Pontiac 10 acquitted in Chicago guards slaying case
In a Chicago case, ten Pontiac Correctional Center inmates were acquitted after 35 days of testimony in the 1978 riot that killed three guards. Six others await trial. The piece discusses state costs, defense fees, and calls for taxpayer accountability and continued pursuit of justice.
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Pontiac Correctional Center
Chicago
Spey
Uisen
Kenneth Buzbee
D-Carbondale
Sen
Buzbee
Senate Separne Committee
Sen. Buzbee
Livingston County
Reagan budget inflationary critique from Carbondale chamber ad
Editor responds to a May 13 letter defending a April 19 advertisement backing Reagan budget proposals. The writer urges historical perspective on deficit spending linked to Vietnam and warns that 50 billion inflationary dollars will worsen Southern Illinois while subsidies, coal research, and social services face cuts.
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Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale Chamber of Commerce
Vietnam
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Reagan
Carter
Southern
Illinois
National Endowment For the Arts
The Coming Crisis in Farmland Space
William Steif outlines rapid farmland loss in the United States with 3 million acres per year diverted to non farm use. Illinois loses about 100 000 acres annually due to urban sprawl strip mining and infrastructure. A national policy to protect cropland gains attention from lawmakers and the American Farmland Trust advocates local and tax based preservation measures.
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William Steif
Enterprise Assn
America
Illinois
James Jeffords
R-Vt
Sen
Rogert Jepsen
Altowa
U.S
John Black
Gilson
Ill
Black
Block
Bob Bergland
Ohio
Indiana
American Farmland Trust
Douglas Wheeler
Wisconsin
Wheeler
Massachusetts Ave. N.W
Washington, D.C
Farm bills Seek Higher Price Supports and Subsidies
New farm bills drafted by House and Senate Agriculture Committees would cost taxpayers more over four years than Reagan administration plans. The measures raise milk and grain price supports above the president's proposal and keep subsidies for wheat corn feed grains rice and cotton. The current omnibus bill expires September 30 and a four year bill would apply to 1982 crops. Committees aim to double the administration suggested 7.8 billion for commodity programs while continuing direct subsidies.
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Seth S. King
New York Times
Washington
House
Senate Agriculture Committees
Reagan
House Committee
John R. Block
Senate Budget Committee
Senate
Senate Committee
Bipartisan Panels Seek Higher Farm Price Supports for 1982
Senate and House committees push for higher target prices for wheat and corn, with wheat at 4.20 and corn at 2.80 or 2.90 per bushel for 1982 crops. Loan levels would rise with higher supports, while sugar loans and peanut acreage controls would resume. Dairy price supports stay near 75 percent parity, and administration costs run above 1.9 billion.
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Senate
House
Farm real estate taxes hit record in 1979 says AP
A new Agriculture Department study shows farmers paid a record 3.23 billion dollars in real estate taxes in 1979, up from 1977. Illinois led states with 363.3 million, eight states accounted for half of total, per acre taxes varied from 25 cents to 28.10 in Rhode Island, national average 3.57 per acre.
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Oregon
Suffolk County
N.Y
Montgomery County
Associated Press
Washington
Agriculture Department, Economics and Statistics Service
New Mexico
Nevada
West Virginia
Alabama
Rhode Island
Sachusetts
New Jersey
Connecticut
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Texas
Wisconsin
California
Ohio
Minnesota
ESS Publications
USDA
Washington, D.C
Two rural Americas emerge from census and change
Mitchell Kansas embodies the old rural America fading after 1940 while a rural renaissance grows elsewhere through manufacturing jobs and new highways. Demographers Donald Adamchak and Calvin Beale note 1970 marked a turning point with rural areas outpacing urban growth by 1980.
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Bolton
America
Mitchell
Americas
Kansas
Donald J. Adamchak
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Kan
Calvin L. Beale
Agriculture Department
Washington
Beale
Ale
Bill Thompson
Kansas Department of Economic Development
Ellsworth
West
South
Northeast
Middle West
Plains States
Mississippi Delta
Missouri Bootheel
Montana
Wyoming
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Lem
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Southern Illinois
Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Agriculture Secretary
Tom Stites
Virgil Bolton
McPherson
Great Bend
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