Volunteers battle to save Kaskaskia Island levee
Volun teers from Illinois and Missouri strain to shore up the Mississippi levee on Kaskaskia Island as high winds erode the embankment. About 200 volunteers, including prisoners from Menard State Penitentiary, worked through Friday night into Saturday, hoping to prevent flood damage to the 293 residents.
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Mississippi River
Kaskaskia
Orville Cook
Chester
Civil Defense
Ilinois
Missouri
Menard State Penitentiary
Cook
Herman Rucker
Kueker
Tolaay
Mississippis
St. Mary’s
Jack Miller
Murphysboro
Jackson County Court House
Randolph County
Randllph County
du Quoin
Steeleville
St. Louis
Peach crop threatened as Indiana hit by storm
A winter storm slammed Northern Indiana ending a two week spring taste and threatening Indiana's peach crop for a second year. Seven inches of snow fell with Howard County 40 miles north of Indianapolis. Purdue weather service warns 25 to 26 degree temperatures would kill ten percent of southern Indiana peaches, while another five degree drop could wipe out ninety percent.
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Associated Press
Indiana
Howard County
Indianapolis
Agricultural Weather Service
Purdue University
Murphysboro Red Devils Reach Sweet 16 for First Time Since 1947
Murphysboro under coach Tom Ashman secured a school record 26th win this season by topping Breese Mater Dei 74 57 in the West Frankfort Class AA sectional final. The victory earned Murphysboro a first Sweet 16 appearance since 1947, with a Carbondale super sectional showdown against Collinsville at SIU Arena. Collinsville handed Murphysboro one of its two losses this season, 72 64 in the Garbondale holiday tournament.
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Murphysboro
Tom Ashman
Murphy
Breese Mater Det
West Frankfort
Red Devils
Collinsville
Carbondale
Stu
SIU
Jack Griggs
Sunny and mild forecast with warmer weekend
Partly sunny conditions today reach 48 to 53 degrees with a night low around 25 to 80. Monday brings upper 50s and continued dry mild pattern into Tuesday through Thursday with daily temperature swings and highs in the 40s to 50s and lows in the upper 20s to upper 30s.
Intelligence says Communists build up South Vietnam supplies
United States officials report that Communist war materiel in South Vietnam exceeds pre offensive levels while front line battalions stay 20 to 50 percent strength. They warn a large stockpile could raise fighting, though a major drive seems unlikely in the near term. Cease-fire limits troops and gear entering the country after January 28 but allows replacement of equipment in place.
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New York Times
Saigon
United States
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Nixon Eyes Tariff Shift To Replace Oil Import Quotas
The Nixon administration leans toward a two step tariff to replace crude oil import quotas and considers other steps to avert shortages of gasoline this summer and heating oil for next winter. It may suspend quotas for interim relief and push refinery expansion and domestic oil production as part of a broader energy policy overhaul.
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Edward Cowan
New York Times
Washington
Nixon
White House
Ystem
Congress
Gulf Coast
F-15 cost study raises overrun concerns and engine flaws
A secret Defense Department cost study warns the F-15 program could hit about 1.7 billion dollars, roughly 21 percent over prior estimates. Pratt & Whitney engines show 52 major breakdowns, with two new failures since production approval by McDonnell-Douglas. Pentagon officials clash with the Office of Systems Analysis over costs, with a June 30 deadline set to resolve the dispute.
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Washington Star-News
Washington
Defense Department
Congress
Star-News
Pratt Whitney
United Aircraft Corp
Pentagon
McDonnell-Douglas Corp
Air Force
Office of Systems Analysis
Defense Secretary
Defense
Ridgway Declares Class A State Basketball Champions
Ridgway defeats Kaneland 54 to 51 to win the state Class A basketball title. Town excitement runs high as players are greeted with a 1:30 p.m. arrival in Benton and escorted by police to Eldorado New Haven and Ridgway for an 8 p.m. banquet at the high school and a celebration amid Popcorn Capital pride.
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American Legion
Cletus Zirkelbalch
Zirkelbalth
Kaneland
Benton
Harrisburg
Eldorado
New Haven
Knowi
Dining and garden features in Southern Illinois paper
The edition highlights dining and garden items across pages 1B to 12B with Garden Time nearing. Joanné Wood presents Southern Illinois preparations, illustrated by Ed Greer and Jack Griggs on page 26. A service station serves Crab Orchard as a community hub with sessions around a potbellied stove on page 82. Paul Powell estate offers stock buying clues in a story by Robert W. Sink on page 24. Murphysboro celebrates a Sweet 16 for the first time since 1947 on page 15.
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Joanné Wood
Ed Greer
Jack Griggs
Crab Orchard
John Stewart
Paul Powell
Robert W. Sink
Murphysboro
St Patrick’s Day celebrations across nations and scenes
Americans celebrated St Patrick's Day with pageantry and rain in New York's Fifth Avenue parade. In Dublin Georgia three beauty winners were named Miss St Patrick's Day Miss Dublin and Miss Colleen at Irish balls. At Clark Air Base Maj Joseph F Shanahan, a released POW, wore shamrocks from Ireland. A Los Angeles parade saw counterprotests by Friends of Ireland. In Washington President Nixon received a silver shamrock bowl from Ambassador Warnock for Ireland's patron day.
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Dublin
Ireland
St. Patrick's
Los Angeles
Friends of Ireland
Northern ‘Ireland
Washington
Nixon
William Warnock
Warnock
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