Coal gasification plant eyed for Du Quoin or Wood River
A consortium seeks 33.3 million in state bonds to fund a 100 million coal gasification facility at Du Quoin or Wood River. The project, distinct from the Perry County ICGG plan, could create about 1,000 construction jobs and 300 permanent positions, with private or federal funds supplementing state support.
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du Quoin
Wood River
Joe E. Lucco
D-Edwardsville
Perry County
Illinois Coal Gasification Group
ICGG
Sortium
Handy
Cutler
Ohio
Lucco
Illinois
Allis-Chalmers
Supreme Court voids warrantless OSHA spot checks
The Supreme Court ruled 53 that federal inspectors may not conduct unannounced workplace inspections without a warrant. The decision curbs the Labor Department and upholds that probable cause and a neutral judge are required to authorize searches at factories and business sites. Justice White led the majority with Burger, Stewart, Marshall, and Powell, while Stevens wrote a dissent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Occupational Safety and Health Act
Labor Department
Byron R. White
Idaho
Gas price plan clears hurdle in House energy talks
Washington AP House energy conferees rejected a late bid to derail a natural gas pricing compromise. The plan would free gas from federal price controls in 1985 and faces Senate approval. Critics argue higher costs. supporters call it a compromise after six months of talks.
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Washington
House
Senate
Toby Moffett
D-Conn
Gun owners flood BATF with comments on new gun rules
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms reports a flood of mail on proposed gun regulations. Project officer James A. Hunt said about 7,000 letters were expected but more than 150,000 have arrived, mostly from angry gun owners opposing the rules seen as a step toward national gun registration. The plan would require serial numbers on new guns, prompt theft reports by dealers, and quarterly disposition reports stored in a Treasury computer. Of 37,000 read, 34,400 opposed and 2,600 supported.
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Washington
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
James A. Hunt
Treasury Department
Hunt
Prison artist Fossey jailed again after arrests in Missouri
Weldon Fossey 34 of Belleville, recently freed from Marion federal penitentiary, was arrested Sunday night in Malden by police as he left Otasco Store. Patrick Michael Cullen 24 of Florissant was arrested with him. Both face burglary and theft charges for allegedly taking guns from Otasco and Rice's Hardware. Fossey faces an additional Michigan life sentence for attempted safe burglary. a hearing Wednesday will decide if he is sent back to Michigan.
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Weldon Fossey
Southern Illinois
Marion Federal Penitentiary
Fossey
Belleville
Malden
Patrick Michael
Florissant
Dunklin County
Cullen
Otasco
Rice
Campbell
Marion
Michigan
Carter approves two more flying war rooms for nuclear command
President Carter reversed his earlier stance and authorized two additional E4 aircraft at about 126 million dollars each, expanding the Airborne Emergency Command Post fleet to six planes. Three are in service. the fourth is near readiness next year. The planes serve as a nuclear war command hub for top leaders, with one kept aloft in peacetime and others stationed at Offutt and Andrews bases.
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Washington
Carter
Pentagon
U.S
Mili
Defense
Harold Brown
Ford Administration
Gerald P. Dinneen
Hanscomb Air Force Base
Mass
Defense Department
White House
Dineen
Brown
Strategic Air Command
Andrews Air Force Base
SAC
Offutt Air Force Base
Neb
Buzbee Maintains Uncluttered Capital Bill for SIU Law Building
Senator Kenneth Buzbee keeps the $7.8 million capital bond measure for a Southern Illinois University Carbondale law building uncluttered while Senator Stanley Weaver pushes to add six higher education projects, including a $1.5 million English Building at the University of Illinois Urbana campus. The panel defeats Weaver's amendment 29 to 24 as Democrats support Buzbee's approach.
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Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Springfield
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Kenneth Buzbee
Dcarbondale
Stanley Weaver
D-Urbana
University of Ilinois Urbana
Weaver
SIU Law School
Board of Higher Education
James R. Thompson
Buzbee
Weather outlook and editorial notes in fragmented page items
The snippet includes a National Weather Service forecast of a partly cloudy night with a 30 percent rain chance and mid 60s highs for tonight and mid to upper 80s Wednesday. It also lists various unrelated items such as an editorial on inflation, a notice about subpoena power in Carbondale politics, state complaints against a West Frankfort foot doctor, Salukis baseball facing Michigan State, and pothole repair funding.
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National Weather Service
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Salukis
Michigan State
Big Ten
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Don Handy
State Division of Energy
Division of Energy
Illinois Energy
West Lorain
Union Electric Co
St. Louis
Illinois Power Co
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Public Service of Oklahoma
Iowa Power Co
Consumers Power Co
Public Service of Indiana
Ohio Edison
Monongahela Power Co
Potomac Edison Co
West Penny Power Co
Albert Boudet
Route 13
Murphysboro
Boudet
Southern
Linois
OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
White
Warren Burger
Potter Stewart
Thurgood Marshall
Lewis F. Powell Jr
John Paul Stevens
Harry Blackmun
William Rehnquist
William Brennan
President Carter
Moffett
Harley M. Staggers
D-W. Va
Thomas L. Ashley
Henry M. Jackson
Wash
Law
Carbondale City
West Frankfort
Illinois House
United Presbyterian Church
Ann Landers
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