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Pantagraph A-3 Bloomington-Normal, III. March 30, 1973 r.4 Mixup puts wrong Mike Long in jai ceil She called Smith March 21 to find out about the case. He was surprised, she said, that she had not been aware of its being dropped. Two other men were arrested in connection with the incident. Two are still being sought, including the other Michael Long.

A warrant for his arrest was issued this week, police said at Bloomington. "We want to clear things up about our Mike," said Mrs. Long. She called instead. "It was quite an ordeal," she lamented Thursday.

Her sons was not at home for his comment, she said. He was in Champaign taking karate lessons. home with a sawed-off 20-gauge shotgun in search of narcotics, was in Champaign working the night of Jan. 24, authorities found after the arrest March 10. The charge against Mrs.

Lawrence Long's son was dropped before his scheduled appearance in McLean County circuit court. "We were to go to court last Monday," Mrs. Long told this reporter Thursday. "We found out a week ago Wednesday (on March 21) that the charges had been dropped and the records were to be destroyed." According to Mrs. Long, the news came to her in a telephone call to Clinton's Chief Smith, not from the court at Bloomington.

him out at 10 the next morning," she said. "And he was awfully glad to see us." Freeing "Mike" was something of a problem. "It's kind of hard to rake up $500," Mrs. Long complained. "And we didn't get our bond money back until last Saturday." Although she asserts it was a "false arrest," Mrs.

Long said that the two Mike Longs "might look alike on a mug shot." She said that though it was "kind of hard for her son to remember where he was on Jan. 24," he had not "been to Bloomington for several years." The wrong Long, jailed on a warrant charging him with entering Dickson's By John McFadden Two people by the name of Michael Wayne Long live in Clinton. Both are young, tall, dark and have curly hair and a mustache. One of them was accused of taking part in an attempted armed robbery on Jan. 24 at the home of Jeff Dickson, 1408 N.

Oak, Bloomington. The other one was arrested. "It's been kind of aggravating," said Mrs. Lawrence E. Long, talking Thursday of a mixup in which her son, 21, spent a cold night in Bloomington's city jail on Saturday, March 10, due to an alleged offense committed by another of the same name.

Mrs. Long said she had been most concerned for her son because he had no mattress or blanket that might have made his one-night stand in jail something less than "maddening." "It was terrible," she exclaimed. "All he had was a cold steel bunk. If he had been disorderly, it might have been different." The wrong Michael Long was never accused of being disorderly. Ironically, his uncle, DeWitt County Sheriff Keith Long, was the lawman who had the task of taking him to jail.

Mrs. Long emphasized that the pickup was purely a "courtesy for McLean County." Sheriff Long and Clinton Police Chief Keith Smith took Michael to Bloomington, she said. "He got there at 10 p.m. and we got shot Bloom in gfon couple 4 to man they trie A second bullet apparently richocheted inside the car and caused the flesh wound in Riley's leg. Riley, ran back to the restaurant, police said, to call an ambulance for his wife.

Riley was unable to give police a detailed description of the assailant. An employe of the restaurant who saw Riley when he ran back to the building for help said, "He was pretty upset, naturally." The employe said the access road leading to the restaurant is "fairly dark" after it gets away from the lights of the restaurant. "You know how roads are," he said. The restaurant at 5125 W. Farmington Road is "pretty well out in the country," he said.

Apparently there were no witnesses to the shooting, police said. Riley is a real estate salesman who now operates his own firm, Riley Enter prises Inc. The Riley home is in the Meadowbrook area of southeast Bloomington. The Rileys have lived at the Magnolia Drive address for about 16 years. He is a former manager of Brown Home Auto Supply and was a salesman for Marben's clothing store.

The firm of which he is president works in advertising, publishing a weekly brochure of television listings and erecting shelters for rural bus stops. lyscrv i fy via 44x Controls and freezes cause price distortions-economist A Bloomington man and his wife were shot and wounded at 8:15 Thursday night by a man they stopped to help near the Shady Oaks Restaurant about five miles northwest of Peoria. Mrs. Erma Riley, 56, of 205 Magnolia Drive, was reported in serious condition at Peoria's Methodist Hospital Friday noon. She was in the hospital's intensive care unit.

Her husband, Charles, 47, was treated for flesh wounds and released, authorities said. Mrs. Riley, a secretary at Blooming-ton's General Electric Co. plant for 18 years, was shot in the chest, Peoria County sheriff's police reported. The couple, leaving the restaurant west of the city in Peoria County, were in their car about halfway out a 300-foot access road, authorities said, when they stopped to offer assistance to the unidentified man.

The man was standing next to a car parked in the middle of the road with the car's hood up, Sheriff's Capt. Noland Macklin said. Riley told police that when they stopped, the man turned and fired two shots at them through the driver's open window. "The whole thing is a mystery," the captain said. "The glass in the passenger window was broken." He said most of the glass was on the inside of the auto, indicating a shot was fired from outside the passenger window instead of the driver's window.

One bullet went through Mrs. Riley, officials said. The bullet traveled from her right shoulder blade to the left side of her body at a downward angle, authorities said, then struck her husband in the foot. Man fractures nose Otto Theel, 62, was taken by Bloomington rescue squad to Brokaw Hospital after he fractured his nose in a fall in the 400 block of West Washington Street Thursday about 6 p.m. Theel, who resides at 309 N.

Center, was reported in good condition at the hospital Friday noon. Construction of new curbs along the north side of Normal's Vernon Avenue was progressing Friday. Vernon will be widened to 40 feet later as part of the work on the new Vernon-Beaufort underpass at the old line. Work will be done this summer. (Pantagraph Photo) Project starts Ski mask bandits tional policies from working and you're going to make a more flexible system," he said of his proposal.

