
Jones Pond
Big Lake
Degognia
Fountain Bluff
Commission's recommendations probe big farm payments
Public interest shifts toward reducing large federal payments to commercial farms under crop programs. The National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty urges limits on payments, cites skewed benefits to big farms, and advocates government purchases of small, inefficient units to consolidate holdings and aid low income farmers.
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Federal Treasury
Commission
Agriculture Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Child's Cry Proves to Be Warranted
In Mexico City Sylvia Sanchez aged 3 woke on New Year's Eve screaming. A small wound appeared and 18 days later doctors removed a .32 caliber bullet. Her parents claim a celebrant fired it into the street outside the bedroom.
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Sylvia Sanchez
Sylvia
Adage Fails as SIU Gray Mare Dwan Attack Foals
Dwan Attack a 24 year old gray mare in Southern Illinois University’s herd has a first colt born January 13 at the SIU Horse Center. Horse herdsman Ronald Carr says evidence suggests this is the mare’s first foal after being long considered barren. The mare was among 29 American Saddle horses donated to SIU in 1963 by Richard Lumkin.
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Dwan Attack
Southern Illinois University
SIU Horse Center
SIU School of Agriculture
Ronald Carr
SIU
Richard Lumkin
Mattoon
Conservation unit to elect three directors
Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District members will elect three directors at their annual meeting held Friday at DeSoto Grade School. A family dinner at 6:30 p.m. costs 1.50 per person. reservations through the Murphysboro Soil Conservation Office or district directors. Landowners register at 6 p.m. with the business meeting starting at 7:30 p.m. Incumbent directors Omer Rodewald Kenneth Shannon and Clarence Beckman term ends this year. Guest speaker is William H. Walker hydrologist with the Illinois State Water Survey.
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Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District
DeSoto
Soil Conservation Office
Murphysboro
Omer Rodewald
Campbell Hill
Kenneth Shannon
Oroville
Clarence Beckman
Jacob
William H. Walker
Illinois State Water Survey
Catfish Industry Program Aims to Aid Southern Illinois Farmers
Federal funding totaling 223000 dollars backs a nine state catfish industry program led by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and EDA. The effort includes research on harvesting processing and marketing and development of gas filleting machinery and new fish products to reduce waste.
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Illinois
Economic Development Administration
EDA
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
Dept. of the Interior
Bureau
Orchardists Hopeful Amid Peach Freeze Damage Report
Jackson and Union county growers remain optimistic about a good peach crop despite sub zero temperatures Jan 6 7. A Southern Illinois University survey finds damage mainly in less hardy varieties while Elberta and Red Haven show little harm. Mowry notes most commercial Illinois peaches survive winter dormancy unless temps drop below ten degrees. Damages vary with land elevation and readings reach nine below at some stations. Centralia and Belleville areas report more bud damage.
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Union
Southern Illinois University
Elberta
Red Haven
Grammer
Murphysboro
McGuire
Carbondale
Mowry
Illinois
Centralia
Belleville
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