Seepage Threatens Big Five Levee Area as River Crest Near
Army Corps of Engineers reports rising seepage behind dirt levees in the Big Five area from the Big Muddy River to Gale. About 20 pumps and a dredge boat are active. Water levels at Cape Girardeau, Chester, and Cairo rose with the crest expected Monday. Local resident Frank Marchildon notes McClure and Rt 3 areas flooded, with water depths up to five feet in places.
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Army Corps of Engineer
Big Five
Union
Alexander Counties
Paul Johnson
Army Corps of Engineers
Big Muddy River
Gale
Cape Girardeau
Chester
Cairo
Gordon Davis
Corps Flood Control Center
St. Louis
Johnson
East
Frank Marchildon
McClure
Marchildon
Rt. 3
Cape Girardeau Bridge
Fire Threat Blazes Wilma and Sherry's Laundromat
A major early morning fire nearly destroyed Wilma and Sherry's Laundromat two miles north on New Era Road near Carbondale. Firemen estimated $14,000 in building losses and $9,000 in contents. first major blaze under the Carbon dale Fire Department's contract with Carbondale Township.
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Wilma and Sherry
New Era Road
Carbondale
Wilma Level
Betty Parrish
Backward into the future A look at Two Planets by Kurd Lasswitz
Regional editor notes how the 1897 German novel Two Planets influenced spaceflight thinking and the American space program. The Martian space station, optics and lasers prefigure Skylab and early NASA ideas, while Lasswitz also predicts a magnetic gravity platform and synthetic food concepts.
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Southern Illinois
America
Kurd Lasswitz
Hans Rudnick
SIU
Mark R. Hillegas
H. G. Wells
C. S
Two Planets
Popular Library
New York
Earth
North Pole
Mars
Lasswitz
Two Planets novel reviewed with interplanetary plots
The review notes four intertwining plots of love affairs philosophy and an interplanetary war in Two Planets. It questions whether the book helped propel space exploration, mentions Prof Hillesgas’s view, and lists SIU edition prices at $10 for hard cover and 95 cents for paperback.
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Two Planets
Hillegas
SIU
New hospital head named Allen Harris appointed administrator
Allen Harris of Sikeston Missouri age 46 has been hired as administrator of Union County Hospital in Anna He will begin duties Thursday Harris previously served as business manager of the pharmacy and assistant to the administrator at Cooper County Hospital Boonville He ran Harris Pharmacy in Sikeston for 23 years Harris replaces Bernard C Harvey who resigned from the hospital in April.
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Sikeston, Mo
Union County Hospital
Anna
Harris
Cooper County Hospital
Boonville
Harris Pharmacy
Sikeston
Bernard C. Harvey
Union fight at Franklin Hospital Benton rages on
The Franklin Hospital Benton labor dispute shifts from unionization to representation as Local 529 West Frankfort and the Franklin Hospital and Skilled Care Nursing Unit Assn vie to bargain for workers. Administrator W W Lamont was fired, board member Gilbert Galloway resigned, and the hospital continues normal operations under interim leadership with workers picketing.
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Fanklin Hospital
Benton
W. W. Lamont
Laborers International Union Local 529
West Frankfort
Franklin Hospital and Skilled Care Nursing Unit Assn
Lamont
Gilbert Galloway
Lesser
Galloway
Edgar Quick
Christopher
Charles Dawson
Hospital Workers Association
Warren Stark
Bevirt Named State Community Representative in Southern Illinois
Thomas Bevirt, former Carbondale rat and pest control director, will start Wednesday as a southern Illinois community representative for the Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs. He will aid municipalities, townships, and counties in local issues and state relations. The role pays 11 777 annually and requires extensive travel. Bevirt was let go May 1 when his department merged into code enforcement. a pest control technician remains.
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Thomas Bevirt
Carbondale
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