Dynamite Found in Chicago Official's Car in Wilmette
Four sticks of dynamite were found Monday night attached to a spark plug in the car of Vinton W. Bacon, head of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago. Bacon blamed tampering with civil service exams for the incident and said he would not flee an investigation. Police said a service station attendant found the device while checking fluids. it did not explode due to faulty wiring. Sheriff Richard Ogilvie called Bacon lucky and suggested the bomb may have been placed days earlier.
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Wilmette, Ill
Vinton W. Bacon
Metropolitan Sanitary District
Greater Chicago
Bacon
Sanitary District
Richard Ogilvie
Cook County
Margaret
Deaf Man Perfects Midget Transistor Hearing Aid
An extremely small hearing aid using a tiny energized unit has been perfected by a hard of hearing man. With the new aid whispers become crystal clear and the inventor offers free information by writing HEARING, 32 E. 9th St., Erie, Pa.
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E. 9Th St
Erie
District car driver aids civil service probe in 1962 hiring
The Sanitary District driver, who uses the district car daily, aided by Chicago police bomb and arson squad specialists who removed dynamite from a site. Bacon says he will continue his inquiry into civil service examinations and notes he was hired in 1962 to reform the district.
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Chicago Police
Bacon
Royal Neighbors Meet In Mazon And Honor Award
A Royal Neighbors gathering in Mazon was led by Mrs. Keith DeGrush with plans for a Sept 15 meeting including entertainment and lunch committees. Mrs. Howard Leach received a special award, and members adjourned for refreshments. In another item, fatal injury for 13 year old Richard Gordon Isham is reported with funeral services held in Minonk.
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Richard Gordon Isham
Gordon Isham
Springfield
Mazon
Archie Baker
Dana
Minonk
Wells Fargo Reopens Dallas Doors After 50 Years
Wells Fargo returns to Dallas after a half century with armored car service. The company, once famed for horse drawn mail and freight, will now handle valuables again in the city.
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Dallas
Wells Fargo
KKK Fined for Rally in Chicago on Open Housing Tensions
Evan Lewis of Akron identified as imperial ambassador of the Grand Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was fined 200 for holding a public rally without a permit in Marquette Park. Rev. Charles Lynch of Waynoka was ordered to return Aug 30 as the National State's Rights Party official faced the same charge. Police said Lewis used a megaphone to urge white organization amid tense demonstrations tied to housing protests.
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Chicago
Live Oaks Relocated For Beaumont Highway Widening
Work starts soon to move 170 live oak trees along 31 miles of U S 90 near Beaumont Texas The trees that were doomed will be relocated 20 feet north to form the centerstrip of the four lane highway project preserving the oaks while widening the route
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Beaumont, Tex
U.S. 90
Beaumont
Open House Set by Union Vacation Church School
Union Vacation Church School hosts an open house Thursday at 6 30 p.m. The kindergarten meets at the First Methodist Church the primary at the First Baptist Church and the junior at the First Presbyterian Church. Visitors can meet teachers and view children’s work with refreshments at 7 p.m. in the First Methodist Church.
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New Free Methodist Church
Armstrong and
Price Sts
F. C. John
Winona
Ind
Andrew Seidsma
Union Vacation Church
First Methodist Church
First Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Ballet Folklorico travels Australia with shocking pink luggage
The Mexican troupe uses vivid pink suitcases for all 75 dancers and singers on their Australian tour. If luggage goes missing, director Madame Amalia Hernandez says it is replaced with harreed peenk luggage and later returns.
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Melbourne
Mexico
Ballet Folklorico
Australia
Harreed Peenk
Madame Amalia Hernandez
Traffic Court Dismisses Case As Grieff Pays Fine
Glenn Grieff, 22, of Dwight, paid a 15 dollar fine plus 5 dollars court costs in magistrate court on Monday for traveling 80 in a 65 mph zone. The August 13 incident was noted. The case against Thomas Mason of 735 Third Ave. was dismissed. Mason had been charged with assault and battery on July 23 and paid 25 dollars in court costs.
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Glenn Grieff
Dwight
Grieff
Thomas Mason
Third Ave
Mason
Plan calls for 30 million idle acres
Agriculture Department official indicates the 1967 crop plan will return upwards of 30 million acres of idled cropland to grow grains soybeans and other crops. Undersecretary John A Schnittker spoke at the American Farm Economics Association meeting in College Park Md noting about half the land diverted this year can be produced in 1967 to replenish reserves and meet next year's market needs.
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Ovid A. Martin
Washington
Agriculture Department
John A. Schnittker
American Farm Economies Association
College Park Md
Schnittker
Soil Bank
Farm programs cut costs on idle land compensation
The note suggests less money would be required to compensate farmers for idling land. This follows recent programs that kept land out of use to reduce surpluses, guiding policy toward reducing payments while maintaining farm support.
Steel shipped to India ruined after 12 months exposure
In Madras India an import of steel from the United States valued at $130 000 was destroyed by exposure over a year delaying a hydro electric project and necessitating a new shipment.
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Madras
India
United States
Goodyear
Iada
Miss Wheatheart of the Nation named from Stratford
Sherrie Murphy a Stratford high school senior of 17 has been chosen Miss Wheatheart of the Nation to represent the wheat-growing industry credits her hometown Perryton Texas as the pageant origin and aims to promote grain agriculture nationwide.
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Perryton
Tex
Sherrie Murphy
Stratford
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