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Newspaper
Frankfort Star Herald
Location
Frankfort, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1977
Page
1
National Library Week highlighted by schools area wide with reading programs. At Laramie Junior High Oak Forest photographer Rosemary Kaul captured students concentrating in pictures. See Page 9.
Travel feature previews the 48th annual Tulip Time Dutch festival in Holland Michigan and announces upcoming Inside magazine travel articles. Also notes travel information for two south suburban locales.
A Chicago man indicted for murder in 1975 escaped Thursday from the Tinley Park Mental Health center. The escape appears pre arranged, with the suspect fleeing at 3 p.m. to an awaiting black and yellow Ford or Mercury and driving toward Interstate 80. Police seek the man, about 34, deemed insane in 1977, who was transferred to Tinley Park for diagnosis and faces murder charges in Chicago.
The Pheasant Ridge Condominium Corporation files a suit seeking resolution to drainage and other issues with Hillcrest Builders Capitol Federal Savings and Loan and the village. About 60 percent of residents support the action alleging missed engineering specs an accounting gaps and lack of on site inspections by the village. The case aims to settle turnover and funding concerns governing the approximately 50 acre subdivision in Mokena.
Lincoln-Way East high school in Frankfort faces a four week delay as floor tile installation shifts from March 28 to soon after, delaying the opening of the $5 million facility for freshmen and sophomores. Superintendent Joe Kruzich cites a contractor labor dispute and a conflict with a Cook County subcontractor as the cause. Equipment valued at about $700,000 must follow the tile work, with June delivery windows complicating completion timelines.
A quotation misattributed to Mokena Village Trustee Lloyd Leyerle in last Thursday's Star-Herald is corrected. Leyerle, retiring and not seeking re election, warned that unfinished projects deserve review before tax increases and has opposed recent tax raising actions.
After 31 years in public education, New Lenox grade school superintendent Arnold Tyler will retire July 1. He plans to split time between Terre Haute Indiana and Florida, travel, and saturate himself with leisure. He cites stabilizing district finances as a factor and notes the district has grown to seven schools and 2,520 students.
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