No Immediate Effect From Spending Cuts
President Johnson announced large planned reductions in federal spending through July 1, 1967, totaling 5.3 billion in long term programs and 3 billion in immediate outlays. Officials say most savings are deferred to fiscal 1968, with limited impact on the 1967 deficit or approved construction projects. The cuts aim to curb inflationary pressure while shifting costs into next year.
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Washington
Johnson
Associated Press
Vietnam
Automakers Plan To Cut Production In Near Term
Ford Motor Co American Motors joined General Motors and Chrysler in announcing production cutbacks over the next weeks to align with slow sales. Ford reduced December and January production by about 22 000 cars to match current rates. The group reported a 10 percent drop in sales for the first 10 days of the month from a year earlier, with Chrysler the sole maker reporting higher year 1965 pace.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
American Motors Today
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
Henry Ford II
American Motors
United States
Weather outlook and temps from Morris area stations
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts a fair night with a low in the upper 20s and a Thursday of partly sunny warmup in the 40s. Collins Weather Station logged a high 27 and low 20, with 9 am at 26 and downtown Morris at 11 15 am recording 33 degrees.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Morris
Supervisors Approve Bond Sale for County Nursing Home
County supervisors vote 13 to 4 to proceed with a $750 000 bond sale for a new county nursing home. State's Attorney Wilder cautions delaying the sale until building costs are clarified while Supervisor Gotham reports an architect is drafting a cost estimate.
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Burd Gotham
Vienna Township
County Home Committee
Richard Wilder
County Home
Sidney C. Carr
Henry Burgess
John H. Hauschild
Neeleen R. Ness
Wilder
Gotham
Grundy County
Nels P. Nelson
Illinois State Department of Public Aid
LaSalle Among Possible Sites For Speck Trial
La Salle County judge says La Salle Quincy and Decatur are possible sites for Richard Speck murder trial. Judge Paschen in Chicago weighs relocating the case and favors locations with larger populations near a jail.
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LaSalle
LA Salle, II
LaSalle County
la Salle
Quincy
Decatur
Richard Speck
Chicago
Howard C. Ryan
Herbert C. Paschen
Speck
Paschen
Ryan
la Salle County
Moyers Steps Down as Press Secretary for Newsday Role
President Johnson's press secretary Bill D Moyers resigns to become publisher and chief operating officer of Newsday on Long Island. A second aide Jake Jacobson also resigns to return to private law practice in Austin Texas. George Christian to succeed Moyers on February 1.
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Washington
Bill D. Moyers
Johnson
Long Island
Newsday
Moyers
Jake Jacobson
Jacobson
Austin
Tex
George Christian
White House
John Connally
Texas
Christian
Coal City Resident Named Maine Township Highway Commissioner
John Gilchrist announced Leonard Francois, 62, of Coal City, was appointed highway commissioner for Maine Township Monday night by township officials. Francois will serve the four remaining months of the office vacated by Raymond D. McKinley, who resigned December 8. The former commissioner cited the road grader’s mechanical condition as the reason for his resignation.
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Grundy County
John Gilchrist
Leonard Francois
Coal City
Maine
Francois
Raymond D. McKinley
Mazon
Mansfield proposes 45 day Viet Truce for talks
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield urged the United States to offer a cease fire and stand fast for 45 days or longer to push North Vietnam to negotiate. Southern colleagues Henry Cabot Lodge and John C. Stennis favored intensified military action while Ernest Hollings pressed for more bombing and echoed Johnson on funding needs.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
United States
Vietnam
Montana
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
South Vietnam
Johnson
Mansfield
John C. Stennis
Dmiss
Ernest F. Hollings
D-S.c
Hollings
North Vietnam
Stennis
Jackson
Miss
Congress
NATO ministers meet without France amid Korea style warning
West Germany Foreign Minister Willy Brandt warns NATO that cracks in Western unity could trigger a fatal miscalculation by the Soviet Union. He declares a first rate crisis may prompt Moscow to misread Western resolve while allies plan to place nuclear defense in a core six or seven nation group.
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Paris
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
France
Willy Brandt
West Germany
Soviet Union
Brandt
NATO
Defense Planning Committee
Moscow
Charles de Gaulle
U.S
Dean Rusk
George Brown
Britain
Vietnam
Rusk
Brown
Washington
Saigon
Southeast Asia
America
Alexei N. Kosygin
Andrei A. Gromyko
Man Fined 500 For Using Slugs In Meters
Miami Beach Florida AP says a man received one day in jail and a $500 fine for slugging parking meters. Judge Albert Sapterstein called it the toughest fine yet and declared the practice must stop.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Albert Sapterstein
Braidwood City Dump Closure and Local News Update
Braidwood schedules dump closure after a Dec. 1 notice from Will County Health official James C. Barringer. Reopening requires soil cover and compliance with state rules. The council also learned federal storm sewer funds are not available yet and discussed plans for a dog pound and water-system work including Well No. 2 drilling and a four-inch main installation. City offices will close December 23 evening into December 24.
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Braidwood
James C. Barringer
Will County Health Department
George Bohac
Main St
Center St
B St
Bohne
Raymond Glenney
Thomas Bergera
Water Department
Kennedy Drive
Bergera
Sytem
Grundy County Supervisors Open Two Day Meeting
The Grundy County board approved a resolution to issue county home bonds and began routine business. Clerk reports showing receipts and earnings across clerk, circuit, sheriff, and treasurer offices were read and sent to the finance committee. State Rep elect James Washburn visited to wish the board well and seek guidance for his coming term.
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Grundy
Finance Committee
Sheriff’s
Sheriff's
Arthur V. Meadors
James R. Washburn
Morris
Grundy County
Washburn
State Rep Boehning cancels meeting as wife gives birth in hospital
In Lafayette Indiana State Rep Richard Boehning canceled a scheduled Monday meeting with the Tippecanoe County Planned Parenthood League after rushing his wife to a hospital where she delivered a baby girl.
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Lafayette
Ind
Richard Boehning
Tippecanoe County
Planned Parenthood League
Boehning
Britain seeks to limit oil embargo on Rhodesia at UN
At the United Nations Britain urged African Security Council members to oppose a strict oil embargo on Rhodesia. Uganda proposed amendments to a British sanctions plan to block oil shipments to Southern Rhodesia, while London favors a limited embargo confined to Rhodesia and avoiding Portugal and South Africa.
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United Nations, N.Y
Britain
U.N. Security Council
Rhodesia
Africa
Lord Caradon
Uganda
George Brown
Council
Portugal
South Africa
Claim Eight American Craft Are Downed
Saigon reports Communist charges of Hanoi raids for a second day. Hanoi radio claims eight U S aircraft shot down including a drone. Pentagon reiterates policy to strike only military targets with no confirmation of bombs inside Hanoi.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
Radio
Washington
Pentagon
Tass
Moscow
Red River
Zyalam
Red Capital
North Vietnamese
Communist Party
Nhan Dan
Tan Son Nhut
U. S
Youth Sentenced to Vandalia on Check Charge
James Hancock 19 of Minooka received one year at the Illinois State Farm Vandalia for passing seven stolen checks. Sheriff deputies arrested him Oct 19 after discovering a $20 check at Kneller's Service Station on Interstate 80. Hancock had resided at Sandy Oaks trailer court and is believed born in southern Illinois.
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Robert W. Malmquist
Minooka
Illinois State Farm
Vandalia
James Hancock
Sandy Oaks
Hancock
Kneller’s
Interstate 80
Young Hancock
Jack Hancock
Illinois
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