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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 27, 2003
Page
1
Page 1B reports that Perry County keeps a higher levy as Pinckneyville items lead the day’s local government notes. Other brief items include Herrin’s 95 year old Bush native returning to roots at Herrin Festa and weather impacts at Mermet Lake expected to affect future generations.
The Southern Illinoisan is noted as the 2002 winner of the Illinois Press Association General Excellence Award. The notice includes subscription and online service details with contact and website.
A YAK 42D carrying 75 aboard from Kabul to Spain crashed into foggy mountains near Trabzon, Turkey, killing all on board. Blasts from on board ammunition erupted amid wreckage as witnesses recovered soldiers' diaries and family photos. NATO chief called the loss appalling. weather and fog were cited as contributing factors.
Vietnam veteran Harry Spiller led a Woodlawn Cemetery ceremony as Civil War reenactors and the Veterans of Foreign Wars posted colors and held a 91 gun salute. About 150 people attended while Spiller urged that Memorial Day memorialize all who sacrificed, including families left behind.
Southern Illinois schools consider random drug tests for student athletes after Eldorado and Harrisburg adopted policies. Di strict steps include 10 percent of fall, winter and spring athletes tested, with suspensions for first offenses and possible yearlong bans for repeats.
On what would have been Captain Thomas C. Daffron and Major Charles F. Morley’s 56th birthdays a camouflage F4C fighter will be dedicated at Jefferson Barracks in their memory. The 157th Air Operations Group will unveil the plane Rosie's Gang bearing the pilots’ names. John Daffron recalled the origin of the aircraft’s nickname.
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