Privacy laws shield Illinois gambling operations and IRS records
The IRS has blocked help for gambling probes after 1976 privacy laws, shielding illegal Illinois gambling from disclosure. Officials say federal rules prevent sharing stamping records, hampering local investigations while allowing tax stamps to be issued despite illegality.
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Frank Suhadolnik
Karen Rothe
Southern Illinois
Robert Howerton
Williamson County
U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Illinois
Internal Revenue Service
Gamb
IRS
Sharon Kleinik
Springfield
Howerton
William Wallin
Opinions
Prisoner earns PhD through SIU-C professor aid
Mayo, 44, now in Nashville, earned a doctorate from the University of South Africa while imprisoned in Atlanta and previously earned a bachelor's and master's from SIU-C as an inmate at Marion Federal Penitentiary. He relied on SIU-C professor Donald Tolle as joint sponsor and says prisons offer little academic support for inmates.
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DeMaris Berry
Southern
Donald Tolle
Siu-C Department of Higher Education
Mayo
Siu-C
Inmante
Marion Federal Penitentiary
Tolle
DeKalb Community College
Atlanta
London University
University of South Africa
English University
South Africa
Nashville
Industrial Lighting Products
News from a bottle by Ben Gelman
A Sunday Times feature by Ben Gelman recaps Yankees manager Billy Martin's tumultuous 1980 saga. It contrasts past newsroom depth with New York Times coverage, notes Miller Huggins and Babe Ruth loyalties, and highlights Martin’s volatile week, including a potential swap with Bob Lemon and Martin’s drinking in the press lounge.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinois
New York Times
New York Yankees
Billy Martin
Martin
Yankees
Joe DiMaggio
Red Barber
Miller Huggins
Babe Ruth
Jake Ruppert
Reggie Jackson
Barber
Reggie
Jackson
Yankee
George Steinbrenner
Lee MacPhail
Steinbrenner
Chicago White Sox
Bill Veeck
Bob Lemon
Lemon
White Sox
Times
Veeck
The
Barroom gossip and press lounge chatter at a baseball airport
Reader questions the value and ethics of barroom sourcing in baseball reporting. The piece probes whether bar conversations involving managers and reporters should shape newspaper stories, and wonders about credibility, editors, and personal choices about drinking and reading the Times.
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Chass
The
Times
Eskenazi
Jackson
Martin
the Times
George
Steinbrenner
Kansas City
Yankee
White Sox
Chicago
Times Sports
Williamson County mini grant funds bike safety class
Marion teachers share $500 in special grants to expand curricula. McKinley School will use a $50 grant for a bicycle safety program teaching proper riding rules to kindergartners through sixth graders. Other recipients include Sherry Hunter at Carterville High School for a telephoned author interview project and several Herrin and Johnston City staffers for various enrichment efforts.
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Henry de Fiebre
Ruth Ratterman
Marion
McKinley School
Ratterman
Williamson County
Les McCollum
Teachers’ Institute Fund
McCollum
Herrin
Maxine Snider
Herrin Junior High School
Reading Laboratory
Sandra Dobbins
Johnston City
Jean McCamish
Crab Orchard
John A Logan College starts centralized job placement center
John A Logan College plans a one year trial of a centralized on campus job placement center with a full time state placement specialist and college directors coordinating with high school counselors to place about 250 people yearly. The center will post openings for two days before statewide circulation and serve 12 area districts including Carbondale Marion and Herrin.
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Jean Ness
Southern Illinoisan
John A. Logan College
Logan College
Don Nolen
Logan College Board of Trustees
Bob Brown
Carbondale
Marion
Herrin
Brown
Legal College
Trico
Murphysboro
West Frankfort
Carterville
Johnston City
du Quoin
Elverado
Crab Orchard
Mississippi Valley
Illinois
Jack Hill
Logan
SIU C president names Richard Millman as full time intern
Richard S. Millman 33, associate professor of mathematics at SIU C, was appointed by President Warren W. Brandt as his full time intern for the coming year replacing JoAnne L. Thorpe who served half time. Millman, born in Boston and raised in White Plains, earned MIT and Cornell degrees, taught at Ithaca College, was MIT visiting scholar 1976 77, serves on MIT Educational Council, and recently married Ann K Miller.
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Richard S. Millman
Warren W. Brandt
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Millman
Siu-C
JoAnne L. Thorpe
Brandt
Hollis E. Merritt
School of Technical Careers
Boston
White Plains
N.Y
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cornell University
Ithaca College
MIT
Educational Council
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U.S
IRS Public Information
Dorothy Cash
Treasury Department
Internal Revenue
ED Greer
Fred Mayo
Torate
Maya
Byline
B.G
John A. Logan
Ann K. Miller
SIUC
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