Teachers Strike Across Several Illinois Districts
Teachers in Peoria Alton Mascoulah Jerseyville voted to strike delaying opening day while settlements reached in Sterling Lombard Crete Monee Columbia and Peru. Edwardsville and Lake Villa Sycamore Stagg Sandburg decide on action as Urbana and Jacksonville open on schedule with raises and arbitration terms.
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Associated Press
Peoria
Alton
Mascoulah
Jerseyville
Boards of Education
Sterling
Lombard
Crete- Monee
Chicago
Columbia
Peru
Stagg-Sandburg
Lake Villa
Sycamore
Edwardsville
Board of Education
Crete-Conee
Peoria Education Association
Board of Education of
PEA
William Schwab
Alton Education Association
AEA
Alten
Jerseyille
Jacksonville Education Association
Urbana
Southern Illinois teachers negotiate contracts district by district
Across Southern Illinois, at least six districts remain unsigned as teachers negotiate for the new year. Carbondale EA tentative agreement approved by teachers moves to the school board for final action while other districts Meantime, classes shift toward early dismissal in Carbondale and negotiations continue in Murphysboro Johnston City Du Quoin and Tri County Special Education District with mediators assisting and no immediate strikes anticipated.
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Illinois
Carbondale Education Association
Laurence Martin
Carbondale
Teachers’ Association
Carbondale Community High School
William Holder
Holder
Murphysboro Unit School District 186
Murphysboro Education Association
MEA
Unit 186 Board of Education
Unit 186
Johnston City School Board
Johnston City Education Association
John Pink
Federal Mediation and Concilliation Service
Evansville
Ind
Lewis Miles
Remo Castrale
Johnston City
du Quoin
Arthur Rosen
American Arbitration Association
Chicago
Letter bomb injures British envoy at Washington embassy
A letter bomb exploded on the sixth floor of the British Embassy in Washington injuring 51 year old Nora Murray who lost a hand. The FBI and Secret Service join the probe as Scotland Yard blames the IRA for recent device finds and London tightens diplomatic security.
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Washington
U. S
Metropolitan Police
Secret Service
London
Foreign Office
Scotland Yard
Irish Republican Army
George Washington University Hospital
Nora Murray
Charley Pride Delivers Classy Du Quoin Show to 7500 Fans
Charley Pride headlined at the Du Quoin State Fair drawing about 7,500 fans. He performed over an hour with The Pridesmen and The Four Guys, singing hits from The Snakes Crawl at Night to Don’t Fight the Feelings of Love and many on his 20 albums.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois
Charley Pride
du Quoin
Pride
RCA
Tennessee
San Antone
Pride Show Delights Du Quoin State Fair Crowd
About 6000 country music fans flocked to the fairground grandstand for Charley Pride and his Pride band in a show featuring the Pridesmen and The Four Guys. The act showcased Pride’s soft singing with tight backup, running on time and entertaining with ventriloquism and comedy.
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Pride
Gene Oneal
Preston Buchanan
Rudy Gray
Randy Reinhard
Tommy Williams
Richard Garratt
Gary Buck
Sam Wellington
Brent Burkett
Johnny Russell
Sledge
Miss
Alex Houston
Elmer
Russell
Houston
Stockholm bank siege ends in uneasy truce after gas drill
A gunman holding four inside a locked Stockholm vault proposed a truce as police drilled ceiling holes to gas the room. The attacker claimed to have burned about half of a $650,000 ransom while authorities halted operations to protect the hostages and avoid further deaths.
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Stockholm
Curt Lindroth
Lindroth
Colombian air crash kills 41 near Bogota
An Aero Condor turboprop airliner with 41 people aboard crashed into a foggy hill shortly after takeoff from Bogota International Airport and burned. All 41 were killed, including 36 passengers and five crew members, officials said.
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Bogota
Aero- Condor
Virginia race riot erupts in Kilmarnock area
Eleven people were arrested with more expected as Lancaster County authorities report a series of racial disturbances after a Saturday afternoon event. Police describe at least six incidents including assaults shootings firebombings overturned cars and smashed windows.
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Kilmarnock
Lancaster County
Garland Forrester
Engineers Picket CIPS Plants Amid Heat Wave
Operating engineers from Cahokia Local 148 led a weekend strike at Grand Tower Coffeen Hutsonville amid stalled talks with CIPS. West Frankfort Local 702 workers supported the picket lines as supervisory staff kept plants running. CIPS sought a federal injunction to curb illegal picketing while urging consumers to conserve energy during the heat.
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Henry de Fiebre
Southern
Ilinoisan
Central Illinois Public Service Co
CIPS
Cahokia
International Union of Operating Engineers
Grand Tower
Coffeen
Hillsboro
Hutsonville
Crawford County
Indiana State Line
West Frankfort
Clyde Heaton
Cips Southern Division
702
Joe Craddock
Springfield
Heaton
Field
Wayne Duckworth
Duckworth
Boy Dies After Falling From Camper Door On I 10
A 9 year old boy, Jack Edward Zeilstra, died when he stepped from a door of a pickup camper as his parents drove along Interstate 10 near Picacho Arizona. He was believed to have woken and opened the outside door by mistake. The family reported him missing after motorists reported something on the road.
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Department of Public Safety
Jack Zeilstra
Phoenix
Here
Jack Edward Zeilstra
Two miners die in Arizona mine cave in probe underway
In Casa Grande Arizona two federal inspectors examined a copper mine shaft to determine the cause of a cave in that killed two workers. David Deeder 42 of Casa Grande assistant foreman for Hecla Mining and Terry Udall 25 of Fort Collins Colo died of dehydration and heat exhaustion after five days. The cave in occurred August 17 trapping them 1 200 feet underground near the Lakeshore Mine 35 miles south of Casa Grande. Their bodies were recovered Saturday.
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Casa Grande, Ariz
Arizona Desert
David Deeder
Casa Grande
Hecla Mining Co
Terry Udall
Fort Collins
Colo
Deeder
Hecla
Sunshine Mine
Kellogg
Idaho
Udall
Lakeshore
Here
Insurgents Close on Phnom Penh Cutting Key Highways
Communist led rebels push toward Phnom Penh cutting Highways 4 and 5, the main supply routes. Khmer Rouge surrounds a government company near Ang Snoul on Highway 4 as Mekong convoys from Saigon become the city’s sole supply line.
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Phnom Penh
U. S
Khmer Rouge
Ang Snoul
Kompong Som
Cambodia
Battambang
Mekong
Saigon
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