Apollo 15 prepares trans earth injection for homeward flight
Space Center Houston reports Apollo 15 plans to fire the service module engine at 4 20 p m CDT to begin the homebound flight after six days in lunar orbit and three on the surface Col David Scott leads the mission Worden will exit to retrieve camera magazines and data from other instruments has been sent to earth the crew woke to the film 2001 music.
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John Lannan
Washington Star Space Center
Houston
David Scott
Moon
Alfred M. Worden
Science Bay
Earth
Coroner Jury Faults I C Safety After Salem Derailment
A coroner's jury criticized Illinois Central Railroad for unsafe maintenance and procedures after a June 10 Salem derailment killed 11 people and injured about 100. The panel cited a likely failed warning light in the engineer’s cab and a wheel locking that caused the crash. one victim remained unidentified.
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Salem
Tlinois Central Railroad
Edward Perry
Marion County
National Transportation Safety Board
Perry
Choate unveils plan for full Illinois remap
Illinois House minority leader Rep Clyde L Choate says a new statewide remap proposal will be unveiled today to create 59 House and Senate districts. The plan aims to cover the entire state and not just Chicago and Cook County where a separate map has been proposed by Cook County Republicans.
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Springfield
Illinois
Clyde L. Choate
D-Anna
Legislative
Gray says probe clears him over Carbondale post site
U S Representative Kenneth Gray says a Justice Department letter dated July 15 clears him of any federal wrongdoing in the Carbondale post office site acquisition. The probe focused on a 4.5 acre tract east of Murdale Shopping Center bought for 569000 in 1968 and later shifted to a 9.5 acre site near Penney’s.
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U. S
Kenneth Gray
Carbondale
West Frankfort
Department of Justice
Will Wilson
Gray
FBI
Grand Jury
Murdale Shopping Center
U.S. Postal Service
Parrish
Rt. 13 West
House
Internal Revenue Center
Detroit
Mich
Veterans Administration Hospital
Marion
Internal Revenue Service
Post Office
U.S. Atty
Henry Schwartz
East St. Louis
Schwarz
Washington, D.C
Rt. 13
Murdale
Melon Truck Crash Ties Up Rt 57 Traffic
A pickup overturned on Route 57 three miles north of Benton spilling watermelons. State highway workers calmed the scene and spread cinders. The driver Joseph Gienn 75 of Mt Vernon and his wife Bertha 67 were taken to hospital.
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Rt. 57
Benton
State
Joseph Gienn
Mt. Vernon
Bertha
State workers union threatens suit over pension cuts
The Illinois State Employes Union Council 34 says budget director John McCarter unlawfully reduced the state retirement system contribution from 5.54 to 4.8 percent, a move they will challenge unless corrected. McCarter defends it as legal to balance the budget, claiming no benefit impact.
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Springfield
Illinois State Employes Union Council 34
Richard B. Ogilvie
John McCarter
Ogilvie
McCarter
Associated Press
Lawrence E. Reinold
Reinold
Howard C. Reeder
Chicago
Illinois State Employes Retirement System
Michael Howlett
Senate approves curb on personal spending in federal races
Senate votes on election reform measures amid debates over campaign costs. A wage price board proposal and a six member federal elections commission are approved. The self funded limits set presidential cap at 50 000 dollars and congressional caps at 25 000 to 35 000, while spending per voter is limited to 10 cents.
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House
Senate
Showers Likely Tonight With Thunderstorms Forecast
Tonight will see considerable cloudiness with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Low temperatures around 60 to 66. Thursday turns partly cloudy with a high near 77 to 82. Weather details on map page 26.
Nixon says no immediate Vietnam end from China talks
President Nixon cautions that discussions with China will not end the Vietnam war soon. He tells reporters there are no conditions or deals and that future talks will cover hard problems facing both nations and the world. Also reports Wayne Duke to become Big Ten commissioner after Bill Reed's death.
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Nixon
China
United States
Chicago
Wayne Duke
Bill Reed
Associated Press
Nixon opposes wage price board plan for inflation
President Nixon voiced dislike for a wage price board approach to curb inflation and urged industry labor settlements to be responsible. Treasury Secretary Connally welcomed congressional debate on the issue while noting the administration’s opposition to wage price controls. A group of 12 Senate Republicans proposed a wage price board and Nixon asserted hearings should prove incomes policy could work without harming the economy.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Connally
Congress
Oval Office
U.S
Jacob K. Javits
Rn.y
Charles McC. Mathias Jr
R-Md
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Scott
GOP
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Young voters register across Southern Illinois counties
Counties including Jackson Randolph Perry Franklin Williamson and Union report ongoing registrations of voters aged 18 to 20 following the new voting age law. Clerks note numbers vary: about 45 under 21 in Jackson, 170 in Randolph, 101 in Perry at Pinckneyville fairgrounds, around 100 in Franklin, 195 in Williamson, and ongoing totals in Union as registrations continue daily through summer.
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Illinois
Jackson County
Delmar Ward
Oscar Mennerich
Randolph County
Perry County
Perry County Fairgrounds
Pinckneyville
Winton Bigham
Bigham
Hiller
Williamson County
Barney Boren
Union County Clerk’s Office
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Caroll Alexander
Budslick
Mardale Shopping Center, Inc
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Ralph Gray
Ramada Inn
Ralph
Budslick and Parrish
Savings and Loan
Kenneth J. Gray
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Bud Farrar
A. A. Weinberg
Wage-price Board
Sen
Charles M. Mathias
House of Representatives
United States Senate
Federal Elections Commission
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