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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1975
Page
1
Children and parents seek affordable unsupervised activities for summer. Suggestions include make believe stores, fishing at Herrin Park, building a clubhouse, neighborhood plays, crafts, and old games. Others note library cards, Scouts, mowing lawns, lemonade stands, and pick up games as time passes quickly.
The First day of the Herrin Farmers Market drew many customers while few sellers offered beans squash bread and preserves. Chamber manager Thomas Dinnis noted brisk sales with a woman selling green beans and squash in 20 minutes and another selling bread and preserves in about 30 minutes. Russel Rye of Marion sold about 25 watermelons in two hours. The market runs Saturdays 9 am to 1 pm through Oct. 28 at The Bank of Herrin south parking lot.
The General Assembly nears agreement on the state school aid formula. The compromise could add up to $18 million for rural districts by allowing transportation tax rates in the formula, with other provisions adding funds for Downstate urban districts and enabling modest property tax increases under a backdoor referendum. Final action and gubernatorial approval awaited.
A bill sent to Governor Daniel Walker would let Pope County access a 140000 dollar, interest free loan to cover county officers salaries. Rep. Robert Winchester backed the measure, which Senate leader William Harris helped shape into a loan rather than a grant. The Department of Local Government would set the terms with the county.
Governor Daniel Walker signed bills to raise unemployment compensation and widen workers compensation coverage. He said unemployment benefits rise up to 37 percent for the average unemployed person and the new benefits take effect July 6. Walker called the workers compensation measure landmark legislation.
The Illinois Supreme Court refused to force Gov. Walker to pay $200 back pay to about 60,000 state employees but ordered about $50 back for each employee. The ruling concerns the $100 monthly pay raise approved last year, retroactive to December 4 when the veto was overruled, with Sept 1 as the initial intended effective date.
The forecast calls for fair skies tonight with a warm low near 70. Tuesday remains mostly sunny and hot with highs in the lower 90s.
Beirut AP reports nonstop street fighting through the night raising the death toll to 120 and 486 wounded since last Tuesday. Kuwait and Bahrain advised citizens to evacuate with plans reported by residents, while the U S embassy gave no such notice. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam arrived for peacemaking efforts.
Washington AP The Agriculture Department refused to propose sweeping reforms to the food stamp program. It asked Congress for authority to test ideas on a limited basis and noted inequities in benefit rates and household treatment. The 150 page report offered no specific fixes, citing future option concerns. About 20 million participate and the program costs about $5 billion annually. Senator Dole criticized the report as insufficient and labeled it a mouse that labored.
FBI spokesman Thomas Coll said on Sunday there is no positive identification for the 16 people sought in connection with the shooting deaths of agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He added investigators have a strong sense of who they are as more than 150 agents search the rugged terrain. Williams and Coler, both 28, were killed while serving warrants on four men. Teddy Paul Pourier was arrested, Herman Thunder Hawk was nabbed near Murdo, while Robert Horse and James Eagle remained at large.
In April 1973 Herman White, then 30 and on furlough from Bayview Facility, allegedly hoisted his two daughters Pamela and Michelle from a Brooklyn tenement roof, dropping them five stories. The girls survived but were critically injured. authorities note prior injuries in a previous incident. A separate Brooklyn case reports Yolanda Rivera accused of throwing her toddler son Richard from a third floor window, leaving him with severe skull fractures.
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