La Salle Expedition II Reaches Chester on Historic Trek
After six months and 1500 miles of paddling portage and walking 23 explorers led by Reid Lewis depart Chester aiming for New Orleans retracing Sieur de La Salle’s route. The group travels in reconstructed 1680s fashion with canoes at Cape Girardeau and plans to reach New Orleans on April 9.
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City suburb busing for integration urged
The Civil Rights Commission urges interdistrict bus transport between inner city and suburbs to reverse growing metropolitan segregation. The 119 page report says boundaries have become race and class barriers and that travel times can be reduced with district mergers. The commission faults federal housing policy for decades of segregated patterns and calls for action across government levels.
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Slight warming trend in Southern Illinois this week
Ed Brewald, weather observer at the Southern Illinois Airport near Carbondale, says a high pressure system will clear skies and push temperatures up starting Wednesday. Today's high should reach the low to mid 30s with a tonight low around 15, and Wednesday's high mid 30s. Overnight lows rise slightly through the week after Monday’s 43 top and 23 low, with early snow flurries reported.
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Illinois
Ed Brewald
Southern Illinois
Carbondale
SIU C holds fund raiser post at $30,000 fails to attract
SIU Carbondale cannot hire a development director for 30 thousand a year after an eight month search yields no takers. Vice president George R. Mace says the No. 1 candidate left for 47 thousand, plans to raise salary, and considers final applicants. He notes 4 cents per dollar from private sources and a 20 year effort totaling about 5 million.
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Curtis Simic
Yale University
Southern Illinois
STU Foundation
SIU Foundation
State of Illinois
Weather outlook with alternating sunshine and cold snaps
The forecast says a cold night with teens for lows. Wednesday brings mostly sunny skies and a high in the 30s. Thursday will be cold, with a warming trend by Friday and Saturday. A small chance of snow northeast on Thursday and rain or snow possible Saturday, with Thursday high near 40.
Election opposition pushes programs across pages
The report highlights mayoral challengers in multiple towns as opposition groups push their platforms. A separate item notes criminals counterfeiting food stamp stamps at home presses, affecting local commerce and public trust.
Nation editorial warns coal policy lesson for state and nation
The Nation COALCON'S FAILURE could provide an important lesson for the state and nation as efforts to formulate an energy policy continue. An editorial discusses a new era of consumerism under the Carter administration and consumer advocates beginning to organize.
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Coalcon
Gunman kills five in New Rochelle rampage
Army trained sharpshooter Fred Cowan opened fire at a New Rochelle warehouse. He killed five coworkers including a police officer and wounded five others before shooting himself as a siege ended after 10 hours. Authorities say Cowan acted to avenge a two week suspension. Witnesses described a quiet man with Nazi tattoos and an affinity for Hitler.
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Fred Cowan
Norman Bing
Hitler
Cowan
Nentune Worldwide Moving Co
New Rochelle
Allan McLeod
McLeod
New York City
William Hegerty
Man Held Hostage Siege Tied to Roots TV Drama
Jesse Coulter, a 42 year old black man, took eight hostages at a Cincinnati home in a bid to reclaim a son born there 24 years earlier. An undercover detective misled him and his ex wife Rita Gibran to surrender. Coulter and Gibran faced arraignment with $1 million bonds each. the siege followed his reading of Roots and anger over family split by slavery.
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Catherine Booth
Coulter
Smith
Jessie
Chicken George
Cincinnati
Rita Gibran
Mrs. Gibran
Utica
Mich
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