Kinkaid water plant inches toward capacity doubling
Kinkaid Manager Robert Chapman says the Kinkaid Reed's Creek Conservancy District Board is moving toward doubling the water plant capacity with engineering blueprints and a cost estimate. Funding has not been secured, but a grant is hoped for. if unavailable, the board may consider a plan.
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Ann Schottman Knot
Southern Illinoisan
Kinkaid
Robert Chapman
Kinkaid-Reed’s Creek Conservancy District Board
Chapman
Grandmother earns SIU degree without campus classes
Rosemary Carnes, 57, of Mount Vernon and Bend Lake Community College graduate, will receive her SIU diploma Saturday. She achieved the second-highest spring 1985 GPA and Phi Beta Kappa honor without attending classes on campus, having earned her bachelor in university studies through Mount Vernon High School and Bend Lake Community College. She has no master's plans.
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Grad Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
Mount Vernon
Rosemary Carnes
Carbondale
Phi Beta Kappa
Carnes
Mount Vernon High School
Bend Lake Community College
Vergennes Elkville Blacktop to Close for Bridge Work
Jackson County will close the Vergennes Elkville Blacktop for about a month starting Monday for a new 28 by 80 concrete deck bridge replacing a 45 year old timber pilings structure. Superior Structures Co. of Marion bids $82 000. Local traffic allowed via township gravel routes. signs posted at Illinois 13 127 and US 51. Completion planned for June.
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Vergennes-Elkville Blacktop
Jackson County
Superior Structures Co
Marion
Manson
Illinois 13-127
U.S. 51
Munson
Kinkaid district eyes bond for water plant expansion
District officials pursue bond funding after contacting state and federal agencies and seeking grants for doubling the 3 million gallon per day Kinkaid water plant. Blueprint work by Blankinship may start in 30 to 60 days with expansion to meet growth and hotter summers.
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Chapman
Blankinship
Kinkaid
Reagan in Strasbourg Says Soviets Threaten Nuclear Stability
President Reagan marked the 40th anniversary of V E Day in Strasbourg by charging the Soviet Union with undermining nuclear stability through mobile land based missiles. He faced boos from protesters and walkouts by leftist parliamentarians as TelePrompter failures and noisy demonstrations interrupted his address to the European Parliament. He urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to work toward overcoming differences.
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Strasbourg
France
Reagan
Europe
Soviet Union
Nicaragua
U.S
Central America
Assembly Hall
Congress
Mikhail Gorbachev
SIU gets 13 Build Illinois capital projects funding
Thirteen SIU Carbondale and School of Medicine Springfield projects are slated for Build Illinois funding totaling about 2.2 million. SIU-C would receive 1.49 million and the medical school 703 thousand. The plan aims to speed capital work, though approvals by the legislature remain required.
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Nancy Weil
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale
School of Medicine
Springfield
James Thompson
Illinois
Siu-C
Medical
Clarence
Doc” Dougherty
Cam
Pus Services
Dougherty
SIUC
Democrats Push Illinois Tax Break Plan to Lure Industry
Senate Democrats back a package of tax incentives to attract businesses to Illinois while a taxpayers group cautions against weakening the tax base. Senate President Philip Rock notes a fragile recovery and aims to put people back to work. The plan would reimburse manufacturers up to 50 percent of workers compensation and unemployment costs over five years.
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Springfield
Senate
Democrats
Illinois
Philip Rock
Oak Park
James Thompson
General Motors
Rock
Illinois plans for SIU roof and facility upgrades
Illinois outlines plans totaling several hundred thousand dollars for Southern Illinois University projects. Roof replacements cover 48,000 square feet across five buildings including Lindegren and Faner halls Browne Auditorium Olney and Tamaroa transmitters. Additional items include campus remodeling projects fire alarm upgrades energy and air conditioning systems and accessibility improvements across multiple buildings.
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Faner
Browne
Olney
Tamaroa
School of Agriculture
Old Baptist Foundation
Applied Science
Blue Barracks
Colyer and
Quigley
Doyle Hall
Anthony Hall
Springfield Medical School
Life Science
Wheeler Hall
Neckers
Ex-Defense aide in insider trading case sentenced to four years
Former deputy secretary of defense Paul Thayer and Dallas stockbroker Billy Bob Harris received four year prison terms for obstructing justice by giving false testimony in an insider trading investigation. Each was fined $5,000 and ordered to surrender to federal custody in Texas after civil settlements announced the day. Thayer, 65, and Harris, 45, had previously agreed to pay the government over $1 million to settle related civil suits.
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New York Times
Associated Press
Washington
Paul Thayer
Dallas
Billy Bob Harris
Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S
Charles R. Richey
Thayer
Harris
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Texas
Richey
Ing
United States
Pentagon
Seven Associates
SEC
U.S. District Court
Gayle L. Schroder
Ms. Schroder
D. Lowell Jensen
Charles Richey
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Duane Sohn
Perry L. Murry
William C. Wiggins
SIU
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James A. Wolfe
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