Civil War buffs reenact Makanda battle today
Civil War enthusiasts, led by Johnnie Yuma portraying the 19th Georgia Cavalry, gather for Makanda Junctions Third Battle reenactment. Artillery crews fire a full-scale Napoleon cannon while riders arrive in trailers and pickups. The event, echoing Confederate and Union histories, runs from 1 p.m. at Hartline Farm near the New Illinois 51 and Makanda Road junction, south of Carbondale.
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Makanda Junction
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Yuma
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Ridge Farm
Karl Elsen
Fauquier Artillery
Virginia
Elsea
Robert E. Lee
Appromattox
Elsen
Hartline
New Illinois 51
Makanda Road
Carbondale
Columbia Flight Slated Sunday After 40 Millisecond Delay
Space shuttle Columbia with John Young and Robert Crippen prepared for a dawn Sunday launch from Cape Canaveral. A 40 millisecond timing skew between primary and backup computers scrubbed Friday’s attempt, cloud cover looms, and NASA braces for possible Monday if weather fails to clear.
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Space shuttle Columbia flight TV coverage planned
Media plans outline live coverage of the delayed Columbia flight by NBC ABC CBS and CNN starting about 5 a.m. CST with hours of updates through the noon landing. NBC and ABC begin at 5 a.m. CBS reports from Kennedy Space Center after a 5:30 start.
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U.S
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ABC
CBS
Kennedy Space Center
Florida
Cable News
Charles Kuralt
Temperatures to reach into the 80s with possible storms
National Weather Service data show warm weather today with highs in the low to mid 80s and a chance of thunderstorms. Tonight drops to the low to mid 60s as south winds 12 to 22 mph ease. Monday brings partly sunny skies and a high in the upper 70s.
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Church presses for coal talks to resume
United Mine Workers President Sam M Church Jr praised a 2 to 1 union vote rejecting a soft coal contract as a sign of strength and urged immediate negotiations for a better deal. Industry chief negotiator B R Brown warned of a long strike and demanded a reliable bargaining posture as 160000 miners remain idle in the fifteenth day of the dispute.
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New York Times
Washington
Sam M. Church Jr
United Mine Workers
B.R. Brown
Consolidation Coal Co
Church
Rank and File
Brown
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