Area farmers near schedule with planting in Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois farmers progress toward normal planting as sunny warm weather speeds corn and soybean seeding for 1978. County advisers report soils fair to good though some areas dry or wet. statewide 65 percent corn and 21 percent soybeans planted, up from a week earlier but still behind last year. forecasts predict normal June temperatures and below average rainfall.
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Illinois
Farm Adviser
Jackson County
Randolph County
Charles Willman
Willman
Carbondale Faces Bond Debate Over 271 Unit Apartments
UMIC of Memphis seeks city issued tax free revenue bonds to finance a 271 unit complex north of Mill Street, with six smaller buildings, aimed at handicapped and elderly residents. City officials caution amid business opposition. support hinges on Chamber of Commerce backing and a design choice between a plain banana split or a more architecturally valued project.
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Russ Mitchell
Linois
Mill Street
Carbondale
UMIC
Carbondale Chamber of Commerce
Mill
Forest Streets
Rawlings
Freeman and
Poplar
Robert Armstrong
Armstrong
Neal Eckert
Carroll Fry
Fry
Chamber of Commerce
Eckert
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Umic Inc
United Housing Development Corp
Memphis
Union County Faces New Tax Multiplier for Year
Union County has the fourth highest multiplier among 15 Southern Illinois counties at 1.6484, lower than last year’s 1.7242. Officials expect taxes to rise slightly as levies cover inflation, with farm property excluded from the urban base in the new statewide formula.
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Union County
Illinois
Fred Blaylock
Blaylock
Sesser Cuts Police to Two as Low Pay Drives Officers Away
The city of Sesser struggles to retain police, using auxiliary officers as support. Mayor William Schettler and Police Chief Louis Westray fault low salaries for attracting and keeping officers. Beginning patrolmen earn about
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Sesser
DeMaris Berry
William Schettler
Lice
Louis Westray
Schettler
James Pritchard
Richard Langdon
Theron Littlefield
Rend Lake College picks six president finalists
The Rend Lake College presidential search narrowed to six candidates from 16 semifinalists after receiving 100 plus applications. Names will be released at a special Student Center meeting. The six will be interviewed by the eight member board and a six member selection committee as acting president H. J. Habernecker continues.
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Rend Lake College
Scott Mones
Mones
Spe
Cial
Inn
Cobden teen credits luck for perfect school attendance
Seventeen year old Curt Sweitzer, who never missed a day or was late in 12 years at Cobden Unit 17 School District, credits luck, his mother as alarm clock, and a bus driver who waited mornings. He avoided major illness, kept a B average, and won a plaque at graduation while planning college.
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Cobden
Ann Schottman
Southern Illinoisan
Curt Sweitzer
Cobden Unit 17
Marie
Paul Moreland
Sweitzer
Karl
Mechanics Strike Enters Second Month in Marion
Marion mechanics began a second month of strike after a three year contract expired. Sixteen mechanics in nineteen Marion shops walked out May 1, rejecting management offers of 55 cents per hour raise in year one, 40 cents in year two, 35 cents in year three and 20 cents for insurance. They earned about $6 an hour under the old contract.
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Marion Mechanics
Marion
Former ICG officials indicted in metal embezzlement case
A federal grand jury indicted Donald G. Eylander of Salem and Dalfie G. Owens of Centralia, both former Illinois Central Gulf Railroad officials. They allegedly embezzled scrap railroad materials in Centralia from last June to February 8, with Eylander as regional materials superintendent and Owens as general foreman of the Centralia shops.
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Springfield, Ill
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
Donald G. Eylander
Salem
Dalfie G. Owens
Centralia
ICG
Edward Hegerty
FBI
Eylander
Owens
Wrights Celebrate Carbondale Graduation Night
Just Wright for graduation Sara Wright helps Tina Wright adjust her cap during Carbondale Community High School ceremonies. CCHS graduated 249 students plus 20 seniors who finished in January. Valedictorian Karin Jo Dommermuth and salutatorian Zoe Annette Trueblood led the class.
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Sara Wright
Tina Wright
Carbondale Community High School
CCHS
Karin Jo Dommermuth
Zoe Annette Trueblood
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University of Illinois
Butch Nevious
Pleasant
Ling
Old Glory
Murphysboro
Rend
W. Travis Martin Jr
H. J. Habernecker
Belleville Area College
Wright
Ernie Branson
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