Carbondale to pick new council member among three applicants
The Carbondale City Council will select a new member from D Blaney Miller Rev Charles Watkins and Susan Mitchell on Oct 2. Giles is ineligible due to Route 5 Pleasant Hill address. The term lasts two and a half years. The council also seeks HUD CDBG funds and endorses an area wide waste treatment plan while approving related land purchases and roadwork contracts.
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O.R. Walley
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
D. Blaney Miller
Charles Watkins
Susan Mitchell
Hans Fischer
Rosemary Hawkes
Geoffrey Lynn Giles
Fischer
Neal Eckert
Houston
Texas
Miller
Mitchell
Watkins
Hawkes
Carbondale Board of Police and Fire Commissioners
Jackson County
Carroll Fry
Federal
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Carbondale Council Tackles City Staffing Cuts
City Manager Carroll Fry told the council that Carbondale faces substantial reductions in city employees in the last half of 1978-79 and in 1979-80 due to cuts in federal grants. Staff will review replacements and consolidate clerical positions to cover multiple divisions, with displaced workers aided in finding other municipal or government jobs. Mayor Hans Fischer urged wide distribution and council understanding.
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Carbondale
Carroll Fry
Fry
Hans Fischer
O.R. Walley
Buffalo Roams Perry County. police seek runaway beast
Perry County police hunted a roaming buffalo that wandered near Trico High School and Willisville in the southwest county. Officials suspected the animal may have come from a Steelville area farm and noted the unusual nature of such a call, saying they rarely handle buffalo incidents.
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Trico Community Unit School District 176 High School
Willisville
Perry County
Steeleville
State police expand patrols in trouble areas this year
Illinois State Police will intensify patrols on high risk highways from September to December and in May and June 1979 as part of a six month Concentrated Traffic Enforcement Program. District 13 Commander Capt. Joe Ginter said more troopers will be assigned to hot spots where fatalities and crashes are high across Jackson County Williamson Saline Union Randolph Perry counties.
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Illinois
District 13
Joe Ginter
Ginter
Jackson County
Illinois 13
U.S. 51
Williamson
Saline
Illinois 45
Union County
Randolph County
Perry County
Simon named to foreign language panel in Carter plan
President Carter named 25 members to the new U S Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies. Rep Paul Simon of Illinois, the initiator, noted his own limited language skills and urged promotion of language education to meet Helsinki Accords goals. He warned that neglect could hurt US economic and cultural interests overseas.
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Washington
Carter
U.S
Europe
Simon
Guage
Commission On Foreign Language and International Studies
United States
Marion woman named administrator of Randolph nursing home
Molly A. Jenkins, 28, of Marion, was named administrator for Randolph County Nursing Home in Sparta by the county board, starting Oct. 9, succeeding Tom Behnen who resigned amid financial troubles and union tensions. Jenkins has led three nursing homes since 1975 and will relocate with her husband and 7-year-old son. The board also urged a stronger land-use and river management stance with the Illinois Department of Transportation.
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Russ Mitchell
Southern Illinois and
Marion
Randolph County
Sparta
Molly A. Jenkins
Tom Behnen
Behnen
Jenkins
Gilster
Jenkin
Ernsting
St. Louis
Carbondale
Paulette Buch
Kaskaskia River
Illinois Department of Transportation
Water main break repairs close to Carbondale highway
A 10-inch water main on U S 51 at Carbondale north city limits was repaired around midnight after about 42 hours of work by street and water department crews. The break occurred Sunday morning, requiring removal of roughly 18 inches of highway concrete for over 30 feet. Digging began at 6 a.m. Sunday, eight feet down to the main. Public Works Director Bill Boyd said pavement will be replaced today and traffic is restricted to one lane during the work.
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Coast Guard
Transportation Department
U.S. 51
Carbondale
Public Works
Bill Boyd
Bike safety campaign kicks off at Carbondale schools
SIUC and city police launch bicycle safety week with demonstrations film screening featuring Bill Cosby, a national safety test, and school visits. Police will register bikes at multiple schools, with a $2 fee and a $3 penalty for unregistered bicycles. Prizes include a Raleigh bike from Phoenix Cycles and a 17 jewel watch from McDonald’s plus 15 antenna flags. Clown Ronald McDonald arrives by helicopter at noon for the event.
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Carbondale
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Bill Cosby
Lakeland and
Lewis
Thomas School
Lincoln Junior High
Springmore
Winkler
Parrish
Carbondale Community High School
Robert Ledbetter
McDonald’s West
Westown
Phoenix Cycles
McDonald’s
Ronald McDonald
SIUC
Lentz Hall
Thompson Point
Salukis Enter Fighting Illini Classic in 1983
The Southern Illinois University Salukis basketball team announced a contract to play in the Fighting Illini Basketball Classic on December 16-17, 1983 at Assembly Hall Champaign. Beyond SIU and Illinois, two other schools will be named. SIU C said an earlier bid for next year failed to fit dates, opening a possible first meeting with Illinois.
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Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Salukis
Fighting Illini
University of Illinois
Assembly Hall
Champaign
SIU C
SIUC
Illinois
Herrin district adopts budget with deficit forecast
Herrin Community Unit School District 4 plans 4.959 million in expenditures against 4.692 million in revenues for 1978 79. State aid falls more than 600 000 below last year to cover a prior overpayment while Title I funds rise. Budget includes cuts and a shift to private bus service with balances used to cover the 266 913 gap. Johnston City District 1 delays budget review and hires two new teachers to ease overcrowding at First Baptist Church facilities.
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Karen Rothe
Ilinoisan Herrin Community Unit
Clarida
Linois Municipal Retirement Fund
Johnston City Community Unit
Johnston City
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Jim Pearl Inc
Hays Chevrolet
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Wall
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Butch Nevious
Jay Kelleher
Edwardsville
Ken Bannon
New York
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Charles Strusz
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