Skateboard traffic ban eyed for Murphysboro streets
Murphysboro City Council considers banning skateboards on all public streets and sidewalks after police call it a major traffic hazard. The report urged a citywide ban, with study for possible designated areas and a sidewalk link to the new Murphysboro High School.
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Murphysboro
Michael Bow
Ers
Bowers
Toby ‘Serger
Berger
Big Muddy River
Riverside Park
Ward 2
Leonard Pullis
23Rd Street
Clay Street
Commercial Avenue
Central Business District
Sth
17Th Streets
Walnut Street
North 16Th Street
Murphysboro High School
Carruthers Junior High
Murphysboro shifts site for new shopping center
Mayor Michael Bowers says a redevelopment agency, Leo Eisenberg and Co of Kansas City, plans a 27 acre east Murphysboro site near Illinois 13 for a Kroger anchored center with two other major stores. Work could start by early 1978. tenants are being signed.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinois
Murphysboro
New Illinois 13
Michael Bowers
Bowers
Kroger
Illinois 13
Jackson County Nursing Home
U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development
National Coal Policy Project tours Illinois mines
A Washington group led by John Corcoran and Michael McCloskey visits Randolph and Perry counties to study coal mining reclamation. They will review Peabody Baldwin plant and other regional sites while hearings hear from local planning bodies and the Illinois South Project about reclamation and subsidence concerns.
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Barbara Schechter
Southern
Coast
Northern Plains
Rocky Mountains
Illinois
Midwest
John Corcoran
Consolidation Coal Co
Michael McCloskey
The
Sierra Club
Peabody Coal Co. Baldwin
Southwestern Illinois Coal Co
Captain
Amax Coal Co
Leahy
Greater Egypt
Ilinois South Project
Illinois South Project
Reclamation Coalition
Jackson
Williamson
Randolph
Perry
Franklin
Saline
Jefferson
St. Clair
Susan Casey
Jackson County
Carbondale Faces Shortage of 30000-Dollar Homes
A Carbondale joint committee, including city staff and Chamber of Commerce leaders, reports the city lacks $30,000 homes due to high taxes, land costs, strict codes, and perceived college town image. They propose reducing development costs, land prices, and union restrictions, or adopting modular housing to spur lower priced housing.
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Robert Grupp
The
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
City of
Garbondale
Phillip Baewer
Baewer
Greater
Cherry Building Corp
Barry Bain
Raul Ayala
Jack Hanley
Eldon Gosnell
James Rayfield
John Yow
Labor history inspires 1977 playwriting contest winner
The Southern Illinois University Carbondale theater department hosts an International Playwriting Competition with a labor movement theme. A $2,000 prize awaits the winner, who will have their script staged at SIU C. Submissions close February 15, 1978 with May judges’ announcements. The piece may draw on Southern Illinois coal miners and regional labor history.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Ilinoisan
Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale Theater Department
Abraham Lincoln
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Siu-C
Christian Moe
Illinois
Moe
Siuc Theater
Joseph W. Talarowski
Zelda Fichandler
Arena Stage
Washington, D.C
Martin Gottfried
New York Post
John Patrick
America
Siuc Theater Department
Southern Illinois Playwrights
University High Class of 1967 to Hold Reunion in Carbondale
The University High School Class of 1967 will reunite with a Buffet Dinner 4 to 7 p.m. at the Carbondale Ramada Inn and a Get-together Dance 8 p.m. to midnight in Pulliam Hall. Cost is 9 per person for the buffet. adults pay 1 for the dance, with children free. Reservations contact Rasche Henry 549-0063, Long 457-6640, or Heisler 457-4788. Also Herrin High School Class of 1957 hosts a 20th reunion at Eagles Home 205 N 16th St from 9 p.m. to midnight. Kay Brown 985-2528 for details.
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University High School
Carbondale Community High School
Gether
Carbondale Ramada Inn
University High
Pulliam
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Sandy Rasche Henry
Sue Fiegenbaum Long
Judy Heisler
Herrin High School
Eagles
N. 16Th St
Herrin
Kay Brown
Herrin Unit 4 to Eliminate Eight Nonteaching Posts
Herrin Unit 4 school district will cut eight non teaching jobs next fall to cut costs. A custodial position at Chittyville School was not filled and two cooks will not be replaced. Five full time aides and technicians on one year contracts will be eliminated.
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Barbara Schechter
Southern Illinoisan
Herrin Unit 4
Board of Education
Chittyville
William Clarida
Clarida
Jack Murphy
Helen Elliott
Lucille Yates
Paul K. Warren
Chittyville School
Marilyn Blatter
Diane Green
Jeanne Cohrs
Mary Walker
Nancy Johns
Deborah Bandy
SIU C Drops Summer Enrollment to 9 957 Students
SIU C reports 9 957 students enrolled this summer, down 159 from last year and below 10 000 for the first time since 1974. Browning notes lack of Illinois State Scholarship Commission funding as a minor factor, with reductions in Graduate School and freshman counts but more juniors and seniors. Total includes 8 405 on Carbondale campus and 1 552 at off campus sites.
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Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
Siu-C
B. K. Browning
SIUC
Browning
Illinois State
Cuban-born SIU senior recalls homeland and Cuba trip plan
Edgar Tate of Carbondale, a SIU senior in journalism and Latin American studies, recalls his Cuba childhood and hopes to return for research with professor Ronald Mason. They seek visas aided by lawmakers, raise funds, and plan a 2–3 week visit to study work habits and visit his father still in Camaguey.
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Robert Grupp
Southern Illinois
Edgar Tate
Carbondale
Tate
Camaguey
Cuba
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
SIUC
Ronald M. Mason
Mason
Castro
South Florida
Manuel Rodriguez Cruz
University of Camaguey
Seiz
Florida
U.S
Paul Simon
D - Carbondale
Charles Percy
R - Iil
George McGovern
South Dakota
Washington
Vincent Buzek
Simon
McGovern
United Nations
St. Louis
Miami
Havana
Mexicana Airlines
Art Lean
Lean
STUC
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Murphysboro Elks Club
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Carterville
H. Allen Smith
McLeansboro
Gene Fowler
Smith
San Francisco
Texas
John Barrymore
Prince
Timberline
Fowler
W. C. Fields
Fields
Robert Lewis Taylor
New Yorker
Taylor
Jaimie McPheeters
Claude
Siu Senior
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