NORAD called twice nobody answered in test at Cheyenne Mountain
Daniel Ford recounts a test of NORAD’s lines at Cheyenne Mountain with Brigadier General Paul Wagoner. The piece explains NORAD’s underground complex, joint U S Canadian staffing, and the CINCNORAD command post responsible for decision making during a potential Soviet attack.
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Daniel Ford
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
North American Aerospace Defense Command
Paul Wagoner
Mountain Complex
Colorado
Soviet Union
North America
Strategic Command and Control System
NORAD
Cincnorad
Pentagon
Outbreak Ties Salmo nella to Delicatessen Corned Beef
Health officials in Skokie Illinois tentatively link a new Salmonella outbreak to tainted corned beef from Kaufmans Deli serving 2000 pounds weekly in the Chicago area. Four confirmed cases and at least 13 hospitalizations, with about 150 more symptomatic, led to deli closure. The event follows a nationwide outbreak that sickened over 18,000 in six states and caused several deaths.
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Skokie
Chicago
Lowell Huckleberry
Huckleberry
Kaufman’s Deli
Midwest
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Michigan
Iowa
Minnesota
Storms rip through Southern Illinois causing damage and funnel sightings
A band of severe thunderstorms with high winds, heavy rain and lightning hit Southern Illinois Sunday night. Three funnel cloud sightings were reported near Interstate 57 north of Marion, Illinois 45 north of Vienna, and Johnston City between I-57 and Illinois 37. state police could not confirm them. Property damage included a trailer demolished north of Murphysboro near Grandpa John’s store. the trailer was uninhabited. No injuries were reported. Murphysboro volunteer Charles L. Glausser Jr. witnessed the destruction and likened the impact to a powerful blow.
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Illinois
Marion
Illinois 45
Vienna
Johnston City
Thompsonville
Murphysboro
Jackson County Sheriff’s Dept
Charles L. Glausser, Jr
Lightning Strikes Hit Mill St Apartments and Southeast Missouri
A storm system lashed the region with lightning and heavy rain. In Carbondale the Mill St Apartments were struck and power outages reported. Marion crews battled transformer fires and false alarms from lightning. Eldorado measured two inches of rain in under 20 minutes as Cape Perry and Bollinger counties faced damaging winds hail and lightning. Radar tracked another line moving toward Southern Illinois with severe thunderstorm warnings through 10:25 p.m.
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Carbondale
Eldorado
Missouri
Cape
Perry
Bollinger
Illinois
Southern Illinoisan debuts morning edition with layout changes
The paper announces its switch to a morning edition with extended news and sports coverage, expanded national and international news, added business pages midweek, and a redesigned pet section for easier navigation. Four daily sections will include national world news, local/editorial, sports, and Spectrum. It also begins a five-part serialization of The Button on this page.
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Southern Illinoisan
Associated Press
New York Times
Spectrum
Pentagon
America
Today's Weather Telecast Teases Sunny Pt and Cloudy Night
VP Today promises partly sunny skies and a high around 90. Tonight, cloudy conditions move in with cooler temperatures. Full forecast and details found on page 6.
World and Local News Fragments Compiled
A compact recapitulation of scattered clippings showing regional events and opinions. Names, places, and dates are sparse but hint at varying topics across sections like sports and spectrum. Readers are advised to consult the full pages for details and context.
Jailhouse artist aims to leave prison walls behind next year
Lavada Woollums, the Menard prison’s self described Mural Painter, seeks early release via clemency after a 25 to 75 year sentence for a 1975 murder. He has painted at least 15 major murals and sold many small works to inmates and staff, with a June 30 prison art show debuting his public sale items.
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Lavada Woollums
Menard
Chester
Woollums
Jerry “Cline
Brown County
Dotson
James Thompson
James Thieret
D. McDonough
Bonnie Marie Frustaci dies among septuplets in Orange County
Bonnie Marie Frustaci, weakest of surviving septuplets, died at Alden’s Hospital of Orange County after a 19 day battle with hyaline membrane disease. Three siblings Patricia Ann Stephen Earl and Richard Charles remained critically stable and improving. Father Samuel Frustaci expressed grief as doctors noted the fatal lung condition in premature infants.
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Orange
Calif
Bonnie Marie Frustaci
Frustaci
Doug Wood
Aldrens Hospital
Orange County
Wood
Samuel Frustadi
Bonnie Marie
Frustad
Patricia
Patricia Ann
Stephen Earl
Richard Charles
James Martin
Bonnie
David Anthony
New
Christina Elizabeth
Rep Gray backs Star Wars defense plan amid budget chill
U S Representative Ken Gray of West Frankfort says he supports Reagan's Star Wars research as a bargaining chip and tech advance, plans to vote for roughly 3.7 billion in fiscal 1986 defense authorization but favors diverting funds from foreign aid and stops short of construction. He defends the program as a deterrent and possible path to arms reductions, while remaining opposed to MX missiles.
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Tim Landis
Southern Illinoisan
U.S
Ken Gray
D-West
Rankfort
Reagan
Gray
Southern Illi
Noisan
House
Reagan Administration
Star
French colonel freed after SLA hostage standoff in Lebanon
U N spokesman says Lt Col Jean Michel Elemdjian was briefly detained by South Lebanon Army militiamen holding 21 Finnish UN soldiers. He was released in Qantara, flown to Naqoura, and unharmed. The SLA demands freedom for 11 militiamen held by Shiite guerrillas.
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Beirut
Lebanon
South Lebanon
U.N
Jean- Michel Blemdjian
SLA
Israel
Timur Goksel
Blemdjian
Qantara
Naqoura
Goksel
Elemdjian
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Menard Correctional Center
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