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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1978
Page
12
Mount Vernon police officer Holland Irvin was shot with a shotgun pellet while stopping a burglary at a food store. Irvin, who had staked out the closed grocery, was treated and released. One suspect was captured. the gunman escaped and no money was taken.
American businessman Francis J. Crawford, just freed after a Soviet trial, said he would accept another assignment from International Harvester in the Soviet Union if welcomed and not harassed. He was convicted on currency manipulation charges and given a five year suspended sentence, allowing his release.
Convicted killer Robert Garrow, 42, who was held at Fishkill minimum security prison, escaped by cutting bars from a porch leaving behind a dummy in his bed and his wheelchair. Police hunt wide as he may have walked or been carried from the facility near Beacon. Garrow, a Syracuse native, was serving 25-to-life for the 1973 stabbing of Philip Domblewsi near Schenectady and had admitted other 1973 murders in Massachusetts and Illinois before pleading guilty to those killings.
In Waterloo Illinois the 85 teachers and 60 bus drivers and service workers will return after the school board agreed to federal mediation of the dispute. Classes start Monday two weeks late for 1,850 students as district urges unions to be recognized and resolved.
Comedian Bob Hope refused to cross a picket line at the Marriott on North Michigan Avenue for a National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse fundraiser. He taped a monologue at the Drake Hotel after deciding not to perform. Picket negotiations with a maintenance workers union had stalled, and Hope had been assured dispersal would occur.
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