Northwest Herald from Woodstock, Illinois • Page 4

Page 4 NORTHWEST HERALD Sunday, February 21, 1993 STATENATION California man arrested after double life unravels Daley to. push for casinos The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO Mayor Richard Daley says he is ready to resume a push for a gambling casino in Chicago. Coffeen, 111. Orange County authorities said Friday that Elliott has been living in California since 1981 under the identity of a Simi Valley, child who died in 1953 at the age of 2Vit. Jennifer Bradford, the man's stunned fiancee, said outside HERALD WIRE SERVICES SANTA ANA, Calif.

An electronics technician who claimed he had amnesia after a three-week -disappearance was arrested Friday by authorities who identified him as a man who mysteriously left his wife Judge facing DUI won't lose license ED WARDS VILLE -Chief Circuit Judge Stephen M. Kernan of St. Clair County won't have his drivers license suspended in connection with a drunken driving ticket, a judge from Madison County ruled. Kernan still faces trial on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and ButAssociate Judge Daniel J. Stack of Madison County said Friday that police failed to follow the law for suspending Ker-nan's license.

Illinois State to cut 60 staffers NORMAL Illinois State awsw i ndeverrehildrerr in- lihois-iheherif s-headquartersTthat- she remains loval to him. "I'm y-s is Af nearly 14 years ago. Clifford Wraymond Leigh-ton, whose fiancee launched a high-profile search when he disappeared Jan. 22, is really Gary Elliott, 49, said sheriffs deputies who arrested him on charges of perjury over the use of a false name in applying for AP photo Clifford Wraymond Leighton sits with his fiancee, Jennifer Bradford, in his home in Lake Forest, Calif. going to stand by him until this is cleared up.

We were getting married, and of course we can't do that now, but I love him, and I haven't changed my mind. This is hard to believe." According to investigators, Elliot's purported cover began unraveling Jan. 22, when he was reported missing by his fiancee. When he was found last Sunday, lying unconscious on a roadside near rural He-met, Elliott claimed to have amnesia about the weeks he was missing. tion, Elliott and Bradford were called to Sheriffs Department headquarters in Santa Ana.

In addition to information from Missouri and Illinois, authorities had Elliott's brother fly to Southern California to make a positive identification. Based on information Bradford had given sheriffs investigators to help find Elliott, authorities said they found a former employer in Illinois who identified Leighton and Elliott as the same person. Unaware of the investiga license. Elliott's 1979 disappearance during a weekend trip to St. Louis sparked a massive manhunt and an outpouring of community sympathy for Elliott's wife, Maxine, and seven children, ages 5 to 16, in rural At a news conterence i set the stage for another battle with the General bly and Gov.

Jim Edgar by announcing the idea is no longer "on a back burner." Daley had shelved the casino proposal after it was rejected by state lawmakers in a lame-duck session in November. EdgaraiidiiianyMawrnakers said it would hurt other forms of gambling in the state and increase crime in Chicago. Edgar suggested the city try river-boat gambling, but Daley rejected the idea. Two. of the original three men who were promoting the proposed $2 billion Chicago casino and entertainment complex, to be owned a run by private developers, are no longer in the picture.

Glenn Schaeffer, president and chief financial officer of Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. in Las Vegas resigned after a company audit revealed the group had spent $5.3 million pushing the project with no result. Another backer, the president of gaming for the Hilton Hotels recently switched jobs, taking him out of the Chicago casino promotion picture. Farmers want funding for meat inspectors restored plants that need to be inspected is actually decreasing," he said. But the department now is conducting random testing during meat inspections for E.

coli bacteria, the cause of the Washington outbreak in mid-January. Several people remain hospitalized from that outbreak, which killed two young children. One child's death was traced to contaminated and undercooked field want the state to fill empty meat inspector positions left open after early retirements. Illinois had 116 meat inspectors at the end of 1992 eight fewer than the year before, according to Patrick Hogan, a spokesman for the state Department of Agriculture. "Right now, we have the resources to hire new employees, and the number of (packing) The ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD A farm group has asked Illinois agriculture officials to hire more meat inspectors in the wake of a bacteria-caused food poisoning outbreak in Washington state that killed two children.

Illinois Farmers Union President Jack Little said delegates who met iast week in Spring hamburgers served at a Jack in the Box restaurant. That victim died of heart failure associated with hemolytic uremic poisoning caused by E. coli Robert J. Nugent, president of the restaurant chain, told a Senate Agriculture subcommittee that federal meat inspections and food preparation standards are under par. University will eliminate 66 staff positions to offset state budget cuts, President Thomas Wallace said.

The cuts will enable the university to reinvest more than $2.5 million into high-priority programs and improving instructional quality. Great Lakes base facing some cuts NORTH CHICAGO -Evidence indicates the Pentagon is seriously considering closing or downsizing the Great Lakes Naval Training Illinois congressional leaders said. Three Illinois members of Congress released an internal Navy memo asking the command at Great Lakes for a cost estimate on closing recruit training at the base. Reputed mobster gets 16 years prison 9 CHICAGO Gus Alex, longtime reputed political fixer for the mob, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison and ordered to pay $823,000 in fines and restitution for his role in violent extortions. Defense attorney Carl Walsh said Friday's sentence amounted to a virtual death sentence for the ailing, 76-year-old Alex.

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