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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1972
Page
10
American Bakers Association asks the Cost of Living Council for immediate compensatory price relief for bread and other wheat products to offset higher costs from the U.S. Soviet wheat trade deal. The group warns even one bakery’s failure would hit prices and jobs hard.
The report released at the association's annual convention urges law enforcement to keep as many young kids as possible out of the court system. Coughlin, director of juvenile services, is named president designate and will assume office next year.
American fighter bombers were lost over North Vietnam last weekend and today a fourth was downed. Six of the eight fliers are missing, raising total losses to 82 planes and 91 missing airmen since April 6. North Vietnam reports over 20 fliers captured. Weather improved, enabling 310 strikes on targets including warehouses and ammunition depots. Beijing protests a claimed lifeboat attack, while U S Navy planes attacked a water craft off Hon Neu Island. South Vietnamese advances in Que Son Valley recaptured a district headquarters, but heavy resistance slowed the push. In Quebec, the environment department plans about 200000 for water quality studies this summer.
Delta Air Lines officials say $1 million ransom recovered from a Miami bound hijacked jet is linked to Algerian officials hinting at a tougher approach to hijackers seeking refuge. The hijackers identified as Black Panthers had three children aboard and were paid by five men. Delta notes direct talks with Algerian authorities at Dulles and cites possible official recognition of the problem.
A tanker truck collided with another vehicle near Breda Netherlands triggering a massive explosion and chain collision. Fire crews evacuated the wreckage as 16 people died and about 40 were seriously injured along a 10 mile stretch of fogbound roadway.
Thirteen people were treated at St Louis hospitals for carbon monoxide poisoning after a diesel engine malfunction in a downtown building. About 40 people at the Media Club on the 30th floor of the Laclede Gas Co. building were affected with several collapsing and nine found on the sidewalk. Authorities said a muffler failure on the engine likely caused the gas buildup. all patients were released after treatment and some advised to see their own physicians.
In emergency action the Danville School Board seeks a court injunction to stop striking teachers and allow the Monday opening of classes after rejecting a mediator’s pay proposal. Superintendent Radcliff says student registration proceeds on schedule despite the dispute.
Louis D. Shoulders Jr. 44 son of a former St. Louis police lieutenant and con man linked to the Bobby Greenlease case was killed when his car exploded near Table Rock Lake 13 miles southwest of Branson Missouri. T. J. Harvel 49 was seriously injured. The blast cause is under investigation. Sheriff Lyman Cardwell identified the victims.
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