Walker backs team approach to aid Kaskaskia Island
Governor Daniel Walker told 350 residents on Kaskaskia Island that a coordinated state team will address island flooding. He promised funds to hire a night deputy, urged adoption of a local building code, and supported making the Chester Bridge a free crossing to connect the island with Illinois.
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Kaskaskia Island
Daniel Walker
State Office of Civil Defense
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Dept. of Local Governmental Affairs
Dept. of Conservation
Dept. of Agriculture
Kenneth Stellhorn
Red Bud
Walker
Illinois
Chester Bridge
Joseph Sense
Kaskaskia
Missouri
Thomas Eagleton
Warren Bond
City of
Chester
Hedge apples joke from Illinois governor meeting
Gov Daniel Walker recounts a Saturday visit on Kaskaskia Island where an elderly couple suggests hedge apples ward off mice. He recalls a campaign use where his son tossed hedge apples at him, noting their odor deters mice in basements.
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Daniel Walker
Kaskaska Island
Kaskaskia Island
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Governor blocks SIU funding increase for Carbondale
Senator Kenneth Buzbee failed to win Governor Daniel Walker's commitment to at least 500000 for Southern Illinois University Carbondale to avert 28 tenured layoffs among 109 faculty positions amid near 27 million budget cuts. The governor criticized campus budgeting and promised to explain the plan when presenting it to the General Assembly. Buzbee forms a Save SIU Committee and will meet with the governor and SIU representatives this summer.
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Kenneth Buzbee
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SIU
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Buzbee
Sen. Buzbee
Edwardsville
General Assembly
Siu-Edwardsville
Save Siu
Southern Illinois University At Carbondale
SIU Board of Trustees
University At
Southern Illinois
Hearst kidnapers now say sincere effort acceptable
Patricia Hearst and a man claiming SLA rank tell the Hearst family they will accept a sincere effort to meet demands for a multimillion dollar food giveaway for the state’s needy. Miss Hearst says she is alive and well and expects to be freed if authorities act cautiously.
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Hearst
Berkeley
Calif
Patricia Hearst
Chin
Bodyguards Assigned to Protect FEO Chief William E. Simon
Federal energy chief William E. Simon received Secret Service protection at the Treasury Department's direction. Treasury and Federal Energy Office officials would not discuss threats or reasons, but a Treasury spokesman urged readers to draw their own conclusions. Simon began a Florida vacation as guards traveled with him on a commercial flight.
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William E. Simon
Secret Service
Treasury Department
Federal Energy Office
Simon
Charles Arnold
Treasury
Arnold
Jack Warner
Florida
Energy Office
Arab oil talks center on lifting embargo and Israel talks
Egyptian and Saudi foreign ministers Ismail Fahmy and Omar Sakkar arrived in Washington for talks with Henry Kissinger about the Arab oil embargo and potential Israeli-Syrian negotiations. Iran Libya Pakistan Lahore. Officials say the plan may tie oil with Israeli troop withdrawals and prisoner exchanges.
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New York Times
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Omar Sakkar
Paris
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Lahore
Pakistan
Sakkar
Fahmy
Faisal
Anwar Sadat
Al-Assad
Houari Boumediene
Israel
Red Cross
Sadat
State Department
Secret Service Keeps Agnew Guards Until Nixon Orders Change
Treasury says Secret Service will continue protecting former Vice President Spiro Agnew in Palm Springs until President Nixon directs otherwise. A GAO letter says payments for agents are not authorized by law, though no decision to halt protection has been received. Agnew and his wife remain escorted, with Moss criticizing ongoing coverage.
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Secret Service
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon
Treasury
General Accounting Office
Agnew
George P. Shultz
GAO
Elmer B. Staats
Palm Springs
Calif
John E. Moss
D-Calif
Moss
Tamarisk Country Club
Washington
Gasoline Triple Squeeze Hits Weekend Across States
Gasoline buyers faced rationing and potential price hikes as eight states plus D C operate odd-even allocations. Washington Birth Day closures and service-station protests add to short supplies, with nationwide plans under review in several states.
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Washington
Oregon
States
District of Columbia
New Hampshire
Vermont
John C. Sawhill
Federal Energy Office
Automobile Club of
California
Beck
Sawhill
FEO
Illinois
Turkey to lift opium ban amid planting urgency
Turkish minister Orhan Eyuboglu announced in Cumhuriyet that Turkey will lift the opium poppy cultivation ban by government decree as the planting season nears. Poppy sowing must occur by April, with Washington awaiting Turkish confirmation before releasing the remaining $35 million loan installments.
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Turkey
Orhan Eyuboglu
Starday
Cumhuriyet
Washington
State Department
United States
Illinois lowers speed limit to 55 mph under federal pressure
Gov. Daniel Walker signed a 55 mph speed limit bill in Illinois to cut from 70 mph effective Feb. 25, meeting a federal deadline to curb fuel use. Sen. Charles Percy announced plans to seek the GOP nomination with primaries in Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan. An AEC task force advised dropping the $1 billion coal resource center and focusing on coal gasification and liquefaction research.
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Percy
Springfield
Daniel Walker
Illinois General Assembly
Chicago
Charles H. Percy
Ill
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Dixey Lee Ray
Inside today restoration of Creole House is told
John Steward recounts the Creole House restoration at Prairie du Rocher with Ed Greer photographs. The feature appears on page 26 and reflects community history and preservation efforts amid local context.
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John Steward
Ed Greer
Carbondale Women’s Center
Kathie Pratt
Jack Griggs
UCLA
Indiana
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