Rail Proposal To Eliminate Mazon Stops
Santa Fe plans to discontinue rail passenger service at Mazon unless another conditional stop is designated. Westbound No. 23 and eastbound No. 24 currently stop at Mazon. last eastbound stop Jan. 9 and last westbound stop Jan. 5. Freight service will keep the Mazon station open.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mazon
Santa Fe
Chicago
Los Angeles
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
el Capitan
Texas
Coal City
J. C. Frizzell
Mazon Station
Longer Truce Proposed By Viet Cong
The Viet Cong announced Christmas and New Year truces of three days each to start December 23 and end December 27, and from December 30 to January 2, two days longer than the Saigon plan. The U.S. Command reported North Vietnamese officers executed deserters and documented guards aiding desertion across three defectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Viet Cong
Nguyen van Thieu
U.S
Thieu
Ha Tay
Transfer of Mrs Beverly A Riberdy after vehicle crash
Mrs Beverly A Riberdy, 38, of Kankakee, was moved from Morris Hospital to St Marys Hospital in Kankakee for treatment of multiple fractures after a one car crash Wednesday night at a GM and O railroad crossing signal on Illinois 113 in Coal City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly A. Riberdy
Kankakee
Morris Hospital
St. Mary’s Hospital
GM & O
Illinois 113
Coal City
Trough Stolen From Wagon Wheel Inn Investigated
Morris police seek Kevin Nagengast in a theft of a 160-gallon cow trough taken from the Wagon Wheel Inn on Illinois 47. The trough was reported missing between 7 p.m. and midnight Wednesday, with Nagengast admitting the theft Thursday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Kevin Nagengast
Wagon Wheel Inn
Illinois 47
Nagengast
Police Capture Sniper After Man Is Killed
In Pittsburgh Hill District a man fired from a third floor window killing Nathaniel Brown and wounding William Miller before a nearly three hour standoff with police. Channel J. Dersarkissian, 46, was captured as tear gas and fire broke out. he faces murder and assault charges.
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Pittsburgh
Hill
Channel J. Dersarkissian
Dersarkissian
Nathaniel Brown
William Miller
Snow Promises Mixed Showers Ahead This Weekend
The forecast calls for light snow changing to light rain tonight with a mid 30s low. Saturday brings occasional rain and a high near 50. Collins Weather Station notes a Thursday high of 36 and a low of 15. Temperatures through next Wednesday couple around 33 to 40 in highs and 18 to 24 in lows. Precipitation totals range from a quarter to half an inch, with rain over the weekend and a chance of rain or snow Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Collins Weather Station
Morris
Rail car shortages toast Christmas shopping in Morris
Rock Island Railway officials say private cars are scarce and costly as shoppers plan gifts. The Reveler private car, one of 25 to 30 in the nation, is hosted by Bill Butterworth’s Moline agency.
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Rock Island Railway
Morris
Rock Island
United States
Bill Butterworth
Moline
Chicago
Quad- Cities
Seattle Pilots Sold to Danz Leaders After Stadium Deal
The American League unanimously approved the Seattle Pilots sale to a group led by Fred Danz after owners reviewed plans for a $40 million domed stadium to open in 1973. Roy McMillan was named to the coaching staff joining Cal Elmer and Wes Stock under new Manager Dave Bristol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
Fla
Seattle Pilots
Fred Danz
Pilots
Roy McMillan
Cincinnati
McMillan
Cal Elmer
Wes Stock
Dave Bristol
Army names civilian counsel for My Lai probe
Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor appointed Robert MacCrate as special counsel to the Peers board probing the My Lai massacre inquiry. MacCrate chose Jerome Walsh Jr. as associate counsel as Lt. William Calley faces court martial over killings of at least 109 Vietnamese.
