Ex-Mazon resident dies in Will County crash
Kenneth McCoy 31, formerly of Mazon, died when his 1971 Plymouth Duster hit a guard rail on Interstate 80 near I 55. The Will County coroner ruled head injuries caused the death. An inquest will be held later. Funeral services pending. He is survived by his wife Betty Male and three daughters. He worked for Caterpillar Tractor Co. in Joliet.
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Channahan
Mazon
Will County
Kenneth McCoy
Cardinal Drive
Robert Tezak
Tezak
McCoy
Tezak Funeral Home
Joliet
Davis Funeral Home
Morris
Arthur McCoy
Betty Male
Male
Morris Planning Commission backs B-III to R-V rezoning plan
The Morris Planning Commission recommended rezoning from B III commercial to R V Planned Unit Development for a 105 unit low income senior citizen apartment building between Bedford Road and Waverly Street east of Lisbon Road on a 2.78 acre site. The six story structure would include 70 parking spaces with 7 additional spots and seeks to move the building north and east to improve parking.
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Morris Planning Commission
Bedford Rd
Waverly St
Lisbon Rd
Allen L. Kracower
Commission
Clyde Baker
Morris Savings and Loan Association
Kracower
O’connor
Morris Fire Department
Baker
O'Connor
Austin Bollen
Grundy County
Garbage seen as valuable resource in Illinois by 1980
Ronald D. Kinsey of Resource Technology Corp. forecasts Illinois garbage will be worth about 80 million and yield energy equivalent to 9.2 million barrels of oil by 1980. The state’s trash is expected to contain over 534 thousand tons of steel and recoverable metals and energy, with Chicago incinerators already increasing can recycling and energy recovery.
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Chicago
VPI
Illinois
Ronald D. Kinsey
Resource Technology Corp
San Jose
Calif
Kinsey
The
American
Iron and Steel Institute
Stickney
Fire destroys Seneca home linked to Testa family
Fire investigators in Seneca probe an early Wednesday blaze at the Testa home on the Illinois River bluff. Police say arson squad involvement is likely as origin remains undetermined, tire tracks appear in the snow, and the house valued around 200000 dollars was a total loss. Testa, once Cook County sheriff, reportedly away in California.
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Joseph Testa
Testa
Testas
California
Seneca
Michael Fowler
Fowler
Joseph Valli
Valli
Seneca Fire Department
Jack Belden
Belden
Illinois River
DuPont Rd
Chicago
Cook County
Richard Elrod
Chicago Crime Commission
Commission
Police weather report for Joliet Illinois road conditions
Illinois State Police provide public weather phone updates on highway conditions from Navy through April 15 each year. Reports are updated daily at 4 am 11 am 4 pm and 8 pm with more frequent updates if needed.
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Illinois State Police
Bolingbrook
Grundy County
Joliet
Kendall County
LaSalle County
Lockport
Romeoville
Will County
Judge Sets Dec 16 For Affidavit In Clydesdale Case
Thirteenth Circuit Judge Thomas Clydesdale 63 of Oglesby was ordered in Chicago to produce an affidavit from co defendant Peter Corgiat 61 as part of his bid for a separate trial. The affidavit deadline is Dec 16 with a Dec 21 status hearing and potential trial date. Also named in the indictments are Gildo Costa 65 and Oliver Halm 77 of Oglesby. The four face conspiracy and misapplication charges over a 1968 to 1975 loan at First National Bank of Oglesby used to cover company overstaffs at Pure Silica Co.
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Clydesdale
U.S District Court
Chicago
Alfred Kirkland
Peter Corgiat
Oglesby
Kirkland
Corgiat
Gildo Costa
Oliver Halm
Pure Silica Co
First National Bank of
Mayors from Nagasaki and Hiroshima Meet New York Leader
Two Japanese mayors Yoshitake Morotani of Nagasaki and Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima visited New York Mayor Abraham Beame to discuss disarmament during a U S tour. Beame gave them a book of American scenes as a courtesy. The two cities were destroyed by atomic bombs at the end of World War II.
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New York
UPI
Abraham Beame
United States
Yoshitake Morotani
Nagasaki
Takeshi Araki
Hiroshima
Beame
Truck Train Crash Injures Yorkville Driver
Ronald R McGlasson 42 of Somonauk was northbound on Illinois 47 in a Koubenec truck hauling sand when a Burlington Northern freight collided with him at the Illinois 47 and Hydraulic Ave intersection. He was taken to Sandwich Community Hospital with bruises abrasions and possible broken ribs.
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Yorkville
Ronald R McGlasson
Somonauk
Wyoming Supreme Court overturns conviction in wire cutting case
The Wyoming Supreme Court reversed a Teton County jury verdict finding Maurice Horn guilty of cutting Mountain Bell's telephone line in Jackson. The court ruled the law applied to property ownership, not to the offender, and that Horn could act as he wished with the line he cut after being dissatisfied with service.
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Wyo
UPI
Wyoming Supreme Court
Mountain Bell
Jackson
High Court
Maurice Horn
Teton County
Horn
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