City eliminates Carbondale water rate for 23 firms
Carbondale City Council Tuesday eliminated the commercial industrial water rate affecting about 23 businesses in Carbondale. The change will raise water and sewer bills for those entities, with no revenue estimate available. An audit cited lower than expected revenues and higher lens costs, and the move aims to avoid SIU court action and fund about $3.6 million in bonds.
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Gary Blackburn
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Ron Briggs
Cedar Lake
SIU Board of Trustees
Briggs
Bill Schwegman
Director of Public Works
SIU
New Era Dairy
Selmier - Peerless
Prairie Farms
Koppers Tie Plant
Woody Hall
Doctors Hospital
Jeffrey Laundromat
U. S. Post Office
William Schmidt
South Highway Water District
Kinkaid Lake
South Highway
Kinkaid
Rosenthal
University
Schmidt
Carbondale backs state bonds for transportation needs
Carbondale City Council urged passage of a $900 million state revenue bond issue to fund transportation and local public transit. The council sent resolutions to state officials, authorized $20,000 for three projects, and approved street safety study funding with federal aid. It also awarded a $4,560 bid for TV inspection of 2 1/2 miles of sewer and planned traffic signal updates on Main Street and Oakland Avenue.
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Carbondale
William Schmidt
St. Louis
Wall and
Main Street
Mardale Shopping Center
Penetryn Co
Ace Pipe Cleaning
Kansas City
Johnson Quits Carbondale Police Force
Lt. Clarence Johnson resigns from the Carbondale police effective July 5 to return to college. Police Chief Joe Dakin says a internal successor will be appointed. Johnson joined August 13 1963 and rose to sergeant in 1965 then lieutenant in charge of uniformed officers in 1969.
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Clarence Johnson
Carbondale
Johnson
Joe Dakin
Dakin
Girls named in Marion bomb hoax
Police reported that two underage girls aged 8 and 12 from Marion were among four callers who threatened a bomb at Oasis Park swimming pool. The pool was cleared Tuesday afternoon and investigators tapped lines to identify callers. The youths were apprehended and information filed with Williamson County State's Attorney, with action pending while two other callers remain at large.
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Marion
Oasis Park
L. B. Hunter
Hunter
Williamson County
Atty
Kenneth Powless
New mine rescue station planned for Illinois fluorspar area
State Senator Gene Johns announces a new non coal mine rescue station to be set up in Elizabethtown as a central unit for the fluorspar region. The station will include a mobile unit, trained team on call 24 hours, and supervision by a dedicated superintendent. Safety training and first aid courses will be offered by state inspectors and rescue personnel. A related bill to strengthen metal mine inspections passed the Senate. In Marion, vandalism hit Claude White Trucking Service with a broken door but no items reported missing.
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Elizabethtown
Gene Johns
Marion
Johns
Department of Mines and Minerals
Golconda
Senate
Richard Ogilvie
Murphysboro Approves Skip Zone Parking Plan
The Murphysboro council on Tuesday backed a revised 13 point traffic program from the chamber of commerce including skip zone parking on Walnut street and left turn lane proposals. The plan, to be analyzed by the state highway office, also tightens parking rules near the primary business district and sets four new no parking zones near downtown with Sunday exceptions.
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Murphysboro
Walnut Street
Chamber of Commerce Retail Interest Committee
State Division of Highways
Carbondale
Robert McCormack
RIC
11Th Street
13Th Street
14Th Street
16Th Street
17Th Street
McCormack
9Th Street
9Th
10Th
15Th
CCHS Seeks Bids To Sell Sewage Plant
CCHS East connected to Carbondale’s sewer system this week and the board authorized bids for the school’s on site plant built about three years ago. The district also considered a teachers’ salary proposal for 1971 72 raising starting pay to 7500 with increments for advanced degrees and experience. The board discussed executive session legality and approved up to 25000 in anticipated warrants to cover Friday payroll if tax funds are late.
