SIUC eyes 40 percent rise in graduate enrollment
Southern Illinois University Carbondale plans a ten year boost in graduate students from about 3400 to 5000 6000 by creating new programs and improving existing ones to attract higher quality applicants. Dean John Guyon cites Ph D and master degree expansion while seeking nonstate funding and enhanced faculty development.
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Henry de Fiebre
Southern Illinois.n
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
SIUC
John C. Guyon
Siu-C
Guyon
United States
Oth
Robert C. Radtke
Radtke
Harvard
Pick honored for decades of support to SI policing
Wilburt H. Pick of Carbondale received the Carbondale Police Department good citizen award in a ceremony that also involved SIU Carbondale security police and other local agencies. The 64 year old former grocer aided police, funded officers’ firearms purchases, and will be remembered as an annual recognition of outstanding civilian support for Southern Illinois law enforcement.
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Southern Illinois Police Departments
Wilburt H. Pick
Carbondale
Edward Hogan
Virgil Trummer
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Security Police
Wilburt. H. Picknight
Siuc Security Police
Murphysboro
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office
Illinois Police Association
Pick
Illinois
I.P.A
IGA
Main Street
Westroads
Hogan
Southern Illinois Police
Union County awards bridge contract and medical board updates
Union County Board awarded a bridge construction contract to Schwieger Brothers of Olmstead at 65 484, over the engineer estimate of 61 631, for work about four miles east of Cobden. The action includes signing with Miller and Miller for three bridges near Jonesboro and Cobden. L E Foley of Anna reappointed to Tri County Health Department. Stokes to one year on the health board.
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Union County Board
Schwieger Brothers of
Olmstead
Cobden
Schwieger Brothers
Herman Stokes
Miller and Miller Consulting Engineers of
Harrisburg
L.E. Foley
Anna
Tri-County Health Department
Humphrey sentencing set for July 14 in Benton court
Former Herrin Police Chief William Bill Humphrey admits to extortion and is slated for sentencing July 14 in U S District Court Benton. He appears with former Herrin Mayor John McVey and Water Superintendent Basil Russell who pleaded guilty to related charges.
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Herrin
William ‘Bill’ Humphrey
U.S. District Court
Benton
Humphrey
John McVey
Basil Russell
William Juergens
McVey
Thomas Shoemake
Murphysboro May Reopen Somerset Sewer Project
Murphysboro officials said an EPA grant may revive the stalled Somerset Township sewer extension near the north city limits as part of a broader annexation plan. Mayor Michael Bowers noted local support and previous grants, with work likely to take three to four years pending new funding and annexation requirements. The council also approved transferring the city cable franchise to a Denver firm and issuing a license for a package delivery service.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinoisan
Murphysboro
Michael Bowers
Environmental Protection Agency
Somerset Township
Harrison
Bowers
Somerset
EPA
Mt. Carbon
Southern Illinois
Daniels and Associates
Denver
Colo
Gene Verbal
Herrin looks to EPA inspection for landfill permit
Herrin has spent thousands to ready the city landfill for an EPA inspection aimed at winning an operating permit. Streets Superintendent Paul Dunning says fencing around the site will be completed this week and a two foot final cover with lime and grass seed has been installed. The city also improved the road to the landfill and stopped burning debris.
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Herrin
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Paul Dunning
EPA
Dunning
Riggs Excavating Co. of Energy
Shawnee recreation plan faces public input drive
WAPORA seeks citizen feedback through a face to face survey in June to August on the Shawnee Hills National Recreation Area proposal. The plan, backed by Congressman Paul Simon, would include four counties and sites like Garden of the Gods and Lusk Creek. Public meetings and RARe hearings are planned to gather comments for the study due to Congress in August 1979.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinoisan
Shawnee Hills National Recreation Area
Wapora, Inc
E. Clark Boli
Shawnee National Forest
Shawnee Hills
Paul Simon
D-Carbondale
Congress
Pope, Hardin, Saline
Gallatin County
Garden of the Gods
Glen Jones Conservation Area
Lake Glendale
Lusk Creek Botanical and Geological Area
Simon
Shawnee Forest
Southern
Illinois
Wapora
U.S. Forest Service
Tlmois
Secretary of Agriculture
Boli
Elizabethtown
Jonesboro
Forest Supervisor’s Office
Harrisburg
Murphysboro District
Vienna District
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Jeremy Summers
Shawn Bra
Kinkaid Lake
Joe Jines
Alrea
Union County
U.S. 51
Byline
B.G
Ben Gelman
Russell
Shoemake
Shawnee
Harrisburg Forest Supervisor’s Office
Lowell Patterson
Patterson
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