Carbondale and Southern Illinois Calendar Highlights
Carbondale City Council meets 7 30 p m in city hall. Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative annual meeting 7 p m Tuesday at Dongola. Carbondale elementary school board meets 7 30 p m Tuesday at Lincoln Junior High to receive advisory committee report on school integration. Mariott City Council 7 30 p m Monday in city hall. Anna Drive-In and Fox Marion showings list titles and times. Public meetings include Murphysboro Water and Sewage Commission 7 30 p m Wednesday and SIU Summer Music Theater performances Thursday and Friday. SIU Theater events and economic development conference noted. End with local film listings at Anna Drive-In and Carbondale Fox.
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Southern
Illinois Electric Cooperative
Dongola
Carbondale
Lincoln
Mariot
City Hall
Southern [Illinois University
Muckelroy
Agriculture Building
SIU
University Center Information Desk
Communications Build&g
Herrin Senior Citizens
14Th St
Southern Illinois Economic Development Conference
Southern Illinois Golf and Country Club
Marion
Marion officials set August meeting on hold the line tax talks
Marion leaders from the city and four taxing bodies meet with Mayor Robert L. Butler on August 7 at 7 30 p m in city hall to discuss avoiding next year s tax increase The group includes the Marion Unit Two School District Marion Park District Williamson County Board of Commissioners and John A Logan College Board of Trustees Butler urges taxpayer input and notes cautious spending by boards last year s levy fell four percent and the recent appropriation was 119 000 lower than the prior one
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Marion
Robert L. Butler
Butler
Marion Unit
Marion Park District
Williamson County Board of Commisssioners
John A. Logan College Board of Trustees
Choate
John Gilbert
Carbondale
Jackson County
Glenn Schlimpert
Schlimpert
Johnston City approves 314655 budget for fiscal year
Johnston City Council adopted a 314,655 dollar appropriations ordinance for the new fiscal year starting in May an increase of 10,799 from last year. Funds cover water sewer parking payroll liquor license light police fire street lakeview cemetery jail city hall and more with other purposes including library maintenance and civil defense. The council also approved a .22 caliber firing range at Woodmen lodge to be used by Woodmen and guests under NRA standards with an adult instructor present. Mayor Jesse Carter urged strict enforcement of curfew laws due to youth trouble reports.
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Johnston
Water Department
City Lakeview Cemetery
Woodmen of the World Lodge
National Rifle Association
Woodmen
Illinois
Jesse Carter
Johnston City
Tim Kirkpatrick
Interest council folds in Jackson County
Plans to form a Jackson County Resource Development Council were dropped after Monday night’s organizational meeting. Ten attendees discussed county problems and decided not to pursue further steps due to lack of interest. The group aimed to link Jackson County with the Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission and coordinate county efforts on human, economic, and natural resources.
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Jackson County
British editor warns England faces press freedom erosion
David Greenslade, head of the British Guild of Newspaper Editors, told SIU journalism students that freedom of the press in England is eroding under Parliament limits and trial reporting laws. He cited the British Criminal Justice Act and extended restrictions on agency reporting as threats to independent journalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Stafford
Southern Illinoisan
England
Southern [Illinois University
David R. W. Greenslade
British Guild of Newspaper Editors
Carbondale
University Center
Greenslade
Mansfield
Chronicle Advertiser
SIU
Istead
United States
U. S
Olation
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Bryce Rucker
Herrin council weighs water line extension and annexation
Herrin officials debated a proposed 700 ft six inch water line to serve a 20 acre Bruce subdivision southeast of the city with 23 homes planned. Lipe estimated $3,500 for the line plus hydrant costs. Bruce aimed to annex the area once extended. No action was taken.
