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    Police Star THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT SEPTEMBER 1978

    CHI AGO \

    * Spotlight on the 9th District

    * Superintendent announces top command changes* Chemistry Unit not all stamps and ducks* A tour of duty is a 24-hour day some days Digitized by ChicagoCop.com

  • CHICAGO

    POLICE

    STAR VOLUME 17, NUMBER 8 September 1978

    MICHAEl A. BILANDIC Mayor

    RALEIGH MATHIS Deputy Superintendent

    JAMES E. O'GRADY

    Superintendent

    Bureau of Community Services

    TINA VICINI Director Public and Internal Information Division

    IN D EX 3 Spotlight on the 9th distri ct 7 Superintend ent announ ces

    top command changes 9 The Blue Light

    12 Recent Retirements 13 Department Commendations 15 Chemi stry Unit 17 A tour of duty 18 In Memoriam 19 Life in Littl e League 20 Puzzle

    EDITORIAL STAFF LeROY JIRIK, Editor; DENNIS BINGHAM, Associate Editor; Photos by Graphic Arts Section Photographers. Unit reporters are listed in the Blue light Section.

    Th e Chicago Police Star is publi shed monthly by the Chicago Poli ce Department and is the offi cia l Department publ ication. The Star is di stributed free of charge to act ive and retired Department members and to persons and agencies in the fi eld of law enforcement . No one is authori zed to soli cit or accept payment for adverti sing or subsc riptions to the Star . Permission to reprint arti cles must be rece ived in writing from the Di rector of Public and Internal Information Division , Chicago Poli ce Departm ent , 1121 South State Stree t, Chicago, Illinois 60605 .

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    COVER

    On the cover, and above, one of last cowboys in Chicago Stock Yards area, Buzz Thompson, talks to Sergeant William Johnson of 9th District in front of Union Stock Yard Gate, only reminder left of meat-packing industry that once thrived in area. Plaque, right is posted on gate, a designated landmark. Below, Officers Bennett McGowen (left) and john Conway go over report in Inte rnational Amphitheatre parking lot with historic old Stock Yard Bank Tower in left background.

    Photos by Roman Zabicki, Graphic Arts

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  • POTLIGHT ON T H E ,9TH DISTRICT

    Deering has center of city, landmarks and homes of mayors

    In 1961, Deering (then the 19th District) merged with three othersBrighton Park, New City, and Stock Yards-to become the present 9th District during the reorganization of the Chicago Police Department.

    Today the district ranks sixth in area among the Department's 23 districts with 12.5 square miles in area to patrol , and is eighth in population with approximately 200,000 residents.

    The boundaries of the Deering District, extend from the Dan Ryan Expressway on the East to Kedzie on the West; and from the river bed north of the Stevenson Expressway on the North to 55th Street on the South.

    Although mostly residential, Deering contains some industrial and manufacturing areas. The Stock Yards, once the world's largest meat packing center is

    situated here; so is the International Amphitheatre, 42nd and Halsted-one of the largest exposition halls in the country, as well as Comiskey Park, 35th and Shields, home of the Chicago White Sox baseball team.

    Deering has 70 schools (including 11 high schools)-the largest number of any district, within its boundaries. Also, there are 35 Catholic parishes and at least 25 other denominations.

    The district station, at 3501 S. Lowe Ave., was built in 1936 and is the only station house remaining with facilities for both fire and police in the same building-sharing it with Engine Company 29. At one time in Chicago's history, combination police and fire stations shared facilities as a matter of economics whereas today they have individual stations.

    Officers check in at 9th District station, which was built in 1936.

    Officer Thomas Flynn talks with Pat Cronin in front of Mayor Richard J. Daley's church, Nativity of Our Lord.

    The geographic center of the City of Chicago, situated at 37th and Honore is located in the district.

    The 9th District, as other districts throughout the city, noted an increase in narcotics use among its young people in recent years. In an attempt to stem the abuse , the Deering District launched a full-scale action program directed towards both young people and to parents and other concerned adults to do something about the problem.

    A narcotics team was formed composed of a sergeant and seven officers to work exclusively on narcotics. The team, headed by Sergeant Earl Fournier (now retired), and Officers Edward Kodatt, Joseph Mucharski, LeRoy Almanza, Erasmo Rodriguez, Richard Fournier, Michael DeLacy and George Leka did an outstanding job.

    They became experts on narcotics and on search warrants. They never had one warrant thrown out of court on a minor technicality, and had an 85 per cent conviction rate. In one year alone the district took three and one-half million dollars in narcotics off the streets.

    In the first phase of the program, visits were made to each ofthe 70 schools in the district. Officers were amazed at the amount of information they received from the students about narcotics and the narcotics traffic.

    In the second phase, an appeal was made to the businessmen of the district for support in obtaining literature to educate parents in what to look for in their children-signs that they were

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  • Watch Commander Lieutenant John Sullivan, Sergeants George Laughlin and Emmett Boyd, right to left, conduct roll call inspection.

    Officers relax while awaiting orders at roll call meeting.

    Officers Paul Valesquez, left, Walter Swierk and Cliff Penta have lively discussion before roll call.

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    Officers James Gorman and Margaret Hynes leave Mayor Michael Bilandic's home in Deering District area.

    Officer John Campbell

    using drugs of some kind. More than 100,000 copies of an eight-page color brochure were distributed door-to-door to each household in the district.

    There was a tremendous response and cooperation from the community.

    Officers received telephone calls and letters every day-information on where they could find pushers, where narcotics were being sold and who was involved. They investigated every complaint, every tip.

    In a five-month period between 25 Nov~mber 1975 to 30 April, 1976, as an example, officers arrested 163 persons, including 88 pushers, and obtained convictions on all of them, including penitentiary terms.

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  • Officers Frank O'Donnell, left, Thomas Cline and Martin Tyler conduct search for missing youngster at site of building demolition.

    Officer John Tedesco

    Officer Fred Knizner calls in on accident, left, while Officer Ray Peters directs

    Neighborhood Relations Officers George Heisler, left, and Gerald Sheehan talk to school Engineer JQhn Toolis at McClellan School, which Mayor Daley attended.

    traffic at scene.

    The community patrolled by the 9th District is mostly residential. Historically, the area became one of the first reception centers for Chicago's wave of immigrants who came here to work in the growing meat-packing industry which made Chicago known worldwide.

    The Irish came first , early in 1890. They were followed by the Germans, then the Poles, Lithuanians, Slovaks, Czechs, Bohemians, Italians, and Mexicans and others. Each group established its own ethnic settlement with its own church, spoke its own language and fol

    lowed its own culture. The story of how these immigrants

    sweated for 10 hours a day to earn 15 cents an hour in the steaming slaughter houses was etched brutally in the literature of that day-the most famous of which was Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle."

    The Stock Yards, formed in 1865 on 320 acres ofswampland which was then Chicago's southwest city limits, was the answer to Midwestern farmers who needed a centralized place to bring their anoimals to market for sale. In the year that followed the end of the Civil War, Captain John Macdonald

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  • White Sox fan Jim Corrigan talks to Officers Robert Jennings, left, John Fenell and Dennis Moss with Comiskey Park in background.

    19,180 cattle, hogs, sheep and horses were brought to the Stock Yards and sold.

    Ten years later, with the national railroads all converging on Chicago, the volume skyrocketed to more than five million-half of which were then reshipped elsewhere in the nation.

    By 1924 the yards had reached their zenith , handling 18,653,539 animals resulting in livestock and meat-packing fortunes for a munber of enterprising Chicago pioneers.

    The decline of the Chicago Stock Yards started in the 1930's with the growth of similar facilities in Omaha, Nebraska; Sioux City, Iowa and Kansas City, Mo. As the years went on, meat packers found it impossible to operate for profit in a highly competitive field using obsolete buildings and where high taxes, the density of structures and outmoded land uses made the processing and distribution of their products expensive. Eventually, they were forced to decentralize and re-Iocate in other areas.

    The first of the large meat-packing companies moved in 1953, establishing plants near farm areas where cattle and hogs were raised; and by 1960, all the large meat-packing companies were gone. The wooden pens where bawling cattle and squealing hogs had been housed, fed and watered for more than a century, stood empty and deserted, thus ending a colorful era in Chicago history .

    Since 1968, however, a revitalization of the old Stock Yards has been underway. An industrial complex with more

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    than 40 manufacturing plants and warehouses, now covers approximately 90 acres. And, recently , business leaders of the Stock Yards community met to form the Stock Yards Industrial Development Advisory Committee.

    The committee's goal is to realize the full potential of the area and to stimulate its economic redevelopment which is planned for the near future under Mayor Bilandic's Chicago Plan. Basis of the plan is a series of real estate tax incentives; reduction in land costs, government guaranteed financing and job training; public improvements; and other support programs.

    Officers Floyd Gills and John Bobko check lockup's sausage supply.

    Tactical Officers James Valentine, left, and Barry Yocum inventory stolen auto.

    Officer Alvia Maxwell

    Review Officers William Wagner and James Lawrence.

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  • Chicago Police S tar September 1978 7

    Deputy Chief

    Fred Rice

    New faces in top command

    Superintendent James E . O'Grady announced a number of changes in the command structure ofthe Department effective September 16. Eighteen officers were promoted to new positions and 15 others were reassigned laterally.

