Casey’s
gets city OK for Fifth Street
store
[NOV.
6, 2001] By
an 8-2 vote, the Lincoln City Council agreed to vacate an unused
alley so Casey’s General Store can build a facility at 314 S.
Jefferson St., across from the Postville Courthouse. The store will
face Fifth Street.
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The
Casey company did a title search on the property and determined that
the 16½ foot-wide alley belonged to the city, although it had not
recently been used or maintained by the city. The alley now reverts
to property owners on either side and can be purchased by Casey’s,
although the city will reserve a permanent easement for public
utilities.
Casey’s
needed the alley vacated so that the firm does not have to ask for a
variance from a rear setback requirement. The variance might have
been hard to get because the city code says the hardship that causes
a petitioner to ask for a variance must not be
"self-created." The variance might be considered
"self-created" because Casey’s representatives knew
ahead of time they would need it, City Attorney Bill Bates explained
at an earlier meeting of the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Although
opponents of the plan spoke up at previous Lincoln Planning
Commission and City Council meetings, no one voiced an objection at
the Nov. 5 council meeting. Earlier, opponents objected to more
traffic and noise in the neighborhood, competition for already
existing businesses, and placing a Casey’s store in a possible
future historic preservation district.
Aldermen
Glenn Shelton and Michael Montcalm voted against vacating the alley.
At an earlier meeting both also voted against rezoning the property
from residential to commercial.
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Casey’s
representatives said building will begin in the spring.
Smith
asks support for industrial park
Council
members also heard a request from Mark Smith, economic development
director, for a show of support for creating a 63-acre industrial
park north of the city.
Smith
said that he and the Economic Development Council were not asking
for a financial commitment at this time but simply for general
approval of the concept.
"I’m
asking the City Council, ‘Is this an idea you want to endorse?’
Before we can start talking figures to people, we need to know if
you think it is a good idea." He said the EDC planned to talk
to some real estate investment trusts, who will want to know if
there is community support for the industrial park.
Alderman
Joseph Stone said he was concerned about annexing 60 acres of
"raw farmland" before it is zoned for industrial use.
City
Attorney Bill Bates assured him the council would rezone the land
before bringing it into the city.
Stone
said he was still not sure this is the right time to enter into a
major project with the economy as soft as it is.
"I’m
not opposed to the concept. I’m just not sure this is the time to
do it," he said.
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"I
don’t know when the perfect time is going to be," Alderman
Steve Fuhrer said. "We’ve talked about it and nothing has
ever been done. We should be ready when the economy does come back.
If this is going to be a venture we can make work, the time is
now."
Grant
Eaton, sewer plant manager, reminded the council that sooner or
later, the city would incur some costs for the project. He also
said, however, that new grant money is becoming available and he
would start applying for it. "I think it’s a good idea to
have an industrial park," he concluded.
"I’m
scared of saying, ‘Yeah, it’s a great idea,’" Alderman
Pat Madigan said. "I’d like to sit down with the finance
committee and ask if this is feasible." However, he said, as
long as the city was making no financial commitment, Smith and the
EDC should go ahead and "do the legwork."
Bates
pointed out that this was only a preliminary discussion of how the
city might participate. "It cannot possibly at this time be a
financial commitment. We are not making a commitment by endorsing
this as a reasonable project," he told the council.
Although
no vote of confidence was taken at the meeting, Smith said later
that he was satisfied with the council’s reaction.
"All
the EDC wanted was to be able to say, ‘The community supports the
idea of the park and the exploration of the details of the project.’
If there are no strong objections, the EDC takes that as a green
light to go ahead and put together the details," he told the Lincoln
Daily News.
"Everybody
understands that there are tons of details to be addressed. What EDC
was asking was the blessing of the council to allow EDC to explore
the options in detail."
In
other business, the council approved waiving bidding requirements
and authorized spending $15,575 for Tremont Roofing Company to
install a new roof on the city’s maintenance garage at 111 N.
Hamilton St.
