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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1971
Page
5
A provincial appeal urges readers to send complaints and opinions to Washington on inflation pollution unemployment Vietnam drugs violence women’s rights welfare ecology and more. The notice promises a compiled list of contributors for a $2 postage and lists a Pearl River New York address.
The Illinois Bureau of the Budget criticizes university computer usage as wasteful and costly. The report targets Southern Illinois University and Northern Illinois University, noting many machines idle half the time while hours cost hundreds. The study, based on SCHERT simulations, will be shared with House Appropriations Chair Rep. Regner this week.
In Cairo Illinois 1,000 people hear Rev. Ralph David Abernathy of the SCLC call to sustain a 26 month boycott of white owned business. About 3,500 join a heat marching protest through the business district as tensions flare amid gunfire history.
Joyce Butler won a divorce from Michael Butler in Circuit Court on grounds of desertion. She received custody of their 7 year old son Adam, an undisclosed cash settlement, and one year use of a home in Oak Brook. Charges of adultery were dropped as part of the settlement. The couple wed in 1963.
Illinois State Treasurer Alan J. Dixon reviews the $100000 anti pollution bond issue Friday in Chicago. He signs his name steadily for more than four hours and the signature is repeated on the bonds twenty at a time at the American Bank Note Co office.
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