SIU Carbondale Student Center profits from video game boom
SIU Carbondale Student Center drives 50 000 to 70 000 dollars yearly from 10 video games and eight pinball machines with Merri Mac vending handling 55 percent of profits. Director John Corker notes revenue boosts tuition to budgets while stressing market shares differ by campus and that U of I leads in pinball revenue.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
SIU C
John Corker
Commission
Corker
SIUC
Merri-Mac Wending
Roy McLain
Merri-Mac Vending
University of Illinois At
Champaign-Urbana
U of I
Siu-C
Somit
Anna Council Allocates 74000 in Revenue Sharing Funds
The Anna City Council approved almost 74000 in federal revenue sharing funds for city units. Major grants include 25000 to City Park for a new pool project and drive, with construction to begin after the season ends in September. Additional allotments cover fire, police, city hall, street, Sunshine Inn Nutrition Center, Union County Counseling, and Red Cross. The 1982 tax levy was set at 1859000, up 16000 for police pension.
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Anna
Anna City Park
Park District
Fire Department
Police Department
City Hall
Street Department
Sunshine Inn Nutrition Center
Union County Counseling Service
Red Cross
Pearl Baker
Jabr divorce trial stays in Cook County
A Cook County judge denied Saad Jabr’s request to move his divorce trial to Jackson County. Jabr filed for dissolution of marriage January 20 in Cook County and his wife seeks half of his international holdings including oil and investments in the United States Panama and Europe. Judge Michael Jordon ruled the trial remains in Cook County as Mrs. Jabr resides at Lake Point Towers Chicago since January. No court date has been set.
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Cook County
Carbondale
Saad Jabr
Jackson County
Gooffrey Jean Jabr
Jabr
United States
Panama
Europe
du Quoin State Bank
du Quoin State Fair
Jordon
Lake Point Towers
Chicago
Bernard Rinella
Southern Illinois
Watt named associate judge for First Judicial Circuit
Murphysboro lawyer David W. Watt Jr. is appointed as associate judge by sitting circuit judges. Watt, age 39, will replace Robert W. Schartz who resigned and will take office next Monday. He will handle most cases except felony crimes and earn 45000 dollars yearly. Watt has long lobbied for more Jackson County courthouse space and plans to work with current judiciary on a solution.
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Evan M. Davis
David W. Watt Jr
Murphysboro
Watt
Robert W. Schartz
Jackson County
Jackson County Bar Association
Deposed Makanda chief claims win in bid to dump clerk
Bill Wheatley former Makanda Village Board President deposed for late filing of an economic interest statement says he has won a bid to remove Clerk Cecilia Cottingham. A Jackson County State's Attorney letter confirms Cottingham’s oral March 4 resignation cannot be rescinded and creates a vacancy. Clemons’ letter, sent to Cottingham new Village Board President Joanne Simpson and Wheatley, states resignations are binding under state law. Wheatley notes past clashes over issues including the gay community and hill valley tensions that split the village.
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Tony Stevens
Makanda
Bill Wheatley
Cecilia Cottingham
Wheetley
Jackson County
John Clemons
Cottingham
Clemons
Mrs. Cottingham
New Village Board
Joanne Simpson
Akanda
Board Presient
Board Presia
Simpson
Who's Who Inducts Fat Man Fats Wanderone From Dowell
Rudolf Walter Wanderone known as Minnesota Fats joins eight area residents in Who's Who. Others include Dennis Doelitzsch of Marion owning WDDD radio and TV, plus SIU Carbondale professors John Casey Gerald Courts John Hawley Paul McRoy Donald Miller William Orthwein and James Smith.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinoisan
Minnesota
Fats
America
Dowell
Rudolf Walter Wanderone
Minnesota Fats
Mae West
Jane Russell
Judy Garland
Rudolf Wanderone
Who’s Who
Marion
Dennis F. Doelitzsch
WDDD
WDDW
Wdddtv
Doelitzsch
Greater Marion Area
Carbondale
John P. Casey
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Gerald D. Courts
Plant and Soil Science
Ment
SIUC
John B. Hawley
Siu-C
Paul F. McRoy
WCIL
McRoy
Carbondale Savings and Loan Association
Donald M. Miller
Summer backyard birds flourish as June nesting peaks
Ben Gelman notes a bustling yard with 32 species nesting around, including robins, blue jays, downy woodpeckers, sparrows, thrashers, wrens, titmice and kingfishers. He details nest sites in pines, hedgerows, chimneys, and feedings at sunflowers, with neighbors like cardinals, grackles, starlings, and nearby meadowlarks and doves.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan
Baltimore
New York City
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S/U
John McCutchen
Kim Rutherford
SIU
Michael Jordon
Ion
Springfield
University of Wisconsin
University of Illinois
Richard Richman
Schwartz
William C. Orthwein
NASA
James G. Smith
Boeing
National Science Foundation
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