Riverside Pool Opens as Murphysboro Swims Despite Budget Strains
Sunday heat hits 98 at Southern Illinois Airport as Riverside Pool in Murphysboro prepares for a full season. The YMCA owned facility, built in 1927, opened weekends May 29 and will operate 1 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 8 30 p.m. weekdays with a 25 dollar family pass and 60 to 90 cent daily rates.
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Miller skips TV debate in UMW presidential race
With nine days to go before the June 14 UMW election Arnold Miller avoids a televised debate on WSAZ TV and faces Harry Patrick and Lee Roy Patterson. The exchange highlighted Patterson's ties to the USW and his stance on a potential coal industry strike and merger. Patterson denied pledges of a $100 a day pay scale, while Miller’s poll lead underscored his incumbency appeal.
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Huntington
W. Va
United Mine Workers
Arnold Miller
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Huntington-Charleston
West Virginia
Kentucky
Ohio
UMW
Wsaz TV
Charleston Gazette
Harry Patrick
Lee Roy Patterson
W. A
Tony) Boyle
Miners
Patterson
National Labor Federation
Miners’ Union
Patrick
U S plans to withdraw troops from Korea
The United States plans to pull out about 6000 American troops from South Korea by the end of 1978, with similar withdrawals to follow. Current deployments total about 30000 Army personnel in South Korea.
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Korea
New York Times News Service
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New York
The
New York Times
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South Korea
Japan
the Times
Saudi oil price hike predicted by Middle East survey
The Middle East Economic Survey forecast Saudi Arabia will raise oil prices five percent at month end to protest slow progress at a Paris conference. It notes OPEC members abandoned a planned extra five percent cut and hints at reunification of prices by mid year ahead of Stockholm talks.
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Cyprus
Saudi Arabia
Paris
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Stockholm
United Arab Emirates
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High Court bars mandatory death penalty for police killers
The Supreme Court, in a 5 4 ruling, struck down Louisiana’s law mandating execution for killers of police officers. The decision spared Harry Roberts, convicted of fatally shooting Officer Dennis McInerney in 1974, and left open whether similar rules may apply to prison guards. Justices dissented on upholding the statute.
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Supreme Court
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New Orleans
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William Rehnquist
Byron White
Harry Blackmun
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Roberts
William Brennan Jr
Thurgood Marshall
Lewis Powell
Potter Stewart
John Paul Stevens
Haldeman and Mitchell ordered to report to prison by June 22
Haldeman and John Mitchell must report to prison by noon June 22 to begin serving their 2 12 to 8 year sentences for Watergate. Sirica arranged custody with the attorney general. Haldeman may go to Lompoc California and Mitchell to Allenwood Pennsylvania. Ehrlichman already began serving time after conviction in the same case.
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Sirica
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Lompoc
Calif
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Allenwood
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Dour
Nixon
John Ehrlichman
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Watergate
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D.C
Ehrlichman
Daniel Ellsberg
Kuwaiti forces topple wheelchair hijacker on Beirut Kuwait flight
Kuwaiti troops disguised as mechanics overpowered a Lebanese man in a wheelchair who hijacked a Lebanon Middle East Airways Boeing 707 with 113 aboard. The hijacker, Nasser Mohammed Ali Abu Khaled, demanded 1.5 million dollars and flight to Kuwait. 112 passengers and 11 crew unharmed. Abu Khaled, 28, from Kubaieh, said he was forced to do it due to illness. Security searches were reportedly waived for the hijacker due to being invalid. Officials and ambassadors negotiated as Kuwaiti security held the suspect.
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Lebanon
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Baghdad
Iraq
Sheik Saad el-Abadila el Sabah
Portland Reigns as NBA Champion With 109 107 Win
Portland defeats Philadelphia 109 to 107 to claim the National Basketball Association title. The dramatic game featured late scoring and clutch plays securing the championship on Sunday.
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Portland
National Basketball Association
Philadelphia
Surprising win for Billie Ray Craig in Jackson Golf Open
Pinckneyville native Billie Ray Craig pulls a surprise victory in the Jackson Golf Open while Springfield's John Grealy wins the Egyptian Cup Regatta. Rosaly nn Carter ends a Peru visit and heads to a major Latin American challenge in Brazil. An editorial argues the death penalty is not a panacea.
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Pinckneyville
John Grealy
Springfield
Rosalynn Carter
Peru
Brazil
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