Driver killed in Gardner County crash near Riviera Tavern
Litchfield man Charles E. Odel, 34, died from crushing injuries after his 1952 Oldsmobile left the road and struck a concrete abutment near Gardner. Deputy and state police attended. inquest set. The death toll for the county in 1965 rose to 30, a record. Anthony Arellano, 23, Joliet, survived a rollover on U. S. 66 with minor injuries after a separate wreck near the Mazon River bridge.
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Riviera Tavern
Gardner
U. S. 66
Charles E. Odel
Litchfield
Brooks
Mazon River
Odel
Roy Christensen
W. Clark Davis
U.S
Chamber executive returns after hiccup treatment
A. Frank Leathers executive manager of the Morris Chamber of Commerce left Morris Hospital on Saturday afternoon after a bout with hiccups that began last week. He was admitted last Wednesday for treatment and the hiccups ceased on Friday.
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A. Frank Leathers
Morris Chamber of Commerce
Morris Hospital
Grundy County Planning Commission Meets Tonight
The Grundy County Planning Commission will hold a 7:30 p.m. meeting in the Farm Bureau Building to discuss district regulations and permitted uses across agricultural, residential, business, and industrial zones.
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Grundy County Planning Commission
Farm Bureau
Dispute Over Peace Offers Storm Hits U.S. Vietnam Talks
Washington confronts a row over published correspondence noting a conditional peace offer from North Vietnam. Officials debate authenticity and possible new U S messaging while Hanoi denies any such outreach.
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Washington
Johnson
Viet Nam
Seventeen Displays Enter Lighting Contest Here
Seventeen Christmas home decorations entered the Morris Chamber of Commerce lighting contest. Judging runs December 16 to 22. Participants include Ches ter Heggen, Harry Sereno, Louise Pronchiewitch, William Eich, John Ullrich, Fred Ehrler, Aubrey Shenefiel, Milford Christianson, Mr and Mrs Glen Kinzler, Eleanor Bartels, George T McTernan, Nolan Kaldheim, Eleanor Kopezick, Mrs William Lohan, Mr and Mrs Richard Funk, Robert Washburn, H E Matteson, and others at homes along Washington Street to Illinois Avenue corner north side building.
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Morris Chamber of Commerce
Chester Heggen
Washington St
Santa
Harry Sereno
Louise Pronchiewitch
Grant St
Jack Kopezick
Eleanor Kopezick
Kiersted St
William Lohan
Fremont Ave
Richard D. Funk
Division St
Robbert Washburn
E. North St
H. E. Matteson
Pine St
Illinois Ave
Gemini Crew Begins Medical Checks After Moon Trip
Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell start three days of medical checks in Cape Kennedy after a 14 day Gemini 7 mission that included 10 lunar trips. They complain of confinement and tedious dehydrated food but praise the Titan 2 booster and easy rendezvous.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
Space
Moon
Borman
Lovell
Air Force
Col
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Gemini
Schirra
Sirius
Stafford
Wasp
Bermuda
Cooler Weather Forecast With Cloudy Skies
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures tonight with a low in the low 20s. Tuesday remains cloudy with little temperature change, while Wednesday should be fair and warmer. At Collins Weather Station Saturday high reached 38 with a night drop to 15, Sunday 34 down to 30, and 9 a.m. today was 30 as snow fell earlier.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Dominican Peace Efforts Amid Violent Setback in DR
Fighting between army troops and former rebels near Hotel Matum in Santiago left at least 13 dead as U S paratroopers of the IAPF arrived. The violence extended to Santo Domingo with a policemen shot and pro rebel mobs roaming downtown. A key step toward reintegration of rebels into regular forces appears undermined ahead of June elections.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Santiago
Hotel
Matum
U.S
Inter-American Peace Force
IAPF
Santiago Hotel
Hector Garcia-Godoy
Juan Lora Fernandez
Three Injured in County Highway Accidents
Three people were injured in county crashes this weekend and remained in hospital. A 31 year old Chicago man James E. Reed suffered skull lacerations when his northbound car veered off U S 66 two miles north of Illinois 47 and struck a bridge rail. He remained in serious condition at St James Hospital Pontiac. Cindy Barkley 16, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Barkley of Route 5 was treated for facial lacerations at Morris Hospital after a car driven by Stephen Malfatti 19 Route 2 Seneca left U S 66 frontage road near Gardner and plunged into a ditch. Barkley was transferred from St James to Morris Hospital. Malfatti was released after facial lacerations. A third accident near Campus Road south of Gardner left a driver with back injuries and facial lacerations and a car taken to a Kankakee hospital.
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Kankakee
St. James Hospital
Pontiac
James E. Reed
Chicago
U. S. 66
Illinois
Reed
Morris Hospital
Cindy Barkley
William Barkley
Rte. 5
U. S
Gardner
George Hendrickson
Stephen Malfatti
Rte. 2
Seneca
Miss Barkley
Malfatti
Hileman Service Station
Roy Christensen
Grenade attack on truck of U.S. soldiers in Saigon area
Viet Cong staged birthday violence with a grenade strike on a U.S. military truck near Saigon, injuring one American. Meanwhile, battles across the Plain of Reeds and around Qui Nhon produced heavy enemy losses as U.S. air and ground forces pressed operations in South Viet Nam.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
U.S
Tuyen Nhon
Plain of Reeds
Father
U. S
North
Viet Nam
Bac Can
Hanoi
Red China
Haiphong
da Nang
U. S.S
U.S. Information Service Office
U.S. 1St Cavalry
Qui Nhon
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Willard Brooks
Anthony Arellano
Ottawa St
Joliet
Missouri
John E. G. Olson
Davis Funeral Home
Morris
Ross Funeral Home
Davis
Olson
Mazon River Bridge
Arellano
St. Louis
Robert Wood
Ford
Hileman
Ing
Ho Chi Minh
North Viet Nam
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
United States
Giorgio la Pira
Florence
Mario Primicerio
Dean Rusk
State Department
Rusk
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Nations
ABC
Goldberg
Aberdeen
S. C
Grundy County
John Bobbitt
James Christensen
Thomas Sheppard
Herald
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