Herrin council overrides Ottolini pay hike vetoes
Herrin aldermen overrode Mayor Ottolini’s vetoes on ordinances raising pay for city workers. Six votes needed. several aldermen abstained or opposed specific raises, while others backed increases for laborers, police, and most other employees. Firemen protest, citing longer hours and unequal rises, requesting a new merit board and better talks. The council also debated liquor at the city garage and time clocks, and opened bids for a new fire truck and water sewer line work on Illinois 148.
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O.R. Walley
Southern Illinoisan
Herrin
Mario Ottolini
Paul Dunning
Frank Hubbard
Emil Nava
Ottolini
Herman Garavalla
Victor Ritter
Paul Francis
Charles McEvers
Theodore Bollmann
Cecil Isaacs
Adrian Chamness
Edward Quaglia
Hod Carriers
Garavalla
International Firefighters Association
Police and Fire Department
Merit Board
Francis
Isaacs
Quaglia
Ritter
Joe Lapinski
Monty Cooper
Sewer Department
Vietnam War Honor Amid Hidden Valor
Former President Nixon called it peace with honor yet many Southern Illinois veterans recall little recognition for courage. Charles Crews of Murphysboro, partly paralyzed, and Charles Western of Carbondale describe what drew them to serve in 1964 and early Vietnam. Western recalls Marines sent to Vietnam after early deployments, landing in Okinawa unsure of their destination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Hubble
Southern Illinoisan
Richard Nixon
Vietnam
Southern Illinois
Charles Crews
Murphysboro
Crews
Veterans Administration
Charles Western
Carbondale
Marine Corps
Okinawa
Western
Philippines
Valley Forge
Richard Schumacher
Teutopolis
America
Schumacher
Illinois
Phan Thiet
United States
James Taylor
Glen
Taylor
Eleventh Armored Cavalry Division
Army
Japan
Court entrapment ruling challenges drug enforcement
Prosecution and agents fear Fifth District Appellate Court entrapment rulings may hamper convictions in illegal drug sales. In Wineburg and Tipton cases, defendants argued informants induced sales and the state failed to produce them. Officials warn a Supreme Court reversal could force new tactics and weaken efforts to prosecute drug networks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois
Illinois Supreme Court
Jackson County
Howard Hood
Supreme Court
Mark Wineburg
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Murphysboro
Southern Illinois Enforcement Group
Hood
Wineburg
Richard Richman
State Supreme Court
Bill Tipton
Tipton
Illinois
Tom Mansfield
Mansfield
Richman
FBI
Watergate
Fifth District
Richard Pariser
Pariser
SIEG
Coal panel probes Benton miners' lives in survey
The President's Commission on Coal visits Benton Illinois for a month long Illinois tour to interview miners and families. Three researchers gather questionnaires and conduct in depth interviews to gauge how miners live and feel misrepresented by media and sociologists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coal Panel
Benton
Benton, Il
President’s Commission On Coal
Commission
Illinois Coal Fields
Nada Samuels
Convicted slayings appeal in Mount Vernon Illinois
Gary Michael Brown 27 of Rantoul and Nailer Jeffrey 52 of Williamson County have appealed their 1975 murder convictions in the killing of Cary Lee Reischeuer, a 79 year old Carbondale woman. Jeffrey received 100 to 200 years and Brown 30 to 100 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Vernon, Ill
Carbondale
Mount Vernon
Gary Michael Brown
Rantoul
Nailer Jeffrey
Williamson County
Cary Lee Reischeuer
Jeffrey
Brown
Gunfire hits truck injures Johnston City man
Williamson County detectives investigate an early morning shooting that wounded 28 year old Terry Joe Orr in one eye. Orr, of Route 1 Johnston City, was asleep in a pickup outside Kent Smith’s home when a gunman fired, shattering glass and lodging a splinter in Orr’s eye. He was treated and released from Union Hospital in West Frankfort.
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Williamson County
Terry Joe Orr
Orr
Route 1
Johnston City
Kent Smith
Union Hospital
West Frankfort
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Laverne Kerley
Murphy
Knowles Construction Co
Chester
Lawrence Lipe
Saigon
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