The
council also approved a permit for the Veterans Day parade from the
safety complex to the courthouse on Nov. 11, pending the receipt of
a certificate of insurance.
They also heard that
Kendall Fitzpatrick has successfully completed his one-year
probation with the Lincoln City Fire Department and will receive his
permanent appointment as firefighter.
[Joan
Crabb]
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Today’s history
Compiled
by Dave Francis
Tuesday,
Nov. 6
310th
day of the year
Quotes
"All
we ask is to be let alone." — Jefferson Davis
"The
probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just." — Abraham
Lincoln
Birthdays
1832
— Joseph Smith, son of founder of Mormonism
1851
— Charles H. Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones and first editor of Wall
Street Journal
1854
— John Philip Sousa, musician
1861
— James A. Naismith, inventor (basketball)
1932
— Don King, fight promoter
1948
— Glenn Frey, Detroit, Mich., rock vocalist (Eagles) ("Take
it Easy")
1955
— Maria Shriver [Mrs. A. Schwarzenegger], Chicago, newscaster
("Sunday Today")
Events
1632
— King Gustavus Aldophus of Sweden, dies in battle
1789
— Father John Carroll is appointed as the first Roman Catholic
bishop in the United States
1860
— Abraham Lincoln, representative, R-Ill., elected 16th president
1861
— Jefferson Davis elected to six-year term as Confederate
president
1923
— Jacob Schick is granted a patent for the electric shaver
1947
— "Meet the Press" debuts on NBC-TV. The program becomes
a weekly broadcast on Sept. 12, 1948.
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Sunday,
Nov. 11, show our veterans
how much they are appreciated
[NOV.
5, 2001] Sept.
11th has changed America. What has not — nor ever will be —
changed is the great services of our veterans to their country. Once
again, our veterans, deceased and living, will be remembered on
Veterans Day, Nov. 11.
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Old-timers
will remember this as Armistice Day, when we stood in countrywide
assemblies and programs and faced the east at 11 a.m.
An
extra effort is being made to have a really special crowd attend the
2001 Veterans Day program at noon on Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Logan
County Courthouse.
Countywide,
all veterans — wartime or peacetime, men and women — are being
urged to participate in a short parade from the Logan County Safety
Complex to the courthouse. Those unable to walk in the parade are
urged to be at the courthouse early. In case of inclement weather,
the alternate site will be the gymnasium at Washington-Monroe
School.
During
these perilous and uncertain times, this is an opportunity to show
for certain our appreciation for that most precious possession:
freedom.
After
giving thanks to God in our respective churches on Sunday, Nov. 11,
plan a few minutes extra to go to the courthouse and say
"thanks" for the freedoms we enjoy and so often take for
granted.
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Today’s history
Compiled
by Dave Francis
Monday, Nov. 5
309th
day of the year
Quotes
"The
anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of
life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat
on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained
to defend herself against them." — Susan B. Anthony
"One
of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to
do and always a clever thing to say." — Will Durant
Birthdays
1885
— Will Durant, United States, author and historian ("The
Story of Civilization")
1902
— Strom Thurmond, senator, R-S.C. (1955- )
1911
— Roy Rogers, Cincinnati, Ohio, cowboy ("Happy Trails,"
"The Roy Rogers Show")
1931
— Ike Turner, Mississippi, aka Mr. Tina Turner!, guitarist
("A Fool in Love")
1942
— Art Garfunkel, New York City, singer and actor ("Sounds of
Silence," "Carnal Knowledge")
1942
— Elke Sommer [Elke Schletz], Berlin, Germany, actress (Oscar)
1952
— Bill Walton, NBA center (Portland Trailblazers, Boston Celtics)
1970
— Javier Lopez, Ponce, Puerto Rico, catcher (Atlanta Braves)
Events
1492
— Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba
1605
— Gunpowder Plot: Catholics try to blow up English Parliament.
Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged.
1639
— First post office in the colonies is set up, in Massachusetts
1871
— Susan B. Anthony arrested trying to vote, in Rochester, N.Y.
