Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, July" 15, 1981 Section .1 13 Metropolitan Morton Grove law stirs imitators Gun control catching on in suburbs 'I tl" I i I Ill--- ms UJ-At i it Courts Class-action suit asks Edison refund JEANINE POWERS of La Grange filed a class-action suit in Circuit Court Tuesday charging that Commonwealth Edison Co. has collected more than $500 million in excess revenue for income taxes since January, 1975. The suit was filed on behalf of more than 2.8 million customers of the utility. The suit said Edison collected more than $500 million more from private and corporate than it paid to the federal government. Lawrence Leek, Powers' attorney, said the suit sought to force Commonwealth Edison to account for all the money collected from its 'customers for federal income taxes and sought a judgment of more than $500 million to include overcollections plus interest.
Leek also asked for an injunction to stop the practice and said any judgment would be refunded to customers with interest. Man is found guilty of illegal drug sales A MAN FEDERAL prosecutors described as the No. 2 man in a West Side narcotics distribution ring was found guilty Tuesday by a federal District Court jury in a retrial. Harry "Dog" Cannon, 38, of 8000 S. Peoria was found guilty of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise and of conspiring to distribute illegal drugs.
His first trial, when he was tried with ringleader Charles Wilson and eight other alleged members of the drug ring, ended in a mistrial. The ring operated at 1618 S. Christiana Av. Wilson, found guilty in the earlier trial, was sentenced in May to 30 years in prison and fined $155,000 and had all property acquired through his drug dealing confiscated. In Cannon's second trial, prosecutors argued that Cannon, with Wilson, supervised the ring between 1976 and 1979, during which time the ring did business estimated at $1 million a year.
Howard "Big Man" Love, a former ring member who testified against Cannon, told the jury that Cannon taught him how to keep and destroy records. Cannon's wife and Wilson testified in Cannon's behalf. The jury returned its verdict before Judge Joel M. Flaum, who stood in for trial Judge Charles P. Kocoras, who was out of town.
Flaum left bond at $50,000, instructed Cannon not to leave Chicago, ordered a pre-sentencing investigation, and in structed Cannon to appear Monday before Judge Kocoras for a status, call. No sentencing date was set. Tetus-rights' 'mother is guilty of contempt CAROL HUBBARD, whose unborn baby was the subject of an unusual "fetus-rights" case before the Illinois Supreme Court, has pleaded guilty to contempt 'of court and is free after receiving a "time-served" sentence in Lake County Circuit Court. Mrs. Hubbard, 30, of the South Side, was jailed May 12 after failing to show up for her trial on charges of shoplifting 18 months before.
On June 1, her attorney, Charles S. Wilson of Waukegan, asked the high court to free the unborn child of the woman, who was six months pregnant. Wilson argued that life begins at the moment of conception, so the fetus had rights and was in jail "through of its own." He argued that the mother would have to "provide transportation" for the unborn child out of the Lake County Jail. On June 4, the court rejected his argument. Later, Mrs.
Hubbard was freed, and the shoplifting charge was dropped. On July 7, she pleaded guilty to contempt of court for not showing up for the first trial-Judge William Block sentenced her to 31 days in jail (time already served), and she was free to await the birth of her third child. Boyfriend accused of killing daughter KENNETH M. GOURLEY, 24, was indicted Tuesday afternoon by the Du. Page County Grand Jury on charges that he murdered his girlfriend's 2Vj-year-old daughter.
Gourley lives with Bonnie Calabrese in her home at 212 Collen Lombard, according to Sgt. William Ryan of the Lombard Police Department. Ryan said Mrs. Calabrese called the suburb's police and fire departments early Monday and said her daughter, Heather, was having difficulty breathing. Police and firemen administered artificial respiration to the child and took her to Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove, where she was pronounced dead.
Gourley, who is unemployed, was taken into custody at the home and held by police after it was learned that the child apparently died of a beating. No bond was set. Gourley is to appear Wednesday in Du Page County Circuit Court for a bond hearing. MV By Robert Benjamin THE ANTI-HANDGUN shot fired In Morton Grove just over a month ago is being heard around the northwestern suburbs. At least two others are considering bans on the sale or possession of handguns, and two more are expected to begin that process soon.
There probably would be even more, but a suit filed against Morton Grove's action has caused some other villages to wait and see how federal courts rule on the attempt to prohibit residents from owning handguns. Still, the Morton Grove vote was an important opening for control advocates, who are abetting the anti-handgun spirit in: Arlington Heights, where the legal committee of the village board met Monday night, took care of other business, and said that its July 27 meeting would be on one issue: gun control. Buffalo Grove, where the village probably will vote Monday on a proposal to ban the sale of handguns. The village of 23,000, which has no gun shops, already has urged the legislature and Congress to get moving on control. Palatine, where the village board was visited Monday night by members of the Committee for Handgun Control, who say they hope to introduce a control ordinance there Aug.
10. Mt. Prospect, where the control advocates are looking for somebody, preferably a trustee, to introduce a bill banning the sale or possession of handguns there. At one time, these towns were little more than places with rustic sounding names to many city dwellers, but the suburbs have filled with city people, who brought their cky fears and who still are targets of city crime. The Illinois Department of Law Enforcement recently reported that suburban crime for 1980 increased twice as fast as that in Chicago.
The furor began June 8 when Morton Grove trustees voted to outlaw not only the sale of handguns in that suburb of 23,000 but also their possession. The next day, Vincent D. Quilici, a resident of Morton Grove and a lawyer with offices in Bensenville, filed suit in Cook County Circuit Court challenging the law banning possession. Quilici, a competitor in pistol shoots, said Morton Grove had no right to do that, because the United States Constitution's 2d Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE village hired the law firm of Jenner Block to represent it.
