Rural fire protection needs state-led rural coverage reform
Jackson County weighs rural fire gaps in Southern Illinois as towns rely on neighboring jurisdictions or city subsidies. Article urges state action to create uniform rural districts, funding, and three digit emergency networks, stressing double taxation concerns and local cooperation.
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Jackson County
Illinois
Pomona
Joe Srence
Murphysboro
Srence
Michael Bowers
Bowers
Mt. Vernon
Perry County
Springfield
Illinois should keep Illinois coal for Powerton plant
Gov James Thompson weighs environmental and economic factors in deciding if Commonwealth Edison may switch Powerton plant near Pekin from Illinois coal to Western coal. He must balance job losses in mining, higher costs to consumers, and effects on Southern Illinois tax revenues against cleaner air requirements and utility reliability.
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James Thompson
Illinois
Commonwealth Edison
Powerton
Pekin
Thompson
ICC
Cost of health care bill threatens American families
The piece argues medical advances outpace payment capacity as families face ruin from hospital, nursing, and treatment costs. It cites kidney dialysis and cancer therapies as examples, urges alternatives to nursing homes, and supports national health insurance funded by modest tax increases to protect households and neighbors.
Letters argue against blanket CIPS rate hike
A Southern Illinoisan reader denounces June 21 reporting on a 25 percent electric rate increase by CIPS. The writer notes many low income, elderly, and disabled customers rely on minimal summer usage and cannot afford higher bills, urging society to protect welfare over corporate profits.
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Southern Illinoisan
CIPS
Hollywoods Changing View of Women in 70s Films
A critical snapshot of how 1970s cinema treats female characters. The piece notes Diane Keaton and Jill Clayburgh roles as bemused by new independence ideas and praises Katherine Hepburn type heroines. It cites Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman as closer to truth than Woody Allen’s approach.
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Horizon
Mr. Goodbar
Annie Hall
Katherine Hepburn
Diane Keatons
Jill Clayburghs
Paul Mazursky
Woody Allen
Mazursky
Vermont
Alan Bates
New York
Southern Illinois and Lindsay-Schaub Newspaper Staff
The article credits John C. Gardner as publisher and William B. Cox Jr. as editor of Southern Illinois and Lindsay-Schaub Newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsay-Schaub
John C. Gardner
William B. Cox Jr
Wedding quotes and playful musings on modern marriage
A Ridgefield AP observer shares reflections on creating personal wedding quotations for a DIY ceremony. The piece nods to poets and writers like Willa Cather Truman Capote Jeremiah and Auden, contrasts traditional rites with changing attitudes, and end on a light note urging calm and affection.
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Hugh A. Mulligan
Princess Anne’s
Canterbury
The
Associated Press
Civil servants save boat course at Little Grassy Lake
The Crab Orchard Flotilla of the U S Coast Guard Auxiliary stepped in when state law restricted youths under 18 from piloting boats. Members Jim Seymour of Carterville and Fred Nixon of Carbondale rearranged schedules to train 24 staff members at Adventist Camp, making the community safer.
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Southern Illinoisan
Little Grassy Lake Adventist Camp
Crab Orchard
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
Jim Seymour
Carterville
Fred Nixon
Carbondale
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