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Washington
Stanley R. Resor
Army
My Lai
Pentagon
Resor
William R. Peers
Robert MacCrate
New York
Sullivan and Cromwell
MacCrate
Jerome K. Walsh Jr
Walsh and Frisch
Peers Board
William L. Calley Jr
Army Operations Center
Negroes seize Harvard University Hall in protest
About 50 to 100 black protesters occupied University Hall in Cambridge to press demands for increased Negro enrollment and better treatment of Black workers. Harvard officials, including Dean Ernest May and Archibald Cox, entered and talked with demonstrators while police presence appeared limited.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
University Hall
Harvard College
Ernest R. May
May
L. Gard Wiggins
Harvard
Archibald Cox
Cox
Wiggins
The
Organization For Black Unity, Obu
Negro Refuses Federal Post in Nixon Offer
William R. Ford 35, named by President Nixon as director of Volunteers In Service to America, declines the job citing commitments to family and his Michigan Employment Security Commission. He previously led the U S Office of Economic Opportunity program in Michigan and says he wants to continue work on urban problems at the state level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
William R. Ford
Nixon
Volunteers In Service To
America
Ford
Michigan Employment Security Commission
Michigan
U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity
MESC
School Christmas Concert by Center School Band and Chorus
The junior high band and chorus at Center School present a Christmas concert Sunday at 3 p.m. in the school gym. The 67 member band and 93 member chorus, directed by Charles Hammond, perform a varied program including March of the Toys Cantique de Noel and Sleigh Ride. Admission is free and the public is invited.
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Center School
Jesus
Charles Hammond
Police Seize Ammo in Black Panther Raid
In Chicago police raided the South Side apartment of Black Panther leader Bobby Rush seizing a .22 derringer, several hundred rounds of ammunition and Army manuals on traps and explosives. Rush faced possible charges for possession of marijuana amid a broader deadly Panther/police gunfight days earlier that killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.
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Chicago
South Side
Bobby Rush
Panther
Rush
Raymond Hilliard Homes Project
William Woods
Woods
Fred Hampton
Illinois
Black Panther Party
West Side
Mark Clark
Peoria
Ill
Panthers
Cook County
State's Attorney's Office
Hampton
Clark
Dan Groth
Sharp Drop In Unemployed In November
The unemployment rate fell to 3.4 percent in November, the steepest monthly drop in a decade, but officials warned the decline largely reflected workers leaving the labor force. Employed Americans rose by 45,000 to 78.7 million while the civilian labor force fell by 83,000 as teen and young workers exited the labor pool.
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Washington
Labor Department
Howard Stambler
Division of Employment Analysis
Stambler
Filing Opens Monday for Grundy County Primary
Filing opens Monday for Grundy County primary on March 17 with petitions due from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. December 15 in the county clerk’s office. Terms for county clerk, sheriff, treasurer and superintendent of schools expire November 30, all four-year terms. Announced candidates include Sheriff George Hendrickson, Marvin Olson, Treasurer Pauline Coleman, Evelyn Baker, and County Clerk Thomas Parks. Withdrawals due by December 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hendrickson
Marvin
Jake) Olson
Pauline Coleman
Evelyn Baker
Thomas Parks
Israelis Released From Damascus Hijack Return Home
Two Israeli passengers Shlomo Samueloff and Sarah Muallem freed from a Damascus hijack boarded a TWA plane to Tel Aviv after arriving in Athens. In exchange Israel freed 13 Syrians including two pilots.
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Athens
TWA
Damascus
Syria
Israel
Shlomo Samueloff
Sarah Muallem
Tel Aviv
Yaaccov Caroz
TWA International
Richard W. Wilson
Wilson
Rome
Quenitra
Golan Heights
Dean Carter
United States
Air Line Pilots Association
the Red Cross
International Civil Aviation Organization
F.C. Wisor
New York
Wisor
Fire Demolishes Car Driven by Chief's Daughter
Miss Patricia Harmon 20, daughter of Ottawa Fire Chief Mel Harmon, escaped injury when a 1964 station wagon caught fire after a right front tire blew on Interstate 80 four miles west of Illinois 47. The blaze blocked both westbound lanes for about three miles until Mo Volunteer Fire Department members arrived. The totaled car was towed away.
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Ottawa
Mel Harmon
Patricia Harmon
Illinois 47
Mo Volunteer Fire
Snicker-A-Day Fellows Headed for Church Aisle
A humorous note suggests that fellows who drive with one hand often end up in church, with some walking down the aisle and others being carried, reflecting a lighthearted view of aging and habits.
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Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
New Mexico
University of California
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Trough
É. W Conley
Liberty
Morris Daily Herald
Mother Shipton
Yorkshire
England
Gabriel
Leo
Anna) Baker
Commonwealth Edison Company
John Hancocks
Big John
Commonwealth Edison
Danz
Lai
Harvard University Hall
OBU
Ivy League
Maurari Aditya
Calcutta
India
Grundy County
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