Gasohol energy study dampens Illinois gasohol hopes
A USDA report finds gasohol would consume more energy to produce than it saves, outlining negative energy balance and costly subsidies. It notes potential farm impacts and slower soybean industries, while boosters push claims of reduced oil imports and new corn markets.
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USDA
Michael Isikoff
Capitol Hill
Washington
Illinois
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Springfield
Charles Percy
Mavis
America
Pearl Harbor
Thompson plan cuts school fund requests
Illinois education officials would receive $97 million less than requested for fiscal 1979 under Gov. James Thompson's budget proposal. The plan would boost elementary and secondary funding by $103 million and higher education by $79 million, with inflation assumptions and a veto threat shaping possible allocations.
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Gordon Britton Lindsay-Schaub
Illinois
James Thompson
State Board of Education
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Thompson
Robert Mandeville
Mandeville
Budget Bureau
Higher Education Board
Bureau
Supt. of
Joseph Cronin
Mediators seek to preserve coal contract framework
Federal mediators work to keep the tentative national coal contract intact while economic issues threaten to unravel it amid a two month old strike. Wayne Horvitz said most major provisions are settled except for the economic package as Arnold Miller confirmed tentative deals on benefit payments and fund reimbursements. Differences persist on the cost package with unions seeking higher growth than industry projections.
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Associated Press
Horvitz
Charleston
W.va
United Mine Workers
Arnold Miller
Miller
End of Month Snow Forecast for Southern Illinois
Joe Garner reports a January to February snowy pattern with total accumulation under one inch in Southern Illinois. Don Semancik of the National Weather Service in Cairo predicts a high of 30, tonight near 20, and a 60 percent chance of snow continuing into Wednesday.
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Joe Garner
Southern Illinois
Don Semancik
National Weather Service
Cairo
Semancik
Texas
Louisiana
Carbondale
Marion
Sparta
Thompson downplays exodus fears from new crime law
Gov. James R. Thompson says reports of a mass release of felons due to the new Class X crime law should not be blown up into a mass exodus. He cannot specify how many inmates or parolees will be released when the law takes effect Wednesday, as the Prisoner Review Board plans a Feb. 7-9 meeting at Menard to determine eligibility.
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Springfield
James R. Thompson
Thompson
Parole and Pardon Board
Menard
Illinois to review prison furloughs after Jayne case
Gov. Thompson ordered a review of all Illinois prison furloughs after cutting short Silas Jayne’s four day release. Jayne, jailed since 1973 for conspiring to murder his brother George Jayne, was recalled 14 hours early to Vienna state facility where he serves six to 20 years. Thompson criticized the Corrections Department and may object to a parole at a February hearing, saying some inmates should never be released.
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Hol
National Alcohol Fuels Commission
George Shipley
D-Olney
Springfield
Illinois Department of Agriculture
al Mavis
Lindsay-Schaub News Service
James R. Thompson
Illinois
Thompson
Silas Jayne
George Jayne
Vienna
Corrections ‘Department
Charles Rowe
Jayne
Smoking habit runs a lifetime, Keel fights to quit
Karen Rothe reports Paul Keel of Herrin still smokes after 55 years, despite emphysema and chronic bronchitis. He cut to six to eight cigarettes daily, calls quitting an hour by hour battle, and notes health and lifestyle costs while his non smoking wife urges him to quit. He misses hunting and fishing but keeps working a desk job with the Illinois State Employment Service.
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Karen Rothe
Southern Illinoisan
Paul Keel
Keel
Herrin
Illinois State Employment Service
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Louis Stokes
Ohio
House Budget Committee
U. S. Department of Energy
Department’s
Office of Administrative Review
Ilinois
Jeff Sanchez
Wayne Horvitz
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
John Dellinger
Ann Landers
Corrections Department
Vienna Correctional Center
Menard Correctional Center
Joseph Califano
Health, Education
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