Steeleville approves sewer line ordinance and fee hikes
Steeleville Village Board approves an ordinance banning discharge into storm sewers and prohibiting storm drains into sanitary lines. Board also approves a 75 cent monthly increase for refuse collection to 4.75 dollars, with various revenue sharing allocations and a July 27 hearing on the appropriations ordinance.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinoisan
Steeleville
Ron Nitzsche
Darlene Wolters
Christopher fire station plans face fund crunch
Christopher city council debated a proposed new fire station amid unresolved finances including 13 022 dollars in back social security and IMRF payments and unpaid taxes. Fire Chief Ramon Bione urged proceeding despite funds issues and plans for a mixed use building with a fire station were shown without cost estimates.
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Theresa Churchill
Southern Illinoisan
Christopher
Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
Ramon Bione
Charles Burnam
Max Heinzman
Margaret Matyi
Jeff Troutt
Randolph Nursing Home to raise patient fees in Sparta
Randolph County Board of Commissioners approved a new fee schedule to fund a recently approved pay raise for all nursing home staff. Intermediate care will rise to 740 dollars monthly, skilled care to 760, and Medicare extended care to 820. Nursing care points costs increase accordingly.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinoisan
Randolph County
Sparta
Randolph County Board of Commissioners
Chester
Medicare
Southern Illinoisan subscription and office contact details
This notice lists circulation options with monthly and yearly rates for the Southern Illinoisan, details carrier and mail options, and lists office contact numbers in Carbondale Murphysboro Herrin and Marion plus classified ads lines and postmaster address.
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Southern Illinoisan
USPS
N. Illinois
Carbondale
N. 16Th
Herrin
S. 12Th
Murphysboro
Ill
Illinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Marion
Hearing on Conrail abandonment delayed
An Interstate Commerce Commission field hearing on Conrail's Cairo to Lawrenceville line has been postponed to July 14. The session, moved from today, will convene at 9:30 a.m. in Harrisburg City Hall. Conrail seeks to abandon 143 miles of track in Southern Illinois due to ongoing losses.
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Harrisburg
Interstate Commerce Commission
Conrail
Paul Simon
D-Ill
Harrisburg City Hall
Dave Karl
Southern
Illinois
Zeigler Council Sets Wednesday Session on Dispatch Center
Zeigler City Council, with only three members present, scheduled a 9 a.m. Wednesday meeting to discuss joining a planned central police and fire dispatch center in Christopher. Christopher and Lesser have agreed to participate. Zeigler has not finalized. Facilities are ready in Christopher and nine applicants seek five dispatching positions.
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Zeigler
Christopher
Lesser
June Wholesales Push Inflation Up To 6.9 Percent
The Labor Department reports a 0.6 percent rise in the wholesale price index for June and an annual inflation rate of 6.9 percent at the wholesale level. Food prices rose 0.5 percent with beef and veal surging 2.4 percent, while energy goods edged up 0.2 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Cobden to receive 752700 grant for sewer plant
Cobden will obtain a 752700 US EPA grant to build a new sewage treatment plant. Bids will be issued soon with construction possible by year end, but the grant may be the last Illinois communities see amid a Reagan administration EPA funding freeze. The village will share 25 percent of the 1 million project cost.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinoisan
Cobden
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Patrick Brumleve
Brumleve
Jorge Patino
Illinois Epa
Springfield
Paul Simon
Paul Morrill
Illinois
Ronald Reagan
Congress
Morrill
Brumiere
Jonesboro council defers Ward 2 alderman seat
Jonesboro City Council, one member short, defers filling Ward 2 vacancy until 1983 city elections. Mayor Gardner urged replacement. Ward 1 and Ward 3 members oppose filling now, while Ward 2 supporters push for equal representation. Council approves 7 percent city employee raise and allocates 8000 for street work by Union County Highway Department.
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H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinoisan
Jonesboro
John L. Gardner
Homer Elkins
Everett Morgan
Bruce Bauer
William Ecker, Jr
Gardner
William Rowan, Jr
Jimmie Watkins
Rowan
Council
Union County Highway Department
Blair announces for Republican treasurer post
Former Illinois House speaker W. Robert Blair declared his bid for the 1982 Republican nomination for state treasurer. Blair, 50, chose the treasurer race to avoid contests against Gov. James R. Thompson appointees and asked Thompson not to interfere. He announced in six cities and was endorsed by State Reps. Robert Winchester and C. L. McCormick.
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Associated Press
Robert Blair
Illinois
Blair
James R. Thompson
Thompson
Marion
John Castle
Peoria
John Dailey
Robert Winchester
R-Rosiclaire
C.L. McCormick
Vienna
Bob Winchester
Springfield
Marion Man Cited After Patrol Car Collision
A Marion man 58 was cited for failure to yield after his vehicle collided with a Williamson County sheriff’s patrol car responding to an emergency. No injuries were reported at 12 05 a.m. Buckner’s car struck the patrol car’s left front fender on Yale Avenue near Illinois 13. Both vehicles had minor damage and a malfunctioning traffic light at the intersection was noted.
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Marion
Williamson County Sheriff's Department
Douglas Buckner
Buchanan St
Yale Avenue
Illinois 13
Sheriff’s
Frank Messick
Meehan trial opens in Jackson County over Cairo husband shooting
Constance Meehan, 44, stands trial in Jackson County for attempted murder and aggravated battery in the Dec 18 1980 shooting of her husband Cairo attorney William Meehan. Prosecutors say he saw his wife leaving the room after the shooting and that she later paid a $3000 life insurance premium. Defense contends investigators hid evidence and Meehan’s identification varied over time. Jurors were selected Monday.
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Ry Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinoisan
Cairo
Jackson County
Constance Meehan
William
Meehan
Alexander County
Johnson County
Cese Lewis Wingate
Michael O’shea
Wingate
Lewis
Carbondale Ramada Inn
John DeRose
DeRose
Connie
Gusher at Wabash County well in Southern Illinois
A new oil well northwest of Mount Carmel in Wabash County is described as a gusher. Engineers Small and Higgins Inc. reported steady oil flow after perforation last week, with the well drilled to 3602 feet through the Salem formation 500 feet below prior limits. Earlier wells in the area include a 1953 discovery at 2800 feet.
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Gards Point
Ill
Wabash County
Jack Small
Small and Higgins Inc
Mount Carmel
Illinois
Small
Salem
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Randy Redding
William Morgan
Phillip D. Hampton
Trout
Terry Hopkins
Candace Cross
Water Department
Central Illinois Public Service
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Christopher Concrete
S. Victor St
Randolph Nursing Home
Zeigler Council
Dept of Labor
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