Gasoline Theft Suspect Fires On Patrol. Flees After Shootout
Morris police chase ends in a nighttime incident behind Saratoga School on Illinois 47 near I 80. Officer Roger Miller, uninjured, reported a shot through the squad window as a yellow Vega or Astre sped away with a Black man, described as about 6 feet tall, in blue jeans and a light shirt. Additional units spread out after Miller reported the shooting at 12 09 a m, but the suspect vehicle was not found.
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Morris
Saratoga School
Illinois 47
Roger Miller
Miller
Illinois State Police Emergency Radio Network
Ispern
Americans Evacuated From Zaire by Road and Air
UPI reports that most Americans trapped by fighting in Zaire have been evacuated by truck and helicopter, avoiding deployment of the 82nd Airborne. About 78 evacuated to Musonoy near Kolwezi, with roughly 10 remaining near the fighting. State Department and White House officials say evacuation aimed to prevent injury and used best available means. The 82nd Airborne was placed on alert as a precaution at Ft. Bragg and could be deployed under War Powers Act provisions if needed.
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Washington
UPI
Zaire
82Nd Airborne Division
State Department
Morrison- Knudsen Engineering Co
Kolwezi
Shaba
Musonoy
82D Airborne Division
Ft. Bragg
N.C
U.S
Walter Cutler
Congress
Middle East
Weather Outlook and Temperatures Across Locations
Forecast calls for a fair night with a low in the upper forties and a sunny, warmer Thursday with a high near the upper seventies. Tuesday topped at 64 degrees at Dresden Island Locks and Dam with a 44 degree low, while 7 am readings showed 47 and 11 am reading 65 in Morris.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Thompson worries over more convicts freed under new board
CHICAGO UPI Gov James R Thompson says he is politically worried about figures showing his new Prisoner Review Board freeing convicts faster than the old Parole and Pardon Board. He notes early parole trends and Class X inmates, says time will reveal effects while defending the package amid overcrowding and longer sentences. The board freed about three fifths more felons in its first three months compared with the prior year.
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Chicago
UPI
James R. Thompson
Thompson
William) Redmond
General Assembly
Daniel Walker
Old
Parole and Pardon Board
Charles Rowe
Prisoner Dies in Grundy County Juvenile Detention Center
Martin Morrow 16 of Joliet collapsed while showering in the Grundy County Juvenile Detention Center and died later at Morris Hospital. An autopsy will determine cause. officials report no foul play and ongoing investigation. He and a co- detainee were held in connection with a March rape. a third youth was moved to another facility.
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Martin Morrow
Chicago St
Joliet
Range Funeral Home
Morrow
Morris Hospital
Des Rochers
Grundy County
James Reeves
Reeves
William Button
Peterson
Morris
Tom Bednarik
Delvin Rollins
Illinois Department of Corrections
Charles Zalar
Button
Gary Phillips
Ron Fox
James Olson
Rollins
LaSalle County
Ottawa
Morris Emporium Square Art Fair Weekend Features Local, Regional Artists
The fifth annual Morris Emporium Square Art Fair runs Friday 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Emporium Square Mall with hundreds of works in painting, drawing, ceramics and crafts, plus a judging at 1:30 p.m. Saturday by John Mulvaney of Illinois Wesleyan University. A special exhibit by Larry Larson, a local historical sites artist, is sponsored by Grundy County National Bank.
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Morris Emporium Square
Emporium Square
John Mulvaney
School of Art
Illinois Wesleyan University
Larry Larson
Grundy County National Bank
Washington St
Dave Rudolph
Soviet physicist Yuri Orlov Faces Labor Camp Bid
Moscow prosecutors sought the maximum 12 year labor camp and internal exile term for Yuri Orlov a dissident nuclear physicist who led a group monitoring Helsinki accords rights abuses His wife said the prosecutor asked for seven years in a prison camp plus five years exile for anti Soviet agitation and propaganda.
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Moscow
UPI
Yuri Orlov
Orlov
Ottawa bridge to get $6.23 million in federal aid
Springfield reports federal funds totaling $6.23 million have been allocated for a new Illinois River bridge at Ottawa after the area was named an economic growth center. Phase one could begin with $1.4 million for concrete piers this summer, bids due in June, while phase two at $7.5 million would occur in 1979 with 70 percent federal aid likely and possible 80 percent if highway program changes pass.
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Springfield
Ill
Adorjan
Armed robbery trial opens in Grundy County
Jury selection finished and opening arguments heard in Grundy County Circuit Court in the armed robbery case of 19 year old Michael Witherington. Prosecutors expect to prove he drove the car used in the Oct 17 raid at a Pizza Hut and paid participants.
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Grundy County
Michael Witherington
Railroad St
Morris
Charles Zalar
Witherington
Zalar
Dennis Willis
Rondell Davis
Davis
Lincoln St
Willis
Rick Mason
Mason
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al Pilch
University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service
Herald
Jack Kopczick
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Wests Cafe
Liberty, Morris
Minooka
Dan Peterson
Anita Davy
William Minor
S. Richards St
Morrow Was
Paul Travis and
Willie Mae Morrow
Morris Daily Herald
Illinois
Morris Emporium Square Art Fair
Emporium Art Fair
Janice Folkman
Katie the Clown
Morris Retail
Baum
Ottawa Bridge
Rockford, Ill
Katherine Gresham
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