Mayor Restores Order in Waukegan After Rioting
Waukegan Illinois mayor Robert Sabonjian vows no concessions as 175 police cordon a 35 square block Negro district. 56 curfew violators arrested for mob action plus one narcotics charge. Firebombing car injures six family members. Sabonjian criticizes NAACP leadership and seeks welfare withheld for rioters.
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Waukegan, Ill
Waukegan
South Side
Robert Sabonjian
Sabonjian
Whittier
McAlister
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Local 626 Plans Joliet Meeting After Strike
Members of Local 626 on strike at Diamond National Corporation will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday in Joliet. Ted Struck, the local president, says the meeting aims to discuss next steps and rally solidarity.
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626
Diamond National Corporation
Joliet
Ted Struck
Pleasant Warm Outlook for Grundy County Midweek
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts continued sunny warmth with highs in the mid 80s for Grundy County on Wednesday. Tonight features partly cloudy skies with a chance of a thundershower and a low in the 60s. Collins Weather Station logged a Monday high of 86 and a low of 56, while Morris downtown read 69 at 9 a m and 84 at 11:30 a m.
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Grundy County
U.S Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Land Sale Confirmed to Grundy County Fair Group near Morrison
Grundy County Circuit Court approved the sale of 160 acres east of the highway near Morris Airport to the Grundy County Agricultural District Fair Group for 112000 dollars. The administrator's deed records the highest bid by Louis Brich etto and heirs of Anastasia Anfinson, who died Dec 30 1964. The group plans no immediate move of the fairgrounds within the next year.
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Grundy County
Morrison Illinois
Grundy County Agricultural District Fair Group
Louis Brichetto
Anastasia Anfinson
Anfinson
Edward Frawley
Chicago
Thomas Frawley
San Francisco
Nellie Bufka
Dorothy Faille
Anne Wallace
Kathleen Berlick
Virginia Brichetto
Kathleen Morren Moses
Edward J. Morren
Edward J. Moran
Ralph Gilchrist
Association
Herald
Gilchrist
R. Gilchrist
F. Welch
W. F. Carter
G. C. Misener
D. Hill
G. Misener
R. Anderson
J. Peacock
Morris Airport
New Lights for Dwight Crossing Signals Ahead at U S 66 and 47
Francis S. Lorenz director of the Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings announced 62 construction projects totaling about 13 million dollars. A contract was awarded to Chas. O'Brien and Son Co. to build 7.78 miles of concrete road from Mazon westward at a cost of 144,322 dollars.
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U.S. 66
Illinois 47
Dwight
Francis S. Lorenz
Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings
Springfield
Lorenz
Chas. O’brien and Son Co
Demonstrations in Peking Rally Against Soviet Embassy
NHK reports about 500000 demonstrators in Peking in front of the Soviet Embassy with banners denouncing revisionists and Mao posters. Earlier 200000 youths led by Red Guards gathered Monday. officials praised the crackdown as anti revisionist sentiment grows.
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Tokyo
Peking
Moscow
Red Guards
NHK
Japanese Broadcasting Corp
Mao Tze-tung
Peking People’s Daily
People’s Daily
Chinese Communist Party
Death Penalty Sought for Menard Prisoners in Guards' Killings
A Circuit Court jury convicted four Menard prisoners of murdering three guards and recommended the death penalty for three defendants John W. Stamps Alonzo H Jones and William E Bassett with Princess Ray Griffin spared The verdict followed an eight hour deliberation Judge Creel Douglass scheduled post trial motions before sentencing and an automatic review by the Illinois Supreme Court to follow possible execution option
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Springfield, Ill
Menard
John W. Stamps
Granite City
Alonzo H. Jones
Manchester
Tenn
William E. Bassett
Fairfield
Princess Ray Griffin
Chicago
Creel Douglass
Jones
Stamps
Lula Mae Jones
Bassett
Illinois Supreme Court
Illinois Penitentiary
Douglass
Howard Clotfelter
Randolph County
Menard Prison
Four new teachers introduced at Morris Community High
During the Monday general orientation at Morris Community High School gymnasium four new teachers were named Miss Carol Hawkinson Gary Brucker Gehrig Dergo and Larry Kane Hawkinson will teach English and advise the school paper Brucker returns from student teaching to teach agriculture Dergo and Kane will be boys physical education instructors Kane heads driver training and also coaches football Miss Joan Hien will student teach in home economics under Mrs Margaret Bednarik Hien a Northern Illinois University senior graduates in January, native of Strawn and Melvin-Sibley High School alum Rose stressed school traditions and student conduct Ted Morgan outlined attendance penalties scheduling and health requirements with freshmen health cards due next week and new student physicals required.
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Morris Community High School
Carol Hawkinson
Gary Brucker
Gehrig Dergo
Larry Kane
Hawkinson
Brucker
Dergo
Kane
Supt
Claude Rose
Joan Hien
Margaret Bednarik
Miss Hien
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb
Morgan
Morris Daily Herald reporter Myron B Green retires after 44 years
Myron B Green longtime Morris Daily Herald staffer will retire Sept 10 due to health. Thomas E West announces predecessor Mrs Larry Anderson of Mazon will take over as society editor and reporter. Green began Aug 8 1922 amid a small staff and later covered diverse beats including a Grundy County murder trial and 20 years of a sports column.
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Myron B. Green
Morris Daily Herald
Thomas E. West
Larry Anderson of
Mazon
Norman Township
Green
The
Herald
Press Association
Chicago
la Salle
Ottawa
Grundy County
Ruth
Illinois Ave
Max Knupp
Elizabeth
Coal City
Anderson
Illinois State University At Normal
Itasca
12Th District
Fannie Brooks
American Red Cross
Morris Lions Clubs
the Herald
Grundy County Five
M.P.M
American Legion
Morris High School Redskins
Morris
Fox
Kankakee
Morris Herald
Johnson warns of explosive crises by wartime limits and world poverty
President Johnson told the American Legion convention that the United States may face explosive crises requiring urgent military involvement unless poverty and lack of liberty are addressed worldwide. He urged action in Asia including Viet Nam and emphasized aid must match the partners’ choices.
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Washington
Johnson
United States
Asia
Viet Nam
American Veterans Committee
Legion
Protest Hunters Plan Howl In In Atlanta
More than 100 members of a coon hunters group plan a protest howl in Atlanta to press the State Game and Fish Commission to discuss hunting season dates. A spokesman warned they will bring dogs and ride a bus to the meeting if no representative attends.
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Atlanta, Ga
State Game and Fish Commission
Atlanta
Senior Citizens Highlighted in Grundy County Corn Festival
The 18th annual Grundy County Corn Festival runs Sept 22 to 24 with a dinner in seniors honor and a special parade place. Don Barkley and Mrs. Wilbur Brown announce an entry blank due Sept 19 to Morris Chamber of Commerce or P O Box 1 Morris.
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Grundy County
Don Barkley
Wilbur
Selma) Brown
Morris Chamber of Commerce
Wilbur Brown
P. O. Box
Morris
Herald
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Center
Garfield
McKinley
Stine
Lincoln
Opdyke
By Dan McNulty
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Fair Group
Mazon Fairgrounds
Dwight Crossing
MCHS
Mrs
Larry Anderson
U.S
AVC
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
William J. Driver
Driver
Ben Neufeld
Frank E. G Weil
District of Columbia
Weil
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