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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1972
Page
8
William L. Johnson of Southern Illinois University Museum sought the instrument’s use after its display. Readers answered that the two sided comb shaped tool, used to square sandstone blocks, was common in Southern Illinois construction.
Major processor Eckrich and Sons says meat costs are already easing, with chuck up 10 percent from November to February and now down seven percent. Beef costs to processors are 15 percent lower than last November, while pork prices fell from 37 to 33 cents per pound in a week. Executives predict lagged retail price cuts, noting current farm prices eased slightly after a late-w winter surge driven by tight slaughter and rising demand.
Interior Minister Ferit Kubat said one captured extremist Ertugrul Kurkcu admitted the group fatally wounded three radar technicians during a daylong clash at a mountain village in Pontus. The confrontation involved 800 troops, leftist guerrillas fatally wounded, and two Britons and a Canadian among the dead.
Government data show serious crime rose 6 percent in 1971, the smallest jump in six years. Urban areas with 250,000+ population up 2 percent. suburbs 11 percent. rural areas 10 percent. Murder, rape, robbery up 10 percent. armed robbery up 16 percent with regional differences.
Britain's William Whitelaw assumes the Northern Ireland secretary role as Easter marching season nears. He pledges to stay through the weekend amid widespread unrest between Catholics and Protestants, with 293 deaths in three years of fighting.
The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a art display titled Flag in Chains shown at the Decatur Art Institute did not violate flag desecration law. Edward Lindsay and Marvin Klaven were cleared after being convicted and fined $75 each, as judges found no threat to breach of the peace.
A Chicago jury ordered four insurers to pay $1 million to the widow Doris Usher and two daughters of Robert Usher, who was killed when his car struck a train at a crossing in Orland Park, Illinois. The defense argued death by own action, but the verdict favored the beneficiaries after a March 22 start to the trial.
Six Penn State University students returning from spring recess were killed when their car swerved into a guardrail and slammed into a concrete column under an overpass near Frederick Maryland State police said the vehicle broke apart with only the top and roof remaining.
Secretary of Agriculture Earl L Butz welcomed the Price Commission plan to hold April hearings on retail food costs. He vowed to tell the public the truth about farmers and productivity, noting a 3.3 times rise per man hour over 20 years. The hearings begin April 12 to probe price spreads from farm to consumer.
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