1895
— George B. Selden receives the first U.S. patent for an
automobile. He sold the rights for $200,000 four years later.
1935
— The game Monopoly is introduced by Parker Brothers Company
1940
— U.S. President Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term in
office
1967
— New Orleans Saints have first NFL victory, beat Philadelphia
Eagles 31-24
1991
— Fred MacMurray, actor ("My Three Sons"), dies of
pneumonia at 83
1998
— The United Nations announces that the Taliban militia killed up
to 5,000 civilians in a takeover of an Afghani town
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Today’s history
Compiled
by Dave Francis
Saturday, Nov. 3
307th
day of the year
Quote
"Difficulty,
my brethren, is the nurse of greatness — a harsh nurse, who
roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic
proportion." — William Cullen Bryant
Birthdays
1604
— Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22)
1718
— John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1793
— Stephen Fuller Austin, colonized Texas
1794
— William Cullen Bryant, poet ("Thanatopsis")
1918
— Bob Feller, pitcher (Cleveland Indians, three no-hitters);
Russell B. Long, senator, D-La. (1948-86)
1920
— Charles Bronson [Buchinsky], Pennsylvania, actor ("Death
Wish," "The Dirty Dozen")
1924
— Shirley Chisholm, representative, D-N.Y., first black
congresswoman, first black presidential candidate
1933
— Michael S. Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts (D), presidential
candidate (1988)
1952
— Roseanne [Barr Arnold], Salt Lake City, comedienne and TV star
("Roseanne")
1953
— Dennis Miller, Pittsburgh, Pa., comedian and TV host
("Saturday Night Live," "Dennis Miller Show")
1954
— Godzilla, Japanese monster ("Godzilla")
Events
1507
— Leonardo DaVinci is commissioned by the husband of Lisa
Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the "Mona
Lisa."
1534
— English Parliament accepts Act of Supremacy; Henry VIII church
leader
1862
— Dr. Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis)
1863
— Battle of Grand Coteau, Georgia
1868
— First black elected to Congress (John W. Menard, Louisiana)
1871
— Henry M. Stanley in Tanganyka says, "Dr. Livingstone, I
presume?"
1934
— The first racetrack in California opens under a new pari-mutuel
betting law
1941
— Japanese Ambassador John Grew warns that the Japanese might be
planning a sudden attack on the United States
1948
— Chicago Tribune reports, "Dewey beats Truman"
1952
— Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1992
— Carol Moseley-Braun becomes the first African-American woman
U.S. senator
1994
— Susan Smith of Union, S.C., is arrested for drowning her two
sons. Nine days earlier Smith claimed that the children had been
abducted by a black carjacker
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Sunday,
Nov. 4
308th
day of the year
Quotes
"You
may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of
the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all
the time." — Abe Lincoln
"Diplomacy
is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a
rock." — Will Rogers
Birthdays
1879
— Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Oklahoma), humorist
1912
— Pauline Trigere, fashion designer (bell bottoms)
1916
— Walter Cronkite, St. Joseph, Mo., news anchor ("CBS Evening
News," 1962-81)
1918
— Art Carney, Mount Vernon, N.Y., actor (Ed Norton in "The
Honeymooners")
1937
— Loretta Swit, Passaic, N.J., actress (Margaret "Hotlips" Houlihan in
"M*A*S*H")
Events
1841
— First wagon train arrives in California
1842
— Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill.
1846
— Patent for the artificial leg granted to Benjamin Palmer
1880
— James and John Ritty patent the first cash register
1922
— In Egypt, archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the entrance to
King Tutankhamen’s tomb. The Egyptian child-king became pharaoh at
age 9 and died when he was 19.
1924
— Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming is elected America’s first woman
governor so she can serve out the remaining term of her late
husband, William B. Ross
1939
— First air-conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago
1979
— Five hundred Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy,
take 90 hostages (444 days)
1995
— Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, assassinated at 73
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Supreme
Court justice visits Lincoln
[NOV.
