The Daily Herald from Arlington Heights, Illinois • Page 3

Top settlement of $1.47 million called adequate by NAM iiOTI.KI? Attorney Nat P. Ozmon has made Illinois legal history, but he's too busy tending his Chicago law practice to notice. Last week Ozmon's client Daxid Little of Roselle was awarded $1.47 million, lielieved to be the largest settlement ever in Illinois for an individual injury. Little was hurt in a 15174 construction accident that left him mute and almost totally paralyzed. A RECORD never occurred to me in this said Ozmon.

who originally had asked for $3 million in damages. Just felt the amount we got was fair and adequate Ozman and his firm were paid $367,500 for three work on the case, but he says he is not impressed with the size of the commission or the record settlement. fee was very to he said. was just delighted that we were able to complete this case in a way that I this boy and those around him will be He said the money will be used to pay salaries of the 65 persons employed by the firm of Horwitz, Ozmon and Associates, where he works and didn't know how much of it he will be paid. HUGE SETTLEMENTS and construction in jury cases are not to Ozmon.

year a client of his lost hands while operating a crane on a construction site was awarded $975,000. he's preparing cases for two other men hurt on the job, one with serious chest injuries after falling off a scaffolding and another who suffered brain damage after a piece of heavy equipment rolled over him. kind of know-n in the profession as being knowiedgable in construction-related he said. .50 per cent of my personal practice is spent handling Ozmon and Harry an Arlington Heights attorney who represented the Am-Cal Construction which Little sued, agreed that there is a trend toward higher settlements. I started my practice 22 years O'Kane said, was a table at the Bismarck Hotel across from the only lawyers either been paid $100,000 for a case or had gotten a $100,000 settlement for a client could sit.

the time about 10 attorneys he said. a table like that any more, but if there was it would have to be a $1 million table and probably 50 Chicago attorneys would sit around THE VM-CAL Construction Co. was required to pay Little $1.2 million. Other defendents were the Kinney Shoe Corp. and two architects.

Ozman said the only family member excited about his record-breaking case is his son. a law student. was just glad to be able to create enough money for David to adequately be maintained for the rest of his Ozmon said. publicity and fee were not what pleased me about the British Foreioii Sec. Croslaiid buried todav LONDON (UPn Foreign Sec.

Anthony Crosland. whose death Saturday came at a critical point for British foreign and domestic policy, will be buried today. A cabinet shuffle was expected soon. Crosland. 58, died without regaining consciousness five days after he suffered a stroke at his country home.

His wife, Susan, was at his side. Crosland's death posed major problems for Prime Minister James Callaghan aixl the nation. It came less than two months after his move into the presidency of the European Common Market, involving leadership of the nine-nation European Community. Crosland had presided over many Common Market meetings and many more were scheduled. Major international issues were in his hands.

Negotiations over Rhodesia, a former British colony, were at a delicate stage and there are prob lems such as tte Middle East and Cyprus in which Britain and its foreign secretary play important roles. Callaghan held off any move to name a successor until the private family funeral service in Oxford today. Champ mints a talker when he buys a pet Heavv-weight Champion Muhammad recently walked into Noah's Ark Pet Center, 2430 E. Oakton Elk Grove Village, and purchased the mastxrt, Sabrina, a sulphur-crested cockatoo. The tame, talking bird is one of many pets Ali keeps at his Chicago home.

Ali also had six store employes return home with him to install a 125-gallon aquarium to hold fancy gold fish. Some people wonder whether Ali will teach his new fine-feathered friend to say, am the with the proper voice inflection. he was very friendly when he was in said Dean the store's bird department manager. seems to love People Diane Mermigas pets a lot and it seems like he's been rather misrepresented in the press. He's really a very nice per- and a good customer, Ml HA.M.MAD ALI Gerald Ford has agreed to serve as vice president under Jimmy Carter in the Boy Scouts.

The former President Sunday said he will take an active role in three national youth organizations: the Boy Scouts of the Boys' Clubs of America and the Big Brothers of Ford's succes-sor. President Carter. last week was named the organization's honorary Both men were adult Scout leaders. Johnny Carson is taking the back to its roots going from taped shows to live broadcasts. The show will be seen live across most of the country beginning Tuesday.

March 15, Pres. Robert Howard said. was Johnny's idea to go live and we're Howard said. Jane Fonda will costar with Jon and Bnice Dem in a film based on an idea of Ms. Fonda and associate producer Bruce Gilbert.

Robert Carradine of the acting Carradine family, will be featured as an emotionally disturbed Vietnam veteran in the film, which is set in California during the height of the Vietnam war. Shirley MaeI.aine’s third global tour will take her to Germany. Sweden and she completes her swing through the United States in The singer-dancer-actress will present a preview of her new act March 12 on.CBS-TV^ before opening in Europe. Geary Baniak selling plaques for his firm. Capitalism and youth join hands at Randhurst fair Capitalism and youth joined hands during the weekend at the Junior Achievement of Chicago trade fair at the Randhurst Shopping Center, Mount Prospect.

