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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1976
Page
2
Washington AP reports Democratic congressmen postponed action on payroll and expense account reforms despite warnings of potential electoral risk. In a stormy three hour caucus, leaders pushed changes to late today to allow more study, with supporters saying time was insufficient to review proposals.
Jimmy Carter traveled to New York and Washington to enrich his campaign war chest discuss foreign policy and confer with congressional leaders. He returned to Plains, Georgia before revisiting the Massachusetts primary scene where he called his fourth place an error in strategy. Mayor George McCarthy of Everett dismissed Carter supporters who struggled to secure votes.
Palestinians and their leftist Lebanese Muslim allies report widespread Christian attacks in Beirut through the night and today. They say their forces repulsed the attacks with heavy losses. Beirut Radio, run by Muslims, reports fierce fighting at refugee camps and in Muslim and Christian sectors around the city. Communications with foreign countries were cut again.
Thousands of Communists shouted their triumph in Rome as they celebrated the city council win. Tens of thousands marched from party headquarters to city hall on Capitoline Hill, amid dancing around Michelangelo Square and adorning the Marcus Aurelius statue with hammer and sickle banners. The elections also covered about 100 other municipalities and national parliamentary races.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and South African Prime Minister John Vorster opened talks at a Bavarian retreat aimed at preventing racial war in Africa. Kissinger arrived via police helicopter amid cheers and boos, passing a heavy security guard as four left wing demonstrators were detained before the meeting.
New Jersey Teamsters official Anthony Provenzano and three others were indicted on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiring to murder Anthony Castellito, secretary treasurer of Local 560, who disappeared and died in 1961. The indictment was announced by the Justice Department today.
At a gala in New York to raise funds for an American Bicentennial Park in Israel Zionist leader Dr. Maurice S. Sage collapsed on the dais beside Betty Ford and died within an hour. Sage 56 headed Sage Laboratories and led the Jewish National Fund of America. Mrs. Ford led the guests in prayer and later reflected with the audience as medics attempted to save him. Her aide noted a misstatement referring to Sage as a rabbi.
Nancy Donnelly 20 says she was pressured to quit the U S Merchant Marine Academy after a March incident with a male cadet who faced no punishment. She planned marriage to him and claimed bias in handling the case, asserting both should have been dismissed or allowed to stay.
Column notes Jo Hanson from Carbondale exhibits foam plastic tombstones recreating Crab Orchard Cemetery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with silkscreened markers and bird song tapes. Harvard's Dean Chester Hanford is memorialized in Harvard Gazette, detailing his Illinois roots and Harvard leadership. An Anastaplo piece recalls Carterville Community High School principal in the Chicago Tribune.
The article recalls Bert Fulkerson who taught at Southern Hitness University and became secretary of the faculty. Anastaple praised Fulkerson while noting his 1972 death and Junie Decker’s quip about the school’s emphasis on scholarship and recognizing excellence with the same letter used for athletic achievement.
An award was presented at graduation as the town watched. A speaker recalled the period from 1939 to 1943 and noted athletics were not emphasized and a football win did not occur during those years. Thanks are extended to Irvin Peithmann of Carbondale, Jo Hanson, Mark R. Hillegas of SIUC, Chester Hanford, Ida W. Zack of Decature, and Elbert Fulkerson for clippings and tributes.
The Illinois House voted 116 to 19 to approve a severance tax on coal mined in the state. The measure would levy a percentage tax replacing the current 1 percent sales tax, with estimated proceeds of about 9 million dollars annually to county governments and about five million more than current receipts. Opponents worry price hikes, but sponsors say tax is indexated to real property. The bill moves to the Senate which favors a different approach.
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