Derailment injures three near Carbondale on IC track
Eight cars of the Illinois Central Panama Limited derailed south of Carbondale injuring three, one seriously. The rest of about 150 passengers resumed to New Orleans within three hours. IC president William B. Johnson and VP O H Zimmerman were among uninjured riders.
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Carbondale, Ill
Illinois Central Railroad
Carbondale
Chicago
New Orleans
William B. Johnson
Illinois Central
O.H. Zimmerman
Orvis Crain
Centralia
Doctors Hospital
Harry B. Koonce
St. Louis
Koonce
Mid America
Memphis
Magnolia Star
Hijackers Take $301000 From Armed Truck In Ohio
In Youngstown, hijackers escaped with 301000 from an armored Kane truck while guards were inside a department store. The vehicle was found abandoned 1% miles away in Boardman with 32000 left inside. authorities suspect an inside job and multiple keys were used to access doors.
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Youngstown, Ohio
Boardman
Kane Secret Service Co
Steve Sulik
James Lockhart
Youngstown
Almart
Don Hawkins
Hawkins
Kane
Boardman Plaza
U.S. 224
Here
Department Store
The Ark Teen Club Opens In Channahon
Channahon adults and teens form a six teen and four adult board through the Channahon Methodist Church to open a community teen club called The Ark. The club runs Saturdays 7 to 10 30 pm with a one dollar ID at door and fifty cent nightly charges after cards issued, with strict dress and constant supervision.
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Channahon
the Ark
Daley vows to stop riots as city braces for summer
Chicago Mayor Daley denounces potential Negro demonstrations after the Alderman shooting and warns no one will take over the city in July or any month. He calls for up to 5,000 more police if needed and condemns violence while citing Gregory remarks as a provocation.
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Chicago
Richhard J. Daley
Daley
Dick Gregory
Gregory
Ald
Leon M. Despres
Despres
Forecast Mixed Clouds With Cold Low Tonight
The U S Weather Bureau predicts fair, slightly colder tonight with a low of zero to 5 above. Friday brings variable clouds and continued cold with a high in the lower 20s. Collins Weather Station logged a 19 degree high and 3 above zero low on Wednesday with only a trace of precipitation. Temperature at 9 am today was 18 at the site and 22 in downtown Morris at 11 45 am.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins Weather Station
Morris
U S to Open 800 Bed Hospitals for Civilian Victims
Saigon reports three US military hospitals will total 800 beds to treat civilians hurt in the Vietnam War. A 300 bed Tuy Hoa unit opens soon, Chu Lai adds 200 beds by January, and Can Tho in the Mekong Delta will host 500 beds for soldiers and 300 for civilians in late spring.
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Saigon
United States
U.S
Tuy Hoa
Chu Lai
Can Tho
Mekong Delta
Newark Contest Winners Named in Community Lighting Event
Leonard Tesdal won first prize of 15 dollars in the Christmas home lighting contest sponsored by the Newark Community Club and Illinois Power Co. Judging finished Wednesday night. Russell Hanson took second with Harold Ness third. Russell Koska earned a 5 dollar prize for best door or window display. Honorable mention went to Herbert Dahl. Judges were Mrs. Ival Hagen Mrs. Kermit Phillips and Mrs. William Kestila of Sheridan.
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Newark
Leonard Tesdal
Newark Community Club
Illinois Power Co
Russell Hanson
Harold Ness
Russell Koska
Herbert Dahl
Ival Hagen
Kermit Phillips
Wiliam Kestila
Sheridan
Fine Dog Owners $5 Each Today
Criminal complaints signed within the past six days against Morris residents for allowing dogs to run loose were enforced today in magistrate court. Mrs. George Heap and Edward Bartels, both of 819 and 734 First Ave, were fined $5 and assessed $5 in costs each under a city ordinance warning.
