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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1979
Page
1
May wholesale prices rose 0.4 percent, the smallest gain in nine months, with a 1.3 percent fall in food prices led by nearly 7 percent drop in beef. Nonfood items, especially petroleum products, rose about 1 to 2.3 percent across levels, signaling mixed inflation signals as gasoline and fuel oil climb.
From Carbondale 5000 members hear Rosalynn Carter urge a more caring society. She discusses family life, politics, and the Salt II treaty while accepting the Dahlberg Peace Award. She urges letters for mental health and supports the Equal Rights Amendment amid church perspectives.
Allan Grant of the American Farm Bureau Federation leads quiet talks with Libyan officials to trade wheat corn and farm machinery for Libyan crude aimed at easing U S farmers diesel fuel shortages. State Department officials see no objection beyond military sales and the plan ties to substantial U S trade balances and Libya's costly oil exports.
Weather observers at Southern Illinois Airport near Carbondale report a 70 percent chance of thundershowers tonight and a 60 percent chance of rain Friday. Warmer, humid days will give way to clearer skies by Saturday as a cold front from Minnesota to the Texas Panhandle moves east. A contract has been awarded for a new Kaskaskia Island school to replace the one flooded in 1973.
Former Governor Daniel Walker must disclose the names of contributors to a 1975 fund-raising dinner intended to retire his 1972 campaign debt. The directive appears on page 26 of the edition.
Six Ava natives need together for the first time in 27 years during the American Baptist Convention in Carbondale. The Graff family hosted in Murphysboro with relatives traveling from Denver and Maryland to attend. They plan a June vacation and upcoming birthday and choir outings mark the reunions.
Pope John Paul II held Mass on a wooden platform above Birkenau tracks at Auschwitz in Poland. He prayed in Maximilian Kolbe’s cell and called the camp built on hatred, with about 200 former inmate priests and survivors present as barbed wire loomed nearby. The event followed a joyful stop in Wadowice, his birthplace, where villagers cheered as he visited the baptismal font.
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