Saudis Consider Higher Price as OPEC Talks Fold
OPEC ministers eyed a $2 price hike by Saudi Arabia to $34 while other members would freeze prices. Gabon and Qatar signaled production cuts, aiming to curb a world oil glut. talks suggested a freeze lasting at least until fall.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Saudi Arabia
Gabon
Edouard Alexis M’bouy-Boutzit
OPEC
Qatar
Sheik Ali Khalifa al-Sabah
Donesia
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Oil glut keeps prices down as OPEC output rises
Prices card notes production of 10.3 million barrels per day, over 40 percent of OPEC output, with non OPEC exports and nation conservation creating a market glut. OPEC average price stands just above $35 per 42 gallon barrel. a $2 Saudi rise would lift the average about $0.80 per barrel and roughly 0.5 cent per gallon for U.S. consumers.
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OPEC
Simon pledges Johnston City help in restoring lake
U S Rep Paul Simon promises help to Johnston City Mayor Bill Stevens in securing federal funds to repair Johnston City Lake after a dam break drained the 50 acre site. Agencies eyed include Economic Development Administration and Farmers Home Administration. Dam weakened by trees and burrowing animals created a hole, water still flows, recovery awaits dam repair cost estimates.
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Johnston City
Theresa Churchill
U.S
Paul Simon
Carbondale
Bill Stevens
The
Economic Development Administration
Farmers Home Administration
Johnston City Lake
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Stevens
Supreme Court upholds school drug searches
The Supreme Court left intact a ruling that public school officials may use trained dogs to search students for illicit drugs. The case involved a March 23, 1979, districtwide shakedown at Highland Junior High in Indiana, where about 50 pupils were singled out and 17 found with drugs or paraphernalia. Diane Doe was subjected to a private strip search but no drugs were found. the dogs had previously misattributed scent from another dog. The Does sought damages. lower courts varied on damages for the strip search, and the justices did not overturn the dog search authority.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William J. Brennan
Highland, Ind
Diane Doe
Diane
Robert
Naomi Doe
U.S
Allen Sharp
7Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Doe
The
Does
Appeals Court
Good Evening Weather The National Weather Service Update
The National Weather Service calls for a chance of showers and thunderstorms tonight with a low near 60. Wednesday will be partly sunny with a high around 70. The extended forecast shows showers possible Friday with daily highs in the low 70s to low 80s and lows from the low 50s to low 60s.
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National. Weather Service
Talks Continue In Coal Strike Negotiations
Union President Sam Church said new contract proposals were expected from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association after a long holiday weekend standoff over job security. He described talks as slow and warned that a package may come but optimism was limited.
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Washington
United Mine Workers and the
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Sam Church
Industry Bargaining Group
Memorial Day Services at Woodlawn Cemetery Carbondale
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2605 salutes the nation’s war dead with services Monday at Woodlawn Cemetery in Carbondale. Speakers include U.S. Rep. Paul Simon and retired Air Force Major Robert Crim. A full Memorial Day observance story appears on Page 9.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Woodlawn
Carbondale
U.S
Paul Simon
D-Carbondale
Air Force
Robert Crim
Gasohol plants planned for Murphysboro Grand Tower
Liquid Energy Consultants and Liquid Energy Equipment Corp both divisions of Intercontinental Oil plan three Southern Illinois alcohol plants. Mississippi Valley Alcohol Association will run Grand Tower facility producing up to 500000 gallons of soft alcohol annually and Southland Energy aims for 1.5 million gallons of 200 proof alcohol in Murphysboro. Du Quoin fabrication site builds equipment. dewatering by products updated. Plants to create about 20 jobs total with eight in Murphysboro and eight in Du Quoin and twelve in Grand Tower.
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Evan M. Davis
Liquid Energy Consultants
Jackson
Union
Grand Tower Company
Mississippi Valley Alcohol Association
Big Gas
Central Illinois Public Service Co
Murphysboro Company
Southland Energy Assocation
Illinois
Grand Tower
du Quoin
Liquid Energy Equipment Corp
Paul Andrews
West Street
Intercontinental Oil Corp
Clayton, Mo
Blackmore
Ham
Indiana
Cisne
Benton
Murphysboro
Gerald Cain
Union County
Mississippi Valley
Southland
Environmental Protection Agency
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