Commission urges maintaining Hurst Bush center in Illinois
A June 1 report from the Illinois Commission on Children backs keeping the Southern Illinois Children's Service Center at Hurst Bush. The document urges a group care facility for adolescent boys, with 6 to 9 month stays or 24 hour to 10 day emergency care, and recommends policy and funding actions while noting ongoing disputes with DCFS and a July 1 civil service hearing over former director William Ayers.
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Illinois General Assembly
Southern Illinois Children’s Service Center
Hurst Bush
Ralph Dunn
R-Du Quoin
Illinois Commission On Children
Illinois Civil Service Commission
William Ayers
Springfield
Ayers
Home
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
DCFS
Civil Service Commission
George Ross
Southern Illinois
Department
Hurst-Bush
Dunn
Aken
Mary Lee Leahy
Commission On Children’s
Department of Private
Release order overruled in Higgins parole case
Judge Richard Richman ruled Illinois parole procedures unconstitutional in Higgins 1975 parole violation case. Leonard Higgins Jr. of Carbondale faced a back-to-prison order that would have added three years, but the court ordered Higgins released from Menard Prison to end the matter.
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Richman
Leonard Higgins Jr
E. Elm St
Menard
Chester
Richard Richman
State Department
Higgins
Merard
Supreme Court
Department of Corrections
Murphysboro Big Muddy Monster Sightings Continue
Police report three youths in Westwood Hills saw something unusual in the woods near the West city limits around 10 p.m. Saturday. No footprints or traces were found, description vague due to dim light, continuing a pattern of sightings dating back to 1973 with Sasquatch connections noted by investigators.
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Murphysboro
Westwood Hills
West City
Riverside Park
Big Muddy River
California
Oregon
SIU-C coed’s nude body found in Chicago
The nude body of 18 year old Sonja Moffett, SIU Carbondale freshman majoring in special education, was found Saturday by a child near a South Side factory. Police say her father Nathaniel Moffett reported her missing June 13. Cause of death undetermined.
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Chicago
Southern Tlinois University-Carbondale
Nathaniel Moffett
Miss Moffett
SIUC
Grant funds Aeon to train teen counselors in three counties
Aeon Alternatives Program receives a $10,000 state grant from the Public Health Trust Fund to fund a second year in Franklin Williamson and Jackson counties. In year one, 12 Marion High School seniors were trained to counsel students at Marion Junior High on life problems family issues drugs sexuality and peer or authority concerns with 15 to 17 year olds.
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Aeon
Larry Bennett
Carbondale
Public Health Trust
Franklin
Williamson
Jackson
Rion High School
Marion Junior High School
Franklin - Williamson County
Elkins Receives Central Region NACTA Distinguished Teacher Award
Donald M. Elkins, professor of plant and soil science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, earns the Central Region Distinguished Teacher Award from the National Association of College Teachers of Agriculture. He has taught since 1967 and specializes in field and forage crops and turfgrasses.
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Donald M. Elkins
Southern [Illinois University
Arbondale
National Association of College Teachers of Agriculture
NACTA
Elkins
Siu-C
Midwestern
Alaska
Siu-C School of Agriculture
Standard Oil of Indiana Foundation
Summer Solstice Marks Official Start of Summer
The North Pole tilted 23 degrees 27 minutes toward the sun at 1 24 a m to begin summer. Southern Illinois will experience 15 hours of daylight today with daylight increasing one minute for four days starting Tuesday and then decreasing after Friday until December.
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North Pole
Illinois
Zeigler Firemen Win Fun Day Overall Championship
Zeigler firemen won the overall Firemen's Fun Day title with 30 points at Marion on Saturday. They finished first in hose carry water carry and obstacle course. Johnston City firemen took second with 28 points and won the tug of war and water fight.
Williamson Board Boosts Mileage Pay and Votes on Local Liaisons
The Williamson County Board of Commissioners raised mileage payments from 10 to 15 cents for board members citing a state law change. They approved seeking membership in the Urban County Councils of Illinois if accepted, noting prior exit from the Illinois County Boards Association. The group also set bids opening for a Grassy Precinct voting house a new 18 by 18 foot concrete block building beside the existing structure.
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Williamson County Board of Commissioners
J. M. Walker
Urban County Councils of
Illinois
William Humphreys
Illinois County Boards Association
Walker
County Boards Association
Herrin Woman Airlifted After Pedestrian Collision
Along Illinois 148 south of Herrin a car struck two pedestrians, Kenneth Walker and Anna Mae Hampton. Hampton, 56, was flown to Barnes Hospital in St. Louis in poor condition, while Walker, 36, was treated at Marion Memorial Hospital and listed in good condition. The driver, Bernice McDonald of Freeman Spur, was not charged. The incident occurred about 2:15 p.m. Sunday three miles south of Illinois 13.
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Illinois
Herrin
Barnes Hospital
St. Louis
Anna Mae Hampton
Kenneth Walker
du Quoin
Illinois 13
Bernice McDonald
Freeman Spur
McDonald
Walker
Hampton
Marion Memorial Hospital
Fowlnappers grab peahen at Herrin park
Herrin city officials report vandals broke into the park henhouse and stole a peahen valued at about 70 dollars. Superintendent John Berra said the incident follows prior thefts of peacock feathers and a shed break in. A reward is offered for information leading to the bird’s recovery.
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Herrin City
John Berra
Berra
Motorcyclist killed on Interstate 57 in Franklin County
A Springfield man, George H. Henry, 44, died when his motorcycle overturned on median of Interstate 57 at 2 20 a m in Franklin County. He was pronounced dead at Franklin Hospital in Benton. Funeral services and burial will be in Springfield. arrangements are with Jackson Funeral Home in Colp.
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Springfield
Franklin County
George H. Henry
Franklin Hospital
Benton
Mr. Henry
Colp
Jackson Funeral Home
Union County
Lester C. Wallace
Cobden
U.S. 51
Illinois 146
Black women who took the Ladies Course seek posthumous degrees
Robinson seeks funding to award bachelor’s degrees posthumously to 11 black women who completed Oberlin College’s Ladies Course before 1955. If successful, Oberlin will grant the degrees and the project would raise pre Civil War black degree holders to about 40, expanding the historical record and correcting myths about black higher education.
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Henry de Fiebre
Southern Illinoisan
Walter G. Robinson Jr
United States
Robinson
Rehabilitation Institute
Southern Il
Linois University - Carbondale
Ohio
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Mary Jane Patterson
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Ben Watkins
Michael
Jennifer
Larry
Phyllis
Hauschen
Ben
Alan and
Sheryl Watkins
Butch Nevious
Hurst
Commission On Children
Marion Area
Marion
Ed Aken
Carterville
Mental Health Department
Commission
Illinois Dept. of Corrections
Jackson County
Illinois 3
Illinois 149
Pentecostal Church
Grant
Zeigler Firemen
Johnston City
Marion Jaycees
Eagles Club
Veterans Hospital
Herrin Park
Bobby G. Pollard
Dongola
Jack G. Yates
Wallace
Ricky J. Collie
George F. Bostian
Union County Hospital
Anna
Pollard
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