Public Meetings and Local Events in Carbondale Area
Carbondale Plan Commission meets 7 p.m. Wednesday at city hall with four public hearings. Proposals include a $275000 townhouse complex on Grand Ave near Lewis Lane and a 21-building $1 million eight-acre apartment project rezoning to R4. Also planned is a 2-acre mobile home park and expansion of Westridge development. SIU Singers perform 8 p.m. at Shryock Auditorium. Movies include many local theaters with multiple titles.
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Carbondale Plan Commission
City Hall
John Quinn
Grand Avenue
Lewis Lane
George Paluch
Model Cities Public Service Careers Program
Paluch
Carbondale Community High School
Quinn
Robert Waldron, Jr
Park Street
Annexation meeting tonight with SIU board members
A committee of the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees will meet city officials at 7 30 tonight in city hall to discuss annexation and water rates. Dr Martin Van Brown Carbondale and Earl Walker Harrisburg were appointed to discuss matters with Mayor Neal Eckert and Councilman George Karnes. City and board staff will be available for information.
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Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees
Martin van Brown
Carbondale
Earl Walker
Harrisburg
Neal Eckert
George Karnes
Parrish hearing Friday in Murphysboro court
A circuit court hearing is set for Friday in Murphysboro on assault charges against Carbondale landlord Paul Parrish. Parrish failed to appear at a prior hearing, triggering a bench warrant. he reportedly appeared with bond posted. The charges stem from an April 20 argument at Parrish’s 1202 West Main Street office, with Robert Cartwright alleging Parrish and wife Viola attacked him, while Parrish countersued claiming Cartwright struck them.
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Murphysboro
Carbondale
Paul Parrish
Parrish
Atty
Richard Richman
Richman
W. Main St
Robert Cartwright
Southern Illinois University
Coalition
Cartwright
Viola
Carbondale Man Wounded After Fall At Local Nightclub
James A. Erber 20 of Wright Hall fell on a small ramp at Bona parte's Retreat 213 E Main St Carbondale causing a wrist injury when his arm went through a glass door He was taken to Doctors Hospital then transferred to Barnes Hospital St Louis where his condition was listed as fair by authorities.
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Carbondale
Barnes Hospital
St. Louis
Bonaparte’s Retreat
E. Main St
James A. Erber
Wright Hall No. 3
Doctors Hospital
Erber
Corrections In Obituary For Albert Toler Belleville Resident
The obituary corrections state Albert Toler 55 formerly of Goreville died in Belleville with mother listed as Mrs Valley Toler of Du Quoin and brothers James Pinckneyville and William East St. Louis. A May 28 traffic notice mislocated Greenbriar road. it is one mile north of Rt 13. Vehicles were driven by Sue E Rich Carterville 16 and Sidney J Davidson Anna 26. Rich sustained minor injuries not requiring treatment.
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Albert Toler
Belleville
Goreville
Valley Toler
du Quoin
James
Pinckneyville
William
East St. Louis
Greenbriar Road
Rt. 13
Sue E. Rich
Carterville
Sidney J. Davidson
Anna
Miss Rich
Gray seeks 25.2 million for Southern Illinois water projects
Rep. Kenneth J. Gray asks the House Appropriations Committee for 25.2 million to advance 13 water flood control naviga tion and recreation projects in Southern Illinois. He notes total federal expenditure will exceed 900 million with expected billions in benefits and private capital nearby.
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Kenneth J. Gray
West
Frankfort
House Committee On Appropriations
Illinois
Gray
Congress
Saline River Canal
Helm Reservoir
Wabash Basin
Carmi
Cross Wabash Valley
Jackson County to Open Bids for Nursing Home Addition Equipment
Bids for six items of equipment and materials to outfit a 102 bed addition to the Jackson County Nursing Home in Murphysboro will be opened Tuesday in St. Louis by the Public Building Commission. Items include food service equipment casework lockers beauty and barber equipment and carpeting.
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Jackson County
Murphysboro
Public Building Commission of
St. Louis
Pearce
Building Commission
Olive St
John Chapman
Chapman
Kiefner Construction Co
Perryville
Public Building Commission
Four vehicles overturn in Southern Illinois area crash
Multiple injuries reported after four vehicles overturn in separate crashes on Rt 3 near Evansville and I-57 near Nashville. Howard L. Lannom Jr. and Clarence W. Page cause a jackknife and top-over in a two-truck collision. Page with minor injuries.
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Illinois
Howard L. Lannom, Jr
New Athens
Clarence W. Page
Columbia
Tenn
Rt. 3
Evansville
Lannom
Page
Chester Memorial Hospital
Fanie Golightly
New Port Richey
Fla
Rt. 127
Rt. 460
Washington County Hospital
Nashville
Richard T. Dugan
Scheller Park
I-57
Rt. 260
Area accidents leave several injured across rural roads
A driver, Howard May aged 53 of Marion, overturned on Rt 14 near Akin road with minor injuries and refused treatment. Six other people suffered minor injuries in single vehicle crashes including Pamela Schroeder 17 of Chester on Rt 3 near Evansville and Kenneth Hunt 20 of Seagoville Texas on Little Grassy Lake Road. Four Pinckneyville men Randy McKinstry 18 James Heard 23 Randy Ramsey 19 and Charles Louis 20 were hospitalized with minor injuries after a crash on Rt 154 near Conant road. Noch Steinwich 70 of Benton injured in collision on Rt 149 near West Frankfort and Ruth M Haines 68 of East Prairie Mo sustained minor injuries when Warren’s car hit Haines near Cambria.