2, 2001] Standing
Supreme Court Judge Rita Garman took a walking tour of downtown
Lincoln Thursday. Garman is a Republican appointee to the state
court, filling the seat of Judge Ben Miller, who retired in January
of this year.
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A
justice with the court since February, Garman was in town to meet
potential voters and to drum up support for her candidacy for
re-election to the state’s highest court in next year’s March
primary and November’s general election. Garman, one of only two
Republican justices currently on the Supreme Court, is the only
judge who has experience as an associate, circuit and appellate
judge. Her career as a judge, which has spanned 27 years, is one of
the key points in her bid to be elected to the court for the next
decade.
Garman,
accompanied by Circuit Judge John Turner, who replaced Garman when
she was appointed to the state’s highest court, visited stores in
the downtown area in a rare campaign visit to this city by a Supreme
Court candidate.
When
asked what important issues will be before the November docket of
the court, Garman stated that the court will be asked to look at the
new districting proposals which have caused seven different lawsuits
to be filed on behalf of current legislators who feel the new
districts were based on political decisions and not what is best for
the legal concept of "one man, one vote."
Garman,
a resident of Danville, was unanimously appointed by the court to
fill the vacancy created by Miller’s retirement.
[Mike Fak]
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Today’s history
Compiled
by Dave Francis
Friday,
Nov. 2
306th
day of the year
Quotes
"I
was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." —
Daniel Boone’s response to being asked if he had ever been lost in
the woods
"Because
that’s where the money is!" — Willie Sutton, on being asked
why he robbed banks
Birthdays
1734
— Daniel Boone, U.S. frontiersman
1755
— Marie-Antoinette, queen of France
1795
— James Knox Polk, North Carolina, 11th president (D) (1845-1849)
1865
— Warren Gamaliel Harding, Ohio, (R) 29th president (1921-23)
1913
— Burt Lancaster, actor
1938
— Patrick Buchanan, conservative political columnist
1958
— Willie McGee, San Francisco, Calif., outfielder (St. Louis
Cardinals, NL MVP 1985)
1961
— k.d. lang [Kathy Dawn], Consort, Alberta, country singer
1971
— Ricky Martin, Puerto Rico, rocker (Menudo) and actor
("General Hospital") [or Dec 24]
Events
1776
— William Demont deserts, becoming the first traitor of the
American Revolution
1783
— Gen. Washington bids farewell to his army
1811
— Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. Jackson vs. Indians
1841
— Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in
Afghanistan
1889
— North Dakota and South Dakota admitted into the Union as the
39th and 40th states
1920
— The first radio station in the United States, KDKA of
Pittsburgh, Pa., begins regular broadcasting
1947
— Howard Hughes flies his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden
airplane, for eight minutes in California
1948
— Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency.
The Chicago Tribune publishes an early edition that has the headline
"DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprises many
polls and newspapers.
1950
— George Bernard Shaw, Irish author ("Pygmalion"), dies
at 94
1974
— Braves trade Hank Aaron to Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Dave
May
1980
— Edith Bunker, character on "All in the Family," dies;
Willie Sutton, U.S. bank robber, dies at 79
1982
— Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan; 1,000-plus Russians die
1983
— U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill establishing a federal
holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights
leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1984
— Velma Barfield becomes the first woman to be executed in the
United States since 1962. She had been convicted of the poisoning
death of her boyfriend.
1993
— Dow Jones hits record 3697.64.
