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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1977
Page
1
Negotiators in Washington reopen talks on payroll tax increases as they reconcile House and Senate plans to expand benefits for the elderly the blind and families with college students. President Carter warns the added costs may be unaffordable, citing rising 1983 price tags.
Federal mediators win renewed talks between United Mine Workers and Bituminous Coal Operators Association after a bid to remove Arnold Miller failed. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall meets leaders as four man teams set to resume face to face negotiations governing 130 companies and about 130,080 miners with a potential strike looming.
Secretary of State Alan J. Dixon says he will stay neutral in the upcoming Democratic primary and will back the party ticket only in the 1978 general election. He distances himself from Chicago picks Jerome Cosentino for treasurer and Richard Troy for attorney general amid ongoing party disputes between Chicago and downstate factions.
Two black convicted murderers from Bermuda were charged at dawn after rioting by black youths. Erskine Burrows and Larry Tacklyn, linked to the Black Beret Cadres, were executed for killings including Bermuda Governor Sir Richard Sharples and two supermarket executives. Police imposed a two mile no man's land around Casemates Prison as crews verified the four deaths.
A U S marshal with a writ of execution and three deputies tried to seize $21 000 from an Interstate 93 NH liquor store to pay a Connecticut couple’s court costs after a federal judgment. Gov Thomson blamed the legislature and warned he may have to raid state registers if the funds aren’t found. The case stems from a 1976 dispute over the state motto Live Free or Die and a Supreme Court ruling on license plate wording.
IT'S HOSPITAL was closed recently and the town of Christopher is losing its only doctors. The brief notes a stormy forecast and a map listed with weather and calendar items. other items mention a dispute settlement, JFK assassination memos, hospital standards, a bond issue effort, Hanukkah events, and local sections on births deaths and religion.
Former Herrin Police Chief William Humphrey faces a possible plea change in a Danville federal court. U S District Judge Henry Wise set a 3 p m hearing asst U S Atty Clifford Proud would only say the hearing was scheduled. If his plea changes, some extortion charges may be dropped and Humphrey could face up to 100 years in prison and a 50 000 fine.
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