Ford and Teng Hsiao-ping vow closer U S China ties
President Ford and Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping pledged to pursue better relations during a five day visit to Peking. Ford stressed mutually beneficial goals and non domination by force while Teng warned against detente rhetoric masking war risks.
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Washington Star
Associated Press
Peking
Soviet Union
Ford
Teng Hsiao-ping
China
United States
Teng
Susan
Henry A. Kissinger
Windstorm shuts three schools in southern Illinois area
A Sunday wind storm forced Cambria De Soto and Thompsonville grade schools to suspend classes. Cambria Grade School roofs suffered $26 000 damage and repairs were underway as students were moved to Carterville First Baptist Church. Thompsonville and De Soto also faced heating and water outages with continued concerns over restoration and a bond referendum.
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Cambria
de Soto
Thompsonville
Leroy Newton
Newton
First Baptist Church
Carterville
Calvin Jackson
Capital Development Board
Crainville
Jackson
Leon Wilson
Wilson
John Steele
Kinkaid Lake Conservancy
Steele
Kinkaid Lake
DeSoto
Murdale
Murphysboro
Carbondale
Jackson Country Club Road
Recovery but no boom predicts muted 1976 growth
The Economic Forum projects 1976 unemployment at 7.8 percent, down from 9.5 in 1975, with corporate profits rising 27 percent. GNP would grow 12 percent to 1.6515 trillion, but only 5.8 percent of that is true growth and inflation eats the rest. Prices for consumers and wholesalers are seen rising 6.6 percent in 1976 versus 9 percent this year.
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Chou En-lai
Mao Tsetung
Chou
Teng Ying Chao
Chu Teh
National People’s Congress Standing Committee
Fords
Mao
Chiang Ching
New York
Economic Forum
U. S
Forum
Conference Board
Weather outlook: cooling and cloudy through the week
Tonight remains cloudy and not very cold with a low in the upper 20s. Tuesday brings mainly cloudy skies with a chance of rain or snow and a high near 40. Wednesday to Friday stay mostly cloudy with occasional light snow or rain chances.
Trapeze artist killed as 800 watch incident at mall
A trapeze artist died after a fall during a mall performance as 800 spectators watched. The incident prompted investigators and officials to review safety measures for event venues.
Pittsburg 13-Year-Old Dies After Gun Fight With 5-Year-Old
A Pittsburg youth died Sunday after trying to take a .22 pistol from a five year old. Lloyd Buddy Estes Groves III died at 5 52 p m in St Louis Children s Hospital from a wound near his right eye. The shooting occurred at the Groves home during a struggle for the gun with Jason Grimes who fired. Groves was an eighth grader at Marion Junior High and played basketball and Khoury League baseball. Services are set for Wednesday at Mitchell Funeral Home in Marion.
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Wanda Harris
Southern Illinoisan
Pittsburg
Lloyd
Buddy
Williamson County
Grimes
Wiseman
Sheriff’s Office
Marion Memorial Hospital
St. Louis
Lloyd Groves
Hiedelberg
Germany
L. E
Marilyn Groves
Joel Allen
Raymond Keith
Traci Lynn
James Robert
Christopher Michael
Marion
James
Daley Slating Session Centers on Illinois Gubernatorial Race
Democratic leaders met to shape the March primary ticket with maps to unseat Governor Walker and capture the attorney general post from Republican Carey in Cook County. Key questions loom over Howlett Dixon and Hartigan as secretary of state and lieutenant governor prospects. Daley reportedly backs Hartigan and weighs Bakalis for lieutenant governor.
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Richard J. Daley
Daniel Walker
Bernard Carey
Cook County
Michael J. Howlett
Alan J. Dixon
Neil F. Hartigan
Howlett
Walker
Dixon
Hartigan
Daley
Howlett- Dixon-Hartigan
Michael J. Bakalis
Haney elected third associate judge of First Judicial Circuit
Herrin city attorney Thomas W. Haney 38 defeats Bill F. Green in a run off to become the circuit's third associate judge. Judges planned to sworn him in around Jan 1 and he will earn 37500 a year. The 14 full judges will pick a fourth associate next spring.
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Gary Sosniecki
Herrin City
Thomas W. Haney
First Judicial Circuit
Haney
Bill F. Green
Murphysboro
Roy O. Gulley
Administrative Office of Illinois Courts
Green
Southern Illinois
Circuit
Johnston City
Gulley
Nois University - Carbondale
DePaul University College of Law
Chicago
Bar Association
Lan Haney
Herrin
Illinois Supreme Court
Williamson County
Carl Sneed
Illinois
William Scott
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Bud” Roland
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Ava
H. D. Stroud
Central Illinois Public Service Co
West Oak Street
U.S. 51
Gene Pease
John Youngblood
General Telephone Co
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Sparta
Marissa
Charles Prather
W. Cherry
James Campbell
Stotlar-Herrin Lumber Co
West Frankfort
Fred Stotlar
Oak and
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Teamsters’ Union
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