Illinois Senate Grants Broad Powers to Attorney General
The Illinois Senate approved legislation giving the attorney general expanded powers to seek injunctions against water pollution in the Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District and to increase penalties for pollution offenses. The bills also push regional consolidation of county school districts, raise superintendents’ salaries, and set rules for minor gun permits while other education funding measures were debated.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois Senate
Richard B. Ogilvie
Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District
State Sanitary Water Board
Clifford Latherow
Carthage
Senate
Alan Dixon
Belleville
Dixon
House
Commissons
Senate Education Committee
Ogilvie
John Gilbert
Carbondale
State Board of Higher Education
Quads Mark 1st Birthday
WHEATFIELD Ind AP The Irvine quads Allan Byron Corey and Dale celebrated their first birthday born at Home Hospital Lafayette and weighing total 12 pounds 9 1 2 ounces. They have an adopted daughter April Yvonne.
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Wheatfield
Ind
Jasper County
Valparaiso
Allan
Byron
Corey
Dale Irvine
Allan J. Irvine
Home Hospital
Lafayette
Irvines
April Yvonne
Irvine
April
Bellower
Wheatfield State Bank
Terre Haute man fined for assault after knife incident
Justice of the Peace Lee Easton fined Earl Leard of 2318 Thomas St North Terre Haute a total of 41 dollars on a charge of assault. Leard allegedly forced his father in law Bert Haney to remain outside the home at knife point on the night of June 14 and later assaulted him with the knife when Haney tried to enter.
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Justice of the Peace
Lee Easton
Earl Leard
Thomas St
North Terre Haute
Leard
Bert Haney
Haney
Nostalgic Meeting Of Comic Book Fans In Houston
The Southwestern Comic Book Convention draws delegates from ages 12 to 30s to Houston. Dealers display thousands of comics from Captain Marvel to Batman and Captain America, trading and buying nostalgia as the market shifts from 68 page skeins to 36 page issues amid a 1930s start and post code era.
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Houston
Tex
Captain Marvel
Yesteryear
Captain
Batman
Dick Tracy
Captain America
Vargas
Ten Killed In Collision At Vienna Crossing
A car carrying two women and 10 children was hit by a freight train at a crossing near Vienna Georgia. Ten people died including nine children. two survivors were Annie Mae Lowe and her 6 year old daughter Faye.
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Vienna
Here
Southern Railway
William A. Thompson
Valdosta
Dooly County
H.C. Johnson
Annie Mae Lowe
Faye
Lowe
Eula Mae Pitts
Miami
Pitts
Thompson
No Takers For Haircuts In Fort Walton Beach Contest
Merchants in Fort Walton Beach offer pizza and 30 pounds free laundry to lure long-haired boys for a haircut contest. After three days only one participant, a tearful four year old, showed up but he was too young to qualify.
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Fort Walton Beach
Fila
Senate Plans Food Program Vote Next Week
The Senate will vote next week on a proposal to more than double the food stamp program from 340 million to 750 million for the coming fiscal year. The Agriculture Committee approved a simple resolution to raise authorization and a House path by Rep. Poage is planned.
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Washington
Senate
Agriculture Committee
House
W. R. Poage
Dtex
House Agriculture Committee
Poage
George S. McGovern
Dl.d
Allen Ellender
D-La
Senate Agriculture Committee
Spessard L. Holland
D-Fla
Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee
Ellender
Congress
Navy to discharge Annapolis drop-out as conscientious objector
Semen Michael E. Robie 20 Urbana former Annapolis student will be discharged from the Navy as a conscientious objector his lawyer Mark L. Schwartzman said Friday He filed suit three days before his scheduled June 14 report and says the Navy refused an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector Robie attended the academy from June 1966 to August 1967 and then served at Urbana Naval Reserve Training Center
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Chicago
Michael E. Robie
Urbana
Annapolis
Navy
Mark L. Schwartzman
Robie
Academy
Urbana Naval Reserve Training Center
Nixon May Spark Unwarranted Optimism on Vietnam Pullout
Washington reports quote President Nixon saying he hopes all American ground combat forces could be pulled from Vietnam by year end. Officials caution he expressed no firm promises, while critics fear such hopes may be misread as pledges. The remark could affect Paris peace talks and Hanoi’s expectations. The plan includes phased withdrawals beginning with 25,000 troops within six weeks and a decision in August on further moves.
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Washington
UPS
Nixon
Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
Paris
Defense
Clark M. Clifford
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