ERA hunger strike aims to push Illinois ERA vote
Seven women led by Sonia Johnson begin a hunger strike in Illinois with six weeks left to push ratification of the 10 year Equal Rights Amendment. The group plans weekly fasts and white ribbons, hoping to pressure lawmakers before the June 30 deadline, while Gov. James R. Thompson says fasting will not sway the legislature. Illinois remains the lone northern industrial state to require a 60 percent legislative threshold for ERA passage.
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Springfield
Illinois House
Sonia Johnson
Susan Catania
Chicago
Islator
Catania
James R. Thompson
George Ryan
Kankakee
Mrs. Catania
Thompson
Johnson
Illinois
Used car bill fees received auto lobby gifts
Fifty six senators who voted to kill a federal rule requiring used car dealers to warn buyers of known defects received 323350 in campaign contributions over five years from the chief lobbying group against the rule. The Senate vetoed the FTC plan 69 to 27 and sent it to the House with a May 26 deadline.
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Washington
Frank McCarthy
National Automobile Dealers Association
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Congressional
Alan J. Dixon
Dixon
Wade Nelson
Nelson
State aids Hardin County in push to prosecute bikers
Illinois officials will back Hardin County in prosecuting 10 motorcycle gang members charged with raping two women during Memorial Day weekend. The case centers on crimes at Camp Cadiz in Shawnee National Forest, where victims described being held for two days and assaulted by up to 50 attackers. Indicted suspects include six from Iowa held in local jails and four from Evansville Indiana fighting extradition.
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Elizabethtown
Hardin County
Illinois
Tyrone Fahner
Don Ramsell
Matthew Franklin
Shawnee National Forest
Camp Cadiz
Franklin
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
Illinois Division of Criminal Investigation
Iowa
Massac
Metropolis
Evansville
Ind
Franklin Hospital appoints Chlopecki to board
The Rev. Robert J. Chlopecki, pastor of St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Royalton, was appointed Tuesday by the Franklin County Board to the Franklin Hospital Board of Trustees. He fills the Zeigler-Royalton seat vacant for years, plans to attend meetings, and will weigh facts before forming an opinion on the proposed hospital reorganization.
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Franklin Hospital Board of Trustees
Robert J. Chlopecki
St. Aloysius Catholic Church
Royalton
Franklin County Board
Zeigler-Royalton
Chlopecki
Southern Illinoisan Publication Offices and Rates Notice
The Southern Illinoisan announces its publication offices at Carbondale and Herrin and lists subscription rates for carrier and mail delivery across multiple areas. Postmaster details and classified advertising numbers are provided for reader contact and service requests.
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Southern Illinoisan
N. Illinois Carbondale
N. 16Th
Herrin
The
Carbondale
Illinois
Williamson County
Franklin County
Ill
Woman Pleads Not Guilty in Father’s Death Case
Joann Galloway, charged with voluntary manslaughter in her father’s death in Franklin County, entered a not guilty plea on Wednesday. A Southern Indiana news headline misreported related details.
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Joann Galloway
Franklin County
Thatcher Says Gap Big in Final Falklands Talks
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned that Argentina’s response to the latest peace proposal “doesn’t look very encouraging” as Britain considers invasion. UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar called talks at a critical stage in efforts to end the Falklands dispute. British forces were reported to be closing in on the islands as Argentina’s reply suggested some forward movement.
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Associated Press
Margaret Thatcher
Argentina
Falkland Islands
Thatcher
Pee A Corp
London
Buenos Aires
United Nations Today
Javier Perez de Cuellar
U.N
Enrique Ros
Britain
South Atlantic
Hinckley doctor insists on brain scan during trial
Defense psychiatrist Dr. David Michael Bear resumed cross examination in the John W. Hinckley Jr. trial after initially refusing to proceed without testifying about a brain scan. Judge Parker warned that Bear’s day of testimony could be jeopardized if he refused. Evidence status for the scan remains undecided.
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Washington
John W. Hinckley Jr
David Michael Bear
U.S
Roger M. Adelman
Barrington D. Parker
Woman pleads innocent to murder in Franklin County
A woman pleads not guilty to murder before Circuit Judge Loren P. Lewis in Benton. The pre-trial hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. June 22. She was arrested March 26 in connection with the death of her father Edward L. Forbis 73 found March 21 at Rend Lake Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park. Forbis died of suffocation and the defense asserts self defense citing alleged beatings.
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Joann Galloway
Loren P. Lewis
Franklin County
Benton
Terrence J. Hopkins
Ms. Galloway
Edward L. Forbis
Chicago Area
Rend Lake
Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park
Galloway
Charles Mandrell
Forbis
Carroll Owens
Neighbors vote against restarting Three Mile Island reactor
Voters around Three Mile Island cast a nonbinding tally in Dauphin Cumberland and Lebanon counties by a 2 to 1 margin. With 268 of 273 precincts reported, 39,910 rejected restart and 19,644 supported it. NRC Chairman Nunzio Palladino says the result could influence agency decisions.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Three Mile Island
Nuclear Ete
Commission
Kay Pickering
TMI Acert
Harrisburg
Dauphin
Cumberland
Lebanon
TMI Unit 1
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nunzio Palladino
NRC
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