Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC July 1976 Daily Egyptian 1976 7-31-1976 The aiD ly Egyptian, July 31, 1976 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_July1976 Volume 57, Issue 193 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, July 31, 1976." (Jul 1976). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1976 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in July 1976 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. E. St. Louis' to Marion route plans debated New York and Chicago based want the road to be widened to four consultants .are recommending that the ' ~S9 incre trafrtc representing ISm no between East Sl Louis and Marion may existing two-Jajle highways between be bottlenecked by a two-Jane segment be tampered with by the state highway Red Bud and Murphysboro instead of with four lane roads on either end He said if the road is widened, department because of increasing widening them to four lanes as called Eckert urged the sm Student Senate "you're going to see the tramc," budgetary demands according to for in the original, 1967 plans. Friday to pI!lIS a resolution in support DE . eluding tourists from St. Louis Benedict Garmisa, chairman of the The freeway would run 95 miles the four-lane p!'9posal and send it to the coming to Southern Illinois. state's transportation study through Southern Illinois. The commission. commission. consultants want the 46 miles between Eckert added that a two Jane highway Rodney Dempsey, executive vice The commission is holding public Red Bud and Murphysboro to be two­ " would preclude our area from ever president of the Carbondale Chamber hearings on recommendations by state lane. becoming a major contributor to the of Commerce said the highway would highway consultants who wish to limit Murphysboro Mayor Michael Bowers state's economy." aid the industrial growth of Southern ~opment of the freeway. and Carbondale Mayor Neal Eckert Sen. Ken Buzbee, IX:arbondale, said lJIinois. crown-QownC£dition Ar¥ea miners back others with walkout Daily C£gyptian CENTRALIA (AP) - Roving pIckets marched into Southern Illinois coalfields ,Friday, shutting down mines in ap- Saturday, July 31 , 197~Vol . 57, No. 193 80uthem Illinois, University ~~:~ ~fxc:.rt of the West virg~D1a At least 10 of Illinois' 52 United Mine , Workers' mines were closed and more were expected to suspend op'erations ­ with each-shift - perhaps unW all were idle. Kenneth Dawes. UMW president in Ulinois , said, " 1 think it's ~oing to be a very Quiet weekend. I don t think there r: is going to be any coal knocked." ..J... Standard practice in such strikes is for r.irkp.Lc; to aooear at mine entranc~st ~(9.r~ l~ _midnight. 8 a.m. and 4 p.m shifts and then leave when the miriers have turned back. _ Dawes, other union officials and management ilssume the pickets came from West Virginia where all coal mines have been closed this week. Some West Virginia miners have picketed in Ohio and Pennsylvania and, apparently, " Indiana. At issue is a union demand that companies discontinue the practice of calli~g . federal courts in to settle con­ tract ~putes . Il~~ sili.sa~:\-'ricf:~ C:f:~nC:o:- "I'"" been trying to find out who is dofn(r wbat," he said. "So far I haven't been able to succeed at it. ., I understand it started yesterday with the AMAX mine at KeE:nsburg and then it moved over in here." The current UMW contract Ilas a no­ .strtt.e clause. Arnold Miller, national tl?tfW"President, 'has ordered the West . Virginians back to work. Asked whether he would follow suit, Dawes said, "So far we haven't even taken an official Vi cki Masear and Ron Rabjohns, first year medical Saturday's intramural canoe races to be at 10 a.m. at position because we don't know what we students (left), and Dave Grouzard and Tony campus Lake. (Staff photo by Daryl D. Littlefield) have yet. I wouldn't be ,!lrdering them Deering, freshmen in architecture, practice for back to work if the courts didn't." -------- CIPSclaims gas price hike benefits- are~ By Dan HofIlUUUl company negotiates new contracts with He added that the cost of producing Dempsey gave as an example the Dally Egyptian Staff Writer its principal suppliers of natural gas. the gas only accounts for 17 per cent of situation in Salem, Ill. He said the He said Southern Illinois consumers the cost to the consumer. The other 83 municipality had contracted for more Although the average Southern it could use. Because Illinois consumer may pay $15 more for paid $1 .99 per thousand cubic feet uf per cent goes to middlemen. • natura4~n natural gas this year, Central Illinois natural gas last year. The price could Because of the gas shortage, CIPS of the surplus, two new industries were Public Service Company ( CIPS) increase to $2. 