Rend Lake board caps golf club membership at 200
Rend Lake Conservancy District Board limited Gun Creek Resort Complex golf course memberships to 200. Rep. Richard Hart denounced the move as discriminatory, while board attorney Howard Campbell said no state-law violation exists. Fees: single $200, family $250, greens $4 weekdays $6 weekends, cart $5 for nine holes $8 for 18. Don Syfert hired as water plant superintendent at $17,000, replacing Don Gibson who resigned August 1.
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Gun Creek Resort
Rend Lake
Howard Campbell
Campbell
Don Syfert
Phoenix
Ariz
Carbondale
Effingham
Arizona
Don Gibson
Grain fraud totals millions and prompts Interpol alert
The United States warns Interpol at Saint-Cloud that grain exporters theft rings have defrauded foreign buyers by about 120 million dollars yearly for five years. Industry giants Cargill Continental and others are under federal probe with sixty indictments and audits of inventories.
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New York Times
Washinon
Interpol
United States
Saint-Cloud
France
Interpol International Conference
Cargill
Continental
Gulf Area
New Orleans
U.S
Cook Industries
Continental and
Cook
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Agriculture Department
Office of Investigation
Internal Revenue Service
Russia ends maintenance of Egyptian jet fighters
Russia will no longer overhaul engines for Egypt s MIG21 fleet, raising a gap with Cairo. About 256 MIG21s could be grounded in months as Egypt lacks spare engines, amid Moscow Cairo tensions and reduced arms deliveries.
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Russia
Washington
Egypt
U.S
Moscow
Cairo
End of an Era as Marion Selective Service Office Closes
The Marion Selective Service Office 213 shuts down marking the end of draft registration since 1940. Dorothy Lucas, director, notes furnishings cleared except desk chair and typewriter while records move to Chicago and Springfield. All U S offices close as 18-year-olds no longer register. Marion served 16 counties for 36 years with over 90,000 registrants.
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Selective Service Board 213
Marion
Dorothy Lucas
Federal Record Center
Chicago
Illinois Selective Service Director
Springfield
Lucas
Congress seeks acceptable elections panel and tighter arms controls
Congress moves to reconstitute the Federal Elections Commission to avoid cutting presidential campaign funds and to meet Supreme Court guidelines by February. Rep. Wayne L. Hays drops abolition to reshape the FEC, while Congress considers new constraints on U.S. arms sales to foreign governments and possible embargoes affecting Chile.
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Washington
Congress
Federal Elections Commission
Supreme Court
FEC
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
House Administration Committee
Ford
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
House International Relations Committee
Angola
State Department
U.S
Chile
Panel Debates Ford Nixon Pardon Probe
A House Judiciary subcommittee voted 4 to 3 to table a motion that would have allowed staff interviews with Ford counsel Philip Buden and Nixon aide Alexander Haig regarding the Nixon pardon. Rep. Holtzman urged a wider inquiry but the panel halted further questioning.
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Ford
Nixon
Washington
House
Richard M. Nixon
Elizabeth
Holtzman
D-Ny
Philip W. Buden
Alexander Haig
Rep. Holtzman
Rend Lake caution on largemouth bass mercury levels
Illinois Department of Conservation warns Rend Lake and Lake Shelbyville anglers to limit consumption of large bass due to mercury. Tests show fish over two pounds exceed the 0.5 ppm FDA limit. Carlile Lake tests found no limits.
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Illinois Department of Conservation
Shelbyville
Rend Lake
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Carlyle Lake
Welfare to wealth: Palatine man sells buckles to major firms
John M. Lewis, 25, rose from welfare in California to run a belt buckle business in Palatine. His firm, with 82 employees, now makes about 100000 buckles weekly and expects up to 4.5 million in sales this year. Buckles feature figures from Superman to Bicentennial motifs and even Pakistani government crests.
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John M. Lewis
California
Lewis
Sitting Bull
Nancy
Arizona
Palatine
Model United Nations sessions listed in calendar notes
The Southern Illinoisan calendar highlights meetings including Good Evening Nations and the Southern Ili nois Chapter of the United Nations Association. Weather glimpses of fair, cooling nights and mixed days follow, with pages noting Emission controls at Granite City Steel, SIU Carbondale teaching conference, and local sports results from Murphysboro Bent ON Cairo in Class L state tourney.
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Bunge Corporation
Adnac Inc
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Rend Lake Conservancy District Board
Granite City Steel
George
Centralia
Harris
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Aid
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Murphysboro
Benton Jose
Lawrenceville
Marquette
de Paul
Milwaukee
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