Senate task force targets university funding amid priorities
A five member Senate task force led by Sen. Thomas Hynes studies university appropriation bills with medical training and capital improvements prioritized to address doctor and nurse shortages. They target a 672 million cap set by Gov. Ogilvie but expect recommendations near 725 million, far above the 672 million limit yet below the 859 million Board of Higher Education seeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard H. Ieen
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Senate
Chicago
Thomas Hynes
Senate Appropriations Committee
Richard B. Ogilvie
State Board of Higher Education
Ogilvie
Senate likely to approve task force final recommendations
Analysis notes the senate with a Democrat technical majority may adopt the task force's final recommendations while the house stance remains uncertain. House members tend to favor higher education spending cuts, and the governor gains power to veto or cut appropriations after July 1.
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Senate
House
Weather Outlook Stays Mild With Showers Possible
This afternoon mostly cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 60s to low 70s. Tonight lows mid to upper 40s. Thursday mostly cloudy with showers and little temperature change. Highs in the mid to upper 60s. Weather details on map page 34.
Farm labor contractor held in nine slayings near Yuba City
Yuba City California AP nine transient fruit workers found murdered in two local orchards. Juan Corona 37 a farm labor contractor arrested without resistance at a Richland Road home and booked on nine counts of murder. Victims aged 40 to 60 were buried in shallow graves over several weeks.
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Whiteacre
Juan V. Corona
Richland Road
Corona
Frank Cartoscelli
Yuba City
Cartoscelli
Goro Kagehiro
Sheriff's Office
Kenneth Whitacre
Alameda
Calif
Bay
San Francisco
Jack Sullivan
Ray Duran
Sheriff’s Office
Mills Attacks Nixon Revenue Plan Before Illinois Legislature
U S Rep Wilbur Mills told a joint session of Illinois' House and Senate that the Nixon administration revenue sharing plan is problematic and dangerous. He warned it could erode state local government independence and rely on a questionable funding formula. Mills promoted his own Illinois welfare program projected to net 63 million dollars in 1973 with potential gains later. He met Gov Ogilvie before speaking as talks opened between Soviet leader Podgorny and Egypt's President Sadat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
U.S
Wilbur Mills
Spiro Agnew
Mills
Illinois
Agnew
Nixon
Department of Justice
Department of Treasury
Ogilvie
Richard B. Ogilvie
Laird Says Talks on Soviet Forces Will Take Months
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird told reporters in Mittenwald that talks on mutually balanced force reductions with the Soviet Union will require several months of intensive preparation. He noted the U.S. is preparing studies to frame troop reduction talks and aims to finish by July 1 for NSC review after NATO nuclear planning group sessions.
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Melvin R. Laird
Soviet Union
U.S
National Security Council
Laird
Carbondale seeks two voting seats on GERPDC board
Carbondale plans to push for two voting representatives on the Greater Egypt Regional Planning and Development Commission board. The move, discussed at a committee meeting at Tom's Restaurant, would cost about 5000 annually, with 2500 or less due this year. Carbondale's current nonvoting rep is Frank Kirk.
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Carbondale
Greater
Gerpdc
Kirk
U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Parochial aid changes approved in Illinois House
The Illinois House approved amendments to a 30 million dollar nonpublic school aid program. Rep Eugene Schlickman defended measures against amendments tied to church state separation rulings. The three part program funds parental grants up to 20.5 million, poverty grants up to 4.5 million, and 5 million for public nonpublic school collaborations in low income areas. New provisions require secular teachers hired after July 1 to be certified.
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Illinois House
Eugene Schlickman
Burlington Heights
U.S. Supreme Court
Schlickman
House
Mt Vernon regional hospital plan faces opposition in Southern Illinois
Mt Vernon physician Dr Raymond Alexander pushes a $35 million regional hospital with 560 beds, seeking a license board permit amid broad industry and medical society resistance. Complan survey shows 34 of 36 hospitals oppose. many physicians would not refer patients. Illinois Medical Society also opposes. Supporters cite community need and backup facility benefits.
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Mt. Vernon
Raymond Alexander
Illinois Hospital Licensing Board
Springfield
Alexander
Illinois
Licensing Board
Southern Illinois Complan
Southern Illinois
Furth
Larry Feil
Complan
Herrin Hospital
Feil
House of Delegates
Ilinois State Medical Society
State Hospital Licensing Board
Charles Wells
Governor Ogilvie to discuss revenue sharing in Muddy
Governor Richard B. Ogilvie visits Southern Illinois on Wednesday June 2 for a 2 p.m. meeting at the Gateway Inn Muddy with city county township and school officials from Alexander Franklin Gallatin Hamilton Hardin Jackson Johnson Massac Perry Pope Pulaski Randolph Saline Union Whiteside and Williamson counties. He is to be joined by Robert J. Lehnhausern and John W. McCarter Jr. before a morning session in Effingham with regional officials.
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Perry County
Franklin
Jackson
Jefferson
Perry
Williamson
Kirk
Murphysboro
Carbondale
Gerpdc
Southern Illinois
Richard B. Ogilvie
Southern
Illinois
Gateway Inn
Muddy
Harrisburg
Ogilvie
Alexander
Gallatin
Hamilton Hardin
Johnson, Massac
Pope
Pulaski
Randolph
Saline
Union
Whiteside
Robert J. Lehnhausen
Department of Local Government Affairs
John W. McCarter Jr
Bureau of the Budget
Nixon Seeks Full Funding for Arts Endowment Budget
President Nixon urged Congress to approve the $60 million budget authorization for arts and humanities endowments as a national cultural investment. He spoke to a conference on Washington and the Arts, praising support for the arts as a signficant quality of life investment.
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Nixon
Congress
America
Washington
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101St Airborne
A Shau
AP Wirsphete
Mt. Vernon ‘Regional
Carol Alexander
Jackson County Medical Society
Medical Center
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