Prairie Park Open Lands Push on Grundy County Board Agenda
Representatives of the Open Lands Project advocate Goose Lake Prairie State Park at the Grundy County Board of Supervisors December meeting. A new Grundy County Assessor position may be announced after tests by four applicants Kenneth Trotter Milton Carlson John Errietta and Donald Johnson. Also on the schedule are semi annual reports from county fee offices including clerk treasurer circuit clerk and sheriff.
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Goose Lake Prairie
Grundy County
Coal City
Milton Carlson
E. Jefferson St
John Errietta
Wauponsee St
Donald Johnson
Morris
Sidney C. Carr
Two Boys Break Into Home, Cook Chicken In Bond County
In Mulberry Grove Illinois two youths admitted breaking into a residence and stealing eleven chickens. They cooked one chicken, ate it, and left dirty dishes on the kitchen table, per Bond County authorities.
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Mulberry Grove
Bond County
Steiners
Christmas Babies Brighten Morris Hospital Week
Nurses at Morris Hospital report 12 births this week, six girls and six boys, among the hospital’s largest groups in recent memory. The event comes without a snowstorm related spike, while authorities warn on unsafe toys, lighting shortages linger for downtown decorations, and a speech by State’s Attorney Richard Wilder is highlighted in an Illinois Police Association publication.
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Morris Hospital
Gerald Bitner
Morris Chamber of Commerce
Jim Baum
Joliet
Baum
Richard Wilder
Morris
Eagles Organ
Official Journal
The
Illinois Police Association
William J. Hamilton
Illinois State Police
Negro Astronaut Killed During F104 Training Flight
Edwards Air Force Base reports Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. 31 the first Negro U.S. astronaut died in a training F104 crash on a runway during a proficiency flight. Maj. Harvey Royer 36 was injured. an Air Force team investigates. Lawrence had been selected as MOL program designee and would have joined a 1970 orbiting lab mission.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Robert H. Lawrence Jr
U.S
Harvey J. Royer
Royer
Aerospace Research Pilot School
Lawrence
Chicago
Air Forces’ Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Barbara
Tracey
Edward J. Dwight
Lawence
Ohio State University
Navy
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Orbiting Lab
G. W. Duncan
Bradley University
Ohio State
Edwards Afb
Multimillion Pay Raise Approved for U S Military
Senate passage grants a 5.6 percent base pay raise for over three million service members from generals to recruits retroactive to Oct 1. The act covers Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Public Health Service Coast Guard and Coast and Geodetic Survey with future civilian pay alignment and housing allowances. Cost is about $562 million this year and $632 million in fiscal 1968.
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Washington
Senate
Richard B. Russell
Dga
House
Johnson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine Corps
Public Health Service
Coast Guard
Coast and Geodetic Service
Uniformed Services
Defense
Viet Cong Trapped In Mekong Delta Battle
South Vietnamese infantry and Rangers trapped Viet Cong battalions in Chuong Thien Province in the Mekong Delta. About 365 enemy soldiers were killed in a day-long engagement with heavy fighting continuing into Saturday morning.
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Saigon
Mekong Delta
Chuong Thien
South Vietnam
Campaign spend shows Pressman wins comptroller seat
Baltimore voter records show Human A. Pressman spent 32 dollars for the November general election and 29 dollars in the primary. The expense report lists 3 dollars in the general campaign.
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Baltimore, Md
Human A. Pressman
Pressman
Tractor Fire Reported Near Lisbon Road Farm
Firefighters responded at 10 40 p m Friday to a tractor on fire near a corn crib on the Adolph Thompson farm four miles west of Five Corners on Lisbon Road. No further details were available at press time Friday night.
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Morris
Adolph Thompson
Five Corners
Lisbon Road
White House Set For Big Wedding
Washington AP reports preparations for the first White House wedding in 53 years. Bride Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, and Marine Capt. Charles S. Robb, 28, headlined a formal setup with a private rehearsal, security, and an estimated cost around 62000 dollars.
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White House
Washington
Lynda Bird Johnson
Johnson
Capt
Charles S. Robb
Milwaukee
George
Martha Washington
Morris celebrates 100 years for two historic churches
Two Morris buildings reach the century mark amid Grundy County centennial notices. The old Congregational Church turned Masonic Temple at Jefferson and Fulton and Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Jackson and Pine honor a century of use since 1867 and 1866 respectively, with fires and remodels shaping their long service.
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Grundy County
Illinois
Morris
Old Congregational Church
Masonic Temple
Jefferson and
Fulton Sts
Immaculate Conception Catholic
Jackson and
Pine Sts
William Lloyd
Masons
Hippolyte de Pontavice
Dresden Heights
Joliet
Ottawa
John McNellis
Patrick Terry
Thomas Ryan
Immaculate Conception
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Amax Mill
Ralph Rattray
Amax Aluminum Co
Second Cold Mill Foundation
Morrison U
Rattray
Ragnar Benson Inc
Elgin, Joliet and
Prairie Park
Morris Daily Herald
Saturday Review
William
Mary) Reed
Illinois Department of Public Health
Ethel Mickelson
Herald
Illinois Highway Department
Elgin
Indiana
Iowa
U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
West Germany
Maj
Donald H. Peterson
Tracy Nelson
London
Elizabeth Carpenter
Secret Service
Women’s Wear Daily
New York
Geoffrey Beene
Lincoln
James Longhead
Longhead
Lyman B. Ray
Intl
Immaculate Conception Church
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