Perry County coal gasification funding approved by subcommittee
The House Appropriations interior subcommittee approved 53 million dollars for both the Perry County coal gasification plant in Illinois and a competing Ohio project for fiscal 1981. If the full House and Senate approve, the funds would back five years of demonstration development, with potential construction by late next year pending licenses and procedures.
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Perry County
Perry
Ohio
House Appropriations Committee
Interior Subcommittee
Illinois
Illinois Coal Gasification Group
Simon
Merrill
Death Row Transfer OK Moves Forward in Illinois
ACLU officials say they may take the case to the U S Supreme Court after a Chicago federal appellate court cleared the transfer of condemned inmates from Stateville to Menard Correctional Center in Chester. Warden James W Greer says he is ready to accept 20 inmates, with Corrections Director Gayle M Franzen asserting Menard offers better security and housing.
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Mike Briggs
Springfield
American Civil Liberties Union
U.S. Supreme Court
Stateville Penitentiary
Menard Correctional Center
Chester
Chicago
Joliet Penitentiary
Jay A. Miller
ACLU
Illinois
John Paul Stevens
Corrections Department
Stateville
Miller
Menard
James W. Greer
Gayle M. Franzen
State Corrections
Franzen
Death Row
Herrin approves 26 percent cable rate hike
The Herrin City Council voted 4-3 to raise cable rates from $6.30 to $7.95 monthly with higher hook up charges. Mayor Mario Ottolini will veto the increase, and an override appears unlikely with current votes. Cablevision officials argued the hike is needed for service improvements.
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Ron Poppenhagen
Southern Illinoisan
Herrin
Mario Ottolini
Southern Illinois Cablevision
Theodore Bollman
Adrian Chamness
Herman Garavalla
Cecil Isaacs
Charles McEvers
Edward Quaglia
Victor Ritter
Ottolini
Paul Francis
Francis
Ters
Cablevision
Dick Thomas
Company
John Brewster
Brewster
Thomas
Alderman Bollman
Weather outlook shows cool night and warm midweek
The National Weather Service calls for fair and cool conditions tonight with a low in the mid 50s. Wednesday should be mostly sunny and warmer with a high in the low 80s. Illinois extended forecast expects fair, warmer days Thursday through Saturday with lows in the upper 60s and highs in the upper 80s to low 90s.
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National Weather Service
Illinois
Somit to be named president of SIU-C
Albert Somit, 60, executive vice president of SUNY Buffalo, is named by SIU Chancellor Kenneth Shaw as the new president of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The announcement comes at a 10 a.m. press conference in the SIUC Student Center Ballroom A, with the board to consider Shaw's recommendation at a Springfield meeting.
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Jean Ness
Southern
State Univrsity of New York
Stony Brook
Robert G. Quinn
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania State University
Somit
Shaw
Gene Nordby
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia
Robert Rutford
University of Nebraska At Lincoln
SIU
Rose Vieth wins platform post in GOP Illinois fight
Illinois Republicans rejected leaders choice and selected Rose S. Vieth of Carbondale to replace Jeanne Bradner on the National Convention Resolutions Committee. Vieth, a Reagan delegate, backs ERA moderate stance and opposes making abortion or ERA a formal platform plank. The vote was 51 to 47 amid boos at the Executive Mansion as Perkins and Totten argued for unity and broader conservative support.
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Mike Briggs
Springfield
Illinois
Carbondale
Ronald Reagan
S. Rose S. Vieth
Reagan
Jeanne Bradner
Winnetka
John B. Anderson
Anderson
Rockford
Executive Mansion
Thompson
Bradner
Party
Elroy C. Sandquist Jr
R Chi
Cago
Percy
Platform Committee
League of Women Voters
Phyllis Schlafly
Sup
Vieth
California
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Senate
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Morrill
Joppa
Kenneth Hawkins
Pinckneyville
Wilma Shurtz
Sparta
du Bog
Enen
Zeigler
ED Greer
Hawkins
Jeffrey Gilter
Supreme Court
Ritter
Ann Landers
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