Fire Rips Cairo Warehouse Fumes Prompt Mass Evacuation
Acrid chemical fumes drove an evacuation of 3,000 to 4,000 Cairo residents when a warehouse complex burned. Police and state troopers urged leaving the smoke filled area, later allowing returns as fumes proved non toxic. The fire caused about 150,000 dollars in damage and triggered a coordinated response from fire, police, guards, and investigators.
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Cairo, Tl
Cairo
Hudson Warehouse
Tra Hudson 10
28Th Street
38Rd Street
Tlinois National Guard
Cairo Evening Citizen
Martin Brown
Jackson County Reassessment Panel Gathers Details
Jackson County seeks a definite purpose for a potential complete reassessment. A 23 member committee, named in 1968, plans to meet with the Board of Supervisors to clarify directives and discuss use of an outside agency or tax map based reassessment approach with aerial photographs and overlays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Stevens
Carbondale
Charles Hines
Jackson County Board of Supervisors
Hines
Delmar Ward
James Gillmore
Gillmore
Gilmore
Richard Richman
Ward
David Keene
John J. Wright
Harold Dycus
Bill McBride
W. A. Beadle
Joe Williams
George Bergsmniller
Bob Fingar
W. R. Collins
Ernie Miller
Louis Wides
W. Ray Hagler
Murphysboro
Paul Ruble
Somerset
Dwight Burns
Elk Ville
Wendell Keith
Grand Tower
William Sauer
Po- Mona
Hugh Stearns
Ma Kanda
Park Jarrett
Degognia
Trooper Maurizio Demonstrates Alcohol Breath Tester
Capt. Dwight Pittman of the State Police chemical testing program watches while Trooper Bill Maurizio breathes into an Alco tester to measure alcohol in the air. Pittman was in Du Quoin to demonstrate the machine to troopers and explain its use.
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Bill Maurizio
Dwight Pittman
State Police
Pittman
du Quoin
Richman sues Carbondale over residency for city board
Jackson County suit alleges illegal appointment to Carbondale fire and police commission. Richman targets Mayor Keene and council members with Rev. Lee C. Moorehead as defendants. Hearing set for July 5 in Murphysboro. Richman cites state residency rule for board appointees. city attorney says rule not required.
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Jackson County
Richard Richman
Carbondale
Fire and Police Commission
Muchysboroe
David Keene
Lee C. Moorehead
Murphysboro
Richman
Moorehead
Ripercield
Jehman
George Fleerlage
Keene
Jane
Fleerlage
jState
Fleer Jlage
Vormer
Pastor Moorehead elected chair of Carbondale police and fire board
The Rev. Lee C. Moorehead was formally elected chairman of Carbondale's Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, replacing Robert Brooks who stepped down earlier. Billy Branch was named secretary, and Mrs. Brooks was hired as secretary to keep records. The board updated its list of potential firefighters and officers, sending 15 names to the police department for selection and appointing Fire Chief Almont Crawishaw to fill two new positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee C. Moorehead
Carbondale
Board of Police
Moorehead
Robert Brooks
Billy Branch
Police Department
Jack Hazel
sSent
Almont Crawishaw
Herrin Man Named Personnel Chief at Marion VA Hospital
Ambrose J. Colombo, a Herrin, Illinois native, was assigned as personnel division chief at Marion Veterans Hospital after transferring from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He previously served 18 years as assistant personnel chief and has worked at Marion VA Hospital in 1946. Colombo is a Herrin High School graduate who attended Southern Illinois University and Washington University in St Louis.
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Bertin
Marion Veterans Hospital
Ambrose J. Colombo
Lath St
Jefferson Barracks
Veterans Hospital
Colombe
Marion VA Hospital
Herrin High School
Southern Ilinois University
Washington University
Louis, Mo
Girl 18 Struck by Train Near Zeigler and Royalton
Zeigler Police report an 18 year old girl Debra Mann of Royalton was apparently on a trestle when she was struck by a train around 6 30 pm Wednesday between Zeigler and Royalton. The scene is under investigation as mine reports indicate activity Friday.
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Zeigler
Royalton
Debra Mann
Tragedy in Herrin: Man Kills Wife Then Wounds Self
James Flower, 46, of Marion, shot his estranged wife Leatha Myrl Flener, 43, in the Olin Mathieson plant parking lot near Ordill, then shot himself in the chest. Flener had filed for divorce June 1944 and worked at Olin for six to seven years. Witnesses were Mae Pulley and Ron High. Flower died later at Marion Memorial Hospital after days of treatment. Viola Lilly Allen, 71, of Marion, died at Marion Memorial Hospital. services set at Wilson Funeral Home with burial at Maplewood Cemetery.
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C. R. Walley
Herrin
James Flower
Marion Memorial Hospital
Leatha Myrl Flener
Rt. 2
Carterville
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
Ordill
Bam
Flener
Mae Pulley
Mechanic St
Marion
Ron High
Westernaire Estates
High
Olin
Williamson County
Ova Greer
Greer
Patricia Lee
Williamson County Legal Services Bureau
Viola Allen
Viola Lilly Allen
E. Carter St
Wilson Funeral Home
Everett. Lynch
Maplewood Cemetery
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East St. Louis
Peoria
Chicago
Springfield
Jesse Jackson
Pyramid Court
Alexander County
Tackson
Peyton Berthling
James T. McGuire
McGuire
State Fire Marshal’s
H. L. Zimmerman
J. E. Wright
Zimmerman
Peyton Berbling
Chesley Willis
Berbling
Mlinois Department of Business and Economic Development
Ray Dickerson
Ed Greer
Hans J. Fischer
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