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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1981
Page
1
Southern Illinois readers share wishes for 1982 covering honesty and openness in government, spending more time with family and studies, avoiding war, personal health goals, quitting smoking, managing finances, and world peace as Brads Betker notes in the New Year reflections.
At midnight, Illinois police began enforcing a new drunken driving law to curb alcohol related accidents. State Police Superintendent R J Miller said aggressive enforcement will target drinkers, aiming to reduce crashes rather than rack up arrests. The law adds blood and urine tests and ends the 90 minute wait after an arrest.
The Illinois Department of Public Health offers guidelines for New Year celebrations. Eat first to slow absorption, drink slowly and space drinks, know alcohol potency, set a limit, and avoid driving. If you should not drive, arrange a ride or sleep over. Police will increase targeted DUI patrols in high-probability areas.
An uncensored dispatch from Poland quotes Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski planning an early January program “would amount to a new model” for Poland’s social political and economic life. Observers doubt broad public support for any solution while the regime seeks national reconciliation with control.
The National Weather Service warns of windy, much colder conditions tonight with a 40 percent chance of rain turning to snow and teens for lows. Friday returns to partly sunny and colder with highs in the 20s. Saturday stays partly cloudy with a chance of rain or snow Sunday and Monday, with upper 20s to 30s lows and 40s highs, then colder Monday. The Southern Illinoisan will not publish on Friday January 1 1982 a legal holiday. Ghana president ousted in coup Page 2
The new federal tax law brings big savings to nearly all taxpayers. A 14 part series starts Monday January 4 in The Southern Illinoisan, detailing adjustments to income, deductions, credits, All-Savers certificates, IRAs and Keogh plans.
An anonymous 36 year old unemployed Iowa father vowed to die by his own hand on New Year’s Day so his family could receive Aid to Dependent Children. The Des Moines Register published his letter prompting offers of aid from individuals and organizations. Authorities, lawmakers, and agencies investigated the letter’s authenticity as volunteers and officials sought to help the family. The letter notes the family’s ineligibility due to his able bodied status and home residence. The 1981 Iowa Legislature had changed ADC rules removing some two parent families from eligibility.
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