Reagan plan could halve Greater Egypt staff
The Reagan administration proposes cutting Economic Development Administration funds for regional commissions from 44 million to zero. Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission could lose about 80 thousand dollars annually and face staff cuts. Southern Five Commission might halve its 15-member staff but keep planning work, and contracts with EDA and other agencies would end or shift through 1981.
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Reagan
Egypt
Regional Development Commission
Economic Development Administration
Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission
Gerpdc
A.S. Kirkikis
EDA
Kirkikis
Southern Five Regional Planning and Development Commission
Greater Egypt
Mark Twain Boat Co
West Frankfort
Marion
Carbondale
Benton
Rend Lake
Jeff Ashauer
Southern Five Regional Planning Commission
Mount Vernon
Southern Five
Alexander, Johnson
Pulaski
Massac
Union
Ashauer
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Commission
Illinois Department of Conservation
Illinois Department of Transportation
Comprehensive Health Planning
Illinois
Franklin to boost penalties under Franklin County pet law
Franklin County moves to raise maximum fines to 200 dollars for violations of animal control rules. The health and rabies committee approved the bill for March 17 presentation, aiming to enforce rabies tags and owner control. Dumping animals could incur 100 to 500 dollars. A plan to hire three full time animal control officers, funded per capita, was discussed with city officials.
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Theresa Churchill
Southern Illinois
Franklin County
John Tedeschi
SIU-C students testify on Reagan cuts hurting financial aid
SIU Carbondale students and parents testified before Representative Paul Simon on the impact of proposed Reagan cuts to federal financial aid. They cited BEOG grants and loans enabling education for Diane Johnson and Annabella Jackson, warning cuts could push students to cheaper, lower quality schools and threaten college access for middle class families and disabled students.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinoisan
Diane Johnson
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Diane
SIUC
BEOG
Reagan
Annabella Jackson
Carbondale
Janita
Illinois State Scholarship Commission
Jackson
Paul Simon
Illinois
House Committee On
Simon
John Corker
Stan Irvin
Siu-C
Irvin
Harrisburg Horn Players Shine At Regional Music Meet
Harrisburg teens Melissa Summers and Rena Simpson, both 17, performed on French horn at the Illinois High School Association regional music competition held at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Altgeld Hall. The event drew Class B entrants from Anna Jonesboro, Benton, Cairo, Carterville, Christopher, Du Quoin, Johnston City, Metropolis, Vienna, West Frankfort, with Class C and D towns also competing.
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Melissa Summers
Rena Simpson
Harrisburg
Illinois Hi School Association
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Altgeld Hall
Anna-Jonesboro
Benton
Cairo
Carterville
Christopher
du Quoin
Johnston City
Metropolis
Vienna
West Frankfort
Judge D D Bigler quits Ferrell arson hearing
Union County residents Anna May Ferrell and contractor Paul Coffman were indicted February 18 by a Union County grand jury. Judge Bigler excused himself from the arson case without comment and the matter moves to Chief Judge Robert Chase who will appoint a replacement. The February 25 1980 fire in Anna destroyed an office and storage building owned by Ferrell and the pair are accused of setting the blaze to defraud Country Mutual Insurance Company.
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Union County
D. D. Bigler
Anna
Robert L. Ferrell
Paul Coffman
Bigler
Robert Chase
1St Judicial Circuit
Ronald Eckiss
Ferrell and Coffman
Ferrell
Coffman
Country Mutual Insurance Company
Unemployment rates rise across seven Southern Illinois counties
January 1981 figures from the Illinois Department of Labor show 18 percent unemployment in Franklin and Union counties, with six other area counties in double digits. Union County rose to 18 percent from 14.9, while Williamson, Perry, Johnson, and Randolph also posted higher rates amid lingering recession and seasonal layoffs.
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Ron Poppenhagen
Illinois
Illinois Department of Labor
Franklin
Union
Union County
Franklin County
Williamson County
Jackson County
Randolph County
Perry County
Johnson County
David Koch
Mike Wessell
Labor Department
Bureau of Employment Security
Koch
Jackson
Surround
Activit
Southern Illinois University-Carsbondale
Williamson
Johnson
Wessell
Powers pursues novels about media and reporting
Novelist and former journalist Ron Powers visits Southern Illinois University Carbondale as a public lecturer on Television News and the Killer Satellite. He discusses his two novels Face Value and Toot-Toot-Tootsie Good-Bye, prize credentials, and the impact of reporting on his fiction while promoting his latest work.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan
Ron Powers
Powers
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Lawson Hall
Bread Loaf
Middlebury
Delacorte Press
N.Y
Hannibal, Mo
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
University of Missouri Journalism School
Chicago Sun- Times
The
Sun-Times
Pulitzer Committee
Wmaq-Tv
Chicago
Saul Bellow
Milton Friedman
KMOX
St.Louis
New York
Upper West Side
Honoree
New York Nats
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Tony Stevens
Dave DeWitte
Sion
Via
Corker
Corkers
Rochester
Joe Jines
Jerry Lower
Doug Aly
Police Training Institute
John A. Logan College
Aly
Ervin H. Warren
Florida
Jack Buck
Mike Shannon
Bob Broeg
Post-Dispatch
Bobby Thomson
Giants
Broeg
Thomson
Communications Media
Fleming
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