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Heroic proportionThe Superman Celebration in Metropolis is so big that even other heroes, such as 5-month-old Slade Donner dressed as Robin the Boy Wonder, show up. Page 1B.Also InsideDongola: Share and Care shows how quickly things can get better after a tragedy. Page 1B. Marion: VA hospital gets the green light to install traffic signals. Page IB. Zeigler: New police chief making a smooth transition. Page IB.Nation: Kennedy cousin convicted of murdering neighbor in 1975. Page 6A. Ann Landers: Financial setback doesn't have to be a life-changing fiasco. Page 6B.Nation: Boy, 14, faces charges after recanting accusation against priest.Page 7B.OutsideTODAY: Mostly sunny. High in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 5-10 mph.TONIGHT: Clear. Low in the mid-60s. Light and variable winds. SUNDAY: Partly cloudy. High in the upper 80s.InsideBusiness 5ACalendar IBClassified 10Comics 6BCrossword 5BDeaths 2BLottery8BMovies5BNation6ASound Off4ASports1CFitting TributeHarrisburg library mural honors a life and a man's commitment to the magic of readingBY TRAVIS DENEALTHE SOUTHERNHARRISBURG When a Harrisburg Public Library District board member died last year, his wife wanted to ensure his work with the library would be remembered.Jerry Bramlet of Harrisburg died in May, 2001.“For memorials, I asked people to donate to the library,” said Linda Bramlet, a Harrisburg kindergarten teacher for more than20 years. She’s retired now.Bramlet wanted something that would reflect her husband’s many years of service to the library district. He was a library trustee during the planning stages of the new library. He also was a co-chairman of the communitywide fund drive to raise money for the new library’s construction, along with the late Bill Collett.“He had a lot of special ideasSEE TRIBUTE / PAGE 2Aoov. Kyan veto will allow food privatizatioiBY KATHERINE SCHOTTSPRINGFIELD BUREAUSPRINGFIELD Gov. George H. Ryan said Friday he plans to veto legislation that would prohibit the privatization of food and commissary services in Illinois prisons.The battle over having private vendors take over food and commissary services for the IUinois Department of Corrections has beei raging since Ryan first proposed it months ago. The governor consistently has said privatizing would save as much as $30 million for the state, an estimate his office repeated Friday.Ryan wants to use the savings to help plug the growing revenue shortfall, now estimated at $1.55 billion.The governor signaled his intent in a proclamation issued toi VETO / PAGE 3.Pastor says missionary’s parents will survive ordealBY TRAVIS DENEALTHE SOUTHERNCAIRO The minister of a Cairo church said Friday that he’s sure the parents of the American missionary who was wounded in tht Philippines Friday morning will make it through their ordeal, despite the death of their son-in-lawTheir faith will see them through, he said.The Rev. Larry Potts, who pastors the Cairo Baptist Church, is well-acquainted with the parents of Gracia Burnham.Burnham was held captive by a Muslim extremist group linked to al-Qaida. The yearlong hostage crisis involving Burnham and her husband, Martin, came to a bloody end Friday. U.S.-trained commandof managed to save only Gracia — and even she was wounded.Her husband and a Filipino nurse were fatally shot in the two-hour firefight in the Philippine jungle, as were at least four of their kidnappers. Seven soldiers wereORDEAL/PAGE2AMurphysboro neighborhood quiet after shooting deathBY CLAIRE O'BRIENTHE SOUTHERNMURPHYSBORO -Michael Locke grew up just a few blocks from the Bridgewood Housing Development on thethe Murphysboro police department, spending a lot of time right back where he started.On Friday morning, Locke walked through the development, exchanging“Kenjie’s funeral is today. Most people aren’t letting their children out to playyet.”Locke said he was sobered by the death of Tipton. He looked tired. He said he was hoDine to eet residents tn talkMother feeling vindicated after son's killer convictedBY OSAMU TSUKIMORII saw him tat thpToday, look for... . _ M Mi S.N’i il '-mEldorado artist Phyllis Finnie painted this mural at the Harrisburg library. The wall-long painting was commissioned by Linda Bramlet in honor of her husband, Jerry, who was killed by a driver while working for IDOT. The mural depicts famous children's tales, including Humpty Dumpty, whose ribbons bear the inscription 'In Loving Memory of Jerry Bramlet.’
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Carbondale, Illinois, US
Sat, Jun 08, 2002
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