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Carbondale Community High School
Cchs East
Charles Lerner
William Holder
John C. Feirich
Feirich
Cecil Hollis
Hollis
Carbondale approves three citizen participation programs
City Council approves a year long goals program financed by Model Cities and a federal grant, a July 13 Cedar Lake information meeting, and a Downtown Task Force to address downtown issues. Four neighborhood meetings are planned over the next four months with rotating locations.
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Carbondale
Model Cities
Cedar Lake
Township Hall
City Hall
East Main Street
Citizens Advisory Committee
Five Vehicle Crash Kills Christopher Motorist on Rt 14
Lester Thuillier, 22, of Christopher, died in a five vehicle crash on Rt 14 about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday three miles west of his hometown. State police report Jacqueline D. Huggins, 26, Du Quoin, stopped for a left turn. James L. Bader, 16, West Frankfort, and Jackie D. Patton, 27, Walter, halted behind the Huggins car. A truck driven by James Allen Case, 44, Hamburg, Ind., struck the Eader auto, pushing others into each other, then collided head on with Thuillier. Case was cited for failure to reduce speed. Two passengers in the Eader car were treated and released. Thuillier, a Vietnam veteran and Freeman Coal Co. employee, lived at 408 W. Ray Ave., Christopher, and was survived by his wife Marianne Miller and other relatives. Funeral set for Friday at Gilbert Funeral Home.
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Lester Thuillier
Christopher
Rt. 14
Jacqueline D. Huggins
du Quoin
Jackie D. Patton
Walter
James L. Bader
West Frankfort
Huggins Auto
James Allen Case
Hamburg
Eader Auto
Eader
Patton Auto
Huggins
Case
Joseph Eader
Steve Cunningham
Peoria
Miners Hospital
Thuilliez
W. Ray Ave
Murphysboro Council Redraws Ward Boundaries Westward
Murphysboro city council adopted a western ward boundary realignment placing all of Westwood Hills south of Rt 149 in Ward 4 by extending Rt 149 as the divider. The move accompanies expansion to the west and follows Walnut street previously used as the line. The panel also approved a fair housing ordinance, supported home rule bills, urged action on a St Louis expressway bond, and postponed park plans at the east of the depot pending July 13 decision.
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Spruce Street
15Th
17Th
16Th
15Th Street
Pine and
Elm Streets
Pine Street
17Th Streets
20Th Street
Walnut Street
Northwest
Carbondale Community High School
Winkler
Parrish School
T. A. Martinsek
Carbondale Council
Associaon
Dora Brubaker
S. University Ave
Bill Edwards
N. Allman St
Max Sappenfield
Skyline Dr
General Assembly
Bald Knob Cross
Also Pass
Councilman
Clark Vineyard
James Street
Schwartz
Mill Streets
West Freeman Street
Poplar
Poplar Street
College Street
Forest
Murphysboro
Bruce Richmond
Westwood Hills
Rt. 149
Ward 4
Ward 5
Illinois
Illinois Municipal League
Carbondale
St. Louis
Jackson County
Illinois Central Railroad
Richmond
Johnston City to receive donated theater building for schools
Judge Stewart Cluster offers the closed Palace Theater to Johnston City Unit One School District for school use in memory of Robert Cluster. The air conditioned building, valued around 60000 dollars, was made through Cluster for his mother Mim mith Cluster and brother Loren of Florida. The board of education will consider the gift.
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Palace
Johnston City
Stewart Cluster
Cluster
Mimmith Cluster
Hollywood
Fla
Loren
Fort Lauderdale
Robert Cluster
Board of Education
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Oakland Avenue
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Illinois Department of Conservation
Southern
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Claude White Trucking Service
Rt. 37
Southern Illinois An
CCHS
Teachers’ Committee
Charles Leming
Reid Martin
Gerald Compton
Hans Fischer
Jerry Maxwell
Gary Worth
Bill Schmidt
Bill Burns
John Quinn
Northeast
Terry Caldwell
Fair Housing Board
Steve Thomas
Oakland Ave
George Camille
Ralph McCoy
W. Chautauqua
Jewell Truilove
W. College St
Thuillier
Christopher Man
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