    Deputy Chief

    Richard Rochford

    NAME

    Robert Sheehan

    Leonard Zaleski

    Fred Rice

    John Jemilo

    Richard Rochford

    William Hanhardt

    James O'Neill

    Lemon Works

    John Corless

    Hector Hernandez

    Paul Jankowski

    Timothy Daly

    Daniel Coli

    Joseph McCarthy

    Juliet Gallet

    John Rafter

    William Murphy

    Patrick Clark

    William McCann

    George Sims

    Thomas Lyons

    Assistant DeputyNEW PROMOTIONS Superintendent

    FROM

    Commander 18th District

    Commander Criminal Investigation Division

    Commander 7th District

    Director Training Division

    Commander 17th District

    Commander 14th District

    Commander Criminal Investigation Division

    Lieutenant

    Captain

    Lieutenant

    Inspector

    Captain

    Captain

    Captain

    Captain

    Captain

    Captain

    Captain

    Leonard Zaleski

    TO NEW ASSIGNMENT

    Assistant Deputy Superintendent

    Assistant Deputy Superintendent

    Deputy Chief Patrol Division, Area 4

    Deputy Chief Patrol Division

    Deputy Chief Criminal Investigation Division

    Deputy Chief Criminal Investigation Division

    Deputy Chief Traffic Division

    Commander 2nd District

    Commander 8th District

    Commander 13th District

    Commander 14th District

    Commander 15th District

    Commander 16th District

    Commander 18th District

    Commander 23rd District

    Commander Internal Affairs Division

    Commander Criminal Investigation Division

    Director Training Division

    Deputy Chief

    John Jemilo

    Deputy Chief

    William Hanhardt

    Assistant Deputy

    Superintendent

    Robert Sheehan

    Deputy Chief

    James O'Neill

    REASSIGNED LATERALLY

    Deputy Chief Criminal Investigation Division Assistant Deputy Superintendent

    Deputy Chief Patrol Division Assistant Deputy Superintendent

    Deputy Chief Patrol Area 2 Deputy Chief Patrol Area 1

    (Co nti nued on page 8)

    Commander John Corless

    Commander

    Lemon Works

    Commander Hector Hernandez

    Commander

    Paul Jankowski

    Commander

    Timothy Daly

    Commander

    Daniel Coli

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  • Commander Commander Joseph McCarthy Julien Gallet

    (Continued from page 7)

    William Keating

    John Hartnett

    James Riordan

    Carl Dobrich

    Charles Pepp

    William Mooney

    Robert Williams

    Aurelio Garcia

    Michael Cooney

    Thomas Hanley

    James Reilley

    Edward Huckney

    Assistant Deputy Superintendent

    Deputy Chief Patrol Area 6

    Deputy Chief Traffic

    Assistant Deputy Superintendent

    Deputy Chief Patrol Division

    Deputy Chief Patrol Division

    Commander 11th District

    Commander 13th District

    Commander 16th District

    Commander 23rd District

    Commander Internal Affairs Division

    Assistant Deputy Superintendent

    Commander Commander John Rafter William Murphy

    Deputy Chief Patrol Area 2

    Deputy Chief Patrol Area 3

    Deputy Chief Patrol Area 5

    Deputy Chief Patrol Area 6

    Deputy Chief Special Operations Group

    Deputy Chief Traffic Division

    Commander 7th District

    Commander 11th District

    Commander 17th District

    Director Neighborhood Relations

    Commander Auto Theft

    Commander 3rd District

    Deputy Chief Deputy Chief James Riordon Carl Dobrich

    Director

    Thomas Hanley

    Commander

    Michael Cooney

    Director

    Patrick Clark

    Assistant Deputy

    Superintendent

    George Sims

    Deputy Chief

    Charles Pepp

    Commander

    James Reilley

    Assistant Deputy

    Superintendent

    William McCann

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    ~ Deputy Chief

    Thomas Lyons

    Deputy Chief

    William Mooney

    Commander

    Edward Buckney

    Deputy Chief Deputy Chief

    William Keating John Hartnett

    Commander

    Aurelio Garcia

    Commander

    Robert Williams

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  • THE BLUE

    "And at this time of the year, you run into congested

    highways, loaded motels, poor fishing-."

    003: The 3rd District extends a warm welcome to Captain R. McCann and P.O. R. Stewart. Also to recently graduated recruits W. Cochran, E. Gilmore, A. Jackson, W. Lesco, M. Pelka, D. Rosinski, F. Wheaton, and J. Callaghan. We look forward to many years of pol ice service with them ... With sad hearts we say farewell to P.O. 's M. Mullen, D. Strandberg, J. Crowley, R. Carten and W. Jones. Our loss is your new unit's gain ... Two Explorer Scouts from the 3rd District's Post 9064 ranked in the "Top Ten" of CVS High School's 1978 graduation class of 750 students. A. Harris was fourth while R. Alexander finished eighth. Great going! But don't stop now, a college degree could add a vast dimension to your future ... P.O. C. Smith was recently awarded a Master's degree in Corrections from Chicago State Uni

    . versity. A lot of effort and energy went into the completion of work for the degree. Congratulations! We know your wife Barbara is really proud ... Commendations for excellent police work were awarded to 003 personnel in three separate incidents: Patrol Specialists A. Schubert and Sgt. A. Singletary for the arrest of three armed suspects involved in the robbery of a tavern; P.O.'s F. Atwood, D. Dixon, S. Lacey and W. Zerane for the arrest of an armed suspect in the robbery of a restaurant; and P.O.'s R. Armstrong, P. Bryant, and F. Vlahovich for quick action in helping evacuate persons from a multiple apartment complex wh ich was destroyed by fire. These outstanding officers and the incidents for which they received their awards are only a small sample of the tremendous work being done by street officers at 003. Keep up the fine work . .. N. James, Community Service Unit, was selected as an assistant coordinator for the 003 District Beat Representative Program ... Congratulations to all new sergeants, especially to those promoted from 003 : G. Black, G. Courchene, A. Hite, and A. Singletary. Also to J. Delapaz, U. Honesty, J. May, J. McCloud, and A. Muszynski who were transferred in after their new appointments ...

    P.O. Robert P. Brown

    006: Most summer vacations are over and some remarks from our world travelers are in order . .. J. Meseck, on his trip to Mt. Rushmore, said, "the mountains were beautiful but some jerk carved some faces in it" . .. Bob Gallaway, whi Ie sunbathing in Hawaii, was mistaken for a beached whale and the tourists kept pushing him in the water .. . Bill Kluth, just back from the Ozarks, bought "by mistake" a bottle of local moonshine which actually starts his powermower . . . Wayknee Heimann, who decided a change of scenery would do him a world of good, went home . . . Guirk's softball team is winning

    again and it was George Gainer's idea that did it-they put a case of beer in the visiting team's dugout before each game ... My pal , Jack Thulis, made sergeant, went to 018, and de- . cided that now is thetimetostart jogging, lifting weights, and working-out in an all-out effort to get a date for his promotion party ... Sgt. Murphy finally got Jim Nielsen to admit what we all knew. Jim played too many games without his helmet .. . Tact Sgt. J. McNulty, after working all three teams, now knows why Sgt. Rongeau talks to himself on the way toand from work .. . Our guy Ken Freyer (famous for once eating a bowl ing ball) broke his arm and said if the other one would have been broken, he would finally know who true his friends are ... Harvey Cole, who has so much energy to burn he once prayed for rain to put out his garage fire, is now into paying Stankus to walk across the street to buy his cigarettes . . . Dutch Kimball, who used our boat to take every blonde on the South Side for a tour of our lakefront, says he would have let me on board this·· summer but there wasn't any room. Jack Walsh did manage to get his family on board but shared it with several of Ronnie's secretaries and business associates! . . .

    P.O. Bob Angone

    007: Hi my darlings ... Department Commendations to Charles Cod ina, Robert Davie, Dennis Berg, Walter Wronski, and Paul Bernatek ... 58 Honorable Mentions, Seventh Period, with FIRST to : Bradley, R. Williams, Poe, Arnold, Rct. Lanigan, Jennifer Jones, Chrismon, Ford, Barry, Jedlowski, Meier, Pustay, Rudd, Walsh, Wm. Murphy, Ramirez, McCarroll, Mayfield, and Sgt. 's Schultz and Shaw. Fine work, officers! .. . Nominee for P.O. of the Month wasJalal Ally .. . Parade mag. nominee was J. Crenshaw ... J.C. second quarter nominees were Isadore and Ophair Williams and Ally ... "Best dressed' for second quarter-Janice Martin . .. Get well wishes to R.L. Jones .. . Deepest sympathy to R. Johnson, Hunt, Zelazik, and Margie Phillips on your recent loss . .. Super Seven Stork" busted

    his beak" with these li ' l ones : Neal Joseph Evans, Gerald Patrick Robinson, Michael Anthony Cushing, and double trouble with Joseph Nathaniel and Timothy Todd (dad Richard, mom Bonnie) Wisniewski, with ONE li'l Tabitha Jean Peebles joining sister Tesha, who share same birthdate! Welcome my darlings . .. Welcome Sgt. Rowe, Wilkins, Russell, Lyles, Wilson to SUPER SEVEN

    Now SUPER congrats to the following: Capt. Sheahan (25 yrs. Chgo's Finest) ; Fred Herr Jr. (seven yrs. with CPD) and wife Janet; my niece Nancy Farrell (grad. Hinsdale High School) ; and P.O .'s Ruby Mastin, Pat Salvatore, and Marie Woods, Area 3 Youth (rescued two-year-old child from second-story window ledge) . . . Fourth Youth Corps Talent Show Certificate of Appreciation was presented to Kennedy-King College Malcolm X Band . .. Rct. Grads. to SEVEN : Flores, Joyce Kimbrough, T. Lanigan, McArdle, Janice Murphy, V. Reynolds, and H.A. McCarthy ... Prof. Certificate to Sgt. Clisham, and P.O.'s Paulson, Sadauskas, Norise, Vaughn, Nolan, Ribich, W. Wright, and Sherwin ... "Hi" to a former co-worker-now P.O. Helen Rusinskas (Youth/Narcotics) ... There are three ingredients in the good life-learning, earning, and yearning ... Toodles and ten-four . . .

