FHA approves Southern Illinois water and sewer projects
The Farmers Home Administration approved loans for several Southern Illinois districts. A $220,000 loan to Forges Water District on May 2, a $300,000 loan and $100,000 grant to Goreville Sewer District on May 27, and a $98,000 loan to Wolf Lake Sanitary Corporation on May 26 await final closing after meeting approval conditions. Buncombe Water District application is under review for processing priority, and due to funding limits many projects may not be funded until the 1972 fiscal year. Fort Massac Water District has a loan approved but will not close until early 1972 fiscal year for funds.
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Farmers Home Administration
Mlllnois
Kenneth J. Gray
West
Frankfort
Forges
Goreville
Wolf Lake
Family planning workshop set in Carbondale
The Governor's Office of Human Resources regional office in Carbondale will hold a family planning workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Barbara Dahl of the Jackson County Family Planning Center will lead the session for participants from area community action agencies at 609 W Main St. AV mines reported working Tuesday.
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Governor’s Office of Human Resources
Carbondale
John Holmes
Barbara Dahl
Jackson County Family Planning Center
Human Resources Office
Main St
State official to speak regional health planning group appoints core council
Dr. Albert W. Snoke executive director of the Office of Comprehensive State Health Planning will address a noon luncheon in Carbondale on comprehensive planning myths and reality. He will formally appoint a 15 member core council under the Southern Illinois Health Services Coordination Program to aid regional health planning across 17 counties.
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Albert W. Snake
Office of Comprehensive State Health Planning
Carbondale
Holiday Inn
Snoke
Ilinois
Chicago
Falso
Richard Ogilvie
Southern Illinois
Maxine Rosenbarger
Carterville
Southern Illinois Health Services Coordination Program
Southern Illinois University
Throw away bottle hearing set in Carbondale
A public hearing on banning non returnable bottles will be at 7 30 p m June 29 in Carbondale City Hall before the city council. The ordinance would ban sales of glass plastic or metal devices used to hold soft drinks or beer and would remove beer in cans and canned soft drink bottles from vending machines and grocery stores. Roy B Belcher district superintendent moves district office to Doctors Building South Main Royalton.
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Carbondale City Hall
Zeigler
Murphysboro barber Harlan Baker dies at 73
Harlan Loren Pop Baker a Murphysboro barber for 52 years died after a nine week illness at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital Murphysboro He was born December 12 1897 and married Edna Smith in 1917 Survivors include wife children William Edward Donald daughters and siblings Funeral services are planned for Wednesday at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church with burial at Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery
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Harlan Loren
Pop” Baker
Murphysboro
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital
Peter
Katherine Breeden Baker
Jonesboro
Edna Smith
Will Wayman
Baker
First Baptist Church
Barbers’ Union
Eagles Aerie
Af&am
White Shrine
Low 12
William
Escondido
Calif
Edward
Donald
Maxine Peiron
New Athens
Elizabeth Schnur
Mascoutah
Walter King
Three car collision kills Tamms man on Rt 127
A 19 year old Tamms man Ivy Davis was killed in a three car crash on Rt 127 near Front Street. Four others were injured including John E. Francis 58 and Juanita L. Davis 49 both of Cypress. Transmission shows Francis and driver Wayne McElmurry 16 were southbound when McElmurry rear ended Francis then crossed into oncoming lanes and hit the Davis car. Funeral arrangements for Ivy Davis are pending.
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Tamms
Rt. 127
Front Street
Ivy Davis
John E. Francis
Cypress
Juanita L. Davis
St. Francis Hospital
Cape Girrardeau
Francis
Ty Hospital
Anna
Union County Hospital
Raymond E. Huff
McElmurry
Davis
Avant Funeral Home
Cairo
Crashes on highways injure three in separate incidents
Three people were injured in a collision at the intersection of Routes 127 and 4. Stanley Frazer 19 Murphysboro and Claude Horton Pinckneyville drivers and Opal Jausel Pinckneyville passenger suffered minor injuries, with Horton hospitalized in Pinckneyville. James Rae 18 Zeigler was hurt when his car struck a concrete abutment on I-57 near Johnston City and taken to Herrin Hospital. In Herrin a 2:30 p.m. crash left Marie Propst 43 with a knee injury and James Helleny 24 arrested for driving too fast for conditions.
