Tinley Park Elections Quiet as Filing Nears
Tinley Park voters face an April 19 election with five board of trustees seats up and incumbents John Dunn Frank German Richard Durkin Patrick Rea and James Dzurny seen as potential candidates. Filing begins next month with February 14 the deadline and 194 signatures required on petitions. Brementowne area groups plan an issue oriented slate amid speculation on a mayoral bid by George Manning who seeks three trustee allies.
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Mitchell Golub
Tinley Park
Board of Trustees
John Dunn
Frank German
Richard Durkin
Patrick Rea
James Dzurny
Durkin
Brementowne
Robert Mason
Kenneth Fulton
Manning
Circuit Court
Harry Comerford
Election Board
Board Split on Sandburg Pool Upgrade Policy
District 230 officials reveal mixed views on whether to build a new Sandburg swimming pool while weighing priorities and community use. Supt Fisher remains neutral. several board members emphasize current adequacy, others push for deeper study and potential funding.
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Alan Mace
Carl Sandburg
William
Sandburg
Fisher
John Dallege
Robert Mulcahy
Richard Dohner
Flood Management Plan To Be Ready in a Week
The Little Calumet river basin group aims to finish a $32 million floodwater management plan in one week with a final draft due early 1977 and a path to federal funding via Congress. Local governments must act now on floodplain regulations land treatment channel maintenance and homeowner floodproofing while four structures are built in Tinley Park Markham Thornton quarry and south of Lynwood.
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Little Calumet Basin
Little Calumet River Basin
Bremen Township Hall
Markham
E. C. Howell
Robert Bartels
U.S Soil Conservation Service
Howell
Tinley Park
Thornton Quarry
Lynwood
Soil Conservation Service
Edward Derwinski
Nurses Sit In at Oak Forest Hospital Strike
About 35 nurses staged a sit in at the Oak Forest hospital administration building amid freezing weather. They sang songs from a sheet mocking Cook County officials while awaiting federal mediation as negotiations had stalled a month earlier over benefits and contracts.
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June Masek
Oak Forest Hospital
Cook County Health and Hospitals Governing Commission
James Haughton
Kevin Horan
Cook County Hospital
Chicago
Pat O'Donnell
Telepathy show by Uri Geller at Joliet Junior College
Uri Geller, famed Israeli psychic, performed telepathic feats and spoon bending at Joliet Junior College. The feature notes his influence on headlines and Nancy Sherman’s piece on how he sparked watches to tick. The article sits in Lifestyles on page 10.
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Uri Geller
Israel
Joliet Junior College
Nancy Shermans
Geller
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Eleanor Blue
Ted Wood
Daniel Durkin
George Manning
Doreen Crewe
Board of Education
Victor J Andrew
Palos-Orland Swim Association
By Stephanie Rusnak
Dr. Haughton
Commission
the Star-Herald Today
University of Illinois
Bob Blackman
Frank Shuftan
Flint
Friedman
Britain
Rick Friedman
International Society of Weekly
Great Britain
Seas
Inside
Rob Mango
Tinley Park High School
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