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THE PANTAGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUG. 9, 1983 Vinson impressed ed in talk with Begin Tax against The U.S. Chicago newscaster Fahey Flynn dies CHICAGO (AP) Fahey Wis. He came to Chicago in Flynn, a pioneer radio and tel- 1941, serving as a radio newsevision newscaster who won man with Chicago's WBBM, a six local Emmy awards during CBS affililiate. a career that spanned five decades, died yesterday at age 67.

From 1953 to 1968, he was a reporter-anchor for WBBM-TV. Flynn died shortly after 5 While there, he won the first p.m. at Northwestern MemoriChicago Emmy ever presented al Hospital of complications from for broadcast reporting. internal hemorrhaging, hospital spokeswoman Pat He moved to WLS-TV in Miller said. 1969, and three months after He was hospitalized for more he arrived, he and co-anchor than two weeks in June, and Joel Daly won an Emmy award was readmitted to North- for excellence in daily newswestern on Friday in fair con- casts.

The two were co-anchors dition before being transferred of the station's daily 6 p.m. to the hospital's intensive care newscasts until Flynn's final unit on Sunday, Ms. Miller said. illness. "Fahey Flynn was an institu- His most recent Emmy came tion in Chicago, not only for in 1979 for coverage of a DC-10 his familiar bow tie, but also plane crash at O'Hare Internafor his distinctive broadcast tional Airport that killed 273 style and solid news back- people.

ground," said Dennis Swanson, Flynn also hosted the staWLS-TV vice president and tion's weekly news program general manager. "It is with "Eyewitness Forum." He also great sorrow that we mourn served as a correspondent and the passing of such an excep- commentator on breaking tional newsman." news stories, cultural and ecoFlynn began his broad- nomic news and special events. casting career in 1934 as a ra- He is survived by his wife, dio reporter in Fond du Lac, Mary, and two children. You Should Know Bob Gipson "Mr. Insurance" Phone 827-8523 R.W.

GIPSON AGENCY Risk Managers 219 E. Washington-Bloomington By BERNIE SCHOENBURG Pantagraph Springfield bureau SPRINGFIELD Israeli officials may not have known what they were getting themselves into when they decided to invade Lebanon, but Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sincerely wants his forces out of Lebanese territory, Rep. Sam Vinson, R-Clinton, lieves. Vinson was one of nine American state lawmakers the only one from Illinois to take a 10-day tour of Israel, including an hourlong meeting with Begin at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on July 26. Yesterday Vinson recalled some highlights of the trip, which was sponsored by a conservative lawmakers' group called the American Legislative Exchange Council.

The trip was paid for by the World Zionist Organization. The meeting with Begin came on a day Begin would have been meeting with President Reagan had a scheduled trip been taken. But Vinson described the Israeli leader as being lucid and "in full control of the Israeli government." Radio SALES SERVICE LEASING TRAINING He said if Begin resigns any time soon, which is the subject of minor speculation, it will not be for a lack of sharpness. "He came off as very bright and very tough," Vinson said, "and I can certainly understand why American secretaries of state and presidents have had difficulty dealwith him." Israel recently ordered a partial pullback of its troops in Lebanon, and some Lebanese have feared Israel's intention in the move was to set up a permanent partition the country. But Vinson said Begin "was most emphatic that Israel wanted to get out of Lebanon as fast as possible." During the meeting, Begin, dressed in a blue suit and tie and a white shirt, did not seem hurried.

It was the American lawmakers who ended the meeting, but not before receiving long, detailed answers to their questions. From the tone of the conversation, Vinson said, "I got the impression that they (the Israelis) thought they knew what Lebanon was all about when they went in, and then they started to discover SHOWBI PIZZA PLACE I Next to Movies 4, Normal Bring this coupon in for $2.00 OFF any LARGE PIZZA--not valid with any other offer. OR Try our FAMILY SPECIAL on Tuesday or Thursday Large topping Pitcher of soft drink 10 Free game tokens only $9.95 they didn't know the first thing about its domestic politics." He said he does not think Israel understood how divided some seemingly unified groups were, such as the opposing Druse and the Christian Phalangists. And he said he got the "distinct impression" that Israeli officials, including Begin, are "very displeased" with their relations with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. He said he believes Israelis think "the Gemayel family is not ininterested in conducting an honest government in Lebanon." The American lawmakers questioned Begin mainly on foreign policy matters, Vinson said, and the conversation did not deal much with such issues as the Israeli econony, the Palestinian refugee camps on the West Bank, or Israeli settlerents in occupied territories.