    Rita Jeanne Pope

    009: Welcome to the 9th District Lt.S Andrew Helton and Thad Kelly and Sgt.'s Henry Crump, Curtis Jackson, and William Johnson . .. Good luck to Jim Fennesy and R. Nelson who were recently promoted to sergeant . . . Also, best of everything to P.O.'s E. Pochie, C. Hecyner, and R. Spreyne who were transferred to other units ... Our condolences to Sgt. E. Bogdan on the death of his mother-in-law ... Get well wishes to Lt. R. Clarke ... Congratulations to P.O. Don Lyman and wife Marie on the birth of Don Jr.... always doing a great job and rarely mentioned are the lockup keepers-P.O.'s M. Toma, R, Palumbo, F. Damico, J. Felman, J. Kelnoski, and F. Flaxmeyer

    P .O.'s Gerald Sheehan and George Heisler

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  • anyone heard the rumor that Tony Ortolano has marriage plans? Also that Capt. Walter Scott is looking for an inexpensive pool table, and Lt. Gorski is looking for a discount diesel service station ... The "Squared-away kid" reports someone stole his pigknuckles, and Ray Trezise has nothing to report from Capt. Connolly's watch . .

    P.O. Phil Brady

    020: Eddie and Katie Collins recently celebrated 25 years of wedded bliss. Their second honeymoon was spent in the Bahamas. Congratulations ... Newlyweds: Phil and Connie Kalas, Tom and Pattie Boyce, Frank (Peaches) and Pat Buttitta, and Sgt. Jim Peterson and Rosemary . .. Second son for Dominic and Kathleen DiMatteo-Kyle Joseph ... The "Bang Gang" (Stan Gams and Fred Bosse) won the I PA State Championship in shooting in eight locations throughout the state with more than 300 shooters participating. This is the third year in a row that the Bang Gangwon. Keep up the good work! ... Get well wishes to Sgt. John Ryan and P.O. Elmer Warpinski .. . New sergeants : Bill Merritt, Ed Veth, and Jim Juhas (Joe's brother) ... Newly assigned to 020: Lt. LeRoy Anderson and P.O. Larry Hippert . . . Congratulations to new P.O.'s Ed Brennan, Jim Costello, Dave Devogelear, Dale Distel, Macklin Martin, Dan Rivera, and Carlos Varela ... Our deepest sympathy to the family of Quintin Muntaner ... CPR training is very helpful as Gordon Barnhill found out while eating dinner in a restaurant. He observed a woman choking on a piece of food that had lodged in her windpipe. Gordon used the Heimlich method and was able to dislodge the food preventing serious consequences and possible death . Good luck to Clem Angell who, after 23 years of service, has retired ... A poll was taken in the district and the results were unanimousCommander John Stibich is the best commander the 20th District has ever had (the results were per orders of the DC) . . . Good I uck to retiree Sgt. Wendell Byrnes ... Bob Skrzypek recently

    returned from a 16 day safari in Rhodesia and South Africa. His souvenirs included an elephant and a buffalo cape. A buffalo cape?

    Congratulations to Mary Theresa Jefferies (father Bob) and Brian Conway who were recently married ... Department Commendations were awarded to Sgt. Fred Bosse, Jim Nutoni, and Bobby Stevens who apprehended three offenders wanted for a burglary in progress. Their immediate response resulted in all property being recovered .. .

    Carol Utterback

    021: Latest sight seen in 021: P.O. Brooks, car

    010: Good luck to P.O.'s Tom Kelly, John Naujokas and Raynor Ricks in their new assignments as E.T.'s ... Congrats to our newly appointed Sergeants Jim McMullin and Marshall Andrews ... Welcome aboard ... Sgt. 's Jesse Acosta, Danny Benoit, Timothy Dunmore and Harley Schinker ... Get well wishes to John McNeely, James Brew and Sgt. Richard Lavery . . . Lieut. Dick Tracy looks great after a week of R.&R. at Mercy Hospital ... It was a pleasure having Capt. John Morrissey with us for a short time. All the best in his new assignment at 006 ... Sincere condolences to Capt. Edward Dwyer and P.O.'s Jerry Montana and Joe Pipolo on their recent loss ... On behalf of Bea and George Sperekas, many thanks to everyone who attended and participated in the party held recently .

    Darlene Gniadek

    birth of their son George Joseph IV ... Best 015: Best wishes to P.O.'s Dolan and Graffeo who wishes to Capt. Paul Blaney on his retirement. were recently promoted to investigator ... Rid Now, he will be looking for those checks in the dle of the Month: What 15th District lieutenant, mail ... P.O. Rich Gauble and P.O. Iver Johnson on his first fish ing trip, caught a 7¥2 lb. Northern have been promoted to investigator and are and subsequently had to visit the outhouse? . currently in school ... Welcome back to 017 to Congratulations to Jayne (beautiful daughter of Sgt. AI Lindahl, the ex-ballplayer, and to Lt. P.O. August Cutrara) who was recently married O'Hara from 015 ... Commander Richard

    . Hurry back cheers are extended to P.O. Rochford is following the Supt's idea on keepingJulius Finocchio who is presently on the med ical fit by riding his bike to work. The real mystery is role ... Out of the many picnics hosted by the how does he get back home? ... Good luck to various watches within the 15th District, rumor P.O. Garry Pearson who went to the MTU has it that there was a two-way tie for the first P.O. Jerry Malatesta was awarded Dress-Wright, place trophy for "The Walsh Brothers oops, that's Dress-Right Award. He is better Award" ... Rumor has it that Brooks, while on known as Officer Love ... Clar Liszkowski is our 8th Period furlough, was learning to ride a pumping iron man filling in as the Abandon Auto motorcycle. Watch out, Joe! ... Sadness was Man ... P.O. Bob Michael finally broke 100 felt by the entire district when Lieutenant since this reporter helped him with his golf William Moyer was reassigned to Area 6. Lt. game. Those Armenians are hard to teach ... Moyer, a very gentle man , will be missed by us P.O . Mike (The Toe) Bolger is trying to get his all .. . Honorable Mentions for the month were body in shape for next season .. . Why does awarded to: Raggs, Orr, Ladow, Nightingale, Norm (Boring) Taylor always look so busy? ... McGovern, Kosirog, Cymbalisty, Keller, Mertes, P.O. Bill Peterson says he lost 351bs. But where? Pedersen, Kane, Goff, Bartkiewicz, Raines, Bow .. P.O. Sheila Burke hopes the Dept. will go to ers, Magnine and Sgt. Eddie King ... Chevy Novas so that she can drive and be able to

    Ernestine Dowell see over the hood . .. This is the lOOth request for you guys to get me some info for this column .

    016: Welcome aboard to Sergeants Charles Bat PLEASE! .. . How come that Camaro with the tersby, Terry Breslin, Thomas Chandler and P .O.'s sun roof is still sitting on the lot on Cicero Ave? Richard French, Joseph Gorzkowski, Casimir . Welcome back to all those from their furPawelek and Ellen McDermott. The latter three lough. Nice to be back, right? .. Bill Stanton are recent Academy graduates and, thanks to has been affectionately re-named Wilbur Wood their superior training by our patrol specialists, and thats easy to see why ... Our new Italian they were right at the top of their class ... Whi Ie duo on the 3-wheels are Ralph Scavone and RayCommander Michael Cooney enjoyed a brief va Trunzo ... Not much elsegoingon, so until next cation his place was capably taken by Capt. period .. . Thomas Green . . . Edward Sarafin just received P.O. Rick Klasen his Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts making his

    019: This column starts with recognition to the wife Carol proud of him. Keep going higher Big Ed! . . . The softball team still remains un

    officers of the 019th District who have been beaten thanks to the dedication and ability of all doing such a great job fighting crime. A highly team members. It looks like another championpublicized murder case was solved by Tacticalship for 016 .. . Lou Bruzzini, along with wife Officers John Fitzsimmons and Ray Bickel ... InMarge and chi Idren, took a leisurely tri p out west another homicide case an instant arrest wasto California ... Roy Ott spent part of his furlo in made by P.O.'s Bill Dorsch, Rick Young, LeonardCalifornia and at a lodge on Spider Lake, WisYunker and Tom Ward ... A multiple clear-upconsin . It seems Billy Richards and Bob and arrest of a robbery gang, who shot at the (Cushman) Schmidt wanted to join Roy in Wisc., victims, was made after a car chase. The arrests

    but were unable to find the lodge ... Michael were made by P.O.'s G. Dvorsky, P. Gutierrez, N.Starsiak took the big step by marrying lovely Holzinger and B. Richter. A speedy prosecution Mary Beth. That Mike sure can pick 'em. Sgt. sent the offenders directly to the Illinois StateMcFadden had fun at the wedding and, accord