The Coalition to Ban Handguns, a national group, joined the suit on Morton. Grove's side. The village's attorneys asked to have the suit moved into federal court, a request that was granted. The Morton Grove ordinances specified that they would not go into effect for 90 days. For that reason and because both what? I'm going before my But we need more organization." In Arlington Heights, Tern Williams, 39, who has four children, went to the board's July 6 meeting and tried to introduce bills doing what Morton Grove did.
The trustees put the matter into the hands of their legal committee to study the issue. Now Mrs. Williams is trying to gather the names of 1 per cent of the village's" 37,000 voters (the population is 66,000) to put the matter before the at its' Aug. 3 meeting. According to the lage's new citizens initiative law, she would have to get signatures of 12 percent of the voters to get it put on the ballot in the next general election, assuming no trustee introduces such a measure.
"Arlington Heights will be the biggie, said Jan Kady, press spokesman for the'; northwestern district. "That's Phil Crane country," she said, naming the conserva-' tive Republican congressman from Mt. Prospect. A victory there, she says, could swing legislative votes on the issue. BUFFALO GROVE Trustee Elliott Hartstein introduced his bill to ban handgun sales because "we're a growing com- munity, and we want to stop somebody from trying to come into Buffalo Grove to sell guns." Hartstein said he was "reasonably sure" of three votes and would need a fourth to win.
In Palatine, Warren Anderson, 59, a recent retiree, said that he had planned to attempt handgun control legislation as a private citizen, but that members of Casey Meyers' group "asked me to hold off." Mrs. Meyers' group has sent letters to the trustees in Palatine, and Monday night several control advocates went to their meeting "to introduce ourselves," Kady said. In Mt. Prospect, she said, the administration there has indicated a willingness to at least consider the idea, and "we're working on" finding somebody to in-: troduce it. James Valentino a Chicago lawyer, who is legislative chairman of the Illinois State Rifle Association, said "this Morton' Grove thing" and "the publicity that has been generated by the media after the shooting of President Reagan and Pope John Paul II" had galvanized the anti-control forces further.
"What these villages are doing is promoting the exact opposite of what their intentions are," said Valentino. He said efforts to control handguns would be af successful as efforts to control drugs, and' "how much control do you have over narcotics? The underworld will be in a1 hurry to sell guns to anybody on street corners, as they do drugs. "The honest people will have to buy from them, defensively, so to speak," ha said, predicting "a hodge-podge of ordi' nances from villages" until the State of Illinois of the U.S. Supreme Court rules. If if 1 5 4 Tribune photo by Val Mazzenga Chicago-based Committee for Handgun Control.
Illinois has been divided into 10 districts, she says, and "the most active right now" is the northwestern district, which covers about 30 suburbs. Morton Grove and Skokie form a separare district. In each community in which the forces of control were stirred by the Morton Grove explosion, the committee's handprints can be seen. "We shouldn't and won't take credit for what's happening," Zartman says. "Certainly, we're delighted to be of assistance." The chairman of the northwestern district of the committee is Casey Meyers, who says the group seized on action taken by residents of Arlington Heights and Palatine, people who just "popped out of the woodwork saying, 'You know 1 Mary McDonnell signs a petition calling for a ban on handguns that was brought to her Arlington Heights home by Tern Williams.
Williams is trying to collect signatures from 1 per cent of the village's voters to put a gun ban bill before the village board at its Aug. 3 meeting. hi mi v'il'i -ftl 1 1 Enchanting Jade Super Special $1888 ft "Hi City UZ: Cr 7 1 sides have expressed a willingness to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is unlikely that Morton Grove's possession law will soon, if ever, be enforced. Still hanging over the heads of the control forces is the obvious willingness of the legislature to slap them down.
Two weeks after Morton Grove's action, the House voted 88 to 75 to prohibit Illinois municipalities from restricting the possession or sale of firearms, a move that would kill Chicago's gun registration law and sale ban. The bill 3id not get to the Senate, but thfi gun lobby is expected to push the "pre-emption" bill again after the legislature reconvenes Oct. 1. THE MORTON GROVE vote to ban. possession of handguns was like a bolt of lightning to the advocates of control, says Katharine Zartman, president of the Off j'h 111,1 Ititl Matching i Earrings 'F I $is88 Summer Sportswear Clearance s.
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He was wearing black, hornrimmed glasses, a blue shirt, and bluejeans, police said. Man charged in theft of chalice from church POLICE AUKESTED a man early Tuesday and charged him in the latest in a rash of recent burglaries in Chicago-area synagogs and churches. Darrell Steven Vanderbusch, 28, of 6408 N. Clark was arrested outside St. Ignatius Catholic Church, 6559 N.
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Huels said his Bridgeport community has been inundated with small pinball establishments that have moved into formerly unoccupied storefronts. "These places have become for gangs and drugs," said Huels, who added that he has received reports of similar problems throughout the city. Along with his proposal to outlaw the use of such machines by minors, Huels also proposed a change in the definition of arcades to limit where machines can be installed. Crime Robber gets $11,000 with bank bomb threat A MAN WEARING a straw hat with a feather in it and carrying a brown paper bag robbed Western Savings Loan Association, 5345 W. Lawrence of about $11,000 Tuesday after he said he had a bomb, police reported.
The robbery occurred at 2 p.m. when the man walked into the bank and said; "I have a bomb in the bag. I'll explode it. Give me all your money," according to Detective Michael Heri-godt of the Shakespeare Area district. The man took the money from three female tellers and stuffed it into the paper bag, then escaped in a white auto, Herigodt said.
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