Unity Point Opposes State Mandated School Reorganization
Unity Point District 140 leaders ask residents to oppose House Bill 935 which would require creating a committee for reorganizations. Board President Kenneth Musdorffer urges voluntary reorganization with state incentives, while ISBE promotes consolidation to reach 500 student enrollments. A special meeting is planned to rally area districts against mandated changes.
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Nancy Weil
Ilinoisan
Unity Point District
Illinois
Kenneth Muschorffer
Unity Point
Illinois State Board of Education
ISBE
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Senate
Musdorffer
Comerty
Carbondale
Glendale
de Soto
Giant City
Shuttle launches first satellite from Discovery mission
Discovery lifts off with Prince Sultan Al Saud and a French pilot to deploy three satellites. Morelos A, built for Mexico, was released 22,300 miles above Earth and deployed at 50 rpm. Arabsat and Telstar 3D deployments follow, expanding Arab and AT&T networks.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Discovery
Earth
Sultan Salman Al-Saud
Mission Control
Globe
Morelos-A
Baja California
John Fabian
Morelos
Mexico
Sultan
Saudia Arabia
Fahd
At&t
State threats escalate Jackson County jail suit
The Illinois Department of Corrections may turn the case over to the attorney general in three to four weeks to compel Jackson County to meet state jail standards. Officials say progress stalls as site appraisals proceed and no architect is chosen while delays push completion from 1986 to 1987.
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Ann Schottman Knol
Southern Illinoisan
of Illinois
Jackson County
Illinois Department of Corrections
Illinois Attorney General’s Office
Nic Howell
Jackson County Building Commission
Russell Elliott
Building Commission
Corrections Department
Howell
Elliott
Students Digging Up History in Kentucky
University of Illinois archaeology students study two mound groups along the Mississippi in Carlisle County 10 miles south of Wickliffe to trace cultural evolution and population decline in western Kentucky. Kentucky Heritage Council funds the field work under the university field school. Researchers seek dates and adaptation patterns across sites once noted by de Soto and Marquette.
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Kentucky
Bardwell
University of Illinois
Mississippi River
Carlisle County
Richard Edging
Kentucky Heritage Council
Wickliffe
Murray State University
Hernando de Soto
Jacques Marquette
Tom Sussenbach
United to Buy Hertz from RCA for 587.5 Million
Washington United Airlines owner agrees to acquire Hertz from RCA for 587.5 million, creating a leading travel company including the Westin hotel chain. The deal links aviation and car rental, noting 80 percent of car rentals accompany airline trips. Four big New York banks face Treasury fines for failing to report large cash transactions.
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Washington
Nyt
United Airlines
Hertz
RCA
United
UAL Inc
Westin
New York
Treasury
Chase
Hanover
Chemical
Irving
Weather Today and Tonight Partly Cloudy
Today forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a light breeze. Tonight expected to stay partly cloudy as temperatures ease, with no precipitation noted on the page six details.
Index Regional B7 Lottery A2 Calendar B9 Opinions Bs Classified Dis
The page fragment lists various sections including Index Regional, Lottery, Calendar, Opinions, Classifieds, Dis, Spectrum, Deaths, Sports, Horoscope, TV, and World. It appears to be a contents or index line from the newspaper detailing page identifiers and sections.
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Landers
NASA weighs shuttle camera to seek water in Africa drought
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla NASA will decide within a week whether to place a space shuttle camera flight in 1987 to search for water in drought hit Ethiopia Somalia and the Sudan The stereo capable large format camera could map 23 000 square miles per shot helping locate deep water pools and aid famine relief efforts.
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Cape Canaveral Fla
NASA
Ethiopia
Somalia
Sudan
Jesse Moore
James M. Beggs
Gordon Umphrey
R-N.h
Space Agency
Moore
Beggs
Hostage dispersal claimed in Beirut amid plane hijack crisis
Shiite militia leader Nabih Berri said more than 30 American hostages from a Friday hijack were secretly moved and hidden in Beirut to avoid a rescue. Officials later cautioned some still aboard. a U S official said most non crew had been moved and dispersed in Beirut. The incident stemmed from a TWA flight from Athens to Rome with 153 aboard demanding Israel release Shiites. Stethem, an American, was killed during a Beirut stop.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Nabih Berri
Reagan Administration
Rome
TWA
Israel
Spain
U.S. State Department
Robert Stethem
British Broadcasting Corp
Berri
Voice of Lebanon Radio
Amal
Lightning causes widespread power outages in Southern Illinois
A lightning and downed 138000 volt line at the Consolidation mine near De Soto caused outages across northeast Carbondale to West Frankfort. Up to 3000 customers in Carbondale were affected as lines tripped from a damaged insulator. Service returned in minutes at some substations, with longer interruptions in others.
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de Soto
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Carbondale
West Frankfort
CIPS
Consolidation
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
SIUC
South
Oakland Street
Lesser-Christopher
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