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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1978
Page
1
Shelbyville freshman David Greer takes part in the second Marching Salukis practice. About half the band is performing for the first time this year and adjusting to a new drumbeat.
Police marksmen will fire shots from the Texas School Book Depository into sand traps as acoustics experts try to decide if more than three shots were fired in Dealey Plaza during the Kennedy assassination. The test, conducted by the House Select Committee, uses Bolt, Beranek and Newman to analyze recordings and limit noise and danger during a sealed-off, security-focused event.
Hancock County deputy Wilbur Schuermann was abducted in Warsaw by an armed gunman who handcuffed him and a Warsaw city marshal before fleeing in the unmarked patrol car. A shot was fired. officials had not located them by nightfall.
A Carbondale community page notes guidelines for housing near Southern Illinois University Carbondale and mentions a National Weather Service forecast of sunny skies with highs in the 80s. It reports city council plans to choose a new mayor Monday and Gov. Thompson petition drives in Marion. Political Scene and more election news follow.
Opinion notes evidence that Franklin Randolph and Williamson counties exempt organizations from property taxes they should pay. The editorial argues for fair tax enforcement while Hearin seeks to regain the area as a commercial and retailing hub, with pages 22 and 23 indicating the topics.
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said the peace plan is not final and cannot be changed without mutual agreement. He outlined four essential elements for any accord and noted Rabin favored separate Egypt deal with a principles declaration on Palestinians while Dayan sought guidelines at Camp David. Egypt rejected Begin plan calling for Sinai sovereignty and limited West Bank autonomy with Israeli military presence.
The conclave to elect a new pope opens with 111 princes of the Roman Catholic Church expected. A 56 to 55 European edge follows illnesses and deaths shrinking non European representation. nine cardinals from Asia, Africans and the Americas totaling 56 Europeans. Italy, with 27 cardinals, remains the largest national group, and the United States has eight cardinals.
A New York detective calls the case the juiciest murder in the works as investigators close a triangle linking a model, a horse trainer, and a restaurant owner. Page 9.
Four patients died in a Baltimore hospital ICU after unknown causes. Nurse Mary Rose Kaisler Robaczynski was indicted on four counts of murder and released on recognizance awaiting arraignment. Family members recount suspicions as investigators probe unhooked life support and mysterious deaths at Maryland General Hospital.
Scientists at SUNY Stony Brook report that polychlorinated biphenyls in water harm larger phytoplankton, reducing zooplankton and fish food. The study in Science used Long Island Sound marshes to expose algae to PCB levels up to ten millionths of a gram per liter, finding increased mortality and altered growth and chlorophyll in larger phytoplankton.
Henry Detwiler of Carbondale has journeyed to Iceland and the Pyrenees for bird watching. The St Louis Cardinals struggled across football and baseball contests, SIU Carbondale’s scrimmage produced a sobering injury to quarterback Big John Cernak, and Columbus DA found no criminal negligence in the June 6 hotel fire that killed former SIUC basketball coach Paul Lambert.
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