    . Pen ... P.O. Art Smith (and associates) made a ing to Gary O'Hara, also at Mike's bachelor party unique auto theft arrest . .. Good luck and best

    P.O. Paul Petrowsky wishes in Florida to Sergio Tomacelli ... A recent stork visit brought a six lb. 12 oz. girl

    017: Our baseball team went undefeated in the named Caryn Lynn to Steve and Cher Oliva ... second round .. . Congratulations to P.O. Sgt. Don Roth became a grandfather when his George Sweeny and his wife, Ann Louise, on the son Brian presented hi m with Brian Jr. ... Has

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  • rying a bottle down Drexel with a mermaid in it! ... A speedy recovery to P.O.'s A. Stanfa and W. Purvis, both sidelined with severe illness ... It's good to see D. Bridges back after surgery kept her away from her many chores ... Congrats to Sgt. Stack, A. Stanfa and C. Nawrocki on being recipients of a Department Commendation. Ditto to P.O. F. Kajari on his promotion to the rank of investigator ... Also Sgt. W. Williams on his receiving a salute from the Burglary Unit, because of his investigative experience. He was able to recover thousands of dollars worth of merchandise which had been stolen ... There is some progress in Detention Aide Singleton's singing. He is now backed up by a wounded cocker spaniel! ... The latest locker room gossip is that P.O. A. Howard is going to appear at the Arie Crown in 1980 backed by none other than P.O. S. Watson (known on Beale St. as the "Bird" ... With Sgt. Manning back on the streets could this be the second comi ng of Field Marshall Rommel? ... With the 021st District ballclub playing eight games over the .500 mark, there might be play-off fever in the air!

    . Condolences to the family of P.O. C. Black, who passed away ... Fun in the sun: Civ's J. Bowman who left for Paris to do some shopping, and B. Sygar who left for the Virgin Islands ... Because he can speak eight different languages, P.O. B. Slappey is being considered as a successor to Andy Young as the U. N .Ambassador .. . "Partners of the Year" Award will go to P.O. 's P. Townsend and J. Days for their understanding of each other! ...

    P.O. Hollis Dorrough

    l

    022: Hello again folks! Back with you for another go around of fun-filled facts and fancy ... This month has produced much in the baby department-Jim and Barbara Cotter had a son Steven; Matthew Shea said hello to his parents Tom and Sheila; and Jim and Margaret O'Brien had a daughter, Elizabeth. A couple of friends from 007 also became parents -Bob "Emmet" Evans and his wife Marge added Neil Joseph to the fold, and Bill and Gerry O'Connor had a girl, Elizabeth ... The First Annual 22nd District Golf Outing was held and everyone had a great time. John Touhy beatJack Ferriter in a play-offlo take top honors and Greg Brobsberg broke a hundred twice, ending up at 215. Bob " Face" Anderson also shot real well coming in at 193. Every golfer participated in the "closest to the hole" contest which was won by our Golden Greek, George Dumas. The food and drinks were plentiful but nobody got intoxicated (ha, hal and nobody lied about their golf game ... John Griffin got married and Frank Nelligan (Area 4 HIS) was there with his wife, Denise. Frank wanted to

    f make sure that he was mentioned because I left him out last year when writing about Joe Griffin's wedd ing. A big contingent of folks from the station were there enjoying themselves, led by Jim Knightly, Jerry Shannon, Mike Carroll, Terry McMahon, and yours truly. Notables from other units included Tom Tansey (005) , Bob Cornfield (Area 2 HIS), Bill O'Connor and Bob Evans (007), Tony Mickel (002), Denny Cullom (GCI D), Tom Carroll (006), and groom's brother, Joe (Area 2 HIS) ... Since the list of finalists in the shortest P.O. contest was announced, plenty of new names were thrown at me. It seems that the finalists weren't all that happy being named and insisted that John Petramala defin itely belonged on the list. Joe was the only person at the golf outing who didn't get a door prize and that was because he couldn't reach the table they were

    on ... It seems as though the well has run dry for now, so I'll leave you with a closing thought-don't do it in the park ...

    P.O. Jim Molloy

    023: Well, 023 did it again! Bruce James and Katie Riley are now Mr. and Mrs. and, unofficially speaking, I understand that there is more to come ... Welcome to our new Neighborhood Relations Sergeant John Motzny. I'm sure the tactical team's loss will certainly be our gain. Good news! Midge Tranchita is out of the hospital ... Welcome to Hati Neris, who is usually the only person you wi II find smi ling behind the desk on the third watch ... Also a big welcome to our new Beat Representative staff -Annette Jungheim, Cheryl Govia, and Gilda Aviles ... Deputy Chief John Hartnett and Commander Thomas Hanely presented 17 Department Commendations to outstanding members of 023 . The recipients were A. Frank, T. Madsen, W. Johnson, T. McGady, T. Kotlarz, J. DeBartolo, James Devereaux, P. Flynn, R. Hargesheimer, W. Morris, J. Beaudion, M. McCotter, F. Reeger, Sgt. D. Waldhier, and SGT. J. Eckner ... Also receiving Department Commendations recently were T. McQueeny, L. Newson, J. Laskero, and R. Castrovillari . . . Get well, Wayne Delahanty That's all for now, send me some news for the next edition or I might make some up ...

    P.O. Rob Sarnowski

    Communications: Welcome aboard to P.O. Claude BOWden, David Cygan, Jay Kaplan James West and to Disp. Aides H. Biernat, C. Cephas, C. Davis, P.E. Feeley, P. Franco, G. Holmes, J.D. Maybauer, W.B. Shire, M. Taylor, B.L. Ward, S. Whitington, and Oscar Williams. May your stay be a happy one ... Congratulations to W. Buckner, E. Gully, J.J. Lyons, D.H. Myers, and R.E. Warnke who were recently promoted to dispatchers ... Good luck to George Jenkins, promoted to i nvestigator; Mike Maratto and John Buck on your adventures ... Get well wishes to Chester Stiegal, A. Tranchita, H. Benford, Disp. Aide J.R. Raddis, Nola Digby, and K. McCannon ... Our deepest sympathy to Sgt. John Cummings, Disp. AideJack Long, and William Hercules on the loss of loved ones ... Disp. Aide Nilda Quiles has been eating a lot of watermelon this summer . She is expecting in February .. . Congratuations to John Ciszek on his Honorable Mention he received for his quick resp'onse on the radio in a chase which cleared up many auto thefts. . Joe Carney is bringing his lunch and riding the bus. He just married off his daughter ... Congratulations to Sgt. Oliver Jones and Nap Hunter who took first

    and second place basketball trophies in the CPA Basketball Tournament Also congratulations to our golf team: Bailey, Brinkman, Koziol, Mahoney, Ward, Craigmiles, Weaton, Watson, Duffy, and Lyons. They are in the CPD Golf League. Despite a slow start, they are in a good position for a playoff spot ... Fly the friend;" skies are the feelings at Communications. Lt. Robert McCann, Tony Spear, Hank Schneider all have a pilot license. Frank Varallo and Spreyne will be joining them shortly. Since Joe Carney received his navigator wings, Spear is always on the right course. John Krettler's son, Tom, is a certified CFII instructor. He is one of the few who can teach instrument flying ... Until next month , stay well ...

    Disp. Mitch Bruski

    Criminalistics: Former E.T. Edward Shaughnessy was hospitalized recently and we wish him a speedy recovery. Ed retired recently after more than 25 years with the CPD. Following his retirement, Ed 's star number (7514) was given to his son, P.O. Edward Shaughnessy Jr. of the 9th District. Ed also is the brother of Dorothy Daly of the Firearms Identification Section ... Honorable Mentions this month went to Mobile Unit Tech's Norbert Rajewski and Carl Chatman ... New assignments to the Mobile Unit include Tech's Thaddeus Melko and John Jarvis .. . Welcome to new Lab personnel: Mike Lavizzo, Mike Zefeldt, and Wade Crosson ... The Microanalysis Section has been on vacation whi Ie Sgt. Vitullo has been serving as Acting Director.

    Tech .Iohn Stout

    Radar: Well gang, it's that time of the year again and your part time secretary J.J . is at it again · .. Speakingof secretaries, Charlie Jenkins and fami Iy have been seen running on the Florida beaches ... George Schell is giving dancing lessons at the Wagon ... Our softball team is gearing up for the play-offs, especially since we've optioned two players, Langer and Crawley, to our AA team in Pontiac, III. A third player was to be optioned but a certain lieutenant from M.T.A.I.S. with the initials T.E. interceeded on his behalf. Must be niceto have friends, eh Bob? · .. Special welcome to newcomers AI Krajecke, Tony lito and Bob Maloney ... XYZ held his annual house warming. . Art Lindahl has invited everyone in the unit to his new summer home in Cristy Lake, Michigan ... Kugelman is trying to talk lito into giving him a ride to Art's via Lake Michigan ... Norm Angelo and Dell McCue have been seen lurking around Bell Tel facili ties hoping to land a job answering phones. Seems as if all positions are filled over here ...

