Thompson Seeks Calm Amid Illinois Coal Mine Standstill
Gov James R Thompson urged restraint as federal order pressed miners back to work under a court injunction while doubts linger about the Taft Hartley act's effect and possible mine seizures. He noted Illinois officials would safeguard coal trains though acknowledging the challenge.
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Chicago
James R. Thompson
Illinois
Thompson
Washington
United
Mine Workers
California Capitol Suffers Second Urban Outage
Sacramento experienced a second urban power outage in as many days when an underground transmission line shorted and blew up. Power was restored to 650 customers including the Capitol after about 2.2 hours, forcing meeting cancellations and halting paperwork due to lost electric equipment. The prior day over 1 million people lost power for five hours across 500 miles after a San Diego Gas & Electric foreman accidentally shorted the system.
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State Capitol
California
Sacramento
Capitol
San Diego Gas & Electric Co
Toxic herbicide found in seized Mexican marijuana
Washington reports a toxic herbicide sprayed on Mexican marijuana plants financed by the United States has been detected in marijuana seized in the United States at concentrations up to 40 percent higher than previously believed. Congressional sources say the Department of Health, Education and Welfare plans to issue a new warning about marijuana laced with paraquat.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Two Rescued From Sub Trap Near Lerwick
Two oil workers were rescued unharmed after being trapped 355 feet below the North Sea for nearly 24 hours in a BP field 80 miles west of the Shetland Islands. The PC9 mini-submarine fouled by a half inch wire, stranding the crew on the sea floor while they worked on an oil wellhead.
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Lerwick
Shetland Islands
North Sea
PC9
British Petroleum Co
Shetland
Unemployment Rate Drops Amid Manufacturing Jobs Rise
The February jobless rate fell to 6.1 percent, the fourth straight decline and the lowest since October 1974, helped by a surge in manufacturing hiring. Black and minority unemployment dropped to 11.8 percent, the lowest in over three years, while coal strike effects had yet to show full impact.
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Washington
Labor Department
Southern Illinois unemployment little changed by December
Unemployment in Jackson County fell from 9.8 to 8.9 percent between November and December while other Southern Illinois counties showed small moves. Union, Perry, Randolph, Williamson and Franklin counties also edged down or up slightly. Miners under the United Mine Workers strike were not counted as unemployed, with layoffs mostly limited to railroads and a Wolf Lake dynamite plant.
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Jackson County
Illinois
United Mine Workers
David Koch
Murphysboro
Koch
International Mineral and Chemical, Inc
Wolf Lake
Union County
Perry County
Randolph County
Williamson
Franklin County
Chicago
The
State
Franklin
Williamson County
Tougher reclamation rules reviewed in Marion hearing
County and state officials discussed applying the federal coal mine reclamation standards to new mining proposals. Illinois will align with the federal law after July 1, though no switch is official yet. Communities like Perry, Randolph, Williamson, and Jackson counties seek stronger protections for prime agricultural land.
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Karen Rothe
Southern Illinoisan
Marion
E. E. “‘Gene’’ Filer
Reclamation
Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals
Federal Reclamation
Illinois
Perry
Randolph
Williamson
Jackson
Williamson County Soil and Water Conservation District
Duane Wittenborn
Filer
Mines and Minerals Department
Brad Evilsizer
Department of Mines and Minerals
Free market plan surfaces in farm bureau backing
The American Farm Bureau endorses a 2.3 billion dollar emergency farm bill to pay farmers to leave up to 31 million acres out of production. Sen. Herman Talmadge and Sen. Robert Dole sponsor the bill aiming for quick Senate action and a push to secure a presidential signature by March 24. Illinois farmers and Farm Bureau officials express mixed views, forecasting price pressure on corn and soybeans and urging USDA to implement land diversion to stabilize prices.
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Michael Isikoff
Capitol Hill
Washington
American Farm Bureau
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Herman Talmadge
Dga
Sen
Robert Dole
Bkan
Talmadge
House
President Carter
Harold Steele
Illinois Agriculture Association
Farm Bureau Board
USDA
Department of Agriculture
Steve Williams
Edgar County
Williams
Illinois
East Central
Great Plains
Steele
Farm Bureau
Talmadge-Dole
Farm Bureau Board of Directors
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Paul Findley
Pittsfield
House Agriculture Committee
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