Lakewood Estates Annexation Bid Advances in Morris Planning
Morris Planning Commission voted 5-0 to urge Lakewood Estates developers to file for a pre annexation agreement with the city. The discussion highlighted lack of clear annexation procedures and reviewed a 352 acre $23 million multi land use project west of Morris along U S 6.
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Planning Commission
Bollen
Morris
Baker
Bauer
Wilfred Dix
Allen Kracower
Dix
Raymond Koontz
Grundy County Soil Conservation Service
Lakewood Estates
Hynds
Grundy County Board delays home addition vote to Aug twenty second
The Grundy County Board postponed final action on a north wing expansion of the county home. A cost review and adjourned session set for Aug 22 will decide the bond, financing adviser, and plan details with state health input and a potential referendum.
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Grundy County
Atty
Richard Wilder
Chapman and Cutler
Tom Coughlin
Coughlin
Ernest Moore
Moore
Aurora
Illinois Department of Health
Sue Morse
Wilder
Champman and Cutler
Morse
Harry Henderson
County Home Committee
Boss
Henderson
Harry Wollgast
Morris Daily Herald August 9 1972 front page highlight
Morris Illinois August 9 1972 front page note. Local briefs and notices feature community events, school items and public notices. Names and places reflect Morris area civic life in the mid 1970s newspaper style.
Grundy County Board OKs Narvick bid for remodel
The Grundy County Board approved a $25,845 contract with Narvick Bros. to remodel the driver testing center building for added county offices. Narvick was the sole bidder after ads in three newspapers. they expect completion by November 1.
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Perry Brooks
Richard Herman
Grundy County
Narvick Bros
Illinois Ave
Tom Parks
Parks
Brooks
Narvick
Donald Noonan
Harry Wollgast
Robert Trotter
Peter Sonnenfeld
Illinois Department of Local Govern
Weather outlook with cool night and warm trend
Temperatures dip to 50 to 56 tonight with a cooler pattern. Thursday turns mostly sunny and warmer with highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s. Dresden Island Locks and Dam observed 75 high and 49 low. 7 a.m. Wednesday recorded 50 with .12 inch precip.
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Dresden Island Locks
Plan GOP convention demonstrations in Miami Beach
Protest groups release a 24 page guide urging nonviolent civil disobedience for the Republican National Convention August 21 23. The manual plans occupying streets near Miami Beach Convention Hall during Nixon acceptance speech and warns of mass arrests while urging nonviolence and limited property damage.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Richard Milhous Nixon
National Guard
Miami Beach Convention Hall
Nixon
Convention Hall
Miami
Senate to vote on handgun bill and dealer exemptions
The Senate prepares for a final vote on a bill banning sale of handguns not suitable for sporting purposes. An amendment by Sen. Hruska would exempt dealers and require Treasury model by model disapproval, drawing fire from Sen. Bayh who warns enforcement would weaken. The debate centers on criminal use versus self defense and enforcement logistics.
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Washington
Senate
Roman L. Hruska
R-Neb
Hruska
Secretary of the Treasury
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Bil
Bayh
Bill Brock
R-Tenn
Pictorial Story on Seven City Halls and Mayor Cooperation
The Morris Daily Herald notes a pictorial feature Thursday showing seven city halls built or renovated in towns with similar populations. Mayors of those towns shared information to aid officials and residents evaluating a new facility. Since March 21 the council has no city hall, meeting in a bank community room and the county courthouse.
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Morris Daily Herald
First National Bank
Tax appraisal report on 14 industrials by Jacobs Co in Grundy County
James I Teeter led a Tuesday briefing at Grundy County approving a $27 500 Jacobs Co contract for appraising 14 industrial sites Real property and personal property were reviewed including in line machinery treated as real estate The 1971 real property value was 29 917 395 with 1972 projection at 103 046 425 Personal property 1971 value 64 225 995 with 1972 projection 17 462 475 Net overall increase 26 700 920 including land 4 137 190 Breakdown lists 14 companies Aluminum Mill Products Inc A P Green Refractories Co Burdett Oxygen Chemetron Commonwealth Edison Diamond International E J DuPont de Nemours and others
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Grundy County Board
James I. Teeter
Jacobs Co. Inc
Chicago
Grundy County Board of Supervisors
Jacobs Co
Richard Herman
Arthur Bozue Jr
Neeleen Ness
Wilfred Harty
Joseph Chiapetto
Real
E.J. DuPont de Nemours
A.P Green Refractories Co
Burdett Oxygen
Chemetron Corp
Commonwealth Edison Co
Goose Lake
Diamond International
el DuPont de Nemours
Federal Paper Board Co
General Electric Co
Hydrocarbon Transport Inc
Northern Petrochemical Co
Northwestern Inc
Reichhold Chemical Co
Sponge Cushion Inc
Industrial property assessments by 14 industries listed
The records show 14 industries with 1971 assessed values at 100 percent and 1972 values at 50 percent. Entities include Commonwealth Edison, General Electric, Northern Petrochemical, Reichhold, Alcoa like firms, and Northern Northwestern among others with individual property figures in the millions and hundreds of thousands.
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Federal Paper Board Co
General Electric Co
Hydrocarbon Transport Inc
Northern Gas Products Co
Northern Petrochemical Co
Northwestern Inc
Reichhold Chemical Co
Sponge Cushion Inc
Aluminum Mill Products Inc
Perseid Meteor Shower Lights Illinois Night Skies
An annual Perseid meteor display will be visible across Illinois for five nights starting tonight. Adler Planetarium assistant astronomer Jim Seevers says peak rate will reach 50 meteors per hour at 11 p.m. Friday as Earth crosses the meteor stream center, with best viewing after midnight.
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Chicago
Illinois
Jim Seevers
Adler Planetarium
Seevers
Perseus
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Parklake Village
Soil Conservation Service District
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Fred Anderson
Tom Coughlan
H. C. Speer and Sons Co
Wallace Burroughs
William Waters
Leonard Boss
Bols
Edward Connor
Rock Island Crew
Rock Island Railroad
Ottawa
Louis Rios
Liberty St
Wauponsee St
Rios
LaSalle
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Herald
Ment Affairs
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Gardner
Chamlin and Associates
County Planning Commission
APO
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Board of Appeals
Liberty
Plan Gop
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