Hearings Open On 93 Day Coal Strike By Federal Board
A federal board of inquiry began hearings on the 93 day coal strike with plans to issue a swift report so President Carter can seek a court order to back miners to work. UMW leaders and coal industry reps testified as Taft Hartley Act procedures moved forward amid security siege.
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UMW
Arnold Miller
Sam Church
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House leaders back oil tax plan despite Long claim
House Democrats rallied behind President Carter's energy tax package, insisting the crude oil tax remain part of a united bill to be completed by mid April. They rejected calls to split the five sections, while Senate conferees eyed a compromise on natural gas pricing to lift controls by 1985.
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Russell Long
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Ways and Means Committee
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Senate
Toby Moffett
Dconn
U.S
Sam Gibbons
D-Fla
Woman trapped after icy road crash near Forges
Firemen freed a semi conscious 20 year old Herrin woman, Cynthia Garten, from a wreck on Old Johnston City Road near Forges after more than an hour of cutting through windshield and dashboard. She was in fair condition at Herrin Hospital with leg injuries possibly pinning behind the steering wheel. Police, Johnston City and Marion fire units used air chisels and other tools to reach her.
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Cynthia Garten
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Unplug clocks and save fuel idea from Crawfordsville kids
Third grade pupils at John Beard School in Crawfords ville advised energy saving steps to cope with a coal shortage. Their crayon drawings, displayed in the Indiana Statehouse, urge unplugging clocks and limiting TV time, washing fewer loads, and keeping thermostats low, with sunlit, non electric display lighting.
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Snow misses area as ice slicks highways in Southern Illinois
Freezing rain left roads slick across Southern Illinois while central Illinois saw heavy snow. State police logged 23 accidents before 8 a.m. Most crashes were minor as rain and sleet continued. Schools closed and several high school tournaments postponed amid drifting snow and road blocks. By night, improving conditions expected with temps rising above freezing. some rain and freezing drizzle possible.
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Ozark Airlines
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Cairo
Yvonne Neubuhr
Sahara Coal mines near Harrisburg reopen after picket removal
Sahara Coal Co. resumes production at three Saline County mines near Harrisburg as United Mine Workers pickets are withdrawn. About 500 workers return amid a Taft-Hartley cooling off period and a pending back to work injunction. The sites include a slope mine, a shaft mine, a strip mine, and a processing plant. State records show the mines produced 1.6 million tons in 1977.
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Patrick Burke
United Mine Workers
Ohio
Miller
West Virginia
Jay Rockefeller
National Guard
Sahara Coal Co
Saline County
UMW
Edgar Manley
Progressive Mine Workers Union
Sahara
Harrisburg
Wally Aysas
AFL-CIO seeks tax freeze and tax cut rejection
The AFL-CIO urged Congress to freeze Social Security taxes at 1977 levels and oppose Carter's proposed income tax cuts for business and high earners. A $16 billion 1979 tax cut is proposed vs Carter’s $25 billion plan, with emphasis on eliminating capital gains and foreign tax credits for the wealthy and corporations. Andrew J. Biemiller outlined the plan, aiming to halt increases and keep tax levels steady.
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Ways and Means Committee
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Brocton Lockwood Elected Associate Circuit Judge
Nation news notes Brocton Lockwood has been elected associate circuit judge and assigned to Williamson County. In San Joaquin Valley residents vote decisively against locating the nation’s largest nuclear power plant in their area.
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Williamson County
San Joaquin Valley
Illinois Board endorses vet school at SIU Carbondale
The Illinois Board of Higher Education approves a plan for a veterinary medicine school at Southern Illinois University Carbondale but urges the legislature not to implement it. The item appears on page 22.
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Illinois Board of Higher Education
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Editorial notes on Dooley successor and TV shows
The text notes a committee should select the late James A. Dooley’s successor to the Illinois Supreme Court with lawyers judges and laypersons. It also mentions a meaningful TV program about children hope and a dread disease and previews Nashville Hornets advancing to the Class A state basketball quarterfinals in Champaign.
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James A. Dooley
Nashville
Hornets
Champaign
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