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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 2001
Page
4
The Southern Illinoisan lists its Publisher Editor Linda Ritchie Opinion Editor Mark Duran and Operations Manager Dennis DeRossett. It provides contact details for letters to the editor via fax and email at southernillinoisan.com.
Union County residents are urged to post visible house numbers to aid emergency services as Oscar Sanders notes the risk of tragedy. Du Quoin District 300 resolves a contract dispute to avoid a strike. Herrin merchants add white wrought iron benches on Park Avenue led by the local association. Somerset Township proposes a one year tax moratorium after voting to cut taxes. Illinois Centre Mall hosts a regional chamber expo with 65 participants from nearby chambers. Frankfort Community High School students raise 11000 for NYC police and firefamilies. Carbondale police seek suspects after six pranksters flip a car on Beveridge Street, possible felony damage. tips welcomed to Crime Stoppers.
A Southern Illinoisan reader endorses restricting immigration, recalls Japanese internment after Pearl Harbor, and advocates shipping foreigners back. She praises veterans in her family and calls for sharper foreign policy aided by covert and overt diplomats.
The text argues for creating another war college focused on diplomacy rather than military discipline. It notes terror as a new war method and suggests training the nation’s brightest minds as professional diplomats to counter unconventional threats.
OuR POLICIES describe letters to the editor rules for submission typewritten or email. Signed letters with city and name may be published after editorial edit. No poetry or mass submissions. libelous or personal attacks rejected. The Vent features reader comments with a public phone line and email contact.
Gary Marx reflects in a Southern Illinoisan column on his final year of childhood trick or treating. He recalls costumes a lonesome hobo and a ghost, notes changing times, safety fears, and mail threats reshaping Halloween into a largely remembered tradition.
A devotional verse emphasizes serving Allah without partners, kindness to parents, kin, orphans, the needy, close and distant neighbors, travelers, and difficult cases. It condemns pride and boasting in believers. The passage underscores duties to relatives and strangers alike within a moral frame.
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