Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 6

PAOfi ALTOti EVENING TELEGRAPH MONDAV, FEBRUARY 10, Spacecraft Launched NewU. S. Coniiiiuiiication CAPE KENNEDY. Fla. (AP The most powerful communi cations spacecraft yet devel sped by the Western world hov ered high over the Pacific Ocean today, the herald for a new era when small combai units on front lines can speed messages via satellite.

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Ogilvle's alt for economy still ringing llinois lawmakers this week be- in discussing what to do about he soaring state costs of high- 4 education. The Illinois Board of Higher Education has recommended in- reases in spending of more $300 million for operations NUDGED BY tractor- trailer, loaded with 39,000 pounds of aluminum ingots, was nudged by a freight train Friday when the driver apparently couldn't make it across the tracks on Cut Street. Alton police said the engine of the train caught the rear of tite trailer and spun the rig parallel to the tracks. The truck was driven by Beverly Pony Hill, 42, of Michigan. The driver was not injured.

Wood River High Student Wins High Science Award Michael J. Kessler, senior student of the East Alton Wood River High School, has been selected as the recipient of the Bausch Lomb Honorary Science award given annually to he outstanding senior student of the school who has achieved highest scholastic standing science subjects. In addition to receiving handsome bronze medal, pre- 2 Contests In Kane Township KANE Ruby Postlewait, Kane township supervisor, will seek re-election on April 1 and will be opposed by Herschel Hunter. In the only other contest on he ticket Odessa Roth, incumbent township clerk, will be opposed by Marcella Karrick. Donald Thomasson, now a town auditor, will seek the assessor's post being vacated by William C.

Woolsey and is running without opposition. Three auditors will be named and only one incumbent has filed for re-election. He is Roy Hall. Others filing for the seats on the board are: Ed Woolsey and Leslie Bean. Francis Goodall, now a member of the board, declined to run again and Donald Thomasson, also in an incumbent auditor, is seeking the assessor's post.

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PIASA FIRST FEDERAL TATE WAUL, ALTON, ILL, 03008 of torgwt flmndtl Initftutfoni, ented in ceremonies conduct- by Howard Getting, chair- nan of the Science Depart- lent, Michael is eligible to ompete for the Bausch Lomb cience scholarship at the Uni- ersity of Rochester. The scholarship provides up $2,000 per year for each of our years of study, allocated the basis of need, Dr. Nels MICHAEL KESSLER Havens, superintendent, reports Mike, who is the son of Mr and Mrs. John W. Kessler, 457 Leslie Wood River, is a member of the National Hono Society, Junior Engineers, a the book lay-out staff.

He has also served as a Studen Council representative and wa a member of the Latin Clu three years. Higher Education Costs Studied er edfleatioti hi tht frtit eight years. However, the boafd has slat' ed the per cent of increase in Illinois is the same as national nly. The House Appropriations Committee will hear representatives of the board discuss their udget Tuesday. Also up for ussion are increases in capital Budgets, especially for building new senior Institutions at Chi' ago and Springfield.

The rec- jmmendatlons for these are 24.8 million and $12.3 million, espectively. These are the reasons the board has been giving for an Derating budget of about $940 million and a capital budget of passage of more ibout $450 million educational echnical course offerings in unior colleges, dents from freshmen and sophomore status to the more costly unior and senior, plus graduate evels of instruction. impact of inflation. The board is expected to agree that Illinois has granted ligh levels of state aid to high- schedules are two programs held in favor by the Republican majority and Ogilvie. The Senate Elections Committee takes up bills to set up a Cook County election commission.

The Senate Municipal Corporations Committee has on Its docket a bill to establish a Cook County department of average. On two other committees' corrections. Hearings by the Constitutional Convention committee will continue. Last week, witnesses were heard who favored holding nonpartisan elections for delegates. Members of the Convention Study Commission mended early legislative action so a court test could be had.

The goal is to hold a convention In November. Legislative view of a proposed model law to govern donation of human body parts, such as in heart transplants, will be heard by the House Public Wei fare committee. The House Committee ofl. County and Township Affairs has slated a bill to permit ties, to pass air pollution contra ordinances. Flames Don 9 Stop Band CHICAGO (AP) Patrons of a Dixieland nightclub on Chicago's near North Side continued to drink their beer and.

sing along with the band when fire broke out in an apartment three floors above them. A few persons went outside to watch the firemen work. One resident was injured slightly and an estimated $10,000 in damage was caused by the fire early Sunday. Water dripped through the ceiling of the nightclub and formed large pools on the floor, but the band played on. WOMEN OFTEN HAVE BLADDER IRRITATION tnoti.

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