Area gets clean bill of health on waste disposal sites
The Eckhardt Report names 53 chemical firms with 3,383 disposal sites nationwide. IEPA and company officials in Illinois say none of the listed sites in the state pose hazards, including Koppers in Carbondale and Allied Chemical in Metropolis, with authorities noting most risks were from past practices now controlled or eliminated.
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Southern
Illinois
House
House Commerce Investigations
Bob Eckhardt
D-Texas
Environmental Protection Agency
Eckhardt
EPA
Ken Mensing
Land and Noise Pollution Division
IEPA
Collinsville
Subcommittee
Koppers Company, Inc
Pittsburgh
Koppers
Marion Street
Carbondale
Bob O’gara
O'Gara
O’gara
Forest Products Division
Mensing
Kopper
Metropolis
Allied Chemical
James Thomas
Thomas
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Crab Orchard Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Olin Corp
Olin
Wayne Adams
Sherwin Williams Corp
Randolph County
Sparta
Mineral Pigment and Metal Division
Pfizer, Inc
East St. Louis
Andrew T. Pickens
Pfizer
L and L Sanitation Co
Chester
Randolph County Landfill and Salvage, Inc
Plasterboard
Pickens
Rep. Eckhardt
Douglas Castle
Informa
Allied Chemical plant tour stresses safety and waste control
In Metropolis Allied Chemical showcases uranium concentrates to uranium hexafluoride conversion and sulfur hexafluoride for electrical insulators. Manager James Thomas underscores strict safety, low natural radioactivity, and wastewater treatment meeting Ohio River standards while noting mostly foreign demand and cautious nuclear growth after Three Mile Island.
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Allied Chemical Co
Metropolis
Marshall Shepierd
Allied
Shepherd
Sherpherd
Metropolis Works
James Thomas
U. S. Energy Resource and Development Adminis
Oak Ridge
Thomas
Ohio River
Japan
Far East
United States
France
Germany
Three Mile Island
America
Area gasoline prices rise again with few violations found
Gasoline prices climbed in Southern Illinois with most stations adding one to two cents per gallon. An ERA audit in the St Louis area found 10 to 20 percent of stations violated pump price standards while others reported no violations. Multiple stations in Carbondale Pinckneyville Murphysboro and Marion raised prices, some by two to three cents, amid limited fuel supply and ongoing Iranian oil concerns.
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Southern Illinois
Charles Peyton
St. Louis
Department of Energy
Economic Regulatory Administration
Peyton
Poe
Texaco
Carterville
Lyerla
Murphysboro
Jack Lyerla
Irene Poe
Bob Thompson
Thompson
Carbondale
Martin
Pinckneyville
Hill
Sunoco
Cheker
Chuck Crites
Veach Oil Co
Illinois
Marion
Crites
Illinois 13
Wareco
North Park Avenue
Herrin
Pete Stefko
South Park Avenue
Stefko
Amoco
Harold Hileman
Vienna Street
Anna
Hileman
Jim Reynolds
Jonesboro
Reynolds
Carter calls Illinois Democratic chair in probe of support
Jackson County Democratic Chairman Ray Chancey recalled a Saturday call from President Carter seeking early gauge of Illinois and Southern Illinois support for a possible strong primary fight. Chancey noted few formal pledges yet, with delegate petitions due January 9. Carter asked about Chancey’s health, said he had been praying for him, and Chancey remembered meeting Carter during the 1978 campaign.
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Tony Stevens
The
Southern Illinoisan
Ray
Jimmy
Jackson County
Ray Chancey
Jimmy Carter
Illinois
Kennedy
Chancey
Downstate
White House
Carter
Murphysboro Novelist Debuts Fifth Regency Romance
Lucy Phillips Stewart of Murphysboro releases Bride of a Stranger, her fifth Regency romance for Dell Books, set 1811 to 1820 England. The 1.50 paperback follows a wealthy pe er with a poor well born bride who grow to love. Stewart plans a War of 1812 novel and a Dickensian saga, with reports of an upcoming stage Dickens work and a Carterville benefit concert for Heritage House.
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Lucy Phillips Stewart
Murphysboro
Stewart
United States
England
New York
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Evan Davis
O.R. Walley
Ben Gelman
Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge
Tiny Tim
Marley
Bob Cratchit
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Theater
University of Illinois
Krannert Center For the Performing Arts
Urbana- Champaign
Scrooge
Lee Holby
Tom Isbell
Heritage House
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