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Stanley L. Frazer
Murphysboro
Claude Horton
Pinckneyville
Opal Jausel
Horton
James F. Rae
Zeigler
I-57
Johnston City
Herrin Hospital
Robert W. Cochren
Royalton
Herrin
Marie Propst
James Helleny
N. 12Th St
Auto collision on 13th Street injures Propst
Police report states Harley B. Propst, 47, of 692 Indian Hill Dr., was westbound on Clark Trail road stop sign when he pulled into southbound traffic on 13th Street, causing a collision with the Helleny auto traveling southbound.
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Helleny Auto
13Th Street
Harley B. Propst
Indian Hill
Propst
Clark Trail Road
Funeral Services Set for Jesse H. Midgett in Du Quoin
Services will be 1 30 p m Tuesday for Jesse H Midgett 90 of Herrin who died 1 45 p m Saturday in Marion Memorial Hospital The Rev John Somers will officiate at Keeling Funeral Home Du Quoin Burial will be in Elkville Cemetery
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Jesse H. Midgett
Herrin
Marion Memorial Hospital
Keeling Funeral Home
du Quoin
John Somers
Elkville Cemetery
Sisk resigns as Carbondale director of finance
Carlton Sisk submitted his resignation as Carbondale's director of finance effective June 30. He joined the city in May 1968 after leaving Southern Illinois University where he worked in credit and collection for National Defense Education loans. Sisk, a 1957 SIU graduate, briefly served as acting city manager after C William Norman left and Bill Schmidt was appointed.
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Carlton Sisk
Carbondale
Sisk
National Defense Education
Southern Illinois University
SIU
C. William Norman
Bill Schmidt
State seeks bids on two park reconstruction projects
The Illinois Department of Conservation through the Department of General Services invites bids for two Southern Illinois state park projects. Fort Massac State Park near Metropolis will see reconstruction work including general, plumbing, ventilating and electrical bids. Eldon Nelson Hazlet State Park at the Carlyle reservoir requests bids for site and sewage work storage and services and office buildings with general plumbing ventilating and electrical trades. Plans and bid documents are available until July 1 and bids open July 8 in Springfield.
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Illinois Department of Conservation
Department of General Services
Ilinois
Fort Massac
Fort Massac State Park
Metropolis
Conservation Department
Eldon Hazlet State Park
Carlyle Reservoir
Springfield
SIU Summer Classes Open This Evening
The southern Illinois University summer session starts with 5 30 p m classes. A new Student Week information table is in the University Center today and Sunday until 8 p m for new students. Residence halls opened Sunday and registration runs in the Arena until 4 30 p m Thursday.
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Southern Illinois University
University Center
Plaque stolen at Mascoutah marks former population center
Friederich reports theft of a plaque designating a land area as the United States population center near Mascoutah. He fears government may hold him responsible though he values the idea over monetary worth. In Mattoon, 15 year old Larry Pringle drowned while playing on a zip sled in Lake Mattoon near the west bank.
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U.S
Mascoutah
Lawrence B. Friederich
United States
Friederich
Mattoon
Urbana
Lake Mattoon
Causeway Area
Shelby County
Larry Pringle
Youth vanishes after swimming accident in Illinois
A youth disappeared while swimming at Illinois Scene and was found later by the Mattoon Water Department after 3 p.m. The body was recovered at 3:35 p.m. by the Shelby County Sheriff's Department. The mother identified the swimmer as Frances Pringle's son from Urbana.
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Mattoon
Williamson County awards road material contracts
Williamson County Board of Commissioners approved contracts totaling 108 213 for motor fuel tax road work. Low bids: Franklin Asphalt Co Benton 99 888 for asphalt. Southern Illinois Stone Co Buncombe 4950 for rock. Wilson Asphalt Co Marion 3 000 tons patching 3375. State approval required. Tax bills mailing and payment deadlines set for July 23 and September 3 with penalties for late payment.
