Williamson County jail cited for 13 deviations in state inspection
The Illinois Department of Corrections report found space and safety violations at Williamson County jail, including overcrowded cells and lack of an emergency power source. Inspectors noted clean facility but pitted toilets, limited visiting days, no day room for juveniles, and missing grand jury file. Jail built in 1970 on courthouse third floor with 30-35 inmates daily. Cleo Bryan serves as superintendent.
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Dave DeWitte
Jerald Kobler
Kobler
Williamson County
SIU seeks SII grant for fuels plant in Carterville
SIU Carbondale plans an alcohol fuels plant at the old Carterville vocational institute to enable cross campus research and training. Dean Kenneth Templemeyer urges transferring a $202,500 EDA grant from Southern Illinois Inc. to SIU C, with each college sharing costs and staff needs.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Carterville
Kenneth Templemeyer
College of Engineering and Technology
Southern Illinois Inc
Williamson County
Joe Bennett
SII
Charles Muchmore
Siu-C
EDA
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Marion hearing on building demolition rescheduled
A hearing to approve destroying a downtown Marion building deemed in danger of collapse has been reset for next Wednesday. Circuit Judge Snyder Howell ordered a new hearing after two owners’ attorneys were absent, delaying action on the city’s emergency petition filed June 2. The three story brick structure near Tower Square Plaza has bulging walls, with occupants moved out and South Market Street blocked to traffic.
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Marion
Circuit Court
Williamson County
Snyder Howell
Tower Square Plaza
South Market Street
Shaw begins grant visit in Japan
Southern Illinois University Chancellor Kenneth A. Shaw arrived in Japan after noon for a two week visit as a guest of the Japan Foundation. The grant supports cultural contact and Shaw plans to meet with officials in trade and education, lecture at Tokyo University, discuss faculty exchanges with Tokyo Kyoto and Kansai Universities, and explore expanding SIU's off campus military program to a U.S. base in Japan. He will tour the Panasonic plant near Osaka and return August 6.
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Southern Illinois University
Kenneth A. Shaw
Japan
Japan Foundation
Shaw
Ministry of International Trade and Industry
Tokyo University
Kyoto University
Kansai University
Osaka
SIU
U.S
Ministry of Education
Panasonic
Farm size ethanol plant eyed for Pulley's Mill Energy Park
Little Egypt Energy Inc plans an 80 000 gallon per year 200 proof ethanol facility at Pulley's Mill Energy Park north of Goreville. The plant from Process Design Inc of Macon Nebraska will be demonstrated and sold to livestock and grain producers as a tool to improve farm profitability. Meredith says the system yields 200 proof ethanol without destroying grain nutrition and that the by product has higher protein content. Initial fuel will be bottled gas with a planned coal incinerator later, cost around 120 000 including building and heat source. The site will host a sales office with computer simulations of investment return and the plant could be feasible on farms as small as 390 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave DeWitte
Little Egypt Energy Inc
Goreville
Little Egypt
Les Meredith
Process Design Inc
Macon
Neb
Meredith
Energy Park
Strike Hits No 25 Old Ben Mine as No 27 Idle Unexplained
At Old Ben Coal Co mines near West Frankfort most workers were idle. No 25 resumed its wildcat strike over an unsafe roof dispute between a union examiner and a company official. No 27 also idle though not closed, with surface work continuing and storage areas full as miners await resolution.
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Evan M. Davis
Old Ben
Phillips
Alfred Lynch
No. 27
Richard Stroud
Stroud
No. 25
Channel 27 WDDD Antenna Ready for Aug Air Debut
Workers prepare to install half the antenna for Marion based Channel 27 WDDD set to go on air August 16. From left Larry Sukalec Charles Raines Charlie Guthrie and Burt Robb stand by near the 445 foot tower at the Goreville exit on Interstate 57 as rain postpones the remaining installation.
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Channel
WDDD
Goreville
Interstate 57
Larry Sukalec
Charles Raines
Valier
Charlie Guthrie
Burt Robb
Lesser
Tamaroa names Carroll Smith new superintendent
Carroll Smith, 33, named Tamaroa Community High School superintendent after a career as pastor, fertilizer salesman, radio worker, and teacher. He plans to study Tamaroa before implementing policies, will rent in Mount Vernon until land near town is found, and emphasizes student focus and fair discipline.
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Brad Berker
Southern Illinois
Carroll Smith
Tamaroa Community High School
Ramsey
Iill
United Pentecostal Church
Brownstown
Ill
Smith
Tamaroa
Mount Vernon
Champaign
Fayette County
Sunburst Mining Co
Chandler, Ariz
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Cleo Bryan
Templemeyer
College of Science
College of Agri
School of Technical Careers
Bennett
The
Economic Development Administration
Technical Careers
Jerry Lower
Brownstown High
Cahokia
St. Louis
Alabama
Edwardsville
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