Transplant joy after eight years of illness
Julie Fehr, 17, of Diamond, underwent a kidney transplant at the University of Chicago Medical Center on June 15 and reports feeling great. After years of dialysis and failed matches, she received a donor kidney and quickly stabilized. The operation cost about 10,000 dollars, covered largely by Medicare. Julie now weighs 90 pounds and has joined the local Gift of Life Kidney Foundation campaign, urging donations to ease the donor shortage affecting 12,000 Americans and 900 Illinois patients awaiting transplants.
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Julie Fehr
Diamond
Julie
University of Chicago Medical Center
Michael Reese Hospital
Chicago
Fehrs
Juan Fehr
Illinois
Kidney Foundation of Illinois
North Dearborn
Ill
Jan Sutter
Illinois Lottery Draws Two New Games and Winners
Winning numbers in the Illinois State Lottery Big Pay Day game were 668 68 2 0691. The first Touchdown drawing produced 45 46 39 20. Chicago is named football city of the week, and Ralph Klug of Skokie won the $50,000 Bonanza drawing.
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Chicago
Ralph Klug
Skokie
Weather report from Dresden Island Locks and Dam
A cool, fair night forecast with a low in the mid to upper 40s. Sunny and warmer conditions expected, with Thursday's high around 65 and a low near 46. Early morning readings show 46 at 7 am and 63 at Morris by 10:20 am, with precipitation totaling 0.03 inches.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Begin returns to Israel amid mass welcome and protests
Tens of thousands line Ben-Gurion Airport and routes to Jerusalem to greet Prime Minister Menachem Begin on his Camp David homecoming. Supporters carry signs and chant Begin while a protest opposes the peace accords and Chamberlain comparison. Begin expresses hope for rapid peace treaties with Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
UPI
Middle East
Menachem Begin
Camp David
Ben-Gurion
Jerusalem
Begin
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Chamberlain
Esther Bethalachni
House of Israel
London
James Callaghan
Washington
Syria
Jordan
Egypt
Heathrow
Public School Enrollment Drops in Grundy County Numbers Fall Overall
Grundy County grade schools show a small enrollment decline while high schools rise slightly. Total district enrollment drops from 7,830 to 7,697. Braceville and Immaculate Conception gain, nine other grade schools fall. Special education totals ease from 243 to 212, with 157 in special ed this year versus 158 last year.
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Grundy County
LeRoy Brandt
Braceville
Immaculate Conception
Morris
Immaculate Conception Parochial
Gardner-South Wilmington
Morris Community High
Inflation tops Americans worries in Harris poll
A Harris poll of 1,442 adults finds inflation as the leading concern with 69 percent rating controlling inflation as top priority. federal spending and health costs follow, indicating Americans are highly single issue oriented on this economic threat.
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New York
API
Harris
Court upholds prison guard dismissals in Joliet
The Illinois Civil Service Commission upholds the dismissals of six Stateville Prison guards for a November 1977 sick-out action at Joliet. The panel orders two guards reinstated and suspends another, ruling the guards participated in a job action over working conditions, salaries, and overcrowding despite their claims of illness.
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Chicago
UPI
Stateville
Joliet
Illinois Civil Service Commission
Monarch butterflies pause during southern migration in Grundy County
Residents report trees filled with hundreds of monarchs this week as they migrate south to Mexico and Central America. Joliet Junior College biologist Scott Olson notes butterflies gather like birds in groups before continuing their journey, born that summer and to return as the next generation in 1979.
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Mike Farrell
Grundy County
North America
Mexico
Central America
Scott Olson
Joliet Junior College
Olson
Carroll Gilliat
Illinois 47
Illinois
Herald
Extradition Sought in California Case of Terry Casey
California authorities request extradition of Terry Lynn Casey from Illinois on escape and probation violations. Casey, 22, Joliet, was arrested by Grundy County detectives and Morris police on U S 6 after a disturbance involving his wife and daughter. He faces drug charges with $40,000 bail in California and $50,000 on marijuana possession with intent to manufacture. Preliminary hearing set for Oct 2.
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Grundy County
Charles Zalar
California
Terry Lynn Casey
Joliet
Zalar
Casey
Morris Police
U.S. 6
Union St
Ron Fox
James Olson
Morris
Rebecca Davidson
E. Jefferson St
Death toll in Tabas earthquake tops twenty five thousand
UPI reports eastern Iran quake death toll reaches 25,000 with officials insisting no foreign visitors among victims. In Tabas rescue workers intensify efforts to recover bodies as survivors beg for news of loved ones. Officials cite census data and note no Western tourists died.
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Tabas
Iran
UPI
Red Lion and Sun Society
Red Cross
Mashad
Great Salt Desert
Canadian air brings early autumn chill across regions
A cool Canadian air front moved east from Maine toward Texas, ushering in an early autumn chill for the Northern states and mild warmth in the South. Temperatures dropped to 20s and 30s in the Great Plains and 40s in the upper Midwest, with frost warnings across Upper Michigan to Colorado. Overnight lows ranged from 32 in Rawlings Wyoming to 82 in Miami Florida, while showers and a few thunderstorms touched Atlantic states and the Ohio Valley.
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United Press International
Maine
Texas
Great Plains
Upper Midwest
Upper Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Colorado
Rawlings
Wyo
Miami
Fla
Inland Steel blast furnace cooling device explodes
Inland Steel at Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago reports a cooling device on the outside of a blast furnace erupted causing damage but no injuries. Sam Saran, Inland’s director of communications, said police reports of injuries were in error. The plant foreman said the furnace area may be back in operation within a day and the furnace itself did not explode.
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East Chicago
Ind
UPI
Inland Steel
Indiana Harbor Works
Sam Saran
Inland
Plant No. 3
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