Marion IC depot memories linger after fire loss
Edgar E. Lang recalls a 49 year IC career starting in 1920 at Marion's once bustling Illinois Central depot. He notes 35 workers on site, 6 to 8 daily trains, crowded viewing by townsfolk, and coal traffic of 350 to 400 cars daily. The depot declined after 1929, passenger service ended in the 1930s, and a revived steam tour operates now from Marion.
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O. R. Walley
The
Southern Illinoisan
Tillinois Central Railroad
Marion
Edgar E. Lang
Johnston City
Lang
Newton St
Lange
Carbondale
St. Louis
Paducah
Ohio River
Brookport
Barnum and Bailey and
Ringling Brothers
Chicago
Lane
Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad
Senate Rejects Carter Korea Troop Pullout Plan
The Senate declined to endorse President Carter's plan to withdraw U S ground troops from South Korea and demanded joint President-Congress decision making. Debate on a $1.6 billion State Department bill ended with a 64 to 21 vote, while a Byrd-written provision urging a pullout timetable was dropped. The chamber also blocked pledges of aid or reparations to Vietnam and pressed continued information on missing Americans in Vietnam.
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Senate
Carter
U.S
South Korea
Cuba
Vietnam
State Department
Foreign Relations Committee
Korea
Congress
Robert Byrd
Howard Baker
Baker
Jody Powell
Sen
John Glenn
Ohio
Weather and notices blend with culture and sports
Variable cloudiness tonight with thunderstorms likely and lows around 70s. Showers and storms Saturday with highs in the upper 80s and 70 percent rain chances. Sunday to Tuesday partly cloudy with possible showers and highs in the 80s and cooler lows. Also notes disputes over the 1978 budget by Comp troller Bakalis, plus editorials on abortion advice, divorce, Transcendental Meditation lecture in Carbondale, and a July to August Bible Institute in West Frankfort. The Salukis baseball team advances to the College World Series with a 9-7 win in Omaha. News sections: Births, Deaths, Calendar, Classifieds, Sports, Religion, and Weather.
Illinois House OKs $1.834 billion highway appropriation
The House approved a 1.834 billion dollar transportation budget sending it to the Senate with over 70 million in pork barrel projects added by lawmakers. Governor Thompson likely vetoes most nonessential line items. sponsor Edward McBroom defended the measure as expanding Illinois highway spending.
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Springfield
House
State Department of Transportation
James Thompson
Senate
Rep
Edward
McBroom
Kankakee
Illinois
FBI probes Shapp fund sources
The FBI is examining financial irregularities in Milton Shapp 1976 presidential campaign as U S official says a grand jury probe was contemplated. The Justice Department had planned a grand jury inquiry and the Federal Election Commission reports several people agreed to pay fines for illegal contributions.
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Scranton
FBI
Milton Shapp
U.S
High Court upholds death penalty for man who killed daughter
The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Ernest John Dobbert of Jacksonville for the torture killing of his 9 year old daughter in 1972. Justices, by 6 to 3, rejected ex post facto and trial publicity claims and noted Dobbert’s other son’s death and the family discovery after his Texas arrest in 1973.
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High Court
Washington
Supreme Court
Florida
Ernest John Dobbert
Dobbert
Jacksonville
Cobbert
William Rehnquist
Rehnquist
Kelly Ann Dobbert
Ryder Dobbert
Ernest Dobbert III
Texas
Rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun dies at 65
Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German born rocket designer whose work helped the United States reach the moon, died after a long cancer battle. He was 65 and died at Alexandria Hospital in Virginia. He served as Fairchild Industries vice president of engineering and development and played a key role in the Jupiter C and Saturn V programs that propelled U S space exploration.
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Wernher von Braun
United States
von Braun
Alexandria Hospital
Virginia
Fairchild Industries
Fairchild
Jan i
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sputnik
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Ed Greer
North Korea
South
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Michael Bakalis
Chris Kapilla
West Frankfort
Salukis
Omaha
Nebd
Ann Landers
Oks
Department of Mental Health
Adler
Champaign
Dixon
East Moline
Chester
Waukegan
Elgin
Lincoln
House Appropriations Committee
Shapp
Eisenhower
Vanguard
America
Dr. Wernher von Braun
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