Zoning proposal advances to Carbondale council Monday
Carbondale zoning commission presents a modified ordinance to the city council. The changes reduce restrictions on flood plain areas and allow rebuilding after damage if ground-floor area does not increase. Occupancy rules in R-2 zones expand to multi family housing and rooming houses become permitted uses.
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Joseph Arimond
Carbondale
Zoning Commission
James Rayfield
Carbondale Planning Department
Escapee Rainey Returned to Face Charge in Louisiana
Michael Rainey, 18, an escapee from Ascension Parish jail, was returned Saturday to face a charge of escape after fleeing on a road drainage work detail. He had earlier been accused of aiding two underage girls to a rock festival in Little Rock, Arkansas. Rainey was arrested Thursday while hitchhiking on Route 37 and transferred to Williamson County jail. An escape charge was filed in connection with his previous jail break.
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Herrin
Donaldsonville
Rainey
Parrish
Parrish of Ascension
Ascension Parish
J. Richard Cornell
Little Rock
Ark
Cornell
J.W. Jenkins
Buncombe
Johnson County
Barry Eastman
Gorham High School educators named outstanding secondary educators
Two Gorham High School staff members, Robert Crain and Melvin Hopfer, have been chosen as outstanding secondary educators of America for 1973 in a nationwide poll. The award honors leadership in secondary education and biographies appear in the annual volume. The honorees are eligible for a national award and five unrestricted $500 grants.
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Gorham High School
Robert Crain
Melvin Hopfer
Bartoli resigns as Hill House director to focus on SIU studies
Ron Bartoli, Hill House director since last August, resigns to devote full time to studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dr. Marshall Gilula serves as acting director while applicants are screened for the fulltime post, with a goal to fill by mid July.
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Ron Bartoli
Hill House
Carbondale
Southern Ilinois University
Judith ‘Lindy’ Goodman
Carbondale Action Now
CAN
Ron
Bartoli
Dept. of Mental Health
Marshall Gilula
West Frankfort
Gilula
Thas
California
Florida
Goodman
Air Force
Ted Osborne
DMH
Two Doctors Set to Open Sparta Medical Center Offices
Dr Terra Pittayathikhan and Dr Pornchai Pisupha-Arnond will establish offices in Sparta next Thursday and in Marissa to serve patients there. Both are general practitioners with internal medicine and cardiology training, currently at Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and will practice in a brick exterior medical building with five doctor spaces at Sparta Community Hospital.
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Sparta
Marissa
Terra Pittayathikhan
Pornchai Pisupha-Arnond
Pittayathikhan
Pisupha-Arnond
United States
Weiss Memorial Hospital
Chicago
Jackie Smith
Carl Murphy
Sparta Community Hospital
Murphy
No Progress In Settling Area Strike
No progress was reported Saturday in a strike by Southern Illinois operating engineers that has halted construction across a 14 county area since Monday. About 500 engineers from Harrisburg Local 318 walked off after eight months of failed contract talks with area contractors. the previous contract expired December 31. No talks have occurred since Monday morning.
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Southern Illinois
Corps halts pumping on flooded Mississippi Bottoms farms
The U S Army Corps of Engineers ordered a halt to pumping operations on flood ed farmlands in the Mississippi Bottoms Friday afternoon. Officials said the flood was over and there was no longer a need for pumps, with the work run by Harrisburg Local 318 of the International Union of Operating Engineers. The strike by the local did not cause the shutdown, according to Local 318 business manager Wardell Riggs.
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Harrisburg
International Union of Operating Engineers
Wardell Riggs
Mississippi Bottoms
USS
Army Corps of Engineers
Corps
West Frankfort Park District to Receive $100000 Grant
The West Frankfort Community Park District will receive a $100,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for park improvements in West Frankfort and Orient. Congressman Kenneth J. Gray praised the district's work and released the grant information.
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West Frankfort Community Park
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
West Frankfort
Orient
Kenneth J. Gray
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