La Salle expedition returns after 3300 mile voyage
A group of 23 reenactors including 16 students, five Elgin teachers, a playwright, and a Franciscan priest completed the first leg of Robert La Salle's 3300 mile route from Evanston to Elgin. They report weight changes vary with activity while noting mostly friendly encounters and plans to continue toward New Orleans via the Kankakee and Mississippi rivers.
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Elgin, II
UPI
Robert Cavelier de la Salle
Montreal
New Orleans
Elgin Area
Canada
Lewis
Evanston
Elgin
Chicago
Adler Planetarium
Lake Michigan
Kankakee
Illinois
Mississippi
Hospital accused of threatening nursing school boycott
Shirley Wong, a Lewis University nurse faculty member, claims South Chicago Community Hospital threatened to boycott Lewis University nursing students unless she withdrew as a witness in a $350 000 malpractice case. The suit names the hospital and six doctors over alleged improper treatment in 1971.
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Chicago
UPS
South Chicago
Cook County
David A. Canel
Shirley Wong
Lewis University College of Nursing
Lockport
Lewis University
Calumet Park
Garcia
Nighttime Driving Tips From Consumer Safety Office
Nighttime driving risks rise with standard time and reduced daylight. Keep headlights clean and properly aimed, replace dead bulbs, and ensure all lights including brakes work. Use high beams on clear highways but switch to low beams for oncoming traffic or when following closely.
Frost predicts Nixon will answer with candor in interviews
David Frost, preparing for a series of interviews with Richard Nixon, says Nixon will confront his past and give his version. Frost told the Hollywood Radio and Television Society that Nixon wants candor and that press questions should press him for it.
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Nixon
Beverly Hills
Calif
UPI
David Frost
Richard Nixon
Hollywood Radio and Television Society
Wildlife groups sue to halt Russell Dam project fight
The National Wildlife Federation leads a lawsuit with Georgia and South Carolina affiliates and eight groups against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and EPA to stop the Richard B. Russell Dam. They allege water quality violations and failure to provide habitat mitigation for 26,650 acres of flooded habitat.
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The
National Wildlife Federation
Savannah River
Georgia
South Carolina
Georgia and
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Corps
Interior Department
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
NWF
EPA
Russell
Fish and Wildlife Service
Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
Russell Dam
Trotter Shoals
Lake Hartwell
Clark Hill Lake
Savannah
Beef supplies in 1977 seen higher than earlier forecast
Washington experts say January March beef production may reach about 6.0 billion pounds, down 7.6 percent from 1976 opening quarter. They forecast steady retail beef prices through winter as feed costs ease and feedlot placements stay near 1976 levels. Total meat output for 1976 is on track to a new record with per capita consumption rising.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Department
Ter
Judge dismisses charges in CB warning case on I-55
A Livingston County judge dismissed obstruction charges against Sammy Graham of Chicago who used a Citizens Band radio to warn motorists of a police location on Interstate 55 near Pontiac. The ruling noted no clear disruption to an officer's duties and cited first-time local context.
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Pontiac
Ill
UPI
Livingston County
C. David Vogel
McLean County
Joseph Kelley
Kelley
Sammy Graham
Chicago
Graham
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