Carbondale misses outdoor pool opening in Southern Illinois
Outdoor pools open in most major Southern Illinois cities while Carbondale remains without an outdoor pool for public use at minimal cost. YMCA runs Murphysboro pool and University Club members access indoor pools at the Ramada Inn. Community seeks park district support to provide an outdoor option amid hot summers.
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Herrin
Southern Illinois
Carbondale
YMCA
Murphysboro
University Club
Ramada Inn
University
University School
Campus Lake
Ilinois
Park District
Ogilvie Welfare Plan Urges Far Reaching Reforms
Governor Ogilvie outlines an 11 point program to curb welfare costs with tighter procedures, more federal aid, and a public works component. He calls for 60 000 recipients to undergo monthly employability interviews and adds 900 caseworkers to enforce participation while restructuring social services. The plan faces funding barriers as federal support wanes and raises questions about long term poverty solutions.
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Ogivie
General Assembly
Ogilvie
Mr. Ogilvie
Plan to expand preventive health care in Illinois
The Illinois State Medical Society disclosed a plan to form the Illinois Foundation for Medical Care FMC a statewide nonprofit with autonomous local doctor chapters. It aims to broaden coverage with private and government insurers focusing on preventive outpatient prenatal care immunizations and services not typically covered by insurance. The program hopes to reduce illness hospitalizations and per capita costs but hinges on affordable coverage and sufficient physician supply.
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Illinois State Medical Society
Illinois Foundation For Medical Care
FMC
Foundation
Nixon
Gov. Ogilvie
Congress
Gov Ogilvie backs no fault auto insurance plan growth
Gov. Richard Ogilvie pushes no fault auto insurance reforms aligning with President Nixon and others. Details outline swift payments, medical coverage up to 2000 per person, wage loss coverage, arbitration for disputes under 3000 and court cases beyond.
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Richard B. Ogilvie
Richard Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
Philip Hart
U.S. Department of Transportation
New York State Department of Insurance
Illinois Department of Insurance
Massachusetts
Ogilvie
Massachuetts Insurance
C. Eugene Farnam
Cook County
Nixon
Congress
Southern Illinoisan Editorial Team Credits
John C. Gardner serves as Editor and General Manager with Robert D. Reid and James K. Adams listed as Business Manager and supporting leadership in the Southern Illinoisan.
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John C. Gardner
James K. Adams
Agnew visit stirs muted response in Springfield
Vice President Agnew faced a tepid reception as missing black legislators drew little attention. The Old Paragrapher seeks relief from junk mail, hoping the new eight cent postage will cut unwanted lists.
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Agnew
Springfield
English Holiday Journal from Grasmere to London
David Felts chronicles a 15 day British Isles tour with two couples starting in Grasmere, touring London by car, visiting Westminster Abbey, the Tower, Whitehall, Portobello Market, and a Thames cruise. They note exchange rates, currency quirks, and cultural experiences including the London Philharmonia concert and a G B Shaw play.
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British Isles
Red Lion
Grasmere
Lake Country
Manchester
Liverpool
Wordsworth
England
Edinburgh
London
Dublin
Ireland
Shannon
Britain
United States
Buckingham Palace
Whitehall
Westminster Abbey
Tower
Portobello Street
Fortnam
Mason’s
Kensington Gardens
Thames
Hampton Court
London New Philharmonia Orchestra
Royal Exposition
Elizabeth Hall
Embankment
House of Commons
Strangers
Ingrid Bergman
G. B. Shaw
Captain Brassbound
Regina
Elizabeth I
Margaret Tyzack
Soames Forsyte
Freddie
Churchill
Violent peacemaker A remarkable Capone portrait
Richard R Lingeman reviews Kobler biography Capone The Life and World of Al Capone. The work draws on government files and interviews to outline Capone's rise and fall within a larger pattern of 1920s crime. It notes Capone as a businesslike predator who ruthlessly suppressed rivals like Dion O Banion and Bugs Moran amid the era’s violent frontier.
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John Kobler
al Capone
United States
Capone
Johnny Torrio
Kobler
Dion O’banion
O’banion
Bugs Moran
Massacre and Capone Era Crime Echoes in Chicago History
The piece surveys the 1920s Chicago bloodbath with seven cut to pieces in a garage and an estimated 400 gangland deaths, notes the pineapple primary of 1928 that rejected Capone’s regime, and reflects on Capone’s downfall to tax evasion. It ends with a quote criticizing media turned to commerce.
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Moran
Chicago
Capone
William
Big Bill) Thompson
Chicago Police Department
Best selling books across 125 stores in 64 communities
A report draws on data from over 125 bookstores in 64 US communities. It lists top fiction and general titles with authors including Stone Uris Wambaugh MacDonald Plath Howarch Kosinski Raucher Gang Brown Reich Royko Toff Tuchman Greer Birmingham Morison Banks Enright and others.
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Uris
the New Centurions
Wambaugh
THE
MacDonald
Drury
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Westmoreland County
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Vietnam
Ogden Nash
Richard R. Lingeman
New York Times
John Kebler
New York
G. On Putnam’s Sons
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Herbert Hoover
Alphonse Capone
Book Review
Wasserman
Federal Communications
Nicholas Johnson
Wounded Knee
Brown
Sensuous
Man
the Greening OF America
Reich
Boss — Royko
Future Shock — Tof
Stilwell
China
Tuchman
Greer
Birmingham
America
Morison
Cub — Banks & Enright
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