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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1971
Page
3
Brick masons from Bower Brothers Construction Co. of Belleville lay brick on the southeast corner of the south wall. The $1,176,005 one story building will house nine agencies and is slated for completion in early November per the company representative Don Shubert.
Jackson County Zoning Committee approved a general statement of intent for a countywide zoning ordinance to cover unzoned areas except Carbondale and Murphysboro. The full ordinance, aligned with GERPDC regional plans, will be detailed in public hearings before county board adoption.
A statewide alert is issued for William T. Schwartz 27 who fled the Work Release Center at 308 W Cherry St Carbondale around 1 45 a m. A duffel bag with his name was found at Grob Chevrolet on Rt 13 north of Murphysboro as officers searched cars for signs of the escape. Schwartz imprisoned for theft came to the center in January and would have been eligible for parole in July.
A premiere presentation of a new hospital furnishings concept will be staged at Southern Illinois University on Saturday. Herman Miller, Inc. designs will be shown along with slides illustrating uses and a transportation system for convenience. The program starts at 2 p.m. in Room 140B Home Economics Building and invites doctors administrators hospital personnel and design students.
Area officials including Carbondale City Manager William Schmidt and possibly Mayor Neal Eckert will testify Wednesday on a bill requiring the SIU Board to annex the campus to the city. Opponents include SIU Board lawyer C Richard Grung and Jackson County State’s Attorney Richard Richman. Negotiations have run for months as Chancellor Robert Layer supports annexing the east campus.
Farmers Home Administration approved a 249000 loan for Colp sewer construction in a 10 am ceremony. Colp Mayor Frank Caliper accepted the award at city hall. FHA supervisor Bill Bullock said contractors will get a notice to proceed this afternoon and work could begin soon, with completion in about nine months.
Preliminary drawings for a new 100000 dollar fire station in Herrin are being prepared by Clark Altay & Associates in Champaign. Herrin Public Building Commission chair Denzil Walker said plans will be sent to the commission within 10 days. The station will sit at 401-409 S. Park Ave with a rear entrance at 408 S. 16th St.
The American Association of Correctional Psychologists gains a 22495 grant to fund a Washington DC conference and a study on guiding higher education and applied psychology in crime and delinquency. President Stanley Brodsky of Southern Illinois University leads the association. Rep. Kenneth J. Gray announces grant approval from NIMH NILECJ and OJDJH.
Community residents and students would be able to sell arts crafts and antiques at a proposed open flea market in Carbondale. Paul Costello and Sharon Naylor invite comments and ideas and suggest a permanent site like a geodesic dome set up by volunteers. A board will set buying and selling rules and seek support from the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce and city officials. Marion bands will play a free concert at 7:30 PM Monday in the high school auditorium lasting about an hour and a half.
Two armed men robbed the Campus Drive In Theater on Old Route 13 between Murphysboro and Carbondale Monday night. Attendant Clifford Stuthers handed over about $100 as the pair fled on foot toward a nearby getaway car. Police described one suspect as about 21, six feet, with long reddish brown hair and a fuzzy beard. the other as about 20, five feet tall, with long dark brown hair and a mustache.
Vandalia pilot Gary Kettlekamp, 32, employed by D. G. Flying Service, was severely burned when his plane struck a power line and caught fire while spraying herbicides over a cornfield southwest of Effingham on Monday. He was injured but stated.
Donald Bird, 31, of Darmstadt, died after equipment in a Peabody Coal Co. mine touched a power line. He was dead on arrival at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville. Bird was a Pinckneyville native. Freeburg lies about 20 miles southeast of St. Louis.
Marion City Council rehired 48 employees at current salaries, replaced longtime city attorney William Novick with Jim Garrison of Garrison and Garrison, and decided not to appoint a corporation counsel. Novick, ill with a heart flare up, served eight years. The council plans to hire attorneys only for specific litigation.
Herrin alderman April 20 were seated Monday night with three incumbents and one newcomer, Juanita Garagiola replacing Herman Marlow. New committee chairs are Grimes finance Smith water and sewer Steh public works Magnotti public improvements. Garagiola is Plan Commission representative.
Bids totaling 12,210 for asphalt aggregate surfacing and patching materials were accepted pending state highway and city council approval. Franklin Asphalt Co. bid 3724 for 16200 gallons of asphalt and 4284 for 720 tons of aggregate spread. Froemling Truck Service bid 1428 for 1290 tons of patching materials. Forby Truck Service bid 2774 for 950 tons. Materials will patch and resurface about five miles of city streets. All mines reported working Wednesday.
A Jackson County five district plan to create a 25 member county board faces potential trouble after the Illinois State Senate reportedly defeated a measure allowing multi member districts in reapportionment. County officials cite the need to view the full bill to gauge its impact and note the plan would set five districts near 11 000 residents each based on 1970 census figures.
John Olmsted, dean of graduate studies at Southern Illinois University, will address the 50th annual Illinois section meeting of the Mathematical Association of America at Eastern Illinois University. His talk is titled On Sums of Periodic Functions and the event runs Friday and Saturday.
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