Perry County jail under scrutiny as repairs loom
Perry County faces a costly decision after a state corrections report warned the 120 year old jail is deteriorating badly. Walls split and floors sag, timbers rot, and a safe function hinges on initiating repairs or potential closure. County Board fights for local solutions rather than state condemnation.
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Pe County
Perry County
State Department of Corrections
Coin Board
Corrections Department
Circuit Court
Eugene Rodely
Rodely
Tom Moss
Perryry Board
State Corrections Department
Ae County
Moss
Perry
Jacksonite
Jackson
Franklin County
Franklin’s Neck
Illinois
OPEC presses 12 nations to cut output at meeting
At the sem iannual OPEC meeting Saudi Arabia urged a production cut of 10 to curb a world oil glut as sales fall 12 percent from a year ago. Prices would be frozen only reluctantly, with Saudi oil at 32 a barrel versus 41 in Libya Algeria and Nigeria.
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Douglas Martin
New York Times
Saudi Arabia
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
Arabia
OPEC
Geneva
Thomas Burns
Standard Oil Co
California
United States
Persian Gulf
Walter McDonald
Central Intelligence Agency
Sau Arabia
Maurice A. Adelman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Iran
Iraq
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Libya
Algeria
Nigeria
West
Teen age drinking and highway deaths
Editorial Review examines teen drinking trends and the rise in alcohol related highway fatalities. It cites a 40 000 annual injury or death toll from drunk driving and national surveys showing substantial risk among 10th to 12th graders. It discusses lowered ages to 18, public support for higher limits, and debate over enforcement and prevention strategies.
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Jean Rosenblatt
Washington
Illinois
Gallup
National Institute On Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Research Triangle Institute
Michigan
Massachusetts
Smaller cars raise highway deaths as market shifts
The New York Times reports that deaths from car crashes rose after the 55 mph limit and a rapid shift to compact cars. In 1979 small cars caused 55 percent of fatalities though they were 38 percent of cars. By 1980 over 64 percent of cars sold were compacts or subcompacts, with projections that small cars could dominate the fleet by 1986 and deaths could rise to about 35,000 yearly by 1990. Safety officials note small cars are 3 to 8 times likelier to kill occupants in crashes, and higher speeds worsen risk.
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John Holusha
New York Times
Detroit
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
United States
Highway Safety Agency
Automobile Company
David E. Martin
Automotive Safety
General Motors Corp
National Safety Council
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Southern Illinois
Walter J. Levy
Howard T. Blane
Morris E. Chafetz
NIAAA
The
Safety Council
Nevada
J.D. Power & Associates
Los Angeles
Reagan
Raymond Barnhart
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