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O. R. Walley
Williamson County Board of Commissioners
Franklin Asphalt Co
Benton
Southern Illinois Stone Co
Buncombe
Rock
Wilson Asphalt Co
Marion
Fishing boat capsizes near Grand Tower. Percy man drowns
A 56 year old Percy man, Walter F Helfers, drowned when the fishing boat capsized in the Mississippi River near Grand Tower Saturday night. His son Henry Helfers survived by diving but could not locate his father. Helfers was a maintenance foreman for Valley Steel Products in Sparta and a member of Peace Lutheran Church in Steeleville. Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday at Peace Lutheran, with burial in IOOF Cemetery at Percy.
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Percy
Mississippi River
Grand Tower
Jackson County
Harry Flynn
Walter F. Helfers
Rt. 1
Charles Nahlik
Flynn
St. Louis
Mines
Helfers
Sparta
Mr. Helfers
Henry
Caroline Bollman Helfers
Perryville
Marguerite Loyd
Peace Lutheran Church
Steeleville
the Valley Steel
Kenneth Schroeder
IOOF
McDaniel Funeral Home
Boat plant strike still unexplained at West Frankfort
Mark Twain Marine in West Frankfort faced a part day walkout by Laboratory Local No. 87. President Lee Seibert called the action illegal and said the international union ordered a return to work. A union official declined to comment and others were unavailable.
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Mark Twain Marine, Inc
West Frankfort
Mt Vernon youths drown in separate lake incidents
Mt. Vernon reported the drowning of 18 year old Jerry Henn who disappeared in a water filled borrow pit south of town at about 6 30 pm and was recovered by Jefferson County Civil Defense divers at 7 10 pm. In Carmi William M Huber 14 also drowned while swimming in a pond near Carmi and was recovered.
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Jerry Henn
Mt. Vernon
Henn
Jefferson County Civil Defense
William M. Huber
Carmi
Fruit harvest advances in Union County area
Growers report early shipments of blueberries cucumbers and tomatoes with Lodi and Transparent apples nearing readiness. Officials expect a bumper peach and apple crop despite recent hail and windstorms impacting Union County.
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Union County
Thieves Probe Big Picnic at Local Restaurant
Burglars broke into Young's Restaurant in Cutler between Sunday night and today. They pried open cigarette and pinball machines and took money, candy boxes, six sunglasses, eight screwdrivers, six chickens, and 10 pounds of hamburger patties. Entry was through a broken window and back door. No damage estimate yet.
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Young’s
Cutler
Perry County Sheriff's Office
Postmasters Convene Illinois League Convention at Carbondale
The Illinois branch of the National League of Postmasters holds its annual state convention at the Ramada Inn in Carbondale. About 80 postmasters registered for today's activities as opening business sessions began. Notable attendees include Carbondale Postmaster Hubert Goforth Cobden Postmaster William Caraker Perks postmistress Eva Price and Chicago regional director K O William Sandberg. Caraker serves as president of the Illinois branch.
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Illinois
The
National League of Postmasters
Ramada Inn
Carbondale
Hubert Goforth
Cobden
William Caraker
Perks
Eva Price
K. O
William Sandberg
Chicago
Caraker
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Rt. 14
Rend Lake
Gene Adams
Harry
Threlkeld
AV Mines
Willis Malone
M. T. Potter
Carbondale Clinic
Carl England
Dean Biddle
Earl Walker
Harrisburg
Allen Kelley
Eldorado
Ben Edwards
Virgil Smith
Sam McVay
Vernon
Rodney Brenner
Golconda
James Rea
Christopher
Joan Marie
Bill Harris
Joppa
Mary Bede
Richard Grigsby
Mounds
Royalton School
Harlan Baker
Errop
Rts. 127
Midyett Services
Carbondale City Post
Decatur
Johnny Morris
Illinois 121
David R. Snyder
Bethany
Michelle
Sharon K. Young
Dalton City
Marshall A. Campbell
Snyder
Peggy
Hans Fox
Williamson County
State Department of Public Works and Buildings
John Lashley
Percy Man
Area Fruit Harvest
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