    P.O. Jack Jecewicz

    Area 4 CID: Central Autos welcomes Inv.'s Bernard Weisman, Anthony Pierotti, Edward Strandberg and Raymond Krull ... Congrats to Lt. O'Malley on becoming the grandfather (first time) of a fine baby boy ... Special congratulations to Arletha Barnes, daughter of Edythe Barnes, for being an outstanding graduate. Arletha was in the "Who's Who" book of distinguished high school students and will be attending Loyola University majoring in medicine · .. Burglary welcomes Inv.'s L.M. Nitsche, Walter Dudycz and Kenneth Urban ... Good luck to Inv. Paul Ruther at Area 6 Burglary ... Sgt. Giovenco spent his furlough in Italy visiting his family ... Condolences to the family of retired GIA I nvestigator Steve Novak who recently passed away ... I nv. James Wetherald spent two

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  • weeks in Nova Scotia with his wife and family ... The guys at Area 4 played an all-girl baseball team ... Inv. Gerald Dorich says his Wonder Hog (parachute) works. He found out the hard way ... Good luck to Sgt. John J. Mahoney (J.J.) who left us for a new job in Prostitution ... Get well wishes to I nv.'s Anthony Giralamo and Stewart Alderson ... Homocidel Sex welcomes I nv.'s Steven Peterson and Bruce McElrath ... Good luck to Inv. Kenny Spink at Area 6 HIS and Inv. Wade Crosson at Criminalistics ... Get well wishes to Sgt. Boeger and Inv.'s Terry Gainer and William Strocchia ... Robbery welcomes Inv.'s Jimmie Williams and Gary Bulava ... General Assignments welcomes Sgt. Edward Louis and Inv. Louis Elzy ... A new golfer is born! After five outings, Lt. Granato is shooting in the 90's. No wonder, with a 36 handicap! ...

    Larvell L. Goodall

    Data Systems: "Lightsl Camera! Action! Roll 'em!" were directions recently given to Sgt. James Stampnick (Research and Development Section) and his wife, P.O. Arlene Stampnick (014), on Channel 7's A.M. Chicago program. They were among the married couples, working in the same profession, interviewed by hostess Sandy Freeman ... Vacationing Carlos Mackey disco'd all night and "did his thing" in sunny Jamaica ... Co-workers of Bill Burke (Systems) can rent a pushcart and sell green onions in Holden Court "come spring." That "Ii'l ole square dancin'" gardener.recently distributed a sack of replantable bu Ibs throughout the Department. Whew! Maybe the aroma will knock off those huge spiders off the ceiling ... Happy birthday to our artistic Libran Wilbur Rouson and to our suave, debonair Virgo Ben Mashaw and John Struska ... Chas. Farina suddenly rea I ized he was not John Travolta when he slipped and sprained his ankle on a "spot of grease" ... "Rookie Superstar" Emil Selefski suffered the following injuries playing softball this summer: sprained ankle, spiked foot, sunstroke, and jammed thumb and knee. Now he's taking up bowling for the winter. Please use a one ounce ball, kid, a Rocky you're not ..

    Ethel Streeter

    Youth Division: Welcome aboard the Starship Youth Division with Commander Harold Thomas in charge. As we cruise to our six areas we would like to welcome a board newcomers R. Joyner a nd G. Booth to 071. The welcome mat is also out to R. Strickland, (072). I understand that he's doing a marvelous job at the desk. And Sgt. A. Palka (072), we're glad to have you ... A. Davis (073) retired, A. Poole (073) transferred to 138, F.lsabelle (073) is on DPR. Good luck to all ... Congratulations to M. Olson (184) on her wedding engagement, and to A. Leybourne (076) on her engagement to J. Erwin ... The stork deli vered Neil toA. Burke (O7l) weighing in at 71b. 1 oz ... D. Bandes (073) is grandma for the 10th time. Thanks John C. for the info ... Welcome back to C. Kilgore and W. Zeilenga of 072, havi ng recovered from surgery, and 1. Harley (072) after a short illness. It's good to see you! ... B Ward and J. Kinahan of 072 are 10D. Wishes for a speedy recovery is sent to them ... Sgt. O'Shea ismindingthestorewhile Lt. Byrne isawayfrom 073, and he's doing a good job, I do believe ... Condolences are extended to Lt. W. Mahon and Sgt. J. Borghese of 184 on the death of their brothers ... N. Connor (076), A. McCann (072),

    and I. Nutter (072) are on the waiting list for the stork ... M. Robinson and J. Iwanski of 184 won $500 each in the "Three of a Kind" Instant Lottery. How about that for our 2nd watch? Maybe there's a chance for me ...

    Adline Bracey

    Electrical and Motor Maintenance Div.: The Welcome Mat! A cordial reception for Bob Dematteo, Liam Henry, John Lehner, Dan McDarrah, Norma Robertson, Lynn Siovin, Donald Wilbourn, and Ben Yedor ... Congratulations to Bruno Roti upon his promotion to machinist foreman ... Speedy recoveries to Jay Chval (Bill), Ron Podolak, Hugh Sweeney, and John Wieczorek ... The Mamas and the Papas: Vince and Kim Pesha to Dana Marie ... August Geriatrics: Jamie Flynn, Ruth Turner, Tom Henry, and Fred Beckett ... Genevieve West a nd Ruth Turner a ppoi ntment is dated 17 years ago with the Department. Sorry, no shares ... John (Jonathan), hurry back! We can't remember which street Canada is on! ... Pen Type: Chubs, what is your maiden name? ... Is it true that P.A. is in the remake of "Star Trek?" ... Can you visualize J.E.R. with platinum hair? ... Good news and good health

    Genevieve West, Jai Robinson and Toni Kurelic

    Area 1 Traffic: Hank Healy started his police career under one Capt. Matt Murphy. Now, 27 years later, he is retiring under William Murphy, Matt's son ... Well, all the king's horses and all the king's men finally put Tommy McKenna back together again. (Hurry back to work, Tom.) ... Jim (Big Bucks) Conway spared no expense when he took his wife to a beer-drinking contest at the Elks Club ... C. Galey is living proof you can't stay young forever, but you can be immature indefinitely ... Dick Shinners is Bob Angone's idol ... With all the policewomen at the Police Academy, maybe they will start having proms before graduation ... Dennis Manzella told me that there are only three meter maids in Area 1 that are prettier than Harry Krope ... John Moore is the only policeman I know who wears an ankle holster with Bermuda shorts ... Showalter is opening a Magic Shop in Chinatown. He is going to call it Foo-Ling-U ... No one has ever seen R.

    Lebak without a cigar in his mouth ... Ray (Whiplash) Cooley is now suing a wino who bumped into him somewhere inside the 2nd District ... H. Zych thought punk rock was a meeting place in the County Jail ... Loch Ness has its monster and Alaska has Big Foot. Once again, the Phantom Ford was spotted on the Dan Rya n ... Zarley told me Russ Genaze has the tallest flag pole in Mountain Home, Arkansas ... Bob O'Connor retired. It seems we are losing all the good guys ... Larry Nitsche is an Area 4 Burglary investigator now ... Lt. Woods and Lt. Craven are going to arm wrestle to see who works midnights for the 13th period ... Sgt. Darcy is on a health kick. He started smoking better cigars ... Golab won a lawsuit against a good citizen who wrongfully accused him of drinking on duty ... Booker (the Looker) Curry refers to Bill Burrell as "Black History" ... Patterson and Banks are saving a lot of money these days buying generic vodka ... Happy birthday to anyone who had a birthday ... Lt. Williams would like to thank everyone on the 3rd watch for not rocking the boat too much ...

    P.O. Eddie Ryan

    lAD: Congratulations to Deputy Superintendent Walter Murphy on his recent appointment. Best of luck sir ... Also a hearty welcome to Sgt.'s John Farrell, and James Smith and Marcia Bradberry and Pat Buick who are assigned to the Typing Pool ... Best of luck to Sgt. Robert Jennings on his new assignment and congratulations to Sgt.'s Wayne Hovland and Thomas Leonard on their recent promotions ... Good luck to Theresa Ripoli on her recent retirement and to Margie Harrison who left to have her little bundle. Good luck, Margie ... Barbara Jarmon decided to see what California is all about ... A big congratulations to two proud grandparents: Stan Barkouskas (granddaughter Erin Maureen) and Mary Howard (granddaughter Kellie Ann) ... Mike Studenroth has a new part-time job crushing stones ... Lt. Ronald Moran checks in twice a day with Rumor Command and leaves talking to himself ... The Advocate's Office welcomes Sgt. Franklin Smith and yes, it's true George Gottlieb really is gone ...

    P.O. Frank Cascio

    RECENT RETIREMENTS

    Following officers retired recently from Department after years of honorable

    service. They have the good wishes of Department colleagues and friends.

