Morris police brief list thefts and a traffic arrest
Several local thefts and property damage incidents are reported in Morris. Esther Harmon reported a missing lawnmower and gas can, while a blue wrap-around skirt vanished from a clothesline. Trucker Jeffery Wehner was arrested for disobeying a stop sign, posted bond, and faces Sept. 28 court. A missing blue Schwinn bike was reported at Gould Park. Tire slashings across the west Morris area are under police investigation, with multiple residents reporting damaged tires. A minor two vehicle accident on Wauponsee St. led to tickets for both drivers. Jeffrey Watson and Gary Spiezio face court on Sept. 28.
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Merle Wickert
Grant St
Jeffery Wehner
Kirksville
Seventh
Front Sts
Mazon
Grundy County
Jeffery Black
Wehner
Syd Groselaude
Jackson St
Edith Johnson
North St
Wauponsee St
Morris
Jeffrey A. Watson
W. Benton St
Gary R. Spiezio
Spiezio
Watson
Traffic Court Records Across Gr78undy County
A long list details traffic court actions across Grundy County including James Klegman 19 Diamond fined $300 plus $25 costs for driving after license suspension and Scott Oleson 22 Dwight given one year conditional discharge with $75 fines and $25 costs for theft Contested offenses range from obstructing police to reckless driving with fines bonds and suspensions noted for numerous defendants in towns like Braceville Channahon Morris and Coal City.
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James Klegman
Berta St
Diamond
Grundy County
Frank Schmitt
Illinois 113
Will Rd
Scott Oleson
Dwight
Grundy County Gliff
Ron Fox
W. F. Breisch
Mazon
James Nichols
Braceville
Connie Green
Nichols
John Davis
Blackberry Lane
Channahon
Walter Watchinski
Davis
Aldred Johnson
Price St
Morris
Kurt Salems
Johnson
John Steinhauer
Joliet
Minooka
Michael Hrechko
Channahon Lion’s Club
Houston Weathersby
Church St
Coal City
Dan Raymond
Illinois
Dave Cora
Michael Sather
Dearfield Rds
Merle Anderson
Alford Collins Jr
Jeff Cockream
Collins
Illinois 47
Pine Bluff Rd
Barry Rose
Rose Lane
Marseilles
Thomas Thompson
Joseph Youskevitch
Fox St
Peter Odo
Kankakee
Chestnut Sts
David Perry
Prairie Rd
Raymond
Liberty and
Jefferson Sts
Luis Esparza
Second Ave
Odo
Michael Kaiser
Lincoln St
Charles Frame
Interstate
Gardner
Stephen Marquez
E. Jefferson St
Syd Reeve
Fulton and
Main Sts
Keith Morrow
Rte. 2
U.S. 6
Tabler Rd
Dennis Willis
Illinois Ave
Douglas Francois
Liberty St
Mark Simotes
Buell St
Ridge Rd
Donald Koetz
30Th Rd
Seneca
Francois
Jefferson and Liberty Sts
Charles Andrews
Park Ave
Gerald Broderick
Division St
Albert Agnich
Minooka High School enrollment rises by fifty students
Minooka High School reports 788 students for the current year up from 738 the previous year. The gender split is 419 boys and 369 girls with 236 freshmen 193 sophomores 188 juniors 162 seniors and 9 special education students. Additional enrollments are expected in the coming days.
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Minooka
Minooka High School
Area school menus across multiple districts
The report lists weekly lunch menus for COAL CITY MINOOKA and MCHS high and middle schools. It details meals by day and grade, including mains, sides, desserts, and milk, with items like ravioli, pizza burgers, beef stew, spaghetti, and fish dishes.
Weekly School Lunch Menu Summary
Monday Pork tenderloin with bun buttered green beans assorted fruit cookies pickles milk. Tuesday hot dog farm fries cabbage salad dessert. Wednesday Turkey poor boys potato chips jello fruit whipped cream pickles milk. Thursday Swiss steak mashed potatoes gravy carrot sticks bread butter cookies milk. Friday Tacos at High School pizza burger at Grade School lettuce Russian dressing vegetables ice cream.
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G.S
M.S
H.S
MCHS
Minooka announces curriculum changes for 1978-79
Minooka junior high unveils curriculum shifts with seventh and eighth graders studying the Constitution and US history. Chorus becomes a graded academic class, a new reading study hall is added, and girls basketball joins activities. New staff include Mrs. Kruck Miss Wright and Phil Tyrell. An autograph dance is planned Sept 29 from 7 to 9 p.m. subject to yearbook arrival.
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Minooka
Michael J. Sheridan
Kathy Kruck
Kathy Wright
Phil Tyrell
Lucille Buchmann
Joyce Grote
Skwarcyznski
Tom Las
Guerrillas Attack Border City in Rhodesia Violence
Guerrillas linked to the Patriotic Front conducted a mortar attack on Umtali near the Mozambique border causing casualties and major damage amid reports of a heat seeking missile downing an Air Rhodesia Viscount with 56 aboard near Salisbury. Survivors described a massacre of ten of eighteen at the crash site. Joshua Nkomo, a Patriotic Front leader, claimed the plane was shot down but denied orders for the massacre.
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Salisbury
Rhodesia
UPI
Umtali
Joshua Nkomo
Patriotic Front
Mozambique
Gas theft reported at Mike's Standard on Illinois 47
Morris police reported a theft of about 19 gallons of gas from Mike's Standard on Illinois 47. A green 1964 to 1966 Chevrolet with two occupants fueled up for 19.1 gallons and departed without paying 12.40 dollars. The failure-to-pay message was sent via ISPERN but the vehicle was not found.
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Mike
Illinois 47
Morris
Illinois State Police Emergency Radio Network
Ispern
Emerging Coalitions in American Politics book reviewed
The Institute for Contemporary Studies guidebook on shifting coalitions draws on 23 scholars. David Broder notes a move from majoritarian to individualist politics, with Novak and Lipset highlighting class and party realignments and Hayakawa and Wattenberg proposing new coalitions for Democrats and Republicans amid growth, reform, and anti growth pressures.
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Institute For Contemporary Studies
David Broder
Washington Post
Michael Novak
Democratic Party
Novak
California
San Francisco
Ben Wattenberg
American Enterprise Institute
Seymour Martin Lipset
Hoover Institution-Stanford University
William Jennings Bryan
Empathy Points in Political Strategy From The Worry Clinic
Dr. George W. Crane advises how to win elections by building voter identification points. He outlines a ladder from county office to state or federal races, stresses personal contact and media use, and suggests using family images, pets, and affiliations to evoke empathy. He recommends his booklet on Sales and Advertising Psychology.
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Abe J
U. S
Birch Bayh
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Garden Club
Ann Landers column on bingo cheats and household risks
Readers report many bingo cheating tricks but Ann Landers withholds publishing specifics to avoid guiding wrongdoing. A Buffalo reader suggests contacting the New York Bingo Commission via the district attorney for investigations. A husband offers his office for coworkers during a flood, prompting suspicion from a wife about a visiting divorcée. Another letter warns about buying used electric blankets and other gear at yard sales, citing fire risk. The column closes with a call for readers to submit letters and a signature quote from William Blake.
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Ann Landers
Norwalk- Fairfield
Conn
Buffalo
New York State
District Attorney’s Office
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