Area legislators split on Walker budget in party lines
Lawmakers from the 58th and 59th districts voiced mixed reactions to Governor Walker's budget. Democrats praised highway improvements and urged caution on higher education cuts, while Republicans criticized the plan as reshuffling figures and harming SIU and public aid, with calls to limit land purchases. SIU President Derge adopts a wait and see stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karen Rothe
Daniel Walker
Walker
Richard O. Hart
D-Benton
Southern
Illinois
Hart
Southern Illinois
Board of Higher Education
C. L. McCormick
Vienna
McCormick
Clyde Choate
D-Anna
Downstate
General Assembly
Sive
Norbert Springer
Rohester
Department of Conservation
Kenneth V. Buzbee
D-Carbondale
SIU
Gene Johns
D-Marion
David R. Derge
Southern Illinois University At Carbondale
Derge
Ilinois Board of Higher Education
Nation holds first standby draft lottery for 19 year olds
The June 27 1954 standby draft lottery assigned numbers to two million men turning 19 this year. Number 1 was given to those born June 27 1954. numbers 95 or lower would be classified but not processed unless emergency induction. Highest number 365 is Oct 19. Induction unlikely before 1974. those above 95 stay in H holding.
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Ralph Dunn
R-Du Quoin
Washington (Ap
Selective Service
Byron V. Pepitone
Congress
Pepitone
Wounded Knee Evacuations As Deadline Near
Women and children were being evacuated from Wounded Knee South Dakota as a government deadline to leave approached. Militant Indians reportedly reinforced their forces while about 300 marshals and FBI agents maintained a perimeter and negotiations failed.
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Wounded Knee
Justice Department
Paul Manhart
Carter Camp
American Indian Movement
AIM
FBI
Ralph Erickson
U.S
Finance ministers huddle over euro dollar crisis in Brussels
European Common Market ministers meet in Brussels to craft a united line for a Friday Paris conference with the United States and other nations. They may press for U S action to defend the dollar with massive market purchases if needed to keep its value, while debates over floating rates continue. Burns declined to reveal stance on large scale U S dollar support in congressional testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee M. Cohn
Washington Star-News
Washington
European Common Market
United States
Brussels
Paris
Japan
Canada
Sweden
Switzerland
U.S
House Banking Subcommittee On International Finance
Burns
Bombs explode outside London Old Bailey and Whitehall
Two car bombs rocked the Old Bailey and Whitehall amid a Northern Ireland referendum day in Britain. Casualties exceed 15 at Old Bailey and 14 at Whitehall with hospitals caring for dozens more as authorities blame a Provisional IRA link. Emergency crews and police evacuated sites, with warnings issued and widespread confusion reported.
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London
Old Bailey
Whitehall
Scotland Yard
Westminster
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Irish Republic
Britain
Thames
Phillip Reynolds
Harry Clements
Wholesale prices surge to 1.9 percent in February
The February rise, the sharpest since 1951, pushes the wholesale price index 1.9 percent higher with farm products and processed foods up 3.9 percent. Industrial raw materials climbed 1.1 percent as petroleum prices jump under new controls. The annual rate hits 56 percent for the past period, prompting reactions from labor and economic advisers.
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Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Nixon
Organized Labor
Herbert Stein
Council of Economic
Cost of Living Council
Stein
Council
Bureau
Night club fire in Brisbane kills 15 at Whisky A Go Go
Police found two four gallon cans of flammable liquid splashed in the Whisky A Go Go lobby and set afire. Authorities said there is no evidence linking the blaze to protection racketeers. About 100 people were inside the club when the fire started. Weather: cloudy with possible showers and mild temperatures through the weekend.
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Brisbane
Australia
Raymond Whitrod
Fire on Cross-Country Bus Sparks Deadly Collison Fort Stockton
A Kerrville Bus Co. coach on a San Francisco to Miami route smashed a bridge into a tractor trailer, fuel tank ignited, and passengers leaped from windows as a fire swept the bus. Texas DPS revised death toll to five to seven with 22 injured. two truck occupants confirmed dead. Rescue teams scoured remote wreckage.
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Fort Stockton
Tex
Texas Department of Public Safety
Robinson
Kerrville Bus Co
San Francisco
Miami
Multiple military plane crashes reported in NC and CA
AP reports a Golden Knights plane crashed during a recruiting tour in Silk Hope North Carolina with at least 14 dead and 11 team members plus pilots among the dead. In California three Blue Angel jets collided during training, pilots ejected safely. At Lockbourne AFB Ohio two KC135 tankers collided in fog killing two crew and injuring one.
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Silk Hope
N.C
North Carolina
U.S. Army
Golden Knights
Ft. Bragg
el Centro
Calif
California
Desert
Columbus
Ohio
Lockbourne Air Force Base
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D-Spariia
Nation
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