    Name Unit Age

    P.O. Clem B. Angell .................... 020 ...... 54

    Lt. Richard M. Barrett .................. 022 ...... 55

    Capt. Paul J. Blaney .............. . ..... 017 ...... 53

    Inv. William T. Breen ................... 614 ...... 53

    Lt. Joseph P. Byrne ..................... 017 ...... 55

    P.O. James R. De Maria ............. . ... DPR ...... 53

    P.O. Walter Dworak ..................... 157 ...... 57

    P.O. Eugene M. Friedrich .... . ..... . .... 049 ...... 63 P.O. Henry J. Healy .................... 081 ...... 57

    P.O. Charles Hicks ..................... 021 ...... 53

    Sgt. James T. Kinsella .................. 010 ...... 54

    Lt. Daniel F. Leahy ..................... 006 ...... 63

    P.O. John R. Massey ............... . . ... 050 ...... 54

    P.O. Edward Shaughnessy ............... 187 ...... 59

    P.O. Henry J. Wiese .................... 008 ...... 58

    P.O. Raymond W. Wittenberg ............ 057 ...... 57

    Years of Date of Service Retirement

    ....... 23 1 August

    ....... 31 ....... 16 August

    ....... 31 ... . ... 15 August

    ....... 27 ....... 18 August

    ....... 31 ....... 26 August

    ....... 26 1 August

    ....... 31 ....... 1 August

    ....... 27 ....... 21 August

    ....... 27 ....... 29 August

    ....... 25 ....... 16 August

    ....... 31 ....... 22 August

    ....... 30 ....... 11 August

    ....... 31 ....... 10 August

    ....... 31 ....... 1 August

    ... . ... 31 ....... 2 August

    ....... 30 ....... 19 August

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  • D PARTMENT COMME DATIONS

    Three 7th District officers have been

    presented Department Commendations for their continued excellence on patrol displayed during a recent police period.

    Officers Den nis B e rg, Wa lte r Wronski, and P aul Bernatek made nine arrests for grand auto theft and recovered eight stolen cars. In addition, they have made several other arrests-nine for unlawful use of a weapon, two for burglary, two for criminal trespassing, one for damage to property and one for possession of stolen property.

    Through their conscientious performance while on patrol, the officers made street stops which resulted in the clearing of 50 arrest warrants.

    * * *

    Responding to a broadcast of a robbery of a service station on the 1900 block of West 69th Street, Officers Charles Codina and Robert Davie, 7th District, were provided with descriptions ofthe two offenders and their automobile, including the license number by the Communications Center.

    While en route to the licensee's address on the 7800 block of South Hermitage Avenue, the officers observed two men fitting the description of the offenders. One suspect was carrying a violin case. The officers stopped the man and questioned them. A protective search revealed the violin case contained a sawed-off shotgun.

    When the officers told the men that they were under arrest, one man drew a revolver and fired at Davie. Codina returned fire and wounded the gunman. Both offenders surrendered.

    The officers found the automobile parked nearby and discovered that its owner was locked in the trunk. When released, the man told the officers that the offenders had stolen it at gunpoint and then locked him inside.

    * * *

    Sergeant John Conroy and Officers Clemente Acevez, Martin Anderson, Jalal Ally, and Peter Cr uz, 7th District, responded to a broadcast of a man with a gun on West Garfield Boulevard and South Ada Avenue. Upon arrival, the officers were told by a citizen that two men, one armed with a shotgun and the other with a revolver, had been seen

    walking west on Garfield Boulevard. The officers obtained descriptions and went in search of the offenders.

    During their search, a second citizen hailed them and said that two gunmen had just forced their way into his house to commit an armed robbery. He said that he had escaped but that the offenders had threatened to kill other members of his family.

    The officers took up positions around the building and observed one gunman emerge from the rear. The officers ordered the man to surrender. Instead, the man aimed his weapon at the officers, who fired. The offender dropped his weapon and fled back to the building. Other officers had taken advantage of the confusion and led the other victims to safety from a window.

    The officers then ordered the offenders to surrender. One of the gunmen fired and, after repeated warnings, the officers entered the building and subdued the offenders.

    * * *

    While patroling the area of 63rd and Halsted Streets, Officers Harry Ga ines and Herman Brooks, 7th District, were approached by a woman informing them that a man was acting suspiciously in a nearby currency exchange. The suspect was said to have been

    watching women as they cashed their checks.

    The officers walked to the scene and observed the man run from the store. They pursued the suspect as he ran into a dimly lit vacant building. As Gaines entered the building, the suspect fired four shots at the officer, who returned fire. The offender then ran from the building and threw his weapon away.

    Brooks recovered the weapon and, joined by Gaines, apprehended the offender as he attempted to enter another building. The man was later identified as being wanted for murder and armed robbery.

    * * * Officers Ray mon d Stampni ck,

    R obert Ustaszewski, and Jose ph Dr asutis, of the 14th District, recently responded to a broadcast of a triggered burglar alarm in a store on the 4100 block of West North Avenue. The officers were informed by the owner that two men had just robbed him at gunpoint and then fled on foot.

    On the 1500 block of North Karlov Avenue, the officers observed two men resembling the offenders entering an automobile. As the officers approached, one man drew a revolver and aimed itat Stampnick. The officer quickly aimed his revolver at the offender and ordered him to throw down his weapon. The man

    Superintendent James O'Grady accepts check from Howard L. Willett Foundation to provide scholarship for Chicago police officer to attend Northwestern University Traffic Institute for 1978-79 school year. From left are officials of Willett Companies: David W. Howell, A. Waher Neumann, Paul Peterson, and Henry E. Schousen.

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  • complied and the officers seized the weapon and placed both men under arrest. A search of the offenders and their car revealed several other firearms. Subsequent investigation disclosed the car to have been stolen earlier that day .

    * ;I: *

    Officer Joseph Terracina, 14th District, recently responded to a broadcast of a fire on the 3200 block of West Wrightwood Avenue. Upon arrival, he observed that a different house than the one that was originally thought to be on fire was in flames. He immediately notified the Communications Center of the fact and then entered the burning apartment building to evacuate the tenants.

    On the top floor of the building, Terracina forced open an apartment door and found a young man in shock and badly burned. The officer carried the victim down to the street where Fire Department personnel rushed him to a nearby hospital. He then re-entered the burning building and completed its evacuation.

    * * *

    There had been several strong arm robberies committed in the 20th District. In these crimes, young men had attacked elderly women on the street, knocking the victims to the ground and stealing their purses.

    Officers James Gaffrig, Richard Martinek, William Rodriquez, and William Schober were informed of the pattern and concentrated their activities in the area where the crimes had occurred.

    While on patrol, Gaffrig and Martinek observed four men on the 6000 block ofNorth Winthrop Avenue who fit the offenders' descriptions. As the officers stopped to question the suspects, the four men fled. Responding to a broadcast requested by the officers, Rodriquez and Schober joined in the pursuit. The four men were quickly apprehended after a short chase . Subsequently, the arrestees confessed to numerous armed robberies .

    * * *

    Several months ago, Officers James Darling and Patrick Fleming, 5th District, were on patrol when they observed two cars, one of which had no headlights, speeding east on 123rd Street. The officers, aware of recent thefts of autos which were later found

    stripped, followed . During the chase, the driver ofone car

    swerved so as to block the officers. As he did so, he lost control and the car skidded onto the sidewalk. The offender then ran away. The officers pursued the offender on foot. Losing sight of him after a few blocks, the officers could find no trace of him except for his footprints in the freshly fallen snow.

    Darling and Fleming searched the immediate area and found similar footprints near a garage. The officers looked inside and found many late model automobile parts. They interviewed a woman at the house and learned that she had rented the garage to a man who frequented a nearby tavern.

    The officers drove to the tavern and found the man whom the officers had chased. The man was placed under arrest and charged with grand theft auto and possession of a stolen automobile.

    * * *

    Late one night, two armed men entered a tavern on the 4400 block of West Augusta Boulevard and announced a robbery. After taking cash from the register, the offenders ordered their victims, the bartender and a customer, into the washroom and escaped. The bartender then activated an alarm.

    Officer John Scatchell, 14th District, was on patrol nearby when the alarm sounded. He immediately rushed to the tavern to intercept the gunmen as they ran out the door. The officer ordered the two to stop and throw down their weapons. They complied and were placed under arrest.

    * * :;:

    Sergeants Leason Linzy and Robert Murray, Officer Robert Dent, and Youth Officers Howard Lewis and Julius Jones, of the Intelligence Division, developed information indicating the existance of a major narcotics supplier in the Chicago area through a series of seemingly unrelated narcotics investigations.

    Through the use of criminal informants, continuous surveillance and other investigative techniques, the officers gathered enough evidence to obtain search warrants. The execution of the warrant resulted in the seizure of 22 pounds of heroin, the value of which was estimated at $12 million, and $11,000 in cash confiscated. A man was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance.

    A Department Commendation has been conferred upon Officers Robert Swiderski and Robert McKnabb, 21st District, for their continued exemplary performance.

    The officers were patroling the area of Cermak Road and State Street when they observed two men resembling wanted armed robbers. The suspects responded evasively to questions put to them by the officers and were taken into the district station where they were identified by the victims as their assailants.

    Later, the officers were notified of a theft of $6,000 worth of jewelry on the 50 block of West Cermak Road. Swiderski and McKnabb questioned informants in the area and eventually obtained the name and address of a suspect. They drove to the house and were admitted by the suspect's mother. A short time later, the suspect entere~ the house and was placed under arrest and taken to the district station where he confessed to the crime. Subsequently, all the stolen jewelry was recovered.

    The next day, an insurance agent was found murdered on the 3800 block of South Lake Park Avenue. The officers interviewed several people with extensive criminal histories, one of whom aroused the officer's suspicions when he seemed to know a great deal about the crime.

    Swiderski and McKnabb concentrated their efforts on this man and eventually obtained evidence linking him and another man to the crime. Both also confessed to an earlier armed robbery.

    * * *

    Sergeant Ronald Simmons and Officers Donald King and George Patton, 6th District, recently responded to a broadcast of a man shot on the 7700 block of South Union Avenue. Upon arrival, the officers learned that a taxi driver had been wounded by two gunmen in a robbery. After obtaining medical assistance for the victim, they gathered evidence and interviewed witnesses.

