Senate approves coal conversion aid to utility plants nationwide
The Senate passed a 4 billion measure to help 25 utilities convert from oil to coal, enabling 80 plant units to receive up to half the conversion cost with government loans covering 25 percent. Plants must switch by 1985 unless waived by the Department, amid pollution safeguards concerns from Northeastern senators.
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Stateville Warden Reassigned Amid Auto Theft Indictments
Stateville warden Marvin Reed and four other Illinois Corrections Department employees were indicted on charges linked to a stolen auto ring operating in 1977 78. Reed, called the ring’s middleman, was reassigned to nonwarden duties while Gov Thompson and Corrections Director Franzen commented Reed should be cleared, as investigators assemble a prison operations team for Stateville. The Kane County grand jury also indicted seven others including Gilmore, Daniels, Butler, Rodgers, Nelson, and siblings Lowell Gilmore, with thefts centered on Chicago area Cadillac, Continental, and Corvette thefts. All defendants remain free pending arraignment.
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Bette
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Kane County
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Jerry Gilmore
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Jerry Butler
Fred Rodgers
Illinois Youth Center
St. Charles
George Welborn
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Butler
Gene Armentrout
Aurora
Chicago
Armentrout
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Vietnam invasion widens border fighting near Aranyaprathet
Reports from Bangkok indicate civilian casualties in the Vietnam Cambodia clash have risen to between 600 and 1,000 wounded as Vietnamese forces expand operations along the Thai Cambodian border. The Red Cross and UN Children’s Fund say hundreds of refugees and wounded Cambodians are at Khao I Dang Nong Chan and Nong Samet camps, with thousands more displaced into forests or under Vietnamese control. Thai reinforcements move to drive Vietnamese troops from Thai territory in a 35 mile stretch north of Aranyaprathet, while major Vietnamese forces remain inside Cambodia and appear to be shifting southward to strike at guerrillas remaining since the 18 month invasion.
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Aranyaprathet
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Nong Samet
Cambodia
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Pol Pot
Workmen's camp bill amendments stripped in Illinois House
Illinois House moves to vote on a workers compensation overhaul after stripping GOP amendments. Democrats retain a plan to limit medical exams to two doctors, bar compensation for injuries in company sports, and fund costs partly with employers and the state. Labor groups push to preserve benefits while aim is a broader overhaul.
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Illinois
Capitol
GOP
Murphysboro senior gets second chance to graduate
Murphysboro Community High School senior Dennis Karnes may receive his diploma after enrolling in a welding class at John A Logan College. If he passes, he will graduate from Murphysboro High. The board approved related bids for school facilities and track metric conversion bids.
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Miinelsand
Dennis Karnes
Karnes
Mysboro Community High Sc
Jackson County
Murphysboro Community Unit School District
John A. Logan College
Ace Excavating Company
E.T. Simonds
Carbondale
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Delivered by carrier on Sundays with advance payment. Rates vary by region and term, including 1 year 65.00 in 18 county area and 75.00 outside, 6 months 35.00 and 40.00, 3 months 18.00 and 21.00, 1 month 6.50 and 7.50. Not mailed where carrier service exists. Office and classifieds numbers listed for Carbondale Murphysboro Herrin Marion. Postmaster address changes to Southern Illinoisan Box 2108 Carbondale IL 62901.
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Carbondale
Murphysboro
Herrin
Marion
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Carter plans talks in Spain on Afghanistan proposal
President Carter, arriving after talks in Yugo slavia, planned to discuss with Spanish officials his proposal for a neutral, non aligned Afghanistan if there is a Russian pullout. He said Tuesday night that a U.S. proposal for a transitional arrangement there is still open.
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Washington Star
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Carter
Yugoslavia
Afghanistan
U.S
FBI questions Ray on Vernon Jordan shooting link
FBI agents clarify John Larry Ray is not a suspect in Vernon Jordan Jr s shooting. They seek whether Ray, brother of James Earl Ray, was with him the night Jordan was wounded by a sniper in Fort Wayne last month.
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FBI
John Larry Ray
Vernon Jordan Jr
James Earl Ray
Ray
Fort Wayne
Seed pioneer Burpee dies at 87 in Philadelphia
David Burpee, who headed a leading mail order seed company for 55 years and lobbied to make the marigold the national flower, died at 87. He was the son of W. Atlee Burpee, founder of the Burpee seed firm in 1876, and took over after his father's 1915 death with only months of horticulture study.
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David Burpee
Burpee
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W. Atlee Burpee Co
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