CCHS board approves administrative raises in Patreote
Carbondale Community High School Board approves salary increases totaling 18242 for 13 administrators and staff including the superintendent and bookkeeper. Raises aim to align salaries with other districts while budgets for next year remain unsettled and a summer course expansion is approved.
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Karen Rothe
Carbondale Community High School Board of Education
Obers
John Baker
CCHS
Southern
Illinois
Reid Martin
Baker
Margaret Hollis
Dale Smith
Cchs-Central
Charles Warren
Cchs-East
Vocational Center
Paul Karber
Noble Thomas
Thomas O’boyle
O’boyle
Special Education Cooperative
Marvin Ott
Larry Jackson
Opal Berst
Virginia Costigan
Ruth Metcalfe
Robert Brewer
Carbondale Eyes Bill To Reclaim Special Ed Funds
Carbondale School Districts push a state bill to recover about 150000 dollars in local taxes spent in 1976-77 on a special education program at Styrest Nursing Home. The plan would reimburse three equal installments in 1978 79 and 1980 from the general revenue fund, not the school fund.
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Karen Rothe
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale Schools
Illinois
Carbondale
Styrest Nursing Home
Carbondale Community
District 95
Educational Region
Illinois Office of Education
Martin
General Revenue Fund
Riverside Pool in Murphysboro may close due to age and vandalism
Riverside Pool, the oldest public pool in the Murphysboro area, likely cannot reopen without a major volunteer drive and $50,000 to $100,000 in renovation. YMCA operator Russell Marshall cites aging plumbing and walls, plus recent vandalism causing $3,000 damage, as key factors in the standstill.
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Murphysboro
Riverside
Russell Marshall
The
YMCA
Riverside Pool
Marshall
Louis Wides
Jackson County Ymca Board
Jackson County
al McDonald
Southtowne Shopping Center planned near Du Quoin
Du Quoin officials announce a 15 acre site west of U.S. 51 will host Southtowne Shopping Center with a new Kroger, Wal-Mart, and Revco. The 43,800 sq ft Wal-Mart, 26,251 sq ft Kroger, and 8,450 sq ft Revco will open early spring 1979, with room for expansion and parking for 575 cars.
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Karen Rothe
U.S. 51
du Quoin
Herrin
Kroger
Wal-Mart
Revco
Robert Armstrong
Wayne Oestmann
Bill N. Dugger
Oestmann
Hodge
Dugger
SIU-C Professor Appointed to Carbondale Board of Education
Appointed ar old Bardo, 38, an associate professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has been named to the Carbondale Elementary School District 95 Board of Education. He replaces Elsie Speck, who resigned April 6, and will serve until the next election in November 1979. Bardo, an associate professor in dance and educational psychology, has been active in junior sports and is a former Saluki basketball and track athlete and an academic counselor in intercollegiate athletics at SIU-C.
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Ar Old Bardo
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Carbondale
Elsie Speck
Michael Altekruse
Bardo
Saluki
Siu-C
Loyalty Day Parade in Herrin Plans 200 Entries
Herrin hosts Loyalty Day events May 13 with nearly 200 entries including seven bands. Feature acts include the 42nd Royal Highlander Bagpipes from Lafayette and Fort Campbell’s Army band with skydivers. Parade marshal Col J C Hughes leads a parade of school groups, unions and clubs.
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Herrin
Veterans of Foreign Wars District 15
Norge Co
Angelo Camarato
Royal Highlander
Lafayette
Ind
Cairo
Dongola
Johnston City
Benton
101St Airborne Division
Fort Campbell
Bank of Herrin
Southern Illinois
Col
J. C. Hughes
VFW
Illinois
Smoler workers resume work at Herrin plant
Smoler Brothers Inc dress plant in Herrin reopened after a two day stoppage ended by vote. About 400 workers from ILGWU Local 499 met with Smoler officials from Chicago to air grievances over conditions and job classifications. Local president Pauline Braggs said they would return to work at 7 30 a m and that issues would be resolved.
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Smoler Brothers Inc
Herrin
International Ladies Garment Workers Union Local 499
Chicago
Pauline Braggs
Du Quoin school bond vote set for Saturday
Du Quoin voters will decide Saturday on a 1.15 million bond to match a 1.38 million state grant for a new middle school to be built in a parking lot near the high school. The plan closes two aging schools, rehomes kindergarten to Wheatley and wards grades to Ward, with opposition citing crowding and parking concerns.
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du Quoin
Karen Rothe
Southern Illinoisan
Sunfield Methodist Church
Paradise Prairie School
Wheatley
Ward
Lincoln
McKinley
Florence Rees
West Side
Whitecotton
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Patreote
Brewer
Carol McDermott
Richard Cannon
B. J. Schwegman
Barbara Bennett
Roy Weshinskey
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Schwegman
Monroe Deming
Orphanage Act Problem Committee
Kroger, Wal-Mart
Southtowne Shopping Center
Oestmann and Dugger
Clark Trail Development
James E. Hodge
Kroger Company
Frank Rice
Herrin City Hall
Herrin Merchants Association
Xi Zeta Sigma Sorority
Baker- Ladd Vfw
Eagles Club
Herrin Lions’ Club
East Monroe
Madison Streets
Smoler
Jack Moss
Jacob Whitecotton
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