West Frankfort towns urgent over halted urban renewal project
West Frankfort fears loss of a 3.5 million urban renewal project as HUD funds are withheld amid federal spending cuts. City Engineer Larry Lipe cites an official memo terminating neighborhood development programs, while Carbondale’s renewal program may proceed.
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West Frankfort
Congress
Larry Lipe
Department of Housing and Urban Renewal Development
HUD
Chicago
Richard Nixon
Lipe
Carbondale
Eldon Gosnell
Willisville candidates seek posts in village election
William J. Asbury is the only candidate for president of the Willisville Village Board. Wilbur Alms does not seek re election. Anita Culvey and Clifford Henson seek clerk. Nick Dolce abstains. Trustees slate includes Dolce Castellano Knope Wendell. Spoto and Henson not seeking re election. All filed on Citizens ticket except Culvey and Dolce on independent ticket. Plymouth plans 1973 pageants to mark the Pilgrim Fathers departure Sept 6 353 years ago with prior Elizabethan carnival June 16 30.
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William J. Asbury
Willisville
Wilbur Alms
Anita Culvey
Clifford Henson
Nick Dolce
Dolce
Ignatius Castellano
Orval J. Knope
Jack E. Wendell
Vincent Spoto
Phil R. Henson
Citizens
Independent
Plymouth
England
Cleanup under way at Lyn Gai Garment Factory Sesser
Cleanup begins next week at the Lyn Gai Garment Factory in Sesser with Robert Levanti stating roof work will start by week’s end. The plant operates from Lesser’s community building and uses a city loaned facility. About 35 of 70 former workers are employed at the temporary site. EPA permit to bury rubble was issued Feb 20 to the city of Lesser, with possible disposal in an abandoned mine shaft under review.
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Lyn- Gai Garment
Sesser
Robert Levanti
Levanti
Lyn- Gai
Goode Township
Lesser
State Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Willie Stubblefield
Kuehn
The
American Soybean Association
Foreigners Buy Land in Ireland Across Decade
In Ireland foreigners have purchased nearly 100000 acres of land over the last decade despite heavy taxes. Germans are the principal buyers and Minister Sean Flanagan says no takeover by Common Market millionaires is likely. An EEC citizen who lives or works in Ireland for two years would be eligible to buy land.
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Sean Flanagan
Ireland
Dates Set for UMWA Voting Amid Autonomy Ruling
A tentative schedule for nominating and electing a District 12 UMWA president and secretary treasurer has been set. Bernard Aronson said the dates may be released next month but are not yet public due to ongoing arbitration and a January court ruling granting Illinois autonomy.
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United Mine Workers of America
UMWA
Bernard Aronson
Washington, D. C
Arnold Miller
American Arbitration Association
U.S
Illinois
Aronson
Harol d Kuehn Warns Soybean Growers About Prosperity
Harold Kuehn, Du Quoin farmer and American Soybean Association president, warns 600000 U.S. growers not to relax marketing efforts amid high prices. He cites Brazil, Mexico, the USSR, and Japan as key potential markets and notes U.S. soybeans account for a large share of world trade and exports.
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Charles Johnson
Southern
Soviet Union
Japan
U.S
United States
Kuehn
Southern Illinois University
School of Agriculture
Jackson
Perry County
Atlantic Ocean
American Soybean Association
Europe
Taiwan
Russia
India
Africa
Australia
Mexico
Illinois
Traveling training truck visits Southern Illinois
The American Line Builders Apprenticeship Training Program’s mobile unit from Vandalia Ohio toured Southern Illinois for the first time last weekend. In West Frankfort instructor Pat Sipes oversaw about 30 apprentices from IBEW Local 702 learning with Roger Sims Anna and Joe Miller amid a 40 foot $70 000 tractor trailer. The 32 year old program, started in 1958 by IBEW and the NECA, is funded by electrical contractors through Fred Pelletier Vandalia staff assistant.
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American Soybean Association
Kuehn
Dowell
Vergennes
Southern
U.S
Soviet Union
American Line Builders
Vandalia
Ohio
Illinois
Pat Sipes
West Frankfort
Roger Sims
Anna
Joe Miller
Murray
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBEW
National Electrical Contractors Association
Fred Pelletier
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Frankfort
Dublin
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinoisan Inc
North Illinois Avenue
Herrin
Walnut Street
Murphysboro
Iinois
Carbondale Free Press
Herrin Daily Journal
Murphysboro Independent
Associated Press
Harold Kuehn
du Quoin
Canada
France
Poland
Lewis
Mane
W. Frankfort
Darnell
Logan
Ranfro Furniture & Interiors
Illinois, Carbondale
Spinet
Hammond
D. Baldwins
Lowreys, Wurlitzer, Thomas & Kimballs
Baldwins Thomas
Ini
Benton, Ill
Herrin, Ill
Armstrong
Uy 25
Stark Bros
Energy
C’dale
Sycamore
C'dale
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