Seven hurt as truck rams stopped jetliner at O'Hare
At Chicago O'Hare a food service truck rammed a stopped American Airlines 727 on a taxi ramp injuring seven passengers during evacuation. The crash damaged a rear engine and prompted wing exits and inflated slides as crew urged quick egress. One passenger was seriously hurt. several sustained ankle injuries. The truck driver’s misjudgment triggered the impact. FAA will investigate. Hospitalized were Edger Wellhausen with possible skull fracture in serious condition, Beverly Ditner with a fractured ankle, plus others treated and released for ankle and heel injuries.
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O’hare International
Tulsa
Okla
Vincent Modugno
Hubert Jessup
Kouts
Ind
Federal Aviation Administration
Dobbs House
Resurrection Hospital
Edger Wellhausen
Beverly Ditner
Roanoke
U S citizen Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Isaac Bashevis Singer born in Poland and living in New York City. The Swedish Academy cites his impassioned narrative art rooted in Polish Jewish tradition bringing universal human conditions to life. Singer, a naturalized American since 1943, is 74 and joins Saul Bellow as recent U.S. laureates.
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UPI
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Swedish Academy
Academy
Singer
U.S
Saul Bellow
Graham Greene
Nadine
Warsaw
Forward
The
New Yorker
Harper’s
Commentary
Four charged with Kane jail escape
Four people face charges for aiding two inmates who escaped from a Kane County Jail minimum security area on a Wednesday night. The escapees Thomas Barrett and Michael Holstein were recaptured within 90 minutes, after crawling through a duct, breaking a window and fleeing. Present were Roger Burngart, Thomas Wallin, Kathleen Greschefski, and another unnamed individual.
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Geneva
Ill
UPI
Kane County
Thomas Barrett
Elgin
Michael Holstein
Aurora
Roger Burngart
Thomas Wallin
Kathleen Greschefski
Hoffman Estates
Joliet Market Cattle Sluggish Despite Hog Demand
Joliet Ill. market livestock report shows cattle sales insufficient to establish a market. Hog receipts Friday total around 1,000 with prices mostly 25 to 50 cents higher. No 1-2 weights 200-240 lb quoted at 52.25 to 52.65 and 250-260 lb at 51.50 to 52.00.
Wheat rises as corn and soybeans dip at noon on CBOT
Chicago traders saw wheat advance by noon while corn and soybeans declined. UPI reports the market swing with wheat leading gains as agricultural futures traded amid cautious activity.
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Chicago
UPI
Board of Trade
Braceville youth gets jail term and probation on multiple counts
A Braceville youth, 18 year old Joseph Michuda, was sentenced in Grundy County Circuit Court to eight months in Grundy County Jail and 2.5 years probation on four burglary and trespass charges. He received concurrent probation for two June burglaries in Gardner and Will County, plus ordered restitution of 310.48 and court costs totaling 510.48. He also drew two years to pay restitution and until next June to cover court costs. Credit for 116 days served was given.
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Braceville
Grundy County
Joseph Michuda
Gardner
Will County
Charles Zalar
Michuda
Robert Georgantas
Illinois
James Rietz
Joseph Kurek
Michael Hayes
Robert Malmquist
Campaign Aims to Eliminate Domestic Measles by 1982
Washington reports that the 1977 38 week measles total reached 52988 cases while 1982 aims for virtually none from domestic sources. Health Secretary Joseph Califano notes a national drive to immunize 90 percent of school children against six preventable diseases, costing 4 to 5 million dollars annually with about 500 child deaths yearly.
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Washington
UPI
Health, Education and Welfare
Joseph Califano
Califano
Michigan doctors isolate single human gene observation
University of Michigan pediatricians Roy Schmickel and Golder Wilson report isolating and photographing single human genes using recombinant DNA methods. The breakthrough is tied to research on birth defects, specifically mongolism, the condition now known as Down syndrome.
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Ann Arbor, Mich
UPI
University of Michigan
Drs
Roy Schmickel and
Golder Wilson
The
University of Michigan Medical
Researchers cite recombinant DNA work at genetics meeting
At the annual American Society of Human Genetics gathering in Vancouver, Schmickel and Wilson described viewing isolated genes with an electron microscope and photographing them. They reported producing about 6,000 recombinants and selecting 11 containing the gene of interest using radioactive binding, with support from the March of Dimes and the NIH.
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American Society of Human Genetics
Vancouver
British Columbia
David A. Jackson
University of Michigan
Stanford University
Schmickel and Wilson
March of Dimes
National Institutes of Health
Chicago man injured in Interstate 55 incident
A Chicago man, reportedly a former mental hospital patient, was hit by a construction worker with a pipe while near a parked car on Interstate 55 near Gardner. He was taken by Dwight ambulance to St. Joseph's Hospital at 12:55 p.m. No charges were filed, police said.
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Dwight
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Interstate 55
Gardner
Skeleton not match missing heiress Helen Vorhees Brach
In Chicago a skeleton found in a forest preserve is ruled not to be Helen Vorhees Brach, the 62 year old candy heiress who vanished from her Glenview estate in February 1977. The medical examiner cited differences in teeth, height, and clothing found near the body. Identity of the skeleton remains unknown.
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Chicago
UPI
Helen Vorhees Brach
Cook County
Robert J. Stein
Mrs. Brach
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