Lindsay Enters N.Y. Transit Negotiations
Mayor John V. Lindsay personally joins city transit talks to avert a New Year strike. The Transit Authority and the Transport Workers Union submit written offers to a three member mediation panel as union leader Matthew Guinan says hope is rising. A 36 000 member union threatens a 5 am New Year’s Day walkout that would disrupt buses subways and commuter lines. Emergency city preparations are under way after a 12 day strike two years earlier.
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New York
John V. Lindsay
Transit Authority
Transport Workers Union
Afl-Cio
Matthew Guinan
TWU
Weekend Forecast for Cloudy Skies and Cold Temperatures
The U S Weather Bureau predicts cloudy weather today and Sunday with a slight chance of snow flurries this afternoon. Weekend temperatures should range from 15 to 20 degrees above zero with a Friday high of 26 and a low of 2 below zero. At 7pm Friday the station read 22 degrees.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Collins
Industrial shift seen as Grundy County grows
The Morris Daily Herald notes 1967 as a turning point with AMAX Aluminum plans for a cold rolling plant, Reichhold Chemical plant in Goose Lake Township, and GE nuclear fuel recovery approval near Morris. Edison’s power expansion and county population gain complete a year of anticipated change. Future events include a 1968 leap year calendar, local historical projects, and fire department memorials. Florence Smith.
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Grundy County
Amax Aluminum
Reichhold Chemical
Goose Lake Township
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
General Electric
Morris
Commonwealth Edison
Edison
Amax Aluminum Co
U.S. 6
General Electric Co
Dresden
Grundy County Planning Commission
Fire destroys Johnston City State Bank building
Firemen from five cities battled freezing weather to control a blaze at the Johnston City State Bank. The interior burned out and damage was estimated at $50,000 as valuables were safeguarded in the vault. Units from Harrisburg Marion Herrin and DuQuoin aided the Johnston City fire department after the fire began in the basement coal supply.
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Johnston City
Till
Johnston City State Bank
William Hucks
Harrisburg
Marion
Herrin
DuQuoin
Navy investigates false casualty calls in Vietnam case
The Royal Thai navy probes reports that calls to relatives of Thai sailors in Vietnam claimed they were dead. The Bangkok Post notes wives and families also received mail with the same message.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Royal Thai Navy
Vietnam
Bangkok Post
Get Tough With Riots Promised By Police Chiefs
A 1967 riot pattern prompts U S city leaders to pledge harsher responses next summer. Miami Police Chief Headley vows gunfire for looting and violence while Chicago Mayor Daley asserts no one will take over the city during the Democratic Convention. Newark and Jersey City officials echo firm law and order stances.
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New York
Walter Headley
Miami
Richard J. Daley
Chicago
Los Angeles
Richard Simon
Headley
Thomas Whelan
Jersey City
N.J
Hugh Addonizio
Newark
Klan Chief and Ex-Bouncer Get 10-Year Federal Terms
Sam Holloway Bowers Jr and Alton Wayne Roberts received ten year federal prison sentences for conspiring against civil rights workers in 1964 Philadelphia Mississippi case. Co-defendants Cecil Price Billy Posey drew six years each while three others got three year terms. No fines were imposed.
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Cullin
Jimmy Arledge
Jimmy Snowden
Meridian
Miss
Cox
Board of Paroles
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
James Chaney
Philadelphia
Miss. Cox
Bowers
Roberts
Price
Posey
Nettle Creek Grade School Delays School Wednesday
The Nettle Creek Grade School will not be in session until Wednesday. School buses will run on regular schedules Wednesday, according to Wayne Hodgson, principal.
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Nettle Creek
Wayne Hodgson
Hammer Wins IEA Presidency Elect by Two to One Margin
Kenneth S. Hammer, Morris Elementary School District No. 5 superintendent, won the IEA president elect post by about two to one over Helen Hoing. The 850 delegates at the state convention chose Hammer to begin a one year term on July 1, 1968, with future succession to president in 1969.
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Illinois Education Association
Kenneth S. Hammer
Morris Elementary
Chicago
Hoing
Laboratory School
Western Illinois University
Macomb
Illinois Association of Classroom Teachers
Nual
Hammer
Clifford Avis
Batavia
Josephine Wiegman
Dwight
Avis
IEA
Illinois
Savings and Loan
William Glasscock
William B. Norton
Elmer W. Rowley
Board of Education
Citizens’ Committee
Garfield School
Rock Island
Division St
Iowa
Illinois 113
Morris
Lockport
Illinois 47
Marseilles
Morris Daily Herald Hears New Year Holiday Closure
The Morris Daily Herald will not publish Monday January 1 as staff observe New Year's Day. Publication resumes Tuesday January 2.
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Morris Daily Herald
Industrial growth and civic projects in Grundy County 1967
In 1967 Grundy County saw major industrial plans unfold with the AMAX Aluminum plant near Morris and GE nuclear fuel recovery plans near Dresden. Local government tackled a state park debate, bank openings, new stores, school district formation, and extensive infrastructure upgrades while multiple accidents and crimes marked the year.
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Saturday Review
Washington
John Ullrich
Illinois Bell Telephone
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John S
Deter) Broderick
Harold Coleman
James Lansing
Red) Wolfe
Morris Herald
Florence Smith
Johnson City
KKK
Daniel Stefanowich
Scranto
Army
Helen
City of
Grundy County National Bank
Main
Franklin Sts
Bank
Gamble
Jack and
Dennis Shay
Peterson’s Dairy Queen Brazier
Marden’s
Sparks Drive- In Cleaners
Franklin and
Main Sts
First National Bank
Tracy Adcock
Walter Hundt
Charles Roseland
Donald Davidson
L. F. Rothschild and Co
Stifel Nicolaus and Co
Waverly St
Milton Carlson
Goose Lake
Morris City Council
Morris City Zoning Board of Appeals
Carl Gardner
Assocites
Morris Hospital
Cargill Grain Co
Illinois Grain Corp
Arthur Hornsby
Liberty
Division Sis
Iron Mountain
Mich
Illinois River
Ronald Keay
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