Plan Meeting On Vocational School In Area
Morris Community High School Superintendent Claude Rose said a mid January meeting with representatives from area schools will discuss plans for an area vocational school. The meeting was announced at the MCHS Board of Education meeting, with date and time yet to be set.
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Morris Community
Claude Rose
McHs Board of Education
Rose
Supt. Rose
Area Vocational Center
Sterling
Sterling Center
Board of Education
Joliet
New Area Junior College
Deltiology: Collecting Picture Postcards Across Generations
Mr and Mrs Russell Horton of Dwight along with their son Ed are avid deltiologists with a large, diverse collection dating back to 1903. The Hortons describe prices, card types, and the sentimental value that often surpasses monetary worth, noting a special Thanksgiving card and a Kaiser's hand signed German card as prized items. They belong to the Windy City Post Card Club and attend annual Chicago meetings to trade and exchange information.
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Russell Horton
M Kopczick
Rte
Dwight
Kathryn) Horton
Germany
United States
Hortons
Horton
Frank Staff
Frederick A. Praeger Publishing Co
Portland
Ore
Lostant
Ill
Kaiser Wilhelm
Windy City Post Card Club
Chicago
Indian Chieftan Ky-ou-ha-ha-de Leads Iroquois Confederacy
Ky-ou-ha-ha-de a 53 year old Indian whose name means unfinished business is named as the new leader of the 200000 member six nation Iroquois Confederacy at a Nedrow meeting near Syracuse New York AP reports.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Ky-ou-ha-ha-de
Nedrow
Food Stamp Program To Start In Grundy County
The food stamp program funded by the federal government will begin in Grundy County this February. County Superintendent Mary Vismara said stamps will be issued only to regular monthly public aid recipients and will boost low income families’ purchasing power by 30 percent on food items. The board also tabled a $25,000 bond order for circuit clerk employees, debated insurance costs, and discussed insured value for the Grundy County Nursing Home. Planning commissions presented proposed zoning maps and hearings, while a home numbering system for Coal City fire district was authorized.
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Grundy County
Mary Vismara
County Board of Supervisors
Leonard Hoffman
Circuit Clerk
Robert) Williamson
Sidney Carr
Vienna Township
Burl Gonnam
Gonnam
Grundy County Nursing Home
Ted Conley Insurance Agency
Grundy County Board of Supervisors
Plat
Eugene Sorensen
Coal City
Roger Hinstedt
Coal City Fire Department
Sorensen
Hinstedt
Nels Nelson
Morris MCHS Christmas Concert Saturday
The Morris Community High School music department hosts a 7:30 p.m. Christmas concert in the school auditorium featuring a 60 piece band and two choruses directed by John Bertrand. The program, titled The Lighter Side of Christmas, opens with a freshman-sophomore girls chorus performing Snow Snow Beautiful Snow and includes pieces like Little Drummer Boy and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. The mixed chorus of 25 girls and 15 boys performs Christmas Christmas among other numbers.
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Morris Community High School
John Bertrand
Frank Richards
Sopho
Harry Simeone
Davis
Onorati
Siemone
Palmer
Ehret
Torme
Winds Increase With Clouds and Warming Temperatures
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts windy conditions and rising temperatures tonight with increasing cloudiness. Thursday should be cloudy and mild with wind and a chance of rain by night and a high in the lower 50s. Friday looks windy and much colder with possible snow flurries. Collins Weather Station logged a Tuesday high of 35 and a low of 20, with 9 am reading at 20 and 10:30 am Downtown Morris at 40.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Morris
Ogilvie appoints Pusateri to parole board chair
Springfield Governor Richard B. Ogilvie will name state Rep. Lawrence X. Pusateri of Melrose Park as a member and chairman of the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board. Pusateri, 37, will push for a full time professional agency as the current chairmanship passes to him. Ogilvie also announced Fred Bird, 48, a former Chicago newspaperman, as assistant press secretary.
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Springfield
Ill
Richard B. Ogilvie
Lawrence X. Pusateri
Melrose Park
Illinois Parole and Pardon Board
Ogilvie
Pusateri
Charles F. Kinney
Mount Carrol
Illinois Crime Investigating Commission
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Govenors
Palm Springs
Calif
Samuel H. Shapiro
Fred Bird
Chicago
Morris Chamber Announces Annual Christmas Home Decorating Contest
The Morris Regional Chamber of Commerce outlines its yearly Home Rule Christmas Decorating contest with 100 in prizes. First prize 50, second 50, third 25, fourth 15. Entries open until Friday December 20 at the Chamber office within a 3 mile radius. Information required includes name, address and display theme.
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Morris Regional Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Morris
Herald
Drop Charges on Braidwood Man in Magnix Slain Case
Voluntary manslaughter charges against Donald Black of Braidwood were dropped in Will County Circuit Court Joliet after first assistant state’s attorney Martin Rudman said there was insufficient evidence. Black was accused in the Nov 4 death of his son in law Donald M. Yedlicka following a scuffle at Black’s home.
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Chares
Donald Black
Braidwood
Will County
Joliet
Will County State
Atty
Roger Gomien
Dwight
Black
Diplomat Arni Helgason Dies in Chicago
Icelandic consul general Arni Helgason, 78, died Tuesday in the Chicago Athletic Club, apparently from a heart attack, while in Chicago.
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Chicago
Arni Helgason
Iceland
Chiscago Athletic Club
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Cedar Point
Herald Phote
Cheryl Mooney
Patty Shugart
Brenda Hansen
Janet Castiner
Paula Feeney
Lynn Burkett
Marcia Wilson
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Braidwood Man
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