Price Faults Carter Veto On Nuclear Carrier Bill
U S Representative Melvin Price criticizes President Carter for vetoing a 37 billion military weapons bill centered on a nuclear aircraft carrier. Price calls the opposition flimsy while acknowledging Congress should decide carrier funding, yet argues the veto reflects a constitutional clash rather than necessity.
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U.S
Melvin Price
D-East St. Louis
Carter
Price
Congress
House Armed Services Committee
Illinois
Bob Carr
D-Mich
Carr
Armed Services Committee
Percy and Leith clash on federal college aid plans
Senator Charles Percy backs tuition tax credits for all taxpayers with college children while opposing broad limits. Opponent Alex Leith argues against credits and favors steering all funds to need based grants and loans, claiming credits drain limited federal money. Leith says his plan avoids aid to wealthy families and supports targeted aid for low income parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Percy
Alex Leith
Percy
Leith
U.S
Illinois
Police use dynamite test on car at Lambert Field
Airport police planted two sticks of dynamite under a private lot car to test dogs, then failed to remove it before owner Richard L. McCartney reclaimed the vehicle. After a lengthy search, the dynamite was removed. The department vows not to repeat the experiment and urges caution against similar tests by others.
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St. Louis
Lambert Field
Richard L. McCartney
McCartney
Education reinventing the wheel again by Alston Chase
Alston Chase argues that education trends cycle between reform urges and backlash. He notes past calls for relevance opposed by today’s emphasis on standards, reviews, and elite committees, questioning whether higher aims will improve overall literacy and the “educated man.”
Rate-payers clash with CIPS over high Illinois bills
In downstate Illinois, angry rate-payers and groups challenge Central Illinois Public Service Co. over soaring electric bills. Pickets, ICC rate rollback calls, and protests target a recent 27.5 million rate increase amid a 13 month surge driven by coal costs and a summer peak differential.
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David Awbrey
Lindsay-Schaub
Central Illinois Public Service Co
CIPS
Illinois Commerce Commission
ICC
Illinois
Gene Johns
Dmarion
James Thompson
Jay Paul Wade
Wade
Buls
Western
Ut Lity
Charles Stalon
ICCC
Stalon
Newton
Southern Counties Action Movement
Christine Heaton
Lake Despoilers Wreck Recreational Lakes In Zeigler
Editor Troy L. Simpson laments a few disrespectful trespassers who damaged a local coal company’s levee and dam during recreation. He notes the lakes were loaned for years and now fishing is blocked, urging prosecution of offenders while acknowledging the company’s patience and the aging nature of the site.
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Southern Illinoisan
Coal Company
Troy L. Simpson
Zeigler
Editors Letter on Soviet Strife and Cultural Gaps
David T. Ray of Carbondale argues that Marxism in the USSR has become dogmatic and capitalism in the U S grows less free. He says technology drives both systems toward similar daily life realities and urges broader travel and cultural exchange to bridge misunderstandings.
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Linoisan
Soviet Union
United States
Langeracheidt
Schadenfreude
Annother
Byzantium
Roman Empire
Ussr
Europe
David T. Ray Carbondale
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John C. Gardner
William B. Cox Jr
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