Travelers warned as roads close in state areas
Travelers heading north from Southern Illinois faced expected bad weather with portions of five interstate highways closed to traffic. In Southern Illinois the transportation freeze was thawing but progress was slow and cautious.
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Karen Rothe
Illinois Department of Transportation
Illinois
Southern Illinois
Williamson County
Chicago
O’hare Field
Amtrak
Gulf Transport
Pontiac
Joliet
Mattoon
Effingham
Indiana Line
Bloomington
Farmer’s City
Morton
Kentucky
Ron Hardwig
Hardwig
Illinois 1
Illinois 145
Jackson
Williamson
Franklin
Union Counties
Union County
Tom Gilchrist
Seed catalogs spur Illinois gardeners planning spring plots
Joe Garner surveys Southern Illinois garden planning as seed catalogs arrive signaling imminent spring. Extension advisers urge early seed orders, disease resistant varieties, and bulk seed purchases to save money. Officials report moisture in soil, wind down from winter, and advise testing soil after it dries before planting.
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Joe Garner
The
Southern Illinois
Wetherell
Gardner
Frank
Illinois
J. C. Dillinger
Dillinger
Carbondale
George Koenig
Koenig
Murphysboro
Snowbound in De Soto Pilot Weathered Blizzard
Randy Grant, a pilot for Air Illinois, endured a blizzard in Southern Illinois. He struggled to climb a snowed in hill near his De Soto home, was aided by four four wheel drive trucks, and faced a burst water pipe after returning. The weather kept him grounded from a Chicago flight, amplifying his preference to fly.
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Merrill Perlman
Southern Illinoisan
Randy Grant
Grant
Citizens Band
Southern Illinois
Chicago
Herrin Merchants Seek Snow Removal Plan for Downtown
Herrin merchants formed a committee under the Chamber of Commerce to develop a snow clearing plan for downtown. They urge funding for removal equipment or a merchant-financed snow fund as 1978 budgets approach. Parking lots were cleared late after a 16 inch snowfall, hurting sales and tax receipts amid ongoing winter storms.
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Barbara Schechter
Herrin
Herrin Chamber of Commerce
Harvard Sohn
Herrin Merchants Association
Sohn
Leon Zwick
Zwick
Chamber
James Walker
Carbondale cabs return to 24 hour service
The Yellow Cab Co in Carbondale resumes 24 hour service after a two day weather shutdown last week. Manager Ed James says residents were unaware the service was back to 24 hours and has received many complaints.
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Carbondale
Yellow Cab Co
Ed James
SIU urged to revamp or scrap English PhD program
A three-member panel to SIU Carbondale recommends abolishing or drastically restructuring the English PhD to stress practical writing and language studies. They note the program trains few hires for jobs, with 23 students last fall, and urge shifting from literary history toward rhetoric, language, critical theory, and college writing instruction.
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Ture
SIUC
Frank E. Horton
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Perry County
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Siu
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Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
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George Worth
University of Kansas
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State University of New York At Albany
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