But as the meeting began, Begin told the lawmakers about a terrorist attack on Berzeit University in the West Bank city of Hebron, where people wearing masks killed three students and injured others at the Palestinian university. The attack had occurred 90 minutes earlier, and it was not known who was responsible. "He felt the government would catch the perpetrators and punish them," Vinson said. "He was very adamant on that." One question Vinson asked was about relations with Egypt. He said Begin believes the "relationship was in good shape" for at least four years, while Egypt completes a transfer to American-supplied arms and training.

Vinson said, he was particulary impressed with the small size of Israel and thus the difficulty in figuring out how to defend it; the concentration of historical sites, especially in Jerusalem; and development project at the Dead Sea, including use of a salt-filled solar pond to generate electricity, increasing production of chemicals from the sea, and a project to build a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea to maintain the level of the Dead Sea. "The vision of the whole project was astounding to me," Vinson said. He believes the Israelis want to become a prized supplier of agricultural chemicals in the 1990s, and that is one aspect of the trip he will Jack McPhaul, author, ex-reporter, dead at 77 CHICAGO (AP) Jack McPhaul, a former newspaper reporter whose stories about a man wrongfully convicted of murder inspired the movie "Call Northside 777," has died at the age of 79, and veteran investigative reporter William Clements, who won a host of awards for series he wrote or co-authored for the Chicago Sun-Times, is dead at the age of 50. McPhaul, who died Saturday in Danville, was in the newspaper business for nearly five decades, covering such stories as the Leopold and Loeb murder case, the St. Valentine's Day massacre, and several Chicago mayoral campaigns.

Eut his biggest story was that of Joseph Majezek, who was convicted of killing a Chicago policeman in 1932. In 1944, McPhaul, who was working at the Chicago Times, a predecessor of the Sun-Times, collaborated with reporter James McGuire on the story after seeing an ad placed in the paper by Majczek's mother. Mrs. Majczek, convinced of her son's innocence, had scrubbed WANT TO BE A TRAVEL AGENT? Learn The Basics At CAREERS IN TRAVEL The Course Provides You With The Basic Skills Required For Entry Into The Travel Agent Profession. Fall session begins Sept.

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Vinson hasn't concluded if that, or Begin's insistence on maintaining the territories under Israeli control, is the better way. Before the trip, Vinson said, he was an "objective observer" of Israel who was often irritated with apparently stiff policies. But realizing, among other things, that a Syrian fighter jet from Damascus could reach Tel Aviv in minutes, he said, "I've got an awful lot more sympathy now for the Israeli situation than I did before, because I just did not comprehend the distances and security problems involved." Trees part of home's anniversary gifts The Americana Nursing Home, 510 Broadway, Normal, will donate 10 shade trees each to Normal and Bloomington during a 10:30 a.m. ceremony today at the nursing home. The donation is in conjunction with the nursing home's 20th anniversary.

Trees donated will include red maple, green ash and linden, to be placed in various parks throughout the Twin Cities. Cake and coffee will be served following the ceremony. Choose from our in-stock wallpaper or order from our large selection of books. TOWANDA PLAZA wall Bloomington 828-0614 M-F 9-8 P.M./Sat. Springfield has filed income taxrelated charges against Aaron O.

Patrick, 42, of 1116 S. Barker Bloomington. A spokesman for the office told The Pantagraph yesterday that Patrick is charged with three counts of failing to file income tax returns and three counts of filing false W4 forms, the forms given to employers to determine the amount of taxes to be withheld from paychecks. The spokesman said Patrick is charged with filing no tax returns for the years 1979, 1980 and 1981. He also is charged with claiming he was exempt from withholding during the same years.

"He just wrote 'exempt' across the W4s," the spokesman said. He said the employers, Sauer Industrial Contracting, Winger Contracting Co. and Kelly Systems apparently never questioned Patrick's claim. Patrick is to be arraigned in federal court in Springfield on Aug. 18.

Penalties for the failure to file charges are up to one year imprisonment up to a $10,000 fine. floors for 11 years to raise $5,000 in reward money before placing the advertisement seeking information on his case. The reporters worked on the story until Majczek was pardoned and released from prison in 1945. Majczek died last May. James Stewart starred in "Call Northside 777," playing a composite of both reporters.

Another movie, "I Was A Fugitive from a Chain Gang," also was based on a McPhaul news story. Some of the stories which garnered Clements awards were the grand jury investigation into alleged misuse of church funds by the late Cardinal John P. Cody, disclosures in an investigation that led to the indictment of former Gov. Otto Kerner, FBI and Polish spying activities in Chicago and World War II war-crime suspects who resided in the United States. HAPPY 40th KRIS PAINLESS HAIR REMOVAL Not Electrolysis First fifteen minute $5 $5.00 treatment WITH for THIS only AD BREAST PANTY LINE -BIKINI LINE HAIRLINE SHAPING EYEBROWS FACE LIPS CHIN New Reflections.

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