14 per thousand cubic has been unable to supply people who attracted to the area and others iNere officials believe the price increase will feet this year. He said the average want to pU!.-aatural gas heating units. in able to expand. help end the natural gas shortage. Southern Illinois consumerused 106,000 their homes. He said the company Dempsey said the shortat; has Bill Voisin, public information cubic feet of natW:il gas last year. established a waiting !ist for natural r:3!!~:S. the expansion of Car ndale supervisor of CIPS, said in Springfield The Federal Power Commission gas heating- in 1971. He said there ar~ Friday that the price of natural gas has recently ruled the price of natural gas now over 7,700 people waitin to get the produced for interstate sale will be . Matt Maier, plant manager of Tuck been kept artificially low for 2J) years. service. Industries Inc., 600 N. IllinoiS';"osaid his - He said because of the low prices, allowed to increase to $1.42 per " We're hopeful that we can supply thousand cubic feet for gas put on the company has had to restrict expansion producers were unwilling to search for these 7,700 applicants," said Voisin. He because of the natural gas shortage. new sources of natural gas. market during and after 1975. The said as soon as the supplies become Voisin said Southern Illinois government had regulated the cost of available it will be his company's top Tuck is one of several Carbondale _ consumers will probably pay five to most natural gas sold to suppliers at priority to supply gas to those on the companies that have interuptable seven per cent-more for natural gas. He 23.5 cents per thousand cubic feeL The waiting lisl contracts for natural gas with CIPS. said the price increase cannot be supplier sells the gas to the utility Rodney Dempsey, executive vice­ Interuptable contracts allow heavy accurately determined until the company which sells it to the consumer. president of the e'arbondale Chamber users of natural gas to gtlt it at low " The ' people responsible for of Commerce, said the shortage of prices. But their service can be cut producing natural gas just did not have natural gas has had an adverse affect when the CIPS supply of gas runs low. ,If. I 1£ the incentive to dig new wells," said on companies wanting to locate in the gus Voisin. He said the federal government Voisin ,said CIPS had to cut servict: to area. companies with interuptable contraots does not regulate the price of natural " The shortage of natural gas has 'Bode gas sold within the state it is produced, on 167 days last year. Voisin said the retarded the growth of industry," sefid company has. projected that service f;~.J and producers are allowed to sell their Dempsey. He said an adequate supply gas to in-state consumers at $2 per of natural gas would attract companies could be interupted 308 day~ in 19'M. thousand cubic feel to the.area He noted, however, that the Maier said if companies have to use Voisin said the increased price of gas shortage is a problem iJl many other expensive alternative fuels it will cause would not leave the consumer areas, too. prices of m. !iE- niitaetured proCiucta -to ~RI'otected. "The cost of gas service "When you fmd little pockets or rise.. He said . rise, people will Gus says to hear the gas people tell will still be regulated by the state natural gas, industJy is going to come buy Ies!L He said result could be It, they'll melee people happy bV utility commission." in and snap it up,"saJd Dempsey. increased unemployment in the area. charging them more. • boa Is 1« the lake or vdIicles to get c:ootinue the moaUlly ' luDclleon around the shore and trails,' , he meetinp with cl~ officials durilll said. the fall lII!IDester, Wheeler said. Even when pe<Jp1e violate the law, Problems wCth street parties "Mayor Eckert has always a BI"'-Y area between right and beginning after Soutb Illinois seemed interested in student opinioa wroog can still exist, Carbondale Avenu bars close are not as great on what the cl~ bas done," Wheeler PoI.ice Chief George Kennedy said as they were a few years ago, added. NEW FOOD Friday. r- Kennedy said. CLEMSON, S.C. CAP) --1>r. Jack Kennedy met witb Student "We realize that when a lot of Mitchell Jr., a bio-cbemist at Government leaders and Mayor people come out oC the bars, some Clemson University, has come up Neal Eckert at a luncheon to discuss will end up in the street," he said.