Legislators Prepare for Final Session in Illinois
Springfield legislators head into a final three day break before a marathon stretch to June 30, with talk of possible July spillover. Key budget risks loom over hundreds of millions in agency appropriations including transport and higher education amid cost controls and potential ERA related actions.
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Richard H. Icen
Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Springfield
House
Senate
General Assembly
Richard B. Ogilvie
James Thompson
Department of Transportation
Health service provides 55,000 jobs in K C
Kansas City officials cite a study showing health services in the Kansas City area provide more than 55,000 jobs. Medical care is a major local industry, surpassing the convention and tourism sector which employs about 12,700 people. Health jobs accounted for 9.6 percent of regional employment in 1977 versus 2.2 percent for conventions.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
Church Council Rejects Lutheran Merger Plan
Minneapolis AP reports the Church Council of the American Lutheran Church unanimously rejected the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches proposal for an organic union by 1979. The council urged joining the Committee on Church Cooperation with the Lutheran Church in America, while noting ongoing talks on cooperative structures. The vote followed a narrow ALC convention majority two months earlier in favor of the merger plan.
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Minneapolis
Church Council
American Lutheran Church
North America
Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
ALC
AELC
Committee On Church Cooperation
Lutheran Church In America
Charles Manhs
Kansas City
David Preus
God
Legislators invited to anti Nazi march
Rep Christopher Dodd along with Rep Abner Mikva and Rep Hamilton Fish Jr announced that all 435 House members are invited to a June 25 congressional rally protesting the Nazi march in Skokie. The event aims to deter confrontation while honoring survivors of World War II death camps.
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Washington
House
Chicago
Skokie
Christopher Dodd
D-Conn
Dodd
Abner Mikva
D-Ill
Hamilton Fish Jr
Dn.y
National Socialist Party of America
Congress
Cop Again Ordered to Reveal Informants in Cocaine Case
Chicago AP A Circuit Court judge pressed Harvey patrolman Bruce Warrer to identify narcotics informants before a Cook County grand jury. Warrer refused, citing safety, risking contempt and possible jail. The case stems from Warrer's New Year’s Eve arrests of James Smith and Brutus Randle for cocaine and heroin possession valued around $40,000.
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Chicago
Harvey
Bruce Warrer
Cook County Grand Jury
Warrer
Cook County
Louis B. Garippo
James Smith
Brutus Randle
Thomas Burnham
State
Special Prosecutions Unit
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Edwardsville
Vadalabene
Howard Carroll
Columbia-Waterloo
American Association of University Professors
AAUP
Michael Bakalis
Senate Elementary and Secondary Education Committee
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Broadview
East St. Louis
Frank Giglio
Calumet City
Giglio
Health Service
K.C
Morrison's
Frigidaire
Scottsman
Buna
Ron Reeder
Rhona Suarez
Rhona
Jim Pearl
Jim Pearl Inc
E. Walnut
Marion Area
Walnut Carbondale, Ill
Millers
Southern Illinois University At Carbondale
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