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Herrin
Larry Lipe
Winyard-Givenrod Associates
Carl Bruce
Bruce
Energy Village
Charles Walker
Walker
Energy
Rend Lake
Henderson
Water and Sewer Department
Jack McCarty
Clark Trail
McCarty
Sipe
Mike Miriani
EDA
Duluth, Minn
Norge
Todd Receives Service Award at Carbondale Day Camp
Everett Todd, principal of Springmore School in Carbondale, was honored by about 300 children at Evergreen Park during a day camp recognition. He received a plaque and songs and poems praised his 15 years as day camp director, with a watermelon feast marking the event before his planned retirement after this year's camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Todd
Springmore School
Carbondale
Evergreen Park
Carbondale Park
Park District
Betty Mileur
Will
Kinkaid Lake Conservation Talks Planned
Kinkaid Lake area talks involve the Kinkaid Lake Reed's Creek Conservancy District board and soil conservation officials. A workshop 8 p m Wednesday at the district office will review soil planning programs for watershed land use and erosion control.
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Kinkaid Lake
Reed’s Creek Conservancy
Conservancy District
Walter Parks
Paul Ice
Jackson County
Ice
Southern
Illinois
Marine Pfc Wayne Eaves rites set in Carbondale
Funeral services for Marine Pfc. Wayne Eaves 19 of Makanda will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Huffman Funeral Home Carbondale with Rev. Hugh Stearns officiating. He was killed in action July 7 in Quang Tri South Vietnam after arriving April 15 196? He was a 1966 Carbondale Community High School graduate and member of Baskeydell Baptist Church. He leaves his parents and sisters. Burial at Casper Cemetery north of Anna. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Wednesday.
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Pfc
Wayne Eaves
Rt. 1
Makanda
Huffman Funeral Home
Carbondale
Hugh Stearns
Casper Cemetery
Anna
Eaves
Quang ‘Ri
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Carbondale Community High School
Baskeydell
Kinkaid District OKs 68100 Budget for Next Year
The Kinkaid Lake and Reed’s Creek Conservancy District board approved a 68100 appropriation ordinance for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The plan, presented by Attorney Orwin Pugh, raises costs for engineering and planning with a local tax levy of 8.1 cents per 100 valuation to support 67890 in general corporate expenses and 500 for social security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Choate
D-Anna
Gale Williams
R-Murphysboro
Kinkaid Lake
Samuel Shapiro
Reed’s Creek
MOVE sponsors free bus trips for area children to baseball games
MOVE organizers will transport 18 to 15 year olds from Carbondale to a St. Louis Cardinals and Phillies game Wednesday with 26 signed up and 44 seats available. Additional trips to two August games are planned to foster interracial交流. attendees bring lunch, all other costs covered, with six adult chaperones.
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St. Louis Cardinals
Philadelphia Phillies
St. Louis
Carbondale Area
Bob Hogan
Sam Silas
Southern Illinois University
Cardinal
Hogan
Attucks Park
Attucks School
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Anna Drive-in
Mariow’s
Rosemary
Katie Elders
Orpheum
Marion Drive - In
Mrs. Brown
Murphysboro Water and Sewage Commission
Christopher High School Board
Fox
Council
Southern Illinoisan Inc
Northinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Ilinois
Southern Ilinoisan
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Fred Henderson
Federal Economic Development Administration
Lipe
Williamson County
Pete Marlow
South 13Th Street
Kenneth J. Gray
Airport Authority Board
Wineyard-Givenrod
Paul L. Hall
Clarence L. Bloodworth
Clarence T. Bloodworth
S. 13Th St., Herrin
1St Infantry Division
di An
du Quoin State Fair
Todd
Don’s Jewelry
Kinkaid Area
Ernest R
Jack
Crenshaw
Rt. 2
Carterville
Doctor’s Hospital
Mary Lois Jones
Robert McWhirter
Paducha
Kinkaid Board
Vienna
Monument Company, Inc
Marion — Chester
W. Frankfort — Anna
Elkville — Harrisburg
Benton
McLeansboro — Vienna
Mt. Vernon
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