More than 30 companies organized and operated by suburban high school students displayed their wares at the fair, selling everything from bird feeders to jump ropes. a once a year thing to get these achievers out to meet the public and see what it's like to sell to the said Tom Koop, manager of Junior Des Plaines center. WORKING with volunteer advisers from private industry, high school students are invited to form their own companies and learn about the world of business, Koop said of the Junior Achievement program. a combination of work, fun and play. run by the achievers, operated by the achievers.

They go out and sell stock to get capital to start their company. They do everything a large company would do only on a smaller Koop said. just try to sell our product, we try to push it on the said Sheri Wyder, president of Des Plaines-based Contemporary Ideas, Inc. and a sophomore at Maine Esat High School. Wyder's company has made more than $2,000 this year selling customized T-shirts.

starts with people wanting to learn about in the world of business, Wyder said. She, like her fellow achievers, discovered the program when Junior Achievement visited her high school to recruit young members. ALL A bunch of said company treasurer Camille Ciba, a junior at Maine East. The company sold stock at $1 a share when it began and is now returning dividends of 99 cents per share, Miss Ciba said. The 13 members worked with three advisers from Kraft, Inc.

in selecting a product, she said. Maureen Hart and John Tomzik. Mary McDonugh preparing T-shirt for sale, Concerning human rights Soviets rap U.S. statements W.ASHLNGTON Carter's personal letter to Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, delivered through the U.S. embassy in Moscow, was sure to strike the Kremlin as a maddening intrusion into Soviet affairs.

And so it did, along with other recent S. statements on behalf of the human rights of Soviet citizens, Moscow's ambassador, Dobrynin, protested this trend to the State Dept. Thursday. But U.S. officials say the Russians have no ground for complaint, and cite three little words: The Helsinki THE 1975 HEL.SINKI accords signed bv the Soviet Union, United States and other European nations pledged signatory states to promote contacts between peoples of different states, allow citizens access to sources of information on world events, ease personal and professional travel across borders and help reunite families separated by East-West frontiers.

It outlines a bi-oad range of generally accepted human rights, with tlie implication that nations will honor those rights. Thus. Western diplomats contend the Helsinki pact makes it legitimate for any country to express concern about the state of human rights in another nation. But the Russians like to stress a different stipulation of the same Helsinki accords, where it says: participating states will refrain from anv intervention, direct or indirect, individual or collecetive, in the internal or external affairs falling within the domestic jurisdiction of another participating State. SO THE argument is on.

In Soviet eyes, Sakharov has spoken up for an interpretation of human and civil rights far more liberal than what the Krem'iin agreed to in Helsinki. The Russians have said publicly, in official newspaper stories condemning his behavior and suggesting he could land in jail, that the Nobel Peace prizewinner, Moscow's most illustrious political dissident, has cast aspersions on official conduct. Worse, they say, he is violating 70 of the Russian Criminal Code with his criticisms of Soviet policies and demands for broadened human rights. ARTICLE 79 MAKES a crime, and essentially lets the state interpret what that means. Many other dissidents, such as the recently expelled Vladimir Bukovsky, who may visit the White House as Carter's guest ne.xt week, have been imprisoned under that article.

Against this background, Soviet officials insist the United States has no right to come to support. They say he is their problem. That problem, however, includes a number of spunky, unofficial civil liberties groups Aat sprouted af- ter Helsinki. Last week, some Ukrainian-Americans got a midnight call from Nina Strokata-Karavanska, a microbiologist living near Moscow in a penal status known as wave of arrests has rolled across the Ukrainian she said. of us who were and who remain political prisoners of the Soviet Unioo trust our country men across the sea will staunchly defend all the patriots of the similar appeal from Sakharov prompted Carter to wTite his letter promising U.S.

support for human rights everywhere. suburbs rank near lop in fines Seven suburban towns are among the 14 communities levying the largest amount of fines in suburban Cook County, according to Circuit Court Clerk M. Finley. In a summary of court fines collected during 1976 and 1975, Finley said communities in the Northwest suburb showed of the largest increases in fines over the two-year period. While Willowbrook levied the largest dollar volume of fines Heights and Elk Grove Village ranked third and fourth respectively.

Arlington Heights received $147,441 in fines, an increase of 27 per cent over 1975; while Elk Grove Vil- lage received up 3 per Other area communities ranked near the top of the 128 towns listed by Finley are Mount Prospect, $99,822, up 25 per cent; Schaumburg, up 42 per cent: Palatine, $73.053. up 24 per cent: and Hoffman E.states. $65.603, up 29 per cent. Des Plaines also finished in the top group, with $73.135. but that was $852 below the 1975 total.

Fines collected by other area communities included HTieeling, $57,782, up 42 per cent; Buffalo Grove, $28,058, up 17 per cent; and Rolling Meadows, $38.264, down 12 per cent. Finley said the total fines levied by the Circuit were $4,467,591 an 11 per cent increase. communities received more income through the Circuit Court during 1976 than any other time in their he added. villages have a major stake in the court system by virtue of the income they receive from fines; in many villages, the revenue represents a major part of the village budget ar.d can bplp local officials avoid a tax he added. The largest percentage posted by any town over the last two years was in Park Ridge, where fines jumped from $24,038 to $62,750, an increase of 256 per cent, Finley added..