New Year Hopes From Southern Illinois Residents
Southern Illinoisans share 1978 aspirations from better farm prices and an end to mining strikes to warmer weather and healthier families. Interviews with residents from Benton to Sparta reveal desires for work, personal time with family, safer communities, and strong weather.
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Southern Illinois
Josephine Kane
Benton
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Margaret Wildermuth
Coulterville
Louis
Michael
Carter and Shah confer with Hussein in Iran
President Carter and Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meet with King Hussein of Jordan in Tehran after Carter announced plans to meet Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Aswan for talks to advance stalled Middle East negotiations. The event follows a New Year’s Eve dinner with anti-American protests nearby.
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Poland
Banned journalist Donald Woods flees South Africa for Lesotho
Donald Woods, a white minority government critic and editor of the East London Daily Dispatch, reportedly escaped in disguise to Lesotho after being banned in Oct. He plans to seek asylum in Britain and then the United States, with his family following separately. Woods, age 43, known for opposing apartheid, crossed into Lesotho after fleeing East London by hitchhiking and river swim.
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Iranians protest in front of White House in Washington
About 200 Iranian students demonstrated near the White House in a peaceful protest against President Carter’s visit to Tehran. More than 100 police monitored the event as four groups marched on the sidewalk and Lafayette Park, with masks worn to protect identities and signs denouncing the Shah and Iran’s political prisons.
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Seven tons seized in Oregon drug raid on beach
Federal and local officers raided a lonely Oregon beach at dawn, confronting a smuggling setup tied to a 100 foot freighter Cigale unloading marijuana into amphibious craft. Ten suspects were captured as a helicopter chase followed a beach escape, with a flare at 4 48 a m triggering the action.
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George Passmore
Revised federal tax forms simplify yet complicate return
The article notes a drastic redesign affecting 88 million filers with claims of simplification alongside new unavoidable complications. It cites elimination of many calculations, identical standard deductions within status, built in credits, and the paradox of some taxpayers needing to add to total income to compute tax.
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Marion IRS office offers tax help in Marion this year
The Southern Illinois IRS office in Marion will assist taxpayers weekdays until April 17 with preparing returns. Hours are 8 to 11 30 a.m. and 12 15 to 4 30 p.m. No local Carbondale assistance this year. The Marion office is in Westmore Plaza. toll free 800 252 2921. Illinois Revenue Service offers toll free state tax help at 800 252 8972. No state tax representative will be in Marion this year.
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Picket lines at Metropolis coal terminal to reopen fears
Officials of the United Mine Workers of America will walk picket lines Monday at the Cook Coal Transfer Terminal in Metropolis. They fear miners may trigger violence as the terminal reopens. The paper will not publish on Monday January 2 due to a legal holiday. Weather: cloudy and windy with snow chances, low teens tonight, Monday highs in the 20s.
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Metropolis
New Illinois laws take effect after New Year
State and federal subsidies saved several downstate Illinois municipal bus companies from extinction. A new abortion law change and an anti choking program are among the measures. The emir of Kuwait dies of a heart attack. Murphysboro praised for federal funds for Mt Carbon area housing. Four couples mark 50 years of marriage.
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Carbondale restaurateurs offer alternatives to fast food
Ernest Shinn known as Papa Ernesto and Louis Cerutti aka Papa C run two Carbondale restaurants with family help. They position their eateries as alternatives to typical fast food. The piece notes the Sunday Magazine returns in tabloid form with full weekly TV listings and features on television personalities.
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Ernest Shinn
Papa Ernesto
Louis Cerutti
Papa C
Carbondale
Social Security Tax Hike Signals Wider Pay Cut Trend
Workers will face heftier take home pay reductions this year as a Social Security tax increase marks the start of a broader series of tax and policy changes expected to shrink disposable income and alter household budgets.
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