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Howard May
Marion
Rt. 14
Akin Road
Pamela K. Schroeder
Chester
Rt. 3
Evansville
Kenneth J. Hunt
Seagoville
Tex
Little Grassy Lake Road
Pinckneyville
Rt. 154
Conant Road
Randy McKinstry
James Heard
Randy Ramsey
Charles Louis
Pinckneyville Community Hospital
Noch Steinwich
Benton
Rt. 149
West Frankfort
Michael P. Durkota
Zeigler
Steinwich
Charles C. Haines
East Prairie
Malcolm W. Warren
Sterling Heights
Mich
Cambria
Ruth M. Haines
Warren
Haines
Orchard license denied for Grammer's Orchard migrant camp
Grammer's Orchard of Murphysboro has its license denied by the Illinois Department of Public Health for failing to meet state health standards. The camp received seven sanitation and safe drinking water violations, bringing this year’s migrant labor camp license denials to eight. seven previously denied camps corrected violations and were approved.
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Grammer
Murphysboro
Illinois Department of Public Health
Fire Report Summary From Carterville and Nearby Cities
Fires and electrical incidents reported in Carterville Carbondale Marion and Benton include a kitchen fire from wiring at a residence owned by Mrs Aileen Tregon near New Route 13 in Carterville a car fire at University and Mill streets in Carbondale a clothing dryer fire at 1502 Tripoli Street in Carbondale and a fuse box short at Tempo Department Store in Marion A 1966 model car in Marion was destroyed by backfire at North Market Street and a two story McCreery Building on the public square in Benton sustained moderate damage to the second floor and minor damage to the Woolworth store from a wiring short
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Carterville
Aileen Tregoning
Carbondale
University and
Mill Streets
Mark J. Price
Tripoli St
D. Curtis
Marion
Tempo Department
James Winkelman
St. Louis
North Market Street
Benton
McCreery
Public Square
Woolworth
Carterville Man Charged With Drugs And Weapons
Carterville resident Lee Meyer 22 was arraigned in Marion circuit court on illegal possession of narcotics and illegal use of a weapon. Bond set at 3000 for the drug charge and 1000 for the weapon charge. Meyer to return June 11 for continuance after Friday arrest at his apartment. four grams marijuana and about 600 pills found. switchblade seized. Paul J Kirst charged with criminal damage to property after incident May 23 at Smith Motor Sales Carbondale. complaint signed by Charles E Smith. Kirst failed to pay damages prompting police action.
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Lee Meyer
Carterville
Marion
Meyer
Williamson County
Russell Oxford
Oxford
Paul J. Kirst
Carbondale
Kirst
Charles E. Smith
Smith Motor Sales
Smith
Area police report on alcohol transport and DUI charges
Chereskin, a Southern Illinois University student from Brookfield, was stopped at 12 30 a m on West Main Street for erratic driving. An open beer can was found, he submitted to a breath test and was jailed in lieu of bond with a June 8 court date. Ticer, 47, of Murphysboro, was arrested by Carbondale police for driving while intoxicated after a report of an intoxicated driver who left a car off the road near Penneys. He was jailed in lieu of bond. Vernon Pack, 52, faces driving while under the influence of liquor in Murphysboro.
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Chereskin
West Main Street
Jackson County
Ben H. Ticer
S. 9Th St
Murphysboro
Carbondale
Ticer
Penneys
BRIEP
Vernon E. Pack
West Frankfort park board approves insurance and cooling bids
A special park board meeting in West Frankfort approved Clyde Day Insurance Co. for park facilities insurance at about 2000 annually and Melvin's Denny Heating and Air Conditioning Co. for 1095 to install central air in the park superintendent's house. A plan to hire underprivileged boys was tabled for next month. Police briefs note two charges in Murphysboro and Du Quoin.
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Frankfort
West Frankfort
Park Board
Clyde Day Insurance Co
Val Stanley
Melvin
Denny Heating and Air Condi
Tioning Co
Stanley
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Southern Illinoisan
Ren Road
Carbondale Development Co., Inc
Charles Goss
Westridge
Old 13 East
Illinois Highway Department
the Arts
Southern [Illinois University Singers
Robert Kingsbury
Shryock
Varsity
Ryan
Liverty
Patton
Fox
Derby
Egyptian Drive-In
Webster
Steeleville
Great White Hope
Riviera Drive-In
Valley of the Dolls
Sallie Logan Public Library Board
Walnut St
Carbondale Community Center
Mound City
Rend Lake
Kaskaskas River
Saline River
Smithland
Dog Island
Ohio River
Louisville
Shoal Creek
Prairie du Rocher
Kaskaskia Island
Degognia
Fountain Bluff
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
North 16Th Street
Herrin
Walnut Street
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Area Police
Gary W. Chereskin
Brookfield
West Frankfort Park
Marcia L. Marlin
Fred L. Epplin
Carbondale Community High School District
McCann’s Market
Boston Butt Pork Roast
Blue Bell Wieners
Pioneer
Reelfoot
Blue Bell
Emge
Kraft
del Monte
Maxwell House Coffee
del Monte Peaches
New Era
Mexwell House
U.S
Lipton Tea
Catalina
Larry Manchester
Swick's Ladies Store
Herrin, Shep
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