Pate, who once taught at Monmouth College and also served four years with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said he didn't agree with those who have predicted that a recession is in the "We had strong economic growth in 1972, and 1973 is off to an even stronger start," he said. He foresees this as carrying through all or most of 1973 with a moderation possible late this year or in 1974. "There are more than the usual number of uncertainties clouding the scene, though," he said. He listed those variables as the federal government's fiscal policies and its 'attempts to control the budget, the Federal Reserve Bank's monetary policies, labor negotiations and the possible reimposing of price freezes. "In brief summary, the outlook is for continued growth and economic activity.

However, prospects for moderation in the rate of inflation, stabilization of the interest rates and reduced unemployment are not good at all, in my opinion," he concluded. His appearance at Wesleyan was made possible by a National Science Foundation College Science Improvement Program grant. basic conditions which have created the upward bias in our price system," he said. During his earlier lecture, Pate minimized the results of the earlier price stabilization efforts. "We achieved a 3 per cent rate of inflation in 1972 compared to 4.7 in 1971, but I believe we would have made some gains anyway," he said, adding that about one-fourth of the gains were due to technical factors.

He also said that price bulges following both the price freeze and Phase II made the moderation minimal. He also said the cost of administrative control of price control programs is borne largely by the consumer. "Here's just one example," he said. "In Phase Two, one minor change cost one major manufacturer $1.3 million and you can be sure that the cost of what wasn't saved in taxes went largely to the consumer." Pate's substitute for price controls would be the increasing of a competitive pricing environment, mainly through stricter enforcement of anti-trust laws and reviewing certain features of the labor laws. "You are going to get very gradual, subtle effects.

Over a long period of time, maybe a decade, you're going to get at the pockets of concentration of economic power that prohibit the tradi Almost as President Nixon was telling the nation of price ceilings to be established on meat, economist James Pate of Akron, Ohio, was voicing a lack of confidence in such measures to an audience at Illinois Wesleyan University Thursday night. "Agriculture appears to be one of the few remaining areas in which the price system, if uninhibited, appears to work fairly well," said the director of economic research for The B. F. Goodrich Company in the second of two lectures in Memorial Student Center. "The recent surge in prices has had the apparent effect of calling forth an increase in the future supplies of many agricultural commodities.

Consequently the future prices of many agricultural commodities have receded below current spot prices. This, I believe, is exactly how the pricing system is supposed to work," Pate said. To impose controls on farm products would merely create distortions just as the earlier freeze caused distortions in the allocation of resources throughout the industrial sector of the economy, the speaker claimed. "I find it difficult to believe that freezing or in any way attempting to control prices will ever do more than postpone the serious consideration of the hit iquor store the bandits, one holding a long-barreled blue steel revolver, at 11:05 p.m. Kiesewetter said he obeyed the robbers' demand to "put all your money in the brown paper bag." The store manager said he was too nervous to know how much he threw into the bag.

While one of the bandits held the gun on Kiesewetter, the other yanked telephone wires from a wall in the store office. Two men wearing ski masks robbed Don's Bi-Rite, 203 Locust, last Sunday night. They also used a brown paper sack. The pair that held up the National store were wearing light blue ski coats with hoods up around blue ski masks, police were told. The gunman wore brown cowboy boots.

Telling Kiesewetter he "wasn't kidding," the gunman told the manager to pull open storage drawers underneath a cash register in his search for money. The bandits fled the store by running north through a parking lot adjacent to the store, police were told. During a search for a car that might have been involved, police spotted a revolver in the back seat of a car parked in the 400 block of North Center Street shortly after midnight. The car owner was stopped by police connection with the robbery, police said, on his return but was found to have no However the man, Robert Paul O'Malley, 28, of Farmer City, was booked on a charge of unlawful use of weapons and posted $100 bond for an April 27 court hearing. Two bandits in ski masks struck for the second time this week' Thursday night, robbing the National Wine Liquor store at 1404 E.

Empire of an undetermined amount of cash. It was the 10th armed robbery to occur in Bloomington during the month of March. Terry Kiesewetter, 24, night manager at the store, said he was confronted by City files suits to get buildings The City of Bloomington has filed condemnation suits to acquire 12 buildings for various urban renewal projects. One suit seeks to acquire 202 W. Front in the Cohn Block, scheduled for redevelopment.

Another seeks 318 N. Center and 210-212 W. Monroe behind the Illinois House, another area slated for redevelopment The U.S. 51 crossovers will take 113 E. Grove, 202-204 S.

Main and 604 N. Madison. The Forty Acres project will take 1212 W. Mulberry, 708 N. Lumber, 1106 W.

Chestnut, 603 N. Lumber, and 1107 W. Chestnut. The suits were filed Thursday in McLean County Circuit Court. Blanks maybe 4 -V, fiWvt r.

J.lfpktc Bowling night ends in frightening tale der bright skies after nearly a week oi p.m. incident. Bill, according to police, said a car had followed his wife as she drove home from bowling Wednesday night. Its driver pulled up in front of the Bill residence as Mrs. Bill got out of her car.

The shots, according to Bill, were fired from the window of the car stopped in front of the house. Three shots believed to be blanks were fired Wednesday night at a Normal woman as she got out of her car and began to open her garage door. Normal police said Friday that Danny Bill of 1005 S. Adelaide told them late Thursday afternoon that his wife was so startled and frightened that she refused to call police immediately after the 9 Bloomington's public schools were closed today for a teacher's institute and Marty Carr, 13, of 706 N. Oak made the best of a good thing.

The fishing at Miller Park wasn't perfect but temperatures climbed near 60 un No school today, rain. Weather forecast calls for cloud cover tonight and a 70 per cent chancel of rain or thunderstorms Saturday High will be about 60 degrees. (Pantagraph Photo) i.