Circuit rider brings town manager to five Minnesota towns
Jon Elam serves five small towns in southwestern Minnesota as a circuit-riding manager. He coordinates grants, budgets, and capital projects across Wabasso Sanborn Lucan Milroy and Walnut Grove, securing federal and state funds and modernizing services. His work requires extensive travel and agile administration for tiny populations.
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Neal R. Peirce
Walnut Grove
Minn
Jon Elam
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House On the Prairie
Elam
Sanborn
Lucan
Wabasso
Milroy
Minnesota
Redwood County
Missouri
Washington
Tennessee
Colorado
Iowa
South Carolina
Califor
Nia
Georgia
Conrad Severson
John Maurer
Maurer
California Senate
Bess and the I llinois Child Welfare System
A fictional teen named Bess illustrates neglect in Illinois child welfare. The piece criticizes Springfield officials, DCFS, and lawmakers for underfunding and corner cutting, leading to repeated abuse, unstable foster care, and insufficient preventative work. It argues that caseloads double targets and funding cycles undermine protection, leaving children like Bess at risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bess
Illinois
Springfield
Department
Margaret Kennedy
Property-Casualty Insurers See 21 Percent Return in 1977
Underwriters face uneasy rebound after a three year slump in their 200 year history. In 1977 property-casualty insurers posted a 21 percent return on net worth, the best ever though consumer backlash grows against rate increases fueling the recovery.
Skirts signal China's new liberalism
The piece notes a shift toward liberalism in China with women adopting Western skirts, freer cultural policies, and reforms such as an exam-based college admissions system. It cites wage increases, potential incentives to boost production, and suggests U.S.-China relations may improve under this liberal trend as viewed by Leonard Woodcock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Leonard Woodcock
United States
Neighborly lapse blamed after West Frankfort motorcycle fire
Mrs. Charles S. Smith of West Frankfort laments bystanders who did not act to aid Bruce as his motorcycle burned near Bunny Bread and WHPI. She thanks those who offered some help and urges quick action in future emergencies to save possessions and lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinoisan
Bruce
Bunny Bread
WHPI
West Frankfort
Charles S. Smith
Lindberghs Earth Induction Motor Idea At SIU Library
Letter from Lester W. Engel of Carbondale praises Lindbergh and argues the earth induction motor could supply power directly from the earth without lines or generators. He urges SIU engineering to pursue Lindberghs notes stored at Yale, calling Lindbergh the wisest American since Ben Franklin.
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Southern Illinoisan
Yale
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
SIU
Ben Franklin
Lester W. Engel
O.D. Carbondale
Time to stop urban blight in Carbondale letters
A Carbondale resident on Walnut Street argues urban blight threatens the city core. He urges a northern bypass, wider Main Street lanes, and broader planning to relieve truck traffic while preserving Walnut, University and Main streets and prompting readers to weigh the future growth of Walnut, Chautauqua and nearby streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main Street
Walnut
Tower Road
Oakland
Carbondale
Chautauqua
Main
University
Widen West Main to ease Carbondale traffic squeeze
At a public hearing residents complain West Main Street narrows to a single westbound lane from University to around Poplar, creating severe congestion. They urge widening the right of way and restricting left turns as a medium-term fix, while long-term plans call for a by-pass. Concerns rise over Illinois 13 using West Walnut, threatening historic neighborhoods and housing preservation.
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Southern Illinoisan
West Main Street
University
Poplar
Carbondale
West Main
Old West Main
Main Street
Illinois 13
West Walnut
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Family Services
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
James Thompson
Southern Illinois
John C. Gardner
William B. Cox Jr
Walnut Street
Walnut Streets
University and
University Avenue
Main Stret
Carbon
Dale
East Walnut
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