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Newspaper

Southern Illinoisan

Location

Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 26, 1975

Page

9

Strangers bring hope and tests to Carbondale refugees

Sang and her family arrive in Carbondale Illinois after fleeing Vietnam. Lang enrolls her daughter Loan in Unity Point school and herself at Southern Illinois University amid local aid networks led by Father Bill Longust. Community leaders weigh costs and benefits of hosting 38 campus Vietnamese students and possibly 2000 refugees, while the Dorns help the family amid loss of papers and cash.

John Barbour Associated Press America Carbondale Illinois Sang Loan (LohAn Unity Point Trung Jared Dorn Minda Paradise Lang Vietnam Khuong International Assistance Council of Southern Illinois Bill Longust St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church Dorns Bill Saigon Siu-C John A. Logan Carterville Viet Penney’s University Mall Loan Oanh Unity Point School

Refugee family gains extended kin group in Carbondale

The Vietnamese refugee family supported by Jared and Minda Dorn expands with Viet and My joining Sang and her relatives. Trung, Sang’s brother and SIU Carbondale student, will graduate in engineering in December. Families pursue work and schooling in SIU-C, John A Logan, and local centers.

Jared Minda Dorn Viet Khuong Sang Carbondale Trung Southern Illinois University Calif

Two youths die in East St. Louis gasoline station fire

An apparent burglary at a Clark Oil gas station in East St. Louis ended with two youths burning to death after pouring gasoline on the floor. A spokesman said a pilot light ignited the spill, triggering the fatal blaze.

East St. Louis Clark Oil Co

Grain export firms under U S inquiry across world shipments

Two of the globe’s largest grain companies, the Bunge Corporation and Cook Industries, along with Mississippi River Grain Elevator, Inc., are named in a widening U S investigation into the grain export trade. The probe, begun last year with bribery and druging indictments, now questions handling weighing and grading practices and possible corporate responsibility. Federal agents pursue whether company officials were involved.

United States Bunge Corporation Cook Industries, Inc Mississippi River Grain Elevator, Inc Eee

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