SIU Carbondale dorm outbreak prompts restricted menu
A Trueblood Hall lunch outbreak sickened 129 students with reports suggesting up to 300 may be affected. Health officials probe possible causes from a turkey salad to preparation or refrigeration lapses as the campus hospital wards treat and monitor victims.
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Lloyd Smith
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Lockheed Faces Possible Inability to Repay Loans
Lockheed Aircraft Corp may not repay bank loans guaranteed by the federal government. A report to Congress cites profits through 1979 as sufficient for stability but not to liquidate guaranteed loans by end of 1978. The firm faces fallout from publicized foreign payoffs to officials to boost sales.
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Italy
Turkey
Tax split may be repeated
Ellicott City Maryland AP David and Angie Boyter plan divorce after saying the tax system favors single filers over married couples. They remarried a month after their Haiti divorce, earning about 23000 each year and arguing their 1975 taxes would be higher as a married couple. If laws stay unchanged they intend to divorce again this year.
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Angie Boyter
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Haiti
Ford weighs food stamp reforms via new regulations
Ford administration studies using new regulations to cut the $5.8 billion program by $1.2 billion by limiting benefits to poverty families. A net income below $5,050 for a four person family could drop many recipients, with regulatory action favored over congressional change.
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Cold front brings showers and cooler air this night
A line of thundershowers moving through Southern Illinois tonight will curtail warm gusty southerly winds. Showers are expected to arrive around 10 pm, followed by a wind shift to the northwest delivering Canadian air and lowering temperatures into the 30s. Highs Wednesday near the 40s, with weekend rebound to the 50s.
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Illinois
Don Semancik
U.S. Weather Service
Cairo
Semancik
Judge blocks raise in state school aid payments
Circuit Court Judge J. Waldo Ackerman barred the state Board of Education from increasing monthly state aid to local districts. He ruled only one twelfth of appropriated funds may be distributed monthly, blocking the November board vote to boost payments by 2.5 million dollars. Governor Daniel Walker had sued to prevent honoring his veto and unequal allocations before June.
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State Board of Education
J. Waldo Ackerman
General Assembly
Daniel Walker
Quiet crowd mourns Carlyle train truck victims
AP reports mourners crowded two Carlyle funeral parlors to honor nine children and a grandfather killed when a Baltimore and Ohio freight train struck a pickup and camper at 56 miles per hour. A mass funeral was planned for Henry Lowe and six grandchildren in the Carlyle High School gym, with services for other youths arranged separately. Bodies for two victims were taken to Belleville for burial arrangements. A village board near the crossing debated signals but offered no conclusion at a fire station three miles away.
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Belleville
Illinois
St. Louis
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Camper
Baltimore and Ohio
Long Knives reenactment kicks off historic march
George Rogers Clark's Long Knives 1976 version steps off today in a reenactment of a historical march. The item appears on Page 3 with other calendar notes and local stories.
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George Rogers Clark
State’s money worries spark debate on welfare cheaters
An editorial on page 4 discusses whether welfare fraud is a major issue and if the state is nearly broke. It weighs arguments from both sides of the welfare funding question and offers context on potential policy responses.
Benson Leads Gorham Egyptian to High School Track Win
Kent Benson powers Gorham Egyptian to a track victory as Illinois high school censoring news unfolds on page 9.
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