Local effort urged to revive Southern Illinois economy
A survey of Southern Illinois construction in 1980 shows declines in permit activity from 1979, offset by some large projects in Carbondale. Residents are shifting from new homes to remodeling due to high interest rates, while communities push toward local innovation and targeted development to counter national recession effects.
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Southern Illinois
Carbondale
Washington
Illinois
Franklin
Williamson
Perry County
Reagan
Memorial Hospital
Ronald Reagan
Letters As the tidal wave rolls
A reader letter traces a fictional country’s rise of a conservative wave amid resource strain and rising prices. It imagines leaders promising defense and cuts to aid programs, then asks if the poor will be carried forward or crushed, ending with a cliffhanger to keep readers watching in the 1980s.
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Southern Illinoisan
Miners Call For Unity In Fight Over New Contract
The message from a BCOA negotiator warning the UMWA of extinction if demands are not reasonable frames a hardline stance as the old contract nears expiration on March 27. Sam Church counters, urging solidarity against pension cuts and seniority loss while urging miners to organize beyond union lines.
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Southern Illinoisan
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
BCOA
United Mine Workers
UMWA
Charleston
W. Va
B.R. Brown
Brown
Sam Church
Church
Sohio
Texaco
Edgefield County Voting Rights Fight and Thurmond ties
In Edgefield County South Carolina a black majority area, blacks seek district voting to end all white council control amid a long court battle under the Voting Rights Act. Strom Thurmond, born here, now chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and opposes the act as unconstitutional.
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Paul Lieberman
Chester Godrick
Atlanta Constitution
Edgefield
S.C
Strom Thurmond
Senate Judiciary Committee
Washington
Thurmond
Edgefield County
South
U.S. Justice Department
Republican Thurmond
Judiciary Committee
Thomas McCain
McCain
Paine College
Augusta
Strom Thurmond High
Charles Coleman
Ku Klux Klan
Coleman
Justice Department
Bright
U.S
Columbia
Democratic Party
American Civil Liberties Union
Robert F. Chapman
Chapman
U.S. Supreme Court
Mobile
Ala
Department
Justice
South Carolina
Senate
States Rights Party
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Southern Illinois and Lee Enterprises
Mapco
White County
Willie Bright
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
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