Hearing set to allow 35-foot apartment buildings in Morris
Morris Planning Commission scheduled a public hearing for September 8 to amend zoning in R III to permit 35-foot high buildings as conditional uses for Nettletown Village. Developers seek three story and two four story structures with plans including two fire hydrants. The panel also debated background checks on developers to guard standards and potential investigations by a city body.
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Morris Planning Commission
Nettletown Village
John Keefe
Bohn-Mar Developers, Inc
S. Arlington Heights Road
Arlington Heights
Keefe
Clyde Baker
Arthur Hornsby Jr
Baker
Morris Fire
Seventh Fleet shelling DMZ in South Vietnam described
U S Navy forces led by the destroyer Berkeley joined B 52 bombers in striking North Vietnamese positions in the southern DMZ as clashes near Camp Carroll and Fire Base Fuller escalate. Reports tallied enemy and South Vietnamese casualties amid fighting on August Revolutionary Day.
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Saigon
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Berkeley
Dmz
South Vietnam
Camp Carroll
U.S
Fuller
Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Mt. Ba Ho
I M Canal Homes Annexation Moves Forward in Illinois
Springfield action would allow about 30 Illinois and Michigan Canal homes to join Morris for sewer and sanitary services. State Senator Meade Baltz notes long-term leaseholders on state property and cites a bill signed by Governor Ogilvie to authorize sale of canal parcels based on dual appraisals.
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Springfield
Illinois and Michigan Canal
Morris
Joliet
Meade Baltz
Baltz
Senate
Ogilvie
State Department of Public Works and
Illinois Forecast With Warmth and Possible Thunderstorms
Skies were fair across Illinois with mild east breezes from a New England high. Tonight brings partly cloudy skies and a chance of thunderstorms with lows around the upper 60s. Friday stays partly cloudy and warm with a 78 to 83 high and a chance of storms. Dresden Island Locks reported Wednesday high of 85 and low 58. Temperature at 7 am stood at 63 degrees.
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Illinois
New England
Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Future Catholic school program charts new path in Chicago
A Chicago archdiocese commission says parents rather than clergy should drive Catholic school decisions. After 14 months of study, the panel urges local boards and public collaboration to allocate resources fairly and empower parents to shape schooling with the church’s support.
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Chicago
Ed Marciniak
Archdiocesan
Adjustments on assessments by the board of review
The board of review made three real estate assessment adjustments in the past week. The filing deadline was Friday. Edith Page Beverly and John Cripe of Morris had their assessment cut from 15 720 to 15 000. Lester Johnson E Washington St and Algor Swanson 816 E Chapin St had no adjustments.
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Board of Review
Edith Page
Beverly
John Cripe
Morris
Lester Johnson
E. Washington St
Algor Swanson
E. Chapin St
GE Sues Illinois over Nuclear Plant Regulation near Morris
General Electric filed suit against Illinois and the Environmental Protection Agency challenging state authority to regulate radioactivity emissions from GE's nuclear reprocessing plant near Morris in Grundy County. The suit names the Illinois Pollution Control Board and the EPA seeking to bar state control of emissions. The article also notes a separate church commission proposing parents assume school responsibilities due to staff shortages and financial strain.
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Chicago
General Electric Co
Illinois
Environmental Protection Agency
Morris
Grundy County
Illinois Pollution Control Board
EPA
Florida Fugitive Captured in Illinois Escape Case
Allen Pons, 25, wanted for jail escape in Gainesville Florida, was arrested near Savannah Illinois on a tip from federal authorities. He faces a marijuana possession charge in Illinois and is also known as Paul Dupree.
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Mount Carroll, Ill
Florida
Illinois
Carroll County
Allen Pons
Savannah
Pons
Gainesville
Fla
Paul Dupree
Illinois 84
Paxton Dealer Killed in Cabery Train Crash
Forrest A. Rine a 57 year old Paxton Ford Mercury dealer died at the scene when his new 1971 Mercury collided with a Penn Central passenger train at 7 30 a m on the Cabery blacktop south of Dwight in Kankakee County Illinois. The inquest is set for Friday and funeral arrangements are pending family notification. No other injuries were reported and train damage was minor.
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Cabery Blacktop
Paxton
Forrest A. Rine
Rine
Kankakee County
Penn Central
Cabery Blacktop Road
Dwight
Nixon unions clash over wage freeze and labor leadership
The article notes a growing rift between the administration and AFL-CIO leader George Meany over Nixon's wage-price freeze. Connally says labor leaders will cooperate, while Meany denounces the policy as harmful to workers. Meany, Hodgson and Shultz work to calm protests amid widespread strike actions.
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Washington
Connally
NBC
Meany
Nixon
Afl-Cio
George Shultz
Labor
J. D. Hodgson
George Meany
Hodgson
America
Widow Home Transfer From State To Wilmington
Springfield reports the old Soldiers' Widows Home has been transferred by the state to the City of Wilmington. State Senator Meade Baltz R Joliet announced the quit claim deed transfers control of the building once used as a retirement home for soldiers widows to city ownership and its current uses.
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Springfield
Wilmington
Meade Baltz
Cool weather slows blight spread in Corn Belt states
The National Federal State Information Center on Corn Blight reports only slight increases in Southern corn leaf blight across the Corn Belt and Middle Atlantic. Cool dry weather is slowing spread while Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri report the heaviest infection. new pockets appear in Connecticut and several eastern states.
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Washington
Middle Atlantic
National Federal State Information Center
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
Maryland
New Jersey
Corn
Descendants seek new trial for Dr Mudd in Lincoln assassination
John Mudd, a Miami attorney and great grandson of Dr Samuel Mudd, asks President Nixon to review the 1865 military trial convicting Mudd as an accessory after the fact. He argues the tribunal lacked civilian jurisdiction and that Mudd was denied defense. A 1883 death ended his bid. others have since examined his role, while a judge upheld the posthumous limits.
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Miami
John Wilkes Booth
Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Samuel Mudd
John Mudd
Dr. Mudd
Nixon
Mudd
Lincoln
Ford
Washington
Apanas Street Change Threatens Morris Housing Plan
Morris Development Corp plans a 424 unit project northeast of Lisbon Road and George Street. At 7 30 p m Monday he will seek a council vote after planning commission approval, but a north south collector street may force scrapping the plan and eliminating the park. He offered 1 33 acres for a public park.
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Leon Apanas
Morris Development Corp
Lisbon Road
George St
Morris City Council
Morris Planning Commission
Apanas
the Herald
Foran says governor is only office of interest
Thomas J. Foran former U S attorney for the Northern District of Illinois told a Dixon audience that only the governorship interests him. He declined any other state office including attorney general and spoke to about 50 people at a Lee County Democratic event.
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Dixon, Ill
Thomas J. Foran
U.S
Illinois
Foran
Lee County
Democratic Central Committee
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Parklake Village
Bauer
Hornsby
Planning Commission
Kenneth Carmignani
Commission
Willard Olson
Morris Daily Herald
Louis J. Ashton
Lori Sue
Wauponsee Township
Donald McCullough Sr
Illinois Veterans’ Commission
Ashton
U.S. Army
Arthur Leach
Morris Savings and Loan Association
Seventh Fleet
Ralph Knight
Future Catholic School
Connecticut
Preme Court
Richard Mudd
Saginaw, Mich
Morris Community High School Board of Education
Apanas Street
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