Governor Jim Thompson Tours Petunia City in Unbudgeted Time
Big Jim Thompson spends a few hours in Petunia City walking First Street and shopping, noting a tax charged for gloves and a political bumper sticker. He hints at possible re election plans while engaging in light civic missteps and praising a tax bearing clerk. The piece also covers local party shakeups, the Dixon Correctional Center, MAC and KSB hospital board talks on an Ambulatory Surgery Center, and a Lee County Nursing Home budget shortfall prompting possible sale talk. Final note urges April 4 voter registration by the county clerk.
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John Edmunds
Diana Burmeister seeks second look in case while pledging recovery
Diana Burmeister writes that she regrets past alcohol use and asks for support over punishment, noting treatment efforts, AA, therapy, and desire to work with schools to prevent drugs. She asserts she is not a danger to society and asks the court for another review, offering to respond to letters.
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Dixon honors Special Olympics volunteers and groups
Public thanks extend to the American Legion Kiwanis clubs Red Cross student council and many citizens of Dixon for a successful Special Olympic district basketball tournament. Dick Ploess coordinated volunteers Cheryl De Poepe Area 16 director coordinated officials.
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Area 16
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Area 1
Freeway Philosophers and the Traffic of Ideas
Michael Grant imagines a traveling Salon of great thinkers riding along freeways with him Jefferson, Mill, Sartre, Plato and others in the back seats. The column riffs on an Audio Classics Series that would pair philosophers with narrated volumes while cautioning about driving concentration and danger on busy roads.
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Walter Cronkite
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George C. Scott
Schumpeter
John Maynard Keynes
Thomas Jefferson
John Stuart Mill
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Pope John Paul II to visit Poland in June
March 3 1979 millions of Catholics greet the news that Pope John Paul II will visit Poland in June becoming the first pontiff to visit a communist nation. The report notes global prayers and anticipation as a historic papal voyage unfolds.
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