Murphysboro OK bids eyed on subdivision lots
Murphysboro City Council opened bids on 20 Louis Siefert Subdivision lots and accepted four. Gilbert Reiman paid 6151 for lot 20 while Charles Decker bid 4730 for lots 7 and 24, needing a larger vote. FmHA approval pending. bid openings to continue amid budget and process criticisms.
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Murphysboro OK
H.B. Koplowitz
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois
Murphysboro
Louis Siefert
Gilbert Reiman
Charles Decker
Farmers Home Administration
Fmha
Leonard
Pullis
David McDowell
McDowell
Murphysboro school backs biracial panel
Murphysboro Unit School District 186 board backed a biracial student committee to address racial problems with dialogue. The Student Awareness Committee will include eight students, two advisers, and will be elected by class, with aims to meet as needed and evaluate at year end.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinoisan
Murphysboro Unit
District 186
Murphysboro High School
Bill Moeglin
Bobby Kellum
Barbara Arbeiter
Bowen staff protest plan to ship meals long distance
AFSCME members at the A L Bowen Developmental Center protested a state plan to prepare meals at Anna and ship them over 50 miles for 150 residents. The plan, part of IDMH/Disabilities cuts, would save about 218000 but require transport and potential staff losses, with 32 or more positions slated to vanish this year.
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Dave DeWitte
Southern Illinoisan
A. L. Bowen Developmental Center
Anna Mental Health Center
Illinois Department of Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities
Bowen Center
American Federation of State
Dietary Department
Afscme
Ron Bradley
Bowen
Wayne Kottmeyer
Anna
Ron Bittle
IDMH
Bittle
Kottmeyer
Witt resigns as Marion Chamber vice president after 11 years
Milt Witt, 73, executive vice president of the Greater Marion Area Chamber of Commerce, retires after 11 years following a heart attack. Chamber President Carl Goodwin notes Witt's contributions and his declined pay raises, and a search panel is formed to find a replacement.
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Milt Witt
Greater Marion Area
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Goodwin
Chamber
Witt
Marion
Marion Plaza
Town and Country
U.S. Army
Peoria
Ramada Inns Inc
May
J. Davis Thompson
Mary Lou Roberts
Loren Carter
Jack Hill
Ben Bruce
Carla Chase
State probes police fight in rural Anna
The Illinois Division of Criminal Investigations is probing a clash between Union County sheriff's deputies and Anna police outside the VFW Post in Anna after an Illinois Police Association meeting. Sheriff Tripp and officers named gave conflicting statements while city officials and others declined comment. The incident occurred off duty in the parking lot and prompted multiple reviews, with no conclusive findings yet.
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Bonnie Marx
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois Division of Criminal Investigations
Union County Sheriff’s Department
Anna Police Department
VFW
Anna
Illinois Police Association
Union County
Larry Tripp
Tripp
Illinois Division of Criminal Investigation
Bobby Boyd
A.C. Lewis
Mark Chamness
Dennis Ralls
Steve Hartline
Glenn Teller
Boyd
Chamness
VFW Post
Lewis
Hartline
Teller
Lawrence Boyer
Ralls and Teller
Willis Belcher
Rick Lingle
Lingle
Belcher
Rodney Clutts
DCI
Clutts
John Womick
Womick
City of Anna
Boyer
Robert Ferrell
Ferrell
West Frankfort buys ambulance despite tight finances
West Frankfort City Council voted 3-2 to purchase an equipped ambulance for about 30000. The cost to the general fund will be about 34 after 14000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration 5000 trade-in 3200 from equipment fund 7261 from home insurance funds and federal revenue sharing funds. The ambulance is sold by United Municipal Equipment Mount Vernon. Other bids included 31960 with 700 trade-in and 28925 with 3000 trade-in.
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Theresa Churchill
Southern Illinoisan
West Frankfort
Jim Bernhard
Mike McClatchey
George Gulley
Bernhard
Federal Highway Administration
United Municipal Equipment of
Mount Vernon
Able
Newses replace typos as editors use VDTs
In a review of Electronic Age News Editing editors Stonecipher Nicholls and Anderson discuss the shift from hot type to cold type and the rise of visual display terminals at newspapers. VDTs replace typewriters and enable direct computer input, but editors warn the electronic era does not eliminate errors.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinois
Harry W. Stonecipher
Edward C. Nicholls
Douglas A. Anderson
Nelson Hall
Chicago
Stonecipher
Nicholls
Anderson
Electronic Age
Editing as a step in journalism development and practice
The passage argues editing, whether by pencil or video display terminal, remains a core of journalism. It emphasizes timely accurate stories, succinct headlines, attractive page layouts, and minimal typos, urging editors to keep errors to a strict minimum.
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St. Louis
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