Chester Toll Bridge tolls and bonds face 1989 retirement
Hearing in St Louis opens on Chester Toll Bridge finances as Vernon Bruckerhoff urges accelerating bond payoff. Mayor Derrick Helmers cites 1989 retirement date while officials discuss tolls and operating costs amid interstate 55 impact.
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DeMaris Berry
Southern
Lincisan
Chester
Vernon Bruckerhoff
St. Mary’s
Derrick Helmers
Bruckerhoff
Helmers
St. Louis
Bridge Authority
Chester Toll Bridge
Missouri State Highway Commission
Ralph Walker
Walker
Belleville
City of
Coverdale and Colpitts
New York
R. L. Hyder
Illinois
State Highway Commission
City of Chester
Illinois House approves consent and remap bills in weekend session
The Illinois House, facing a backlog, approved the implied consent and county remap bills and a 20 percent increase in workers compensation. The watered down implied consent bill by Rep. Weber Borchers would suspend licenses up to six months for drivers who refuse breath tests after accidents. A version endorsed by Gov. Ogilvie without the accident limit has passed the Senate and awaits House action.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois House
Weber Borchers
Decatur
Senate
Borchers
Richard B. Ogilvie
House
Clarence Neff
Stronghurst
Springfield Pay Report Extends Reapportionment Deadline
The Neff bill moves to the Senate extending the reapportionment deadline by five months and banning special elections after redraws. It estimates costs range from 25 000 to 200 000 per county and allows at large or multi member districts with cumulative voting. House Democrats back a 20 percent wage increase and expanded workers compensation benefits.
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Boards of Supervisors
Neff
Senate
House
Thompsonville area history tour nets six hour public ride
The Thompsonville Community Historical Museum Society will guide a 1:30 p.m. tour starting at Steeds Store in Thompsonville. A car caravan will cover the Shawneetown St Louis trail to Galatia then Harrisburg to Saline County Museum and return via the Shawnee town Kaskaskia Trail with several historical stops. Roy Hall, president, notes the route lasts at least six hours and is open to the public at no charge.
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Thompsonville
Morgan County Taxpayers Protest Tax Increases in Illinois
Hundreds of Morgan County property owners gathered at the county fairgrounds to protest rising real estate taxes and curb taxing body spending. John Killam, spokesman for Property Owners Opposed to Increased Taxes, estimated over 800 attendees despite heavy rain. He proposed a 50-member tax watch committee with 66 nominees to scrutinize budgets and expenditures across county taxing bodies.
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Morgan County
Operty
John Killam
Killam
Music workshop opens with Appelman recital at SIU
D Ralph Appelman bass baritone and director of Indiana University vocal research gives a 8 p.m. recital at Southern Illinois University as the opening event of a week long vocal-choral workshop in the Home Economics auditorium. Admission is free.
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D. Ralph Appelman
Southern Illinois University
Appelman
Indiana University Institute For Vocal Research
FEPC dismisses Burns suit against Carbondale officials
The Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission found no substantial evidence to support former Carbondale official Bill Burns's charge that Mayor David Keene City Attorney Ron Briggs and City Manager William Schmidt conspired to violate his civil rights. Burns declined to comment on the ruling.
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Carbondale Urban Renewal
Bill Burns
David Keene
Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission
Burns
Keene
Ron Briggs
William Schmidt
FEPC
Jerry Osborne
Osborne
Carbondale
Cheston Named Chancellor at University of Illinois Chicago Circle
Dr Warren B Cheston a Minnesota faculty member since 1953 is named to the 40000 a year post of Chancellor at Illinois Chicago Circle succeeding Norman A Parker who becomes vice president. Cheston 45 years old has degrees from Rochester and Harvard and was dean at Minnesota Institute of Technology and former deputy scientific attache at the U S Embassy in London.
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Chicago
Warren B. Cheston
University of Minnesota
University of Illinois Chicago Circle
Cheston
Norman A. Parker
J. Cheston
University of Rochester
New York
Harvard
Institute of Technology
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Jack D. Holderfield
Leslie Smith
Herrin
Stephen G. Jones
Marc Scholnick
Roy Lee McNichael
Elmhurst
Jeffrey C. Loseff
Mary S. Frey
Jacksonville, Ill
SUN
South Illinois
Iscount Records
Music Workshop
LEES
Universal
Chicago Circle Post
Pittsburg
Kavin J. Diamond
Carterville
Dale D. Harvel
Douglas C. Armstrong
Rolf Rosnicki
James Ness
Fairfield
Kenneth Sullivan
Ing. Herrin
Duke D. Pennell
U.S
London
Jim
Sporting Goods
Mardale Shopping Center
le Eg
West Frankfort
Antron
Co.d
Zwick’s Ladies’ Store
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