Lambert quits SIUC to take Auburn post
SIU-C coach Paul Lambert announced his move to Auburn University as head basketball coach after a 79-76 win over Indiana State. He described a four year contract with a salary around 35 000 and added a paid Montgomery TV show and a summer camp income. The SIU-C search for a replacement will start, with the Intercollegiate Athletic Committee screening applicants for Sayers to recommend to the university president.
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Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Paul Lambert
Salukis
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Creighton
Lambert
Auburn University
Alabama
Auburn
Lee Hayley
Gale
Sayers
SIUC
Hayley
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Mace
Warren Brandt
George Subelt
Herman Williams
SEC
NCAA
Kentucky
Birmingham
Lexington
Bob Davis
Hardin-Simmons
Jobless rate down in Illinois while U.S. rate rises
The Labor Department shows the nationwide unemployment rate edging up to 6.2 percent in March after four declines, while Illinois sees a 0.4 percentage point drop from 7.1 to 6.7 percent. Black teen unemployment worsened to 39 percent, and overall jobs grew by 260,000 to 93.3 million with the labor force at 99.4 million.
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Chicago
Washington
Illinois
Illinois Bureau of Employment Security
Jim Henkle
Illinois Employment Security Bureau
Henkle
Hart captured in slayings of three Girl Scouts
Gene Leroy Hart, sought for the 1977 Camp Scott murders, was captured after a raid on a Cookson Hills cabin. He faces three counts of first degree murder and was to be arraigned, ten months after a nationwide manhunt. Hart had evaded custody since a 1973 jail escape.
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McAlester
Okla
Oklahoma
Gene Leroy Hart
Sid Wise
Hart
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
Cookson Hills
Dick Wilkerson
Bureau
Wilkerson
Pryor
Camp Scott
Locust Grove
Doris Denise Milner
Lori Lee Farmer
Tulsa
Michelle Guse
Mayes County
Torrijos balking at treaty sparks Panamanian protests
Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos protests to the State Department over a U S Senate amendment to the first Panama Canal treaty. Government sources say the confidential message calls the measure unacceptable. Panama's Foreign Ministry plans a public statement after the Senate acts on the second treaty.
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Torrijos
Panama City
Panama
Omar Torrijos
State Department
U.S. Senate
U.S
Foreign Ministry
Carter
Senate
Washington
Tomas Herrera
Ricardo Arias
Miami
Fla
United Nations
U.N
Jorge Ernesto Illueca
Kurt Waldheim
United States
Illinois Senate backs plan to elect state school head
Illinois senators approved a resolution to place in November a question asking voters to restore the elected school chief system, replacing the current appointed superintendent Cronin, a Massachusetts native. House action by May 7 is required to put the measure on the ballot.
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Bill
Senate
Springfield
Joseph M. Cronin
Illinois House
Illinois
Leroy W. Lemke
Chicago
Cronin
Massachusetts
House
State Board of Education
Weather outlook and grain elevator bankruptcy notes
The National Weather Service forecasts fair weather tonight with lows in the lower 50s. Saturday brings variable cloudiness and a chance of showers with highs in the upper 70s and a low in the lower 80s. Sunday may bring showers or thunderstorms with highs 75 to 85 and lows in the 50s. Grain elevators report a shortage of hopper cars and state officials warn that bankruptcy proceedings in Gallatin County could be among the nation's largest.
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National Weather Service
Gallatin County
Businesses hire more permanent part time workers
More businesses are hiring permanent part time workers contending they produce more and are more dependable and the total cost is less.
Voters to Choose School Board Members Saturday
Residents across area districts head to the polls on Saturday to elect new school board members. The paper notes that its preferences appear on Page 4, while the Cardinals open their 1978 season tonight against Steve Carlton, with related coverage on Page 13.
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Cardinals
Steve Carlton
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