Floating road to Alaska’s cities links sea and state
Alaska's Marine Highway System, born after statehood, now spans over 1500 miles with nine ships carrying 75,000 vehicles and 280,000 passengers annually. Costs exceed 33 million dollars while revenues around 16 million. Critics urge higher rates or cuts. supporters call it a beloved, heritage transportation that keeps remote communities connected.
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Juneau
Alaska
Nea
Seattle
People's Highway
Doug Burton
Highway Department
Ginger Johnson
Haines
Burton
Anchorage
Fairbanks
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Environmentalist predicts lower food costs with gasohol fuel
Barry Commoner, director at Washington University, told a USDA hearing gasohol could cut food prices by enabling farmers to grow fuel for their tractors. He noted two cost curves, one for fossil fuels and one for on farm energy, and urged farm-based energy like methane from manure. Tim Warren of the Illinois Energy Resources Commission cited a firm producing 130,000 gallons of ethanol daily from corn sweetener waste and gasohol sales in 17 Illinois counties.
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Tually
Weldon Barton
Agriculture Department
Office of Energy
Congress
Bob Bergland
Commoner
Tim Warren
Illinois Energy Resources Commision
Illinois
Warren
Walker extension in fight against Centralia prison site
Former Governor Daniel Walker gains more time to assemble material in his bid to block a 29 million, 100 acre medium security prison near Centralia. He filed for a temporary restraining order arguing lack of federal environmental impact study and potential use of federal funds. Salem Chamber backs the Centralia site while an earlier nearby site near Kaskaskia College was dropped due to oil wells.
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Walker
Free clinic forced to close next to Aurora arts center
Retired Dr. Eugene Balthazar ends his free medical clinic after finances strain, as Aurora's $3 million Paramount Arts Center reopens nearby. Latino community laments lack of local support for a benefit, while center officials say they were offered but saw no backing to help.
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Paramount
Balthazar
Robert Salmon
Aurora
Salmon
Ken Ott
Refurbished arts center next door to free clinic
Eugene Balthazar, a 76 year old physician in Aurora, closed his free medical clinic after five years of operation. He funded the effort from his own pocket and with private donations, serving about 100 patients daily, majority Latino, with no charges for treatment or prescriptions. The clinic began Sept 3, 1972 in a former furniture showroom and relied on volunteers and gifts to cover costs until funds dried up.
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Aurora, Ill
UPI
Eugene Balthazar
Aurora
Balthazar
Bal
Weatherman member fined in Days of Rage case
John Fuerst, a former Weatherman member, is fined $2000 and given two years probation for his role in the 1969 Days of Rage. The judge allows the probation to be served in Seattle, and Fuerst must return to Chicago if the fine is unpaid.
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Chicago
UPI
John Fuerst
Radical Weatherman Organization
Cook County
John J. Moran
Fuerst
Seattle
Wash
Moran
Notice to Subscribers for Morris Daily Herald
Public notice from The Morris Publishing Company requests subscribers report missed deliveries promptly. It states daily delivery before six o'clock each evening barring accidents and delays and outlines carrier and mail rates and liability limits for advertisements.
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Herald Office
Morris
Illinois
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