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Today’s history
Compiled
by Dave Francis
Thursday, Nov. 1
305th
day of the year
Quotes
"For
when the One Great Scorer comes
To
write against your name,
He
marks — not that you won or lost —
But
how you played the game." — Grantland Rice
"I
must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy." — John Adams
Birthdays
Louis
II, the Stutterer, King of France (877-79)
1815
— Douglas Hancock Cooper, brigadier general (Confederate Army);
died in 1879
1825
— Joseph Benjamin Palmer, brigadier general (Confederate Army);
died in 1890
1871
— Stephen Crane, novelist and poet ("The Red Badge of
Courage")
1880
— Grantland Rice, sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune 1914-30,
Colliers 1925-37)
1935
— Gary Player, golfer
1942
— Larry Flynt, Hustler magazine
1957
— Lyle Lovett singer
1972
— Jenny McCarthy, hottie
Events
Pompei
buried by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
1512
— Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
first exhibited to the public
1604
— "Othello," the tragedy by William Shakespeare, first
presented at Whitehall Palace in London
1765
— Stamp Act goes into effect in the American colonies
1800
— U.S. President John Adams moves into the White House and becomes
the first president to live there
1834
— First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat
game)
1879
— Thomas Edison executes his first patent application for a
high-resistance carbon filament (U.S. Pat. 223,898)
1894
— Russian Emperor Alexander III dies
1917
— In World War I, the first US soldiers are killed in combat
1947
— The famous racehorse Man o’ War dies
1950
— Charles Cooper becomes the first black man to play in the
National Basketball Association
1952
— The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb, at Eniwetok
in the Marshall Islands
1959
— Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, becomes the first
goalie in the NHL to wear a mask
1962
— "The Lucy Show" premieres
1999
— Walter Payton, U.S. football player (No. 34, Chicago Bears),
dies at 45
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Anxieties
are high following terrorist attacks and threats
How have
we prepared in
Lincoln and Logan County?
[OCT.
31, 2001] It’s
on the radio, TV, in all the media. You hear it in the office, on
the street and maybe at home — threats of terrorism. America is on
high alert. Here in central Illinois, away from any supposed
practical target areas, perhaps we feel a little less threatened,
but we are still concerned. So how concerned should we be, and how
prepared are we for the types of situations that could occur?
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Whether
the threat is domestic or foreign, violent, biological or chemical,
our public health and rescue agencies have been preparing to respond
to the situations. Lincoln Daily News has been at meetings where all
the agencies gather together as the Logan County Emergency Planning
Committee to strategize for just such a time. Our reports have not
even provided every detail that every agency has reported; i.e., a
number of representatives from differing agencies such as the health
and fire departments, CILCO and ESDA went to a bioterrorism and
hazmat (hazardous materials) seminar this past August.
Here
are some of the articles that LDN has posted pre- and post-Tuesday,
Sept. 11. Hopefully you will see in them that WE ARE WELL PREPARED.
At least as much as any area can be. Every agency has been planning,
training, submitting for grants to buy equipment long before Sept.
11. We can be thankful for all of the dedicated, insightful leaders
we have in this community.
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this section]
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The
day after ‘Attack on America’
Area leaders respond to national tragedy
ESDA
and LEPC conduct successful hazardous materials exercise at water
treatment plant
Logan
County ready for action if terrorist event occurs - Part 1
Logan
County ready for action if terrorist event occurs – Part 2
Clinton
nuclear power plant safety measures in place
Logan
County agencies meet to discuss protocol for suspicious mail
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Today’s history
Compiled
by Dave Francis
Wednesday, Oct. 31
303rd
day of the year
Quotes
"Here
I stand; I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen!" — Martin
Luther
"Don’t
be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success." — John Keats
Birthdays
1795
— John Keats, London, England, romantic poet ("Ode to a
Grecian Urn")
1835
— J.F.W Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel, 1905)
1887
— Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province, China, president of
Nationalist China
1912
— Dale Evans, Uvalde, Texas, cowgirl ("The Roy Rogers
Show")
1920
— Dick Francis, Wales, jockey and novelist ("Whip Hand,"
"High Stakes")
1922
— Barbara Bel Geddes, New York City, actress ("Vertigo,"
Miss Ellie in "Dallas," "Caught")
1931
— Dan Rather, Wharton, Texas, news anchor ("CBS Evening
News," "60 Minutes")
Events
834
— First All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints
1517
— Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church door; beginning of
Protestant Reformation
1541
— Michelangelo Buonarroti paints "Last Judgment" in
Sistine Chapel
1846
— Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, constructs a
winter camp
1926
— Erich Weiss, better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in
Detroit
1941
— Mount Rushmore sculpture is completed
1983
— George Halas, NFLer, dies at 88
1984
— Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, assassinated by two of
her Sikh bodyguards
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Today’s history
Compiled
by Dave Francis
Tuesday, Oct. 30
302nd
day of the year
Quotes
"Power
is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up.
