Dragline Monster Moves Across Southern Illinois
The 6 million pound Consolidation Coal dragline, nicknamed Monster, advances 2 miles south of Pinckneyville toward Burning Star No 4, crossing Rt 13 and Rt 127 while a detour is built. About 25 workers and several bulldozers staff the operation as it navigates railroads creeks and roads en route to the new Burning Star No 4 surface mine.
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Consolidation Coal Co
du Quoin
Jamestown
Burning Star No. 4
John Roark
Pinckneyville
Rt. 13
Roark
Burning Star No. 2
Illinois
Sparta
HEW findings due on SIU hiring practices review
HEW investigator Don Scott will brief SIU officials late today on the mining of employment policies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Willis Malone will receive the findings in the absence of David Derge as he attends a Washington education meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Butler
Southern
Malone
David R. Derge
Washington D.C
International Education Commission
Derge
Ment
HEW
Springfield
Illinois Commission On the Status of Women
SIU
Robert Harrell
American Association of University Professors
Joanne Thorpe
Carbondale Holiday Inn
Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Marisa Canut- Amoros
Carolyn Weiss
SIU to present decentralization report to trustees
A report clarifying functions and decentralization at the Southern Illinois University system may be presented March 9 to the SIU Board of Trustees in Carbondale. Chairman Ivan A. Elliott Jr. said the document aims to redefine job roles and maintain decentralization across campuses.
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Dave Butler
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University System
SIU Board of Trustees
Carbondale
Ivan A. Elliott Jr
Carmi
Elliott
Ellliott
SIU
National Prison Project to sue over inmate mail rules
The National Prison Project plans a federal suit naming Marion Federal Prison and other federal facilities for restricting inmate mail. It cites social restrictions and limits on attorney client and ex inmate correspondence, with specifics to be filed next month in federal court.
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Marion
Bud Farrar
Washington , D.C
National Prison Project
Marion Federal Prison
NPP
Federal District Court
American Civil Liberties Union
Nancy Crisman
Atlanta
Cripe
Crisman
Congress
IPCB Orders Zeigler Coal Co to Stop Pollution
The Illinois Pollution Control Board orders Zeigler Coal Co to halt alleged discharges into creeks near Johnston City and to post a 72000 dollar bond till No 4 mine water pollution controls are finished. EPA earlier charged Zeigler with polluting Lake Creek Pond Creek and a Pond Creek tributary with acid iron and coal wastes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeigler Coal Co
Illinois Pollution Control Board
IPCB
Johnston City
Zeigler Coal
No. 4
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Zeigler
Lake Creek
Pond Creek
Peabody Coal Co
SIU May Partner With Hanyang University Korea
SIU Carbondale may work with Hanyang University Seoul to upgrade Korea’s education system. President David R. Derge outlined possible exchange tiers for graduate students junior faculty and senior professors and noted Korea aims to expand mandatory schooling from grade six to nine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SIU
Southern Illinois University At
Carbondale
Hanyang University
Seoul
South Korea
David R. Derge
Siu-C
Derge
SIUC
Korea
Hanyang
Library's Low Bid Approved for Murphysboro Facility
The Sallie Logan Library Board approved W. E. Snyder Construction Co. of Herrin for the Murphysboro library project at 18th and Walnut streets with a bid of 311,344 for all construction. Negotiations on six alternates to continue, work to start by month end. funded by a 250,000 bond issue approved in December 1971.
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W. E. Snyder Construction Co
Herrin
Murphysboro
Sallie Logan Library Board
Snyder
18Th
Walnut Streets
Sallie Logan
Carbondale weighs options to keep CEMREL program
Carbondale may extend CEMREL a seven through 12 program despite federal funding loss. With 50 gifted students at high school level, the district faces choices including absorbing CEMREL into the high school math program or funding options from SIU. A March 15 decision is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonita Troutt
Cemrel
Carbondale
Richard Nixon
William T. Holder
SIU
Peabody seeks injunction over Eagle No 2 mine strike
Peabody Coal seeks a temporary restraining order to force about 300 United Mine Workers members at Eagle No 2 mine Shawneetown back to work. The walkout followed Leon Sullivan of West Frankfort being suspended after refusing to work for a supervisor amid a prior conflict. Dawes said the strike began Tuesday and Peabody planned to renew the request in Benton federal court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peabody Coal Co
Eagle No. 2
Shawneetown
United Mine Workers of America
UMWA
Leon Sullivan
West Frankfort
Umwa District 12
Kenneth Dawes
Sullivan
Dawes
Peabody
U.S
Benton
William Stockton
St. Louis
Harrisburg Store Destroyed in Courthouse Square Fire
A Harrisburg blaze Thursday night destroyed Bob's Discount Store and damaged Myron's Ladies Wear Store with smoke. One firefighter was overcome. Volunteer Carl Stokich Jr. suffered a smoke-related heart attack and was hospitalized in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courthouse Square
Harrisburg
Bob’s Discount Store
Myron’s
Ladies Wear
Carl Stokich Jr
Doctors Hospital
Guilty of aggravated battery McClellan cleared of murder charge
A Circuit Court jury acquitted an Illinois Migrant Council official of murdering his 11 year old daughter. It convicted Charles McClellan 40 regional director in Cairo of aggravated battery for wounding his estranged wife. Sentencing set for March 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Illinois Migrant Council
Charles McClellan
Council
Cairo
Louis B. Garippo
Rabies Prompts 60 Day Dog Confinement in Campbell Hill
Campbell Hill officials ordered a 60 day dog confinement after two skunks tested positive for rabies. Village president Herbert Bollmann cited stray rabies cases and strange skunk activity near homes. County health officer Dr. John Amadio confirmed two positive tests and noted 20 rabies cases in Ava Campbell Hill area since November, mostly in skunks.
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Campbell Hill
Herbert A. Bollmann
Bollmann
John Amadio
Therr
Amadio
Health Department
Ava
Rural trauma system chief touts EMS expansion
Dr. David R. Boyd, head of Illinois trauma system, told Anna audience rural care is at a crisis point but improved by the EMS program. He credited dedicated rural physicians, local community involvement, and a $4 million federal grant for expanding trauma care to poisoning, addiction, and mental health emergencies.
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David R. Boyd
Illinois’ Trauma System
Anna
Boyd
Union County
Carbondale
Springfield
Illinois
Chicago
Booyd
St. Louis
Southern Illinois
Doctors Memorial Hospital
Marvin Mathis
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John Trimble
Ed Greer
Sugar Creek
Saline River
Harco
Hanyang U
Library
McClellan
Starlon
Delta
Migrant Council
Cairo- Cobden
Office of Economic Opportunity
Henry deFiebre
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