Illinois Pollution Control Board to hold four mine hearings
The board will hold hearings in February in Carbondale Harrisburg Peoria and Galena on proposed rules for mining permits mine water pollution safeguards and abandoned mine security. Streams including Saline River Crab Orchard Creek Pond Creek Lake Creek Macoupin Creek and the Big Muddy are cited as polluted by mine drainage. Some town water supplies have faced acid mine drainage issues. Feb 9 Carbondale Feb 10 Harrisburg Feb 15 Peoria Feb 23 Galena.
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U S Air Attacks Near Hanoi Climb in North Vietnam
U S air strikes advanced toward Hanoi with fighter bombers targeting a radar site 73 miles from the capital and another 82 miles away. The 102nd attack involved Shrike missiles and potential damage to North Vietnam radar networks as Thieu comments on the intensified air war. Cambodian and South Vietnamese forces report shifted battle lines and a cease fire ahead of Christmas prisoner releases.
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Laos
Peam Chhkork
Tonle Sap
Phnom Penh
South Vietnam
Saigon
U S Maintains Air Policy as North Vietnam Attacks Laos
Secretary of State William R. Rogers stated Washington will continue air activity in Southeast Asia despite new offensives by North Vietnam in Laos and Cambodia. He avoided specifics on possible new air strikes in North Vietnam while noting limited operations in northern Laos against MiG-21s.
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William O. Rogers
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Southeast Asia
North Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
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U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
North
Plaine Des Jarres
Saigon
Department of Defense
Andrew Guzowski
Guzowski
Thailand
South Vietnam
Seventh Fleet
China
Nixon
Peking
Weekend Weather Outlook Clouds and Mild Temperatures
The forecast calls for cloudy skies tonight with a low around 40. Friday brings more clouds and a high in the upper 50s. Saturday through Monday stay mostly cloudy with chances of rain and highs in the 50s then cooling to the 40s by Monday. Lows range from the 40s Saturday to the low 30s Monday.
Bob Hope Visits Laos Amid POW Talk At North Vietnamese Embassy
Bob Hope flew to Vientiane Laos for a surprise visit to the North Vietnamese Embassy where he sought permission to visit U S prisoners of war in Hanoi. He called the meeting with First Secretary Nguyen Van Thanh friendly and cordial and performed a 20 minute solo show for about 400 Americans on the ambassador's front porch.
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Laos
Hanoi
Hope
Nguyen van Thanh
Bill Faith
Nixon
Faith
Vientiane
Bangkok
Southeast Asia
U.S
G. McMurtrie Godley
Richard Rand
Families learn 18 POWs alive in Viet Cong custody
Associated Press reports families of 18 American servicemen learned their relatives are prisoners in North Vietnam but alive. Reactions from Mandy Davis of Alabama and Jerhardt Mehrer of Nebraska reflect relief after years of uncertainty. Names released by Cora Weiss, with 1 001 letters from 332 prisoners.
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Mandy Davis
Clayton
Ala
Thomas
Jerhardt Mehrer
Omaha
Neb
Gustave
Cora Weiss
Cochairman
Committee of Liaison With
North Vietnam
New York
Richard Fernandez
Paris
Mehrer
Gussie
Alfonso Ray Riate
Marine Corps
Riate
Pinckneyville Opens 13-Classroom Junior High
A $650 000 gift from teacher Jim Shillinger helps dedicate the new Pinckneyville Junior High School. The 13 classroom, 250 student facility will be used after Christmas break, replacing the 1917 building adjacent to the grade school. Workmen moved furniture into the structure today.
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Santa Claus
Jim Shillinger
Pinckneyville
Ed Greer
Strike Delay Halts West Frankfort Senior Apartments
Bricklayers Local 15 and West Frankfort carpenters walked off job delaying the nine story 80 unit Anna Gray high rise on East Main Street. Union dispute over firing of two Southern Masonry Co. workers and scaffolding duties prompts work stoppage with an arbitrator expected today and crews anticipated back by Monday. The project honors the late mother of Rep. Kenneth Gray and reached about 95 percent completion.
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West Frankfort
Bricklayers Union
Southern Masonry Co
Royalton
Southern
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East Main Street
Kenneth J. Gray
War deaths rise in Vietnam weekly tally
Seven Americans were killed in action in Vietnam last week and 14 were wounded. The tally shows a rise from the prior week, though it marks the 11th straight week with fewer than 10 combat deaths, as non hostile deaths keep a steady level amid troop strength dropping to 162,500.
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Vietnam
U.S. Command
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Hoffa Parole Reported From Federal Prison
Detroit sources say former Teamsters president James R. Hoffa will be released from Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Hoffa has eight years left of a 13 year sentence for jury tampering and pension fund fraud and has been denied parole three times before. Nixon clemency list release may include Hoffa according to Michigan officials.
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WWJ
Detroit News
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Lewisburg
Federal
U.S. Parole Board
U. S
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
Nixon
Cost of Living Council exempts postal rates from controls
The Cost of Living Council exempted postal rates from price controls while ordering the U S Postal Service to justify any future rate increases including a 23.9 percent hike in third class mail. Pay for postal workers and state and local employees remains under the Pay Board. The council also lifted price controls on most state and local fees to avoid tax hikes. Donald Rumsfeld said new rules impose discipline on state and local costs and that the Postal Service will be independent but must justify rate changes without inflationary bias and show productivity gains. State and local pay in new NY transit talks remains subject to Pay Board limits, with requirements for reporting but no advance approval.
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U.S. Postal Service
Donald Rumsfeld
Council
Rumsfeld
New York City
Nixon signs National Cancer Act launching 1.6 billion crusade
President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act creating a 1.6 billion federal drive to expand research at the National Cancer Institute. The act sets up a 23 member advisory board and a three member presidential panel reporting to the White House with Benno C. Schmidt named chairman. PMID
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Nixon
White House
National Cancer Institute
National Cancer Advisory Board
Benno C. Schmidt
New York
Schmidt
J. H. Whitney & Co
McCloskey Becomes First Presidential Candidate Filed in New Hampshire Primary
Rep. Paul N. McCloskey the first presidential candidate to file for New Hampshire's March 7 primary submitting certified signatures and a $500 fee with Secretary of State Robert Stark. The filing window runs through Jan. 6 with delegates due by Jan. 24. Other names mentioned include Muskie McGovern Yorty and potential entries Nixon Ashbrook Hartke.
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N.H
Paul N. McCloskey
Rcalif
New Hampshire
Nixon
McCloskey
Robert Stark
Robert Reno
Florida
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
George S. McGovern
D-S.d
Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
John Ashbrook
Robio
Vance Hartke
Carbondale finance chief Raymond Page resigns in January
Raymond W. Page resigns as Carbondale finance director effective Jan. 31, accepted by City Manager William Schmidt. Page, who took the $12,020 post in September, was unavailable for comment. He previously served as finance director in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and had interpreted a recent Chamber of Commerce position paper as an attack on his competence.
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Raymond W. Page
William Schmidt
Schmidt
Page
Clarksburg
W. Va
Carbondale Chamber of Commerce
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