Higher Education Budget Shaped by Board Recommendations
Gov Ogilvie backs Illinois Board of Higher Education guiding most of the 1973 budget. Total higher education appropriation 967.3 million including 572.9 million for operating and 394.4 million for capital. SIU operating budget listed at 82.3 million with 10.9 million capital. 7.6 million for new SIU Springfield medical school. Health grants total 15.9 million. New capital for public colleges set at 87.4 million.
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SIU
Michael A. Smith
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Richard B. Ogilvie
General Assembly
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Bureau of the Budget
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Edwardsville
Higher Board
Ogilvie
Illinois State Scholarship Commission
Board of Higher Education
Sangamon State
Governors State
Congress
U.S
State
Illinois
Ogilvie offers Illinois a 1973 budget of 7.456 billion
Gov Richard Ogilvie presents a 1973 budget totaling 7.456 billion to the General Assembly. He seeks a 13 percent spending rise without new taxes while defending a 1.2 billion bond-based appropriation and prioritizing education and tax reform amid fiscal concerns.
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Richard B. Ogilvie
General Assembly
Ogilvie
Tlinois
Illinois
Tax relief urged for elderly property tax aid plan
Gov. Ogilvie unveiled a 16 million dollar program to ease excessive property taxes for residents 65 and over and to exempt farm personal property. The proposal links grants to income, offers renter relief, and caps grants while promising no cuts to schools or local governments.
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Richard B. Ogilvie
General Assembly
Ogilvie
Illinois
Sen. Percy
Income
Lin da's Softball Recess Play Amid Warm Tuesday Weather
A student named Lin da enjoyed a recess softball game during a balmy Tuesday. She is described as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. (family details truncated).
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Linda
County Board Remap Pact Aims At April Caucus Setup
Jackson County officials expect a consent decree to be filed in Danville federal court to settle a suit over the county board remap plan. The agreement allows scheduling of caucus sessions for nominating candidates for the April 4 election, while a seven district map is prepared with population counts.
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Jackson County Board of Supervisors
Danville
Ron Briggs
Briggs
Henry Wise
Murphysboro
Degognia
Kinkaid
Fountain Bluff
Makanda
Grand Tower
Pomona
Sand Ridge
Murphysboro Township
Delmar Ward
Leap Year Day Beats Records With 77 Degree High
The Leap Year Day in Carbondale brought a 77 degree high the warmest February 29 in at least 19 years while overnight temperatures fell to 38 degrees and 9 am readings reached 60 with widespread rain. Forecasters doubt the earlier snow forecast will occur.
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Carbondale
Illinois
Welfare costs rise in Illinois budget for 1973
Gov. Richard Ogilvie budgets 1.451 billion for public aid in fiscal 1973, adding 2,128 staff to 9,507. The 19 percent rise targets Medical Assistance, AFDC, and general aid, with HASP to cut hospital use and $82 million federal aid from Senator Percy’s welfare reform amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter E. Wolff
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Richard Ogilvie
Department of Public Aid
Illinois
Ogilvie
Edward T. Weaver
Weaver
Charles Percy
Kentucky Escapee Captured Near Vienna After Prison Break
Kentucky prisoner William Oliver Capps 34 of Owensboro was stopped by Illinois State Trooper Bob Absher on Rt 45 near Vienna while companion William B. Darnell 28 of Bowling Green fled on foot. Capps to be returned to Kentucky. Darnell remains at large. Both escaped Eddyville Penitentiary and were missed from a farm dormitory about 7 pm.
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Southern
Illinois
Kentucky State Penitentiary
Eddyville
Vienna
Johnson County
Barry Eastman
William Oliver Capps
Owensboro
Kentucky
Sti
William B. Darnell
Bowling Green
Eastman
Capps
Bob Absher
Goreville
Darnell
Homer Patterson
Patterson
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Michael Robinson
The
Associated Press Springfield
Cecil A. Partee
Chicago
Clyde L. Choate
Anna
House
Joseph M. Webb
Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Linda Doughty
Alto Pass
H.s. Bill Doughty
Butch Nevious
Jackson County
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