UAW Ratifies GM Three Year Contract Across 380000 Workers
The United Auto Workers announced a three year national contract covering about 380,000 GM workers. Skilled and production staffs approved the pact by about 3 to 1 and 5 to 1 respectively. The agreement raises wages and benefits by about one dollar per hour on average and includes a $22 model price increase for front seat shoulder harness compliance.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers Union
Leonard Woodcock
UAW
Woodcock
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
U.S
Chicago policeman quits in Klan probe
Chicago police say one officer was excused from duty and two others resigned as part of a probe into Ku Klux Klan membership in the department. Patrolman Donald Heath, from the Fillmore District, was excused after a raid found Klan material and weapons. Richard Stanton and Dennis Aloin also resigned, as Supt. James B. Conlisk noted membership is not a crime but violates department rules.
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Chicago
James B. Conlisk
Conlisk
Donald Heath
Fillmore
Cowlisk
Heath
Richard Stanton
Dennis Aloin
Austin
Stanton
Alda
House Fire Kills Nine Children in Quebec
In Mont Laurier Lac des Iles area a two story home of a couple with 18 children caught fire at 12 30 am. Nine children died and the rest escaped by jumping to the snow covered ground. One child ran to a neighbor to summon help. The victims ages were not released.
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Mont Laurier
Que
Roland Girouard
Girouard
Lac Des Iles
Montreal
First Illinois champagne hits market in Monee Illinois
The first Illinois champagne from Ramey & Allen Winery is now on sale in the Chicago area. Co owner Bern Ramey says 1 600 cases will be ready as bottling wraps up, with grapes from Illinois and California blended to produce a locally grown champagne.
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Monee
Illinois
Ramey & Allen Champagne
Bern Ramey
Ramey
Chicago
Illinois Central
Foster Junction
California
Weather outlook with cold spell and light snow chances
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts mostly cloudy skies and a colder trend with lows from 15 to 20 above zero and highs near 28 to 34 across the period. Snow flurries possible Saturday with a five day view of continued cold and minor temperature shifts. At Collins Weather Station Thursday high 26 and low 2 below zero with trace precipitation. today at 9 a.m. Collins reported 10 degrees and downtown Anne at 11:30 a.m. logged a temperature near 10 degrees.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Collins Station
Anne
East Coast Is Pelted by Snow Storm Rains Freezing Across Region
A major north Atlantic storm dumped heavy snow from the Appalachians to Maine with wind gusts and sleet. Reports include 17 inches on the ground in Rumford Maine and 11 inches in Albany New York as far south as Florida felt storms with tornadoes.
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Appalachians
Maine
West Virginia
Rumford
Albany
N.Y
New England
Virginia Highlands
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Upstate
New
York
Atlantic
Weather Bureau
New York
Virginias
Dixie
Alabama
Mississippi
Largo
Port St. Joe
Florida
Conley Leach Firm Buys Hundt Agency
The Conley Leach Agency buys Walter Hundt insurance operation and renames to Conley Leach Coleman and Hundt Agency. Hundt with 50 years in business will close Morris office at 114 West Main Street on January 1 and join the new firm.
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Conley-Leach Agency
Walter Hundt
Conley-Leach-Coleman and Hundt Agency
Hundt
Morris
Main St
Ted Conley
Art Leach
Robert Coleman
Conley-Leach
Jefferson St
Conley-Leach Corporation
Leach Agency
Paul Whiteman, Jazz King, Dies at 76 in Doylestown
Paul Whiteman known as the King of Jazz died at 76 after an acute coronary attack at Doylestown Hospital following a morning collapse at his Bucks County home. The famed bandleader helped fuse classical music with jazz and mentored stars like Bing Crosby and Benny Goodman.
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Paul Whiteman
Doylestown Hospital
Bucks County
Philadelphia
Whiteman
Kenneth Leiby
New Hope
George Gershwin
Ferde Grofe
Grand Canyon
Pops
Bing Crosby
Tommy and
Jimmy Dorsey
Morton Downey
Benny Goodman
Delaware River
U S 6 Widening Planned From Morris To Grundy County Line
Gov. Kerner released the 1968 highway program listing a 9.64 mile U S 6 widening from Illinois 47 to the Grundy Will County line. The plan moves the road from 18 to 22 feet, at a $10 000 right of way cost, to improve safety by reducing truck hazards.
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U.S. 6
Amax Aluminum Co
Illinois 47
Grundy- Will County
Illinois
Otto Kerner
District Highway Office
Ottawa
the Herald
Ure
Grundy County
Gardner
Reed Road
LaSalle-Grundy
Grundy-Will
Morris
Minooka
Estimate Wife Worth $50
AP survey shows housewives value themselves by outsourcing costs. Responses range from $30 to $150 a week with estimates like a maid at $10 daily plus $6 for extras or a nurse for their son. Some prefer outside work, others see no salary at home.
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New York
Agriculture Department
Associated Press
Hugh Savage
Kansas City
Albert Jensen
Chicago
Chase Manhattan Bank
William Pichler
Miami
Carbondale Adopts Fair Housing Ordinance
Carbondale voters approve a fair housing ordinance creating a five member board to enforce anti discrimination provisions. The board can investigate complaints and assess fines up to 500 dollars per day for violations by property owners lessees brokers lenders or advertisers.
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Carbondale
Illinois
Hammer elected president elect of Illinois Education Association
Kenneth E. Hammer, superintendent of Morris Elementary School District No. 5, won the presidency elect position at the Illinois Education Association. The election occurred this morning during Chicago’s annual meeting.
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Kenneth E. Hammer
Morris
Illinois Education Association
Chicago
U.S. Strikes Continue in Coastal Vietnam Battles
US Marines swept two fortified villages near Da Nang after a helicopter assault sparked a heavy fight with about 500 Communist troops. Reports said 17 Marines and 37 enemies killed on Thursday with 30 Marines wounded, amid broader clashes across the Mekong Delta and Quang Nam Province. An air strafing error killed 4 South Vietnamese irregulars and wounded 32. An investigation was ordered by Gen William Momyer.
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Saigon
U.S
da Nang
U.S. Air Force
Binh Thuan
U.S. 7Th Air Force
William Momyer
Air Force
Mekong
U.S. Navy
Delta
My Tho
Quang Nam
Carmi Flood Forces Families From Homes As Rivers Rise
Rising water from the Little Wabash River and Skillet Fork swamped Carmi Illinois with about seven streets underwater and thousands of farm acres flooded in White County. About a half dozen families moved to shelter with friends and relatives as officials predicted a crest between midnight and noon Saturday.
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Carmi
Ill
Little Wabash River
Skillet Fork
White County
Big Wabash
Carm
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