Walker clashes with Blair over tax cut plan in Illinois
Gov. Daniel Walker presses Democrats to reject House Speaker W. Robert Blair’s sales tax relief proposal. Walker favors his own plan offering a $400 per person exemption from the state income tax while urging a unified Democratic stance against the Blair measure, now amended in the Senate to a half cent sales tax cut.
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Daniel Walker
Illinois
House
Walker
Democratic Party
W. Robert Blair
Senate
Blair
Douglas Kane
Tobias Barry
D-Ladd
Clyde Choate
D-Anna
Walker nominee Lepper gains Senate approval for health team
Illinois Senate approved Dr. Mark Lepper by a 49 to 3 vote, part of Gov. Daniel Walker’s health cabinet trio known as the three Ls. The chamber also consented to six other nominees as opposition faded despite concerns over his private salary.
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Illinois Senate
Daniel Walker
Mark Lepper
Lepper
Senate
Leroy Levitt
Joyce Lasher
Walker
Illinois official faces scrutiny over hospital site decision
A Senate subcommittee is urged to investigate potential conflicts of interest in selecting Presbyterian St Luke's for a Schaumburg project. The panel notes Lepper's ties to St Luke's and Levitt's private salary while considering three other hospitals. News shows Kane Kaufman loan to Walker and related questions on repayment.
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Ozinga
Lepper
St. Luke’s- Presbyterian Hospital
Chi
Cage
Levitt
Chicago
St. Luke’s
Senate Committee On Public Health
Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital
Schaumburg
David Regner
R-Mount Prospect
Presbyterian St. Luke’s
Walker
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
Ira J. Kaufman
Highland Park
Kaufman
Teachers' bargaining drive fails in Illinois Senate
The Illinois Education Association effort to grant teachers collective bargaining rights failed 26 to 12 in the Senate, four votes short of the needed 30. Sen. Philip Rock urged floor consideration, while Mitchler condemned SEA mobilization of teachers. The bill may be dead for the session though the issue persists.
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Springfield
Illinois Education Association
Senate
Philip Rock
Chicago
House
Senate Committee On Industry and Labor
Robert W. Mitchler
Roswego
SEA
Curtis W. Platt
Statehouse
Mitchler
IEA
Rock
Illinois Afl-Cio
Barnes sentencing hearing continues in Marion case
A sentencing hearing for Cynthia Barnes 17 of Marion continued with seven witnesses called by State Attorney Robert Howerton. Photos of the stabbing and strangulation of Martha Damico were shown while the judge ordered them sealed for court use only, and testimony described Barnes showing no remorse. Damico's body was found February 19 in her duplex at a federally subsidized Marion housing project.
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Cynthia
Cindy”’ Barnes
Marion
Martha Damico
Williamson County
Robert Howerton
William Lewis
Kenneth Hubler
Lewis
Russell Oxford
Miss Barnes
Howerton
Mrs. Damico
Supreme Court Tightens Obscenity Rules State by State
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling limits national standards for obscenity and lets communities set guidelines. Chief Justice Burger writes that juries may judge whether works lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value taken as a whole. The decision narrows protections and targets hard core material.
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Supreme Court
Warren E. Burger
Burger
Nixon
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F. Powel Jr
California
Marvin Miller
Dean cites Hoover on Nixon bugging in 1968 campaign
The summary of John W. Dean II testimony before the Senate Watergate committee says Hoover told Nixon electronic surveillance was used against him in 1968. Nixon reportedly replied he would use bugging to his advantage in the future. Details remain unclear as the exec session concluded without pursuing the matter.
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Kansas City
Clarence Kelley
Capitol Hill
Senate Judiciary Committee
FBI
Kel
J. Edgar Hoover
Nixon
John W. Dean II
Dean
Senate Watergate Committee
White House
Indi
Sam Tr. Ervin Jr
Food index rises 1.1 percent in May yet pace slows
Government data show consumer prices up 0.6 percent in May led by food clothing and gasoline with annual inflation at 7.2 percent down from April’s 8.4 percent projection. Meat prices dip slightly as Phase 4 controls loom.
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Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Agriculture Department
Nixon
Harrisburg physician Earl Walker resigns from SIU board
Harrisburg physician Dr Earl E Walker resigns immediately from the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees citing lack of time and personal reasons He says his patients suffer when he is away from the office and plans to prioritize family and medical practice over public service.
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Walker
SIU
Dave Butler
Southern Illinoisan
Earl E. Walker
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees
Daniel Walker
Dr. Walker
Gov. Walker
Richard B. Ogilvie
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Cindy Barnes
Vernon A. Guidry Jr
Washington
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William H. Rehnquist
Byron R. White
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