CIPS proposes Industry discount to lure regional growth
Central Illinois Public Service Co proposes a 50 percent off peak winter rate for about 200 industrial customers as an incentive for expansion. The one year offer could grow into five years if approved by the Illinois Commerce Commission, with savings of 5 to 20 percent depending on usage.
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Springfield
Central Illinois Public Service Co
CIPS
Illinois Commerce Commission
Jim Bachman
Rates and Research
Commission
Bachman
Ray M. Thompson
Thompson
The
Southern Illinoisan
Dunn State Should Hike School Funding
Senator-elect Ralph Dunn pledges to reintroduce a constitutional amendment requiring state to cover 50 percent of elementary and secondary education costs, a move that could add about 1 billion dollars annually. He plans higher teacher salaries and ongoing training incentives, with education as top priority in 1985. Dunn notes 1970 constitutional intent aimed at state half funding.
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Tim Landis
Southern Illinoisan
Ralph Dunn
Illinois Senate
Dunn
du Quoin
Senate
House
Charles Wayne Goforth
Tamaroa
Illinois Education Association
General Assembly
Deputies storm barricaded church in Clairton prompt arrests
In Clairton Pennsylvania sheriff's deputies broke into Trinity Lutheran Church to arrest seven dissident church members and union leaders after weeks inside to protest corporate evil. The four men and three women were cited for contempt of court with no injuries reported.
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Clairton, Pa
Trinity Lutheran Church
Clairton
Kennethy Ujevich
D. Douglas Roth
Allegheny County
Eugene Coon
Coon
Ujevich
Common Pleas Court
Emil Narick
Roth
Pennsylvania- West Virginia
Block partner defaults on loan in GALESBURG
The business partner of U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block has defaulted on a $400,000 Farmers Home Administration emergency disaster loan. John W. Curry failed to make the first repayment on New Year's Day, per Knox County FmHA supervisor Victor Rhea. The loan's association with Block sparked controversy over possible benefits from other farming projects.
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Galesburg
U.S. Agriculture
John Block
Farmers Home Administration
John W. Curry
Victor Rhea
Knox County
Fmha
Climbers Reach Illimani Crash Scene Amid Snow and Hail
In Bolivia, Red Cross teams scale Illimani in search of an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 wreckage. Weather blocks aerial rescue as 29 aboard are presumed dead, including eight Americans. A base camp was established at Urana Mine, 35 miles southeast of La Paz, with climbers heading toward the site.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Red Cross
Eastern Airlines
Fernando Lopez de Castillo
Urana Mine
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