Snow of 1917 18 Remains Carbondale Legend
Lela Travelstead recalls the winter of 1917 18 in Carbondale while records at Cairo and Southern Illinois Normal University confirm the period's extreme snowfalls. January 1918 brought 47.7 inches, with temperatures from five above to twenty below zero and trains halted across the region.
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Joanne Wood
Babigivene Company
Carbondale
Lela Travelstead
Lela Howerton
Emperor’s Palace
Illinois Avenue
Main Street
National Weather Service
Cairo
Weather Service
Don Semancik
Daily Free Press
Southern Illinoisan
Eeen
Illinois Central
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
Missouri-Pacific
Ohio River
Fiona Hall
Louisville
G. H. French
State Normal
Free Press
State Farm
Chautaqua Road
Illinois
R. N. Williams
Murphysboro
French
St. Louis
Chicago
Middle West
Carter delays second year of foreign aid pledge
President Carter plans to postpone for a second year the economic aid program for poor nations promised last year and during his 1976 campaign. Budget requests to Congress next week will mirror last year’s, adding only catch-up funds for unmet World Bank and regional development bank pledges. No major new funding will be sought to fulfill the promise to double foreign aid in four or five years.
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Carter
Carter Administration
Congress
World Bank
London
Missing Dog Skip Seeks Home at Southern Illinois Shelter
A stray beagle-terrier mix named Skip, about 18 months old with black and brown fur and fluffy ears, is described as friendly. Skip awaits adoption at the Humane Society of Southern Illinois Shelter on Illinois 13 between Carbondale and Marion.
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Skip
Chis
Humane Society of Southern Illinois
Illinois 13
President Carter Attends Uncle's Funeral in Georgia
President Carter and his wife Rosa joined about 200 mourners at Maranatha Baptist Church near his hometown for the funeral of his 89 year old uncle Alton Carter who died Wednesday from an abscessed gall bladder and other complications. A graveside service followed before the Carters flew back to St Simons Island for a long weekend. Family members including Gloria Spann Billy Carter and Miss Lillian attended.
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Carter
South Georgia
Woods
Rosayna
Maranatha Baptist Church
Alton Carter
Carters
St. Simons Island
Georgia
Washington
East Coast
Gloria Spann
Billy
Miss Lillian
Justice to go on with Marston Investigation
A Justice Department official will visit Philadelphia as U S Attorney David Marston leaves his post to reaffirm the Carter administration’s commitment to the ongoing probe. Benjamin Civiletti will urge Marston’s top assistants to remain in their jobs while highlighting the administration’s stance amid GOP criticism of political interference. The inquiry also touched two Democratic Pennsylvania congressmen over a $65 million Hahnemann Hospital expansion and federal financing, with Rep. Joshua Eilberg and Rep. Daniel Flood named as subjects.
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Philadelphia
Justice Department
U.S
David Marston
Carter Administration
Marston
Benjamin Civiletti
Bell
Pennsylvania
Hahnemann Hospital
Joshua Eilberg
Eilberg
Daniel J. Flood
Eugene Zack
Dems shorten primary to 13 week window and ban crossover voting
The Democrats rules committee voted 41 to 12 to set a 13 week primary season from the second Tuesday in March to the second Tuesday in June and end crossover voting. The changes need ratification by the Democratic National Committee and allow early states like New Hampshire and Massachusetts to keep their traditions for one more election. The plan would replace the six month season used previously and aligns with White House backing.
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Washington
Democratic Party
Rules Committee
White House
Democratic National Committee
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Princess Misha and husband Executed in Jidda
The Observer reports that Saudi Arabian Princess Misha and her commoner husband Shaar were executed in Jidda for marrying outside the royal family. Retainers and guards of Prince Muhammad Bin Abdul Aziz carried out the killings last fall, with Misha shot and Shaar beheaded in front of witnesses. Misha, 23, was said to be among 2000 princesses in the royal house of Saud, and Shaar is identified as the cousin of Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Lebanon, former Gen Ali Shaar.
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Red Sea
Jidda
the Observer
Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz
Royal House of Saud
Shaar
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon
Ali Shaar
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