Kitty Crusade helps Elsie the stray cat heal and flourish
In a Morris Daily Herald Fridays Review story, eighth graders at Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Junior High rally to fund surgery for Elsie the injured cat. Under teacher Elaine Renick, students raise nearly $100 with nickels and dimes, adopting the slogan Kitty Crusade. Elsie gains a home with student Venita Hood as she recovers, and Mrs Renick emphasizes compassion over mere practicality. Also noted is Mrs Della Welch of Bradley turning 100 with an open house in Kankakee.
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Elsie
Mazon-Verona-Kinsman
Kevin Pritchard
Elaine Renick
Kevin
Tom Misener
Rodney Jenkins
L.C
Della Welch
Bradley
Morris
Coal City
Bird’s Park
Kankakee
Wilmington
Irene Kratochvil
Elmer ‘‘Anks’’ Emanuelson
Fred Emanuelson
Mazon- Verona-Kinsman
Herald
Jim Seerup
Yvonne Hughes
Venita Hood
Charlene Dyess
Carter defers neutron warhead production decision
President Carter defers production of the high radiation neutron warhead while ordering the Pentagon to keep delivery systems ready for future use. He says the ultimate decision will depend on Soviet restraint in conventional and nuclear arms programs and force deployments. The weapon is designed to kill with radiation while limiting blast damage.
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UPI
Carter
Pentagon
White House
Soviet Union
Bols in critical condition and politics of arms talks
Leonard Bols 58 of Aux Sable Township and Grundy County Board member remains in critical care at St. Joseph Hospital Joliet since Feb 7 for Guillain Barre Syndrome. Carter plans to delay a program as a bargaining chip, press Soviet limits, and press SALT talks while modernizing Lance nuclear and eight inch warhead systems. Byrd warns that scrapping the neutron warhead without Soviet reductions jeopardizes any SALT ratification.
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Leonard Bols
Aux Sable Township
Grundy County
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Senate
Robert Byrd
Carter
Weather Turns Cloudy With Cooler Weekend Forecast
Weather outlook shows increasing cloudiness tonight with a low in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Saturday brings cooler skies and a chance of rain with highs in the 50s. Thursday record at Dresden Island Locks and Dam: high 61, low 35. Morning readings 43 at 7 am, 61 at 10 am in Morris. Precipitation measured at .06.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Road Condition Complaint About White Tie Road
The Grundy County Sheriff's Department logged a complaint about White Tie Road between Coal City and Jugtown Roads. Mrs. Alphonso Diaz of Goose Lake said school buses won’t use the road and trash has not been collected for three weeks.
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Grundy County
River bridge replacement begins April 16 in Illinois
The Illinois 47 River Bridge deck will be replaced with concrete filled steel grids. Work starts 10 p.m. Sunday and runs nightly 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, with an anticipated completion by September 1. Detours use Illinois 113, Interstate 55 and US 6.
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Illinois 47 River
Arrest Dwight youth for drug theft
A complaint filed by Grundy County detectives charges Dwight resident Scott Olesen, 21, with stealing a bottle of Demerol from Dr. W. F. Breisch in Mazon. The case, investigated by Detectives Ron Fox and James Olson and Sgt. James Enger, links a bottle found at Olesen’s home to the doctor’s office. He was released pending Illinois Crime Laboratory results.
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Dwight
Grundy County
Det. Fox
Olesen
Dr. Breisch
Sheffield disposal site to close for permit review
Illinois Attorney General William Scott announced the Sheffield nuclear waste disposal site will shut temporarily while a permit request is considered. The Bureau County facility faces court suits and protests, and waste slated for Sheffield will be buried at a Nevada site instead.
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Chicago
UPS
Sheffield
Illinois
William Scott
Bureau County
Nevada
Scott
Last minute registration rules for school elections
Grundy County allows last minute voter registration up to election day for school board races. County registration deadlines differ for county elections, with 28 days required before voting. Voters must be registered in the county of residence and in the school district to be eligible, noting cross county school districts may complicate registrations.
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Grundy County
Lana Phillips
School Code of
Illinois
The
United States
Phillips
Morris youth ordered to diagnostic treatment for dairy arson
A 15 year old Morris youth charged with the Dec 2 Straightway Dairy fire pleaded guilty to felony criminal damage to property and two thefts in Grundy County Court. He was ordered to undergo 30 days of diagnostic treatment at the Illinois Department of Corrections juvenile facility in St. Charles with a report due after. He faces disposition based on that report. The youth also admitted thefts from Amanda Walck at Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Dec 20 and a 1963 Chevrolet pickup theft from Michael Paschall on Wauponsee Street Dec 23. He escaped from Ottawa juvenile detention Feb 13 with four others and was recaptured in Missouri.
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Morris
Illinois Department of Correction
St. Charles
Grundy County
Leonard Hoffman
Department of Corrections
Charles Zalar
Zalar
Amanda Walck
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Addiiion
Michael Paschall
Coal City
Wauponsee St
LaSalle County
Ottawa
Mahomet
Steeleville
County health administrator covers up head lice outbreak
Parents reported a new head lice outbreak at Saratoga Grade School on Thursday. The Grundy County Health Department refused to release details and would not identify the school. Administrator Mrs. Lorrain Covey said she would consult officials to protect school identities.
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Saratoga
Grundy County
Hip Surgery Planned For Mrs Loren Sackett
Mrs Loren B Sackett of 407 W Jackson St was slated for hip socket surgery this afternoon at Silver Cross Hospital Joliet after a fall Thursday in her home. She is in Room 3205 and her condition is listed as good.
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Loren B. Sackett
W. Jackson St
Silver Cross Hospital
Joliet
Kindergarten Registration Next Week in Morris Schools
Morris public schools will hold kindergarten registration next week from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Parents should bring their child to the playroom at Franklin School, North and Franklin Streets, for enrollment and proof of age via birth certificate for children who turn five on or before December 1, 1978.
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Morris Public Schools
Franklin School
North and
Franklin Sts
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