Superintendent's family bus withdrawal ends Checker Cab bid
Morris Grade School Superintendent H Dale Barr announced at a special meeting that Metropolitan Checker Cab, his family operation in Joliet, withdraws its offer to transport four district special education students. The board approved bidding for a new bus and a driver salary under $8,000, while Barr notes the conflict of interest claim and cites potential savings of over $40,000 annually. Barr says a leased used bus could begin by the start of school, with delivery of a new bus in three to nine months, and outlines costs and savings versus current Warland Bus Service charges.
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Checker Cab
Grundy County
Lund
Barr
Checker
District 54
Robert Eisenbeis
Baily
Pontiac
Warland Bus
Norval
Jacquelin) Galloway
Allen Kief
Kief
Galloway
Erwin Kelly Jr
Franklin School
Gerald McTague
Stewart
Kelly
Donald
Janet) Matteson
Robert Engle
Nancy Morris
Hayes
Supt
Plane crash kills 4 in Upshur County West Virginia
Four Illinois residents were killed when their light plane developed engine trouble during a thunderstorm and crashed in a wooded area near Hemlock in Upshur County. Marion Mitchell piloted the craft. all four occupants died on impact. The group, stopping in Parkersburg for fuel, were en route to Norfolk, Virginia.
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Hemlock
Upshur
W.H. Huff
Marion
Rita Mitchell
Marseilles
Arthur
Helen Pennington
Pontiac
Ill
Huff
Marion Mitchell
Parkersburg
Norfolk
Mitchell
Seneca
Pennington
Flying Farmers
Man Leaves Without Paying for Repaired Car Radiators
Morris police investigate possible theft after a man took two Ford Mustang radiators from Supreme Welding at 117 W Illinois Ave without paying a $50 bill Saturday. The incident follows a prior unpaid $9.48 gas bill reported at Savon Gas by William Doerfler of 1275 Trend Dr. A brown 1969 or 1970 car with Michigan plates fled north on Illinois 47 and was not found.
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Morris
William Garcia
Supreme Welding
Illinois Ave
Garcia
Savon
William Doerfler
Trend Dr
Doerfler
Michigan
Illinois
Three Die, One Injured in LaSalle County Crashes
Several fatal accidents gloom LaSalle County this weekend with Gregory Lipka 20 dying of head injuries from a two vehicle crash on the Illinois River bridge at Marseilles. The weekend also left Stephen Bretag 23 dead after a U.S. 6 collision, Alan Losey 21 killed in a Illinois 23 car motorcycle crash, and Marsha Luckey 17 hospitalized.
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LaSalle County
Illinois River Bridge
Marseilles
Gregory Lipka
Ottawa Bend Dr
Monwealth Edison
LaSalle
Corrine Lipka
Pittsburgh
Michael
Dorrce) Lehman
Rte. 1
Bainbridge
Jeffrey
Stratfford
East Willow St
Elizabethtown
Stephen Bretag
Chappel St
Ottawa
Illinois Valley Community Hospital
U.S. 6
Illinois
Richard Harding
W. Madison St
Hosital
Marion Osborne
Bretag
Harding
U.S
Gladfelter
Streator
Alan Losey
Osborne
Marsha Luckey
St. Mary’s Hospital
Robin Nell
Losey
Miss Luckey
Auto industry sets record sales forecast for 1979
GM chairman Thomas A. Murphy projects the U.S. auto industry will sell a record 15.4 million cars and trucks this year and rise again in 1979 as the economy strengthens. Domestic-built cars to exceed 9.3 million with a 4 percent gain from 1977, while imports stay near 2 million units. overall 1979 model year vehicle sales expected to surpass 15.5 million including imports. Murphy notes a shift toward regained GM-dominant sales despite severe winter and coal strike impacts.
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Detroit
API
U.S
Murphy
Bailly Alliance plans protest at Morris Saturday
Bailly Alliance and other antinuclear groups plan a Saturday protest in Morris under the banner Occupation for Survival. The event includes a parade from Gebhard Woods to Gould Park, a rally with music and theater, then a civil disobedience action at General Electric Morris Operation to halt nuclear waste shipments.
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Bailly Alliance
Midwest
Morris
Gebhard Woods State Park
Gould Park
Dresden Rd
General Electric
Three thefts and an attempted burglary report
Grundy County deputies investigated three thefts and an attempted burglary over the weekend. Elijah Fox reported a 10 foot aluminum boat stolen from Goose Lake Club valued at 150 dollars. David Crowder said fishing gear worth 220 dollars was taken from his car after a window was broken with a blunt instrument. Floyd Hawn reported fruits and vegetables valued at 57 dollars stolen from his car. Lucille McNeely said someone tampered with both doors of her house in an attempted burglary between 2:30 pm and 4 pm Saturday.
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Grundy County
Coal City
Jeff Black
Crowder
Honda
Floyd Hawn
W. Southmer Rd
Sheriff's Department
Hawn
Walker
Lucille McNeely
S. Illinois 47
Jeff Wix
Garbage Dump Reported on Rural Property
Al Scamen of Route 2 reported to Grundy County Sheriff's Department at 3 20 pm Friday that several bags of garbage were dumped on his Ashley Road property about half a mile south of US 6 A name found on two magazines in the trash was provided but authorities have been unable to contact the person.
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al Scamen
Rte. 2
Grundy County
Body recovered from Braidwood pit drowning
The body of 18 year old Dennis N. Smolinski of Oak Lawn was pulled from the strip mine pits north of Braidwood near Illinois 129 and Coal City Road, after a drowning Sunday. Wilmington Rescue Squad recovered him at 9 35 a.m. He was pronounced dead by Will County Deputy Coroner James Patterson.
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Oak Lawn
Wilmington Rescue Squad
Braidwood
Dennis N. Smolinski
S. Melvina Ave
Will County
James Patterson
Illlinois 129
Coal City Rd
Judge orders Scott to turn over campaign contributors
Federal Judge James B. Parsons reversed a prior ruling and now requires Attorney General William J. Scott to provide the names of campaign contributors to a federal grand jury probing Scott's finances. The order clamps down on prior deletions of donor names and contact details.
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Chicago
UPI
William J. Scott
Scott
U.S
James B. Parsons
Parsons
William A. Barnett Sr
Two men escape from jail yard in Ottawa
State and local police search for two hitchhikers suspected of escaping La Salle County Jail Sunday. Sheriff James Callahan says Marvin Van Doren 21 and Roger Sampson 20 of Ottawa escaped after noon by tying sheets to a basketball hoop and jumping a fence. Sampson faced armed robbery armed violence aggravated kidnapping aggravated battery and burglary charges. Van Doren was jailed on a felony theft charge.
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Ottawa
Ill
UPI
la Salle
James Callahan
Marvin van Doren
Roger Sampson
Sampson
van Doren
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Lynne) Stewart
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