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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1977
Page
1
A harsh Arctic air mass pushed through the Midwest and Northeast with blizzards and drifting snow. Driving hazards closed roads and schools as Detroit set a December record with zero degrees and Chicago hit 5 below.
The Southern Illinois region faced a brutal cold snap with wind chills near minus 20 to minus 22 degrees and highs in the teens. Icy Interstates 57 and other routes delayed travel from Effingham to Kankakee and beyond as trucks idled at Marion Truck Plaza and drivers awaited better weather and cleared roads.
Special agents from the Internal Revenue Service destroyed 54 slot machines at Cobin's Salvage Yard in Dowell at noon on Thursday December 8. The machines seized since 1974 for lacking federal tax stamps were weighed about 100 pounds each and toppled by a one-ton magnet. Their contents were turned over to the General Revenue Fund after the court-ordered disposal.
Park says he gave about 500000 in cash and value to former Rep. Otto Passman who held sway over foreign aid. He claims a 190000 Swiss-bank funds withdrawal among payments, with most in 1974 and 1975 tied to Park’s rice business. Passman denies any illegal funds.
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees votes 4 to 3 to approve revised tenure rules at SIU C. The move shapes faculty security and academic policy amid campus debates and faculty union concerns.
Meadow voles four inches long are migrating south along Interstate 57 from Exit 203 Arcola toward Marion. An ecology professor estimates they will reach Southern Illinois around 1995, moving about 10 miles per year while feeding on apple trees and potentially displacing prairie voles.
The state fire marshal was asked to investigate possible arson after a fire damaged two construction vehicles and a building at Old Ben Coal Co. No. 27 mine east of West Frankfort during a nationwide miners strike. Pickets appeared at Inland Steel Coal Co. Lesser and Monterey Coal Co. Carlinville mines under UMWA, while Metropolis Cook Coal Transfer terminal remained operational.
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