Illinois teachers strike nears end in three districts
Collinsville District 10 teachers ratified a tentative contract and plan to return to classes for about 8 700 students. Marion 2 Markham 144 and Blue Island 218 districts remain in dispute with negotiations ongoing and potential disciplinary action for strikers.
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United Press International
Illinois
Collinsville
George King
Illinois Education Association
Marion 2
Markham
Blue Island 218
Harrisburg
Marion
Blue Island
Chicago
Oak Lawn
Alsip
Robbins
IEA
Hazel Crest
Oak Forest
Country Club Hills
Jim Taylor
Two men arrested in kidnap murder case in Bellflower
Deputies arrested William Gullet and Ronald Ewing after a weeklong search for the Seigman kidnapping and murder. Mrs. Seigman, her three children, and her husband were targets in what authorities suspect was an extortion plot gone wrong. The body was found in Dominguez Hills and the children later located bound in a van.
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Bellflower
Calif
UPI
Johann Seigman
Forest Lawn
Cypress
Los Angeles
Orange County
Sheriff's Deputies
Cape Town Protesters Clash With Police Amid Racial Unrest
Tear gas and baton charges hit several thousand mulatto schoolchildren in downtown Cape Town as unrest flared near Parliament. A black passenger was killed in attacks on a Johannesburg Potchefstroom road, raising South Africa’s death toll to 292. Prime Minister Vorster planned talks with homeland leaders in Pretoria on October 9 to address discriminatory laws.
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Cape Town
South Africa
UPS
John Vorster
Zurich
Switzerland
Southern Africa
Henry A. Kissinger
Adderley Street
Parliament
Johannes
Burg
Vorster
Kissinger
Philadelphia
David Kriel
Johannesburg
Potchefstroom
Pretoria
Viking 2 Prep for Mars Landing at Utopia Planitia Site
Engineers finalize Viking 2 descent tests ahead of a scheduled 6 58 p m Friday touchdown in Utopia a dune filled site 4600 miles from Viking 1 The team weighs higher risk from steep dunes but expects better life hosting conditions due to greater soil and atmospheric moisture while Viking 1 remains on standby and both landers orbiter craft continue operation.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Utopia
Viking 1
Harold Masursky
Jim Martin
Masursky
Earth
Mars
Viking 2
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Control Center
Missing Mount Prospect girl hunt uses heat-sensing helicopter
Mount Prospect police pursue leads for Barbara Glueckert, 14, missing since August 21 after a U S Marine helicopter with thermograph gear failed to locate her near Huntley Rock concert site. No trace found. warrant issued for Tom Urlacher, 24, in connection with the case.
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Mount Prospect, Ill
UPI
Mount Prospect
Barbara Glueckert
US Marine
Huntley
Miss Glueckert
Patrick Hallihan
Hallihan
Tom Urlacher
Algonquin Shores
Urlacher
Illinois
Arizona
Weather Summary for Dresden Island Locks and Morris
Weather tonight partly cloudy with a low near 60. Friday will be partly sunny and warmer with highs in the 80s. Wednesday posted a high of 77 and a low of 47 at Dresden Island Locks and Dam. At 7 am Morris read 47 degrees and 10 am 66 degrees. ESDA noted yesterday's Morris high 84 and low 58 with steady 30.18 inch pressure. Peak winds reached 15 mph in the last 12 hours.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
ESDA
Judge Brandler’s Beverly Hills Home Guarded After Bomb Threat
Police guarded Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler’s Beverly Hills residence after an anonymous call to the FBI warned his house would be blown up in two hours. Brandler presided over William and Emily Harris’s SLA case sentencing them to 11 years to life. the Harrises attacked him as biased in court.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Symbionese Liberation Army
William and
Emily Harris
FBI
Superior Court
Mark Brandler
Brandler
Harrises
Patricia Hearst
Beverly Hills
Philadelphia to Host AMA Convention in December
Philadelphia plans to welcome the American Medical Association for its December convention aiming to restore the city’s image after the Legionnaires’ Disease scare. Officials say the event will highlight health science progress and local facilities.
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Philadelphia
API
American Medical Association
Peace Corps
American Legion
Eugene Hosmer
City Convention and Visitors Bureau
American Medical Associaion
Chicago
Trucker injured when semi overturns on I 80
An Iowa truck driver, 27, from Council Bluffs sustained a head bump after his International Semi ran off the westbound lane of I 80 and overturned near Morris. Culley refused treatment. damage to the truck estimated at 15000. state police cite possible steering problem. vehicle owned by Best Refrigerated Express of Omaha. The truck was to be removed from the scene.
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Iowa
Morris Loren Culley
Council Bluffs
Culley
Best
Omaha
Neb
Theompany
Appellate Court Upholds Lampman Burglary Conviction
The Third District Appellate Court upheld Paul Lampman’s 4 to 12 year prison sentence for 21 burglary counts after he pleaded guilty in Grundy County in February 1975. The ruling notes Lampman understood his rights and the charges, with prior convictions and youth considered in sentencing disparities for Hardy and Swindle.
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Paul Lampman
Joliet
Grundy
Third District
Atty
Richard Wilder
Lampman
Goose Lake Area
Brown and Lambrecht Construction Co
Brisbin Rd
Michael Hardy
Jimmy Swindle
Wilmington
Grundy County
Hardy
Swindle
Decline in food prices nudges wholesale index lower
UPI reports the Labor Department noting August wholesale prices fell 0.1 percent, the first drop in six months and signaling easing inflation. The primary WPI measure rose 0.7 percent in August for building materials and related goods.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
House Rejects Pay Increase Amid Election Pressure
The House voted overwhelmingly to forego a scheduled 5 percent pay raise for fiscal year starting Oct 1, part of a $780.3 million appropriations bill for Congressional operations. The measure challenges the Senate and comes ahead of the Nov. 2 election.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Congressional
Congress
Judiciary
Five Vandalism Reports Reported in Morris Area
Police logged five vandalism incidents around Morris. Vandalized properties include a barbershop window at 121 W Washington St, two Chevrolet cars at Tally Chevrolet, a Downtown Laundromat window, and damaged vehicles on BE Main Street and Old Pine Bluff Road.
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Morris
Norm Hopkins
Norm's
Washington St
Dean Sager
Richard Lohan
Ken Benson
Tally Chevrolet
E. Jackson St
Sydney Reeve
Sheridan Bruce
Robert Wahl
Old
Pine Bluff Rd
BE. Main St
Thomas Bednarik
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Robert Tolson
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Tolson
Paul Pierce
Vine St
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Gullet
Santa Ana
Florida
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Red Planet
Vietnam
New Jersey
Dave
Rudolph
Harris
Trucker
Jack Kopezick
Cindy Reisner
Liberty St
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