Waste sludge critique and local backlash in Grundy County
A Morris Daily Herald review notes a Wall Street Journal piece on Chicago sewage sludge used to reclaim strip mined lands, highlighting Grundy County's opposition over bypassed zoning, odors, and perceived city overreach. It cites local officials and residents, plus related EPA testing and infrastructure notes from the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grundy County
Wall Street Journal
Chicago
Joseph Winski
City Sanitary District
Eugene Sorensen
Sorensen
Winski
John Lear
SEMCO
Science
Saturday Review
Army Corps of Engineers
Indiana
Thomas Clydesdale
Clydesdale
Life magazine to cease publication in December
Time Inc announces Life magazine will end after the Dec 29 issue due to continuing losses. About 320 staff, plus 350 Time Inc. employees, to be reassigned with payroll kept through year end as a notice period begins. The decision comes after years of postal and cost pressures and competition from television.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. T. Klassen
New York
Life Magazine
Time, Inc
Henry Luce
Life
the Publiser
Time Inc
Time-Life
Sixth Avenue
50Th Street
Look
Hedley Donovan
Andrew Heiskell
Ralph Graves
Truman's heart shows stress during illness at hospital
Former president Harry S. Truman is on the critical list at Research Hospital and Medical Center after suffering lung congestion and a weakened heart. Doctors report his heart is irritable and under stress while noting some improvements in other areas. temperature and vital signs fluctuated but remained generally stable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Research
Wallace Graham
Truman
Graham
Independence, Mo
John Dreves
Kendall County approves 1972 73 budget with major increases
The Kendall County Board will vote on the 1972 73 budget at its regular meeting. The tentative total is 1 415 125 up 254 394 from last year with higher appropriations in the general county fund highway and bridge IMR health and other services. Major changes include sheriff deputy staffing radio operators and salary increases while elections funding shows a marked decrease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkville
Kendall
General County
County Bridge
Illinois Municipal Retirement
IMR
County Health Department
Extension Education Service
Kendall County Health Department
Environmental Health
Sheriff’s Department
State’s Attorney’s Office
State’s Attorney
Soil and Water Conservation District
Darnell Cemetery
Hazardous Illinois highways and winter weather delays
Snow mixed with freezing rain created treacherous driving across Illinois with wet interstates and hazardous secondary roads. Schools closed in Effingham Champaign area and rural districts. travelers faced advisories as temperatures dropped and snow is forecast for northern regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Illinois
Ilinois
Effingham Champaign
Coal City man injured at Dresden nuclear site
A 25 year old Coal City man Timothy Hanley was treated and released from St Joseph Hospital Joliet after being struck in the head by an air hose at a Dresden nuclear power station construction site at 1 30 p m He worked on an off gas recombiner building for Gust Newberg Construction Co of Chicago and was not knocked unconscious Emergency Squad transported him to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coal City
St. Joseph Hospital
Joliet
Dresden
Timothy Hanley
Lincoln St
Gust Newberg Construction Co
Chicago
Zoning hearings set by Grundy County Board Monday night
The Grundy County Zoning Board of Appeals schedules two hearings at 7 30 p m in the courthouse after a quorum lapse. One concerns an appeal by Marchi Marchi and Marchi against a building permit denial for an apartment building in Evergreens Terrace. The other addresses zoning ordinance amendments on sanitary landfills and a rezoning near Coal City for a MidAmerica Chemical Terminal. Also on the docket are a rezoning petition by Leonard G Onsen from agriculture to B I and a mobile home placement appeal by Joy Schultz and Helen Scott on an 18 acre tract, noting the county requirement is 20 acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grundy County Zoning Board of Appeals
Marchi
MidAmerica Chemical Terminal
Woman Walks Into Car on Division Street
Mrs. Shirley Kowalczyk of 1205 Price Street was held for observation after stepping into a northbound 1966 Chevrolet driven by Mrs. Ida Lloyd on Division Street at 10:45 p.m. Thursday. Lloyd swerved but could not avoid the impact. Davis Ambulance transported Kowalczyk to Morris Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter
Shirley) Kowalczyk
Price St
Morris Hospital
Division St
Ida Lloyd
Rte. 5
Division
Kowalczyk
Lloyd
Davis
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Morris Daily Herald
Commonwealth Edison
Clifford Allen
Edison
County Line Road
Allen
Illinois River
Federal Paper Board
Lawrence Easter
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Easter
EPA Division of Water Pollution Control
Springfield
Attorney General’s Office
Public Works
Morris
Wilfred Dix
Florence Smith
Morris Savings and Loan Association
Herald
Margaret Truman Daniel
Dresden Island Locks
Newark
Newark High School
Frosty the Snowman
Hansel and Gretel
Judas Maccabaeus
C.C
W. Cowboy
Liberty
Evergreens Terrace
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