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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1978
Page
2
About 100 students including football players and cheerleaders join a peaceful protest at Seattle Teachers Association and school district headquarters calling for an end to the dispute.
Elgin, Illinois, the state's third largest district, faces a strike after a ninehour negotiation failed to yield an agreement. About 26 000 students would be affected as Thornton High School District 205 southeast of Chicago also votes to strike, impacting over 700 teachers and 10 000 students across three high schools. The two strikes would raise Illinois' student-pool to 36 000 amid ongoing statewide walkouts.
About 10,000 Cleveland school employees demand a 20 percent pay hike triggering a strike after failed negotiations. Classes were to begin for the 100,000 public school students in the district, with talks planned as other cities including Seattle Chicago and New Orleans faced similar actions. In Philadelphia a tentative agreement could avert delays and return 250,000 pupils to school on time next week. Strikes extended across many states, with pay and fringe benefits as core issues and some districts considering class-size reductions.
In Speedway Indiana a series of blasts has injured Carl David DeLong and his wife Sandy both 39 as police say they have no suspects or motive. The eighth explosion struck the central Indiana community near Iris Motor Speedway after a high school football game. DeLong is in critical condition with potential loss of half his right leg. A friend says the bomber must be caught as more blasts target a bowling alley and an off duty officer's car outside an apartment complex.
Illinois Senator Charles Percy says he will tell President Carter how he plans to vote on the natural gas pricing bill after a White House meeting with Illinois energy leaders. The discussion includes energy executives and union leaders, with no definite vote commitment yet.
Lindsay-Schaub News Service reports that Lt. Gov. Dave O’Neal of Belleville had no knowledge his executive secretary Vicki Sands notarized petitions with 8600 signatures for Gov. James Thompson’s tax lid referendum. Sands invoked the Fifth in a State Board of Elections probe, then the petitions were withdrawn at Thompson’s request.
A panel of pathologists testified before Congress that President John F Kennedy was struck from the back of the head by a bullet, which shattered his skull and exited at the front. The conclusion aligns with the Warren Commission and autopsy doctors who worked at Dallas after the Nov 22 1963 assassination.
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