    The officers found the offenders in an apartment building on the 7800 block of South Emerald A venue. They were arrested without incident. The victim later identified the men as his assailants.

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  • Stamps and duck

    fail Chemistry Unit drug tests

    Chief Chemist Dorothy Wader and Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator Robert Boese go over homemade bomb.

    While the Chemistry Unit of the Criminalistics Division is manned by a relatively small but competent staff, they handle more than 17,000 cases a year. And each case may involve anything from a tiny foil packet of marijuana to a cache ofdangerous drugs worth thousands of dollars.

    "Anything that has to do with chemical analysis ultimately arrives here at the Chemistry Unit;' says Coordinator Robert A. Boese, a 22-year veteran of the Department. "We analyze suspect controlled substances, cannabis, alcoholic beverages, flammable materials, explosives, cosmetics, poisons, intoxicating solvents such as glue, and other substances whose chemical content is of concern."

    "The main thrust of our work deals with suspect controlled substancesnarcotics and dangerous drugs-and cannabis," said Chief Chemist Dorthy Wader, a member of the Department since 1967. "Our second largest volume of work is related to the examination of physical evidence associated with arson investigations."

    "But in no way are we limited to these types of cases," said Boese. "In some

    situations, we may have to analyze a piece of clothing containing a chemical to link a suspect to a crime scene. We also may have to analyze a caustic chemical or aerosal spray used in an attack.

    "The amount of time spent on each case varies with the number and type of exhibits. Recently, we spent more than 57 hours on an investigation. Originally the sample was thought to contain opium, but it was ultimately identified as a noncontrolled substance.

    "Every case also requires a typed formal report to be issued to the investigator or arresting officer for court

    presentation." Evidence arrives at the Chemistry

    Unit in a variety of ways. "We have assigned to our unit four

    police officers who serve as narcotics couriers;' said Boese. "Every morning the couriers collect all the suspect contraband, properly sealed and inventoried, from the various district narcotics repositories for submission to the Chemistry Unit. The evidence is then receipted, logged, and filed according to court priority date for subsequent analysis."

    "Evidence too large to fit in the district narcotics repositories must be hand-carried to the lab by the arresting officer," said Wader. "Non-contraband is submitted directly to the unit by the investigator or by Department mail.

    A member of the Chemistry Unit must possess some special qualifications.

    "First of all, the member must have the minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry;' said Boese. "The analyst also must successfully complete an onthe-job training program within the unit which stresses maintaining the chain of possession, preserving the evidence for court presentation, and applying chemical principles to the analysis of various forms of physical evidence. He also must be capable of appearing as an expert witness in court and explaining the results and significance of his testing procedures to a judge and jury."

    "Basic common sense also is important;' said Wader. "Every case is unique

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    Analysts at work stations for chemical testing of controlled substances are, from left, clockwise: Chemists Mary Fitzgerald and William Tyrrell, Crimlnalistics Aide Alan Asoba, and Chemists Richard Fournier and Linda O'Bannon.

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  • Chemist Gerald Pazin instructs Criminallstics Aide Alan Chemist William Tyrrell injects sample into Gas ChromatoOsoba on operating Gas Chromatograph / Mass Spec graph with syringe for analysis in arson investigation. trophotometer. in its own way. We once had to examine drugs shipped to this country from the Far East in a hollowed-out duck! We have had several others where people sending Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) and other forms of contraband to the United States hidden under postage stamps on packages."

    "The analyst also must keep abreast of the latest technological advances in the forensic field," said Boese. "Our chemists attend seminars and workshops and participate in various jobrelated meetings all over the country throughout the year , including specialized forensic training at the FBI Academy in Virginia. They also take advantage of the courses which manufacturing companies sponsor dealing with the forensic applications of their instruments and other scientific apparatus ."

    The Department's Chemistry Unit assigns one analyst to a particular case from beginning to end, including any necessary expert witness testimony. The assignments also include diversification for analysts so all types are handled by the personnel in the unit.

    "We feel this system is best because fewer persons are involved in the chain of possession:' said Wader. "The work load can be more evenly distributed and each analyst is continually kept abreast of the latest analytical techniques and their forensic applications. Of course the analysts freely consult with other members of the staff regarding any problems that may arise ."

    Because of the Department's Criminalistics Division's reputation for accuracy and reliability, in most instances

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    the courts readily accept the analytical data on its meri t and rarely require corroborating testimony by analysts. One of the reasons for this reputation, besides the experienced personnel employed by the division, is the Department's utilization of the most sophisticated instruments in forensic science.

    "In the late '60's, the drug scene changed so significantly that the influx of ' new drugs' demanded equally significant changes in the methods of the forensic scientist," said Boese. "All types of hallucinogenic and other dangerous drugs appeared on the street. We were now dealing with drugs we never came in contact with before or didn't exist until then. We realized that we could no longer resol ve certain types of contraband cases with existing instrumentation and examinations. This challenge was met with the acquisition, routine employment, and constant updating of analytical instruments.

    "One of the most powerful tools we utilize is the gas chromatograph-mass spectrophotometer (GC/MS) . It provides identification of all types of organic materials , including drugs-heroin , cocaine, morphine-even when they are present only as trace components in complex mixtures. This instrument separates the mixture into its component parts. They are swept through a magnetic field and the result is the determination of the molecular weight of the substance in question. By the position and height of the peaks on the graph the GC/MS produces, the substance can be identified.

    "When in court, to demonstrate the sensitivity of one of our instruments to

    the judge and jury, I use this example: Imagine a room filled with one billion Ping-Pong balls with only four of them colored blue. The instrument is capable ofpicking out the blue ones in a fraction of a second!'

    Since the main thrust of the Chemistry Section is the identification of suspect contraband, the procedures and techniques employed by the unit are largely governed by two Illinois laws enacted in 1971-the Controlled Substance Act and the Cannabis (marijuana) Control Act.

    "The laws provide penalties based on precise weights and specific scheduling of drugs," said Boese. "The end result was the demand for more comprehensive and detailed analysis of contraband. Prior to the enactment of the laws, identification of classes of drugs, as opposed to identification of a specific drug, was sufficient in many instances. I also feel that as more complex mindaltering drugs enter the scene more sophisticated procedures will have to be developed in order to fulfill the mandates set forth by the legal and judicial communities."

    Assisting Boese and Wader in the Chemistry unit are Police Chemist II's William Tyrrell, Gerald Pazin , and Christine Provost; Police Chemist 1's Linda O'Bannon and Mary Fitzgerald, Police Chemist Richard Fournier; Criminalistics Aides Alan Osoba and Arthur Eng; and Secretaries Geraldine Karlic and Georgean Bell.

    Police Officers serving as narcotics couriers for the unit are Al Roach, Sidney Kent, George Wilgus, and Patrick Welsh.

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  • A tour of duty 24 hours a day

    When you look at the record Chicago

    police officers have for making off-duty arrests you can readily see why it is said they are "on duty 24-hours a day." A lively curiosity and that special "6th sense" that tells a police officer that something isn't just right, resulted in several recent off-duty arrests.

    Jalal M. Ally, 7th District, apprehended a burglar coming out of a pharmacy when he stopped his vehicle to investigate a broken glass door after hearing an alarm sounding on West 63rd Street.

    Richard Chenow, Firearms Examiner, Criminalistics Divison, suspicious of three females talking to an elderly woman, called for assistance from 8th District Tactical Officers R.M. Hanley and Ronald Bohanek, and arrested the trio. The women were attempting to swindle the woman out ofa large sum of money in a pigeon drop scheme.

    Two 15th District officers, Sam Louis, arrested an offender wanted for the brutal beating and robbery of a man when he spotted the offender on the street while on the way home after work and Gerald Sypien arrested and subdued an armed offender who had held a knife to the throat of a young woman while forcing her into a basement stairwell. Sypien was in his home when he heard screams for help coming from the street and rushed to the woman's aid.

    Curiosity also won out for Officer Lawrence Meyer and Jerome Wiecozorek, 18th District, who became suspicious of a truck hauling a number of bicycles. They turned their vehicle around and were following the truck eastbound on 61st street just as a simulcast radio message reporting the burglary of bicycles was broadcast. They stopped the vehicle and found the bicycles were those that had been stolen and arrested the two occupants of the truck.

    As a result of their alertness and prompt action, Officer Robert Kane and partner, Neil Jack, 15th District, apprehended a burglar before his crime was even discovered by the victim. On patrol on West Drummond Place, the two officers spotted the man emerging from a gangway. Kane and Jack stopped the man for questioning. Not satisfied with his answers they searched the area

    and found a nearby home burglarized. Upon searching the suspect the two officers found stolen property in his possession.

    Four 9th District officers foiled two offenders in their attempt to burglarize a dress shop. The two, spotted by neighbors who called police, had chopped a hole in the roof of the shop.

    Deering Officers Martin Tyler, J ames Manganiello, Eugene Storino and Richard Turrise, who responded to the "burglary in progress" call, ar- ~ rived as the offenders were jumping onto an adjoining building roof and the chase was on. They proved to be no match for the officers who pursued their quarries until they cornered and captured them. Burglar tools and walkietalkies were recovered on the roof of the dress shop.

