Rend Lake parade draws 150 units in Benton
The Rend Lake Dedication parade drew about 150 units through Benton from the Franklin County Fairgrounds to the Holiday Inn. Mt Vernon and Benton Junior Women’s Club won best floats with Sesser praising Rend Lake as Birthplace. bands from Freeburg, Chester and local schools performed amid hot weather and Shriner motorcycles.
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Benton
Rend Lake
Franklin County Fairgrounds
Benton Holiday Inn
Ft. Riley
Kans
Mt. Vernon
Benton Junior Women’s Club
Sesser
Christopher American Legion Post
Christopher
Ina
Rend Lake College
Freeburg
Chester High School
Benton Square
Shriner’s
Smokey the Bear
Dan Walker
Rend Lake Dedication Highlights Growth and Opposition
The Rend Lake dedication at Benton celebrated a $58 million federal project with Gov. Ogilvie and Sen. Percy leading praise for growth in Southern Illinois. Local officials signed a $1.4 million state appropriation for Gun Creek recreation while Gray touted a $4.5 million Rend Lake allocation. Critics warned against rapid development as Walker urged caution and officials reflected on the project’s mixed legacy.
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Bud Farrar
Southern Illinoisan
Rend Lake
Benton
Southern Illinois
Southern Ilinois
Bend Lake
Richard B. Ogilvie
Charles Percy
Ill
Kenneth J. Gray
West Frankfort
Fredrick Clarke
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Roy Patton
Corps of Engineers
The
Lake Dam
Ogilvie
Bill Ogilvie
Gun Creek
Lake
Federal Economic Development
Congressman Gray
Engineer Corps
Joe Browning
WFRX
Gray
Chicago Sun-Times
House Public Works Committee
Illinois
GOP
Bend Lake State Park
Percy
Lincoln Reeservoir
Oakley
Adlai Stevenson Sii
Dan Walker
Mt Vernon Tire Plant Site Prep Begins at Mt Vernon
General Tire Co moves to build a 600000 square foot plant southeast of Mt Vernon in Jefferson County for radial tire production. Lipps Construction Co secures a $350000 site contract with completion in eight weeks. Steel, general construction, and total project costs rise to about $25 to $30 million with up to 300 jobs.
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General Tire Co
Mt. Vernon
Lipps Construction Co
Edward Butler
Butler
Jefferson County
Power Out After Utility Pole Knocked Down
A utility pole was knocked down in the northwest section of Carbondale causing a about a half hour loss of electrical power for some homes Saturday night.
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Carbondale
Cambria votes on bond plan for new sewage system
Cambria voters will decide on Saturday whether to issue 35000 in general obligation bonds to finance the village's share of a 418000 sewage treatment system. If approved the project could start this summer with aid from FHA and state grants. failure could cancel a 300000 FHA loan and delay cleanup.
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Cambria
Virgil Waldron
Tration
FHA
Waldron
Prison receives sewer funds for Vienna center
More than 110000 dollars dedicated to sewage plant improvements at the Vienna Correctional Center have been released by Governor Richard B. Ogilvie to the Illinois Department of General Services.
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Vienna Correctional Center
Richard B. Ogilvie
Illinois Department of General Services
Quarries Strike Talks End Without Progress in Marion
A Friday meeting of 10 Southern Illinois quarries and Local 318 of Harrisburg union workers, about 200 to 250 strikers, ended with no progress. Mediator present. Workers seek $1 an hour raise first year and 55 cents next two years. operators offer about 9 percent.
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Southern Illinois
E. T. Simonds
Carbondale
Marion
Simonds
International Union of Operating Engineers
Harrisburg
Anna Quarries Inc
Anna
Wardell Riggs
Riggs
Moving into temporary quarters Murphysboro library
The Sallie Logan Library in Murphysboro will close this Saturday to move 15 000 volumes to a temporary site in the basement of the former Centenary Methodist Church at 14th and South streets. The move aims to support a new library at Walnut and 18th streets with construction planned to begin Aug 1 and a summer 1973 opening target. An auction of parts from the old Thomas Logan home will precede August demolition.
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Murphysboro
Thomas Logan
Walnut
18Th Streets
Sallie Logan Library Board
Centenary Methodist Church
14Th
South Streets
Logan
Emma Hough
Hough
Jackson County Real Estate Valuation Soars 30 Percent
Jackson County assesses real estate at a record 110,886,237 for tax bills, up 30 percent from 1970. Carbondale Township leads gains at 29 percent, with several townships posting 23 to 64 percent increases. a formal protest to the 1.1905 multiplier has been filed as tax bills face delays.
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Jackson County
State Department of Revenue
de Soto
Kinkaid
Carbondale
Bradley
Murphysboro
Pomona
Sand Ridge
Grand Tower
Vergennes
Degognia
Elk
Ora
Somerset
Makanda
Levan
Fountain Bluff
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Walker
Lincoln
Oren Drew
Rend Lake Association
C&ei Railroad
Dan Malkovich
Outdoor Illinois Magazine
Illinois Department of Conservation
Malkovich
Butch Nevious
Cambria Sewer
Ball In
John
Rendleman
Edwardsville
Warren Brown
Tricia Covington
Chef Josef
First National Bank
Southern Illinois University At
Jackson
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