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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1981
Page
11
Kenneth Altig released his wife and two young daughters unharmed after a Friday hostage situation in Menard County. He surrendered about an hour later and faces unlawful restraint and forcible detention charges. No injuries or gunfire reported. a pistol and rifle were seized.
Vincent L. Tofany of the National Safety Council argues against raising Illinois Tollway speed limits from 55 to 65 mph. He says higher speeds would boost traffic deaths and urges Gov. Thompson and lawmakers to keep the 55 mph limit. The council plans telegrams to officials urging retention.
About 20 members of the National Socialist White Peoples' Party marched through Bloomington to the birth place of founder George Lincoln Rockwell. Rockwell was born in Bloomington on March 9, 1918. An equal number of counter-demonstrators heckled as police kept the groups apart and no arrests were made.
A former Ku Klux Klan member, Robert Scott Hansen, 25, was sentenced to four years probation, six months in Clinton County Jail, and a $4,000 fine on four counts of burglary. The Macon County conviction was transferred to Clinton County. Hansen and James McKinney, 28, were linked to stolen merchandise found at their home. McKinney, a former Illinois Klan grand dragon, is serving concurrent three-year terms.
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