Fair housing complaint to be filed in Carbondale
Carbondale's Fair Housing Board may hear its first case early next week after Southern Illinois University student Roger Forte said he will file a complaint Monday against Imperial West apartments. Board chair Jerry Lacey will confer with City Attorney Geaxte Fioeerlage to arrange the meeting, 43 hours after a complaint is filed. Fortune, a Black student, alleges denial of fall housing while a white student was offered housing for the same term.
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Fair Housing Board
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Southern Illinois University
Jerry Lacey
Imperial West Apartments
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City Aty
Geaxte Fioeerlage
Fortune
Illinois June 11 primary registration deadline
The final day to register to vote in Illinois is Monday for the June 11 primary. Voters who have resided in the state for a year, in a county for 90 days and in a precinct for 30 days are eligible to register at the county clerk's office.
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Multiple Dead in Southeast Missouri and Illinois Crashes
A series of deadly crashes over two days left four people dead in Missouri and Illinois. In Jackson County Illinois a southbound car crossed, struck a concrete bridge abutment on Rt. 57 near Anna, killing Joseph D. Johnson 22, his wife Jean 29, and their two children Edward 1 and Joeann 2. another child Sharon Ann 3 suffered minor injuries. In Ava Missouri Mrs. Ethel White 65 died, Ernest White 64 was hospitalized in serious condition after head on collision on Rt. 4 near Oroville. both cars driven by Coleman and White were involved. White’s funeral planned in Ava. A Sparta Illinois man Charles Kelly 36 suffered a possible brain concussion when his car overturned on Rt. 154 near Eden. two other passengers had minor injuries. Police suspect fatigue or sleep contributed to both Missouri and Illinois crashes.
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Hvereit T. Coe
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital
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Missouri Baptist
Jackson
Joseph D. Johnson
Jean
Edward
Joeann
Sharon Ann
Union County Hospital
Anna
Johnson
Rainslick Rt. 4
Oroville
Ava
Ethel White
Murphysboro
Ernest White
Coleman
White
Rt. 4
Jackson County
Jerry
Nancy Ingram Callahan
Sparta
Sparta Community ‘Hospital
Charles Kelly
Eden
Kelly
Robert Barny
Coulterville
Gerald Killian
du Quoin
Fourth Purple Heart awarded to Viet Nam veteran
Former Zeigler man S. Sgt. Freddie J. Murray received his fourth Purple Heart for grenade shrapnel wounds in the thigh in Vietnam. He also earned the Silver Star for saving three men in combat. Murray, son of Mrs. Nora Murray of Detroit, has two other sons in the Army, Norman in Korea training Army dogs and Paul at Fort Hood, Texas.
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Nora Murray
Detroit
Mich
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Pfc
Norman K. Murray
Korea
Paul G. Murray
Ft. Hood, Tex
Army draft scare ends for Carterville teen
Jacque Yervell, a 17 year old Carterville high school senior, received Army mail that caused concern she might be drafted. She says the letter was recruitment literature, not a draft notice, and she discarded it. The mix up reflects misunderstanding of age rules for draft eligibility.
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Jacque Yervell
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Anna firm's 160953 low Airport bids opened
The Dale Denny Construction Co of Anna is the apparent low bidder at 160952 for a north south runway extension at Southern Illinois Airport. Bids opened Friday. project aims to gain federal funds with a 50 percent grant. contract awarded in about four days per Illinois Aeronautics Department.
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Anna
Ilnois Airport
Illinois Aeronautics Department
Blankinship
Du Quoin Native and SIU Alumna Faces Murder Trial
Dorothy Sykes Mason, SIU's first Negro cheerleader and Du Quoin native, awaits trial in Chicago for murder after a Jan. 21 killing at Robert Taylor Homes. The case was continued to June 25. Mason, who lived in Carbondale, has been active in community work and faced bail and custody battles, with a defense fund organized by supporters.
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Carbondale
Southern Ilinois University
George Willhite
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University
Chicago
Dorothy Sykes Mason
Dorothy Sykes
SIU
William Elis Jr
Mr. Ellis
Provident
Robert Taylor
Mason
Fhinots
Attucks High School
du Quoi
John Clark
Attucks
Ellis
Lwir
Division Street
America
Waukegan
Robert ‘Taylor
Building Council
Indiana
Chicago Milk. Company
Cook County
Choate honored Clark cites protests at testimonial
State Atty. Gen. William Clark told over 1,800 at a Clyde Choate testimonial dinner that student protests threaten the cause of progress unless they stay within legal bounds. He praised Choate for 22 years of leadership at the Illinois House and emphasized law and order at SIU. In a separate item, three Illinois Central coal cars derailed near Du Quoin with no injuries and minor material spill.
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William Clark
Clyde L. Choate
D-Anna
Clark
U.S
Clyde Choate
State House of Representatives
Southern Illinois University
Southern Ilinois
Kenneth Gray
West Frankfort
Gray
Washington, D.C
House Committee On the
Choate
Ilinois Central
St. John's
du Quoin
Rend Lake College gains $2.97 million for phase one buildings
The Illinois State Junior College Board approved releasing 2,974,000 dollars for Rend Lake College campus construction. Working drawings by Fields Goldman and Magee will finalize five buildings, a gym, science and academic structures, and two lounges. Phase one begins this fall with full campus completion planned by fall 1970.
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Mt Vernon
Fields, Goldaman and Magee
Snyders
Illinois Building Authority
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