Blackout disrupts West Oak Street power in Carbondale
A November 30 outage affected 25 residents on West Oak Street when a storm snapped a tree limb, cutting power for several hours. Electrical foreman Gene Pease led crews in rain to restore service by 7:45 a.m. with bucket trucks working amid ongoing weather threats and prior regional outages noted by CIPS officials.
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Karen Rothe
Southern Illinoisan
West Oak Street
Carbondale
Lola Moody
Gene Pease
Central Illinois Power Co
Pease
Howard Diller
CIPS
Southern
Illinois
Southern Division
Diller
United States
Wis
Utilities form networks to avoid leaving thousands powerless
In the Midwest and South, utilities organized MAIN and later the National Electric Reliability Council to study and implement cross region power sharing. Officials noted how swapping power from coal rich areas to demand peaks reduces outages, aided by relays and digital computers to isolate damaged zones and reroute supply quickly.
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Coasin
Michigan
Missouri
Mid-America
Diller
Illinois
Wisconsin
Dillard
Indiana
CIPS
Dillar
Beirut truce fails to stop hotel battle in Beirut
As a new truce pledges peace Moslem leftists and Christian foes clash in Beirut. Gunfire and rocket grenades erupt near downtown amid eight month civil war with Palestinian forces attempting to enforce the accord. Casualties mount as snipers renew fire around the Moor tower and Holiday Inn siege.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Palestinian Armed Struggle Command
Holiday Inn
Congress poised to vote on tax cuts and energy bill
Congress moves to end the 1975 session with votes on an energy bill and a measure extending temporary income tax cuts into 1976. President Ford may be overridden by veto, with Senate passage possible early in the week. The energy package envisions gasoline price cuts and heating oil relief, followed by gradual price restoration by 1979.
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Congress
Washington
Ford
House
Senate
Woman’s life reshaped by major surgery and judge’s kindness
A 19 year old with severe facial deformities had extensive plastic surgery at the University of Virginia after Seattle judge Warren Chan ruled her burglaries were a call for help. She faced two years at Purdy and now trains as a microfilm technician while plans for further surgeries continue. The state has spent about $13,000 so far with more expected, a price versus imprisonment calculation for her case.
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University of Virginia
King County Superior Court
Warren Chan
Purdy
Department of Social and Health Services
Morningside Industries
Seattle
Police probe after dorm dance brawl at NIU DeKalb
Police investigate a brawl at a student dance at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Weather outlook shows rain then snow and colder temps with lows in the 20s across the period.
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Northern Illinois University
DeKalb
Manure Fertilizer Popularity in Southern Illinois
Farmers in Southern Illinois generally favor commercial fertilizer over manure due to limited supply and high labor costs for applying manure, making manure a cheaper theoretical option but less practical in practice.
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Southern Illinois
Cardinals Clinch Division Title in NFL
The St. Louis Cardinals win the National Football League division for a second straight season securing the top spot. Page 11.
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ST. Louis Cardinals
Classified Comics and TV Guide Highlights
A scan of pages offers items across Classifieds Secrets Comics TV listings and Bridge Crossword horoscope and family living notes. Editorials and farm records section provide column stories and agricultural data.
Chlorine blast kills four at Niagara Falls plant
A railroad tank car exploded at Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp in Niagara Falls releasing chlorine gas. Four workers died and about 75 to 80 people were treated or observed as fumes spread across the area, with warnings issued to residents to stay indoors.
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David Oved
Niagara Falls N.Y
Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp
Hooker
Edward Chatman
Walter E. Fitzgerald
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
Clyde J. McBride
Raymond E. Zaso
James D. Colquhoun
Lester Docks
Niagara Falls
Oscar H. Bell
Niagara County
Melvin Dyster
Wintry Symphony Follows Balmy Weekend Weather
Stormy Pacific Northwest system arrives by late Tuesday night or Wednesday. Temperatures drop from 68 degrees Sunday to 20s at night with possible 18 or 19. Continued cold expected as high pressure builds and another front moves in. Weather observer Lou Ditzler notes a shift from mild to wintry conditions across Southern Illinois.
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Joseph Arimond
Southern Illinoisan
Lou Ditzler
Southern Illinois
Carbondale
Ditzler
Illinois
Pacific Northwest
Lake Superior
Texas
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Bert
Illinois Board of
Higher Education
Supreme Court
Ronald Reagan
James Reston
Kristina
Ris
Donald
Linda Morris
Carbon
Butch Nevious
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