Morris PADLIC Library News Highlights New Arrivals
The Morris PADLIC Library announces hours for adult and children's departments and shelves several new non fiction titles. Cousteau and Diole detail whales in The Whale Mighty Monarch of the Sea. Crossing the Tracks by Maurice R Marchello explores Italian immigrant contributions and American life. Black Coal for White Bread recounts coal mine worker memories and early unionization in Northern Illinois with notable figures.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Philippe Diole
Baja California
Maurice R. Marchello
America
Chicago
Fra Nci
Marchello
Italy
Coal City
Ill
Santa Fe
U.S. Railway Mail Service
University of Chicago Law School
University of Rome
Illinois Prairie
Union
Labor Movement Voices and Mine Safety in Early 20th Century
The piece highlights John L. Lewis John Mitchell and Mother Jones as pivotal figures in U S labor history, notes ongoing mine safety concerns after major disasters, and reflects on the ethnic mix of miners. It also states Kuwait holds over 10 billion tons of crude oil reserves, about 15 percent of global supply.
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United States
John L. Lewis
John Mitchell
Mother Jones
Marchello
Kuwait
Nixon considers wage price plan changes amid rising food costs
Washington aims to alter profit margins and phase out rent controls while keeping farm subsidies in check. Treasury secretary Shultz cites food prices as the key obstacle to inflation relief and notes potential steps to boost supplies, adjust tariffs, and revise farm subsidies. Officials consult labor and business leaders as they weigh actions.
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Washington
Nixon
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Donald Rumsfeld
Cost of Living Council
High Council
Shultz
Council
Nixon halts emergency farm loans to curb spending
The Farmers Home Administration halted new emergency disaster loans in designated areas as part of a budget cap. The move affects counties with 60 days of loan availability or two months for others, with President Nixon and Secretary Earl L. Butz holding disaster designations to June 30. Total emergency loans so far and projected costs are cited, with inflation concerns given as the reason.
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Washington
Nixon
Farmers Home Administration
Agriculture Department
FHA
George C. Knapps
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Seaboard
Agnes
Rapid City
S.D
USDA
Weather slows 1972 crop harvests across soybeans and corn
Washington AP Nearly one-fifth of soybeans and almost one-sixth of corn remained in weather-damaged fields by Christmas. Soybean harvest was 81 percent complete and corn 86 percent, with snow rain and cold hampering field work since last fall. No official loss estimates until Jan. 15 with a revised 1972 production report.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Fourteenth ICG suit filed over Chicago train crash liability
The 14th lawsuit against Illinois Central Gulf Railroad seeks 5000000 plus damages, totaling 17925000, by Maria Del Roble Martinez de Villareal of Monterrey after her parents Braulio Martinez and Maria were killed in the Oct 30 commuter crash. The suit claims improper rear car markings and warning devices on the Highliner, which was hit from behind by an older train as it overshot a station. General Steel Industries, Inc. is named as a defendant.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
Maria del Roble Martinez de Villareal
Monterrey
Illinois
Walker
Simon
Daley
Ogilvie
George S. McGovern
27Th Street
Walker dominates Illinois news in 1972
Dan Walker emerged as Illinois's big 1972 story by winning the governors race after defeating Ogilvie in November and edging Lt. Gov. Simon in the primary. His upset and campaign length highlighted a year marked by major disasters including a 45 death train wreck and a fatal jet crash near Chicago.
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Chicago
Dan Walker
Illinois
Walker
Richard B. Ogilvie
Paul Simon
Illinois Central Gulf
United Air Lines
Cook County
Richard J. Daley
Atty
Edward V. Hanrahan
William Gonder
North Central
O’hare
USDA to issue farm profit report Friday
The Agriculture Department will release Friday at 3 p m EST a monthly report on prices farmers receive and pay outs to meet expenses. It covers prices as of Dec 15 and compares with mid November and year earlier averages. Cattle hog prices rose since mid November while fat cattle near last summer highs at Omaha. retail meat costs garner attention.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Crop Reporting Board
Omaha
Neb
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