Johns drops push for coal severance tax proposal
Illinois senator Gene Johns D Marion abandons pushing a 20 cent per ton coal severance tax for 1981. He seeks study by a standing committee or a new commission amid coal industry opposition and concerns over revenue impacts while arguing a severance tax could channel about nine million dollars to counties and the state.
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Dawn Netsch
Chicago
Johns
Netsch
Revenue Committee
Illinois
Love says office car were not bugged Chicago
School Superintendent Ruth Love denies earlier reports that her offices and car were electronically bugged. She accepted the resignation of top aide Charles Mitchell after he allegedly organized sweeps. Deputy Superintendent Mitchell later said the information on illegal listening devices was not true. Later sweeps found no bugs in a second search.
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Ruth Love
Charles Mitchell
Miss Love
Michell
Inflation dips from double digits in March
The Labor Department reports a 0.6 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index for March, bringing annual inflation to 7.5 percent and easing energy price pressures. The report notes lower transportation and housing cost gains, with energy prices continuing to rise but not as sharply as earlier months, and confirms an 11.2 percent first-quarter rise in the index affecting Social Security COLA increases.
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Labor Department
Bureau
Reagan Administration
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Inmate Albert Jackson Found Not Guilty in 1978 Riot
Judge Benjamin K. Miller acquitted Albert Jackson of murder in the July 22 1978 Pontiac Correctional Center riot that left three dead. He remains charged with attempted murder of a prison guard. The mob action count against Jackson was dropped. Benny Lee’s murder verdict request was denied.
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Benjamin K. Miller
Albert Jackson
Miller
Jackson
Benny Lee
Lee
Atlanta witness touted as solving slayings
Police will judge quickly whether a civil rights group led witness claims can solve Atlanta’s 25 killings of young blacks over 21 months. CORE’s Roy Innis says investigators found a possible psychopath and a witness linking him to at least six slayings, though details were not provided.
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Public Safety
Lée Brown
Roy Innis
The
Congress of Racial Equality
Innis
John Schaffner
Atlanta Constitution
Zeigler Coal liable for 3.63 million in land coal dispute
Zeigler Coal Co must pay Phillip and Dorothy Dethioff 3.63 million after courts upheld a verdict for coal removed from their 40 acre farm near Murdock Illinois. The dispute centered on coal removed in 1976 under a mineral lease that expired in 1970.
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Zeigler
Champaign, Ill
Zeigler Coal Co
Douglas County
U.S. Supreme Court
Phillip
Dorothy Dethioff
Arnold Blackman
Champaign
Murdock
Rioting worsens in Ireland amid Belfast clashes
In Northern Ireland, the worst violence in eight nights sees Catholics clash with police and troops after funerals for two youths killed by a British army vehicle. IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands weakens as a papal envoy hints at urging a halt. Rioting spikes in Belfast Londonderry Newry Strabane and Portadown with rocks bricks gasoline and acid bombs. troops use plastic bullets. several officers and soldiers burned. no casualty count given.
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Northern Ireland
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Bobby Sands
John Paul II
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Londonderry
Vince
Ingan
Newry
Strabane
Portadown
Chester recount preserves 3 vote margin for Weige
A county recount in Chester kept Mike Weige ahead by three votes over Elmer Mehrer. Precinct 1 shifted Weige 236 Mehrer 220, Precinct 3 stayed 3-14 for Welge over Mehrer, while Precincts 2 and 29 were not recounted. The process served as a discovery guide for potential court actions.
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Chester
Mike Weige
Weige
Elmer
Pete
Mehrer
Welge
Weilge
Randolph
Charles Bernasek
Stanley Maciejski
Dick Dethrow
Marion United Way drive tops its $36000 goal
The Greater Marion Area United Way surpassed its $36000 goal for the first time in two years. Cochairman Michael Malone said pledges totaled just over the target as last week’s drive ended. Proceeds go to 14 community service agencies including Boy and Girl Scouts programs.
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Marion Area
United Way
Cochairman
Michael Malone
Malone
Louis Lang
Giles Armature and Electric Orks Inc
Holiday Inn
Olin Corp
Williamson County Federal
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