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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1985
Page
7
Washington AP reports farmers face more than seed costs as they plan spring planting. Machinery parts electricity labor and livestock feed add to bills. Bartelsmeyer of the Illinois Department of Transportation is noted as a registered professional engineer.
Illinois Department of Transportation District 9 in Carbondale announced promotions and hiring. Karl Bartelsmeyer of Carbondale was named district bureau chief of land acquisition succeeding Frank E. Mayhall who retired after 35 years. Glenn David McLernon was hired in Carbondale as a district official.
USDA quarterly prices indicate modest shifts and some declines for farm inputs such as motor oil and tires. While some items rose slightly, others fell versus January 1984. Fuel costs edged down with bulk gasoline at 1.09 a gallon and diesel 0.961. Livestock notes include cattle sales and feeder calf trends with varied prices by class and weight.
Landscape architect McLernon, a Western Illinois University graduate with Illinois work toward a master's in landscape architecture, replaces retired Ted Ebel in the Bureau of Maintenance. Harold Forbes of Carterville earns District 9 Engineer of the Year, while Warren Kiefer of Du Quoin is named Technician of the Year for guiding equal employment opportunity and labor compliance across highway contracts.
Tony Stevens cites a contracting market amid rate uncertainty with brokers Patrick Burley Don Hancock and Gary Parrish forecasting normal profit taking. Shop and Go with 441 stores in Florida and Georgia draws traffic from gasoline sales, while Sparkman Energy trades around 6 percent on the American Exchange. The piece notes zero coupon municipal issues at 9.4 percent, AAA backed by Fannie Mae, promising tripling of investment over 12 years.
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