Preliminary loan approves 50 elderly housing units for Grundy County
HUD in Washington gives a $20 000 preliminary loan reservation for Grundy County Housing Authority enabling 50 low rent elderly units in Morris. Local officials note this is the first official action toward elderly housing, with prior mixed applications and prior family units funded.
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U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Washington, D. C
Grundy County
Leslie C. Arends
Morris Daily Herald
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Morris
Grundy County Housing Authority
Adcock
State Housing Office
HUD
Chicago
Grundy
State Office
John Waner
SWEB objectors win case on district boundaries
Three judges of the circuit court ruled to exclude 240 acre Mary Schultz, 180 acre Anna Wilson, and 100 acre Christensen farms from the proposed South Wilmington East Brooklyn Sanitary District. The decision followed hours of testimony with objectors arguing sewers do not guarantee land value gains and SWEB pressed for inclusion. The commission ordered boundaries redrawn to omit the three farms.
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Circuit Court
Wilmington-East
Brooklyn
SWEB
Thomas Clydesdale
Robert Malmquist
Robert Wren
Mary Schultz
Anna C. Wilson
Theodore Christensen
Christensen
Wilson
Wilmington
Schultz
David F. Root
Charles R. Zalar
James Peacock
Root
Peacock
William L. Etzenbach
Chamlin and Associates, Inc
E. A
Ted) Conley
A Morris
Gardner
Verona
Anna Wilson
E. J
Kankakee
James Schultz
Schutz
Conley
Chamlin and Associates
SWEBS
Bloodmobile falls short of Grundy County pint goal
Grundy County American Red Cross bloodmobile at the Morris VFW Hall collected 109 pints from 120 registrations, missing the 135 pint target. Donations included 60 prearranged appointments and 60 walk-ins, with volunteers from local churches clubs and businesses aiding nearly every shift. The next drive is scheduled for February 27 at Kenrick Hall.
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Grundy County
American Red Cross
VFW
United Presbyterian Church of
Clear suspects in SIU killing
Two Chicago men linked to the De Mau Mau gang were freed after two months in custody in a murder probe. Michael Gerchenson, 19, SIU student, was found shot to death along I-57 near Benton on May 3. Judge Randall Quindry ruled no probable cause existed to continue holding them.
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de Mau Mau
Weather and crime notes from Chicago area and Morris
Cloudy with drizzle possible and near 40 degrees today. Temperatures held in the 30s tonight through Thursday with light rain possible. Dresden Island Locks high 51 and low 3 percent noted. In Morris at 7 am 34 degrees and 10 45 am 41 degrees. Three Edward Mo ran Jr 23 Michael Clark 21 and Donald Taylor 21 held in Chicago tied to Gerchenson case and eight other murders linked to De Mau Mau. Judge Quindry reverses ruling, refuses to bind Jackson and Stevens to grand jury after testimony from Jackson 21, a prosecution witness and another gang member. Jackson says neither is involved in kidnaping and death of Gerchenson. Hearing recalls earlier testimony from December 8. Jackson and Stevens surrendered October 18 and 19 respectively.
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Dresden Island Locks
Morris
Edward Moran Jr
Michael Clark
Donald Taylor
Chicago
Gerchenson
de Mau Mau
Quindry
Jackson
Stevens
William Jackson
Garland Jackson
Michael Cooper
Maywood
Fires and pileup strand traffic on I 55 near Joliet
State police report a blaze engulfing five trucks and up to twenty autos in a fogbound chain-reaction crash on Interstate 55 one mile west of Joliet. Ambulances and fire units surround the scene as responders battle flames and search for injuries.
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Joliet, Ill
Interstate 55
Joliet
Hutchings Named Director of Career Education at West Side Schools
John Hutchings son of Ray and Rosemary Hutchings of 750 E Benton St Aurora has become director of career education for West Side School District 129 He will direct a program for all grades including junior and senior high vocational education Hutchings moves from assistant principal at West Aurora High School and plans to file a state report by April He has taught vocational agriculture in Milledgeville and was a high school principal there He also did sales work and served as a first lieutenant in the US Army in Korea He and Rosemary have three children and live at 172 S Gladstone Ave Aurora.
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John Hutchings
Ray Hutchings
E. Benton St
West Side
Hutchings
West Aurora High School
State Department of Vocational Education
West Side Schools
Milledgeville
US Army
Korea
Corps of Engineers
Rosemary
S. Gladstone Ave
Aurora
Passenger shoots sky marshal and customs agent at Kennedy Airport
Robert J. Dobbelaer, 25, of Valley Cottage N.Y., fired on a sky marshal Anthony Petrucci Jr. 34 Bloomfield N J and customs officer Gerald T. McCarthy 41 Commack N Y after grabbing a gun at Gate 4 before a chase across the Kennedy field. Both victims listed in satisfactory condition at Peninsula General Hospital in Queens. The incident followed an X-ray finding of a questionable object in the suspect’s briefcase before a San Juan flight.
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New York
Kennedy Airport
Peninsula General Hospital
Queens
Anthony Petrucci Jr
Bloomfield
N.J
Gerald T. McCarthy
Commack
N.Y
Robert J. Dobbelaer
Valley Cottage
Bombing Intensifies in Hanoi Haiphong Area
U S forces pressed their heaviest air campaign on the Hanoi Haiphong corridor as a B52 and an A7 were lost plus seven airmen. Hanoi claimed more losses and said two B52s were shot down. The destroyer Goldsborough was hit by a North Vietnamese shore battery, killing two and wounding three.
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Saigon
United States
Hanoi
Haiphong
U.S
Goldsborough
North Vietnam
Jeep Conrat
Haiphong Harbor
Hanoi-Haiphong
Radio
Nixon
China
Christmas eviction hits Park Ridge trailer residents
Lanell Bonebright, 66, and about 24 other older residents face eviction by January 31 to make way for an 18 acre condominium project valued at 20 million dollars. Many have nowhere to go as affordable parks decline and some refuse or cannot take their dogs.
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Park Ridge
Ill
Lanell Bonebright
King
Chicago
Rockford
Round Lake
Park City
Waukegan
Jack Irwin
Park Ridge Community Church
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