    Patrolling routinely during the early hours of the morning, Officers Philip

    Hayman and Ted Konieczka, 8th District, saw a man sitting in a truck at 68th and Pulaski. Suspicious because of the early hour, they circled the block and returned, only to find the man had disappeared. They alighted from their squad and investigated. Six large tool boxes were in the truck. They returned to their squad and kept the truck under survelliance until the man returned whereupon they stopped and questioned him. After several conflicting stories they learned the valuable tools had been taken in a burglary from a concrete company garage.

    Responding to a "robbery in progress" call, 7th District Officers Dennis Tooles and Robert Hacker apprehended one ofthe two offenders who had committed the crime. Although the victim declined to prosecute, the officers recognized the offender had matched a description given in connection with a

    "Naw, Louie, don't blast it shut!

    Remember, there's a lot of off-duty officers out there who

    are never off the job. We might be back sooner than you think!"

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  • recent robbery crime pattern and continued their investigation. The subject was subsequently identified by three other victims, arrested and several robberies cleared as a result.

    A suspect wanted for burglary and aggravated battery was captured by 9th District officers after leading them on a chase through the city into the suburb of Downers Grove. Officer Vito Balice initiated the pursuit after the man refused to stop for a traffic violation and was joined by fellow Officers Thomas Keough, Nicholas Schmit, Robert Gricus and Salvatore DeLuca. The vehicle was recognized as that wanted in an aggravated battery case the day before and property which had been taken in a burglary was found in the vehicle.

    Quick thinking on the part of Officer Thomas Northfell and his partner Kenneth Brown, 18th District, resulted in the capture of an armed robber. The officers, hearing a flash message of an offender who hadjust held up a restaurant, determined that the man might be using the nearby subway as a means ofescape and immediately began a systematic search of the surrounding subway entrances. The robber was described as carrying a tan shoulder bag. At one of the locations they spotted a suspect who closely matched the description and observed he was holding a tan shoulder bag. They quickly closed in, conducted a field interrogation and search and found a loaded revolver in the bag. He was later identified as the offender.

    Five Youth Officers were instrumental in the apprehension of a suspect who had assaulted several young girls, one brutally. Working with Homicide/Sex investigators, Michael Sheahan, Thomas Lanigan, Thomas Baroni, Dennis Hughes and Thomas Kiely of Area 2 Youth, skillfully questioned the young victims. They were able to establish a pattern and physical description of the offender and set up a surveillance in the area where the attacks had occurred. The father of one of the victims, flagged down the officers and told them he saw a man resembling the offender. The officers ran to the scene and gave chase. They were able to apprehend the man as he got into a vehicle and attempted to flee. He was later identified in a lineup as the offender by his victims.

    Two Special Operations Group West Officers, Joseph Petruzzi and William

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    Nasuta, informed by a citizen that two men were breaking into a house a few blocks away, quickly sped to the scene. As they neared the rear of the house, they saw two men who ran upon seeing the officers. Nasuta pursued one and caught him. The second man ran back into the building where he was trapped by Petruzzi and subdued. The two were charged with burglary.

    Another pair of burglars experienced a similar fate when Officers Ronald Bellavia and Michael Pagano, of the 13th District, observed them entering an alley in a commercial district on West Chicago Avenue shortly after midnight. The two officers alighted from their vehicles and positioned themselves where they could observe the activities of the two men. Minutes later the suspects pried open the rear door ofa furniture store and entered the premises. Bellavia and Pagano moved in, and placed them under arrest.

    Two robbers who thought they could outwit police by hiding in the water at the lakefront after committing a robbery and stabbing, quickly found they were all wet in more ways than one. Officers Michael Dolan and Tony Jin, 23rd District, on patrol in Lincoln Park, were flagged down by a young man and three female companions who said they had been held up at knife point by five male suspects who fled after stabbing the young man in the back. Dolan and Jin systematically searched the area and upon observing two suspects in wet clothes, stopped and questioned them. Evasive in their answers, they quickly changed their stories when confronted by the four victims, who positively identified them. The suspects then gave the officers the names of their three accomplices.

    Tactical Officers Allen E. Szudarski and Michael J. Martire, 6th District,

    spent many hours tracking down information which ultimately led to the solution of a case in which a young woman was abducted from the street, taken to a motel, raped and deviately assaulted by two men. The two officers canvassed a series of motels until they found the one to which the woman had been taken. There, after questioning several persons, they located a witness who was able to give them the name of one of the men . They then searched a wide area on the south side of the city before they located the suspect's residence. Next, they set up and maintained a surveil lance on the location until the suspect appeared whereupon they arrested him.

    A 12th District tactical team, Officers John J. Riordan and Chris Zaglifa, observed two suspicious men while in the area of St. Luke-Presbyterian Hospital. They kept the men under surveil lance until they observed them attemptingto break into the trunk ofa car. They then moved in to arrest the pair.

    South Chicago District Officers AIfonse Ditore and Michael Kelly scored a double bubble when they recovered two stolen vehicles and several offenders in one swoop. While on patrol in the vicinity of 130th and Torrence, the two officers observed a motorist committing a traffic violation and curbed him. Through skillful interrogation, they were able to determine the auto and another had just been stolen by the driver and his friends from Riverdale, Ill. While still at the scene, the second stolen vehicle was observed northbound on Torrence Avenue. This vehicle also was curbed and the occupants admitted they had stolen it a short time before. All the suspects were subsequently charged with auto theft.

    "You give but little when you give your possessions. It is when you give yourself that you truly give"

    Gibran, The Prophet

    IN MEMORIAM

    Friends and colleagues with the Chicago Police Star join in expressing the

    deepest sympathy to the widows and families of those officers who recently died. Years of Date of

    Name Unit Age Service Death

    P.O. Cornelius W. Black. . . . . . .. . . . .. 021 ...... 54 P.O. James Carberry . . ......... . .. . ... .. 086 ... ... 48

    P.O. Peter Papeck ...... ... . .... . ...... . 017 .. .... 41 P.O. Philip A. Patterson . ..... . .. . . . .. ... 072 ...... 40 Sgt. Dave Pigoni .. .. ... . ......... . .. ... DPR ...... 54 Lt. Thomas Toolis .... . .... ...... . . ..... 050 .. .... 54

    . . . . ... 24 . . . 8 August

    .... . . . 23 ....... 29 August

    ... .... 12 ... . ... 23 August

    . .. .. .. 17 . ...... 23 August

    .. . .... 19 .. . .... 16 August

    ....... 23 . .... .. 22 August

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  • They all get the call

    W ANTED: Person to devote hours of

    their free-time standing in the blazing sun for a worthy cause. Applicant must be willing to submit themselfto possible verbal abuse such as "where's your seeing-eye dog, you bum?" and hard, white objects bouncing off their ankles. Salary-none.

    To say the least, not many people would answer a want-ad such as this. But 15 Chicago police officers might as well have. They have spent the past summer volunteering their time and energy serving as umpires and managers for the Hegewisch Little League.

    "The people of this community are very grateful to these officers for their time and services;' said Rudy Rodriguez, president of the Southeast Side Little League. "The amazing part is that many of these officers have no connection with the community. Some live here but none of them have any sons playing in the league. They are just offering their time because they want to help.

    "I asked Officer Thomas Quinn, Intelligence Division, and Officer Tim Hardy, 4th District, if they knew of anybody who would be willing to serve as a Little League umpire. We needed some dependable men. They asked around and I was surprised when so many officers volunteered."

    Quinn served as umpire-in-chief and he had the responsibility of scheduling the umpires for every league game.

    "All of the officers were cooperative and enthusiastic about the program;' said Quinn. "Not one of them once turned down working an extra game

    even though it might have been inconvenient. After the regular season the league held a tournament week and the officers changed their schedules around to fit that. Many worked the midnight watch so they could ump the games while others came out to the field straight from work.

    "All of the kids in the league were polite, respectful, and appreciative . It was a lot of work but we enjoyed it and, as far as I know, everybody plans to return next year."

    While all the officers deserve a great deal of respect and admiration, one man stands out as an example to all, said Rodriguez.

    "I can't say enough to emphasize how much Officer John Jordan, 3rd District, has done for this community and the Hegewisch Little League," said Rodriguez. "He was one of the founders of the league and helped get it on its feet by organizing sponsors for the program and was instrumental in obtaining land for the field. He has served in various posts for the league including parade chairman and groundskeeper.

    "He is truly a remarkable person. A few years ago, he suffered a heart attack while fixing up the field . He was right back with the league after a year and is currently a manager for one of the teams.

    "The community has held two testimonials in Jordan's honor and we recently held a banquet to honor all the umpires in the league and presented each with a plaque."

    "Jordan has been involved with the

    Officer John Jordan, 3rd District, walks past umpire to put in sub.

    league for 27 years;' said Quinn. "Nobody is going to touch that record!"

    Other officers who serve as umpires in the league are: Bill Zaremba, Marty Novak, Ed Czajka, Bernie Swiszcz, Lee Zalalis, 4th District; Bill Guiney, 5th District; Dave Stallard, Area 2 Youth; Investigator Terry Urbaniak, Area 2 General Assignment, and Sergeant Don Gustafson, Beat Representative headquarters office.

    Officers who serve as managers and coaches in the league are: John Thibault and Donald Magro, Canine Unit, and Dispatcher Earl Davy, Communications Operations Section.

    Officer Ed Czajka, 4th District, umpires behind home plate. Officer Tom Quinn, Intelligence DiviSion, calls runner safe.

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