Park Board pushes pool plans at League program
Carbondale Park Board leaders urged support for a swimming pool expansion as they enter the second construction phase begun in 1963 and plan to seek a bond issue. Officials noted 16 potential sites and a mix of neighborhood and central pools may be proposed.
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League of Women Voters
Herbert Settle
Charles Boudreau
Betty Mileur
William Merri
Settle
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Mileur
Murphysboro
Merci
Chicago
Carbondale
Jackson County
Radiological Monitoring Course Planned in Murphysboro
Murphysboro residents are invited to register at city hall for a 16 hour Radiological Monitoring Course to be held at night in the city hall. Civil Defense Director Jack Miller says graduates receive a diploma and are qualified to operate radiological instruments. Instructors are Miller and Patrolman Russell Wingerter, AEC certified. Course is free with dates to be announced.
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Murphysboro
Murphysboro Civil Defense
Jack Miller
Miller
Russell Wingerter
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Mt. Vernon Property Owners Sue Over Dump Damage
Eleven property owners near the Mt. Vernon sanitary landfill filed lawsuits in Jefferson County Circuit Court seeking about $114000 total. They allege the dump renders homes uninhabitable and attracts rats and vermin. The facility lies about a mile south of Mount Vernon on U S 460.
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Mount Vernon
Mt. Vernon
Jefferson County
U.S. 460
Sewage plant chief cited for excellence
Charles Chapman chief operator of Carbondale's northwest sewage treatment plant was nominated for the best plant operator of the year award at a statewide conference. Only four of more than 600 plants and their operators were nominated for the award presented at the Sewage Operators Conference in Springfield. Neither Chapman nor the plant won the first place award in the final balloting. Attending the conference were Chapman B J Schwegman city director of public works James R Mayhew superintendent of the water and waste water treatment division and Frank Horn of the water and wastewater treatment division.
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Charles Chapman
Carbondale
Northwest
Springfield
Chapman
B. J. Schwegman
James R. Mayhew
Water and
Frank Horn
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