Budget Forum Showed Demand for Public Budget Scrutiny
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader spoke during a three day forum and media workshop on government by budget stressing public visibility and accountability in spending. He urged citizen action groups and criticized revenue collection systems while warning about corporate tax practices and the influence of big business on public policy. He cited examples from U.S. Steel and Union Carbide and urged reform of assessment and tax enforcement at local and state levels.
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Ralph Nader
Sheraton
Oak Brook
Nader
Connecticut
Big Business
Department of Commerce
Big Oil
Department of Interior
Maritime Interests
Maritime Administration
Chicago
CIA
FBI
Watergate
Gardy, Inc
U. S. Steel
U.S. Steel
Gary
General Motors
Congress
Ford
Washington, D.C
Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics
Union Carbide
Illinois
West Virginia
Ontario
Quebec
Brazil
Washington
P.O. Box
Washington D.C
Florence Smith
Robber Holds Verona Bank For 17000 In Cash
A ski masked thief armed with a revolver robs the Exchange Bank of Verona at 10 20 am taking 17000 and escapes with bank president Nelson Beal’s car. No injuries reported. Police pursue in a large multi jurisdiction response.
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Exchange Bank of Verona
Nelson Beal
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Grundy County
Beal
Verona
Sheriff's Department
Finch
Verona Exchange Bank
Daniel S. Beal
Douglas Renne
Nelson W. Beal
Herald
Terrorists Hold Consulate Hostages in Amsterdam and Train Siege
South Moluccan gunmen hold 26 hostages in the Indonesian consulate with captives blindfolded and necks bound by cables. Five children are freed as mediator arrives. two more released later. A second band hijacks a train, confronts 1,000 troops, three hostages killed, police recover bodies. Den Uyl insists on rejecting demands including freeing 25 South Moluccans jailed in the Netherlands.
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Amsterdam
UPI
Beilin
Indonesia
Spice Islands
Joop den Uyl
Weather turns sharply colder with possible showers
Forecast shows a much colder night with showers or snow flurries and a low near 25. Saturday will be partly sunny with a high in the 30s. Thursday reached a high of 57 at Dresden Island Locks and Dam and a low of 28. At 7 am today the temperature was 42 and downtown Morris stood at 57 by 10 45 am.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Ford in Jakarta opens Pacific nation welcome tour
President Ford arrived in Jakarta to a 100,000 strong welcome as China talks upbeat the trip. He called the United States a Pacific nation and pledged peace and progress in the Far East while Suharto heard that America would stay active in Asia beyond Vietnam. Betty Ford and daughter Susan joined, amid a ceremonial 19 hour visit following a four day Beijing trip signaling improving U S China relations despite Taiwan and Russia tensions.
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UPI
Ford
China
America
Vietnam
United States
Far East
Suharto
Asia
Betty
Susan
U.S
Peking
U.s.-China
Taiwan
Russia
Prairie State Horsemen's Association Memorial to Jake Olson
Barbara Wilson recalls Jake Olson the Grundy County Sheriff whose idea spawned the Prairie State Horsemen's Association. The club grew from 32 to about 150 members, hosts horse shows trail rides and social events, and honors Olson with a plaque for his inspiration while his widow Betty remains involved with her Buckskin quarter horse Buck.
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Prairie State Horsemen's Association
Kyle Schram
Betty Olson
Jake
Morris
Donald Davidson
Fred Ehrman
Horsemen's Club
Herald
Barbara Wilson
Jake Olson
Grundy County
Olson
Oral Olson
Schram
S & J Ranch
Seneca
Marseilles
Dwight phone cable break disrupts service in Dwight
KANKAKEE Ill UP I says telephone service will be restored to all Dwight customers by late Saturday after a major break flooded a 1 200 pair cable 1200 of 1900 customers were affected overnight Crews worked since the outage began and a temporary 90 foot cable was laid under the railroad crossing James Crupi manager for the Illinois Bell Morris office reported the cause was ground settlement at Chippewa Street and the railroad crossing.
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Dwight
James Crupi
Ilinois Bell Morris
Crups
Chippewa St
Chicago
Board Meeting Sets Schedule at Saratoga Grade School
The board of education will open a meeting at 7 30 p m Tuesday at Saratoga Grade School. Band parents seek recognition by the board and Miss Mary Ann Hoots requests additional leave days January 5 to 7.
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Saratoga
Board of Education
Mary Ann Hoots
Turkey trucker injured in I-55 crash near Reed Rd
Laverne J. Cotte a 54 year old Highland Wisconsin truck driver was seriously injured when his semi loaded with frozen turkeys ran off Interstate 55 and overturned one mile north of Reed Road at 4 55 a m He was pinned inside the wreck and freed by the Braidwood Rescue Squad before being taken to St Joseph Hospital Joliet Illinois State Police reported another truck from Highland was en route to remove the turkeys from the scene.
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Wisconsin
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Reed Rd
Illinois
Laverne J. Cotte
Highland
Wis
Cotte
Braidwood Rescue
St. Joseph
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Morris Daily Herald
Grundy Sheriff's Department
LaSalle Sheriff's Department
State, Kankakee and
Seneca Police
Illinois River Bridge
Norman Roger
Ann) Foster
Kinsman
Dennis Finch
Clark St
Horsemen’s
Liberty
Club
Ehrman
the Horsemen’s Club
Kankakee, Ill
Kankakee
Charles Pangle
Jack Beaupre
Crupi
Turkey
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