Grand jury report highlights lax administration in Johnson County
The Grand jury calls attention to weak local governance across Southern Illinois, urging reforms to improve budgeting, real estate assessments, zoning enforcement, minority outreach, regional cooperation, and basic cost controls to ensure honest handling of tax dollars. Carbonale and Marion show some progress under city manager and mayoral leadership respectively.
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Grand Jury
Johnson County
Illinois
Ilinois
Carbonale
Southern Ilinois University
Marion
Robert Butler
Herrin
Murphysboro
Conservancy Districts
Ogilvie urged to rethink Illinois tax and spending plans
The editorial urges Governor Ogilvie to reexamine tax reform beyond eliminating personal property tax and to revise the sales tax, while questioning the use of new funds, the expansion of education spending, and the need for a blue ribbon probe of education and overall fiscal policy. It notes the 1973 budget cycle and calls for reassessment of long term fiscal plans across departments.
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Gov. Ogilvie
Illinois
Ogilvie
Illnois
Illinois year round schooling eyed for pilot use
Illinois schools explore year round calendars to ease overcrowding and improve facility use. Valley View in Lockport adopts a 12 month schedule while nine Chicago elementary schools run pilots. Proposals note higher maintenance and pay costs but potential for 25 percent space savings and altered vacation patterns.
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Superintendent of Public Instruction
Valley View
Lockport
Chicago
Rockford
Elgin
Springfield
Addi
Mortgage Practices Scrutiny Hinted by Senate Hearing
The U S Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee will begin hearings on mortgage bank practices affecting black neighborhoods. Boston serves as a model where banks pooled funds for high risk loans to minorities within boundary lines, aided by real estate agents and federally guaranteed programs. Senator Hart aims to expose antitrust violations and push tighter federal housing loan rules.
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U. S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly
Subcommittee
Boston
Bank Group
Savings and Loan Associations
Philip A. Hart
Michigan
Traveling, Moving May Require Court Approval
After a divorce the custodian cannot change the child’s residence without court permission. A parent may travel outside Illinois if both sides agree, but if a parent objects the court decides in the child’s best interest.
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Illinois
Illinois State Bar Assn
Dreiser's Hoosier reception marks centennial echo
Indiana shuns Theodore Dreiser while applauding Paul Dresser as the state’s cultural icon. Terre Haute signs praise the composer of On the Banks of the Wabash as Dreiser’s home legacy fades in Hoosier memory.
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Theodore Dreiser
Indiana
Indianapolis Star
Paul Dreiser
Hoosterdam
Dreiser
Terre Haute
Paul Dresser
Wabash
Carrie
Chamber of Commerce
Hoosiers
Indiana State University
Sister Carrie
W. A. Swanberg
Emma Goldman
Salute the dingbats say reader
Henrietta Gines of Carbondale questions teen voter maturity and responsibility in The Southern Illinoisan letter to the editor. She argues 18-year-olds should be allowed to vote if capable and suggests teens can propose solutions to problems.
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H. L. Mencken
Drieser
Russia
American Communist Party
Dreiser
Alfred Kazin
Mencken
Sinclair Lewis
The
Southern Illinoisan
Henrietta Gines Carbondale
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John C. Gardner
Robert D. Reid
James K. Adams
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