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Morris
George Heap
First Ave
Edward Bartels
Chester P. Winsor
Four American Sailors Seek Asylum in Sweden
Four U.S. sailors who deserted in Yokosuka and fled to Moscow will apply for political asylum in Sweden. They arrive from Moscow on a regular flight and seek refugee status. identified as Richard D. Bailey John M. Barilla Craig W. Anderson and Michael A. Lindner.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Moscow
Swedish Committee For Vietnam
Richard D. Bailey
Jacksonville
Fla
John M. Barilla
Catonville
Craig W. Anderson
San Jose
Calif
Michael A. Lindner
Mount Pocono
Yokosuka
Japan
Red Cross
Russia
GE gets approval for nuclear fuel recovery plant near Morris
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board approved General Electric Co to build a nuclear fuel recovery plant about eight miles east of Morris with a provisional construction permit expected next week. The $15 million facility will extract plutonium neptunium and uranium from irradiated reactor fuel and is planned for completion in 1969 with commercial operation in 1970.
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Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
Washington, D. C
General Electric Co
Morris
Grundy County
General Electric
Commonwealth Edison Co
Fire in Dryer Scorches Corn
A fire at a corn dryer on U S 6 near the Ansley Olson farm in Saratoga Township scorched corn and burned for hours with 600 bushels in the dryer and at least one wagon load half scorched. Firefighters were summoned at 10 a m and remained on scene at 11 15 a m as investigators noted likely overnight smoldering.
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U.S. 6
Morris
Ansley Olson
Saratoga Township
William Limbach
Grundy County
Robert Coleman
Coleman
Reno woman turns 20 into 13750 on slot machines
Mrs Anne Clarke a Vancouver dress shop owner and former Ziegfeld Follies performer says she turned a $20 stake at Harold's club Reno into $13,750 after 10 hours of play. She reports prior wins since 1963 and keeps much of her winnings in a bank labeled Reno money.
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Reno
Nev
Anne Clarke
Harold
Clarke
Harold's Club
Record Tonnage Trend on Illinois Waterway in 1967
November 1967 cargo on the Illinois Waterway shows gains over 1966 with Peoria leading in total cargo at 2,345,736 tons and 2,721 barges, Dresden Island 2,186,790 tons and 2,683 barges, and Starved Rock locking 2,111,850 tons. The Chicago district oversees eight locks under Col. Edward E. Bennett.
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Illinois Waterway
Chicago
Army Corps of Engineers
Dresden Island
Peoria
Edward E. Bennett
Starved Rock
Brandon Road
Lockport
Marseilles
la Grange
T. J. O'Brien
T. J. O’brien
Sic
Snipers Fire From Hamlet On Helicopters
U S Marines clash with a large Communist force 20 miles south of Da Nang as helicopter landings draw sniper and machine gun fire. Marines consolidate positions behind low dikes while jets and gunships attack hamlets and tree lines. A separate action 250 miles north near Saigon involves the 173rd Airborne Brigade against a battalion sized Viet Cong force.
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Saigon
U.S
da Nang
5Th Marine Regiment
Kim Ki Sam
Sam
South Vietnam
173Rd
Airborne
Three Gibbs family burials exhumed after murder arrest
In Cordele Georgia authorities exhumed the bodies of Mrs Janie Gibbs husband and two sons amid a murder investigation into the arsenic death of her 19 year old son Roger L Gibbs A Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe links four other family deaths over the past two years Gibbs 35 spent her 35th birthday in jail after an autopsy found arsenic in Roger Gibbs body
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Cordele
Janie H. Gibbs
Georgia
Gibbs
Roger Ludean Gibbs
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Sunnyside Cemetery
Roger Gibbs
Vandals Break 24 Panes at Mazon High School
Mazon High School reported 24 door and window panes broken and four screens damaged on the south side of the building after Wednesday night vandalism. Chief Deputy John E. G. Olson said a call from assistant superintendent William S. Lynch was received at 8 45 a m. No stones or rocks were found inside, so the method remains undetermined.
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Mazon High School
Grundy County
John E. G. Olson
Sherriff’s
William S. Lynch
Olson
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Jeff Struck
David Olson
Herald
Matthew Comito
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