Christmas traffic toll falls short of holiday high
The Christmas three day weekend brought 578 traffic deaths, below last year’s peak and under the National Safety Council estimate. Illinois reported 27 deaths, with 36 children and 20 adults among those killed, while fires in several states left many homeless.
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Mansfield Seeks Senate Second Look At Great Society Plans
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield urged a major thorough reexamination of Great Society programs and related laws. He asked the 9th Congress to review medicare civil rights pollution education urban and rural issues and broader tax and draft policies for gaps rough edges and equity in administration.
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Mike Mansfield
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Senate
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Congress
Vietnam
Senate of the United States
Two Minor Area Mishaps Reported Over Weekend
Morris City Police and Grundy County Sheriff's office logged two traffic accidents during a three day period starting Friday. No injuries were reported. One crash on Interstate 80 near Morris involved Peter Delia 57 of Marseilles. A second collision at Waverly and Division Streets damaged two vehicles driven by Versal Platt 50 and Gerald F. McTague 34.
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Grundy County Sheriff's Office
Morris
Peter Delia
Marseilles
Grundy County
James Bell
Waverly
Division Sts
Donald Ward
Versal Platt
E. Chapin St
Illinois 47
Gerald F. McTague
Platt
Scientists Report Promise of Protein From Bacteria and Oil
A team led by Dr. John G. McNab and Prof. Louis Rey report a potential major new protein source called single cell protein made by growing living bacteria or yeasts on hydrocarbons from crude oil. It could rival skim milk powder in price for developing countries, with heat treatment to kill microbes after production.
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Frank Carey Washington
John G. McNab
Esso Research and Engineering Co
New York
Louis R. Rey
Nestle Alimentana
South America
American Association For the Advancement of Science
McNab
Rey
Shock Troops Reported on Move in Cuba
Exiles report newly formed Youth Technical Brigades similar to China's Red Guards active in Cuba. Havana press cites defense of the country with military training for young farm technicians and workers, while organizers claim roles as technicians and producers.
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Miami
Fla
China
Red Guards
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Granma
Cuban Labor Confederation
Miguel Martin
Mario Fontela
Democratic Revolutionary Labor Front
Fidel (Castro
Fontela
Castro
Martin
Midwest Snowstorm Dumps Heavy Snow Across Regions
A powerful winter storm lashes the Midwest with up to 24 inches of snow in the southern Rockies and spreading to northern New Mexico, northern Missouri and southern Iowa. Hazardous driving conditions and road closures are reported across Missouri Oklahoma Nebraska southern Iowa Illinois and much of Indiana as the system moves east.
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Las Vegas
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Kansas
Snow forecast and cold snap from Collins Weather Station
The U S Weather Bureau predicts snow tonight with several inches of accumulation and a low in the low 20s. Winds shift from light to northeast 15 to 25 mph tonight with a Wednesday high near 30 and snow flurries Thursday. Collins station records include highs of 28 Saturday and 27 Sunday with lows of 11 and 5. At 9 am today Morris readings show 16 degrees, rising to 20 by 10:30 am.
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Collins Weather Station
Morris
Manchester Said To Be Improved After Pneumonia Attack
Middletown Connecticut AP reports author William Manchester was much improved and doing very well after pneumonia. He received get well telegrams from Mrs. John F Kennedy and Senator Robert F Kennedy. His doctor said he is improving though his condition remains listed as critical.
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Last Rites for Nick the Greek
Nicholas Andrea Dandolos known as Nick the Greek, famed high rolling gambler, will be buried in Las Vegas Nevada. A spokesman said he will be laid to rest Thursday at Woodlawn Cemetery after dying at Mt Sinai Hospital from heart attack complications at age 85.
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Los Angeles
Nicholas Andrea
Nick
Escapes from British Prisons Surge During Christmas Rush
Eight more convicts escaped Britsh prisons over Christmas, bringing total escapes to 23 with only four recaptured. Dartmoor four fugitives overpowered guards and left via a 30 foot wall as 1,000 police hunted on moorland. Leyhill, Derbyshire and Wormwood Scrubs escapes followed, amid Mountbatten reports of overcrowded, insecure jails and criticism of Dartmoor authority after the escape of Frank Mitchell. The Dartmoor prison, built in 1806, houses about 600 inmates with 50 in longer-term confinement, many to relieve overcrowding.
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Dartmoor
Leyhill
Derbyshire
Earl Mountbatten
Britain
Mountbatten
George Blake
Wormwood Scrubs
London
Blake
Princetown
England
Ike Is Set to Leave Hospital
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 76, will depart Walter Reed Army Hospital this afternoon after his December 12 gall bladder operation. He has shown rapid recovery since Thursday and plans to travel to Palm Desert, California, from his Gettysburg home in January.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Eisenhower
Palm Desert
Calif
Gettysburg
Fires Prompted Twice by Morris Volunteers
The Morris Volunteer Fire Department was called at 2 p.m. Sunday to extinguish a rubbish fire behind the Wagon Wheel Inn on Illinois 47 with no damage reported. At 6:15 a.m. today a fire at Virgil Stacey's Pine Bluff Road home began when a light bulb ignited a cardboard box and a nearby chair. Smoke was heavy with estimated damage of $50. a car in the garage was moved to safety and the dog and cat were rescued.
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Morris Volunteer Fire Department
Wagon Wheel Inn
Illinois 47
Virgil Stacey
Pine Bluff Rd
IRS to mail 1966 income tax forms to about 65 million
The Internal Revenue Service said it began mailing 1966 income tax forms to about 65 million individual taxpayers. Distribution runs through Jan. 5 with 43 million receiving the 1040 long form and 22 million the 1040A short form.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Judge Winsor Recovers From Heart Attack At Hospital
Magistrate Chester P. Winsor, reported in excellent condition by wife Mary, suffered a slight heart attack Saturday at 3 30 a.m. He is expected to be released from Morris Hospital in two to three days after prompt treatment. She said the attack was not serious and Christmas was nice despite the hospitalization.
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Chester P. Winsor
Mary
Morris Hospital
Viet Regulars Overrun Posts of Cavalrymen
A battalion of North Vietnamese regulars overran cavalry positions near the central coast, inflicting heavy casualties before American forces repelled the attack. U.S. troops recovered 52 enemy bodies and 44 fresh graves as artillery and air strikes aided the defense amid broader South Vietnam fighting and a political assassination attempt in Saigon.
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Custer
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Billings
Mont
Phan Quang Dan
Constituent Assembly
Tran van van
North Vietnam
Washington
Defense Department
New York Times
Department
Old Cedar Pole Marks Grave of Chief Nacquette
An ancient cedar pole moved in 1925 to Grundy County Courthouse grounds marks the grave of Illini chief Nacquette killed between 1670 and 1700 near Joliet Starved Rock and Blue Island. The pole with a white flag recalls tribal history as the 1925 move followed a unanimous council vote.
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Daughter of the Amer
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George Trotter
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John Smith
Peter Campbell
Joe Clayton
Earl Kindlespire
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