Harold McRoy Keeps Murphysboro Shoeshine Alive
Harold McRoy, 51, operates at Handley’s Shoe Store in Murphysboro, offering shines for 50 cents to a dollar. He has shined shoes since seventh grade, keeping a 35 year brand of polish and teaching customers about saddle soap, buffing, and the value of well cared for footwear.
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Chris Moenich
Southern Illinoisan
Murphysboro
Harold McRoy
Handley’s Shoe Store
Walnut and
12Th Streets
Lawrence Handley
McRoy
Deficit By Karen Rothe Of The Southern Illinois
Carbon Dale Community High School District 165 Board votes to support extracurricular activities with 20 000 to 25 000 for 1978 79 as this year shows a surplus per superintendent Reid Martin. Extracurriculars had been self supporting amid tight budgets as parents students and teachers urged funding improvements. The board rehired the same number of administrators and faculty.
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Karen Rothe
Southern Illinois.n
Carbondale Community High School
Board of Education
CCHS
Reid Martin
Martin
Robert Brewer
John Baker
Brewer
William Corney
B. J. Schwegman
Barbara Bennett
Carol McDermott
Roy Weshinskey
Baker
Schwegman
CCHS budget strains temper hopes for activities funding
Martin outlined a 1978-79 deficit forecast due to a $182,000 state aid overpayment and a projected $200,000 loss from enrollment declines and higher local taxes. The district aims to use year’s surplus to cover deficits and preserve extracurriculars with a proposed $20,000 to $25,000 boost, despite questions about exact figures.
Carbondale District rehiring tenured teachers while firing five at Lincoln High
Board of Education voted to rehire all tenured teachers amid looming deficits for 1978-79. Five non tenured Lincoln Junior High teachers will leave at year end, labeled honorary releases while administrators review next year’s budget. Deficits estimated at 300 000 in education and 25 000 in transportation due to state aid and local tax losses.
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Robert Grupp
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
Board of Education
Lincoln Junior High School
John Barbie
Education
Transportation
Winter aid budget totals 716000 for VSI program
Volunteer Services Inc. will spend 716000 in fiscal 1978 to winterize homes and help pay fuel bills for elderly, handicapped and low income residents in Williamson Franklin and Jefferson Counties. Director Eleanor Ferguson announced the plan at the Marion meeting claiming 122844 for winterizing homes 399597 for fuel payments 103751 for the CETA program. VSI will receive 82701 state funds to winterize 170 homes and 40143 federal energy administration funds to winterize 99 more homes.
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Volunteer Services Inc
Williamson
Franklin
Jefferson
Eleanor Ferguson
Marion
VSI
Federal Energy Administration
Grand Tower seeks fire district in Jackson County
A hearing in Jackson County Circuit Court Murphysboro is set for 10 a.m. next Friday March 24 on a civil suit seeking a special election to form Tower Rock Fire Prevention District for the entire Grand Tower Township. Petitions demand a court ordered election within 60 days if approved to elect a board and authorize local taxes for the district. The township currently lacks fire protection outside Grand Tower city limits which has a volunteer unit.
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Grand Tower
Jackson County
Murphysboro
Tower Rock
Potholes Force North Bend Drunk Drivers to Help
In North Bend Ohio mayor Charles Sehring orders those convicted of drunken driving to assist city crews with pothole repairs, directing them to perform road work as punishment and rehabilitation.
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Cincinnati
North Bend
Charles Sehring
Buzbee plans seismograph monitor for mine blasts near Hurst Bush
Buzbee to sponsor a bill funding a seismograph unit to monitor blasts at Consolidation Coal Co. Burning Star 5 strip mine near Hurst Bush, amid resident claims of property damage. STOP group says 80 percent report damage. Consol asserts blasts stay within legal limits. Residents cite cracked foundations and drywall since 1976 opening.
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Graph
Consolidation Coal Co
Hurst-Bush
Buzbee
Consol
Donald Simpson
Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals
Ron Peters
Peters
Hurst
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
County weighing one year ambulance contract with Pulley service
Williamson County board offered Pulley Ambulance Service a $57,000 one year contract to provide emergency ambulance service countywide. Agreement pending between Pulley attorney and state's attorney before formal action. County to fund through general account surplus with a referendum planned for a tax up to 25 cents per $100 valuation for long term service.
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O.R. Walley
Southern Illinoisan
Williamson County
Pulley Ambulance Service
Marion
William Humphreys
Ronald Pulley
Pulley
Herrin
Humphreys
Medicare
State Public Aid Department
Robert Butler
Johnston City
Bill Stevens
Carterville
Cambria
Hurst
Fires destroy Ordill center and damage Marion steakhouse
A Thursday fire at the Franklin-Williamson Work Activity Center in Ordill destroyed the workshop and damaged nearby offices. Five fire departments fought the blaze, and about 70 trainees were affected as workers may relocate next week. A second fire at Tony's Steakhouse in Marion damaged the kitchen and roof, with owner Tony Castellano aiming to reopen by late next week. The Marion department, with aid from Johnston City and Herrin, suspected a fluorescent light short in origin.
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Franklin-Williamson
Ordill
East Side Lumber Co
Crab Orchard Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Wayne Adams
Bi-County Mental Health Department
Illinois
Tony
S. Market St
Marion
Tony Castellano
Johnston City
Herrin
Castellano
Strikers call cheaper imports hazardous improve food testing
Union County and Eldorado farm strike members bought imported food in Southern Illinois to have it tested for illegal herbicides and pesticides mainly DDT. The Illinois public health department will test at no cost, with results in about two weeks. FDA spot tests show DDT rarely a problem and usually below EPA danger levels.
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Ann Schottman
Southern Illinois
Mexico
Union County
Carroll Casey
Australia
Argentina
Illinois Dept. of Public Health
Casey
David Blaze
State Public Health Department
Dallas
Longoria
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
United States
FDA
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Thomas O’boyle
Cchs Central
Wilburn Lipe
George Edwards
Pat Cuendet
Cuendet
Lewis School
Anita Lenzini
James O’donnell
Linda Brandon
Elsie Speck
Donald Tindall
Michael Altekruse
Mary Lou Hawse
Lenzini
O’donnell
Brandon
Edwards
Speck
En Kern
Illinois and-Carbondale
Pulley’s
Ordill Center
Marion Steakhouse
Marion Veterans Hospital
Adams
Texas
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Blaze
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