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!" —
Dostoevsky
"It
is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write
history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is
necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in
the pants. That is what I shall do." — Mussolini
Birthdays
1821
— Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist and writer of
short stories
1882
— William "Bull" F. Halsey, U.S. vice admiral (World War
II, Pacific)
1893
— Charles Atlas, body builder
1918
— Ted Williams, Red Sox hitter (AL MVP 1946, ’49; Triple Crown
’42, ’47)
1921
— Charles Bronson, actor ("The Magnificent Seven,"
"The Dirty Dozen," "Death Wish")
1933
— Michael S. Dukakis, Massachusetts governor, presidential
candidate (Democrat, 1988)
1949
— Larry Holmes, boxer, heavyweight champ (1978-85)
Events
1866
— Jesse James gang robs bank in Lexington, Mo. ($2,000)
1888
— In London, Jack the Ripper murders his last victim
1888
— First ballpoint pen patented
1905
— "October Manifesto"; Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants
civil liberties
1922
— Mussolini forms government in Italy
1938
— Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "The War of
the Worlds"
1944
— Anne Frank (of diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen
1945
— U.S. government announces end of shoe rationing
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America
strikes back
As
promised, the United States led an attack on Afghanistan. The attack
began Sunday, Oct. 7. American and British military forces made 30 hits on
air defenses, military airfields and terrorist training camps,
destroying aircraft and radar systems. The strike was made targeting
only terrorists.
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More
than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East have
pledged their cooperation and support the U.S. initiative.
Online
news links
Other
countries
Afghanistan
http://www.afghandaily.com/
http://www.myafghan.com/
http://www.afghan-web.com/aop/
China
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/
Germany
http://www.faz.com/
India
http://www.dailypioneer.com/
http://www.hindustantimes.com/
http://www.timesofindia.com/
Israel
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/
England
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/
Pakistan
http://www.dawn.com/
http://frontierpost.com.pk/
Russia
http://english.pravda.ru/
http://www.sptimesrussia.com/
Saudi Arabia
http://www.arabnews.com/
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United
States
Illinois
http://www.suntimes.com/index/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
http://www.pantagraph.com/
http://www.qconline.com/
http://www.pjstar.com/
http://www.sj-r.com/
http://www.herald-review.com/
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/
New
York
http://www.nypost.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/
Stars
and Stripes
(serving the U.S.
military community)
http://www.estripes.com/
Washington,
D.C.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.washtimes.com/
More
newspaper links
http://www.thepaperboy.com/
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Schedule
set for street closings
for railroad crossing repair
[OCT.
29, 2001] The
schedule for railroad crossing closings in downtown Lincoln to allow
Union Pacific to install new crossings has been set, according to
Donnie Osborne, street superintendent. In order for five crossings
to be repaired yet this year, two will be closed at one time, but
they will not be adjacent, he said. Each closing will be for one
week only, unless weather conditions delay the work.
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Pekin
and Clinton streets — Closed week of Oct. 29
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Decatur
and Pulaski streets — Closed week of Nov. 5
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Broadway
Street — Closed week of Nov. 12
Osborne said repairs will
include new concrete panels and new approaches, which should
eliminate the bumpy crossings motorists have been experiencing
lately. The Tremont Street crossing has already been completed.
[Joan
Crabb]
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Landfill
to be open seven days a week for leaf and brush disposal
[OCT.
12, 2001] The
city landfill on Broadwell Drive will be open seven days a week from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for leaf and brush disposal, beginning on Oct. 15,
according to Donnie Osborne, street superintendent. Plans are to
keep the new schedule in place until Dec. 15, he said.
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