Cairo Snow Breaks Quiet Town With 18 Inch Drift
Cairo Illinois endures an 18 inch snowfall breaking a long stretch with light snows. Forecaster Donald Semancik notes the region is a transition area not built for heavy accumulation and recalls a 1918 record of 19 inches. Mayor Al Moss sets a police post to coordinate supplies while residents rely on officers for rides and deliveries.
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Charles Roberts Cairo
Ill
Illinois
Wisconsin
Donald Semancik
National Weather Service
Cairo
Semancik
al Moss
Mississippi
Ohio
Marion
State probes Chicago taverns for tax evasion
Investigators led by Revenue Director Robert M. Whitler began examining Chicago tavern records after Sun-Times reports alleging widespread tax evasion. The Sun-Times and BGA ran a tavern sting on the Near North Side, showing daily bribes to officials. Tax collection, prosecutions, and cases for criminal action are being pursued, with at least four liquor inspectors dismissed by the Illinois Liquor Control Commission.
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Governor’s Office
State Revenue
Robert M. Whitler
Chicago Sun-Times
Better Government Association
Chicago
Near North Side
BGA
Sun-Times
Illinois Liquor Control Commission
Illinois plans 12000-seat arena at Chicago Circle campus
State Chicago AP reports the University of Illinois plans a 12,000 seat sports and entertainment arena on the Chicago Circle campus. Officials say the $7.5 million facility will be financed by revenue bonds with no tax money. Vice Chancellor Richard Ward says it is needed so the school can begin playing major college basketball by 1980.
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Chicago
University of Illinois
Chicago Circle
Richard Ward
League urges cuts in criminal court continuances
The League of Women Voters of Illinois asks courts to reduce continuances in lower criminal trials. A league study found 47 percent of over 8,300 observed sessions last spring were delayed by continuances.
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Chicago
League of Women Voters of Illinois
League
Liquid diet blamed in death in Lombard Illinois
Patri cia Malmn 23 of suburban Chicago died after adopting a liquid protein diet that reduced her weight from 281 to about 198 pounds in roughly 120 days. Her father questions the diet's safety while FDA investigates her death and about 40 other related cases for possible links to the program.
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Lombard, Ill
Patricia Malmn
Chicago
Eric Malm
Federal Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Miss Malm
Disenfranchised Lutheran pastors form new group
Belleville AP eight Lutheran clergymen and one congregation cut loose by the Missouri Synod plan an "exciting future" as they join the new Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, splitting over church mission and interpretation of the Bible. The eight pastors and St Paul Lutheran Church in Fairview Heights were removed after refusing to break with the AELC. the split centers on fellowship versus unity with other Lutherans and differing views on doctrinal interpretation.
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Charles Roberts Belleville
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Fairview Heights
Synod
Jor
St. Louis
Southern Illinois
New Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
AELC
Missouri Synod
Herman F Neunacher
Joel R. Benbow
Cahokia
James L
Chicago Area
Cleveland
New York City
Neunaber
Great Rivers Synod
Na 2Maker
Missouri
Alvin V. Kollmann
Kollmann
Collinsville
Neunacher
Illinois
Inmate Willie Nunn Released From State Prison
Willie Nunn, 41, was released from Stateville Penitentiary after corrections officials verified he had not received credit for time served while in the Illinois Department of Mental Health custody. The release came two months after the inmate should have been freed.
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Chicago
Stateville
Willie Nunn
Illinois Department of Mental Health
Happy Chandler recalls life in bluegrass politics at 80
In Versailles Kentucky AP Special Correspondent Jules Loh portrays Albert Benjamin Chandler, the cheerful public figure known as Happy Chandler. He recounts shaking thousands of hands, his record of 12 wins in 13 campaigns, and a treasured collection including baseballs autographed by Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner.
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Versailles
Chandler
Happy Chandler
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Minnesota
Albert Benjamin Chandler
Kentucky
United States
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Bowling Green
University of Kentucky
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Joe DiMaggio
Ted Williams
Ty Cobb
Honus Wagner
Sears Closeout Ad Corrects Deffered Modernizing Plan
Notice correcting a January 16 1978 Sears riding mower closeout ad. The proper line reads Buy now on Sears deferred modernizing May 1978 with a finance charge for the deferral period.
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Southern Illinoisan
Sears
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